Check out our guide to the best of tonight's TV.

Your guide to this evening's best TV programmes.

IT’S difficult not to be moved by the trails and triumphs of the leaders from Operation Transformation. And RTÉ presenter John Murray is no exception.

Fawlty Towers actor John Cleese has been named the most influential British comedy star of all time.

TV adventurer Bear Grylls has become Spider-Man as he turned his world around to recreate a famous screen kiss.

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THE inventor of television, John Logie Baird, was born in Helensburgh near Glasgow 125 years ago today. His invention was arguably the single most important of the past 100 years.

A constant presence on the national airwaves since the 1970s, Pat Kenny has spent the last 41 years as the chameleon of Irish broadcasting.

PITY Sharon Osbourne, 60, photographed last month looking sad, as she holidayed alone at an exclusive Mexican resort, amid rumours that her 31-year marriage to rock star, Ozzy, was on the rocks after he relapsed back into prescription drug and alcohol addiction.

Dawn French has re-married in secret.

Damian Lewis will appear in a 'Vicar of Dibley' special tomorrow.

Dawn French has revealed that she almost turned down her starring role in 'The Vicar Of Dibley' because she did not think it was funny enough.

Gary Barlow has performed a festive duet with Dawn French for 'Text Santa'.

Victoria Beckham turned up late to the 'Viva Forever!' premiere.

As a child, Clare Balding ‘assaulted’ the queen with a sausage, but this year she was the TV queen of the Olympics, writes Sue Leonard

Andrew Lloyd Webber has found the man who will play the lead in 'Jesus Christ Superstar'.

WHEN Seal, the singer, and Mrs Seal, the model, ended their apparently rock-solid marriage a month ago, hands flew to mouths in dismay.

Dawn French has revealed she has lost seven and a half stone with her slimming regime, but is still fond of her old heavyweight body.

THIRTIES

Comic Miranda Hart could be set to repeat her triumph of last year after she was nominated for four gongs at the British Comedy Awards.

AVOID dodgy celebrity diets, eat fewer calories, make better choices and move a bit more.

Comedy actress Jennifer Saunders will don cap and gown today as the 'Ab Fab' star picks up an honorary doctorate.

Carol Vorderman and Sally Lindsay are joining the panel of 'Loose Women'.

'The Comic Strip' is set to return to TV screens.

Dannii Minogue says she is “over the moon” after being crowned TV Personality of the Year by a UK magazine last night – despite her exit from 'The X Factor'.

No, it’s not about Manchester United, but a group of lively and environmentally-friendly animals who care deeply for the world around them … but, alas, this German-made, neatly constructed animated yarn, does somewhat hammer home its message.

Comedian Jennifer Saunders has revealed she will finish her chemotherapy in March – and pointed out that 2010 has not been her finest year.

Comedian Jennifer Saunders has made light of her cancer treatment as she spoke about her illness for the first time – joking about her “lovely pert new bosoms”.

Dawn French is apparently spending Christmas with Lenny Henry, despite their recent divorce.

A scene from a classic 'Only Fools And Horses' episode in which Del Boy and Rodney dress up as Batman and Robin has been named as the most memorable Christmas TV moment in a British poll.

Lenny Henry laughed off Louis Walsh’s ‘X Factor’ comments as he made an appearance last night.

Comedy star Dawn French says she remains "the best of mates" with ex-husband Lenny Henry despite the couple's divorce earlier this week.

Comedy stars Dawn French and Lenny Henry were divorced today on the grounds of his “unreasonable behaviour”.

The Spice Girls musical will get an absolutely fabulous plot – courtesy of writer Jennifer Saunders.

Comedy star Dawn French told how "amazed" she is that she and Lenny Henry are not at "war" but have become "best friends" since separating.

Comedienne Jennifer Saunders has successfully battled breast cancer, it was reported today.

ACTORS Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy ended their five-year relationship by announcing the split on their Twitter pages.

Celebrity couple Lenny Henry and Dawn French are to separate after 25 years of marriage, their spokesman said today.

Gok Wan was delighted to be given the chance to work with Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry

'Coronation Street' actress Michelle Keegan - who plays sexy Tina McIntyre on the ITV show - has revealed her "biggest fantasy" is dinner with 'Thriller' singer Michael Jackson.

Dawn French is to star in a new comedy series about the lives of a middle-aged couple when they return home at the end of the working day.

A real charmer in which a young girl, taken to a new home by her otherwise engaged parents, discovers a secret door into another world where her real life is mirrored, only many times better.

Comedy duo French and Saunders promised to continue working together after collecting their Academy Fellowship award at the television Baftas.

Peter Kay has been voted the UK’s best comedian – while Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand are among the least popular.