First of all, a very Happy New Year to you all from me, I hope it’s a healthy and very happy one. Yes, 2009 may have only just begun, but here at TV Scoop we’re already getting excited about the plethora of new programmes ready to burst onto our screens. Because that’s just the sort of people we are. Sitting here with one eye on the Doctor Who Prom, I’m clearly looking forward to the DW Specials (it takes more than a ho-hum Christmas episode to dampen my enthusiasm, believe me), but they’re a little way off just yet unfortunately. Pop over the cut, then, for a brief introduction to the shows we’ll be tuning into very soon, and the chance to tell us what you’re most looking forward to in early 2009…

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Now we’re into the madness of December and the lead-up till Christmas, it’s the perfect time to sit back and reflect on November. It was a pretty good month. The US election, Keery Katona on This Morning and a bunch of decent television programmes. So what did it for you? Did Channel 4′s amazing Civil War drama The Devil’s Whore float your boat? Or were things like Survivors or last night’s Wallander must-watches? Why don’t you tell us? There’s the poll after the jump…

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It’s been a pretty good month for television; it always tends to be when the autumn season kicks in. We’ve had Dead Set on E4, the spectacular return of Spooks on BBC One, and even Dawn Porter has snuck in there over on Channel 4. So what was your favourite? We had the Kerry Katona and Brand/Ross debacles, yet the ‘normal’ TV was, on the whole, excellent. There’s a poll after the jump… why don’t you tell us what your favourites are?

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And so Kerry Katona’s incredible life continues to unravel before our very eyes. Whether we like it or not. Yesterday (Wednesday 22 October) she appeared on This Morning and, consequently, appeared in every newspaper and on every radio station as a direct result of her ‘performance’. It was gruesome to watch, she was slurring her words and patently all over the shop. It got me a-wondering… should she really have been allowed to go on a widely-watched television programme in that state? My own view is that her publicity team haven’t played a blinder on this one, and she needs to disappear for a while, take it easy and get some serious treatment. There is a counter argument that suggests that if she’s happy to do these MTV fly-on-the-wall documentaries and lay herself bare to the media, she deserves all that comes her way. What do you think? Tell us by voting in the poll, over the jump…

Related: What to watch through your fingers: Kerry Katona on This Morning

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Now that was more like it. A decent month of television after the comparitive mediocrity of July and August. In the past month we’ve had stuff like The Restaurant, Strictly, The X Factor, Lost In Austen, Tess of The D’Urbervilles, Place Of Execution and The Children, all excellent stuff. There was even Merlin and Hole In The Wall. So what di you think? After the jump you can vote for your favourite show, and if it hasn’t been offered up as an option tell us what your favourite was.

To help make up your minds, why not read our stuff on The Restaurant, Lost In Austen, Strictly, The X Factor, Tess, Merlin, Place of Execution AND The Children.

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So how was August for you? A fallow, scorched earth or a fragrant bouquet of televisual stamens (hmmm, rubbish metaphors there). For me it was all about The Lympics, but non sports fans out there will have despised it. The all-consuming nature of the event meant that gems like House Of Saddam and Maestro didn’t get the coverage they perhaps deserved. What about you? What did you think? Let us know by voting for your favourite over the jump.

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I’m sitting here watching the Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony (suitably awestruck) and while I’m really looking forward to the fortnight of sporting excellence ahead – I may not be any good at sport myself, but goodness I’m good at watching it – I can’t say I’m entirely looking forward to the fact that much of the coverage will be on the Beeb in the middle of the night.

Of course, sometimes staying up to see the climax some random sport that you would never normally give two hoots about is exactly what the Olympics is about, but every night? I’m afraid I’m not hardcore enough for that; I’ll be mainly sticking to the Olympic Breakfast show which will round up the night’s action. But what about you guys – will you be performing your own little Olympic feats by staying up most nights? Perhaps, like me, you’ll just do it for something that really catches your imagination – or maybe you just couldn’t care less… Whatever your plans, let us know.

It’s that time of the month again, and what a month it’s been. It’s been absolutely shite, hasn’t it? Doctor Who has finished, Bonekickers is pretty terrible (even I am starting to come round to that one… “I’m quite a ride”… now that line was funny), Sasha: Beauty Queen At 11 was shockingly dreadful and erm, that was pretty much it. There were two very good things that started in July – Dexter and Britain’s Missing Top Model – so what will it be? What was your favourite show in July? Go on, I dare you to say Bonekickers… The poll is after the jump.

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I’m tired of saying it, but June was a pretty poor month for telly. Dominated by football and Big Brother (nectar for some), June was populated my the odd televisual highlight only. As ever, we want to hear what your favourite new programme was – was it the Margaret Thatcher biopic, was it Gok’s Fashion Fix, or was it indeed Big Brother or the football. You tell us!

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