Murray Gold's music for Doctor Who often gets a bit of a critical bashing, whether for being too intrusive, too overly-dramatic or too derivative. This summer, though, the BBC and it's Philharmonic Orchestra threw its weight behind him by dedicating a whole Proms performance to his work - and judging by the cut-down version broadcast this afternoon, they had every right.

What an incredible year it's been. Quite aside from the politics, the credit crunch and my unhealthy obsession with Cherry Diet Coke, there has been some top TV. Great dramas, quality documentaries (as well as not so quality docs), some decent comedy and lots else in between. We here at TV Scoop have thoroughly enjoyed sharing our views on it all and, gratifyingly, we've had our best year yet, with more and more people reading and interacting with us. We've interviewed so many of the top people you see on the television (from Hugh Dennis and Andrea Riseborough to Harry from Spooks, My Name Is Earl's Nadine Velasquez and Jack Dee), which has been brilliant fun. We hope you've enjoyed your TV watching year and our output, and all at TV Scoop wish you and your families and happy and healthy 2009. And, of course, some top TV! The site is nothing without you and your input, so a big thanks to those of you who have stopped by. Let's do it all again!

Here's a clip from the most dramatic eviction from one of the better TV talent shows of the year - Britain's Missing Top Model. In it, you'll see Jenny (who had just made someone cry, and was featured in the episode flirting ill-advisedly with one of the judges) getting booted off. Wayne wasn't pleased, neither was Mark. The fact they weren't pleased with each other is the key here. There's the clip after the jump.

For all our Britain's Missing Top Model news, reviews and interviews go here. For our Top 50 run down go here.

Dexter has been marvellous this year (we voted it as number three in our end-of-year Top 50), and some bright spark has put the entire finale episode of series two online (albeit a shortened version). It was a great episode - the fate of Lila was decided, as was the future course of Dexter, everyone's favourite serial killer. So sit back, have a look over the jump and fill your boots.

For all our Dexter news and reviews, go here. For our Top 50 run down go here.

Within just four years, the Doctor Who Christmas Special has become embedded in the public consciousness as the thing to sit down and watch together after the turkey and Christmas pudding. It's as important to the Christmas schedules now as Eric and Ernie were in years past, and that means that it comes with a lot of perhaps unrealistic expectations. So would this year's festive outing live up to the hype?

Related: TV Scoop's Doctor Who section.

As Our Keris said in her surmising of Gavin And Stacey - coming in at number five in our Top 50 - the show is a masterpiece of ensemble comedy. This clip, over the jump, shows you why. It's breakfast time at the Shipmans, and sausage is on the menu. Upstairs, sausage is also on the menu. Laugh out loud here at Alison Steadman. She's great, it's great!

For all our Gavin & Stacey stuff go here, for our Top 50 stuff go here.

Here's our Christmas message to you, our readers. From all the team at TV Scoop and Shiny Media, we wish you all a very merry Christmas. We hope your festive period is filled with good times, wonderful family and friends, and enormous amounts of amazing, festive TV. Our team will be out and about over Christmas but we'll still be bringing you some reviews, some news and a little bit of left-over action. Have a great time! Here's a man playing a Christmas carol on a bit of broccoli.

Christmas! It's here! It even says it in the day! Christmas eve! Anyway you look at it, good times are upon us because it's a day off we wouldn't normally have, or, if you're not a Christian, you have the chance to exploit the double-time wages at work! Anyway, Christmas is all about one thing... and that thing I learned from watching Charlie Brown's Christmas... Christmas is all about watching telly...

Tonight: Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special, BBC One, 10pm

James Corden and Ruth Jones have come up with an extraordinary sitcom that somehow appeals to just about anyone with a beating heart and a laugh-gland. Tonight, we get an hour-long special that sees Smithy wrapping presents in tin-foil, Nessa grooming regime and everyone getting together in Billericay for Christmas Day. Hell will break loose, we'll all have a laugh and no doubt Rob Brydon will steal the whole show as usual.

Read over for the best of the Christmas telly

I do like a bit of festive film action, but how do you judge what a Christmas films is? Has there been any films truly about Christmas or has Christmas acted as a backdrop for the main story? Who knows, but Disney Cinematic HD, to celebrate its channel launch, has undertaken a poll to find out what the country's favourite festive family film is. And the least favourite festive family film, and also the nation's favourite Santa. I'm not really one to give oxygen to these sort of polls, but it's Christmas and I'm in the mood. To find out the results of the polls, have a look after the jump.

Ok, so there's less than a week until The Big Day, but hey, that's still a good four shopping days. More than enough time, we say! A DVD box-set is always a great, chunky present, so here's a few ideas if you're struggling. Whether it's gripping drama, clever comedy, or a stunning documentary you're after, we've got it covered.

Regular readers will know that it's our firm belief on here that TV has, to say the least, a patchy history when it comes to horror. But if there's one sub-genre that's always been successful it's the Christmas ghost story. Last year I had a good old moan about there not having been a good Christmas spine-tingler for some time. This year, Mark Gatiss has taken up the cudgel, and presents Crooked House over three nights next week.

It's become a bit of a tradition on TV Scoop for me to leave you to your own devices at Christmas. There's just too much good stuff around to choose a single movie, and anyway you'll probably feel like something different every day. This time next week it will be Christmas Day (squee!) and I'll be having the day off, so click through for a bumper selection of the movies on offer over the next two weeks, and if you're feeling in a nostalgic mood then check out what was happening on the film front this time last year, or in 2006.

TV has a tendency to be a little predictable at times doesn't it? I mean, we all know Gillian McKeith will always use some gawd-awful visual aid, we all know that Gok Wan will say "bangers" at some point and we all know that, come Children In Need, the newsreaders will do something 'wacky'. Of course, Christmas as whole, is no different. Every year, trends reappear and stars do things to get in the spirit of Yule. With that, get over the jump for a bunch of stuff that's surely going to happen...