I have to admit that I'm a bit fat-ist. I try not to be, but I am. There are those who have huge psychological problems, and are desperate for help... and with that, I have absolutely no quarrel. However, the idiot inside me can't help but think that a lot of fat people are just lazy and greedy. Like I said, I can be an idiot. So, leafing through the listings, I see a programme called Tax The Fat. Presumably, this will be a show looking at people who are obese, and causing a 'drain' on the nations funds by needing treatment for their 'greediness'. Well, let's stop presuming and have a look at what the show is actually about.

Having watched Gordon Ramsay's F Word last night (More4, 10pm), I'd forgotten just how annoying it the format was... and just how ridiculous Ramsay is. I've got a feeling that I may have promoted this show as something great once, but now I'm not so certain. The show features all of Gordon's ridiculous trademarks. Firstly, him appearing on screen without his shirt on. Those big flabby chicken skinned fillets on his chest that he'll no doubt call pecs filled the screen followed by a swift profanity. Still, aside from these criticisms, it was still better than what the other channels were offering.

OK, what's going on? A respectable TV website is featuring filth! What place does Deep Throat have here? Well, quite a lot as it happens. Of course, I'm not looking at the film per se, but the interesting documentary about the skin flick that propelled Linda Lovelace to overnight superstardom, Inside Deep Throat (More4, Wednesday, 9pm).

George Bush has been assassinated. Tony Blair has resigned and is on trial for his role in the war against Iraq. Sadly for some, however, this isn't Sky News - it's just More4, and their new Autumn schedule. Shame.

Death of a President is a fictional documentary, set in a future in which Dubya has long since been assassinated. The programme looks back over his reign of terror, and, indeed, his War on Terror, and the way in which it's shaped the US.

So, President Bartlet (Sheen) is to hand over the office to President Santos (great name!). And with the hand-over, comes the final episode of the massively popular West Wing. I'm not certain why the show has been shunted off to More4, but it has, and it will sneak out of sight forever more tonight.

For seven series, the show has proven to be one of the better imports from the US, with excellent writing, and stellar acting from Martin Sheen & Co. Tonight's double header sees Sheen's Bartlet coming to terms with his loss of power, the upheaval of standing down, the affairs of the state and the end of an era.

Naturally, the show is a little soapy squeaky at times, but that shouldn't detract from something that has been a real pleasure in its time on the air. You won't know what you've had until it's well and truly gone.[Mof Gimmers]

The West Wing, More4, 9.30pm tonight (Double Bill)

Oh boy are you in for a treat.  If you weren't around in 1991, or for some reason didn't get to see Alan Bleasdale's magnificent GBH, then please, if you set the vid for nothing else, set it for this.  You won't be disappointed.  Starring Robert Lindsay and Michael Palin, and supported by a uniformly excellent cast, Bleasdale's epic narrative in seven parts follows the fortunes of the two main characters through betrayal, allegiance, passion and confusion, while at the same time playing out the drama of town council corruption, intimidation, unrequited love and regret on an immense scale.

GBH is, in places, outstandingly funny.  In other parts your tears of mirth will become tears of emotion as the story becomes almost unbearably poignant.  It is quite simply Bleasdale's masterpiece and the most original television drama of the 1990s.

If you have the time, catch the ‘Daily Show’ tonight on More4. Besides the normal mockery of America’s government in general and the Republican party in particular, Willie Nelson stops by. If you are at all like me, you will feel bittersweet pains when Willie is on your screen. You see, Willie wasn’t there to perform. It was all about pushing his new book, ‘The Tao of Willie.’ Unless I can get the book on cassette with Willie singing/reading it to me, I am not interested. That reminds me of a great old joke: “What has 100 legs and no teeth?” Give up? “The front row of a Willie Nelson concert.” On a final note, I am not sure if it is offered in Great Britain, but there was mention on the show of ‘The Facts of Life’ being released on DVD today. Can’t beat Eighties TV. [Barry]

1am: They've written Oscar host Jon Stewart's name in massive lights above the stage, in case elderly members of the Academy don't know who he is.

1.03am: Strong start from JS. "Tonight is the night we celebrate excellence in film, with me, the fourth male lead in Death to Smoochy. Rent it." But he looks more nervous than Lulu near a naked flame.

Faced with an Academy Awards shortlist of flicks that haven't been released here yet, UK DVD rental sites are devoting their special Oscar pages to previous winners. Like Driving Miss Daisy.

Nice touch, Blockbuster. But we've got some better solutions to the no-Brokeback-DVD-till-Xmas problem:

1. Watch the first season of ER again, and remember when George Clooney was Dr Ross and not the saviour of civilisation. (I don't mean to sound sarky. Clooney's a marvellous thing. And he knows how to frame an argument, unlike Michael Moore. Don't get me started.)

2. Rent As Time Goes By with Judi Dench, but don't let it fall into Hollywood hands. They'd give her a bloody award for it.

Bored at work? Good. Go to the Comedy Central website and click on 'Duck and Cover'. Then click on '#2 With a Bullet'. Quick, before they disappear.

These video gems are from The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, a show that's been living the comedy dream since US Vice Prez Dick Cheney mistook his 78-year-old mate for a grouse and shot him in the face.

Cheney's victim, Harry Whittington, yesterday apologised for being shot. "My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice-President Cheney and his family have had to go through this past week," he told reporters as he emerged from hospital after having his face put back together and suffering a heart attack.

* The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, More4, tonight at 8.30pm
* Jon Stewart hosts The Oscars, Sky Movies, Monday 6 March

ITV is to claw all those afternoon viewers off C4 the only way it knows how: by booting kids' TV and replacing it with Joe Pasquale giving away some sofas.

Half an hour of CiTV will be ditched for a Pasquale-fronted revamp of The Price is Right, which ITV hopes will put a dent in the fabulous ratings blunderbuss Deal Or No Deal. Not a chance.

* Deal Or No Deal, C4, weekdays 4.15pm, Sat 5.45pm

HBO, mothership of The Sopranos and Curb Your Enthusiasm, is to launch a premium channel in the UK. Probably.

Industry newsrag Broadcast reported a similar story a couple of years back, but it came to nowt. Fingers crossed that HBO goes through with it this time.

A completely subjective list of HBO's best progs:
1. Six Feet Under (click on the dead bloke)
2. Curb Your Enthusiasm (from the TV Squad files)
3. The Sopranos (bored at work? Dress the Sopranos)
4. Oz (fill the gap with some fanfic: Oz-O-Rama)
5. Deadwood (like, it's an actual place!)
6. The Wire (WikiWire)
7. Da Ali G Show (... even boreder at work? Da Ali G Translator)
8. Entourage (coming up on ITV4)

Going out on New Year's Eve is like walking to the South Pole in high heels through a crowd of drunk people. You traipse for hours in the freezing cold, as sober as Widdecombe and busting for the loo, until you're rescued by a minicab driver who charges £150 to drive you three miles home.

Ahh, home. Home is where the heart is. And the truckloads of food and booze you've got left over from Xmas, and the loo, and all the telly you can eat.

After the break: What to watch, and what not to watch, at midnight this NYE

"There was an earthquake [in LA], 3.4 on the Richter scale. Barely made the news. I was terrified. It's like they decided to build the most amazing city and said, 'Let's put it on this faultline. It's sunny!'

"Why not build just a bit further away, maybe less sunny, but away from the earthquakes?"

– Ricky Gervais

* Ricky Gervais Meets Larry David, C4, Thurs 5 Jan, 10.15pm

Had enough festive cheer? Then set the vid for next week's C4 special in which Davids Brent and Larry, twin titans of tactlessness, meet over a latte. It's bound to end in tears.

"The production company that makes Peep Show approached me about doing a programme where I'd interview my comedy heroes," says Ricky Gervais. "So I said, 'OK, I'll do it if you get Larry David,' thinking it'd be the last I'd hear about it."

After the break: What happened next

You're not a proper Hollywood star until you've been asked to do a TV cameo. That's TV cameo, not TV role. A TV role means that you're no longer getting movie roles (Kiefer Sutherland, Geena Davis) or that you're pensionable (Martin Sheen). A TV cameo means you're hot, but not so hot that a little self-promotion wouldn't hurt.

Latest Hall of Cameo inductees are actual legend Dustin Hoffman, parachuted into HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, and alterna-Lohan Christina Ricci, set to appear as "not a patient" in ABC's medical drama Grey's Anatomy.

Ricci's Anatomy will air right after the 2006 Superbowl, while Hoffman decorates Curb's season finale. We'll see both episodes in the UK in, oh, ages.

After the break: Best and worst TV cameos

C4's movie channel FilmFour is to drop its subscription and go Freeview, according to meeja newshounds Brand Republic.

FilmFour will be free-to-air on Sky, cable and Freeview from next year, bumping up the ads to compensate for lost subs money. The channel shows the finest films on the box, but at the moment you have to pay an extra £7 a month to view it. It's now expected to take the extra Freeview space bought by C4 last week.

ABC's Geena-goes-to-Washington drama Commander in Chief has caused so much excitement in the UK press that you must be wondering when it'll be shown over here. Ha.

According to US telly blog TV Squad, Commander in Chief has done well enough to win a recommission and the attentions of Steven Bochco. But UK channels aren't interested. "It's too American," said buyers at the recent Cannes TV Festival, understandably wishing to preserve the quality of UK television. Meanwhile in another room, C4 announced the return of Noel Edmonds.

After the break: TV Scoop's Import Wish List