What to watch this weekend: 11th – 13th November

We've rounded up the best TV shows to watch this weekend.

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by Hannah Wright |
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This weekend, we're afraid that Sunday is a bit top heavy. Friday and Saturday's offerings are just ever so slightly dry - but not including stalwarts The Graham Norton Show, Strictly Come Dancing and The X Factor.

However, scroll down to Sunday and you're in for an absolute treat. Not only does the new series of I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! start, but there are plenty of films to get excited about - as well as the next instalment of Planet Earth, narrated by the one and only Sir David Attenborough.

There will also be a Remembrance Day-themed dance by the Strictly professionals that we're very much looking forward to, as this marks the 98th year since the end of World War I.

Friday 11 November

The Graham Norton Show

BBC1, 10.35pm

Coldplay performing 'Everglow' plus the lovely Rosamund Pike and Michael McIntyre providing the funnies. Throw in the Red Chair treatment and you'd be doolally not to tune in.

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Saturday 12 November

Strictly Come Dancing

BBC1 - Saturday: 6.55pm, Sunday: 7.15pm

You know things are getting serious when the lights of the Blackpool spectacular is just around the corner, and with only eight couples left the pressure is truly ON. Look out for a Remembrance Day performance from the profesh dancers in Sunday's results show.

We had a chat with Strictly contestants Greg Rutherford and Daisy Lowe - tune in this weekend to find out if they'll be on course for Blackpool or whether it'll be home-time.

The X Factor Live & Results

ITV, 8pm

It's not been the most gripping of _X Factor_s so far (even Sharon Osbourne can't save this show, it seems!). Hopefully, the judges will look a little less bored tonight as live show number six limps on and someone else gets the boot.

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Non-Stop

Channel 4, 9.30pm

There's something rather compelling about action films set on aeroplanes. In this, Liam Neeson is the hero of the hour as Air Marshall Bill Marks – a chain-smoking alcoholic with a tragic family past.

On a flight from NYC to London, a crazy person on the plane starts sending him messages saying someone will die every 20 minutes unless he arranges for a fair bit of cash to be deposited in an offshore account. Look out for Michelle Dockery (Downton's Lady Mary) and Lupita Nyong'o as the lovely air stewardesses, and Julianne Moore's in it as well.

Did you know? The set for the plane was built very slightly larger than a standard commercial airliner to accommodate Liam Neeson's 6'4" height for filming.

Sunday 13 November

Johnny English

C4, 4.50pm

He's come a long way since Mr Bean, and in this (which was so successful it spawned a follow-up), Rowan Atkinson is Johnny English – Britain's most confident (yet dim-witted) spy. His mission? To single-handidly save the country. Tomfoolery beckons.

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Off Their Rockers

ITV, 6.30pm

Last week's episode of this gag-filled show where prankster OAPs play tricks on unsuspecting members of the public saw Joey Essex pop up, pretending to be the dumpee of an elderly lady (ho ho). This week's it's Katie Price who puts in a starring role – though advance peeks weren't possible so expect the unexpected!

Miss Potter

BBC2, 6.30pm

Who doesn't love a bit of Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck and the like? This is the story of children's author Beatrix Potter (Renée Zellweger, in top rosy-cheeked form), who began drawing animals and making up stories about them when she was a child. There's a man involved as well but – gasp – he's a "trader", and her snobbish parents don't approve...

The Day After Tomorrow

E4, 8pm

The groovy special effects in this landed it a BAFTA, don't'cha know. It stars Dennis Quaid as a lone voice of doom predicting that global warming will lead to a new Ice Age, gulp. He is ridiculed, of course, but lo - his fears come true and with everywhere literally flash-frozen, a few survivors (Jake Gyllenhaal included) must try to save others...

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Planet Earth

BBC1, 8pm

Sir Dave's voice has such a soothing quality we think we'd still be tuning in if he was talking about the latest brand of carpets. He's not, luckily. He's talking about mountain ranges at extreme altitude and the creatures who live there, like grizzly bears and golden eagles.

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

ITV, 9pm

Can it really be that time of year again when the celebs head Down Under for the best detox diet ever, a chance to rub shoulders with Ant 'n' Dec, and three-week stay in the Great Outdoors? Well yes, it is. And it's going to be a vintage year if the line-up is anything to go by.

This is always one of our TV highlights of the year so let's sit back and enjoy that jumping out of a plane bit – followed by a few weeks of quality entertainment. Kangaroo testicle, anyone?

Don't miss: Extra Camp, from Sunday 13, ITV2, 10.45PM

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My Mother And Other Strangers

BBC1, 9pm

Into the Poldark slot goes this new period drama – starring The Bletchley Circle actress Hattie Morahan as Rose Coyne, living in Northern Ireland with her family during World War II as a huge US air force lands in the middle of their rural parish. Ok, so the charming Captain Dreyfuss (Mad Men's Aaron Staton) doesn't quite have Ross Poldark's lovely hair, but he does have the hots for Rose and well, who can resist the charms of a dashing US airman?

Mars

National Geographic, 9pm

Here's a bit of a wheeze – part documentary, part drama, MARS tells the story of a fictitious space mission to Mars in the year 2033. We'll follow the international crew as they make their way to the red planet, and follow settlers there, trying to make a new home for themselves. It's intercut with science bods chatting merrily away about the hows and the whys.

What will you be watching this weekend?

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