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What's on TV Thursday: The 2015 Pub Quiz not to be missed on New Year's Eve

Sickeningly attractive and charismatic: Eddie Perfect will host <i>The 2015 Pub Quiz</i> on ABC1.

BEN POBJIE 9:15pm Cruel mockery of genuine festivity or not, the ABC puts on quite a shindig for the end of the year.

Acclaimed series

Frances O'Connor talks about harrowing drama The Missing

Frances O'Connor, centre, and James Nesbitt, right, in the series The Missing.

SARAH THOMAS 9:00pm In The Missing, Frances O'Connor plays Emily Hughes, who faces every parent's worst nightmare when her five-year-old son disappears on a family holiday. The stylish, chilling and highly acclaimed thriller drew a huge response when it aired in the UK and US, and now SBS is giving the series another look.   

Hot stuff

Maeve O'Meara's Food Safari Fire heats up world cuisines from all over Australia

Food Safari Fire presenter Maeve O'Meara.

SARAH THOMAS 9:00pm Maeve O'Meara gets so close to the subjects at hand in her new series Food Safari Fire that she actually singed off a handful of her hair. 

Dynamic duo

Mythbusters' Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage on the legacy of their long-running show

Mythbusters Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman have forged a fruitful on-air partnership after 14 years, but they are not mates off-screen.

SARAH THOMAS Is it a myth that one of TV's most reliable pairings, the hosts of Mythbusters, Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage, don't actually like each other? 

What's on TV Friday: Atonement

Impossibly refined and roguishly charming: Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in <i>Atonement.</i>

BEN POBJIE Fans of Ian McEwan's novel have been known to opine that Atonement the film fails to live up to the book's perfection. But considered independent of the source material, it is a work of gorgeous, poignant art.

What's on TV Wednesday: Motorway Patrol rides the highway to somewhere nice

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BEN POBJIE This is our chance to watch the escapades of the Auckland Road Policing team and their struggles to resist the temptation to start shooting at passing motorists just to relieve the boredom.

What's on TV Tuesday: The Muppets

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BEN POBJIE This will be remembered as the year of The Muppets, and those who adored the original Muppet Show can breathe a sigh of relief.

What's on TV Monday: Doomsday Preppers

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BEN POBJIE If it wasn't easy to laugh at Doomsday Preppers, the show wouldn't exist.

Downton Abbey bows out after five years

Maggie Smith as Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham

British period drama Downton Abbey ended on a high with several characters finally getting their happy ever afters.

Fargo not among favourites returning next year, but several duds are likely to screen

Lena Headey, centre, will return as Queen Cersei Lannister in <i>Game of Thrones</i>.

David Dale We list the series that will be showing on Australian television next year.

What's on

Top-notch Vera finds a home on the ABC

Vera - an intelligent drama that relies on its brains rather than shocks.

MELINDA HOUSTON If you haven't caught Brenda Blethyn's Vera before, this is a perfect time to get on board.

TV highlights including The Muppets, Mythbusters, Satellite Boy, Rick and Morty and more

The Muppets are back in a ''real-world'' series.

MELINDA HOUSTON This 21st century version of The Muppets is going to be a grower.

Grimm: We're enchanted by these modern myths

Robert Baker is Frankie Adkins in the episode Maiden Quest, in Grimm.

MELINDA HOUSTON Grimm may not be a blockbuster hit or even a cult hit, but for its followers it's a very special kind of pleasure.

Television highlights for December 27 including Drunk History and Castle

A major plot twist is resolved in Castle, Sunday at 9.30pm on Seven.

MELINDA HOUSTON The more of a film buff you are, the more you'll enjoy the documentary Seduced and Abandoned.

Ready For This comes to a finale

It's a pity to say goodbye to Ready For This.

MELINDA HOUSTON Sadly, Ready For This draws to a close tonight.

Miss Piggy hosts late-night talk show in revamped Muppets series

The Muppets, Tuesday, December 29, at 7.30pm on Seven.

MELINDA HOUSTON The new Muppets series brings the beloved characters up to datre as they run a late-night talk show.

Constance Zimmer shows her real face in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D

Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Wednesday, December 30, at 10.30pm on Seven.

MELINDA HOUSTON Coulson shows an interest in Rosalind Price in an episode in which various agents depart from the script.

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