Lord Nibbler

There's not much point in watching the first season if you've seen the original.

I'm hoping to do a screenwriting course next year, and I imagine those three (or at least the Syd Field and Robert McKee books) will be recommended reading. Can anyone suggests a book that deals with screenwriting for television, specifically? Obviously the basics are the same, but I'd like a book that explains things in the context of television rather than film. Particularly the three act structure.

Look what Santa brought me.

1. Curb Your Enthusiasm (season 7) 2. Breaking Bad (season 2) 3. Peep Show (series 6) 4. Dexter (season 4) 5. Lost (season 5) 6. Misfits (series 1) 7. The Office (season 5) 8. Party Down (season 1) 9. 30 Rock (season 4) X. Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle (season 1) Sorry Hung...

1. Curb Your Enthusiasm (season 7) 2. Breaking Bad (season 2) 3. Peep Show (series 6) 4. Dexter (season 4) 5. Lost (season 5) 6. Misfits (series 1) 7. The Office (season 5) 8. Party Down (season 1) 9. 30 Rock (season 4) X. Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle (season 1) Sorry Hung...

I know this is old, but I had to extract some clouds from a background and this technique worked a treat. Cheers Keith.

No. Rather than scrap the whole week, the Boxing day matches will be used to score the Bolton and Wigan players who missed out this week. You can get your team up for the next set of fixtures now: Week 14 Jagger v Frank Grimes Scott McFly v metalman Pesci v Hackerjack Baddar v Captain Kirk Funkmaster v Dynamite Bryn Davies v King Ellis Jimmy the Exploder v HailtotheKing Games take place on the 28th, 29th and 30th December.

1. Curb Your Enthusiasm (season 7) 2. Breaking Bad (season 2) 3. Peep Show (series 6) 4. Dexter (season 4) 5. Lost (season 5) 6. Misfits (series 1) 7. The Office (season 5) 8. Party Down (season 1) 9. 30 Rock (season 4) X. Hung (season 1) Flashforward, Dollhouse, Modern Family, Scrubs, Being Human, Children of Earth and Getting On didn't make the list. A few shows (True Blood, BSG, Mad Men, In Treatment) might have made the list, but I haven't seen the seasons that aired this year. Pushing Daisies misses out 'cause it only had a handful of episodes in '09.

He's kept out of the team by Agbonlahor and Tevez. I feel sorry for the lad having to sit on the bench every week.

You say that as if there's anyone worthwhile left. Short of Mancini buying half of those players perenially linked with City and me doing the same, it's not much help. I'll sell you Chucho Benitez. He's just the man to turn things around for you.

Unfortunately, with the Wigan/Bolton game being postponed we might have to scrap this week's games. We could take the points for Wigan/Bolton players from another set of fixtures, but then they'll be up against different opposition. We could wait for the Wigan/Bolton game to take place, but by then some players are bound to be injured/suspended/out-of-favour or sold. Unless someone can come up with a genius solution that might have eluded me, we'll have to write this one off. I haven't worked out the scores yet, so I don't know who this benefits.

Hughes to Liverpool, Rafa to City? *fingers crossed*

The title race should be very interesting. Both Jagger and Scott McFly have a lot more money than Frank Grimes, so if they spend it well they have a good chance of closing the gap. If there even is a gap after this weekend. And at the bottom, Ellis has more than £250 million in the bank to try and improve his fortunes.

TV only, just because I watch a lot more TV than I do film. 1. "Stringer" Bell (The Wire) 2. Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) 3. Benjamin Linus (Lost) 4. "Snoop" Pearson (The Wire) 5. Sylar (Heroes) 6. Ralph Cifaretto (The Sopranos) 7. Clay Davis (The Wire) 8. Francis Wolcott (Deadwood) 9. Alpha (Dollhouse) 0. Herrick (Being Human) I'm watching season one of Oz, so that list might require a reshuffle once I'm done.

10 on Bet 1 Wolves vs. Burnley (Sun) - Wolves EVS, Draw 5/2, Burnley 13/5 10 on Bet 4 Spurs to beat Blackburn 2-0 (Sat) - 10/1 The Doubler Fulham 1 - 2 Man Utd

Frank Grimes v metalman Hackerjack v Jagger Captain Kirk v Scott McFly Dynamite v Pesci King Ellis v Baddar HailtotheKing v Funkmaster Jimmy the Exploder v Bryn Davies Could be a six-point gap at the top as we reach the half way point of the season. I'll update everyone's finances after this week, so everyone knows how much money they have to play with in the window.

Hackerjack [16] 0 - 1 Frank Grimes [24] metalman [7] 0 - 3 Captain Kirk [31] Jagger [14] 0 - 0 Dynamite [13] Scott McFly [25] 2 - 1 King Ellis [24] Pesci [18] 0 - 1 HailtotheKing [25] Baddar [22] 1 - 4 Jimmy the Exploder [38] Funkmaster [18] 0 - 0 Bryn Davies [16]

The window will open on February 1st, and close on March 31st.

Hackerjack v Frank Grimes metalman v Captain Kirk Jagger v Dynamite Scott McFly v King Ellis Pesci v HailtotheKing Baddar v Jimmy the Exploder Funkmaster v Bryn Davies Teams by 12:15 on Saturday, please. Post 'em here or here.

10 on Bet 1 Stoke vs. Wigan - Stoke EVS, Draw 9/4, Wigan 9/4 10 on Bet 3 Sunderland vs. Portsmouth - Sunderland 8/11, Draw 5/2, Portsmouth 3/1 The Doubler Burnley 1 - 1 Fulham

Frank Grimes [25] 2 - 0 Captain Kirk [7] Dynamite [25] 2 - 0 Hackerjack [8] King Ellis [15] 0 - 0 metalman [19] HailtotheKing [13] 0 - 3 Jagger [34] Jimmy the Exploder [30] 3 - 0 Scott McFly [10] Bryn Davies [9] 0 - 0 Pesci [14] Funkmaster [16] 0 - 0 Baddar [15]

Frank Grimes v Captain Kirk Dynamite v Hackerjack King Ellis v metalman HailtotheKing v Jagger Jimmy the Exploder v Scott McFly Bryn Davies v Pesci Funkmaster v Baddar Need your teams by 12:15pm on Saturday.

10 on Bet 3 Man City vs. Chelsea - Man City 11/4, Draw 9/4, Chelsea 5/6 10 on Bet 4 Liverpool to beat Blackburn 2-0 - 13/2 The Doubler Aston Villa 2-0 Hull

Score breakdowns, for anyone who wants to know which player should be made a scapegoat... Dynamite [15] 0 - 4 Frank Grimes [37] Captain Kirk [18] 0 - 0 King Ellis [13] Hackerjack [19] 0 - 0 HailtotheKing [17] metalman [29] 2 - 0 Jimmy the Exploder [9] Jagger [55] 8 - 2 Bryn Davies [26] Scott McFly [27] 2 - 0 Funkmaster [15] Pesci [14] 0 - 1 Baddar [23]

metalman's back five all kept clean sheets, but I would have escaped with an undeserved draw if it weren't for Ryan Giggs.