Alexander Armstrong

Addison and Armstrong's Direct Line ads most effective

Comics Chris Addison and Alexander Armstrong's Direct Line adverts were the most effective on TV this year, experts say.

Top 10 Have I Got News For You guest hosts

As Have I Got News For You celebrates ten years of guest hosts, we count down our top 10, from Alexander Armstrong and Damian Lewis to Jeremy Clarkson and Boris Johnson.

It's ten years since Angus Deayton made his hurried departure from the HIGNFY host's chair, since when 84 different bottoms have perched there, including those of MasterChef's Gregg Wallace and John Torode, the only double act to share the job, two knights (Sir Bruce Forsyth and Sir Trevor McDonald), two OBEs (Joan Collins and Moira Stuart) and one intergalactic space traveller.

In this anniversary edition, Homeland's Damian Lewis takes the hot seat for the fifth time - obviously hoping to challenge Alexander Armstrong's record of 20 - and, judging by his earlier outings, he'll deliver the scripted lines with exquisite timing and charm. Tonight's guests are Harry Shearer and Nigel Farage.

Alexander Armstrong: Letter To My Younger Self

Alexander Armstrong, 42, on being a John Lennon wannabe who grew up to be a 'Pointless' presenter.

My week: Alexander Armstrong

Alexander Armstrong has a new writing partner: himself.

Alexander Armstrong: the joys of random knowledge

'General Knowledge' lessons with my prep school headmaster couldn't have been more general.

Alexander Armstrong on the joys of a soggy summer

sWho'd forgo picnics in steaming cars and barbecues in the rain?

Alexander Armstrong to present new ITV game show

ITV has commissioned a brand new entertainment format for 2013, hosted by Alexander Armstrong and Emma Willis.

It's the end-of-series compilation, the episode where, because the WILTY? folk record more material than they can carve into each show, they're left with a variety of awkward offcuts. Often these are the marginally-less-believable attempts by panellists to persuade us of outlandish incidents, lies so daft their tellers can barely keep straight faces - but not always.

Alexander Armstrong gets a round of applause just for reading out his card, featuring as it does the claim that in one weekend he had a curry with Andy Murray, went bowling with JK Rowling and attended an odd party with Todd Carty.

My Week: Alexander Armstrong

Singing with a classical great and why I've been granted membership to a strange new club.