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#EdFringe17: Sam Baines

Enjoy 15 minutes with Sam, the actor, writer, comedian, presenter and Brian Cox enthusiast. Her PR says that she was seen in The Crown and Bucket, which turns out to be acting roles, not our local boozer. Her show focuses on three talented women of science.

Interview: rarely asked questions - Vikki Stone

You never quite know where a comedy career is going to take you. For classically trained Vikki Stone - previously best known for her comic songs about Brian Cox and Phillip Schofield - it has taken her to the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, where she has been part of the BBC presenting team.

Robert Newman: 'Scientists think we're all stupid.'

The comedian tells us why Francis Crick, Brian Cox and Stephen Hawking are the butt of his jokes in his new book and radio series.

Jesse Armstrong to write HBO drama series Succession

Succession stars Brian Cox as Logan Roy, the tough, powerful, and aging patriarch of the Roy family and head of a family-controlled international media conglomerate. Jesse Armstrong will serve as showrunner, writer, and executive producer on the series.

Even as TV's foremost black sky thinker, Charlie Brooker would probably have struggled to predict the turbulent, feverish and generally dispiriting events of 2016. Suffice to say that Brooker isn't short of material for this year's rewind. However, there'll be some light relief as Philomena Cunk goes head to head with grinning pop-rave professor physicist Brian Cox, and Diane Morgans media caricature gets a spin-off show immediately afterwards in Cunk On Christmas (10pm).

It's almost as if everything that has happened in 2016 has been leading up to this moment.

Once again Charlie Brooker is back with his unique look back at the year and this week he looks back on the ups and downs of 2016.

Helping Charlie to make sense of the year's news, TV and online phenomena is Philomena Cunk. In her most challenging interview yet, Philomena tries to understand what it is Professor Brian Cox is actually saying.

This is, approximately, Monty Python's Galaxy Song extrapolated into an hour-long special. It's a collaboration between Eric Idle and Brian Cox, hung on the somewhat laboured conceit that Cox thinks he is presenting an academic lecture but has, in fact, been roped into a glitzy musical. It has its moments and, naturally, there's a "hilarious" Uranus pun. Robin Ince, Warwick Davis and Noel Fielding also star.

Brian Cox on The Entire Universe

The physics whiz offers some clever clogs answers to your most burning festive questions.

Preview: The Entire Universe

The Entire Universe, featuring Noel Fielding - with Eric Idle, Professor Brian Cox, Warwick Davis and Hannah Waddingham - tells the story of the birth of the universe in just one hour. Although social media is already buzzing with anticipation about the show, it airs on TV on 26th December.

Samantha Baines: Eight space facts you never knew

Award-winning comedian (and Call The Midwife alumnus) Samantha Baines brings her debut solo hour to Edinburgh this year, and promises to share her passion for science, rip the lid off sexism in space, and impress Brian Cox. Get yourself a little insight into the sort of facts you can expect her to dole out.