The Year's Top Searches
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Disney's hugely successful teen drama franchise came back for a third instalment with the squeaky clean team of dreamboats headed by Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens. Cue mass hysteria in little girls across the UK.
The bleakest of the DC heroes, The Dark Knight certainly captured this aspect of the original Batman comic books. Modern, uncompromising and with an exceptional performance by the late Heath Ledger, destined to become a classic.
This original reality TV programme spawned all the spin offs we've grown to know and love, but is it still the best? Dwindling viewing figures suggest that the BB mixture is going off the boil, whilst Channel 4 continue to come up with ever more sadistic ways to torture the inmates.
Dependent in the main on sight gags, this robot love story from Pixar gained arguably the best reviews of any film of 2008. Could this spell the beginning of the end for human actors?
The story of a nice boy from Essex and a sweet girl from Barry swept the nation off its feet and its writers James Corden and Ruth Jones into a 'Royle Family'-esque flurry of superlatives and BAFTAs. A third series is doubtful, though we expect the Christmas specials will keep coming.
Hugely anticipated, but this film made all those people remembering the originals from their youth feel terribly, terribly old. Harrison Ford looked terribly, terribly old and, unfortunately, most people felt the plot seemed a little overcooked too.
More camp than Christmas at Danny La Rue's, this sparkling Saturday night treat has got the legs to go on for years, much like our Brucie and his awful jokes. But it's not all spangles and stick-on smiles, as John Sargeant found out.
News that the unutterably suave David Tennant was hanging up his pinstripe suit was greeted throughout the land with profuse weeping and knashing of teeth. Now we wait to discover who our next Time Lord (or Lady) will be...
The second film in a loose Daniel Craig trilogy, Quantum of Solace smashed the box office record for an opening weekend in Britain despite mixed reviews from critics. Some likened it a little too closely to another secret agent film trilogy of recent times.
It's hard to tell what's more entertaining on this show - the performances and the struggles of the X Factor hopefuls or the rampant egotism and in-fighting of the judges.