It's raining, it's pouring, all your friends are boring... so stay in and be entertained instead. If you're too excited about the return of Lost to wait until Sunday (Sky One, 10pm), then while away the hours by playing the Lost Caption game - a great way to revise who is who and what their story is. Sense of humour required.
Before the thrill that is Lost (and after all this Bond business, does anyone else feel a little bit overwhelmed by the prospect of more waterside testosterone-fuelled action from Jack the doc?), get in touch with your arty-farty side and tune in to Simon Schama's Power of Art (tonight, BBC2, 9pm), in which he gets under the skin of JMW Turner's Slave Ship. Of course, there's Children In Need and I'm a Celeb too, if you're feeling either charitable or bitchy.
On Saturday, George Michael sets the mood for music (BBC Radio 2, 8pm) - the singer will be explaining his incredible staying power to the backing of his very own greatest hits, if that's your thing. Or get down to brass tacks by tuning in to How Music Works with Howard Goodall (Channel 4, 8.25pm) - he is like "the dream music teacher you never had," according to the Radio Times. Amusing anecdotes about your music teachers are very welcome below. But to beat all of that, Saturday is also the day when the fabulous Oscar-winning Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is screened (Five, 5.30pm). The way Robert Redford's blond hair moves in the final gun-fight scene is truly splendid, and the score is great too.
Finally, Sunday shall, I suspect, be spent poring over scary Stephen King's choice cuts (Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 11.15am). But that's just me. What are you looking forward to watching or listening to this weekend?
