Crossword

Across

1 One of Father Ted's calling (6)

4 Fawlty Towers and Heartburn (Tim Healy) are two famous TV ones (6)

7 The 3-2-1 host who went on to And So to Ted (3,6)

9 Anna, veteran senior news presenter (4) 10 Loyal supporters of particular shows or sports (4)

11 Mr Marvin, who led The Dirty Dozen (3)

12 Celebs (who want out of there) are faced with insects that swarm and snakes that ------ (6)

14 TV is often known as the small one (6)

16 Programmers sometimes ------ bad language in before-watershed shows (6)

18 This girl, associated with Dallas, was played by Barbara Stanwyck in a classic film (6)

20 Once around the track at athletics meet (3)

21 Very prolific (but unknown) TV writer (4)

23 ----! Or My Mom Will Shoot starred Sylvester Stallone (4)

24 These housewives live on Wisteria Lane (9)

25 Warden Hodges liked to stick the ------ in Capt. Mainwaring (6)

26 The ------ that a rugby league game is about to finish is a loud hooter (6)

Down

1 Many such skills (DIY ... embroidery ...) are demonstrated on TV (6)

2 Simon, sports presenter brother of the late Oliver (4)

3 Paul Daniels is a member of The Magic ------ (6)

4 Nerys, star of The Liver Birds (6)

5 Use this, to get a lawn in no time, say TV garden experts (4)

6 Summer is the ------ for repeats on TV (6)

7 US vampire series on HBO (Home Box Office) (4,5)

8 Heavenly body that relays TV signals (9)

13 The villain in a Western is the one in the black --- (3)

15 Director's orders to stop cameras rolling (3)

16 He lives in a Den, and has oodles of dosh (6)

17 Long periods may ------ in dramas on TV, which are covered by a narrator (6)

18 Most ------, even obscurer ones like lacrosse or jai alai, are covered somewhere on TV (6)

19 Children In Need is TV's most consistently successful one (6)

22 Mr Bean is this sort of ineffectual character (4)

23 Landseer's Monarch of the Glen was one (4)

Last week's solution

Across: 1 Sacha Baron; 7 Largest; 8 Vista; 10 Nature's; 11 Nerve; 12 Coarse; 15 Helena; 17 O'Hara; 18 English; 21 Ended; 22 Italian; 23 Animal Farm. Down: 1 Strut; 2 Cheer; 3 Artist; 4 Advance; 5 Observe; 6 Glenn Close; 9 Alexa Chung; 13 Abandon; 14 Stardom; 16 Aerial; 19 Ghana; 20 Idiom.