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Tuesday TV - The X Factor, The Grumpy Guide, Happy Endings and The Office

NOT sure what to watch on the box tonight? Check out Cameron Adam's top picks.

Reece Mastin
Reece Mastin

NOT sure what to watch on the box tonight? Check out Cameron Adam's pick for Tuesday 22 November:

THE X FACTORCHANNEL 7, 7.30pm

GRAND final. With even more Kylie. She'll perform one of her hits, Australia will pick a winner and hopefully someone will show them Alityan Childs' (he won last year, remember?) Today Tonight interview as a crash course in what not to do during the next three months. And can someone at Seven HQ sign up Mel B as a judge again for next year? Just sayin'.

THE GRUMPY GUIDE TO . . . FOODABC1, 8.30pm

ARE the grumps getting younger? Or is there just more to whinge about these days that we need to start earlier? This British show hits on a grump-friendly topic for the series return - food. That miserable voice-over chap is back to take us through everything from "Vegie, vegan, right-on limp-wristed lettuce eaters" to the "flowery, poncy lingo" on today's restaurant menus. Superfoods, acai berries, farmers' markets - plenty of ammunition for some British moaning and a few jokes.

HAPPY ENDINGS, CHANNEL 7, 9.30pm

THIS US comedy is really good. Think a twisted update of Friends. It starts with runaway bride Alex (Elisha Cuthbert), who jilts fiance Dave (Zachary Knighton, left) at the altar. Soon he's labelled the 'Runaway Douche' on YouTube and is holed up listening to Indigo Girls. "You're giving off a real Howard Hughes vibe," his friends tell him. "You're 10 minutes away from storing your urine in jars." Before long he's hooked up with a skank with a tramp stamp and is drinking gin smoothies. Result!

THE OFFICE, ELEVEN, 8.30pm

WE'RE on the home run of episodes with Steve Carell (left). For some of his last business as Michael Scott, he gets his girlfriend to get his pal Todd Packer, the dirt-bag pantsman salesman, an office job instead of an on-the-road job. Or from an "outdoor cat" to an "indoor cat". For a gauge of Packer's humour, he calls genital warts "love bumps on my ding dong". Everyone in the office already hates him. What could possibly go wrong?

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