This week the panel discussed:
Michael Barrymore
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...by the end it was such a relief when the curtain came down.
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Michael Barrymore has abandoned his comeback stage show only three nights into a seven-week run.
For the last three years Michael Barrymore, the once top-rated host of ITV shows such as My Kind Of People and Kids Say The Funniest Things, has experienced newspapers saying the cruellest things about the kind of people he knows.
A period in which he was accepting his homosexuality and struggling with addiction to drugs and drink culminated in the death of a man at a swimming pool party at his home. Though coroners and police asked questions, no charges followed.
Barrymore hoped that the London stage run would restore his reputation.
The Deal
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The matching of archive is the best I've seen.
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Because Lord Hutton banned the cameras from his inquiry, politicians, civil servants and journalists have had to endure their words being delivered by actors in reconstructions on news shows. But next week a rather more detailed version of this technique is applied to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
In Channel 4's The Deal, David Morrissey and Michael Sheen play the brooding Scot and the smiley ex-lawyer from 1987 - when they are elected to parliament - to 1995 when they must decide which one of them runs for Labour leader.
While the Hutton reconstructions use transcripts, here writer Peter Morgan and director Stephen Frears have imagined - based on research - the conversations which took place as friendship became rivalry.
The Deal is screened 28 September on Channel 4.
Pre-Raphaelite And Other Masters
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An amazing collection and a great one.
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In the past, when Andrew Lloyd-Webber put on a show - such as Cats, Evita or Phantom Of The Opera - the aim was to make the audience applaud and start humming. But - if you make either of those reactions to his latest show - you're likely to be asked to leave.
At the Royal Academy in London, silent appreciation is invited for the private art collection which Lord Lloyd-Webber has accumulated over 40 years: from pre-Raphaelites to Picasso and Stanley Spencer.
Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd-Webber Collection is at the Royal Academy in London until 12 December.
The English Roses
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It's the perfect follow-up to 'Sex'.
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A previously unpublished children's writer was given a lavish roof-top launch attended by Martin Amis and other literary celebrities.
It possibly helped that the author has recorded 16 albums and appeared in 18 movies although the most recent of those - the shipwreck fiasco Swept Away - went straight to video.
The English Roses by Madonna is out in hardback now.
The panel were:
Newsnight Review, BBC Two's weekly cultural round-up, follows Newsnight on Friday evenings at 2300 BST, 2200 GMT.
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