Weekend of TV wedding mania

Dream team: the BBC's Fiona Bruce, Huw Edwards and Sophie Raworth
10 April 2012

Had enough yet? If not, fear not. William and Kate's kiss on the Buck House balcony hasn't marked the end of today's wall-to-wall TV coverage. There are enough post-hitch analysis programmes, biographical studies, satirical takes and films to keep the most ardent monarchist or romantic occupied into the weekend.

First out of the traps is the OK! TV Wedding Special (Channel 5, 6.25-7pm) in which those renowned constitutional experts Kate Walsh and Matt Johnson recap the courtship and present highlights of the day's footage. The One Show (BBC1, 7-8pm) goes one better, with Chris Evans and Alex Jones hosting a street party in west London. This will include the first glimpse of the couple leaving Clarence House for their evening knees-up.

There's half an hour of Royal Wedding Highlights on Sky News (7-7.30pm), or if you're desperate to hear Angela Rippon's take on the day's events, she's on Live from the Royal Wedding (E!, 7-8pm) with Dermot O'Leary and Giuliana Rancic. If you've been inspired by the upward mobility of Kate Middleton, there's How to Nab a Prince (Sky Living, 7-8pm), a sort of stalkers' guide to unattached European heirs.

EastEnders (BBC1, 8-8.30pm) sees Albert Square celebrate the happy day in its own, inimitably miserable way. It will doubtless end in tears. As will the Come Dine with Me Royal Wedding Special (Channel 4, 8-9pm) - four competitors host wildly differing wedding celebrations, ranging from a glamorous garden party to a (God help us) "1940s East End knees-up". All for a £3,000 prize.

Back at Buckingham Palace, Huw Edwards and Sophie Raworth will recap the day and interview some of those involved in The Royal Wedding (BBC1, 8.30-10pm). Rupert Murdoch's flagship news channel, meanwhile, turns it into the people's nuptials, presenting viewers' films and photos of their celebrations in Your Royal Wedding (Sky News, 9-9.30pm and 9.30-10pm). Showing rather more wit, Channel 4 has scheduled My Big Fat Gypsy Royal Wedding (10.25-11.25pm), at which the mind fairly boggles.

There's little republican bottle-throwing to mar the day. We can expect a few faux-waspish but actually fond comments from Paul O'Grady Live (ITV1, 9-10pm), but for proper sardonicism we'll have to wait for Charlie Brooker and Jimmy Carr to bare their snarky fangs on Ten O'Clock Live (Channel 4, 11.25pm -12.30am). Then, finally, we'll get the opinion of the only man who really matters, on Piers Morgan Live (CNN, 1am).

Too excited to sleep? Sky Movies' Drama and Romance channel is holding an all-night rom-fest from 9.55pm (Love Actually; Valentine's Day; Rachel Getting Married; How to Marry a Millionaire).

Saturday kicks off in muted fashion. In Will and Kate: Road to the Altar (E!, 11am-noon), Ryan Seacrest and guests speculate about the couple's future. So soon! Then comes Fashion Police Royal Wedding Special (E!,12-1pm) in which Joan Rivers and Kelly Osbourne critique our new princess's dress and the other wedding frocks.

Both the Disney and CBBC channels are screening kiddie romances to slake the emotions of tweenie wannabe princesses, and there's Wallis and Edward (ITV3, 2.30-4:20pm), with Joely Richardson and Stephen Campbell Moore as Mrs Simpson and King Edward VIII.

Finally, on television as at a real-life wedding, it's all over bar the sweeping up. As Saturday shades into Sunday, vaguely appropriate films (The Young Victoria, Leap Year, The Madness of King George) dribble out through the night and the following day, as does Piers Morgan. But come Sunday evening, it's business as usual.

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