NCIS (Channel 5, 9pm)

THE most popular drama show in the US reaches the end of series ten tonight, which makes life difficult for fans like me, who are struggling to keep up with cable channel FX's haphazard showing of series 11. So, there are around two years of plot twists and turns still to come on Five.

Five viewers will see attractive Israeli Ziva David (played by Cote de Pablo) appearing to face investigation over the death of a double-agent (while it's her boss Gibbs that Richard Parsons' witch-hunt team are really after). Meanwhile, FX followers have been mourning Cote de Pablo's mysterious departure from series 11 after one episode.

Neither the actress nor the current production team behind Donald Bellisario's NCIS saga will go on the record about the reasons for her quitting her role alongside Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly

Pauley Perrette, David McCallum and Sean Murray.

All I can say is that replacement Emily Wickerham, who is an eerie blonde version of de Pablo, is struggling to find her feet as a kookie analyst without the ability to fire a gun, let alone break someone's neck with a single eyebrow flutter like her predecessor. Let's hope that Harman's Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs lays down another few rules about not recruiting field agents who pout rather than fight back... I thought that was Antony DiNozzo's job.

A new spin-off series is to be set in New Orleans and will star Scott Bakula.

No news yet on whether Five will be screening it, but there are still plenty of episodes with Gibbs and company to keep fans happy for the moment.

In the latest offering, the unit investigates when Navy Seal Chad McBride's wife receives a package from Riyadh in Saudi Arabia containing her husband's severed head. As if that's not bad enough, Palmer discovers it contains very high levels of radiation. It transpires the soldier was on a secret reconnaissance mission, and McBride's commanding officer asks Vance not to disclose the details to anyone.

Have I Got News For You (BBC1, 9pm)

ALEXANDER Armstrong is back for another half-hour of not-so-Pointless questions. He, Paul Merton and Ian Hislop are joined by Only Connect hostess and Poker genius Victoria Coren Mitchell, and actor-comedian Joe Wilkinson, whose work on Him and Her and 8 Out of 10 Cats has helped boost his fanbase. Aside from a less-than-serious look back at last week's elections, the last in the series will also address more of those bizarre stories which hit the headlines over the past seven days.

The Graham Norton Show (BBC1, 10.35pm)

A few weeks after the star of Top Gun, Magnolia, the Mission: Impossible movies, and many other beloved films accepted an Empire award for being utterly fabulous at a posh London hotel, Tom Cruise is back in Blighty. He's plugging sci-fi thriller Edge of Tomorrow; imagine a mix of Groundhog Day, Starship Troopers and last year's Cruise offering Oblivion, and you get the idea behind director Doug (Bourne Identity) Liman's latest movie.

This week, Cruise and co-star Emily Blunt pop into the studio to promote that multi-million sci-fi epic, partly shot in London and originally titled All You Need Is Kill. Graham Norton also welcomes Oscar-winner Charlize Theron and actor-director Seth MacFarlane.

They'll be talking about cowboy comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West, and Coldplay will be performing A Sky Full of Stars.