1.4 A Well Respected Man Someone in the talkback for the last episode asked, not unreasonably, if I get all the “crap TV shows” to watch? In short, yes, that would be me. But the blame is entirely mine, because I commit to review shows based on the information I have before the pilot is screened, rather than direct experience of seeing it beforehand. With Defiance my choice was driven by those creatively behind the show, who all have some really excellent productions in their résumés....

For those of you that have no idea what I’m talking about, Diner Dash is an extremely popular casual games franchise, and Hometown Hero is the fourth instalment. You play as Flo, a stockbroker turned waitress, whose one love in life is to wait tables. Sounds easy? Don’t think so. Of course you’re broken in gently, as you seat the customer, take their order, deliver their meal, then give them their bill and finally, clear the table....

Disenchantment Episode 8 Most of the first season of Disenchantment has taken place in or around the castle of Dreamland, which makes sense for a sitcom but is somewhat of an odd choice for a fantasy adventure series. Usually the latter are about questing across magical lands, avoiding traps, dispatching foes, and meeting magical creatures. In “The Limits of Immortality,” we learn that the series has secretly all this time been leading up to that stuff....

Some people were holding out for J.K. Rowling being the final author of this book series (the collected paperback edition is out today), or were disappointed when a writer who had already written for the TV series was announced. Likewise, some people were hoping for a person of colour or a woman to be the Twelfth Doctor. However, in both cases there is a strong argument in the incumbent’s favour: they’re Neil Gaiman and Peter Capaldi....

There have been several fan adaptations, including a Target-style novelisation by Paul Scoones which is available as an E-book, and in 2003 Big Finish and the BBC produced an audioplay with Paul McGann as the Doctor, accompanied by some animation for a webcast version that is still available on the BBC’s Doctor Who website. After Eoin Colfer’s sixth Hitchhiker‘s novel was not brilliantly received, Roberts had a difficult task in writing a novelisation of a familiar story which also had Adams’ legacy hanging over it....

In the new edition of Doctor Who Magazine, showrunner Steven Moffat has shared one of the not-to-be-filmed audition scenes written for potential 12th Doctors. Why not grab a friend during this morning’s coffee break, make haste to the stationery cupboard, argue over who’s going to be Clara, and act your TARDIS socks off. It’s what we’ll be doing. “I had to make up some scenes for the auditions, cos I haven’t written the real script yet....

And thus you settle down into what at first glance appears to be a conventional period Doctor Who adventure. Only, even before the credits have rolled, it’s apparent that there’s a bit more to it than that. That’s because Vampires Of Venice isn’t content to be a run-of-the-mill, standalone episode in the middle of a series. It’s got other business at hand too. Still, we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Reading around some Internet forums in the last week, there seems in certain quarters to be some apathy towards Vampires Of Venice....

10.6 Extremis “Knock yourself out. Actually, do that. Knock yourself right out” When the ‘a long time ago’ card popped up, and a voiceover kicked in talking about death, I wondered if the latest Doctor Who story, Extremis would be breaking the steady, confident style that’s been winning people over so much this run. Or at least departing from it a little. Here, the episode looked like it was going to zip about more, and that the pace was to be ramped up as a consequence....

If last week’s opening episode of Doctor Who series 10 had some parallels with Rose, in the way that it introduced new companion Bill, then Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s Smile slightly follows the idea of the episode that followed, The End Of The World. That’s because this one zips Bill off on her first adventure, and the TARDIS takes her – by request – well into the future. In this case, the Doctor takes her to a colony for humans, one that doesn’t appear to have any humans in it....

Entitled The God Complex, it’s written by Being Human creator Toby Whithouse. It’s up there with the quality of his first and best Who story, School Reunion, too, although I suspect that the praise for this one might not as unanimous as that enjoyed by The Girl Who Waited last weekend. Personally, I thought that The God Complex was excellent, though. Corridors have, of course, long been a staple of Doctor Who, and here, they’re used to really quite spooky effect at times....

The fifth story ‘True Believer’ is a strange mix of the good, the bad and the tantalising of this production. It had the potential to be exceptionally interesting, but blows it all towards the end in a somewhat lob-sided third act. Meanwhile, Dollhouse is entertaining one of its most important clients, a senator. He wants an active to help the FBI investigate the cult by getting inside the compound where they live....

DuckTales Episode 21 Secrets. They often seem like they won’t hurt anyone. We keep people from harm; stop them from learning something they shouldn’t. By doing that we end up not only hurting the people we’re trying to protect but also their trust in us. We also hurt ourselves by carrying a weight alone that could have been shared by others. It seems noble on the surface but deep down it pushes others away....

3.1 Enough Nemesis To Go Around Proving that the arrival of Jonny Lee Miller wearing a ridiculous helmet will improve any TV show tenfold, Elementary’s season three opener only kicked into gear when Sherlock popped up dressed like a thrift store Cyberman. Before that, the episode had got off to a brisk start with a classic locked-room mystery, but lacked Elementary’s vital ingredient: Miller. It was a muted Sherlock we were given to begin with, a repentant, soul-bearing version of the usually imperious character....

2.3 Sway Burridges’ department store is the sole local outlet for the stockings, and enquiries there turn up a number of interesting leads. Morse interviews Joey Lisk (Max Wrottesley), the seedy supplier of the goods, whose womanising ways immediately place him under suspicion. After a fourth corpse is discovered, and evidence points to Lisk’s having been the secret lover all four victims had in common, the case seems straightforward enough....

3.4 Coda Coda depicts the ending of a number of cherished relationships that have been constructed during Endeavour’s three series, although, as it turns out, none of them actually concludes with a death. Morse returns to his alma mater, Lonsdale College, for an evening concert, and runs into his former tutor, Dr Felix Lorimer (the excellent Mark Heap). Lorimer is keen to arrange a proper catch-up, but he has more on his mind than mere nostalgia for Morse’s student days....

One of Line Of Duty’s many praiseworthy aspects is its respect for an audience’s ability to make connections, pick up on inferences and draw conclusions without being beaten over the head with exposition. We salute its makers for that, just as we salute them for creating another utterly gripping and emotional six hours of television. Straight from the horse’s mouth then, here’s what Mercurio says: Who planned the ambush? “The plan was to kill Tommy and anyone who knew about the conspiracy to kill him....

That said, it does the film no harm at all, as it turns out, even if there’s a nice contrast between the budget the film was made for, and the cost of the event it’s clearly pointing towards. The contrast between the backgrounds of Shania and Lily is an obvious direction for the film to take, perhaps, and their relationship is as friction-filled as you’d expect. But it does work....

As well as touring up and down the length and breadth of the country, she also runs weekly new material night, Old Rope, in London every week which has seen acts such as Ed Byrne, Reginald D Hunter and Jack Dee perform in a pub basement. With one Edinburgh show, Along Came A Spider, under her belt, she’s about to hit The Fringe again with her show, Dictators. So, Tiffany, how are you doing?...

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