Although fans of of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency may have been fooled by her meek demeanor at the start of season 2, Walsh knew exactly where her character was headed . “[Executive producer Max Landis] let me in on what he was planning to do,” explains Walsh, “and we had a conversation about how, in Suzie’s case, it wasn’t so much that the power of the wand was going to corrupt her as it was going to reveal who she really was....

Having seen them close up at the Doctor Who Live tour, I can’t say I muster up the depth of dislike for them as some seem to, and always hoped that it might all lead to an Imperial vs Renegade Dalek battle along the lines of Remembrance Of The Daleks. It had already been widely rumoured that the Daleks were going to get a series off from Doctor Who, given that they’ve appeared in every full run since the show came back in 2005....

Of course, at some point (as RTD himself alluded to in his recent tome) interest will hit a peak and it could be that series four of Doctor Who was it, and it would be quite easy to see why. It is the most consistent of the new series so far (in fact, of the show’s 45 year history) and the production values have never been higher. Finally, the cast – never have we had it so good....

Given the paper’s previous priority access to many big Who stories, like Cybermen and Dalek pics, it could conceivably be the programme-makers floating the idea and seeing what people would think of ditching her. And mercifully, the reaction seems to have been a stern ‘she’s quite good, actually, leave your hands off.’ The idea from the quoted BBC source that the falling ratings are Freema Agyeman’s fault would be more believable if they weren’t entirely, unerringly 100% attributable to unimaginative writing....

Judging by the quick turnaround of the film, however, there is the sense this may be a mere stopgap film for its participants. The hangover after The Hangover that precedes The Hangover 2, as it were, and something nice and easy for Robert Downey Jr to do before he ends up cracking wise in front of a blue screen, or dressing in period costume, for the next decade in The Avengers/Iron Man/Sherlock Holmes movies....

So yeah, apparently, it is the “reality” of the show or whatever that Anne and Alexis really are dead. Why we didn’t get to see their ACTUAL bodies is lame and still convinces me that there’s gonna be a hell of a surprise either at the end of this season or the next, but whatever. Let’s pretend they both actually ARE dead, which means that whole “Alexis is an alien baby” was totally a wasted storyline....

That Universal now has such a huge franchise on its hands is no small thanks to director Justin Lin, who managed to take the series from its increasingly niche street racing roots and into new, colossally over-the-top action territory with Fast Five. But Fast & Furious 7 sees Lin replaced by a new director, James Wan – a filmmaker more closely associated with his Saw films than high-octane stunts. Statham, having made a grand entrance as a Terminator-like villain who’s deadly with his fists and a demon behind the wheel, is oddly relegated to the background as the story veers into different territory; Dom and his crew are hired by a G-man calling himself Mr Nobody (Kurt Russell), who wants them to recover a cutting-edge surveillance device called God’s Eye....

However since Michael Mann’s Ali, which was meant to be his big Oscar-bait, ‘proper’ acting debut, didn’t really set the world on fire, he’s seemed to just be treading water. He either put in surprisingly good turns in average popcorn films like I, Robot or I Am Legend, or focused his attention on wishy-washy Hallmark pap like Seven Pounds or The Pursuit Of Happyness. He turned down Django Unchained to do After Earth, for heaven’s sake....

After having lost his family, JP is eager to cling to whatever unit will put up with him. So he comes up with the madcap scheme of buying the house and charging everyone half the rent so they can stay together! If only Kingsley hadn’t decided he’s going to spend his immediate future with Heather. If only Oregon wasn’t spending the next year and a bit backpacking with Dylan! If only Howard wasn’t still pining for Sabine!...

Of Human Action isn’t a bad Fringe episode by any standard. Compared with the week before, it’s actually got quite a strong storyline and is very watchable. Yet, part of me wants Fringe to be the sort of show where I would tear it to pieces for not being as good as I know this show can be. I won’t do that, but it’s still not up to the standard that some of season one delivered....

3.5 Kissed By Fire Writer Bryan Cogman may have had one of the more difficult episodes in recent memory to write. He had some of the more challenging scenes and most delicate pairings to balance. Given the task he took on, you could say he was wildly successful simply because he pulled off one of my most-wanted pairings: Olenna and Tyrion. Just having Tyrion in any scene raises the pressure, yet Cogman pulls it off brilliantly and manages to show in one brief moment that the Queen of Thorns is more of a player of the game of thrones than any man in King’s Landing....

5.3 High Sparrow The universe of Game Of Thrones feels like an authentic place; every location feels distinct without artificially inflated differences. There’s no village of pagodas or huts or science-fiction Jetson houses; it’s all wood and stone, fitting the medieval theme without appearing to try too hard. When we get a look at a new place, it feels like something both familiar and unfamiliar. This week, Tyrion and Varys visit the Long Bridge of Volantis (played by the famous Roman Bridge of Cordoba in Spain), and the tattooed slaves and Red Priestesses therein....

This week, we want to talk about stammering. Specifically, some tips if someone you know suffers from stammering. The morning phone-in on Radio Five Live is really something special when it touches on an issue that rarely gets discussed, yet affects more people than you may think. Yesterday, Rachel Burden hosted an excellent phone-in on stammering, and this week’s Geeks Vs Loneliness is very much inspired by that. What really interested me were the people who suffered with stammering, who rang in and talked about what they faced....

You know what? Gotham was pretty good this week. While there’s nothing to be found in the way of bombshell developments, and it’s a fairly by-the-numbers case of the week scenario, this might be the best job the show has done of balancing out its competing halves. For yet another week, the Penguin story was the highlight of the show, particularly his scenes with Fish Mooney, which were downright kinky....

In the eighteen months since she put away Tommy Lee Royce, Sgt Cawood’s got a medal from the Queen and a new pair of shades. Thankfully that’s all that’s changed about her. She’s still hard-as-nails, talks a mile a minute and thinks at twice that speed, and is just the type of rare person who can be relied upon when a sheep’s skull needs staving in with an ornamental garden rock....

Repetition can be the most underrated rhetorical device in TV, film and literature. Things like metonymy and symbolism are far sexier compared to something as mundane as what basically amounts to “the same stuff happening a lot.” But for our brains “the same stuff happening a lot” can be the quickest shortcut to identifying something as important. That’s right. Three different characters are shown peeing within the first 18 minutes of “Blood Pressure....

So Hemlock Grove should be a feast, especially because all thirteen episodes were released at once, and all you have to do is press play on the first one to get Netflix to feed you all thirteen in a row, with teasing little twenty-second countdowns in between. Unfortunately, even if you manage to choke down the first episode, it’s unlikely you’ll want to come back for seconds. Hemlock Grove is a tasteless, half-baked, completely rotten mess of a show....

1.7 June 13th Part One Heroes traditionally has a great track record of episodes set outside of the main story’s time period and part one of July 13th is, for the most part, no different. Things do however, take a while to click into place. The opening conversation between returning characters Mohinder Suresh and Angela Petrelli should be a treat for the show’s long-time fans but comes off as an awkward and contrived exposition dump....

It’s unsurprising then, that I felt something of an affinity with Milo Ventimiglia’s character in Heroes, which kicked off on BBC 2 this week. He plays the flying man of alliteration, Peter Petrelli, a guy inflicted with the same nagging feeling I once had; that he could fly. Indeed, it turns out he could, and so could his brother. So that’s two kindred spirits I’d found. Fantastic. Elsewhere in the X-Me… sorry, the Heroes’ universe, jailbait of the year, Hayden Panettiere did a much better job in her role as Wolverine Bennet....

I was so wrong! Before this episode starts the plane crashes, and that seems entirely fitting for the story it presented, because Heroes isn’t back on course, it’s six feet under (and not in a positive ‘Alan Ball’ written way). Before I start to eviscerate Trust and Blood, let me just review where the problems with Heroes are, and why I thought that some of them had been fixed. The issues as I, and others, saw them, was that the Heroes became disconnected from reality; they didn’t have jobs or visible means of support....