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First things first, since this is bound to be a bloody midseason finale, we’ll do something fun with this review. I’ll break this up by character and count down each death throughout the article. Because I’m morbid. Because Gimple would want me to. You can also keep up with deaths this entire season in our who lives and who dies hub. After half a season of wandering, searching, and finding themselves, Rick and his group have finally delivered a proper ending to some of the themes and storylines looming over the show since the latter half of season 4....

On the comic-relief side, Gadge wants out of his increasingly oedipal relationship with the matriarchal Trudy, and Smell convinces Shaun to make amends with his mother, only for them both to find themselves rekindling the relationship of their youth. While there are no spoilers in this article, people in your life will be talking about This Is England ’86. Admittedly, the series is not the most widely- watched of dramas, but what it may lack in viewings figures it will most certainly make up for with the breadth of debate around it and the profound desire amongst its viewers to talk about it....

There are several curious parallels between Tickled, a new feature-length documentary hailing from New Zealand, and Cronenberg’s 1982 movie – not that Tickled’s reporter, director and narrator has much in common with Max Renn, the protagonist of the latter. But TV reporter David Farrier, who normally specialises in those fluffy stories you see at the end of the news, soon finds himself in way over his head when he starts investigating something called “competitive endurance tickling” – a supposed sport that fronts for something far more sinister....

Innes Lloyd 1966-67 Innes Lloyd was responsible for casting Patrick Troughton and taking the show forward after its first major change: the Hartnell/Troughton regeneration. Lloyd devised the idea with his Story Editor Gerry Davis. It was Lloyd’s decision that Troughton should play the Doctor as an entirely new character rather than a watered-down version of the original. A crusty Sea Captain and even blacking up were suggested before (in consultation with creator Sydney Newman) the ‘Cosmic Hobo’ idea was born....

In the distant future, a chemical war has left Earth devastated, and what’s left of humanity survives in two vastly different cities on either side of the planet. On one, there’s the United Federation of Britain, a gleaming metropolis of the wealthy and powerful governed by the despotic Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston). On the other, there’s the Colony – formerly Australia – a benighted, rain-swept mass of floating favelas and neon slums....

The pending destruction at the hands of the military that they believe should be protecting them, forces the residents of Chester’s Mill to see their own lives through a new lens. Big Jim has a moment of surprising mercy as he frees Angie from Junior’s basement. Junior himself seeks out Angie to silence her but instead, as the former hostage and captor wait for the bomb to hit, share a moment of unexpected tenderness....

3.6 Born Again The Vikings have been the victims (if it’s possible to think of that culture as victims) of an unusual historical phenomenon. We frequently say that the history is written by the victors. But despite the fact that the Vikings were, largely, the victors wherever they went, most of their history (as we laypeople understand that term) was written not by them—since they were an oral culture—but by those they triumphed over....

Composer and musician Ilan Eshkeri is an expert on capturing the right sound. His work in the studio is a constant quest for the authenticity of sound. That could mean putting a microphone inches from a violinists bow for intimacy or against a Marshall stack to catch the power of his beloved heavy metal, as he recently did in Shaun the Sheep. Eshkeri sat for an exclusive talk with Den of Geek....

Old School Cool: NBA Hangtime During a much simpler time when major sports organizations were unburdened with thoughts of preserving the integrity of their brand’s image, wacky sports games roamed the Earth. The king of this subgenre was NBA Jam. With its roster of incredible NBA players and absolute disregard for physics, NBA Jam became the definitive basketball gaming experience of its era. To this day, it remains one of the most beloved sports games ever made....

3.1 The Secret Of Room 12 CBBC’s hit show Wizards Vs Aliens is back for a third year. In case you’ve never seen it before, there are wizards, and there are aliens, and they’re antagonistic towards one another. Got it? But there’s so much more to it than that. The show was created by the minds behind The Sarah Jane Adventures, Russell T Davies and Phil Ford, and they brought with them all of the excitement, adventure and emotion of that show but with a whole new universe to play in....

Glenn Jacobs, better known to wrestling fans as WWE’s Kane, is the new mayor of Knox County, Tennessee, obliterating his opponent in Thursday’s election, democrat Linda Haney, by a two-thirds margin. Jacobs, 51, has still been featured on WWE as the Kane character in recent months. In fact just three weeks ago at Extreme Rules, he reunited with Daniel Bryan to bring back their “Team Hell No” tag team. Jacobs suffered a legitimate broken ankle and was shown on screen wearing a walking boot; WWE later reported that he would be out of action indefinitely while recovering from his injury....

Z Nation Season 3 Episode 13 With only a few episodes left before Z Nation takes its final bow for Season 3, some real climactic conflicts needed to be resolved this week, which is exactly what happened in “Duel.” As its title would imply, the focus was on a cat and mouse game between two of the toughest survivors the apocalypse has to offer, but the prize that they were competing over wasn’t necessarily the best....

Z Nation Season 3 Episode 7 Just in time for the 2016 presidential election, Syfy did its civic and patriotic duty by reminding people just how important it is to vote for someone who isn’t a madman. It did this by way of a strange post-apocalyptic presidential debate set in the fantastically cartoonish world of Z Nation. After it was decided that Doc (Russell Hodgkinson) and Addy (Anastasia Baranova) would go off on their own side adventure, because I swear this show is written like it’s an awesome video game, the episode picks up with them stranded on the side of the road with their car having broken down....

As you’ve probably guessed, the commentary track on 21 Jump Street’s disc (out now, fact fans) falls into the latter category. It helps that the movie itself is an extremely funny one, and it’s evident that its directors – Chris Miller and Phil Lord – as well as its leads – Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum – had a great time making it. Art imitates life 21 Jump Street’s opening scene sees a teenage Morton Schmidt (Hill) walk into school with a savage blonde hairdo inspired by Eminem....

18: Stop dicking around with the title sequence.What was with that guitar business? Once the bullet-time’s out, leave the bloody thing alone. 17: Stop templating good ideas.It’s great to unexpectedly have a tearful death scene. Trouble is with New Who, anything that proves popular gets written in as a requisite. How many more times will Donna lament the loss of this week’s character? The reason things prove popular is that they surprise us, not because they turn up on cue like a Swiss watch....

As the producers of 24: Live Another Day no doubt found, there are drawbacks to filming in the UK. For instance, at the point you need a go-to place to hold someone prisoner, in Los Angeles you’d just call a mate who worked at some studios down the round. But then proving the innocence of Boyega’s Chris Tanner is the thrust of this latest episode of the show, and thus he stays put....

Well, thankfully, there’s none of that boring Anne Rice garbage in 30 Days of Night, which seeks to reconcile the differences between angsty emo Anne Rice vampires and the grotesqueries of Nosferatu. These vampires are not pretty. They are not seductive. They’re brutish, ugly, nasty, cruel animals who relentlessly hunt and kill their prey in as brutal a manner as possible. That’s not to say 30 Days of Night is going to break any new ground....

So it was a safe bet when said housemate disappeared this week that the episode was going to be a cracker. Whereas in the Baby Show Liz powerwalking her way around the set and bitched about having to do her job, not once this episode did she build up speed past 5mph. Instead, Jenna was trying to promote her unintelligibly-titled new film, and Tracy was trying to stop Quincy Jones repossessing his house....

Since the day John Wayne swaggered onto the set of I Love Lucy, or Mork from Ork sat on the Cunningham’s sofa in Happy Days, the American sitcom has been head over heels with guest stars and crossovers. Being set behind the scenes at NBC gives 30 Rock more reason than most to continue the trend, and season 5 is shaping up to have as much pull with celebrity guests as the stellar cast of Curb Your Enthusiasm or unstoppable cameo magnet, The Simpsons....

lasagna loving cat known as Garfield. Set in Muncie, Indiana, Garfield lives with his owner, Jon Arbuckle and a crazy beagle named Odie. While the popular comic strips and the equally popular TV show Garfield and Friends, focus on the interactions between Jon, Garfield and Odie, we occasionally see some of the other people in their lives. One of these occasions is during the 1987 Christmas special, simply named A Garfield Christmas....