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Diamond Seeker opens with Mickey and Emma taking a trip to jewellery fence, Frank Rice, played by Nicholas Ball. Given that once Hazell star has been demoted recently to playing Lenny Henry’s manager in a recent hotel chain commercial, this looks like better work. His character in this might be an unsympathetic letch, but at least he doesn’t get to carry the luggage. Why they do this is something to do with the Grifters Code, which appears to be an idea they borrowed from the Pirates of the Caribbean....

In a supermarket car park, a gang of bald aliens feed frozen turkeys to a monster hidden in an 18-wheel juggernaut. In a dilapidated Victorian detached house, Timothy Olyphant stares perplexedly at an enchanted pewter tissue box. Meanwhile, a mysterious girl blows up a shed, and a lizard turns into a cute dog. What can it all mean? Having sat through almost two hours of I Am Number Four, I’m still not entirely certain....

Of this set of tapings, Thursday’s show was the best show to date. There were some low points, but the ECIII-Storm match, the opening tag match between LAX and Garza Jr/Laredo Kid, and the main-event Ultimate X match were all exceptional. Regardless, there are way too many titles on Impactright now. Between Raw and SmackDown, WWE has nine titles. That’s for six hours of television, including 205 Livefeaturing the cruiserweights....

Maybe I’m off base here, but I have some evidence. They’re pushing the envelope. About a month ago, Impact aired a Barbed Wire Massacre match on their Twitch channel — Pop TV refused to air it — and the finish came when Dave Crist had kabob skewers jammed and stuck into his forehead. Tyrus beat Ethan Carter III Well, we know that ECIII is leaving Impact Wrestling for a return to WWE, and it was pretty evident in this match....

Incorporated Season 1, Episode 2 An imbalance exists in Incorporated. On the one hand, there’s the huge story potential inherent in the corporate future the writers have envisioned as well as the perfectly compelling intrigue unfolding with Ben and the secret mission behind his rise to power. On the other hand, the characters themselves have an uneven amount of personality and emotional depth to draw in the viewer, causing supporting characters to upstage principles....

Incorporated Season 1, Episode 1 Incorporated imagines a special kind of future dystopia, one in which corporations have taken control of a world ruined by rising sea levels and other natural disasters. The pilot episode shows viewers how only employees of these mega-corps live relatively normal lives, but even they must subsist in a competitive corporate culture where disloyalty can mean death. The premiere skillfully sets the scene and draws in its audience, but it remains to be seen if viewers will identify and sympathize with the show’s protagonist....

4.2 Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room It probably wasn’t—Inside No. 9 stories sprout from all kinds of seeds—but that line may as well have been the inspiration for this moving episode. Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room is a sad tale of two long-estranged comedy partners who fell out at their height of their fame and left reconciliation too late. Now, one is back to bury the other. That’s the real story, concealed until the twenty-fifth minute of this emotional half-hour directed by Graeme Harper (The Devil Of Christmas)....

Into the Badlands Season 2 Episode 7 Admit it. You’ve been craving vast stretches of alone time with just Bajie and M.K. all season, haven’t you? Either way, that’s what we have here in “Black Heart, White Mountain”, an hour of television that echoes far superior hours of television that I still wouldn’t want to sit through again because they rely on a contrived stock plot – something I like to call The Coma Quest – to pad things out....

Actually, come to think of it, Freeman also popped up for another disastrous turn of events in Chain Reaction in that same period, with his luck then repeating at the start of the millennium with The Sum Of All Fears. Probably best not count on him when it comes to a global crisis then. Into The Storm is every bit the B-movie delight it promised to be, from its compelling, tight and terrifying opening sequence, to the full on bluster of its finale....

It was almost inevitable that the franchise would eventually break free of its Cardiff bonds, which brings us to the first episode of K-9, the new Australian spin-off series from the mind of K-9’s creator, Bob Baker. That’s right, I said ‘Australian’; the BBC opted out of this one (Bob Baker’s been trying to launch a K-9 series for over a decade), so Baker was forced to seek finance elsewhere....

The first such occasion was the commendably Daily Mail-baiting Kick-Ass, a film that beneath its energy, ideas, music and fruity language had real substance to it, and plenty of rewatch value. Oh, and an 18 certificate. I fondly remember such things. Onto Kingsman: The Secret Service, then. This is the project that Vaughn directed instead of moving onto X-Men: Days Of Future Past, and after spending just over two hours in its company, you can understand why it appealed....

By the mid-1970s, Coppola was one of the stars of New Hollywood, holding unprecedented power and critical respect, dominating the 1974 Oscars with a total of fourteen nominations shared by his second Godfather rhapsody and the arty Antonioni riff, The Conversation, including a double nomination for Best Picture, and the rare honour of being nominated for both Best Original and Adapted Screenplays. This was alongside producing George Lucas’ pre-Star Wars hit, American Graffiti, and contributing the screenplay to the lavish big-screen adaptation of The Great Gatsby, which helped place Coppola in the powerful position of being a successful director, producer and writer....

This week was yet another strong episode of Lost, so it’s no surprise that we’ve got a week’s gap to contend with now. After all, we wouldn’t want to accidentally build up some consistent momentum, would we? On the ‘new questions’ front, I think the main one to ask about the sideways-verse is why does Sun recognise Locke? Does her fear indicate that she actually recognises Smoke Locke, rather than the more benevolent John?...

Maniac is obviously a weird show. Through three episodes “weird” has been the predominant descriptor to nearly everything happening on screen. In “Having a Day,” however, that weirdness goes from the social commentary variety to the just out and out fun. “Having a Day” entertains some weirdness for weirdness’s sake. While that concept has a bit of a bad connotation and makes it sound as though the show is somehow trying too hard to be transgressive and buzzworthy, that’s not the case....

But Mars isn’t just a series of interviews with Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Elon Musk and the SpaceX team looking to make this vision a reality, although those certainly are included. The six-episode event is mostly a fictional account of the crew of the Daedalus, an international team in 2033 that undertakes the 7-month journey and encounters the problems predicted by the 2016 engineers. The interviews merely provide a context for what the characters are experiencing....

The story follows three annoying students who are making a documentary about the Blair Witch, an old woman who used to live in the woods but then got killed by magic and so haunts the woods. They go to the supermarket and then they knock about in the woods for a day. “Do you want to find the treasure or not?” snaps the girl. “I do, I just don’t think we’ll be able to without the help of the Grimace” he responds....

Wow, what an opener – an entire episode mirroring the finale siege in Return of the King. This should be good, I figured. We haven’t seen a good Dragon battle on television in my memory, and the idea of a huge military siege, knights, horses, catapults and all manner of medieval weaponry bought on screen to be thrown against a huge fire breathing monster sounds epic. It could have been one of the television highlights of the year....

After last week’s Gwaine, I wasn’t overly eager to watch another standalone episode of Merlin. But The Crystal Cave, although light on action, more than makes up for this failing with a character-driven episode chock full of revelations, and the reappearance of the delectable Emilia Fox. Let’s just say it right here, then: this episode is a precursor of what’s to come during the rest of the series, and I have a feeling the witch could inherit the throne....

Michael Shannon (who previously starred in Nichols’ earlier films Shotgun Stories, Take Shelter and Mud – all excellent) plays Roy, a father on the run with his eight-year-old son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher). With Joel Edgerton’s tough state trooper in tow, the three flee across Texas from government forces and the creepy representatives of a religious commune. The pursuers’ target is Alton, who appears to be gifted with supernatural powers. The nature of those powers, and the relationship the three leads share with their pursuers, only gradually comes to light....

In an episode where absolutely everything could go wrong, Misfits tackles the Nazis, with Simon and Alisha on Hitler’s side, and Kelly leading the resistance. The episode centres around the actions of a man with plenty of reasons to kill the dictator, and just happens to possess Curtis’ missing time-travel power. He travels back intent on revenge, but ends up dropping his smartphone instead, handing over the secrets of advanced technology to the Nazis and royally screwing up modern-day Britain....