Jasmine Sahu is well suited with this new American drama exclusive to Dave.
Lois Cameron explains why this series is much more than your average cosy period drama.
The last episode of this series sees Sherlock and Moriarty attempt to solve the final problem with devastating consequences.
With major cast changes afoot, Jacob Martin ponders whether Being Human can live up to its own scarily high standard.
Here’s what’ll be keeping us glued to the box this week:
- If you’ve never watched Glenn Close’s thrilling legal drama Damages, then switch over to BBC2 (Wednesday - Friday, 12:20am), who are currently rerunning the third season. That said, it might be best if you waited for them to show the first season again… we just wanted an excuse to plug Damages, really.
- Tucked away, late on Tuesday nights (BBC1, 11:20pm), don’t miss the new series of Film 2011 with Claudia Winkleman, infinitely better than autocue reader Jonathan Ross’ version.
- Ben Miller stars in a new comedy drama for BBC1 (do I hear groans?), called Death in Paradise (Tuesday, 9pm). It reads like a Caribbean version of Doc Martin, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. On that note, don’t miss Doc Martin’s penultimate episode on Monday (ITV1, 9pm), perfect viewing after a hard day of lectures (or independent study, as is probably the case…)
- It’s a sad moment for Spooks fans, as the final series finishes on Sunday, BBC1 9pm – keep an eye out for Lois’ Spooks blog!
And this week on The Yorker, look out for reviews of The Walking Dead, Pete versus Life, Derren Brown: The Assassin and many more…
- In the week’s saddest news, Coronation Street legend Betty Driver passed away last Saturday at the age of 91. She was as familiar and as loved as the Rovers itself and we can only hope that Betty’s hotpot will remain a staple of the pub’s menu for many years to come.
- Popular radio show Just A Minute will be celebrating its 45th anniversary next year by moving to BBC2 for ten episodes. As legendary as the show is, will half an hour of no “repetition, hesitation or deviation” really work on television? We get that enough in lectures, surely.
- Channel 4 have confirmed that Sirens has been cancelled after just one series. Most people would probably argue that that was one too many. Maybe the channel’s commissioners had had one too many when they thought it would be a good idea in the first place…
- New drama, Palm Beach, is apparently in production for NBC and has been described as similar to Upstairs Downstairs, but set in, er, Palm Beach. In more production news, Big Bang Theory writers John Ross Bowie and Kevin Sussman are penning a new comedy for Fox about a couple looking after their five-year-old daughter. Bazinga!
- Iain de Caestecker says he is unsure if BBC3’s marvellous horror series The Fades will get a second series. Never fear, if it doesn’t, the channel have promised to show another series of Young, Dumb and Living Off Mum.
- Catherine Tate is due to return to The Office in the US, after departing in the previous season.
- Downton Abbey’s creator Julian Fellowes says nothing has been decided by ITV about more episodes of the hit show. Recent reports have also suggested that he only has a three-series plan, while others suggest it could run and run, so we don’t really know anything. It’s been a bit of a slow news week…
- In an interview with Reddit, The IT Crowd creator Graham Linehan has said that there will be no more than five series of geeky sitcom, but we suspect that the catchphrase “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” will remain standard techie advice for the next several hundred years.
- Marvel have announced that comic series based on the Dexter books is to be released next year. That’ll be something fun for the kids’ bedtime reading, then.
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