Misfits never turns out a bad episode when it puts Joe Gilgun’s living embodiment of a Freudian slip, Rudy, at the centre of events. Not just because it gives a writer two characters for the price of one to play with, or because Rudy is now the most fully-fledged character on the show, but because Gilgun manages to convincingly sell whatever he’s doing. Even if that’s just eating mustard.
In fiction, it never pays to be a randy teen. You’re always being chased through your house by some knife-wielding fiend in a Halloween mask, or attacked by a werewolf while smooching with your sweetheart in your dad’s Studebaker at Make-Out Point.
Workaholic junior barrister Will Burton (David Tennant) has a happy home life with his wife and son, splitting their time between an attractive London flat and a country cottage. He also enjoys professional acclaim and a healthy professional rivalry with one of his contemporaries, Maggie Gardner.
Alien bad boys and girls The Nekross have captured one hundred wizards and intend to extract their magic in the second part of Wizards Vs Aliens Series 2’s opening adventure.
After a daring break-in at the palace, Ariadne received news of her long lost brother who was believed dead. With the intruder caught, the Princess concealed his news but a suspicious Pasiphae set out to uncover the truth.
Over the course of these two episodes, Orphan Black gives us most of the desired answers to its key questions.
Even in 2013 society doesn’t respect its elders, or treat them well enough. It’s as if those ’70s and ’80s pop hits ‘Grandpa We Love You’, and ‘There’s No One Quite Like Grandma’ were all for naught. Perhaps it’s time to round up all the celebrity codgers and codgettes for an elderly-awareness charity single, Band Aid style. They could call it ‘Hearing Aid’. Or something.
In the opening moments of ‘Pure As The Driven’, a policeman is hurled through the first floor window of an East London building and impaled on the iron railings below, and – BAM! – just like that we’re back in the grimy, gritty, glorious action of BBC One’s Victorian crime drama Ripper Street. Meaning, in other words, that it’s time to reach for the smelling salts.
CBBC’s fantasy adventure series from former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies and The Sarah Jane Adventures co-creator Phil Ford returns this month.
‘This is a chance to use your cock for good!’
And just like that, Misfits is back.