The Internet. The Ol’ Googlebox. The Pornographer’s Lantern. Whatever you call it, we can agree that it is generally pretty neat. It even allowed you to watch this week’s Misfits earlier than usual on 4OD, and that’s no bad thing.
The second series of period crime drama Ripper Street continues on BBC One next week with ‘Threads of Silk and Gold’ and investigations into the brutal slaying of a Telegraph Boy lift the lid on a vice racket run from the offices of the GPO.
Coming after three very solid weeks, Episode 4 of Ripper Street’s second series marked a slight dip in quality. Though still undeniably enjoyable fare, this week’s story was let down by its over-exaggerated villains, hastily-resolved ending and watery subplot involving newbie Constable Flight.
The final series of Misfits continues on E4 this week and Rudy takes Finn to the superpower support group to help him get over Jess.
ITV has released the first trailer for the new series of Mr Selfridge.
Wizards Vs Aliens returns to CBBC for a second action-packed series, bringing magic and sci-fi together to tell the epic tale of aliens intent on devouring all the magic on Earth – with only 16-year-old wizard Tom Clarke and his friend Benny to stand in their way.
The second series of period crime drama Ripper Street continues on BBC One next week with ‘Dynamite and a Woman’ and, after over 20 years in Newgate Gaol, the Irish dynamiter, Aiden Galvin, is sprung from his prison wagon’s journey through Whitechapel.
It tends to happen once every series. Amid the crudity Misfits will produce an episode that manages to touch you right there.
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) and Jon Hamm (Mad Men) are reunited this winter for a second series of A Young Doctor’s Notebook, as part of Sky Arts’ Playhouse Presents strand.
For a series named after one of history’s most notorious misogynists, Ripper Street rarely gives us the female perspective.