Television

I've been watching HBO's Hung for the last few weeks since it premiered here in the UK. If you're not familiar with the concept of the series, let me lay it down for you. Thomas Jane plays lead character Ray Drekker. Ray is at the end of a serious run of bad luck - he's a poorly paid high school football coach, his wife has left him, his house is uninhabitable because it caught fire, and his teenage kids - who were living with him - have had to move in with their mother. Oh, and did I mention he can't afford to repair the house and lives at the bottom of his garden in a tiny tent?

Yeah, things aren't looking too good for ol' Ray. Desperate to find additional ways of making the cash he needs, he signs up for an entrepreneurship class where the participants are urged by the tutor to find their most lucrative tool. Being a guy, Ray interprets 'tool' in the only way he can - relating it to his sizable man-parts. He meets - and sleeps with - another participant in the course, Tanya Skagle.

Somewhere along the line, Ray and Tanya partner up as 'happiness consultants', a lovely euphemism for male prostitution, with Tanya as Ray's pimp.

It's crushes all round in the tenth episode of Glee tonight - this ballad-themed episode has Schuester dealing with an unwanted crush from Rachel, Kurt helping Finn with ulterior motives.

And yes, tonight's the night when Puck finally snaps and tells Mercedes that he is Quinn's babydaddy and not Finn. Oops, did I spoil it for you? Well, there's more to come...

As we've already said, Rachel Berry develops a schoolgirl crush on Will Schuester, which leads to some brilliant comedy and musical moments. First off, is when Schue's wife Terri realises what's going on an manipulates Rachel to come round and clean her house, reasoning to Schue that if she has to put up with perky, younger girls calling for him, then she should get something from it too.

Next, is the Don't Stand So Close To Me/Young Girl medley that Will sings to Rachel as a hint for her to back off. Naturally, she interprets this in exactly the opposite way, but the swooning looks on Rachel and Emma Pillsbury's faces are priceless.

You know it's getting close to the new series of Doctor Who when major interviews with its stars start appearing in the press. This weekend, The Guardian published its interview with new Doctor, Matt Smith.

To be very cruel, it's essentially a puff piece, profiling Smith for people who probably haven't already researched him. I mean, one entire paragraph is dedicated to his dead cat, Timmy! In other places, it gives the impression that Smith is a vibrant and energetic character himself, and possibly addicted to Mini Eggs. If that gets out, he'll have more Mini Eggs sent to him than he could eat in a lifetime.

Things get interesting when Smith finally gets talking about The Doctor, his approach to playin the character and about Karen Gillan, the Doctor's latest companion. On the subject of the eleventh Doctor:

I've spent a couple of mornings this week watching The Jeremy Kyle Show. If you don't have the luxury of being around during daytime TV hours, you might not have seen it, but you'll almost certainly have heard of Kyle and his show.

It's a variation on the Jerry Springer formula. And why not, Springer's show was a huge success - you bring on people from the lowest echelons of society and let them rip into each other. The topics are usual fodder - DNA tests, lie detector tests. Drug addiction, boozing, bad parenting, crime, men who try to sleep with every female in a given family. You'd be forgiven for thinking that the down-and-outs and council house dwelling masses were no better than animals.

That's the thing about the Kyle show. There always seems to be a ready supply of scoundrels and scumbags for Jeremy to point his finger of justice at. Physically, these people are in bad shape - buckled teeth, cross eyed, often seriously obese. I say this, because the physical is surely some indication of their mental condition - when they come out on the stage shouting insults at each other, pointing fingers and snarling.

Toby Whithouse, the creator of Being Human, has spoken about what might be next for George, Mitchell and Annie in the third series of the show.

With Annie now in the spirit world/afterlife/purgatory (whatever you want to call it), Mitchell has vowed to bring her back from what sounds like a hellishly long queue. George and Nina are living together, with Mitchell, in a remote farmhouse.

Elsewhere, as we saw at the end of last night's show, Daisy and the freaky vampire have succeeded in bringing Harrick back. Former police chief and king of the Bristol vampires, Herrick is probably the one character who could reinvigorate the series.

However, Whithouse hints that Herrick might have undergone some changes when he was reincarnated. After all, he's bearing the scars from where George ripped his body apart and rises from the grave screaming - in fear, agony, horror, pain?

As for the future for George, Mitchell and Annie? Well, Whithouse says:

Series 1, the threat was supernatural, series 2, the threat was human. The way I'm seeing it at the minute, series 3, the threat is themselves.

Where did it all go wrong? Tonight's finale of Being Human fell apart in a mess of confusing plots and inexplicable interactions. Instead of being excited for the recently confirmed third series, I'm sitting here feeling jaded and frustrated that the series ended so badly.

I was a little amused to read the review on the Guardian's TV blog suggesting that the series ending had been a good one. They go as far as to suggest that the sinister Christian cabal headed by Kemp was brilliant because of its flaws:

The very fact that the show's human baddies haven't had much of a coherent plan has made their antics all the scarier; a bitter old priest, a brilliant, misguided professor and an indifferent comedy technician have conspired to make something truly dangerous out of their very lack of focus.

To this I respond, "Get a grip!" It made them look like a poorly organised bunch of zealots, whereas their technology and smooth operations in the early episodes made Kemp's people look like a deadly, secretive enemy.

The BBC has released a new trailer for the fifth series of Doctor Who. It features The Doctor and his newest companion, Amy Pond gaxing up at the stars when the ground beneath them gives way, pitching the pair into a vortex.

It's a little step closer to seeing the 11th Doctor in his first full episode - and another glimpse of what to expect from Matt Smith and Karen Gillan as they take over the lead roles in one of our favourite TV series! Something I found funny is that many Who fans are still looking for reasons to despise Smith as The Doctor. Here's a cracking comment from Screen Rant:

Yeah it is, and the trailer is in 3D at uk cinemas. It might make more sense in 3D but like this it just looks like cheesey rubbish. And Smith's voice seems so weak, there's no confidence or command there at all.

Karen Gillan looks hot though, so she gets a thumbs up.

Talk about karma! Newly widowed Stacey Slater admits to Max Branning that she killed Archie Mitchell in tonight's EastEnders. And dopey Bradders is still bleeding on the pavement after a rooftop fall!

The big question for me is one of intent - did Bradley jump or did he just lose his grip and fall off? My partner-in-crime, Lisa, thinks that Bradley killed himself to allow Stacey to escape. Now, the only way that happened is if Stacey told him the truth in the bedroom before they made their run for it.

Of course, Stacey got caught by the police and dragged back to the Square. And as she and Max recoil in horror from the sight of a dead ginger, she confides in him that she was Archie's killer. If you tuned into the EastEnders Live: The Aftermath episode on BBC Three, you'll have seen how the rest of the cast found out. What a well-kept secret - even Charlie Clements (who played Bradley) got told a few moments after the live episode finished!