While the thought of a Marvel TV show guided by the hand of Joss Whedon’s usual TV posse fills me full of glee, the sight of Agent Coulson walking and talking once more concerns me slightly.

Over the years, Coulson had been little more than a suit, a cameo part for Clark Gregg. Come The Avengers though and not only did Joss Whedon finnally give him a name, but also made him such a crucial part of the billion-dollar grossing film. In typical Whedon fashion though, just as he’d made us all love Coulson, he killed him off.

Now Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D is set to hit our TV screens and lo and before, Clark Gregg and Agent Coulson are front and centre of the production. While I really liked where Whedon and Gregg took the character, his death in the film was a signal that nobody was safe in this universe and that even established characters could meet their end at the drop of a hat. Now what does death mean if you can just come back from beyond?

While we’ve yet to find out how Coulson will make his return, I only hope that it doesn’t just cheapen the entire series and make death another problem that S.H.I.E.L.D have overcome, as then what threat can there ever be in the series?

While Joss has brought characters back from the dead before, most noticeably in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but then at least the resurrection was shown as a horrific act that left all the characters scarred in various ways. Fingers crossed that Coulson’s will be as dark as that, or else the entire universe risks being cheapened forever.

The news of Revenge parting ways with its creator and show runner Mike Kelley came out last week just before it came back from yet another of those vacations American TV shows seem to love and whilst it’s usually a bad sign for the creator to leave, this might just be exactly what Revenge needs.

The first year of the show was silly, over the top, frothy fun that made for compulsive watching and built up a great head of steam over the course of its near two dozen episodes. To say that the second season of the show has fallen short of this marker is a massive understatement.

What made the show so good was that this wasn’t just another fruitless quest for vengeance against a faceless, all powerful organisation. What set the show apart from Nikita and others of its ilk was that the foe was always given a face and plenty of screen time. This was a deeply personal feud between Emily and Victoria and that’s what made it so delicious. It was streamlined, elegant and fun.

That the second series of the show decided to add in a new threat in the shape of ‘The Initiative’ (funnily enough, a faceless, omnipotent group) and enough sub-plots and relationships that you needed a spreadsheet to follow was massively disappointing. The even made the brilliantly detached and snarky Nolan into an emotional wreck.

If this was always the direction Kelley wanted the show to go in, we simply cannot figure out why. Why set up a brilliant rivalry and then add another (rather dull and annoying) player to the mix? The show’s new bosses need to boil the show back down to its basics. Make the show about the Emily’s quest to humiliate and destroy the Graysons, not about trying to stop some shady organisation trying to launch a cyber-attack on New York.

The show’s not alone in having a fairly dodgy second season, but now the show has a chance to put this drama back on track. Let’s just hope they don’t blow it, otherwise last year’s best guilty pleasure could just become another bland series.

I love Zombieland. It’s funny, it’s original, introduced me to the utterly glorious Emma Stone and has perhaps the best cameo of recent memory in a film. It might just be one of my favourite zombie films ever, and that’s saying something.

So when I heard of a Zombieland TV show from the same writing team, I was more than a little pleased. Then I heard it would feature recast versions of the four main characters and be an Amazon Original show and my hopes were lowered by quite a large margin.

Still, hope remained in some shape or form this wouldn’t be a total train wreck. Then I saw the trailer for the first episode and the sound of my breaking heart set off car alarms for three streets.

It’s only a fifty second clip, but straight away something just feels very, very wrong. The charm that made the original so good seems to be absent and the production values look more than a little ropey. The film did such an amazing job that it was never going to be replicated, but that this trailer just feels like a fan-reproduction is even worse.

The biggest gut-punch of all is that the property would have been perfect for a TV show, as it originally was going to be. Give us another group of survivors and make it their tale that we see. The original cast of actor’s aren’t going to be topped, so just start fresh and make Zombieland itself the only constant between the two.

The trailer for the show’s right here though, so take a look if you want to see what you’re in store for with the Zombieland TV show.

Simon Cowell’s decision to have ITV air the first episode of Britain’s Got Talent at the same time as The Voice on BBC One was a bold one, but one that has massively paid off.

While the first series of the BBC’s talent show enjoyed good, if not specular ratings, the show’s producers have decided that it cannot compete with ITV’s variety act contest, with The Voice now is not only going to be aired an hour and a half later than previously planned, but will also be only an hour long, as opposed to it’s usual gargantuan 95 minute running time.

It was an aggressive move by ITV, who last year aired BGT later in order to avoid a clash, but it now means that both they and Cowell now knows they can win this fight. Cowell can go for the throat of The Voice whenever he wants now and with a ruthless streak as wide as his, he will surely exploit this to the maximum of his abilities.

Cowell predicted that his show would beat The Voice in the ratings and this move by the BBC show only proves his confidence right. The man might not be the nicest cookie in the jar, but he has a horrible knack of being right.