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.

UK cult TV fans have had a rough couple of months, with not only Being Human coming to an untimely end, but the news coming out today that the next series of Misfits will be the last. But while this news could be seen as a negative, I on the other hand am glad that the show has decided that five series is enough.

The trouble is that while Misfit’s conceit means that the possibilities are nearly endless, the show has become far too reliant of Joseph Gilgun’s Rudy. Don’t get me wrong, the character is utterly brilliant, but at the moment, the show’s using him as a crutch to make up for the fact that none of the other new members of the crew are as interesting as the first batch.

While they’re not terrible characters, they’re just the bottled lightning that we got from the first quintet. Even when Robert Sheehan’s Nathan left the show, the introduction of Rudy was a real shot in the arm for Misfits. It’s not something that the rest of the new recruits have quite been able to do, and it has meant that the show has become a lesser entity as a result.

While Being Human felt refreshed and revitalised after it’s cast change, the last series of Misfits was easily the least spectacular so far. Maybe this new sense of finality can deliver an adrenaline shot to a show that needs it.

With the show announcing before filming’s even began that this will be the final series makes this feel much more like an organic, creative decision and not one made by executives expecting the world and not quite being delivered it.

I really just hope that the show’s writers have something special in mind for this final group of episodes and send a show that completely turned the superhero genre on it head out in a way that we can all be proud of.

Only yesterday I was calling for an entire new series of Jonathan Creek. After last night’s Easter special though, I just don’t know what to think any more.

Jonathan Creek used to be the singular best detective show on TV. Insanely devious, varied and with a cracking sense of humour, the show was an utter delight. That was up until Caroline Quentin left the frame though and the writers of the show really seemed to run out of puzzles for us to solve.

Last night’s episode was a nadir for the show though, with a horribly drawn out mystery that was more downright dumb than deviously clever. That the show then went on to have a second, completely ridiculous plot going on about a mysterious cover up just made me even more annoyed with show. Rik Mayall knocking a gun out of the bad guy’s hand with the computer screen on his wheel chair was the last straw.

The show has become a pastiche of itself and while the Geraldine Hyde gag at least got a chortle from me, that that and Jonathan getting a coat out of the cupboard were the highlights of the show is beyond disappointing.

So, if you’re going to bring the show back, please just do me a few favours. Stop trying to do too many jokes, don’t have any supernatural elements in at all and maybe, just maybe, have the mysteries not all be about death. The show’s not beyond salvation, but another episode like that one and it might just be.

England may have stuttered and scraped their way to a not so glorious draw, but the biggest thing that stuck in my head from last night is that in just a couple of seconds, Adrian Chiles can turn me from mild manner football connoisseur to raving lunatic cursing profusely at the screen.

Live sports TV isn’t the easiest job in the world, but Clare Balding manages to always be engaging, as does Jake Humphrey, whilst even Gary Lineker manages to be functional if a little bit dull.

So why do ITV carry on with Chiles? He’s not informative and unfortunately usually tends to typify the ‘Little Englander’ football fan that gives Brits a bad name, ignorant that other leagues around the world might actually be good and that the England team isn’t in actual fact able to crush all that lay before them. It’s not even as if he has a background in the game, so he doesn’t even have that to offer.

All this time though James Richardson is left to sit on the sidelines and host The Guardian’s award winning football podcast (something I highly recommend to any football fan). Here is a presenter who’s not only well schooled in the world of football from multiple cultures, not just Birmingham, and can naturally present his way out of a safe at the bottom of the ocean.

He introduced an entire generation to Italian football with his 1990s series Football Italia, and was easily the best thing about Setanta’s short lived TV career and the cult following of ‘AC Jimbo’ should really be indulged every time that ITV gets live football coverage.

The rest of their coverage has improved massively. In the form of Lee Dixon and Roy Keane, they perhaps have two of the best pundits in football on their hands, yet they are forced to struggle with Chiles whenever we see them.

He was a success on The One Show, but it’s been years since Adrian Chiles was anything like a name to draw in an audience, and with many better people out there, why ITV continue to put him front and centre of their television coverage is utterly beyond me.

Please ITV, make it stop, for the good of sports TV, make it stop.

While the BBC are keen to stop the rumours of Matt Smith leaving Doctor Who at the end of the year, we don’t think that it would be the end of the world if he were to leave the show.

While the introduction of Clara will be a real shot in the arm for the show, perhaps a change in doctor would also be helpful to the show. Matt Smith has so far somewhat divided fans in a way that neither Eccleston or Tennant did. While he’s been blamed for decisions out of his control (the slight change in tone of the show for example), it’s fair to say that he’s not as universally loved amongst Whovians as Tennant was.

If he wants to leave the show, then it’s smart to let him leave. The last thing you want is an actor who doesn’t want to be there any more, that’s when you get someone phoning in their performance. Not only does the show suffer, but it ruins the memory of that actor for the fans once they’re gone. As they always say, leave them wanting more.

Personally, I’d welcome a change, especially if it meant a distinct change in actor. I know it’s a long shot, but I’d love to see an older Doctor, someone not as fresh-faced as their companions. I’m not talking full beard, but maybe someone who looks like they could grow one if needs be instead of the baby-faced Matt Smith.

While the changing of the guard is always a step into the unknown, I have faith that the show can survive with someone else leading the line.