House: Private Lives Review (3/5)

Hugh Laurie's award winning medical drama House has been running to successful ratings for over five years now, constantly evolving as each of its lead cast do from the powerful storylines and meetings, but this particular episode of the new series, dubbed Private Lives, doesn't maintain the in-depth medical complexity or nearly as many interesting side-plots as normal, however it does still provide a decent hour's worth of entertainment. Laurie is on form as House is introduced to a fast dating service and manages to outwit all of his potential loves, causing havoc at the event, and Laura Prepron creates a believable blogging fanatic as she tries to decide her fate with the help of the hundreds who comment on her personal life online. As usual, if House isn't your cup of tea, then Private Lives won't convince you to join the fan-club. If it is, then Laurie's superb comedy will compensate for the simple and somewhat dull core story.

Great Movie Mistakes Review (3.5/5)

BBC Three aired Great Movie Mistakes on the 4th of April, with Robert Webb heading a project whereby hundreds of movie stars made supposedly unmissable errors while filming much-loved hits such as Star Wars; The Dark Knight; Lord of the Rings and even 2009's Sex in the City. At first, Webb picks some of the most comedic highlights, which will definitely get the whole family into a state of hysterics, but later in the programme the joker then continuously picks out mere continuity errors such as a shirt changing constantly in one scene without any sign of the character changing his clothes. These small but noticeable changes are at first humorously illustrated by Webb, but when eventually they seem to be all he can find in the blockbusters the programme as a whole begins to grate, and viewing ratings will likely prove that the second half of the 3-hour show started to become tired and irksome. Even Rob's jokes can't save Great Movie Mistakes from losing its touch after about an hour and a half, but when it does have that touch, it's an awesome watch.

Now: That's What I Call Music 75 Review (4/5)

The Now franchise has been running for decades now, reaching it's monumental 75th entry this month, and the CD producers have pulled out most of the stops to celebrate this landmark achievement. The song list includes "Meet Me Halfway"; "Bad Romance"; "Don't Stop Believing" (Don't Stop buying this album though, it's not the Glee version!); "Under Pressure" (Not the brilliant Queen version, instead the strange Jedward remix with "Ice Ice Baby"); Joe McElderry's "The Climb" and "Everybody Hurts", all of which have proved major hits in the last few months, and while countless replays on radio stations have made some tracks wear thin, all of the songs on offer still earn their worth on this volume, and will doubtless be played at parties and nightclubs aplenty after the album's release. There's not much to say of Now 75 that hasn't been said before: no music videos or sneaky extras have been included, so this is a pretty bog-standard release whose status of purchase depends on whether customers prefer to simply download their faves onto their MP3s and iPods.

Doctor Who: A Legend Reborn Review (3.5/5)

A Legend Reborn is supposedly the definitive audio guide to the revamped version of Doctor Who's superb rise to fame from 2005-2009, featuring various interviews with Chris Eccleston, David Tennant, Freema Agyeman and Devla Kirwin (to name but a few), as well as presentation by classic companion Elisabeth Sladen. Sadly, the claim of total Who coverage is somewhat misplaced: key points in the series such as Rose's arrival and departure, as well as the return of the Cyber-Men in Series 2 are merely skipped over to get to the next core event in the revamp's saga, with Catherine Tate shockingly not even receiving coverage of her role as Donna in The Runaway Bride bar a quick mention by Tennant. These omissions are startling to say the least, but certainly don't ruin the experience, although a few less "Who's your favourite Doctor?" "When are you leaving?" type questions would have been welcome by the dull interviewers. Overall, if you're a major fan of the series before 2010, then this is well worth a purchase, but be warned what this isn't is a full time-line of Eccleston's series to David's regeneration: that is still to come!

K-9: The Bounty Hunter Review (3/5)

Wait, before you get ready to go and buy the new and improved first season of the spin-off, just read this review: for its third episode K-9 does indeed build on the concept of the robot pup's memory loss and his previous travels through time and space by introducing an adversary who claims K-9 has committed murder on a galactic pacifist become coming to Earth in the future. This new twist in the dog's past does admittedly allow for a more in-depth storyline with multiple plots and arcs which could carry through to the upcoming finale, thus making "The Bounty Hunter" a far better episode than its predecessor. As I've said before though, it's easy to cringe at John Leeson's new K-9 and the lacklustre teen cast, so it's still by no means the perfect spin-off to Who, and fans will need to prepare themselves for something wholly different and less outrageous than the original source.

K-9: The Korvan Review (1.5/5)

This is one step too far: Torchwood? Great; Sarah Jane? Decent but definitely watch-able; K-9? No. Just...no. As if the character hadn't been overused enough by the Who source material, now Australia have seen fit to give him his own show, completely separate from the Whoniverse, where he regenerates and solves crimes in a future Earth with a bunch of teens. If that didn't sound exciting enough, then just wait: the baddies are never created using FX, but instead using dreary and unbelievable costumes, uttering them completely laughable. John Leeson (who voiced the original K-9) returns here to voice the powerful pup, but gives the regenerated version a horrible attitude which fans will doubtless switch off to within seconds. Episode 2 (the first was never shown in the UK), "The Korvan", highlights all these problems and more, featuring a staggeringly simple plot and a lead cast that becomes more irritating by the minute. While everyone certainly tries their best to put on a good spin-off, this just isn't up to the high standards set by Who: avoid at all costs!

Doctor Who: The Eleventh Hour Review (4.5/5)

"There's no way he'll best Tennant" came the voices of thousands of Who fans as they witnessed Matt Smith's frantic arrival to the TARDIS on New Year's Day "no way in time and space". And yet, while it's too early to make bold assumptions of the Eleventh Doctor, in The Eleventh Hour Smith was truly on form, showcasing all the elements a great Doctor should possess, while highlighting the struggle in which his Time Lord faced to come to terms with how dramatic a change he had undergone. The 60 minute opener certainly boasted enough plot-lines and gags to keep fans and newcomers alike entertained, while its ominous hints that "silence will fall" and "the Pandorica will open" leave plenty to be revealed as Series 5 comes to an epic climax. Not much could be said of the plot, which- while a competent way of introducing the new leads- was frankly all over the place, undecided as to whether it wanted to be a horror, thriller or general action-adventure, meaning that this wasn't the perfect slice of Who some might have been expecting. However, judging by the superb enthusiasm maintained by the new protagonists throughout, things can only get better...