Sky 1 are bringing a new, live daytime chat with Angela & Friends. The show gives us Angela Griffin (Cutting It, Waterloo Road) - who surely everyone likes? She'll be presenting daily entertainment and discussion and all those daytime staples. Alongside a rotating cycle of three well-known co-presenters, Angela will get to grips with the latest showbiz stories, lifestyle trends and viewer comments, as well as welcoming celebrity guests to the studio every day. Angela's co-hosts include Sara Cox, Lisa Faulkner, Zoe Salmon, Jayne Middlemiss and more. Click over for a sneak peak of the show.

America's answer to Outnumbered continues apace this evening on Sky 1, and we have some preview clips of Modern Family (Sky One, Tonight, 29th October, 8pm) for you to chew on until it transmits. Tonight sees Phil getting buddy with his father-in-law and Phil has problems with a model airplane and "threading the needle". Click over to see the vids!

It's almost beyond the realms of my imagination that, last year, one of my favourite dramas of the whole year was on ITV1. I mean, ITV1 is pretty much a withered hand amongst the jewellery. However, The Fixer was a preposterous success, with Cracker-style gritticism and savage violence. In Andrew Buchan, we have a new actor to keep an eye on while we mutter about how he's destined for bigger things. The best news about it all is that ITV have seen sense and decided to commission another series... and there's a sneak preview to watch too!

Steve Coogan and Henry Normal's Baby Cow production company can be relied upon to produce some brilliant, off-beat comedy, but they really hit the big time when Gavin And Stacey became a BAFTA-winning success. So now when any new comedy comes along bearing the Baby Cow moniker, it's time to sit up and notice. Home Time is the latest off the conveyor belt.

Related: Our Gavin And Stacey section.

Fans of period dramas were no doubt rubbing their hand together with glee at the prospect of Desperate Romantics. 19th London? Check. Heaving bodices? Check. Lots of industrial-strength gin? Check. Enormous beards and fine waistcoats? Double check. Everything is in place to make Desperate Romantics one of the drama events of the year. So what's it like?

Related: Desperate Romantics cast announced

I'm going to be honest with you. I've never really gone for Torchwood. I understand why Russell T Davies wanted to create an adult sci-fi series - there was definitely a gap in the market for one - but every time I've tuned in I just haven't bought it. If you're going to do an adult sci-fi series do an adult sci-fi series, not just a sci-fi series that has a few swearwords and some men kissing every now and again. Do it properly. Make it really dark and complex and weird. But no, Torchwood, to my mind, has always been not much more than a Saturday teatime drama - infuriating, naff, sometimes good but mostly not. Now, in a week's time, we'll have five episodes back-to-back, one every week night. Will Children Of Earth be up to it?

For all our Doctor Who and Torchwood stuff, go here.

Last night I went to FX's launch of True Blood, its new US import from the HBO stable. It was very fantastic and FX really pushed the boat out - the venue, renamed from Ghost to Fangtastic for the night, was amazingly gothic; there was a Cajun blues band; and a special True Blood cocktail, essentially a Bloody Mary with pig's blood in. So it was all fun and cool and everything, but what about the show? FX had the good grace to keep speeches short and didn't show a full episode, but I've been a bit naughty with this one - I've watched the first series online. So what's it like?

For all our True Blood news and (soon to be be) reviews, go here.

Every now and then a show so bad comes along it literally takes your breath away. Krod Mandoon And The Flaming Sword Of Fire is one such show. Which is a shame because, on paper, it looks like a winner. It's a co-production between US channel Comedy Central (although a UK Comedy Central does now exist) and the BBC and it has Matt Lucas in it, who is always worth a watch. It also sets out to lampoon a genre so ripe for mickey-taking it's going off. So why is it so awful?

For all our First Looks, go here.

I've always rated Samantha Morton and I've liked the way she has always seemed to play slightly detached characters. You can see this outside-looking-in quality in roles in Minority Report and in In America and in Morvern Caller. But however much I like someone's work I always shudder a bit when I hear that they've been given a budget and charged with making their own film. More often than not these things turn out to be vanity projects and follies of self-indulgence. Thankfully The Unloved is nothing of the sort and provided as powerful a two hours of television as I've seen in a long time.

Related: Our Red Riding category.

Thank goodness for the little chinks of light supplied by the likes of Channel 4. I don't mind all this reality stuff because it's good throwaway fun, you know? But this much of it? And Big Brother to come? We might as well just pack up the telly and throw it out of the window. So yes, thank goodness for things like Endgame, Channel 4's latest entry in to the Big Serious Drama canon. The last First Look I did for a Channel 4 thing was the Red Riding trilogy, which certainly had its moments but wasn't quite the landmark piece of work I'd hoped it would be. But Endgame? Now here's something that might just stand up to any hype.

Related: Like the sound of Endgame? Why not read out news and reviews of the Red Riding trilogy here.

Channel 4's Red Riding trilogy of films, based on David Peace's scorching quartet of novels (Nineteen Seventy-Four, Nineteen Seventy-Seven, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty-Three), has been tickling my fancy for quite a while now. I read the books before Christmas and was blown away by them, and then read that Channel 4 had assembled a cast like no other for three television dramas - Paddy Considine, David Morrissey, Sean Bean, Warren Clarke, Jim Carter, Andrew Garfield, Maxine Peake, Mark Addy, Rebecca Hall, Peter Mullan, Daniel Mays, Eddie Marsan, Lesley Sharpe and loads of other actors you half or even fully recognise (a lot from Life On Mars). With books that you love and a cast to die for, this could well be the next great landmark TV series we've all been waiting for. But, as we know from past experiences, hype, hope and expectation can be a dreadful thing.

Related: Channel 4 launches Red Riding website | TV Review: Boy A

First scene of the new series of Being Human: ghost Annie lying in a pool of blood saying, "Everyone dies..." She then goes onto explain, with the use of flashbacks, how her housemates, Mitchell and George, became a vampire and werewolf respectively. Mitchell was savaged during World War II, while George was ripped to shreds on a trip to Scotland during a romantic break with his partner. Now they were living together, each with their pasts and current states hanging over them like a big heavy thing. Quite a first few scenes. Of course, we kind of know who Annie, George and Mitchell are, thanks to last year's excellent pilot. After much speculation, and thanks to the enthusiasm of fans, it got picked up for a whole series and, last night at the BFI, I was invited to a fan screening of the first episode. Many of those passionate fans were in attendance last night, and most of them had one question on their minds - would the cast changes and the fact it was now a proper series have an effect on its quality. They, myself included, needn't have worried.

Related: TV Review: Being Human | Fans launch Being Human petition | BBC announces cast for Being Human

We all know that Philip Glenister is The Man. His Gene Hunt is the true TV iconoclast of the Noughties, so whenever he pops up in a new TV show - all swaggering, Alpha Male charisma - he deserves to be watched. He's still Gene Hunt in Ashes To Ashes, of course, but last night I went to a press launch of ITV1's brand-new, Saturday night family fantasy drama series for 2009, Demons. So what did Phil do next? And, more importantly, what accent would he be rocking?

For all our First Look stuff, go here.

Our esteemed editor Mr Hirons may be an old hand at these glitzy press screenings, but for me, this was the first. And I have to admit to a few nerves - everyone knew each other, there was air kissing and sushi (which I accepted in a moment of madness to be polite, only to remember nano-seconds later that I'm really not a fan) and - ooh, there's Jo from Spooks! And young Den from Eastenders! And oh em gee Duncan from Blue! My word. All human life is here.

First Look: The Devil's Whore | First Look: Dead Set | First Look: Heroes

Whitechapel could, and perhaps should, be subtitled: What Adam From Spooks Did Next (notwithstanding Burn Up). Fans of Rupert Penry-Jones are manifold, so this three-part cop thriller - which fuses together the ever-popular jack The Ripper case with a new copycat murder investigation - should make them very happy indeed. But don't expect an Action man-style character from him; he's quite different in this. And he smiles too, which - if you're a Spooks fan - you'll understand when I say that's weird.

Related: Our Spooks news and reviews *** Burn Up review, episodes one and two

It's difficult for me when I go to press screenings because I get really excited about a show and enjoy it and then write about and then get hammered (see Bonekickers). Must be something to do with watching a television show on a big cinema screen or the cast standing not ten feet away. Seductive viewing surroundings aside, I make no bones about this one... I was verging on the sexually excited about The Devil's Whore. Why? Well, the English Civil an event and a time that has always fascinated me (ever since the BBC's 1980s drama By The Sword Divided), Peter Flannery (of Our Friends In The North) wrote the thing, and it stars some of my favourite actors (John Simm, Andrea Riseborough and Maxine Peake, as well as The Wire's Dominic West and the always-great Peter Capaldi). What wasn't there to like?

Related: John Simm to star in new Channel 4 Civil War drama | Bonekickers news and reviews | TV Review: Being Human | TV Review: Margaret Thatcher

I've never really liked zombies and I'm not keen on Big Brother, so when I heard that Charlie Brooker, of all people, was to make a zombie thing set in the Big Brother house I sighed a big couldn't-give-a-monkey's kind of sigh. What was the point? To make an allegorical statement about the state of reality TV and its viewers? To celebrate the trashy nature of 15-minutes-of-fame culture? To be willfully post-modern and mix up both genres to create some new, 21st-century mutant? I had no idea. Charlie Brooker is indeed a clever and funny man, but why tackle something that Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright did so well in Shaun Of The Dead (a highly enjoyable updating of the zombie genre)? Isn't making something like Dead Set re-treading old and (in my opinion) quite dull ground? That really isn't Charlie Brooker's style, so I went to the press launch last night to find out whether it was any good...

Related: Charlie Brooker's Dead Set launches viral site

Four years in the future, Peter Petrelli is stegging it through an industrial estate, gritting his teeth as he runs. He enters an empty warehouse, but a silhouetted figure holding a gun is already waiting for him. As the camera pans around the person with the gun is revealed as Claire. She's wearing extra mascara and lip gloss, is wearing her hair up and is wearing a skin-tight catsuity thing. She looks as though she means business. These are the opening scenes of Heroes, episode one, series three. I saw it this morning at a BBC screening. It was nice.

To read all our Heroes news and reviews, go here.