Semi Final Week for Britains Got Talent!

Last night saw the return of Britains Got Talent as the semi finalists battle for a place in Saturday's final! Simon Cowell made a come back to the show to the Superman theme tune.

It is good to have him back on our screens but I feel the show was holding its own with the new panel joining Amanda Holden. David Hasselhoff and Michael McIntyre have been brilliant assets to the show this year. Piers who??! 

Last nights show had it all from dancing dogs, girls on fire, dangerous biking, singing duo, kung fu chicks and an impressionist. But although they were all good, they failed to make the cut.

Grabbing the public vote, and the nations hearts Ronan Parke sailed through to the finals singing Adele's song Make You Feel My Love. The twelve year old star is also a favourite with the judges.

Wonder kid Ronan at his audition

In a tense results show the panel were split voting for the next two contestants who were in 2nd and 3rd place with the public votes. They were Joe Oakley with his act, dangerous stunts on a BMX bike and Paul Gbegbaje a young self taught pianist.

So, with the panel failing to reach a decision Ant & Dec informed us that Paul Gbegbaje had come second in the public vote, so the amazing pianist will be joining Ronan Parke in the final on Saturday 4th June.

With an exciting first night - we hope the talent keeps on coming!


Monday's Contestants
Girls Roc
Donelda Guy
Stuart Arnold
Paul Gbegbaje
Bruce Sistaz
Ted & Grace
Joe Oakley
Ronan Parke

Paul Gbegbaje on last nights show

Girl Power for Scott & Bailey!

After seeing Lesley Sharp on This Morning talking about a new female led police drama I was intrigued. ITV always come up with fantastic drama showing after the 9pm watershed. So, when the day arrived I was excited to tune in.

The six part detective drama welcomes a new female crime fighting duo, Scott & Bailey. Starring Surranne Jones and Lesley Sharp. Ratings for this show at 9pm on Sunday evening debuted at 7.92m viewers, with 262,200 tuning in an hour later.

It was one of the best TV dramas to hit our screens for a long time. The series explores the personal and professional lives of DC Janet Scott (Lesley Sharp) and DC Cathy Bailey (Suranne Jones), both members of Greater Manchester Police's prestigious Major Incident Team.

Cathy is 30, down-to-earth, noisy, argumentative and single whilst Janet is 40, a diplomat and a thinker, as well as being a wife and mother. Despite the obvious differences between them, the fact that they are often thrown together in difficult situations means they have developed a robust friendship.

On the first show we witnessed Cathy mixing her personal feelings about men with her professional ability to interview her criminal fairly. What I enjoyed about this show was that we saw the two detectives trying their best to not let their personal lives interfere with their jobs, and letting us see that it can be a struggle for anyone sometimes.

I think this drama allows ordinary people to relate to the characters of Scott and Bailey as they are hard working women who do an extraordinary job. Cathy and Janet investigate homicide and find themselves in extreme and challenging situations every day of their lives.

Watch the action unfold on ITV1 Sundays at 9pm

Felicity Reviews A TV Zombie Contender With The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead, Series 1

Television has being attempting to rival the silver screen for the last several years, and The Walking Dead is a top contender.

With budget clearly not being a hindrance in American TV, this show has gone all out to re-create the Zombie movie. So many Zombie flicks have to cram in some half-baked nonsense about ‘why?’ or ‘how?’ these frightening events have come to be, but TWD keeps the mystery going, allowing only fractions of information to leak out when necessary.

The cast is good, but some of the character stories could do with either being juicier or not there at all. “Merl” is the gun-nut who makes a brief appearance in the first couple of episodes, and is able to alienate the rest of the cast, resulting in him being tethered to a plumbing system at the top of a Zombie-infested building. When Merl’s equally unsettling sibling insists they go back to rescue him, they arrive on the roof with signs of Merl’s escape but no madman in sight. This is a clever story twist as you know that no matter where the main cast is, the non-Zombie evil redneck is out for revenge- and he can operate a shotgun!

Instead of having an NYC or Hollywood backdrop, TWD is set in the southern American state of Georgia- that’s right somewhere we probably haven’t been or heard of. This new scenery makes it seem even more realistic (just like 28 Days Later when your man was strutting the streets of London in his hospital robe) we are subsequently much more engrossed in the characters and their fight for survival.

Since the days of Dawn of the Dead Zombies have increased in athletic ability and can now outrun even the most adrenaline fuelled victims; TWD Zombies have a believable(ish) pace, and are more like a pack of hunters than a swarm of moaning, drivelling, bumbling oafs with bad make-up.

The first series ended with a massive cliff-hanger, not the kind of one where we roll our eyes and hope to god the sequel goes straight to DVD. No, this is a desperate yearning for series two to grace our screens as fast as you can say… “You all stay here, I’m gonna go and see what’s out there”.

Catch it on FX or 5