Hunted - Hebburn

Thursday night TV has been on a bit of an up recently and it's nothing to do with Sky Atlantic for once. BBC1 has seen Hunted for the last 4 or 5 weeks. It's a bit like a private sector Spooks. To be honest the plot has lost me but the action is fast paced and there's plenty of hand to hand combat. The star of the show is Melissa George, formally of Home and Away. She fights her way out of any tricky situation whilst surprisingly never being punched in her pretty face. Often these very physical assaults are carried out while wearing a woolly hat. When not battering baddies into a pulp George can be found pouting, something she does well.

Her nemesis or is it only allie likes to dispatch opponents with a syringe to the eyeball. This is always difficult viewing. A more detailed blog on Hunted can be found on The Guardian's website .

Hebburn is on straight after Hunted at 10.00pm but does require a change of channel to BBC2. Starring comics Jim Moir (Vic Reeves)  and Chris Ramsay along with proper actress Gina McKee it follows the highs and lows of a newly married couple forced to move in with the groom's parents and live at home sister. Add into the mix the bride is Jewish in a gentile area and its humour all round. Some of the acting isn't that good but the jokes and situations the cast find themselves in make up for this. Well worth watching.

                                                         Sexy Shrek