If you've read the news recently, you might have heard that Jonathan Ross will be leaving the BBC in June. For some, this was a blow to the broadcasting world: one of television and radio's foremost entertainers had been forced out of office by the easily-offended prudes of Middle England. For others, it was a triumph: a grossly overpaid and talentless philistine would finally be off our screens, leaving the airwaves untouched by his filth for once. Most of us, I imagine, were somewhere in the middle of these opinions.

Let’s be serious for a second: if the current trend for apocalypse scenarios on our screens are anything to go by, it’s not so much a matter of if but when I am going to be clambering over piles of corpses to claim the last tin of baked beans in an abandoned supermarket. 

What would happen if a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost, with powers and temperaments comparable to David Boreanaz’s Angel, the Hulk and the Invisible Woman, shared a house in suburban England? BBC3, that purveyor of the whacky and wonderful, dare to hypothesise as they present a fresh series of Toby Whithouse’s sci-fi horror sitcom drama Being Human.

A staple of many students' viewing habits and the reason why Stephen Fry is still a national treasure, QI returned to our screens this week for the seventh series of all that is good about pointless, but definitely impressive, general knowledge.

All the necessary preparations had been made: it had been three hours since I last ate, the TV screen was stationed a good three metres away from my (unfortunately perfect) eyes and the path to the toilet was hurdle-free. Confident, I sat down to watch Embarrassing Old Bodies, 50 minutes of mortifying medical procedures which I thought would see me swearing a blood oath to polish myself off at 35, assuming the present strategy of knocking back several litres of paint-stripper quality wine in one sitting doesn’t succeed.