Matt Smith has stated categorically that he will definitely be back in the role of The Doctor for season 8 in 2014. In a recent interview with The Sun to mark the broadcast this weekend of the final episode of season 7, “The Name of The Doctor”, Smith made it very clear that he will be back for a new season of Doctor Who adventures.

“I’m on a break for a couple of months while I’m in Detroit making How To Catch A Monster,” he told the Sun. “We come back and shoot the Christmas special over the Summer, then we go on to the next series, which will either start filming at the end of this year or at the start of 2014.”

This last bit suggests that Doctor Who will take about a year off and will likely be broadcast somewhere around September 2014, not forgetting of course that we have the 50th anniversary special to look forward to in November this year followed by the Christmas special.

Good news and bad news for fans of Warehouse 13. Syfy have announced the go ahead for season 5, but have also confirmed that it will be a shortened season enabling the series to wrap up gracefully, as unfortunately, the new season will also be its last.

The show will be given six episodes to conclude the story. Filming should begin sometime this Summer and will air sometime in 2014.

Mark Stern, president of original content for Syfy stated, “‘Warehouse 13′ has been an incredible signature series for us. We are grateful to the loyal and passionate fan base and know that Jack Kenny, his gifted creative team, and outstanding ensemble cast will give them an amazing finale season.”

Joss Whedon returns to TV as Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D gets a first season pick up by ABC. Whedon will be executive producer on the series which promises to have the same look and feel as the Avengers related movie franchise.

Clark Gregg, as Agent Phil Coulson leads a team of agents who all have specific skills as they investigate strange events around the world. The rest of the team, known as S.H.I.E.L.D, include combat and espionage specialist agent Grant Ward, played by Brett Dalton, pilot and martial arts expert agent Melinda May played by Ming Na, gifted engineer agent Leo Fitz played by Iain De Caestecker and bio-chemist agent Jemma Simmons played by Elizabeth Henstridge. Finally, Chloe Bennett plays new recruit Skye, a brilliant computer hacker.

Fox’s Kiefer Sutherland vehicle Touch will not be returning for a third season as the network announces its cancellation.

The show, although a clever one, has simply been a victim of poor ratings and as Tim Kring recently said, it looks like people have simply not found the show.

“In this day and age, when you can find content on so many different platforms, we’re hoping that the second season then feeds into people wanting to watch the first season, finding it online or finding it on DVD,” he said

It looks like that hasn’t happened.

Good news though, there is the possibility of Kiefer Sutherland returning to the Jack Bauer role for a limited new outing of 24 (deep joy).

TNT have announced that they have given the green light for a ten episode series of The Last Ship, a drama based on the book by William Brinkley and it will be executive produced by Michael Bay (Armageddon, Transformers movies etc etc). The show will star Eric Dane (Grey’s Anatomy), Rhona Mitra (Strike Back), Adam Baldwin (Firefly) and Tracy Middendorf (Boardwalk Empire)

The story centres on the crew of the U.S.S. Nathan James, which has been at sea for four months and has been maintaining radio silence for all of that time. As the ship is about to turn about and head home, radio silence is broken and terrible news reaches the ship for the first time. A Worldwide pandemic, which started in Egypt just before Nathan James left on it’s mission has taken hold and wiped out a large proportion of the World’s population and major governments around the world have collapsed. On board the Nathan James is a scientist who may hold the key to a vaccine, but it seems that there are elements that don’t want her to succeed.

The new mission of the Nathan James is simple. Stay alive, find a cure, and save what’s left of the World. Check out the trailer below.

The Last Ship will be on our screens Summer 2014.

Anna Paquin is back on the set of True Blood after giving birth to twins in September. Anna plays Sookie Stackhouse alongside her husband and co-star Stephen Moyer and as season 6 of True Blood approaches, the first trailer is available to view and as one character says, it’s time for the humans to bite back. Could this be the beginning of the end?

True Blood returns to U.S. screens on June 16th at 9pm on HBO. No UK date has been announced for season 6 yet. We’ll update you when we find out more. In the meantime, enjoy the trailer below.

Here’s one we’ve probably all been waiting for. Ass-kicking future cop Kiera Cameron will be back on our screens from 10pm Thursday 23rd May on Syfy in the second season of Continuum.

After a fantastic first season, Rachel Nichols’ character continues to try and find a way to get back to her home in 2077 while everyone around her is hell bent on changing the future to stop the corporates from taking over the planet. As three of the main characters in the trailer state – whoever controls the past, owns the future. Checkout the trailer below