Last week, Fox unveiled its fall schedule for 2012 and there's five new shows ready to win you over - three new comedies and a pair of exciting drama projects!

But which new series are you most excited about? Kevin Bacon thriller The Following? The Mindy Project with The Office star Mindy Kaling? Something else entirely? Make your voice heard now by voting in our poll and check back next Tuesday for the results...

After nine seasons, 187 episodes and countless gasp-worthy moments, One Tree Hill has finally come to an end with an emotional and nostalgic grand finale.

Showrunner Mark Schwahn said that he wanted the last ever episode to be "a reward" for its "secret little club" of viewers, but do you feel satisfied with what you received? Was the episode a fitting end to One Tree Hill, or just a little too sappy? Have your say in the comments below!

> More One Tree Hill coverage

It doesn't seem so long ago that Fox were announcing that the eighth season of House would be the show's last, but we've already reached the show's end-point. 'Everybody Dies' - airing tonight (May 21) at 8/7c on Fox in the US and on Thursday (May 24) at 10pm on Sky1 in the UK - is the final episode ever...

So what can we expect from the series finale? Well, let's consider where we left everyone's favourite curmudgeon (Hugh Laurie) and his team - a cancer-stricken Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) has five months to live and House will likely be in jail throughout his friend's final days thanks to a prank gone wrong...

First of all, it seems deeply unlikely that House will end with our lead in jail. It lacks dramatic impact on two levels - one, it's the most obvious outcome and so hopefully the one that the show's writing team will be most keen to avoid, and two, we've already seen House in jail once - same old, same old.

We'd put good money on the wily medical maverick scheming his way out of a return to prison, since we can't believe that he'll really be robbed of his final days with Wilson. Speaking of Wilson, his part in this finale is somewhat harder to predict, given that he's been the chief focus of the show's past two episodes...

We've seen Leonard's stoic oncologist learn of his diagnosis, struggle to fight it, sink into depression and seemingly come to terms with his imminent death. He's been afforded so much development that it's really difficult to see where he can go from here.

Last week, NBC unveiled its fall schedule for 2012 and there's an exciting selection of new comedies and dramas on offer! There's Matthew Perry's new sitcom Go On, JJ Abrams / Eric Kripke sci-fi Revolution and The New Normal from Glee creator Ryan Murphy!

But which new show are you most excited about? Make your voice heard now by voting in our poll and check back next Monday for the results...

Crack open the bucks fizz, it's Eurovision time! The spangly singing competition is among our TV picks this week and frankly, we'll need something goofy to cheer us up after saying goodbye to some of our favourite shows.

In the next seven days not only will we be trying to get over the season finales of Glee and The Vampire Diaries, but House will be leaving our screens for good too. Read on for our rundown of this week's must-see TV.

Hit & Miss: Tuesday at 11pm on Sky Atlantic
This much-hyped drama from State of Play writer Paul Abbot finally debuts this week. Hit & Miss stars Hollywood actress Chloë Sevigny as Mia, a young woman with two very big secrets. Firstly, she's transgender and secondly, she's a paid assassin. Learning of a long-lost son, Mia travels to a small Yorkshire village to see her boy, but her enemies are hot on her tail...

A bizarre blend of action drama and family soap, Hit & Miss really shouldn't work, but Abbot's typically fine script and Sevigny's powerful performance combine to produce something really quite special. Definitely one of 2012's must-watch television dramas.

Watch Chloë Sevigny discuss Hit & Miss with Digital Spy below:


Vampire Diaries: Tuesday at 9pm on ITV2 / Glee: Thursday at 9pm on Sky1
Ok, ok, we know we are majorly cheating by shoving these two together, but Vampire Diaries and Glee are both huge shows and they're both leaving us this week! How could we choose between them?

In the last episode of Diaries, Elena finally chooses between Stefan and Damon and a couple of old characters return to Mystic Falls, while in the Glee finale we finally get to see Rachel, Finn, Kurt and others graduate from McKinley High after almost a year of teasing. Factor in House's departure and this could very well be the year's most enthralling week of TV (next week's will be the most depressing when we realise there's nothing left to watch).

Watch the Glee cast talk about the season finale below:



House: Thursday at 10pm on Sky1
Hugh Laurie's misanthropic medical maverick takes his final bow this week, as House comes to an end after eight years. In final instalment 'Everybody Dies', Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard) is still coming to terms with his cancer diagnosis, while House faces a return to jail, robbing him of those precious final moments at his friend's side.

Expect plenty of shocks and a flurry of familiar faces to return - Olivia Wilde (Thirteen), Jennifer Morrison (Cameron), Amber Tamblyn (Martha Masters) and even Kal Penn (the late Kutner) are all rumoured to be making a comeback to bid the show goodbye. Jesse Spencer has claimed that the finale is "not the happiest thing" - should we have our tissues at the ready?

Watch the cast of House discuss the show's end below:



Have I Got News For You: Friday at 9pm on BBC One
BBC One's topical news quiz usually plays it pretty safe when it comes to choice of host - the likes of Alexander Armstrong, Jeremy Clarkson, Lee Mack etc. have proven sound and solid choices. But every so often, HIGNFY will take a risk, frequently with wonderful results - remember Brian Blessed? Bruce Forsyth? Well, this week's episode features potentially the most exciting choice of host yet... Star Trek legend, T.J. Hooker star and all-round hero William Shatner!

Shatner's joined by regular panellists Ian Hislop and Paul Merton of course, as well as guests Andy Hamilton and Charlie Brooker, the latter of whom told Digital Spy, "It's genuinely exciting - William Shatner... that's proper telly royalty, isn't it?" - it is indeed, Charlie, we're pretty excited too!

Watch William Shatner perform Cee Lo Green's 'F**k You' below:



Eurovision Song Contest 2012: Saturday at 8pm on BBC One
Love it or hate it, there'll be no escaping this camp juggernaut next weekend when Azerbaijan welcomes all of Europe's nuttiest warblers for the 57th (!) contest. Engelbert Humperdinck will be flying the flag for the United Kingdom with 'Love Will You Set Free' and trying to avoid the dreaded nil points, or at least do better than Blue last year.

Best of all, he'll be first to perform - so you can switch off straight after if you don't fancy 3 hours and 15 minutes of Graham Norton doing his best Terry Wogan impression and Jedward bouncing around on behalf of Ireland. But chances are you'll end up just as engrossed in the carnival as us.

Watch the music video for Engelbert Humperdinck's 'Love Will Set You Free' below:



What are you looking forward to watching this week? Let us know below!

ITV has long been recognised as a home for quality crime drama - the likes of Poirot, Inspector Morse, A Touch of Frost and more recently Scott and Bailey all have their vocal supporters. But quite possibly the very best detective series ITV ever produced came from the pen of BAFTA award-winning Liverpudlian scriptwriter Jimmy McGovern...

Cracker: Originally broadcast from September 27, 1993 to October 1, 2006


Robbie Coltrane was certainly a left-field choice for the part of Cracker lead Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald. McGovern had originally envisioned the character as a "thin, wiry man" - it's well-documented that Robert Lindsay turned the part down.

So the casting of Coltrane - a rotund Scot then best known for his comedic appearances in Blackadder and 1990 film Nuns on the Run - was not one many would've predicted. But from the scintillating speech that opens the first episode of Cracker ("I rehearsed the death of my father for years..."), it's clear that Coltrane was born to play Fitz.

A middle-aged psychologist, Fitz is a gambling addict who drinks and smokes to excess. He's rude, sarcastic, often sexist, emotionally closed-off and has a strained relationship with his two children, while his marriage to wife Judith (Barbara Flynn) is no great shakes either, with infidelities on both sides.

He has a fiery temper and often goes out of his way to cause trouble - witness the moment he transfers a Gamblers Anonymous meeting into a betting fest in the story 'To Say I Love You'. Fitz should be utterly deplorable, but somehow Coltrane keeps us rooting for him, even as he alienates everyone else around him.

Unlike so many fictional detectives, Fitz's flaws aren't just rudimentary character traits, intended to spice up our lead's otherwise bland persona. They make Fitz feel real. When asked why he drinks, smokes and gambles so much, his answer is clear and simple, "I like it."



Despite his vices, Fitz is intensely charismatic and has a genius for unravelling the intricacies of the criminal mind, able to identify mode and motive with pinpoint accuracy. Still, he's far from a straightforward hero. "I know heroes," he snaps in one episode. "They're people who're too afraid to be cowards."

Simply bored senseless by his family life and by standard psychology, Fitz involves himself with homicide investigations and Coltrane's finest moments, appropriately enough, come when he's faced with suspected murders he must 'crack', confronting the killers with his own brand of psychological violence.

Our lead's first 'boss' is David Bilborough (Christopher Eccleston), a DCI who's aware of his need for Fitz but often reluctant to fully buy into his analysis. Bilborough frequently clashes with Fitz, most violently over the events of first series finale 'One Day A Lemming Will Fly' - in a lesser actor's hands, the character could've easily seemed dislikeable, but a youthful Eccleston brings a warmth and humanity to the softly-spoken DCI.

Unlike other shows of its ilk, the line between criminal and police officer was often dangerously blurred on Cracker. More than once, the police themselves are targeted by a killer - there's the slow, creeping build-up to the brutal killing of womanising copper DS Giggs (Ian Mercer) in 'To Say I Love You' and, most memorably, the stabbing of DCI Bilborough in series two's 'To Be A Somebody'.



Played out in chilling silence, the killing of Bilborough is deeply unsettling and Eccleston is absolutely brilliant as he plays out the character's death throes, leaving a final statement for his friends and colleagues at the station.

Bilborogh's replacement, from mid-way through series two onwards, was DCI Charlie Wise, who was far more willing than his predecessor to call on Fitz's help. Wise's portrayer Ricky Tomlinson may be best known now as the slobbish, cackling dad in The Royle Family, but his performance in Cracker is nicely underplayed.

Also at Fitz's side was DS Jane Penhaligon - affectionately dubbed "Panhandle" by Fitz. Played by Harry Potter's Geraldine Somerville, Penhaligon is accused of "penis envy" by Fitz and the dry Detective Sergeant does initially appear to be a "classic case" of a female cop underappreciated by her bolshie male colleagues, but in the event turns out to be Fitz's closest cop ally and a real force to be reckoned with.

The tempestuous flirtation between Fitz and 'Panhandle' eventually develops into a full-blown affair in series two's 'The Big Crunch' but their relationship quickly becomes strained, particularly following her rape in series two finale 'Men Should Weep' and the pair finally call it quits, apparently for good, in 1995 story 'True Romance'.



The final regular cop in Cracker was the gruff DS Jimmy Beck, played by Irish actor Lorcan Cranitch. At first, Beck seems to fit the mould of 'maverick detective' - "too Starsky and Hutch" as Fitz notes. But while Beck may be ignorant and obnoxious, there's a sense that deep down he's a loyal, decent officer...

However, Beck's behaviour is more than bluster - in a fatal error, he lets Bilborough's future killer slip through his fingers and his suffocating guilt slowly leads him down a dark path. After raping his colleague Penhaligon, Beck ultimately takes his own life in series three premiere 'Brotherly Love'.

The impressive character development on Cracker was not limited to the series regulars - even the murder suspects were exceptionally well-drawn, from Adrian Dunbar's amnesiac Thomas Kelly to Robert Carlyle's disturbed Albie Kinsella.

Kinsella's tale - the three-part 'To Be A Somebody' - features the aforementioned death of Bilborough and is quite rightly regarded as the show's pinnacle. It's a dark and troubling insight into the mind of a traumatised Hillsborough survivor driven to the edge, boosted by an utterly terrifying performance from Carlyle.



After three series, Cracker ceased regular production, returning only for two special episodes. A year after series three ended, Fitz travelled to Hong Kong for Paul Abbott's White Ghost but the one-off didn't quite match the quality of the regular series.

The final Cracker instalment to date was 2006's 'Nine Eleven' - Jimmy McGovern took the reins once more, managing to recapture a little of the show's original magic.

McGovern's work is often praised for creating compelling characters and an intense, gritty atmosphere, and indeed he does these things here. But what many fail to recognise is the Liverpudlian writer's ability to craft a solid crime drama. Calling Cracker a 'detective show' shouldn't be taken as a slight on the show's quality. It is a detective show and a bloody fantastic one at that.

It seems that Cracker is now done for good - 'Nine Eleven' was billed in some regions as the 'final episode' and Fitz has been absent from our screens for a long while now...

But let's not forget the 10-year gap between 'White Ghost' and 'Nine Eleven' - in a 2006 interview, Robbie Coltrane said of the show's potential return: "Basically we wait around until Jimmy McGovern has got really angry about something, then he writes another Cracker." So who knows? Perhaps a return for Fitz (in 2016?) is not completely out of the question...

Are you a fan of Cracker? Share your memories of the show below!

This week has been Upfronts week in the US - for those of you who don't speak telly-talk, that's the period when the big networks unveil their schedules for the fall and midseason. Fox, NBC, ABC, CBS and The CW have all revealed their new shows, but which have caught our eye?

This week's Friday Fiver lists our picks for the most intriguing new series coming our way in late 2012 and early 2013. Take a look at our list below and let us know if you share our excitement...

Last Resort - ABC, debuts fall 2012
After producing short-lived but critically acclaimed series Terriers and The Chicago Code, The Shield creator Shawn Ryan returns to television with a new show boasting a top-flight cast - Max Adler (Glee), Robert Patrick (The X-Files), Andre Braugher (Homicide: Life on the Street) and Dichen Lachman (Dollhouse) all star in this tale of a nuclear submarine that goes rogue after refusing to fire its on-board missiles...

Judging from early footage, there's a danger that Last Resort could be swallowed up by its own bluster - the cheese factor is quite high - but we trust in Ryan and his crew. Here's hoping for a series that combines the best parts of Lost and The Hunt for Red October into something new and special.



The Following - Fox, debuts early 2013
The pedigree of this new thriller is incredibly strong; it's been devised by Kevin Williamson - the man behind the Scream films and hit CW drama The Vampire Diaries - and stars award-winning actor Kevin Bacon in the lead role.

Bacon plays Ryan Hardy, a retired FBI agent who returns to active duty when his serial killer nemesis - portrayed by Brit star James Purefoy - reappears on the scene. The Following has a strong supporting cast - Maggie Grace (Lost), Natalie Zea (Justified), Shawn Ashmore (X-Men) - and we've definitely been impressed with what we've seen of the show so far!



Go On - NBC, debuts fall 2012
He's back! Following two noble but failed attempts to launch a post-Friends TV hit with Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip and Mr Sunshine, Matthew Perry has returned to the network that made his name for new comedy Go On - the man formerly known as Chandler is now Ryan, a cocky sports broadcaster who loses his wife but finds new meaning in life when he bonds with the other members of his support group...

We're hoping it's third time lucky for Perry - his deadpan delivery never fails to raise a smile and we're going to go out on a limb and say that the early clips from Go On look promising...



Arrow - The CW, debuts falls 2012
What's so intriguing about this new take on the DC superhero is that so far we know barely anything about it. The trailer, as compelling as it is, doesn't show Stephen Amell taking down any bad guys - just tennis balls. In fact he doesn't even don that iconic green outfit for a brooding establishing shot above Starling City. What a con.

Nevertheless, we're sure that Amell can convince as billionaire playboy Oliver Queen and his vigilante alter-ego, born out of spending five years alone in the wilderness after a vicious shipwreck. I mean he looks the part, if you know what we mean. Could Arrow be the new Smallville?



Elementary - CBS, debuts fall 2012
Right, let's get this clear... we probably won't be watching modern-day Sherlock Holmes series Elementary after its premiere. It doesn't look God awful (which in itself is a triumph given how much they've screwed with Arthur Conan Doyle's original concept), but it seems to be a pretty standard detective series that won't have anything original enough to get us hooked.

But holy heck, we are so looking forward to the premiere. Maybe it's because we're curious about how well Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu will do as Holmes and Watson. Maybe it's because we want ammo when we moan about how CBS have mutilated the story. Maybe it's because we want to go running to Steven Moffat about how much it's ripped off Sherlock. What we do know for sure is that while Elementary may probably be the most infuriating new show in a particularly insane schedule, it's also the one that's got everyone talking.



Which shows are you most looking forward to? Share your own picks below!

The dramatic Grey's Anatomy season finale has now aired in the US, and one doctor has lost their life. Afterwards, show creator Shonda Rhimes admitted that the finale was "incredibly hard to write" and penning it made her "sick" and "sad".

Cast member Sarah Drew previously teased that the episode was "on par with the shooter finale", but did you agree?

Digital Spy is inviting you to share your thoughts on the heartbreaking episode. Were you devastated by who died and their death scene? Would you have rather had someone else bite the dust? And how did you find the scenes back at Seattle Grace? Let us know in the comments below!

> Read Digital Spy's recap of the Grey's Anatomy season finale 'Flight'

What have we got for you this week in Tube Talk's Q&A? Oh, not much - only the return date of Bedlam, some scoop on the Vampire Diaries finale and the fate of US favourites Nikita, Pan Am and 30 Rock. You know, we spoil you lot really! Read on for more details!

When is the second series of Nikita going to be airing in the UK?

Good news! Sky Living has confirmed that season two of the CW thriller - starring Maggie Q and Lyndsy Fonseca - will kick off in June. The new run begins with the episode 'Game Change' - Amanda (Melinda Clarke) is now in charge of Division, while Nikita and Michael (Shane West) are planning to use the information in the black boxes to their advantage.

And even better news! Nikita has just been picked up for a third season in the US. The show's renewal was far from a sure bet, so it's great if surprising news that we're getting 22 new episodes!