'THE FOLLOWING' IS BACK!

Episode 1: 'New Blood'

Agent Hardy must be wishing he'd finished the job as the gripping thriller continues into a third series.

Joe Carroll (James Purefoy) is on death row, Emma and Lily are dead and Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) has a lovely new girlfriend and a stable(ish!) life, but not for long!

Series 3 opens at Agent Mendez's wedding and all is well until an unwelcome wedding guest throws blood over Ryan, the bride...and the bride.

It turns out that it's one of Mark's groupies who fled at the end of series two and is looking to avenge the death of his mother and equally deranged twin brother.

And Mark shows he won't stop until the "lies" do.

Meanwhile, things aren't looking rosy for Mike (Shawn Ashmore) either. We learn that he and Max (Jessica Stroup) broke up shortly after Joe Carroll was arrested - and she's already got a new fella. It was, of course, Mike who killed Lily Gray in cold blood, so Mark may be turning his attention to Ryan's protégé pronto.

But the big question is: What part is Joe going to play in all of this? I don't know about you, but I can't wait to see what he's been planning.

ROMANIANS AND UKIP BLAST CHANNEL 4

So it seems Channel 4 hasn't made many friends among Romanians and UKIP voters over the last few weeks.

The airing of The Romanians Are Coming sparked protests as scores of Romanians gathered outside C4 HQ on Sunday, claiming the documentary was biased and featured too many living in squalor.

However, episode one must have evoked sympathy, regardless of political persuasion, particularly for the man (pictured) who wanted to earn money in Britain to pay for his daughter's leg to be treated, which had been aggravated by a rogue Romanian doctor.

The protests happened a few days before episode two, which introduced a Romanian nurse working as a care worker in Sheffield and a car cleaner working in London to keep his family above water.

It also featured a man appearing to turn to crime after losing his job in a warehouse for consuming alcohol on site.

Although some Romanians are angry that we have seen their 'ugly side', the show did go beyond the headlines, including facts like less than 700 are in British prisons and 25% of NHS workers are foreign.

This follows their fictional documentary UKIP: The First 100 Days, which followed an Asian UKIP MP caught up in the imagined chaos of a Nigel Farage government.

The UKIP leader called it "a partisan depiction" of his party.

Channel 4 may have achieved balanced coverage, but probably shouldn't expect too many Christmas cards from Romanians and Eurosceptics.

The third and final episode of The Romanians Are Coming will be shown on Tuesday 3 March at 9pm.

I'M BACK!

I'm back and I'm loud!