The first episode of Sky's deafeningly-hyped Fortitude was a lumbering Frankenstein's monster, in which the random body parts of better, smarter TV shows were stitched together with little thought to aesthetics or coherence.

Mega wealthy Harry Potter author JK Rowling was asked to write an episode of the new Dr Who sci-fi TV series but she had to say no because she is too busy writing the teen wizard’s next story, according to IMDB.com.