2007 is all but over, and here’s my list of the heroes and villains from the past 12 months. Overall, it’s been a great year for movies, games, and television, but do you agree?

THE BEST OF 2007

TELEVISION
•    Sarah Jane Adventures – Example of how to do a spin-off show right (Torchwood, take note!).
•    Primeval – great action time-travelling show involving dinosaurs and Hannah Spearitt in white panties – a fact that surely pushed up the ratings! A fantastic first season of this exciting show, with season 2 just around the corner.
•    Dexter – absolutely fantastic show with the right combination of – pretty much everything. Michael C Hall is perfect as the serial killer Dexter. If you’ve not seen it, watch it from the beginning but check it out at once! 

MOVIES
•    300 – Fantastic looking movie. OK so it’s not much on story, but it looks so great with its unique style that it deserves a place in my top movies of 2007.
•    30 Days of Night – Startlingly attractive horror flick. Sure it’s got its flaws, but it looks so lovely, you can almost forgive anything. Now, make a sequel with a decent writer and a proper editor and you’ll have one hell of a scary movie.
•    Stardust – genuinely fun magical comedy that’s reminiscent of those from the 80s (Hocus Pocus). My only gripe about this movie is that it’s slightly too long, but it’s still a fantastic ride with a superb (and slightly shocking) performance from uber macho Robert DeNiro.

GAMES
•    God of War 2 - It’s got boobies and move violence than you can shake a scimitar at!
•    Super Mario Galaxy – AKA the only reason for the Wii to exist. Play this game, it’s gorgeous, but once it’s over it’s back to the cupboard for the Wii until the end of 2008.

THE WORST OF 2007
Here are the sad losers of the year. Shame there are so many. Clearly, the entertainment industry has far too much cash to be spending on badly conceived ideas.

TELEVISION
•    Torchwood – In the style of Torchwood: this show was complete f*cking sh!te and you can kiss my a$$ if you think otherwise you son of a b!tch. A disastrous attempt at an ‘adult’ TV show with immature themes, poorly realised characters, and a profusion of swear words, which, clearly the producers think makes good adult TV. Newsflash: it doesn't.
•    Flash Gordon – Move along. Nothing (good) to see here.

MOVIES (so many to choose from)
•    Bridge to Terabithia – Stick to Hallmark where movies like this belong and don’t entice us to spend our £6.50 with false advertising…
•    Spiderman 3 – A crappy end to a getting steadily crappier series – where was the Venom action we all wanted? Oh that's right, there was three minutes of it! Apparently, the story got in the way of the action.
•    Sunshine - Nice face shame about the story. And, what the hell was going on at the end?
•    The Simpsons Movie - Too much hype and generally rubbish. Akin to an overly long and substandard episode.

GAMES
•    Bioshock – looked lovely, but devoid of anything new. Go play System Shock 2 for a far more fulfilling gaming experience.
•    World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. Too little WAY too late for Blizzard as they release a half-arsed expansion with none of the content they promised. There's not enough here to reward their loyal fans of two years.

REALLY ANNOYING STUFF
•    The Writers Guild of America Strike! They’ll never make back the cash they’ve lost in striking, and their actions have hit their fans hard. Some shows won’t see the light of day this year and that’s harsh. Farewell my favourite shows. I will miss you!
•    Nintendo Wii Dominating Xmas - when it’s really little more than a glorified calculator (one of those solar powered ones, but a calculator nonetheless).
•    Manhunt 2 Being Cancelled - damn sensors, they’ll cut anything these days. First it was movies in the 80s, now it’s gaming.
•    World of Warcraft - this behemoth is showing no signs of slowing. Well, actually, it is. Server populations are way down, despite Blizzard’s protestations, but if games had populations dependent on the amount of new and revolutionary conntet, WOW would have been closed down years ago. If Sony can manage to churn out great content, new races and classes, why can’t Blizzard – who, after all, has a vastly larger developer team.
•    Rhydian losing to Leon in X Factor - coughs: “FIX”. That’s all I’m saying.

And that's it. The end of 2007. There is no more. I hope you had a great 2007 and that you're looking forward to more movies, games, and great TV shows in 2008.