Faced with a house containing James Corden and some kind of murderous shape-shifting extraterrestrial, we weren't entirely sure which we'd find most terrifying in this week's Doctor Who. As it turns out, neither - in 'The Lodger', Corden reminded us how he got himself on the celebrity map in the first with a sweetly sincere performance as lovelorn Craig Owens, while the initially more enticing alien premise ended up little more than a curious fizzle.
Based on writer Gareth Roberts' 2007 comic strip of the same name, this week's Doctor Who saw the TARDIS go haywire as the Timelord touched down in modern-day Colchester, leaving the Doctor stranded on Earth as Amy ricocheted around time and space thanks to some alien interference. With nowhere to go, the Doctor attempted to pass himself off as human as the lodger in a flat which just so happened to be home of some malevolent extraterrestrial force, luring humans off the street and up the stairs to their doom.
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