Robert Sheehan leaves 'Misfits'

Hugely disappointing news has arrived from the Kapow convention, taking place in London this weekend. Robert Sheehan, who plays Nathan Young in E4's BAFTA-winning superhero drama Misfits, will not be returning for the third series. His position on the show will be taken by a new character called Rudi, and the replacement dealt with in a webseries just prior to Misfits' return.

Tonight, the teen drama pays homage to Superman while remaining tongue-in-cheek enough to get away with it. The masked superhero who appears to have chosen bolshy Alisha (Antonia Thomas) as his Lois Lane finally reveals his identity and turns out to be both hunky and strangely familiar. Romance is also on the cards for Nathan (Robert Sheehan) and Kelly (Lauren Socha), until he insults her tattooist, who wreaks inky revenge. Meanwhile, Curtis (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) proves as fickle as his girlfriend Alisha and falls head over heels in lust with another mouthy lady. Don't expect this gutsy show to dissolve into a saccharine snog-fest, however. There's a tense scene involving a bag of dry-roasted peanuts, blue gags galore and enough tenderness to make you really care about these ham-fisted heroes.

This supernatural teenage drama remains brilliant as it reaches its third blue gag-laden episode. The gaggle of social outcasts who acquired superpowers during a thunderstorm continue to wonder who the enigmatic masked man is after he rescues Alisha (Antonia Thomas) from a mugging. Meanwhile, Nathan (Robert Sheehan) manages to ruin his romantic chances with Kelly (Lauren Socha) when he insults her tattooist.

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The second series of Misfits is here and it's as good (and hidden away) as ever. The show begins with star of the show Nathan (Robert Sheehan will conquer the world) buried alive where his immortality and irritating quips can't help him. (If you were to meet Robert Sheehan, you might wonder if this was wish fulfilment on the part of an exasperated director).

The other major plot sees Simon with a weirdo ex on his tail, a body in a freezer and a shapeshifter in the gang. You kind of hope that they throttle back on the supernatural and concentrate on the relationships, but there's clearly so much ambition gone into it, that you're easily willing to let it slide. Great to have you back.

The council-estate superheroes returnfor another series following their confident, Bafta-award-winning debut last year. The imaginative and very funny comedy drama about five teenagers, who are granted peculiar special powers, slips easily into its second season with the remaining gang members mourning the apparent death of Nathan (Robert Sheehan) and contending with the malevolent presence of a shape-shifter.

Video: Misfits interview

A video with cast members Robert Sheehan, who plays Nathan, and Lauren Socha, who stars as Kelly, to find out what's in store for their characters in the new series.

The climactic final episode of the excellent, edgy, Bafta-winning drama that has rightly been recommissioned for both a Christmas special and second series. While last week's dead body is stored in the freezer, the Asbo gang realise that local teenagers have suddenly stopped drinking, taking drugs, having sex and even swearing. They discover that this unlikely scenario is the work of a strait-laced cult called Virtue, who may not be as pure as they make out. Inevitably the two groups face off in an action-packed final showdown. It's left to motormouth trouble-maker Nathan (the show's standout star, Irish talent Robert Sheehan) to save the day - despite the fact that he's the only one without a superpower. Or so he thinks.

As this super-powered Skins begins to hot up, time-travel-endowed athlete Curtis (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) tries to change what happened the night he was arrested for drug possession. But he soon learns he can't have his cake and eat it. We also learn how Curtis's spectacularly annoying Asbo associate Nathan (Robert Sheehan) talked himself into trouble after his pick 'n' mix fiasco. It's a hormonal, highly charged episode that plays like a grungey Groundhog Day. Powered by dark dynamics and a pumping soundtrack, Misfits certainly rocks the house - but it's not for the easily embarrassed.