If you end the series on a cliffhanger it is not really a cliffhanger, we know there will be another series next year!

Have you ever watched Rescue Me? If not, it's a show on FX about a group of New York firemen struggling to keep it together after 9/11.

It's full of dark humour and is a good show.

Anyway, my wife and I watched the "season finale" the other day and it ended on a cliffhanger.

Only it didn't. The fact that it ended on a cliffhanger tells us that the show will return next year.

If the show was not returning, they would tie up the loose ends and tell us that Tommy is dead but the fact that we're supposedly left wondering tells us that he will recover just fine.

Why do the editors of US TV shows give the game away so easily? They really think they're being clever and keeping us all on the edge of our seats but if you watch closely enough, you get to learn their tricks and sometimes it ruins things because you know exactly what is going to happen.

Muppets.