The opening episode of the latest US TV concoction produced by Six Feet Under and True Blood’s Alan Ball sets its stall out from the get go and takes no prisoners. The unnamed lead in Banshee – ...

now comes word that Eliza Dushku is joining Banshee…Dushku will recur as Agent Veronica Dawson, a tough, sexy and shockingly reckless FBI profiler with no shortage of personal demons who joins forces ...

And to confirm that, at the pilot's 15-minute mark, the con, in a grungy Banshee dive bar, snaps a goon's arm in half, shivs him to death with a steak knife, and then grabs a bottle of steak sauce, ...