NCIS AGAIN - AND AGAIN.
Yes, on Saturday NCIS was back again and again. I suppose putting on two episodes consecutively saves the programme planners the need to think too hard and speeds along the process of screening all 23 episodes in the series before public interest collapses.
However, despite varied plots and a mostly likeable cast - even Mark Harmon's haircut acts better with each episode - this does come across as shoddy planning.
I once had a boss who should have been a television programme planner. He never aspired to an original thought in his entire life. He just took other people's ideas and peddled them as his own. To the sort of gullible prat who can be found on every committee he was mightily impressive. When he was finally rumbled there was no shortage of sackcloth and ashes.
It was all a long time ago. Had it happened recently I would have advised him to train as a television planner.
Now, where was I? Oh yes...
AFTERLIFE.
Lesley Sharp and Andrew Lincoln make this dark drama unmissable whether you believe in the paranormal or not. I'm hooked and I was brought up to believe that if you can't see it, it isn't there.
CRACKER.
Last night it was the highly publicised one-off return of Robbie Coltrane as Jimmy McGovern's Fitz.
I believe in fictional criminal psychologists, profilers etc. about as much as I believe in fictional amateur detectives like Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey and Hercule Poirot.
But when the writer is a master craftsman and the leading actor is so talented you just have to shelve your disbelief. This was an absolute Cracker.
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