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The chronically worried DI Ray is the Chicken Little of TV detectives

Reviewed: DI Ray, The Franchise, A House Through Time: I am worried about DI Ray (ITV1, Sunday-Tuesday), returning for a second series this week. I’m worried because its central character, DI Rachita Ray, looks so worried. She is the Chicken Little of TV detectives, forever walking around as though a grand piano is set to fall on her head. We know that Ray, played by Parminder Nagra, has not had her troubles to seek. There was that bad business in the first series when everyone seemed to have it in for the DI even though she was right all along. Now “upstairs” have ended her suspension, but she still doesn’t trust some in the senior ranks as far as she could throw them. Quite right, too.