TV REVIEW

Adeel Akhtar and Michael Socha in Showtrial

Is TV ready for this superhero lawyer in an M&S tweed jacket?
Thank you merciful heavens for sending me Showtrial, (BBC1, Sunday). And thank you writer Ben Richards, whose picture is now pinned up above my bed. Why? Because Richards’ series has arrived at the time when we’re drowning in beach-based TV ‘tec daftness. He’s shown we don’t all have to love old biddy crime solvers, and storylines that are more unlikely than Vera having an affair with Madame Blanc - or endless whodunnits in which plot plays second lead to bright blue locations and Bermuda shorts.

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