CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews weekend television

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There aren’t many British cities left without stray detectives and an endless supply of serial killers.

There’s McDonald & Dodds in Bath, DCI Banks in Leeds, Morse in Oxford and even Jimmy Perez in Lerwick in Shetlands.

The Scots even excel, with Rebus in Edinburgh and Taggart in Glasgow, giving the Welsh some opportunity to catch up. Looking forward to the detective shows in “Cardeath” and “Murder Tydfil”.

There’s no shortage of gruesome ruins in Brighton, where John Simm returns as an inspector on Grace (ITV) with supernatural delight. Four other full-length adaptations based on the books by Peter James began with a gang of murders online for release to a global audience.

Unfortunately, Roy Grace spends most of his free time walking along the coast. We can only hope that Brighton avoids nude beach lounging. Guys, the actress isn’t ready for a bare-butt detective: Inspector Sauce.

There’s no shortage of dreadful relics in Brighton, where John Simm returns as an inspector on Grace (ITV) with supernatural delight. John Simm as DS Roy Grace, Richie Campbell as DS Branson

When not thinking about his missing wife, who passed away years ago, Grace visits a psychic. Despite her boss’s frequent scolding, she happily borrows jewelry from murder and kidnapping victims for paranormal analysis.

Paranormal Harry (Adrian Rawlins) didn’t have a lot of screen time. The comrades were worse off than the psychic: DS Glenn (Richie Campbell) was injured in a shootout with cyber killers, and DC Emma Jane (Amaka Okafor) is in a coma after a hit and run. That makes room for Norman Potting, the newest member of the cast, played by Line Of Duty’s Craig Parkinson, former “Storming” purchasing assistant.

In the books, Potting is an incurable bigot: racist, sexist, anything but that. It makes Bernard Manning awake. He and the gaffer constantly clash: “If you make any other racist or homophobic comments, you’ll be banned,” Grace warns in the book. Potting doesn’t say anything racist or anti-gay on screen because nowadays nobody knows where fiction ends and hate crime begins.

But Parkinson is such a great actor that he doesn’t need to say anything. One look at his face and you realize that his character is thinking of something so mature that even a single word can trigger disciplinary action.

Four other full-length adaptations based on the books by Peter James began with a gang staging murders online for release to a global audience.

The plot itself looked ordinary and old. Nothing precedes technology, and this story revolving around a flash drive for a laptop was clearly invented years ago.

But with a strong cast like this, the story lags behind. Simm is always charming and fans will be excited to see him reunite with Philip Glenister in the sequel to the Life On Mars time travel cop series. The new show will be called Lazarus.

Chris Packham’s new show, Our Changing Planet (BBC1), talks more about whether Life on Earth will continue.

The Speaker’s team plans to monitor ecological hotspots around the world over the next seven years to quantify the effects of climate change.

At 7 p.m., the series was aimed at a younger audience, which meant clumsy attempts at teen humor.

While Ella Al-Shamahi worried about eating snakes and mice in Cambodia, Steve Backshall dived with “coral reef condoms” (hand nets to catch young coral cells).

Chris Packham’s new show, Our Changing Planet (BBC1), talks more about whether Life on Earth will continue. The Speaker’s team plans to monitor ecological hotspots around the world over the next seven years to quantify the effects of climate change.

Chris joined whale-watching scientists who used drones to collect “whale-nose” spray from a humpback whale’s mouth.

“I think this might be the most interesting piece of science I’ve ever seen,” Steve said as a researcher scanned a pregnant manta ray with an underwater ultrasound machine.

The venues were beautiful, the intentions commendable but it was all a bit childish.

The final debacle of the weekend: Luke Jennings, whose novels inspired Killing Eve (BBC1), admits that he would “never love anything” of the TV version.

But the murderer must be enraged by the horrific ending, in which Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is killed by an invisible sniper. What an escape.