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The six-part TV series is currently airing on Monday nights on BBC One and has already been commissioned for another instalment, according to TV Zone.

The PSNI features in a powerful new cop drama

This six-part series is well-crafted and often thrilling

If you’re missing the likes of Happy Valley and Line of Duty, then a new show has recently landed on the BBC, and it might just be up your street.

Blue Lights writer Adam Patterson has told how his prison officer father kept a gun under a pillow on the couch in case he was ever targeted during the Troubles.

This week, UK writer Sarah Vine takes a look at an adaptation of Great Expectations - on BBC1 and iPlayer. She however admits that this is Dickens for the TikTok generation.

We’ve grown used to seeing Belfast standing in for other locations, including the unnamed Midlands city of Line of Duty, 1830s London in The Frankenstein Chronicles and, a touch bizarrely, Dublin in Dublin Murders.

In the BBC's latest procedural thriller, cops are neither heroes nor villains – just ordinary people trying to do their job

BBC1s Blue Lights, which aired at 9pm yesterday, follows officers in Belfast - but viewers confessed they were distracted by a continuity mistake in the first episode.

Television: In BBC’s gritty new cop drama, an idealistic PSNI recruit is quickly set straight on limits of what police could or should try to do