CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews this weekend's TV
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Richard Rankin (no relation to the author) gets much closer to the character on the page. Trouble is, he becomes so deeply nasty that the show is all but unwatchable.
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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Richard Rankin (no relation to the author) gets much closer to the character on the page. Trouble is, he becomes so deeply nasty that the show is all but unwatchable.
Richard Rankin makes a compelling debut as the unorthodox Edinburgh cop. TV review by Adam Sweeting
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