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West Coast Story (Season 1 Episode 4 of 6): Cameron's shady past is dredged up. Hamish Macbeth airs on Drama at 3:00 PM, Friday 23 February. Cameron's shady past is dredged up

West Coast Story (Season 1 Episode 4 of 6): Cameron's shady past is dredged up. Hamish Macbeth airs on Drama at 2:00 AM, Saturday 24 February. Cameron's shady past is dredged up

Screen cops once were dull pencil-pushers. Then Regan and Carter kicked the doors in, and TV – and policing itself – would never be the same

Former Detective Chief Inspector Jackie Malton, 70, was speaking in new BBC documentary series Bent Coppers. The three-episode series tells the story of institutionalised corruption in the Metropolitan and City of London police in the 1970s. Ms Malton retired from the Met in 1997 after a 30-year career before going on to advise producers of police television shows. Prime Suspect creator Lynda La Plante spoke to Ms Malton for hours to create no-nonsense officer DCI Jane Tennison. The character was portrayed by Helen Mirren in the long-running show before La Plante released a book of the same n...

BBC2 Sky Atlantic If you’re after an exciting, twisty programme about police corruption that doesn’t also feel a bit like sitting an exam in Line of Duty studies, then Bent Coppers: Crossing the Line of Dutycould well hit the spot. As both the timing and subtitle not so much suggest as bellow, this three-part documentary series is an obvious attempt to cash in on its fictional counterpart. Happily, though, it’s a successful one. In Wednesday’s second episode the focus was on 1970s Soho, where the most reliable way to make a fortune was by opening what the narrator Philip Glenister c...