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Last modified on Sun 28 Feb 2021 05.19 EST Along a crooked finger-shaped peninsula between a lough created by the ice age and the Irish Sea, locals are hoping for a post-pandemic tourism boost from a dark new TV drama about a Troubles-era killer emerging again in the present day. Hoteliers, distillers, B&B owners and others living on the Ards Peninsula believe the BBC-produced Bloodlands will do for their bucolic corner of Northern Ireland what the global fantasy series Game of Throneshas done for other parts of the region. Over the past decade, some of the most lavish scenes from G oT wer...

TV Editor Today's top telly includes the new adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small, Attenborough's Life in Colour, Dylan Moran, Sean Connery and Ireland's Fittest Family: Reeling in the Ramps . . . Pick of the Day All Creatures Great and Small, 6.30pm, RTÉ One Here’s the latest adaptation of James Herriot's autobiographical books about life as a vet in the pre-war Yorkshire Dales, and not to be confused with the much-loved BBC series from the 1970s starring Christopher Timothy. This time around it's Nicholas Ralph in the pivotal role of James Herriot, alongside Samuel West as Sieg...

Georgia Humphreys hears more from star James Nesbitt. It was Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio who got leading man James Nesbitt involved with Bloodlands. The Northern Irish actor, 56, first met the writer – also known for Bodyguard – when he was filming BBC drama Jekyll, and has always been a fan of his work. “When he was doing Line of Duty in Northern Ireland, I would say to him, ‘Why am I not in that?’ but he’d say, ‘We’ll find something’,” says Nesbitt, whose big break came in the nineties, with his role as Adam Williams in ITV drama Cold Feet.

A new thriller and the return of an established one this week, and I know which I preferred. (Big clue: the stars I've awarded. Sorry for that spoiler.)

Channel 4 To begin on a cheerful note, it’s certainly been a good week for fans of slow-burn British crime dramas with one-word titles in which an anguished middle-aged cop investigates murders from the 1990s while also battling police bureaucracy. Bloodlands has been described in several newspapers as the latest exhilaratingly twisty thriller from Jed Mercurio, creator of Line of Duty. But, as Adam Curtis would say, this is an illusion. For one thing, while it was made by Mercurio’s new production company, it’s written by newcomer Chris Brandon. For another, so far at least, there’...