The Child in Time, BBC One review - lost in translation

★★★ THE CHILD IN TIME, BBC ONE Ian McEwan's novel doesn't feel entirely comfortable in this TV dramatisation

Ian McEwan's novel doesn't feel entirely comfortable in this TV dramatisation

Apparently this is the first time an Ian McEwan novel has been dramatised for television, but whether The Child in Time was the best choice for that singular honour is open to question.

Rellik, BBC One review - tricksy procedural messes with time

★★★ RELLIK, BBC ONE Tricksy procedural messes with time

How long have you got to watch Richard Dormer's disfigured cop hunt down a psychopath?

There are two Williams brothers – Jack and Harry – who are mainly known for two series of The Missing. No chance of the Williamses going missing. Quite the reverse. As of today – Monday 11 September – they seem to have cloned. Two new drama series by the Williams boys have started on BBC One and ITV at exactly the same minute, and they will both conclude at the same instant six episodes later.

Doctor Foster, Series 2, BBC One review - belief suspended for a pacy and tense return

★★★ DOCTOR FOSTER, SERIES 2, BBC ONE REVIEW - The revenge drama stretched credulity, but quickened the pulse

The revenge drama stretched credulity, but quickened the pulse

They say that living well is the best revenge. To be fair, they also say it’s a dish best served cold and I’m pretty sure they’re thinking of gazpacho, so I’m not entirely clear how much real meaning is to be found in these dictums.

Imagine... Alma Deutscher: Finding Cinderella, BBC One review - beguiling profile of a musical prodigy

★★★★ IMAGINE... ALMA DEUTSCHER: FINDING CINDERELLA, BBC ONE Beguiling profile of a musical prodigy

When your first full-length opera is premiering in Vienna - and you are only 11

Morag Tinto’s documentary is a profile of composer Alma Deutscher, who hit the headlines at the end of last year when her opera based on the Cinderella story premiered in Vienna. What’s unusual about that, you might ask?

Trust Me, BBC One, series finale review - drama about fake doctor was also pretending

★★★ TRUST ME Jodie Whittaker's fake doctor ends by dodging questions about morality and credibility

Jodie Whittaker star vehicle fails to answer its own questions about medical morality

Trust Me made an eponymous plea to the audience. Its implausible premise – that a nurse might steal a doctor’s identity and land a job in A&E – called for your credulity. Around the broadcast of the drama's first episode on BBC One, sundry articles sprang up in the media offering supportive evidence that just such scenarios often come to pass for real.

Strike: The Cuckoo's Calling, BBC One review - JK Rowling's debut in crime bows most promisingly

★★★★ STRIKE: THE CUCKOO'S CALLING JK Rowling's sardonic sleuth debuts promisingly in grungy London

The death of a supermodel, a sardonic detective, and London in its grungy glory

There’s a new ‘tec in town. Cormoran Strike may look like one of life’s losers – he’s on the edge of bankruptcy, sleeps in the office, and what passes for a personal life is a right mess – but in Tom Burke’s portrayal I suspect he’s going to be winning audiences in a big way. He’s the creation, of course, of JK Rowling, writing as Robert Galbraith – the author’s chosen anonymity lasted barely three months – and her debut in crime writing is now a satisfyingly stylish BBC adaptation.

Trust Me, BBC One review - Jodie Whittaker's tense medical check-up

★★★★ TRUST ME, BBC ONE Jodie Whittaker pretends to be a doctor in tense medical drama

Dan Sefton's hospital drama imagines a nurse pretending to be a doctor

Even the canniest scheduler at BBC One couldn’t have arranged things so propitiously. Jodie Whittaker was already filming the medical drama Trust Me when she was cast as you know Who. Trolls unhappy at a female i/c the Tardis will have their quips ready: spot the difference between a woman who passes herself as a doctor and a woman who passes herself off as a Doctor.

In the Dark, BBC One review - missing girls mystery promises hidden depths

★★★★ IN THE DARK, BBC ONE Very bad things in rain-sodden Derbyshire

Very bad things in rain-sodden Derbyshire

Detective Inspector Helen Weeks (MyAnna Buring), having finally cornered a skanky drug-dealer/benefit cheat in a blind alley – and stopped an eager PC from Tasering the woman – is punched in the stomach for her pains. How’s that for a hard-hitting start? Weeks is pregnant – she should be called Eleven Weeks – and it later transpires she’s not sure who’s the daddy.

Grandad, Dementia and Me, BBC One review - no easy solutions to terrifying mental condition

★★★ GRANDAD, DEMENTIA AND ME, BBC ONE Sensitive account of one man's personality-changing decline

Sensitive account of one man's personality-changing decline

The title gave us the true-life plot: this was a grandson’s filmed narrative of something that will touch us all, through acquaintance, friend, family and perhaps ourselves falling victim to some form of dementia. It's a word that covers a myriad of conditions, all of them affecting the mind.

Broken, BBC One series finale review - Seán Bean's quiet immensity

★★★★ BROKEN, BBC ONE Jimmy McGovern's portrait of the Catholic church in crisis ends in moving redemption

Jimmy McGovern's portrait of the Catholic church in crisis ends in moving redemption

The Catholic Church hasn’t enjoyed a good press on screen lately. Nuns punished Irishwomen for their pregnancies in Philomena. Priests interfered with altar boys in Spotlight. And in The Young Pope a Vatican fixated on conservatism and casuistry elects a pontiff who sees himself as a rock star. Broken was Jimmy McGovern’s agonised absolution for a church in crisis.