Dept. Q, Netflix review - Danish crime thriller finds a new home in Edinburgh

★★★ DEPT Q, NETFLIX Danish crime thriller finds a new home in Edinburgh

Matthew Goode stars as antisocial detective Carl Morck

Netflix’s new detective-noir is a somewhat cosmopolitan beast. It’s written and directed by an American, Scott Frank, derived from a novel, Mercy, by the Danish crime writer Jussi Adler-Olsen, and set in Edinburgh (as well as other flavourful Scottish locations). There are plenty of Scots in the cast too, although it’s the very English Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey, The Crown etc) who takes the lead role of DCI Carl Morck.

The Rise and Fall of Michelle Mone, BBC Two - boom and bust in the lingerie trade

★★★★ THE RISE AND FALL OF MICHELLE MONE, BBC TWO Boom and bust in the lingerie trade

Life in the fast lane with David Cameron's entrepreneurship tsar

As this two-part documentary vividly illustrates, it has been a wild ride for Baroness Mone of Mayfair, the self-made businesswoman who emerged from Dennistoun in Glasgow’s East End in the Nineties and created the Ultimo Bra. This revolutionary undergarment ingeniously enhanced the wearer’s cleavage, using a silicon gel to mimic the feel of real breast tissue.

Code of Silence, ITVX review - inventively presented reality of deaf people's experience

★★★ CODE OF SILENCE, ITVX Rose Ayling-Ellis maps out her muffled world in a so-so heist caper

Rose Ayling-Ellis maps out her muffled world in a so-so heist caper

In the guided tour of Britain’s cathedral cities that is the primetime TV detective series, the spotlight has now landed on Canterbury. Code of Silence frequently inserts a dramatic aerial shot of the city, its streets radiating out from the towering ecclesiastical landmark at its centre, to remind us where we are.

The Bombing of Pan Am 103, BBC One review - new dramatisation of the horrific Lockerbie terror attack

★★★ THE BOMBING OF PAN AM 103, BBC ONE New dramatisation of the Lockerbie terror attack

Six-part series focuses on the families and friends of the victims

The appalling destruction of Pan Am’s flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988 was put under the spotlight in January this year in Sky Atlantic’s Lockerbie: A Search for Truth. This focused on the dogged and agonising search for truth by Jim Swire (played by Colin Firth), whose daughter Flora was killed in the attack, and raised a host of possibilities and theories about who did it and why.

theartsdesk Q&A: Zoë Telford on playing a stressed-out psychiatrist in ITV's 'Malpractice'

Q&A: ZOE TELFORD On playing a stressed-out psychiatrist in ITV's 'Malpractice'

She nearly became a dancer, but now she's one of TV's most familiar faces

If you compiled a list of favourite TV series from the last couple of decades, you’d find that Zoë Telford has appeared in most of them. The Thick of It, Foyle’s War, Ashes to Ashes, Sherlock, Silent Witness, Unforgotten, Death in Paradise, Grantchester, Vera… they all appear on her on CV, with many more besides.

The Trunk, Netflix review - stylish, noir-ish Korean drama wrapped around a beguiling love story

★★★★ THE TRUNK, NETFLIX Stylish, noir-ish Korean drama wrapped around a beguiling love story

Unusual psychological study of a stranger paid to save a toxic marriage

The trunk in the title is a luxury item, worth 50 million won – just north of £27,000 – shown sinking in deep water in the opening credits. It weaves through one of the classiest recent collaborations between Netflix and Korean TV, a haunting psychological drama that’s balm to the soul after the mob-handed violence on offer here at home. 

Malpractice, ITV1, Series 2 review - fear and loathing in the psychiatric unit

★★★★ MALPRACTICE, ITV1, SERIES 2 Fear and loathing in the psychiatric unit

Powerful return of Grace Ofori-Attah's scathing medical drama

Following on from the first series of Malpractice in 2023, this second season again probes into issues of medical malfeasance and institutional corruption, in an environment where patient care frequently comes second to internal politics and self-preservation. The protagonist first time around was Niamh Algar’s Dr Lucinda Edwards, but this time it’s Tom Hughes as Dr James Ford, who works as a psychiatric registrar at the fictional Queen Mother’s University Hospital.

Formula E: Driver, Prime Video review - inside the world's first zero-carbon sport

F1's electric baby brother get its own documentary series

The success of Netflix’s Drive to Survive not only provoked a viewer-stampede towards the world’s most expensive sport, but also triggered a chain reaction of similar behind-the-scenes sports documentaries. Suddenly we had Break Point (tennis), Full Swing (golf) and Tour de France: Unchained (cycling, obviously), hotly pursued by series on rugby, soccer and American Indiecar racing.

Flintoff, Disney+ review - tumultuous life and times of the great all-rounder

★★★★ FLINTOFF, DISNEY+ Tumultuous life and times of the great all-rounder

John Dower's documentary is gritty, gruelling and uplifting

Documentaries about sports stars are now a dime a dozen, but you can only be as good as your subject matter. We know Andrew Flintoff (usually known as Freddie) is a larger-than-life character who has had his fair share of both success and failure, but in this new film for Disney+, directed by John Dower, he emerges as a charismatic personality who can inspire undying devotion among friends and teammates while being brutally honest about his own shortcomings.