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Television

Makes a change to see such reassuringly competent policemen: ITV1’s Grace reviewed

25 March 2023

9:00 AM

25 March 2023

9:00 AM

Grace

ITV1

Imagine

BBC1

Sunday-night dramas on the two main terrestrial channels definitely aren’t what they used to be. Not so long ago, you could bid farewell to the weekend with a reliable cocktail of lovely scenery, eccentric but good-natured rustics and plots carefully designed to warm the cockles. Now we have The Gold on BBC1 providing a meticulous analysis of recent economic history – while on ITV1 the new series of Grace began with an episode that hinged on one simple question asked early on: ‘What kind of sick mind dresses up in a full latex bodysuit and assaults his victims with a...

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