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The Fall RTE Player, until October 17, season three, episode one IT was a long wait, but The Fall season three is now powering ahead on RTE1, and on Player. Watch out — spoilers ahead for anyone still playing catch-up with seasons one and two. The season two finale saw Paul Spector (played with chilling effect by Jamie Dornan, whose good looks make him a very disturbing kind of serial killer) lying bleeding on the ground, an apparent gonner, while Stella Gibson (a perfectly poised Gillian Anderson) stands over him. Enter series three and her determination to save his life seems almost counter-intuitive, except that justice requires him alive. The problem is that, with Spector, while there’s life, there is the desire to kill. There is also the ability to manipulate other people into doing his evil deeds for him. Written by Allan Cubitt, The Fall is television drama at its best. Joanna Lumley’s Japan UTV Player, episode 1 ends tonight, episodes 1-3 That icon of graciousness, Joanna Lumley (left) has proved herself an entertaining and enthusiastic travel guide — all glamorous dazzle and fascinating details delivered in husky tones — with trips along the Nile and on the Trans-Siberian Express. Here, she makes her way to Japan, taking in various spots of interest along the way. There’s Sapporo, where she arrives in time for the annual snow festival — cue Lumley in gorgeous furs, hugging an ice sculpture and chatting to monkeys — Kyoto, where it’s all cherry blossom and Geishas — and a selection of Buddhist temples, where Lumley sits in contemplation surrounded by candles. But she does not shirk modern Japan — staying in the world’s first robot hotel — or the harder stories either, like Lumley talking to a man who stayed in Fukushima, site of the devastated nuclear power plant, instead of fleeing, in order to look after the factory pets. Watching this is like a kind of Travels With My Extraordinary Aunt.