DRAMA

BBC1, 2.15pm A Shakespeare-inspired comedy drama for your daytime viewing pleasure – and this one is worth recording for later if you’re out all day.

EastEnder Jo Joyner plays hairdresser Lu Shakespeare and Early Doors’ Mark Benton is ex-cop turned private detective Frank Hathaway (geddit?). They are thrown together as an unlikely chalk and cheese crimebusting duo.

Everything takes place in Stratford- upon-Avon, of course, home of the famous bard – and each episode is loosely based on a Shakespeare play, so bonus points if you can spot the references.

This episode shows how the partners come to meet, as a sobbing Lu hires Frank to find out if her fiancé is cheating on her with his secretary.

Frank doesn’t usually lower himself to chasing adulterers, but he’s strapped for cash.

Much ado about nothing? Hardly – the whole sorry saga somehow spirals into murder. This charming addition to the daytime schedules is on every week day.