Killer questions

If you’re the sort of viewer who watches Midsomer Murders thinking, ‘That Barnaby’s an idiot, I figured out who the killer was two ad breaks ago’, then this is the show for you.

Hosted by Susan Calman (an accomplished multitasker, as she was rehearsing for Strictly while filming this), each episode of Armchair Detectives tasks three crime fiction enthusiasts with solving a murder in the sleepy village of Mortcliff.

They get a comfortable chair in the studio to watch the drama unfolding on-screen in a series of clips, as Mortcliff’s own crack detective team of DI Knight, DC Slater and Scene of Crime Officer Simmons investigates – but can the amateur sleuths beat the professionals to the unmasking of the killer?