I’m onside with Inside

FINALLY, Inside Number 9 (BBC2, Tuesday) delivers.

After two selfindulgent episodes, instalment three was a fabulously grisly tale of murder and mayhem brilliantly told backwards in 10-minute sections where nothing is as it seems, with stars Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton on top form.

The story began at the end when Spike (Nick Moran) from Handle Me Gently removals arrived to help twitchy May (Monica Dolan) leave her country mansion. Or was that the case? And so started a brilliant whodunnit with dead bodies galore. Natasha (Emilia Fox) was found shot in the head and draped in curtains, while Hugo the estate agent was rolled up in a carpet with a gash to his bonce.

But there was light relief. When Natasha caught a glimpse of her dad in the bath, she murmured: “That reminds me, I must get some sun-dried tomatoes.”

It was so skilfully told with a clever twist at the end – or was that the beginning – that I had to rewind and watch it backwards all over again. IT’S big. It’s scary and very wet. No, not Rylan Clark-Neal, he’s adorable as ever, it’s his new game show The Wave (W channel, Monday to Friday). Billed as the “most dangerous quiz on TV”, the idea was that couples had to answerer questions while one poor soul battled throughh choppy waters to reacheach a dosh.dosh. line of pontoons in a bid to win someme Meanwhile, the other partner sippedped cocktails on the beach with Rylan.