Sunday People

No loss of Faith in gripping drama

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AFTER putting his family through hell and keeping us all on out tenterhook­s for eight weeks, it turns Evan Howells is alive and well. We’d veered between thinking he’d he’d been bumped off by gangsters, killed life by a vengeful lover, taken his own or faked his death and fled abroad. The dodgy lawyer, played by Bradley Freegard, appeared at

And there are 12 brand new contestant­s for us to get emotionall­y invested in – well, make that eleven, as Northern Irish Imelda has already gone.

Personally we would have chosen Terry with the curly tache, but his terrifying Lenin-esque death mask made of brandy snaps and buttercrea­m saved him.

French-born Manon has marked herself as an early favourite, picking up the first home right at the end of the excellent Keeping Faith, just as his missus Faith – his real-life wife Eve Myles – was about to cop off with caring convict Steve Baldini. Now we’re waiting for a second BBC1 series where we hope to find out what he was up to before dumping him to become a Welsh mafiosa. IT only started last weekend, show it feels completely wide open as Tureebtu, tsbubmc qouniep’istbodygua­rd ncincilit veros is ditgonawho are the good guys and the bad already at, quis alit rocketing doluptat, towafradcs­ctuhmestao­npdio guys, who will stay alive and who will ocfotrhemb­esdtoslhoo­rwe otfe201c8o­lnisutm. sa ndionsegqe­utibumped off or put inside. miitn’scfirdoumn­tthelcorbe­aotror oefrcliidn­ueipoift lorper sumt is even difficult to know who to Dauctyili–t tphreaebsr­eilnliamnt­aljietd Mquis ercurio, acilisit icphieter for, as both sides can flip from masvter oafustusla­pnednsiaem, aectionaau­ngdiat. Sum in suinteiste­r to sympatheti­c and back again. inatrcicgu­umem. Lo ddipaslumn­inagkeeclo­eyrphearwi­epsisisnon­seadnd therein lies the genius – we have seuapecrob­mams yruntholse­snsimhomte­ast.eucnret taaurgyait accnuomide­a what’s going to happen, or ajulilqiau­mamoneta, gvueer,owstiith Rvicehlean­rdis nit auteevmen what we want to happen. But Madden as her protection officer there is no way we’re going to miss a David Budd. Like Jed’s previous minute of it.

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