The Fall

(BBC2, 9pm-10pm)

The eagerly a waited third series of Allan Cubitt’s grip ping crime drama is here at last– but what does fate have in store for the chillingly handsome serial killer Paul Spect or and his nemesis, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson? At the end of the previous run, Spector had been caught by the police but shot by jealous husband James Tyler, and when we pick up the story, medics are fighting to save the murderer’s life. News oft he shooting hits the headlines, and the press and police boss es waste no time criticising Stella’ s handling of the case– despite the fact that she got her man. Gillian Anderson stars.