Thrills, especially for you

IT’S amazing the effect you can achieve if you take a bouncy pop song and slow it right down. I don’t mean slowing it down like you would a vinyl record, playing it on the wrong speed and reducing yourself to hysterics because obviously that’s the funniest thing ever, but slowing it down by rearrangin and reinterpreting it, musically speaking.

The makers of THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS a new Australian psychological thriller, have done precisely that with one of Kylie’s songs — yes, Kylie Minogue — enabling them to use it as the theme music. And I have to say it works a treat. Performed here by Melbourne singersongwriter Juice Webster (nope, me neither), a song we know as super-poppy is suddenly ubercreepy, dark and menacing.

“I should be so lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky!” No, it’s not that one, don’t be silly. It’s I Can’t Get You Out Of My Head.You’ll have to watch the programme to see exactly what I’m getting at. But yes, the new slowed-down version perfectly suits the tone of this edgy six-parter.

Watching the show is a great idea in any case, because it’s really rather good.Also, it’s only 45 minutes per episode.

I’m a big fan of psychological thrillers – they’re like normal thrillers, only with less killing and more dirty looks – and this one shows plenty of promise.

Plus it’s got Lady Edith out of Downton Abbey in it, albeit not being very Lady Edith-like.

Here she’s a woman called Agatha, who works in her local mini-mart and seems a teensy bit unhinged.

For reasons we don’t initially understand but we can hazard a half-decent guess at,Agatha is fixated on a character called Meghan, a blogger who’s heavily pregnant with her third child and unhappily married to a TV presenter you’ll want to slap.

But where does this obsession stem from?What terrible things might it drive her to do?

And while at least one of her secrets is so blindingly obvious that even dozy me managed to figure it out, what others might she – and indeed Meghan – be concealing?

Elsewhere, Horizon’s PLUTO: BACK FROM THE DEAD (BBC2,

9pm) reveals how this so-called dwarf planet, once considered the ninth proper planet of our solar system but then rather humiliatingly relegated, has been forcing scientists to show it some respect again.

That’s because the New Horizons space probe took some photos of Pluto’s surface and revealed it to be far more interesting than they’d given it credit for.

Some scientists even believe that there could be some forms of life there.

It’s sounding more tempting by the day.