THE BEST TV LISTINGS

Our 52-page guide includes Jaci Stephen’s Soap Watch, your Movie Planner and a special preview of the new Bletchley Circle spin-off

1 Nicola Walker and I play DCI Cassie Stuart and DI Sunny Khan [pictured], who investigate historical murders. We have a laugh on set. Laughter helped me cope with bullies at school and now it means I don’t take emotional scenes home.

2

My wife Meera Syal and I fight over Nicola. Meera was in The Split with her but as I knew her first, I think she’s more my friend. I loved to hear Meera talking about her when they were filming, and Meera is now more interested in my day.

3

A surprising star of the show is Sunny’s backpack. It’s a fan hit – people speculate about what’s in it on social media. The props department fills it with random things; a pineapple, leopard-print stilettos. I never know.

4

In the last series, when Sunny tried to kiss

Cassie, I thought it was so wrong I talked to the writer Chris Lang about it. He said he was just playing with the cliché of a male and female cop getting together, and that these two definitely wouldn’t. Thankfully they’ve moved on in the new series.

5

We got all six scripts at once for this series and I stayed up into the early hours reading them like a novella. I can never work out whodunnit until the end!

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