PICK OF TODAY’S TV CROSSFIRE, 9PM, BBC1

THIS holiday from hell thriller that will keep you glued to your sofa over the next three nights. It comes from the same team behind hit dramas Responder and The Salisbury Poisonings, and is set in a luxurious Canary Islands resort, where a group of British friends are enjoying a relaxing break in the sun until events taker a dark turn. Keeley Hawes (pictured) leads the cast as Jo, a former police officer whose holiday is ruined when gun men storm the hotel and start shooting. Can Jo draw on her years of experience to save the lives of her family and the other guests? Hawes is no stranger to action dramas — think Line Of Duty and Bodyguard — but this is the first time she has acted as the hero, and she acquits herself well in a role normally reserved for a man. ‘I think it’s easy for us to think that women are in action things, but when you actually drill down and look at their roles, they’re quite often a relatively passive role within an action thriller,’ said the writer and creator Louise Doughty of her decision to put a woman in the front seat of the series. ‘The whole point of Crossfire is that that character is not the passive one being rescued by other people. She’s not the one cowering in a cupboard.’ You may well be, though, as this is tense, nailbiting stuff best watched from behind a cushion.