IAN HYLAND on last night’s telly

Blood ★★★★★

If you are not one of the 10 million or so viewers that will be glued to I’m A Celebrity every night this week, I have news.

As an alternative you could do a hell of a lot worse than this nightly offering from Channel 5.

Having finally evicted Big Brother from its schedules, the fifth channel is aiming to establish itself as a serious broadcaster.

And what better way to achieve that than to make a gripping thriller that looks like it belongs on BBC1 or ITV. Line Of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar stars as Westmeath GP Jim Hogan, a grieving father who may or may not have killed his wife with an ornamental frog.

Whether you think he dunnit will depend very much on whether you think his daughter Cat (Carolina Main) – home from Dublin for the funeral – is a credible accuser or a vengeful fantasist.

It doesn’t help that Jim – and Cat’s two siblings – are behaving as shiftily as an under-pressure Prime Minister’s cabinet.

It’s just a pity Jim is being played by Dunbar – because he’s exactly the kind of duplicitous manipulator we would love to watch Dunbar’s Line Of Duty detective Ted Hastings getting stuck into in an interview room.

Cat’s not doing too bad a job, mind. In this opener she seemed to be uncovering a fresh twist just before each ad break.

It’s unlikely that she’ll keep that strike rate up for the whole week.

I’ll certainly be tuning in to find out whether she does though.