Murder Case: the Digital Detectives
Meet the Richardsons The Regime
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Sad to say, the real world has come crashing in. Lucy Beaumont and Jon Richardson recently announced they are to divorce, which was painful news for fans, and cast a pale light on their long-running mock-doc. It’s almost as if playing up every grumble in their relationship for comic effect over five series hasn’t made for a blissful marriage.
Or maybe the self-mockery had nothing to do with it — we can’t know. But it makes watching their squabbling a lot less fun. When Jon quips that he goes to a dentist miles away because, “I like driving and I like being away from Lucy,” you can almost hear Morrissey tell us, that joke isn’t funny any more. DBu
10.00pm Full series via C4 streaming
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Olly Stephens was only 13 years old in 2021 when he was stabbed to death after meeting a friend in Bugs Bottom, an open space near Reading, Berkshire. The girl he’d met told Thames Valley Police that she was so frightened, she ran away without getting a proper look at the two boys who had attacked him.
However, CCTV footage and mobile phone data (despite the suspects deleting incriminating apps and messages) helped reveal what really happened. It’s another disturbing, yet horribly fascinating, case that demonstrates how the police can use our digital footprints to solve a crime. JR
DRAMA 10.00pm All episodes available viaNow
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Through the thick fog of this deeply confusing comedy drama, a beam of light: here at last is Hugh Grant as “Marxist rat” Edward Keplinger, the man who led this unnamed eastern European country before Chancellor Elena Vernham (Kate Winslet) brought in the current, glorious era, with its illegal foreign incursions and rapidly cratering economy.
Keplinger is a political prisoner, charming enough to have bargained himself a cell with books and edible food. Winslet and Grant enjoy a terrific scene as old enemies who compete to insult and psychoanalyse each other, but it’s a rare highlight in a show that simply doesn’t know what it’s trying to say. JACK SEALE