The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - Review
WHAT TO WATCH
Channel 4, 9pm
BEFORE WE DIE
Channel 4 isn’t as well known for homegrown cop dramas as the rival terrestrial channels, preferring to import foreign murder sagas under its Walter Presents banner. In fact, this promising new six-parter is based on a Swedish series of the same name (and was itself shown on Channel 4 under that banner) but here boasts the magnificent Lesley Sharp in the lead. She plays DI Hannah Laing, who in the first scene gives us an insight into her character when she crashes a party to arrest a drug dealer she has targeted – her adult son, Christian (Patrick Gibson). Fast forward two years and Laing’s in bed with
NAIL BOMBER: MANHUNT Netflix
This absorbing true-crime documentary recounts the trio of London nail-bombings of 1999 that targeted minority groups. Many of the main players and victims paint a visceral scene of the crime in the moments just before and after the explosions, while an undercover officer still in disguise recalls how he identified the culprit.
ARE YOU SCARED YET, HUMAN?
BBC One, 7.30pm; Scot, 10.45pm
The new arms race between East and West is in artificial intelligence. Panorama examines Orwellian developments her colleague and married lover, Sean
(Bill Ward), making pillow talk before they head into work. Sean soon disappears while meeting an informant, sparking a manhunt that loops back to Laing’s loved ones in an unexpected fashion.
Sharp delivers a nuanced central performance as a middleaged cop who’s come to terms with her character flaws but retains an appetite to deliver justice. She is ably supported by Vincent Regan and Rebecca Scroggs as her colleagues and Bristol looks beautiful as a backdrop to this wellexecuted thriller.
Vicki Power
in AI and has discovered evidence that it is being deployed in dubious ways by China’s police force and by countries developing autonomous weapons.
INSIDE GREGGS: BRITAIN’S BEST BAKERY Channel 5, 8pm
The nation’s favourite purveyor of sausage rolls and steak bakes is the subject of this lighthearted documentary. A raft of experts dissect its hero products and explain exactly how the budget high street bakery has come to dominate the market, raking in more than £1 billion a year. It seems that Greggs’s homegrown image belies the sophistication of the operation. Delicious.