Copshop –

Saturday, Channel 4, 9pm, premiere

Self-anointed “high-end consultant” Teddy Murretto (Frank Grillo) has grubby fingers in numerous pies including the affairs of the recently murdered attorney general of Nevada. On the run from professional hitman Bob Viddick (Gerard Butler) after a car bomb fails to silence his loose lips, Teddy sucker-punches diligent Gun Creek police officer Valerie Young (Alexis Louder) during a public fracas to secure a holding cell for the night. The plan backfires when Viddick poses as a drunk-driver and is detained in the opposite cell. A tense stand-off heralds a hail of bullets when rival gunman Anthony Lamb (Toby Huss) arrives at the police station to kill Teddy. Copshop is a testosteronesoaked tale of law and disorder, which relies on wanton violence to divert attention from the occasional clunks of the script.