Dalziel and Pascoe v Britain's Got Talent (with video)

By Remote Control on Jun 14, 07 02:31 AM

JUST when I thought my week's viewing was confirmed (Britain's Got Talent all the way to Sunday) something else caught my eye on the schedules.

Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC 1, 9pm). A masterclass in British crime dramas, combining a bit of gore with great characters, great acting and some brilliant scripts - not to mention a gripping storyline each and every time it airs.

It's perhaps the one cop drama I can actually watch when it is repeated on UKTV Gold (as it is at very regular intervals).

So I've hit upon a cunning plan. Hand on heart, I can live without watching the same acts performing in the three semi finals (yes, three does go into two apparently) over the next three nights, but I do rather want to see how they disappear.

It's a safe bet that the first hour of the 90-minute Simon Cowell fest will involve the performances, followed by half an hour of summing up, umming and aaaahing and lots of tears.

Which means the bit I want to watch starts at 10pm, exactly the time Dalziel and Pascoe ends. Problem solved? I hope so. And if I do still feel I'm missing out on the Britain's Got Talent front, there's always Great Britain's Got More Talent (ITV 2, 10.30pm).

Our Liverpool contingent is back on tonight - see them perform here .

So back to D&P. In a nutshell, Warren Clarke returns as grumpy Dalziel in Project Aphrodite, which is a two-parter concluding at the same time tomorrow.

He's more grumpy than usual thanks to the fact he should be on his hols but ends up on a new case with DI Pascoe, played by Colin Buchanan.

And the case they're following involves a brilliant research student and an pro-animal experimentation activist being murdered. And there's more than one body, as usual. All set around Eternus Biotech - it's a safe bet the pharmacuticals industry won't be relishing the PR from this one.

And it all gets very murky when it emerges the scientist was on the verge of a very important discovery.

And after all the murder, and the tears of the losers on Britain's Got Talent, what better than some comedy. It's the finale of Gavin and Stacey on BBC3 at 10.30pm but it won't really matter if you've missed the series because, BBC 3 being BBC 3, it will be repeated more than once in the future.

If you fancy catching a flavour now, click here to see the family discussing which is worse: Being a Shipman or a West. .