Instead, it swerves a whole lot of things we should know, specifically how BBC bosses covered up for the creep. They even shelved the Newsnight investigation exposing him. The real Savile was smarter than this version. And all the more dangerous for it. The next day they were riding-crop deep in Fifty Shades territory. It was less Home & Away, more Have It Away. But for unsubtle soft porn, it couldn’t touch Netflix’s ridiculous Sex/Life.

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It’s police procedural delivered with pulp fiction grit. Harry is something we don’t see often on modern TV – a police hero. Ex-rugby bod Gareth Thomas served up “Welsh eggs” – rugby ball-shaped Scotch eggs. But now he’s gone, feisty Ferne seems most likely to convert. For all possible up-and-under jokes see Keith Lemon. There’s a lot of food wastage as usual. Why not send in Ian Beale to eat the left-overs? If he can scoff poisoned spag bol from the Queen Vic floor he could easily manage a few half-baked Swiss rolls.

Random irritations: Sky History teasing us with William Shatner Meets Ancient Aliens – he didn’t, just fantasists, liars and cranks. Loki’s underwhelming series finale. Brian Cox’s Logan is part Rupert Murdoch and part King Lear in need of a swear box. Kendall is a self-regarding berk. But Farah wasn’t squeaky clean. She took Ben, her neighbour’s 5year-old son, to a stand-off on the very top of Portland Tower, so edgy it felt like the next round in Squid Game. And her dad vandalised Ben’s mum’s car. Attenborough’s soothing and at times sombre commentary has blessed our screens since the 50s – vintage footage showed a scrawny, shirtless David on Australia’s Raine Island 66 years ago. Rising water levels could swallow it up – an existential threat to the green turtles who lay their eggs here, he said. June 27. DOWN the mean streets of TV crime drama, a man must go who is not himself mean... Harry Bosch is that man, untarnished and unafraid.

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HOT on TV: The Wheel Of Time (AmPrime) and Rosamund Pike... Rose Ayling-Ellis, Strictly... Dougray Scott, Crime (BritBox). WHO is murdering ex-miners on Sherwood? Given the BBC’s usual “balance”, you half-expected it to be the gloating ghost of Baroness Thatcher. But the well-cast drama has more depth than that. ROT on TV: Bake Off: The Professionals – over-cooked... Mo Gilligan’s Lateish Show – likeability is not enough... Silent Witness – bored listless.

There’s a new local, called Mahoney’s in John’s honour. And new regulars: Alan (Frasier’s old whisky-loving Oxford buddy), Harvard psychiatry department head Olivia, and Niles’ awkward son David. ITV toasted Dudley’s favourite son in Lenny Henry – One Of A Kind. Lenworth found fame via New Faces and the brilliant Tiswas (remember Trevor McDoughnut and David “Gwapple me nuts!” Bellamy?).