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CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Protection on ITV1: Siobhan Finneran's wig is the most convincing thing in this police drama
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Right now, according to a series of stodgy captions that prefaced the police drama Protection (pictured), up to 3,000 people in the UK are officially living in secrecy.
It's about the most convincing thing in the opening episode of the six-part series, in which she plays DI Liz Nyles — tasked with keeping a family safe from the organised crime boss who wants them dead. Liz is so hopeless that the adults were dead before the first ad break, and their 12-year-old daughter, Amy (Tilly Kaye), escaped only by sheltering from the gunmen in a laundry basket. 'Something must have gone wrong with our security protocols,' said another protection officer, Raj (Chaneil Kular, left, with Katherine Kelly as DCI Hannah Wheatley, right, and Finneran as Liz).
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