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KATHRYN FLETT'S My TV Week: Cheers! To this touching sobriety comedy

This week, UK writer Kathryn Flett reviews ITV's The Dry, the story of recovering alcoholic Shiv Sheridan (Roisin Gallagher) and her ongoing struggle for sobriety.

Or why dad Tom (wonderful Ciaran Hinds, in something of a casting coup) was living in a shed at the bottom of the garden while his ex-wife was in the family home with her new partner. In screenwriting parlance, the ‘inciting incident’ is what viewers will recognise as the main event driving a plot forwards – Hagrid telling Harry Potter he’s a wizard, for example, or in this case Shiv discovering she’s an alcoholic. As Charles II (played by Ashley Emerson) returns from exile to reclaim the crown and seek revenge for his father’s death at a time of great upheaval, the story is stuffed with detail about life in England post-Cromwell.

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