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KATHRYN FLETT'S My TV Week: These rookie cops are scarily real
UK writer Kathryn Flett reviews police drama Blue Lights, which is produced by Line of Duty's Stephen Wright, along with Danny Dyer: How To Be A Man, a two-part documentary about toxic masculinity.
Produced by Line of Duty's Stephen Wright, Blue Lights, which stars Siân Brooke as Grace (right), Katherine Devlin as Annie (centre) and Nathan Braniff as Tommy (left), is back for a second series The drama is both successfully touchy-feely (Grace’s department) and no-holds-barred terrifying, while the dialogue is often bracingly bleak: ‘These last six months it’s just desperate people screaming at me,’ admits the female pharmacist who hits the panic button from behind her Plexiglass window. And while no sentence was devoid of the F-word, the unalloyed ‘Diamond Geezer’ (descendant of Henry VIII’s adviser Thomas Cromwell and friend of the late playwright Harold Pinter) is decent, grounded and softer round his middle-aged edges now he’s a grandad.
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