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KATHRYN FLETT'S My TV week: This thriller is so frantic I needed a lie down

This week UK writer Kathryn Flett reviews ITV's new 'black-comedy-psycho-drama-thriller-cum-cop-show' Passenger as well as The Life And Death Of Lily Savage, also on ITV.

Clearly there are links between the mutilated stag on the forest road and the mysterious 24-hour disappearance of Katie Wells (newcomer Rowan Robinson, one to watch), and the fracking site owned by lonely outsider Jim (David Threlfall). However Mosaku is a refreshing Lancashire update – if an unlikely resident of Chadder Vale because she’s far too clever to be thumb-twiddling in a village where the entire population regularly descends simultaneously, EastEnders-style, on the only cafe in town. There were warm, vivid tributes from Sir Ian McKellen, Lord Cashman (formerly of EastEnders), Alan Carr, Julian Clary and O’Grady’s sister Sheila and daughter Sharyn.

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