Bancroft
Seven, 8.30pm
Made last year for ITV and created and written by Kate Brooke, this tense police drama features an intriguing set-up, focusing on two police detectives and two cases nearly three decades apart. Detective superintendent Elizabeth Bancroft (Sarah Parish), one of the force's stars, is running a case aimed at apprehending a crime lord. Detective sergeant Katherine Stevens (Faye Marsay) is ambitious, eager to prove herself and resentful that her male colleagues are promoted ahead of her.
Bancroft with Sarah Parish and Faye Marsay.
When Katherine's boss assigns her to a cold case involving the brutal murder of a young woman, she sees her opportunity to demonstrate her worth and redress a long-standing injustice. However the case appears to involve Bancroft in ways that the older woman is keen to conceal. DE
Doctor Doctor
Nine, 8.40pm
With its golden sunsets, verdant vineyards and misty green valleys, this appealing local drama series presents a postcard pretty picture of country life. It also offers an engaging ensemble within which Tina Bursill has become a key asset. Her wonderfully nuanced performance as the indomitable Meryl, mother of leading man, Dr Hugh (Rodger Corser), local powerbroker, skilled baker and more recently grieving widow, has made a notable contribution to a series that fluidly combines hospital drama with other matters of the heart.
In the sixth episode of its third season, Meryl and hospital receptionist Betty (Belinda Bromilow) get their new matchmaking business, Country Connections, up and running with a speed dating night. Meanwhile Matt (Ryan Johnson) and Charlie (Nicole da Silva) face a major dilemma about their future together, and Hugh makes a significant decision. DE
Schitt's Creek (premiere)
ABC Comedy, 9.10pm
The premise seems promising. Regrettably, the execution, which is broad and clumsy, leaves a lot to be desired. The set-up sees the mega-rich Rose family evicted from their mansion by government authorities following the failure of their now-absent financial manager to pay their taxes. They're forced to decamp to a small town that dad Johnny (Eugene Levy) once bought as a joke. Like so much in this over-played comedy, the town's name, which is the show's title, loudly telegraphs its characteristics.
Made in 2015 for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the series was created by actor and writer Levy (American Pie, Best in Show) with his son, Dan, who plays his spoiled offspring, David. The aim is a fish-out-of-water, class-clash comedy, but, initially at least, many of the gags fall flat. DE
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