'Touch of Cloth' (Sky 1) is fairly funny stuff as is to be expected from anything written by Charlie Brooker (Daniel Maier is the writing partner on this one). The TV Cop Show is an easily satrised format but Brooker has some nice lines that any fans of his would have recognised instantly as his rapid wit and snark. The cast is superb, playing every gag line with a set-in-stone straight face delivery.Why Charlie Brooker feels the need to work for a Murdoch channel is anybody's guess but this is funny, if not quite ground-breaking ('Police Squad' anyone?). John Hannah (who once played Ian Rankin's Rebus, and not for laughs) is Jack Cloth, a troubled, stubbled, quasi washed-up Copper. He is joined by the excellent Suranne Jones ('Coronation Street', 'Scott & Bailey'), playing, in the best pun and funniest joke in Episode One, Detective Constable Anne Oldman. Julian-Rhind Tutt ('Green Wing') does his usual stuff as Cloth's Boss, who is called, er, Boss. Throw in a couple of cast members that were in 'Teachers' over a decade ago and you have a great mix of acting talent, good writing and decent production values. While 'thetvreviewguy' wasn't totally in awe, he enjoyed the hour; Charlie Brooker is not God (!) but he is one of the more original and witty writers around today. And he's married to Konnie Huq. Bastard.
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