Bearing in mind the fracas that had kicked off between cast and writers on this series in the lead-up to tonight, I decided to keep a beady eye on the...

The writer of long-running detective drama New Tricks has hit back in a row with the cast who claimed the scripts had become "bland". The New Tri...

Piers Morgan -- controversial ex-editor of the Mirror, dubiously qualified judge of talent on both sides of the pond, and successor to the braces of Larry King -- is a divisive figure. He has been described as an obnoxious idiot, an odious windbag, a pompous cretin, and an arrogant, smarmy, egotistical, self-satisfied, droning buffoon. His critics have been less kind.

Remember the tight trousers, the leather jackets, above all the Ford Consul? 30 years after The Sweeney set the bar for police drama - with John Th...