DRAMA

SILENT WITNESS

9PM, BBC1 ★★★★

The show is marking its 25th anniversary, and it has hardly changed a jot. Why mess with a winning formula? To celebrate this impressive milestone, Amanda Burton’s Sam Ryan (right), the original lead pathologist when Silent Witness launched in 1996, is back and they’ve pulled out all the stops to bring the current team of Nikki, Jack and Simone from London to Liverpool – by helicopter! Once they’re all acquainted, Nikki and her team assist Sam with the investigation into the fatal shooting of a Cabinet minister, but as the bodies start piling up around them, a cloud of suspicion falls on

Sam – surely, she hasn’t turned to the dark side?