DRAMA KAREN PIRIE

8PM, ITV

★★★★

From the producers of Line Of Duty and Bodyguard and based on a novel by crime fiction queenpin Val Mcdermid, this new cold-case drama has an impressive pedigree. Lauren Lyle stars as Karen (left), a Police Scotland DS on the case

of a barmaid stabbed to death some 25 years ago. Refreshingly, Karen lacks the quirks of so many TV cops; she’s young and good at her job, which here brings her into conflict with the detectives who conducted the original flawed – investigation. See feature, page 7.