Monday 9 May 2022 10:50 AM CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews the weekend's TV trends now
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Grace
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Like a corporate Starsky and Hutch, Supt Roy Grace and his sergeant sat on the beach after solving their latest mystery, quaffing beer and cracking puns.
They were celebrating the departure of a treacherous colleague, the Met's Cassian Pewe. He lost his taste for South Coast policing after nearly plunging over a cliff in a caravan, in Grace (ITV).
'Being here was pushing him over the edge,' chortled the Super (John Simm). His dutiful sidekick, DS Glen Branson (Richie Campbell) laughed till he nearly dropped his bag of chips.
This was Grace and Branson letting their hair down — still tightly buttoned into suit, collar and tie. The sarge even wears a waistcoat.
That's the biggest problem with Grace, and almost every police series today. There's no glamour.
'Being here was pushing him over the edge,' chortled the Super (John Simm). His dutiful sidekick, DS Glen Branson (Richie Campbell) laughed till he nearly dropped his bag of chips
Half a century ago, the knitwear, leather jackets and hairstyles sported by detectives Ken Hutchinson and Dave Starsky defined what it meant to be male in the 1970s — when bubble perms were macho.
Bay City's finest drove a red Gran Torino with a flash of white lightning. Supt Roy Grace drives a 15-year-old Skoda.
And while Starsky & Hutch cruised the streets or talked jive with their informant Huggy Bear in his bar, our Brighton policeman spends most of his day at his desk, answering the phone and checking files on his computer.
Though Grace is meant to be a maverick, he can't go beating up drug dealers or diving into
