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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Jeffries

Blindspot review – Ross Kemp is back doing drama (and he’s far more dull than in EastEnders)

Tony (Ross Kemp) and Hannah (Beth Alsbury) in Blindspot
Tony (Ross Kemp) and Hannah (Beth Alsbury) in Blindspot. Photograph: Clapperboard Production/Channel 5 Television/Paramount UK

‘Bravo Oscar One, receiving,” sighs Ross Kemp. “Understood. On my way.” Wearily, he puts his motor into gear and pulls away slowly, doing his best to skew TV-cop response times so they resemble real ones.

Kemp plays Tony, a washed-up, soon-to-be-divorced, possibly corrupt detective, who one night is summoned to an incident on a council estate. There has been, without getting too Taggart about this, a murder.

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