I love a good cop show, so I was really excited by the prospect of the new BBC drama Blue Lights, which you can stream on iPlayer. Early reviews suggested that the Belfast-based drama could be as good as iPlayer, so that made it a must-watch for me.
The BBC has a bit of a patchy track record when it comes to police dramas. The Aberdeen-set Granite Harbour, which the BBC appears to have spent huge sums promoting if the billboards round my way were any indication, was laughably bad – and my tolerance for bad cop dramas is very high, so to have me turning off in disgust is quite an achievement. But it also made the peerless Happy Valley, one of the best TV shows full stop.
