ITV viewers were left complaining and advising the channel to move crime drama Grace to a later time slot as it aired 'graphic' content on horrifying rapes before the 9pm watershed on Sunday night.
A year on from its last series, which ended with a shocking plot about the trafficking of human organs, Grace, adapted from the hit novels by acclaimed author Peter James, was back for a third run this weekend, occupying the 8pm slot recently held by much loved Sunday night show Vera and the final series of Endeavour.
Unlike the other two ITV dramas, which tend to hold back on the gore and graphic details, Grace went for the jugular within minutes of its return to screens, when detective Roy Grace had to get to the bottom of the rape of a young woman in a hotel by a sex attacker who used a sex toy as his weapon. And it was a comment one of Grace's colleagues made about the perpetrator which raised a few eyebrows.
