There are two great games to be played when watching an episode of Vera: trying to identify the killer (almost impossible), and working out where in the North East is being used as the backdrop to this week’s grisly murder.
Has that body been found on the beach at Seaton Sluice, or is it Newbiggin? Watch as Vera drives her battered Land Rover across some Northumberland B-road you just can’t place and then arrest a wrong’un at less-than-salubrious housing estate somewhere on Tyneside.
But the adventures of DCI Stanhope are not the only place where the North East can be seen on screen these days, with programmes like Channel 4 documentary Geordie Hospital and the BBC’s Angels of the North and Ambulance putting the North East on a national platform.
