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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Barbara Ellen

The week in TV: Vigil; The Crown; Killing Sherlock; The Factory: Made in Manchester; The Real Full Monty – review

Suranne Jones and Romola Garai in Vigil.
‘A modicum of colour, action, life’: Suranne Jones and Romola Garai in Vigil. BBC/World Productions Photograph: Mark Mainz/BBC/World Productions

Vigil (BBC One) | iPlayer
The Crown Netflix
Killing Sherlock: Lucy Worsley on the Case of Conan Doyle (BBC Two) | iPlayer
Imagine: The Factory: Made in Manchester (BBC One) | iPlayer
The Real Full Monty: Jingle Balls (ITV1) | itv.com

Blessed are we, for DCI Amy Silva (Suranne Jones) has been winched off that tedious submarine for series two of Tom Edge’s BBC One crime drama Vigil. However popular the first outing proved with viewers, for me, the promised subaquatic thrills didn’t materialise and it ended up feeling like a corporate team-building escape room activity with some dead bodies lumped in.

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