ITV viewers were left wracking their brains over where they recognised Parminder Nagra from before new thriller DI Ray had even started last night.
The channel is going through a real purple patch of successful crime dramas at the moment, with series 3 of The Bay pulling in millions of viewers every week, Grace getting everyone talking with its second series and The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe dramatizing the real life crimes of John Darwin and his wife Anne. And, clearly realising when they're onto a good thing, ITV are launching another drama on Monday, in the form of DI Ray.
With Line of Duty creator Jed Mercurio, the exec producer of the new series, hopes are high from both channel bosses and viewers that DI Ray will prove as compelling as the hit BBC drama and Trigger Point which exploded onto Sunday night TV schedules earlier this year.
