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BBC1’s new Rebus is the kind of TV detective they just don’t make any more

How did such unreconstructed machismo make it on to the BBC?

Perfection: Richard Rankin as John Rebus in BBC1's new adaptation. Credit: BBC / Eleventh Hour Films / Mark Mainz
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