James Walton

Bloodlands is well worth watching – just don’t expect Line of Duty

Plus: the calmly efficient opener to the fourth series of ITV's Unforgotten trusts its viewers to trust it

James Nesbitt as DCI Tom Brannick, going for one of his many troubled stares. Credit: BBC/HTM Televison/Steffan Hill
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