This ‘howcatchem’ starring the disarmingly daffy lawyer is a treat. Plus: Roy Clarke looks back at Keeping Up Appearances. Here’s what to watch this evening
9pm, Sky Witness
Giving The Good Wife’s disarmingly daffy lawyer Elsbeth Tascioni (Carrie Preston) her own Columbo-esque “howcatchem”, transplanted from Chicago to New York, is such a no-brainer that you wonder why this spin-off has taken so long. Even better, The Wire’s Wendell Pierce also features, as Captain Wagner, her boss at the NYPD, who recognises that this scatterbrained sleuth may just be on to something. In the first episode, she investigates a suspicious apparent suicide. Ellen E Jones
I’m kind of disappointed they didn’t build a show about one of this universe’s characters getting a judgeship. So many great actors from good wife/good fight to choose from.
