It's from ITV (they've really got the bug, haven't they?) and airs on Monday at 9pm.
Penned by Lizzie Mickery (The State Within, Messiah), it's called Instinct and stars Anthony Flanagan as Detective Chief Inspector Thomas Flynn.
From what I've read, Instinct refers to Flynn's ability to follow his own. Today's Daily Mail's Weekend supplement carried an article on Mickery, entitled "Queen of Crime Time". I can't find an online link, so I'll quote:
"In inventing Flanagan, a handsome, thirtyish, quiet man, rediscovering his own emotional intelligence, Lizzie is consciously breaking away from the sort of telly-tec we have grown all used to, embodied by John Thaw's Morse or David Jason's Frost, fiftysomething, disillusioned, cynical, world-weary, divorced, and sinking their sorrows in the whisky bottle.
'I wanted a detective who's fresh, incisive and clear - someone for whom the job is the oxygen of life,' she says."
Sounds good. The second part airs on Tuesday, also at 9pm and clashing with Life on Mars (which has a cult following, I believe) and CSI.
I'm sorry Faye, but it's over a year since I saw this and I haven't a clue. Perhaps someone else mighht notice your question and provide an answer. Best of luck!
Posted by: crimeficreader | 18 April 2008 at 16:51
I watched Instinct and enjoyed it, but one thing puzzled me. Why did Tom Ward enter his wife's bedroom calling out to her, when (a) he knew she was not there having murdered her and shifted her body and (b) there was no-one with him to impress that he was innocent?
Posted by: faye | 18 April 2008 at 02:41
Same here, Gilly. I wondered about the sister too. "More please", is I think the demand on our drama providers!
Posted by: crimeficreader | 01 March 2007 at 22:46
Really thought Instinct was a promising series and liked Anthony Flanagan very much as Thomas Flynn, thoughtful and serious young man. It had myself and my son guessing to almost the end as to who the murderer might be.
The storyline involving Thomas' half-sister had me thinking something almost sexual might happen.
Posted by: Gilly | 28 February 2007 at 20:24
Hey, I thought it was fantastic last night, so will definitely be watching tonight!! Great characters and a gripping storyline.
And I don't think that Life on Mars is on tonight? - they might be replacing it with Match of the Day or something?? But I could be wrong ...
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Posted by: Anne Brooke | 27 February 2007 at 14:42
Ooh, yes, I've ringed this one in my Radio Times - which in itself is quite a sad admission, I suppose!!!
:))
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Posted by: Anne Brooke | 25 February 2007 at 08:52