The Fall, BBC 2 9pm created by Alan Cubitt.

The Fall, a contemporary thriller set in Belfast Northern Ireland, is shown on RTE and on BBC 2. Alan Cubbit is credited as creating the four part series. I’m not really sure what creating it means. Is he, for example, the writer or producer, does he own his own production company that sold the storyline or did he make the drama himself and sell it to RTE and BBC? Whatever he did, it’s quite gripping. With Belfast as a backdrop you expect somebody to be blown up, or shot, or both, just to make sure. Neither of these things happened. Belfast is portrayed as a place full of nice people with cute accents spending time in wine bars and having the upper- middle- class lives of lawyers and emm film producers. It could be any big city. Fling into this mix Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan) a family man who works as a counsellor by day, but by night as a serial killer who specialises in young successful middle-class women with black hair who are gorgeous. Well, he’s only killed two so far so I might be just presuming a pattern. Stella Gibson (Gillian Anderson and ever time you mention Gillian Anderson you need to mention sultry and X-files) is brought in from the Met because she’s sultry and the Northern Ireland constabulary can’t close a murder investigation without her. In fact, they might even have botched it! Stella Gibson needs to convince those daft plods there theirs a serial killer loose. She should know about these things, because of The X-files, conspiracy is her forte. Stella, I like that name, it’s a name with connotations of beer and efficiency, no-nonsense and Britain’s own MI5. The worst grilling the serial killer got was when he’d just nipped out for a bit of murder or rape or whatever else he was doing and horror of horrors his four-year-old sun can’t sleep and is waiting on the stairs for him. The kid didn’t buy any of his crappy alibis about just having nipped out to the shop. The accent was cute and the kid nailed him. It’s a bit early to see if Stella will be teaming up with this four-year-old prodigy, but stranger things have happened (cue X-files music).