Scott & Bailey

I love Scott and Bailey, and The Good Wife. Alan Cummings is a brilliant actor, and I love the way Alicia is so calm and cutting in the court room.

My OH and me were both in Manchester police, and I think the casting in S&B is excellent.

I enjoy Scott n Bailey, its clever and funny.Its driven by very talented women. I think its really refreshing that its written by women, Sally Wainright (last tango in halifax) and Amelia Bullmore who I think is a fantastic and witty writer, she wrote Di and Viv and Rose a play recently on at Hampstead Theatre.. It was brilliant and very funny and perceptive. Leslie sharp is a leg end and Suranne Jones is just really good.In this series, Nicola Walker(spooks) is a featured character and bloody brilliant. She just received an Olivier award for her performance on stage in 'the curious incident of the dog...etc transfered from the National Theatre into west end, go see its a fantastic show! Stay tuned am assured the twists and turns in this series are worth the watch.

Dramas in which women play the dominant roles tricky to write. I love the Good Wife and Alan Cummings plays an interesting character part. The "bad husband" is very much a cipher and does not, these days, appear in most episodes.But writers really do have to make sure that the women are in the foreground and not getting overshadowed by men. And if they all had happy home/love lives then that would be boring. Nice steady kind men do not good drama make.
And well, Wright Stuff, give me a break, how many sexist dramas have there been in which men do all the exciting stuff and women just provide the "love interest" and make the tea? 1 million? more?

I don't like two parters as I can't remember what happened in the first part!

TV actors do seem to go through a popular phase when they're in nearly every drama on the box, don't they? Olivia Colman and David Tennant are two more who keep popping up all over the place at the moment.

I love this programme a bit confusing this time as 2 of the main characters where acting in Prisoners Wifes recently, the one whose father did all the murders was a police officer in that and one of the bosses was a pathetic mother of a young prisoner. Both good programmes shame they where on so close.

On The Wright Stuff this morning it was suggested that the programme was sexist because the men were all inadequate wimps!

Yes it is.
Well in "normal" working situations people behave in a civilised way eleothan - I have no doubt that the series Life on Mars was a very sanitised version of police culture back in the 70s (bit like the series Grange Hill - not a swear word to be heard) - but what it is like now, I do not know.