THE police-drama The Fall on SBS is all class.
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From the start you watch two people.
One is Stella Gibson, a high-ranking police officer who is sent to Northern Ireland by the Metropolitan Police to help solve the murder of a beautiful young architect.
The other is Paul Spector (Jamie Dornan), first seen rifling, sniffing and fondling the underwear of a young and beautiful solicitor.
She comes home from the pub to find her underwear laid on her bed.
She calls the police, they search but as there seems to be no forced entry, they leave and the solicitor refuses to take their advice to go and stay with her sister.
Gibson, played with icy coolness by Gillian Anderson, settles down to sort out what went wrong with the original investigation.
Meantime we see Spector as a loving father, a considerate husband and a bereavement counsellor.
By the end of the second episode the solicitor is murdered, we know it's Spector and the question is whether Gibson will be able to catch this serial killer before he strikes again.
This is only a five-parter but it's terrific in its production values, its cinematography, its casting, and its plot, which won the writer several major awards.
ALSO on SBS is another police drama, Salamander, set in Belgium.
Here the good cop is the hunted with everyone from the police prosecutor down very bent.
It's an exciting series.
ABC has been pulling out its big comedy shows.
Of course Micallef in Mad as Hell is as brilliant as ever, but I'm yet to be convinced that The Chaser's Media Circus is very funny or even very satiric.
On the fictional side I have never been an admirer of Upper Middle Bogan, but I do enjoy It's a Date.
KITCHEN Cabinet with Annabel Crabb and Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery are also back on the ABC.
Annabel's first visit was way up in the clouds in an inclinator to Bob Hawke's home where his stepson cooked barramundi.
Annabel has the knack of extracting fascinating anecdotes out of her subjects.
Julia Zemiro thoroughly enjoys herself taking comedians back to their childhood.
She has a great time, as do they and of course so do we.