What’s this? A new crime drama on Channel 5 that’s neither cosy nor set in 5’s favourite county, Yorkshire? Cooper and Fry might follow the old trope of a pair of mismatched detectives, but in straying over the border into Derbyshire it’s at least breaking some new ground – and is immediately seductive thanks to its two brilliant leads.

DS Ben Cooper is played by Rob James-Collier (gay footman Thomas Barrow in Downton Abbey ) while former Doctor Who companion Mandip Gill is DS Diana Fry. Naturally, they’re at odds; he’s a local copper who’s spent his life on the rural beat of Edendale, while she’s mysteriously relocated from Leeds. As Cooper’s superior lays it out: “Sickeningly over-qualified and she willingly swaps the bright lights of Leeds for Edendale.”

Fry’s relocation look

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