Pick of the Night ; Tv Editor the Commander 9pm, Itv1

Evening Standard - London › March 27, 2006

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Summary

Amanda Burton returns for her third outing as police Commander Clare Blake (right). And what an oddball piece of work it is - a seriously gruesome murder case, with a personal twist for Blake, combined with knockabout humour in the shape of a comedy Dutch detective.

It sounds like the sort of mix that shouldn't succeed, but somehow writer Lynda La Plante makes it work. Just.

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Pick of the Night ; Tv Editor the Commander 9pm, Itv1

The two-part story (concluding next week) starts in gothic style: a dark and brooding mental home in the middle of a night-time storm, with flashes of lightning illuminating the sky and a...

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