Justice | Lambing Live |Law & Order: UK | Twenty Twelve | Spartacus: Gods of the Arena | Bored to Death
Justice
2.15pm, BBC1
Don't expect huge budgets ? we're in daytime TV mode here, after all ? but Auntie's new crime drama is worth a look. It's centred on the Dovefield Public Justice Centre, where judge Patrick Coburn (Robert Pugh) tries to find new ways to engage a down-at-heel local community in helping to sort out its own problems. There's a self-consciously quirky quality to the proceedings at times ? the judge and one of his cohorts exploring the area via BMX ? but there's also a sense of menace. Continues through the week.
Jonathan Wright
Lambing Live
8.30pm, BBC2
It's time. To face. The sheep. If you missed last year's live lambing show, curly haired country lady Kate Humble is back honing her shepherding skills to help run the Marston family farm in Cumbria. She'll get stuck in with everything from finding the Swaledale flock to giving a tup a makeover, while Adam Henson will discover what makes a great sheep. A number of ewes are due to give birth this week, so tune in to see who gets voted out of the womb first.
Sian Rowe
Law & Order UK
9pm, ITV1
Not everyone would have had Bradley Walsh down as an empathetic contributor to a drama series, but his low-key everyman skills bring a palpable humanity to his character, Detective Ronnie Brooks. Obviously, this is an American franchise, but there's something inexplicably grimmer about these UK plotlines, and tonight's episode is a case in point. When a six-month-old child is reported dead, it looks to be a cot death ? yet Brooks and Devlin (Jamie Bamber) discover the case may be a great deal more sinister than it first appears.
John Robinson
Twenty Twelve
10pm, BBC4
Siobhan and Ian have another pointless meeting. Jessica Hynes really nails dead-eyed ennui as the half-wit PR consultant and Hugh Bonneville is perfectly pitched as the pleasant but ineffectual executive. And tonight, the superb Darren Boyd plays ex-athlete Dave Wellbeck, now an "Official 2012 Hero" charged with inspiring the nation's youth about sport. Olivia Colman continues to be consummately understated as Ian's PA, Sally. The writing is up there with Morton's other wondrous work, People Like Us, and wholly deserves primetime BBC2, not this hidden nook on digital. Perfection.
Julia Raeside
Spartacus: Gods Of The Arena
10pm, Sky1
Batiatus' celebratory wine-drenched bedroom cavort with his wife, Lucretia, and her friend, Gaia, is cut short when his eternally disapproving dad, Titus, shows up. Titus immediately sets about showing Batiatus who's boss by undoing all his hard work, causing him to up his scheming, turning him ever closer to becoming the conniving rat we know he will be. If you've seen the original series you'll get the full effect, but there's plenty of great dialogue and twisting plots to make this a great show for new viewers too.
Phelim O'Neill
Bored To Death
10.20pm, Sky Atlantic
The Alanon Case finds our slacker detective Jonathan Ames (the ever-languid Jason Schwartzman) being hired by a woman (played by the brilliant Kirsten Wiig) to find out if her boyfriend is cheating on her. That's not going to help him get over Suzanne. And neither is showing up at her house with a stash of love letters. Meanwhile, Ray (Zach Galifianakis) gets roped into visiting a doctor, and George (Ted Danson) has one of those problems you really wish your boss wouldn't bother you with. Super dry, totally enjoyable.
Richard Vine
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/apr/04/tonights-tv-lambing-live-spartacus
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