Even James can’t bring any light relief to ITV
Last updated 09:15, Saturday, 17 May 2008
NO wonder James Nesbitt is such a firm national favourite, he’s always so – well, James Nesbitt.
In Midnight Man (ITV1 Thursday) he’s Max Raban, an investigative journalist chasing the scoop on a sinister death squad and set-up as a suspect for the shooting of his own wife.
A fast-paced conspiracy thriller, this is TV's version of a holiday paperback picked up at an airport book shop... simple, formulaic. It’s not without its confusions though.
Raban is supposed to have a phobia/allergy to sunlight.
And he does – until programme-makers forget and have him darting about in daylit streets for the short-cut convenience of a dodgy plot.
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