Broadchurch (ITV) has a lot of damage to repair if it is to win back fans. The reputation won for its superb start, about the aftermath of a child’s murder in a seaside town, was obliterated by a dire second series two years ago.
Once viewers have given up on a drama, luring them back is doubly difficult. And writer Chris Chibnall did a thorough job of wrecking his own show in 2015, with a toe-curling courtroom plot that bore no resemblance to the British legal system.
So in the opening scenes of the new story, Broadchurch could afford no more clangers. Inevitably, it dropped one straight away.
Detectives Alec Hardy and Ellie Miller (David Tennant and Olivia Colman) were called out to bring a woman reporting a rape to the police station.
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