Just started watching Case Histories starring Jason Isaacs.

I'm not usually into the television detective thing and I'm glad to say it exists on the fringe of the genre.

It's more a collection of linking character stories with Mr Isaacs' Jackson Brodie (silly name) being the linking material.

No complaints there as he is very easy on the eye and he plays the central role with measured restraint and seems quite comfortable to allow all the orbiting characters and the strong talent playing them to gently revolve around him (even when the story-lines are grim).

I can't bring myself to follow either the excellent Swedish or the almost as good British Wallander series because the whole thing is so relentlessly grim from stalk to core that all that hard work laying down the characterisation just gets lost in depressing darkness of it (for me) but this one is balanced just about right for me at my time of life.

Nice to see Edinburgh on screen too and I've always had a soft spot for Yorkshiremen (fictional in this case, or real).