Am I the only person on the planet who until yesterday has not seen Midsomer Murders? Where have I been? At least I have not been in Midsomer, as no one is safe there. Midsomer is an area with many small villages where the residents seem to have murder in mind all the time. Perhaps the series has now finished after over a decade of murder and intrigue because everyone has either been murdered or arrested.

Only the pilot episode “The Killings at Badger’s Drift”, which aired on 23 March 1997, was available for review but it certainly kept us glued to the screen. We are introduced to DCI Thomas Barnaby (John Nettles-Bergerac) and his rather dim witted sergeant Gavin Troy (Daniel Casey) as they piece together the events that lead up to the murder of Emily Simpson, an elderly resident of the village of Badger’s Drift. Barnaby is a very calm and collected character.

For the first time since 1999, when the final episode of season eight, “Only the good…”, the Red Dwarf team - human Dave Lister (Craig Charles), holographic Arnold Rimmer (Chris Barrie), robotic Kryten (Robert Llewellyn), and the evolved cat, Cat (Danny John-Jules) – return to television in new adventures. The storyline sees them coming back to Planet Earth.

A decade on, the crew are older but none the wiser to the world around them. Lister still spends his day annoying Rimmer, but this is stopped in its tracks with the discovery of a dimension-hopping leviathan, Katerina, in the ship's water tank, which is a mile in depth.