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JACK’S THE LAD

$1.30 [for a stamp] is well spent to let someone – anyone – know what a joy it is to find on Choice TV a who-done-what series for grown-ups in the shape of (Saturday). Not trash like Jack Reacher or depressing stuff, such as the attempts at detective yarns by the Brits.

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