Starring John Hannah and Suranne Jones, A Touch Of Cloth is the new spoof police drama from the keyboards of Black Mirror, Dead Set and Nathan Barley’s Charlie Brooker, and TV Burp’s Daniel Maier.
A lampoon of the clichés of modern crime drama, the one-off special has already been commissioned for a second and third outing.
Hannah plays man-on-the-edge Detective Inspector Jack Cloth, while Jones is sidekick Detective Constable Anne Oldman, a woman fighting for position in a man’s world. Noir confessions, lashing-rain monologues, and murder victims called (ahem) Gavina Duntish all await…
Sky One viewers can see A Touch Of Cloth later this month. We’ll certainly be watching.
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