We Know What You Did That Summer

5:04pm Tuesday 22nd July 2008

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IN TYPICAL television scheduling fashion, Sunday now sees Midsomer Murders (ITV1) and George Gently (BBC1) going head to head.

Doesn't it occur to the schedulers that these two programmes will attract the same viewers? I know we have the facility to record these days, but it still annoys me when the channels do this sort of thing.

"The scenes in which he was watching them from the undergrowth were reminiscent of a horror film - it was truly We Know What You Did That Summer in Midsomer."

Christine Klabacher

Personally, I opt to watch Barnaby and Co and record Gently - just a question of long time loyalty versus the young upstart. Not that George is a young anything - he's the solid, elder statesman of CID, the Barnaby of the north east, in fact.

Played with much the same core values as Martin Shaw's alter ego Judge John Deed, George Gently is yet another successful characterisation from the accomplished actor. While Deed is a real ladies' man, however, dear George is still mourning the death of his wife and refuses to contemplate a replacement.

Barnaby on the other hand is still lumbered with Joyce. Fortunately, in Sunday's episode she was barely featured - a blessing since the story was frightening enough as it was!

A group of Ben's friends were being systemically killed by a young man who had supposedly died as a boy at the hands of the victims. He had in fact been hidden away by a couple to replace their own son, who had died in a road accident.

With their deaths and armed with the knowledge that he wasn't their son, the man was free to wreak his revenge on his tormentors.

The scenes in which he was watching them from the undergrowth were reminiscent of a horror film - it was truly We Know What You Did That Summer in Midsomer.

Gently is going to have his work cut out to come up with anything so chilling, when I get around to watching the recording!