Tony Spittles preview what’s on television

By The Newsroom
Published 17th Jun 2015, 09:32 BST
Sheridan Smith plays a Leeds city police officer after the killer of her undercover policeman husband in the crime thriller Black Work on ITV1.Sheridan Smith plays a Leeds city police officer after the killer of her undercover policeman husband in the crime thriller Black Work on ITV1.
Sheridan Smith plays a Leeds city police officer after the killer of her undercover policeman husband in the crime thriller Black Work on ITV1.
The capital of Yorkshire (plus location work in and around Goole) is the backdrop for the new, three-part thriller Black Work (starting this Sunday on ITV1) starring the ever-busy Sheridan Smith.

She plays city police officer Jo Gillespie, whose world is thrown into turmoil when her undercover policeman husband, Det Sgt Ryan Gillespie (Kenny Doughty), is shot dead in mysterious circumstances.

However, rather than leave it to fellow officers to find the killer she starts her own unofficial investigation, putting her own life in danger as she uncovers some dangerous secrets about Ryan that test her own beliefs and her faith in work colleagues.

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Similar attributes of working together are embedded in BBC1’s new game show Prized Apart, which really didn’t set the Saturday evening schedules alight as 10 couples competed in a series of stunts and tasks to win the top prize of £100,000.