New Town
BBC iPlayer
till Sun 22 Feb
Edinburgh-based oddity from the woman who wrote Book Group. It's all about property development (catchphrase: "Slump?! There's no slump!"), architecture, art and – of course, this being Scotland – murrrderrr. It's supposed to be a six-parter but the Beeb has only made one to test the market – not a pilot but a conclusionless episode one. Well, consider the Mad Dog market successfully tested, Beeb, and make the rest of the series.
New Town is full of entertainingly curious performances – League Of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss as one half of a Gilbert & Georgesque couple of architects (who have a mini-me son); Daniella Nardini (This Life's Anna) as an upmarket estate agent; and Omid Djalili with bizarre, long, straggly hair. But, most striking is newcomer Rose Leslie as a kooky (or psychotic?) arts student from the Islands with pre-Raphaelite hair.
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