And yet it was proof – if proof were still needed – of the impressive range of his co-star, Walker.
It was because Last Tango and River and Unforgotten had all been on, it just so happened, when I arrived…
On BBC1, Nicola Walker was ostensibly playing a police detective in Abi Morgan’s series River, while, over on ITV, Walker was simultaneously portraying a police detective in Unforgotten – a somewhat more conventional whodunit about ‘cold case’ murder squad officers.
And then early in the new year Walker returns to our screens in a fresh series of Unforgotten.