There but for the Grace of God goes that terrible wardrobe

The old adage that it’s grim up north is not necessarily true. Particularly when you consider just how much serious crime happens on the south coast - or at least in the bit that Det Supt Roy Grace inhabits.

- Kate Wobschall on Grace series five

John Simm is back on ITV for a fifth series of Grace, as the titular downbeat detective who battles the bad guys on the south coast.

While he has good reason to look glum - his fiancée lost their baby at the end of the previous series - he’s probably heartily sick of bodies washing up under the pier.

Plus sartorially he has to compete with the ever-more flamboyant outfits of his peacocking sidekick DI Glenn Branson (Richie Campbell). Dressed to thrill in his shiny three-piece suits and blindingly colourful ties, Branson would pass for the owner of a strip club before people clocked him as a copper.

By comparison, Grace is increasingly dour both in wardrobe and demeanour, with the noteworthy exception of a pair of ludicrous sunglasses your average Roy Orbison tribute act might covet.

The first episode, Dead If You Don't, begins interestingly enough. Grace and his team must locate a bomb planted in a football stadium by an Albanian mafia group then engage in a race against time to save the life of one of the club’s major shareholders’ sons.