Professor T — Sundays, 9 pm, ITV

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

Is anybody else going to give this a go tonight?

Just lost interest in it

It is pants!

What was the thing with the dancers in the corridor?
Not sure I've got the gist of this yet.

I'm enjoying it.
The crimes seem almost secondary to the character building. Loved the secretary eavesdropping at the door and falling in.

It is very bizarre but I think it's growing on me. I want the two young police officers to get together (again) if nothing else.

I thought it was spectacularly bad . No depth to the story line or characters and no suspense or build up to the resolution .
And the cheer leaders etc well v v bizarre and didnt help the cause at all.
Watched 2 now and wont be watching any more !

The student accommodation looked weird to me: I thought the first woman was going into a workplace at night instead of going home. And it was almost empty when you’d expect lots of students coming and going, doors open etc. Then a woman being attacked in the doorway of her room, screaming and fighting for her life in the corridor — and still no one comes out of their room? Too implausible.

It didn't really look like accommodation - I thought it was the department or something; very few accommodation blocks would have toilet blocks like that for residents (possibly for visitors), and not so deserted. It seemed like it was meant to be a deserted night-time lab or department block of some sort.

I agree, SCMocha, the first one looked like a university department, but I thought she was meant to be going home? Maybe I misunderstood where she was. The third one was definitely a student going to her room, but it looked more like a big hotel and again was deserted.

In my memory, student rooms had such thin walls you could hold conversations with the person in the next room, let alone hear them screaming in the corridor!

I loved the original Belgian version. This doesn't work at all for me so far and I think it is because I find the 2 young detectives totally unconvincing and unprofessional. In the Belgian series they were much more likeable and professionally credible.

I loved the Belgian original, so so interesting and well acted, great characters that you cared about.

This version: 2 episodes in and I don't think I'll bother with any more. Just wooden, and I found none of the police characters likeable at all.

I remember the Belgian one had a bit of "will they, won't they?" between Donkers and Dan, but they've already bonked in this version so that element of intrigue is gone right from the start.

The Belgian series sounds much better. Can someone tell me its name and what channel/ streaming service I can find it on, please?

@polyhymnia

The Belgian series sounds much better. Can someone tell me its name and what channel/ streaming service I can find it on, please?

It’s also called Professor T and is on All4.

Just watching the latest one. The whole thing about the family having to contribute to "assisted living" is nonsense. Sophie would have a financial assessment and be asked to contribute from her benefits and have money left over for day-to-day living. She would get housing benefit and that would go towards her accommodation. Social services/NHS would pay the balance

Has this got any better?

Yes, it has. If you like it. It's clearly a rather marmite programme, as was the Belgian one.

I quite enjoyed the first episode but it's gone downhill rapidly since then. Why, oh why, does every crime solver have to have some quirk or foible? I hated Death in Paradise when we had Ralf Little's allergies and Kris ?? - can't remember his surname - and his bumbling.

It began to go weird with the random dancers and all the dogs so I think I'll stick out this series but avoid a second one.

@Davros

Just watching the latest one. The whole thing about the family having to contribute to "assisted living" is nonsense. Sophie would have a financial assessment and be asked to contribute from her benefits and have money left over for day-to-day living. She would get housing benefit and that would go towards her accommodation. Social services/NHS would pay the balance

Agree. This enraged me!!

The surreal episodes are in the Belgian series. I think it represents Jasper zoning out when he finds it hard to cope. The original does feel quite Belgianly surreal. Perhaps that doesn't travel.

I find it so dull when people get all into 'but that wouldn't happen; I know because I'm an X'. Nobody cares, no body cares. It is story telling. Showing off that 'you' know, man it's dull.

BstShitCrazywoman I'm glad it's not just me. I agree that entertainment is not meant to be literal, hence the talking fish etc, but the total misrepresentation of a pivotal point, nah

Liked the Belgian one, not keen on trying out this one!

The brown colour palette is really irritating me.

I've given it a good go and watched about three or four episodes as it's a bit quirky. I've finally reached the conclusion that it's just crap!