ON SUNDAY evening I watched the long-awaited police programme Grace, based on a novel written by Peter James.
I think I have read most of the Peter James books, especially the Roy Grace series.
The stories are always very interesting, fast moving and fairly easy to follow.
Not so with "Grace", I'm sorry to say. The programme was very slow to get going, fairly difficult to keep track of what was going on and difficult to work out who was who some of the time.
As a Brightonion I spent a lot of time recognising the different locations.
The final scenes shot in the house on the cliff top in Newhaven was of special interest to my husband. When in his thirties he used to go to the house as a friend lived there. They both had a great interest in motorbikes and used to ride together.
I am told I will be taken there to have a look as soon as we are able to go out again.
The unexpected good point about the programme was the lack of the "F… word" which Peter James uses a lot in most of his books, although not very often in the Grace series.
One of his books I once read contained 124 of the offensive word. None were relevant.
I think there are going to be more of these programmes, which is fine by me, but could the screen script have a little more activity so that we don’t have 40 winks half way through.
I did read an item in The Argus a week or two ago where John Simm (Roy Grace) said that people may be a bit disappointed as the programme was not like the book. You were correct there John!
Christine Luffman
Rotherfield Crescent
Hollingbury
Brighton
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