New Street Law. It’s three words the TV listings industry are learning to dread as, on Wednesday, it was dropped from the schedules yet again. By my reckoning, that’s the fourth time this has happened. Originally it was due last August, then September, then week two this year… and then week four. Now we’re told it’ll be with us some time in February.

For the PR company hired by the BBC to publicise it, the whole thing must be turning into a nightmare. With numerousNSL features scrapped since August, I can imagine there’ll be few magazines trusting enough to yet again paste up those pages with John Hannah squinting at camera in his open-necked shirt.