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Byline: With Jane Simon

SALTING THE BATTLEFIELD (9pm BBC Two) WE'VE reached the end-game in David Hare's elegant Johnny Worricker trilogy - a modern day tale of spies and ministerial corruption held together by Bill Nighy's loose-limbed performance.

After fleeing from Turks & Caicos on a tiny fishing boat in last week's instalment, maverick MI5 agents Johnny and girlfriend Margot (Nighy and Helena Bonham Carter) are now in Europe, zig-zagging their way from one picturesque town to the next, always staying one step ahead of the spies on their trail. But Margot is growing weary of this life and wants to return to England.

End is The saga is Nighy has said he'd be happy to play Johnny Worricker for the rest of his life and the role fits him like a hand-made suit.

BELIEVE (9pm Watch) WITH Gravity Oscar-winner Alfonso Cuaron listed as co-creator as well as director of this pilot (and JJ Abrams name also attached) expectations are higher than George Clooney drifting through space.

But, Houston we have a problem, because somewhere in between the original idea and the final product, something appears to have come loose.

It starts promisingly enough as our mini heroine, a supernaturally gifted 10-year-old-girl called Bo (Johnny Sequoyah) escapes from a terrible car wreck only to pursued by a kung-fu kicking henchwoman employed by an evil billionaire (Kyle Maclachlan). But instead of making the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end, Bo's superhuman powers will make you shrug: "Is that all you got?" Nighy... Worricker concluded THE WALSHES (10pm BBC Four) COMEDY troupe Diet Of Worms - with some help from Graham Linehan - has got a little hit on its hands so although this is the final episode in its short try-out season, expect to see it back.

Tonight, the Walsh family is going out for a Thai meal - an annual tradition inspired by a single event 15 years ago.

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Publication:Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Date:Mar 27, 2014
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