Back on the beat!

Martin Freeman reprises his role as a response officer who’s battling to hold his life together…

NEW THE RESPONDER Sunday, 9pm, BBC1 Drama (box set, BBC iPlayer) Liverpool cop Chris Carson is back on the night shift as The Responder returns to BBC1 for a much-anticipated second run. We pick up the troubled response officer’s story six months after the end of the first series, as he struggles to cope with his wife Kate (MyAnna Buring) moving in with his colleague, Raymond Mullen (Warren Brown). Yet, as his life continues to spin out of control, the thing that terrifies him the most is the thought of losing touch with his young daughter Tilly (Romi Hyland-Rylands). ‘Fatherhood is a big theme of this year’s series,’ says Martin Freeman, who plays the struggling cop. ‘Chris isn’t going to be father of the year, but he’s trying his best in difficult circumstances. He knows his…

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