Lewis Wins

It is inevitable. During bank holiday weekends there are some half-decent programmes which clash on different channels.

This evening, while the 2010 World Snooker Championship, between Graeme Dott and Neil Robertson, predominates BBC2, Series Four of Lewis commences on ITV1 HD with The Dead of Winter, the setting a stately home with surrounding parkland, lake, summer-house and great characters. Joining Kevin Whately and Laurence Fox is a star-studded cast including Clare Holman and Rebecca Front; and guest stars Sophie Ward, Alan Davies, Rupert Graves, Nathaniel Parker, Diana Quick, Robert Hardy, Timothy West, John Sessions, Niamh Cusack, Nicholas Farrell, Juliet Aubrey and Stella Gonet.

I expect I'll watch the snooker till eight-thirty, when Lewis begins; then switch back at ten-thirty. The snooker does continue on Monday, the May Day Holiday, after all.