New BBC comedy drama, Death Valley, stars Timothy Spall as a reclusive actor hiding away in Wales.

The show, written by Paul Doolan, follows the young ambitious detective, DS Janie Mallowan who is desperate to solve big cases and to progress her career.

While investigating the death by apparent suicide of local property developer, Carwyn Rees, she meets retired actor John Chapel, who played her TV detective idol, Inspector Charles Caesar.

The reclusive and eccentric John believes Carwyn’s death was actually murder, and when forensics prove his theory right, Janie quietly........

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