Actor Stephen Tompkinson's boyhood dream of playing a detective like Columbo has come true.The Ballykissangel star is slipping into a mac to play Chief Inspector Alan Banks in Aftermath - a TV adaptation of Peter Robinson's gritty novels. Stephen, 44, said: "There is probably room for a new detective on ITV now that Morse has gone and Frost is going. I've always wanted to play a detective. I adored Columbo so I will have to wear a mac in tribute to him."
The character is a divorced dad-of-two who investigates murders in a Yorkshire market town.
