Crime on BBC3 & BBC4 this week

Tonight on BBC3 at 7pm, is the frightfully spiffing episode of Doctor Who, The Unicorn and the Wasp, where the Doctor and Donna meet Agatha Christie.

Also tonight but on BBC4:

8.30pm The Book Quiz with one of the panellists (contestants?) being Mark Billingham author of the DI Tom Thorne series.

10.00pm Spiral. A repeat of the the first two episodes from Season 1 of the classy French crime drama.

The Book Quiz is repeated tomorrow and Thursday. Also on Thursday at 9pm on BBC4 is a repeat of New Town (aka Purves and Pekkala).

New Town (aka Purves & Pekkala) - BBC4 tonight

As the characters' names weren't mentioned in my tv guide, I hadn't twigged until a few minutes ago that BBC4's drama New Town, which is on at 9pm tonight and 4.25am tomorrow morning, is the drama Purves and Pekkala which I blogged about back in April.

In brief from the BBC4 programme page: Drama set in Edinburgh's New Town area. Starry architects Purves and Pekkala are offered the chance to redesign a Georgian church, but when the head of Scottish Heritage falls from the church tower in a mysterious accident, it becomes a question of whether he fell or was pushed.

More information is available on the BBC Press Office page.