Bill Nighy earnings as Charles Paris: unsuccessful acting professional, bad husband and dipsomaniac. Desperately looking for function, having been kicked from the marital home, Charles jumps at playing a lacking property developer inside a criminal offense reconstruction programme. However the missing person case soon turns to murder when severed body parts begin to seem.

Television rankings soar as the general public tune in to find every gory details of the case. The raging egos and jealous manoeuvrings of the makers, presenters and the authorities provide a long list of suspects for Charles as he items together a macabre jigsaw puzzle of murder.

Expenses Nighy, Suzanne Burden and Jon Glover are among the superstar cast in this enjoyable secret, dramatised simply by Jeremy Front.

Written by Jeremy Front, predicated on the novel by Simon Brett.