TV series recommendation: Professor T

Originally a Belgian series, this UK remake stars Ben Miller as the uptight hero of the UK series: Professor Jasper Tempest. You might know Ben Miller from the first series of TV crime series Death in Paradise. He was Richard Poole, an equally uptight character.

You might also recognise the actor playing his mother: Frances de la Tour, who was Ruth Jones in the classic 70s sitcom Rising Damp and, for younger audiences, Madame Olymp Maxine in the Harry Potter film series.

The poor man has to put up with not-so-bright students and his OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), not to mention his overbearing mother, a drip of a boss, and a secretary who is unusual to say the least. His ex-wife (one wonders how they ever got married in the first place) is a police officer. He is called in by the police to assist with a case and he basically never stops helping. Oh, and there is some mystery about his father's death when he was a child. He keeps having flashbacks and his mother is very anxious about him uncovering the truth...

The episodes are all very scenic as the series is set in Cambridge. If you like McDonald & Dodds, you'll like this.

Bennet Evan Miller and his on-screen mum Frances de la Tour: