The scene when 11-year-old  Danny Latimer’s murderer was revealed was perhaps one of British TV’s last watercooler moments.
The scene when 11-year-old  Danny Latimer’s murderer was revealed was perhaps one of British TV’s last watercooler moments. The stellar duo of DI Alec Hardy ( David Tennant) and DS Ellie Miller ( Olivia Colman) were thrust together in a Dorset coastal community and forced to put their differences aside when a local boy was found dead at the bottom of a cliff. Writer Chris Chibnall’s creation was both a Nordic noir-tinged whodunit and a devastating portrayal of collective grief. Two follow-up series didn’t hit the same heights but for a while back there, Broadchurch bordered on a national obsession. Read our Broadchurch review