New 'Rebus' Not Worth Our Time. We Turned It Off After 25 Minutes. One More BBC Drama Flop - It Happens Too Often.

Rebus (BBC1) 

Rating: *

DI John Rebus is a bad man trying to be a good copper. Fans of the novels by Sir Ian Rankin understand this, and we try to forgive him his violence, his drunken moods, his cruel sarcasm and his disloyalty.

But the bestselling books have defeated every previous attempt to translate them to television. Ken Stott and John Hannah have both tried, and been unrecognisable as Rebus. (C. Stevens.)