Ella Maisy Purvis excels as a chic and uncompromising criminologist; the 2005 bomb attacks still feel raw in a powerful docuseries; someone’s accent is all at sea in a stylish Cornish thriller; and a truly wild west

Patience (Channel 4) | channel4.com
7/7: The London Bombings (BBC Two) | iPlayer
Playing Nice (ITV1) | itv.com
American Primeval (Netflix)

The eponymous lead in the Channel 4 crime drama Patience is autistic, and so is the actor playing her, Ella Maisy Purvis. In fact, all the neurodiverse characters in the series are played by neurodiverse actors, which must be a first on mainstream UK television, and long overdue.