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As a headnote to the posting about comedy (3 down) we should mention the arrival of a new US comedy set in a New York Hospital and called Nurse Jackie. Our colonial cousins are extremely good at this sort of thing (we could learn from them) and this show is no exception.  BBC 2, late night - set the PVR to 'series link' and don't miss it.

From the Independent:

To say that Edie Falco was the best thing in The Sopranos is a bit, albeit only a bit, like saying that the liquorice-poached salmon is the best thing about the tasting menu at the Fat Duck: how can you pick out just one part of such a magnificent and multi-layered feast? Well, I can't comment on the Fat Duck's tasting menu – I'm still saving up – but I can at least offer a personal view that Falco's exquisitely subtle and nuanced portrayal of mobster's wife Carmela Soprano was indeed the best thing about The Sopranos, and she's back with subtlety and nuance aplenty playing the title role in Nurse Jackie, yet another US import to force us to re-examine the whiskery old notion that Britain is the rightful home of original TV drama.