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On 2025-04-15 12:30:58 +0000, Daniel70 said:
> On 15/04/2025 9:02 am, Your Name wrote:
> 
> <Snip>
> 
>>>>>> - Ludwig
>>>>> 
>>>>> Seen a couple .. but missed the first Ep so don't know the
>>>>> "back-story".
>>>> 
>>>> A police detective goes missing and his twin brother (a newspaper 
>>>> crossword setter) comes in to help the detective's wife find out what
>>>> happened, which he does by pretending to be his brother to go into
>>>> the police station and ends up having to solve other crimes while
>>>> looking for clues about his brother.
>>> 
>>> So in the First Ep, did "we" see what happened to the Real Detective?? I
>>> missed it.
>> 
>> Nope. It starts with Ludwig being contacted by his sister-in-law asking 
>> him to come for a visit because they haven't seen Ludwig in a while, 
>> but it's a ruse to get him to come help her investigate what has 
>> happened to her husband. Even by the end of the season we don't know 
>> what happened to the detective, other than he seems to have gone into 
>> hiding without telling his family. A second season is being made.
> 
> Looks like our local TV Station has gone back to the start ....
> 
> Quote
> Puzzle setter John "Ludwig"€™ Taylor'€™s life is upended when his 
> identical twin, DCI James Taylor, disappears. John reluctantly assumes 
> his identity in order to track him down.
> End Quote.

I wouldn't trust what TV stations put in the blurbs on their guides 
(printed, website, or on-screen).

Sky TV in New Zealand has had the exact same blurb from an old last 
season episode for *every* episode of Casualty since Christmas! Thanks 
to them we missed a few episodes at the start of the year before I got 
suspicious and recorded one, and discovered it was actually a new 
episode.   :-(