THIS week saw the unveiling of the BBC's shiny new costume drama.

It has film star types in it - looking super serious and glamorous - and everyone mumbles a bit so SS-GB must be good.

And there was a lot of positive buzz on the various social media threads I follow so all this is very hopeful for the five-part series which also stars Hollywood actress Kate Bosworth.

She and Sam Riley, who plays the male lead opposite her, look gorgeous and the whole look of the programme is very appealing.

But there was a lot to take on board in the first episode and I kind of got a bit lost halfway through.

It left me with a lot of questions which perhaps I shouldn't have been having so early on in the drama.

Who was double-crossing who ? who was good ? who was bad ? why weren't they all speaking German if the premise was they had won the Second World War ?

And, above all else really, why did Sam Riley decide to adopt a Batman-esque way of speaking ?

I have seen him in a number of films and television programmes, including Control where he plays Joy Division front man Ian Curtis, and this is not his normal speaking voice.

Not having read the source novel from which SS-GB originates I am not aware of if there is a passage in which the character is described as being gravelly-voiced.

But it even if it does, it got quite annoying about half-way through and wasn't strictly necessary in setting up the idea he was a troubled, and conflicted man.

We get it Sam, give your poor throat a bit of a rest.

Kate looked lovely, and is probably a wrong 'un, but I am not really sure who she actually was.

I liked it enough to want to watch it again next week though and in these days when we can watch a whole host of things at any hour of the day, that is surely half the battle.

Thankfully I only have to watch the Brit Awards (because I have a ten-year-old) once a year.

Major plus point this year was the lovely Emma Willis and Dermot O'Leary presenting. Nothing flash just classy professionalism.

Dermot even let rip with a swear word, two minutes after the watershed, the cheeky devil.

They then dubbed out several sections of Skepta's performance, presumably due to bad language, which seemed a bit odd.

And finally - when will Little Mix have earned enough money to buy proper clothes ?