There's a whole raft of cliches surrounding legal drama - the 'win at all costs' female, the maverick that gets results, the in-house shenanigans... So it was good to see that The Innocence Project (Thursday, 8pm) was coming at the genre from a different angle - bright young law students taking on cases no-one else will touch with a barge pole. But is this initial gimmick the only thing going for it?

Well, no actually. Completely unbelievable but ultimately a lot of fun, this is certainly the Hustle of the legal drama world - all snappy camera work (for the first half at least... they seemed to forget to keep it up), groovy soundtracks and a good bit of West Wing-style corridor walking - though the uni setting ain't no pretty White House, admittedly. If you're wanting tension and long dry speeches then you're in the wrong place. (Actually you're in the right place, you just need to stick around until The State Within at 9pm.) But anyway, if instead what you want is young, good looking people being generally brilliant, then let's meet the team!

At the top of the Innocence Project tree, bringing justice to those who have been forgotten by the legal system, is Professor Jon Ford (Lloyd Owen). He's charismatic, he's motivational, he's... smug as hell, actually, but we're meant to overlook that because he's on a noble mission, and always does the right thing by his students. Then there's bubbly Northern blonde Sarah (Christine Bottomley) who knows pretty much everything about everything, Andrew (Stephen Graham), the cop on a sabbatical who does the leg work while everyone talks, and Adam (Luke Treadaway), who may look about twelve, but wears incredibly cool retro clothes and is really rather sweet. Providing the possible love story are Nick (Oliver James) and Beth (Ruth Bradley). He's a cocky but lovable ladies man, she's sensible and driven - will it ever work? I'd go for probably, after a few false starts.

Yes, they all sit around plucking impossibly complicated epiphanies out of the air, yes they work everything out before we've even got to grips with who's meant to have done what to whom in the first place, and yes they go to cool house parties and listen to The Fratellis. But you know what? They're not half as annoying as all that makes them sound. It's fluff, sure, but it's entertaining fluff. [annawaits]