We are sooo behind with crime drama Law and Order: Special Victims Unit here in the UK. Series 5 starts here on Five on Saturday night, but in the US they’ve just finished season 8. Good job it’s back on TV so we can start catching up. Sunday’s episode is typical SVU with Detectives Stabler and Benson on the hunt for a kidnapped pregnant lady. Of course, she can’t be a healthy mum to be, where would the tense, nervous action derive from? Oh no, instead she has a rare medical condition that means that an unsupervised labour would result in death to her and her baby.

Our favourite detectives are on the case and early reviews of it say that we are in for a Stabler treat – his much neglected, feared non-existent, softer side. Yep, the big guy gets in touch with his feelings. Actor Christopher Meloni (formerly of my absolute fave drama, Oz) will have to get those water-works in full flow if he wants to keep pace with co-star Mariska Hargitay. She has just been nominated again for an Emmy award, having won the prize last year. Will she take it a second time?