A drama looking at the implosion of the world’s finances has been on the cards and next week, we get to tune in to Freefall (BBC Two, Tuesday, 14 July, 9pm) which is already being chattered about as being one of the best shows of the year. In it, we’ll follow Dave (played by Mamma Mia! spunk Dominic Cooper) who is a roguish, laddy mortgage broker who shows a cartoonish lack of conscience when dealing with just about everyone in the entire universe. People sign on the dottted line for mortgages they can barely afford and off he scoots, living the high life. Of course, it then comes tumbling down…

Written by Dominic Savage (Born Equal, Love + Hate), this drama goes looking at what happens to those affected by the money funk for the top of the tree to those scrabbling at the bottom.

Alongside Cooper, Aidan Gillen stars as a banker who retreats into his world of pennies and work at the expense of everything else in his life, while Joseph Mawle and Anna Maxwell Martin feature as a couple trapped in a mortgage that is crippling them.

Even a cameo from Girls Aloud’s Sarah Harding does the show no harm.

This is a very modern morality tale that, rather honestly, sees some optimism at the close, coupled with those that staring into the void… but who gets the sweet smell of hope? You’ll have to tune in to find out.