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The new ITV drama gets a bit swamped under clumsy exposition and repeated climate crisis plot points

We've just seen widespread flooding across England thanks to Storm Henk, while a few days ago the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology announced that July to December last year was the wettest six months on record in the UK.

So it could almost seem a bit crass for one of our main terrestrial TV channels to start showing a drama series called After The Flood (ITV, Weds, 9pm).

However, the flooding itself is merely the Macguffin that gets our action going in what turns out to be a crime thriller centred around the discovery of a mysterious body in the lift of an underground car park.

After The Flood review: This new ITV crime drama has a knotty mystery at its centre, but ends up getting swamped