Last night on television:

By James Walton I suppose it had to happen eventually, and now it has. Bonekickers (BBC1) is a new drama series about a team of tough and maverick archaeologists. Their first case began last night with the shock discovery on a Somerset building site of a 14th-century Islamic coin. “We have a medieval mystery to solve,” said team leader Professor Gillian Magwilde (Julie Graham), with a firm set of the jaw, “so we start digging.” Not to be outdone in the macho archaeology talk, her University of Wessex colleague, Dr Ben Ergha (Adrian Lester), explained to intern Viv (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) that the coin had been in circulation in Jerusalem “after the Crusades went tits up”. To the team’s delight, they soon established that the site had been the scene of a massacre. And with that, they adjourned to the lab for some science, with... [read full story]