It begins with the assassination of a skittish civil servant, who may or may not have found out something about the mysterious recent death of the Chinese ambassador to the UK. Sniped on the South Bank — in a glittering,

Gay British actor Ben Whishaw, who was previously married to husband Mark Bradshaw for a decade, is the star of the new six-episode queer spy thriller, Black Doves. The new series, which is dropping tomorrow (5 December),