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Saturday’s TV, by Chris Bennion
Spiral
BBC Four, 9pm/10pm
Who can forget the sight of Gilou (Thierry Godard) clutching that giant stuffed panda in a hospital car park as Laure (Caroline Proust) did a runner at the end of season six? Things have moved on as we launch — spectacularly — into season seven of the compulsive French crime drama. Laure is on sick leave being treated for depression in a police rehab centre, Judge Roban (Philippe Duclos) is back at work after his cancer surgery and Gilou, who is now in charge of his own police team (minus, of course, the sadly departed Tintin), has taken up jogging. But a double homicide in a Chinese