Michael Kenneth Williams as The Wire's Omar Little

Tonight BBC2 starts showing the best TV series you can watch, The Wire. In a major scheduling blunder the series will be show every weekday at 11:20pm so that’s 60 episodes in 12 weeks solid, however if you only ever watch one thing on TV then this is it – and stick with it – The Wire makes no concessions to the viewer in its portrayal of Baltimore; you won’t understand half what’s said to start with (and you’ll never understand everything) but by the end of episode three you’ll be hooked.