Flashpoint comes back to the UK!

An armed man takes a hospital ward hostage, endangering the lives of the patients.
A bank robber runs into the street, using the manageress of the branch as a shield, daring the police to shoot him.
A convicted murderer takes an off-duty policeman hostage and demands to speak to a prosecutor.

Three instances of bad people who deserve what they get from the authorities. The authorities in this case being the SRU – Strategic Response Unit – of the TV show Flashpoint. When the SRU are called in you know bad things are going on. They try and deal with situations in their own unique way, which is different to most other TV shows. While most would have the team burst in, guns blazing, taking down the bad guys, the SRU turn up and talk to them as people.
Sure they have the back-up plan of going in and shooting, but they talk first. Why are they doing what they're doing?

And that is the beautiful thing about this show. The suspects – or Subjects as Sergeant Greg Parker prefers to call them – are treated as people. As each episode unfolds we learn WHY they are doing what they're doing. What drove them to pick up a gun and point it at someone?
And by the end of the episode, if you let the story carry you along, you'll find yourself feeling the exact same emotions as the characters.

And now the United Kingdom has the chance to experience this. Finally we're getting this show in a proper time slot.
For the past few years, ITV network have had it, and have shown an episode here and there, different times, different days. Show it when they've got time. No advertising or promotion so the only viewers were those who happened to channel hop at half 1 in the morning and stumble on it.

But all that changes on March 19th. Universal channel UK (113 Sky (150 for +1), 162 VirginTV (163 +1), 8 TalkTalkTV) is showing it from the first episode. As with all shows, if you haven't seen it before I would recommend giving it a couple of episodes to get used to it. If you're not enjoying it by the end of the bank robber episode then I'll never bother you again :)