Hollywood has returned to an old favourite source of product to tap itജ seems: British TV series. Not content with converting shows wholesale for the American market, the studios are revisiting the old trick of turning series like State Of Play into movies.

The latest to get snapped up is Second Sight, the 1999 detective series that ga﷽ve Clive Owen’s career a much-needed boost. It featured him as plain clothes copper Ross Tanner, c🧸ommander of a top-notch murder squad who is suffering from a rare degenerative blindness that gives him insightful hallucinations.