When it comes to top-class office design, crime scene investigation units in the United States are clearly leading the field, with what must be some lavish spending.
It is the sort of attention to detail that helps Ted Danson's character D. B. Russell look so elegant as he solves crimes in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
That world-class interior design, happily, has also been included in the latest in the franchise, CSI: Cyber, which started on Sunday on Prime.
The CSI franchise, of course, has been something of a success, with the show about forensic scientists studying the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and crimes spawning 769 episodes as of last week.
The show is also behind what is called the ''CSI effect'', in which juries develop unreasonable expectations of forensics from what they have seen on the show.
Since 2000 there has been CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CSI: Miami, and CSI: NY.
Like a good quality chain restaurant, they offer fare that can mostly be relied upon fulfil one's expectations.
CSI: Cyber stars Patricia Arquette.
That's not Rosanna Arquette, who sent the hearts of impressionable and romantic young men aflutter in the 1980s, when she starred opposite Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan.
Rosanna is Patricia's sister.
Patricia Arquette is Agent Avery Ryan in CSI: Cyber, a woman clearly dedicated to the job, whatever the hour.
Episode one began with a Baltimore baby-stealing, in which foreign voices were heard coming out of a baby camera.
Agent Ryan demanded it be given to the Cyber Division, before mincing into the cyber room, where everything is shiny and bristling with the latest in computer everything.
In modern CSI fashion, the cyber room is set within a fancy upgraded heritage building, complete with plenty of steel and glass.
Crimes cannot be solved if interior design is not of the most excellent standard.
Meanwhile, Madmen has made a welcome comeback to SoHo on Sky on Tuesdays.
Like Breaking Bad or The Wire, Madmen is up there at the very peak of television drama, providing a weekly fix of joy, or good opportunity to binge-watch.
The latest and last series sees Don Draper's world turn even more 1960s, as he negotiates his hobbies of booze and womanising, while looking as dashing as you like, and selling inspired advertising.
Droopy moustaches abound.
In more good news for television watchers with the very best taste, Game of Thrones thrusts its bloodied sword deep into the viscera of 2015, with the show known for its creative use of sex and violence back on SoHo for season five.
Our watching needs are met for the time being.
- Charles Loughrey
