Cyber buddies

Daniel Mays and Stephen Graham on their new cops-and-robots comedy

- VICTORIA WILSON

CODE 404

NEW WED / SKY ONE / 10PM / EP 1 of 6 / COMEDY

We love a detective show here at TV Times and Sky One’s new comedy Code 404 looks set to give the much-loved genre a fresh twist – as one of the crime-fighters happens to be a robot…

Line of Duty star Daniel Mays plays DI John Major, who’s working undercover on a sting operation alongside his partner and best mate DI Roy Carver (The Virtues’ Stephen Graham) when their cover is blown and Major is shot dead, leaving his wife Kelly (The Bletchley Circle’s Anna Maxwell Martin) devastated.

A year later, however, Major is chosen as the prototype for an experimental police artificial-lintelligence (AI) project and brought back to life! But Major 2.0 is still a ‘work in progress’ and hilarity ensues…

As TV Times arrives at Dagenham Science Park to watch the show being filmed, Daniel is in make-up. He has a prosthetic ‘microchip’ fitted to his neck each day.