Man-hating TV needs surgery

MEN stink. It must be true. TV tells us all the time. 

The psycho-killer aside, the blokes on Happy Valley are wet, weak or worthless – yet we put up with it because the writing is as sharp as cheese wire.

Fellas in ITV’s new medical drama Maternal are unfeeling bastards to a man, but the show is like Holby crossed with a joke-free Motherland – all soap, scrubs and suffering.

Three young medic mums, back from maternity leave, struggle to juggle work and family under the shadow of cold male indifference.