So what are we giving The Thumbs Up to on the telly at the moment? SilkWell-constructed, gripping courtroom drama with the excellent Maxine Peake. Think we're going to see a lot more of the brooding Nick Slade, who plays her kleptomaniac  'pupil'. Like her, he is from a Northern unmoneyed background and his slightly bumbling courtroom pleas contrast with his adversary's who is the other pupil.