Has anyone seen this?

It's a new program on BBC one.

It's good. Premise is that a scientist is using a secure connection to a satellite to watch the sun during a period of high activity (solar flares and what not). He's on a computer that isn't connected to the net or anything.

He suddenly receives a download of 8 images that seem to show an accident of some sort and one contains a mobile phone showing the date and time of 18 hours from now.

Police team comes in to try and solve what is going to happen in the future and stop it from happening.

It's really good, fast paced, good acting, worth a watch. Not too sci-fi either. Just police trying to solve a mystery.

I have seen the two episodes and I like it. It is a very different concept from an ordinary police drama, but at the end of the day, it is a watchable cop show with a weird twist.

I’m liking it too. I think I have to “settle in” with it - police dramas, even with a twist, are so common I find myself scraping them off my boots after a walk across the green.

I think there is enough there to keep me interested, and I think episode 2 has set up a possible problem for the team in future episodes.

Oh, as per Twitter, the director, Simon Cellan-Jones is the brother of Rory C-J, the BBC News’ tech correspondent.

Yup, the GF and I are both enjoying Paradox.

Back in September they recorded a car chase scene for Paradox right outside our offices on a bit of wasteland in Salford Quays (must be in a later episode). They took over the whole area for two days, stopping us getting in and out of the car park and we had to move all our cars out of shot for them. Major PITA - the production crew said they'd bring us some wine/beers for the trouble, but nothing arrived (surprise, surprise). Still, it made a change from watching the usual Manchester scallies joyriding stolen cars in that area, we got a chance to see how the professionals do it, heh heh!

What spoilt it for me was their choice of using the Imperial War Museum North (also just down the road from us) as the building the guy works in - it's possibly the most recognisable and well-known building in Manchester, next to The Lowry across the ship canal, so that was a bit of an obvious choice really and I couldn't get that out of my head as I was watching it after that.

Despite that, the first episode was okay - makes a change from the usual detectives drama. Not seen the second one yet.