Must say that I simply had to tell all my friends in the UK who do not have access to satellite TV that FINALLY Castle will be available on 'normal' TV, our Channel 5.

They have been promoting the living daylights out of it already, watched a couple of shows on 5 on Saturday and almost every commercial break (at least every other) had the 30 second promo in it.

Starting Friday 17 June at 9pm (now that The Mentalist is finished in that slot)

They are still promoting it very well on Channel 5 and earlier in the week I read two other pretty positive reviews, one last Sunday in a more upmarket paper The Independent, the review is at the bottom, the last two paragrpaphs, most of the article is regarding a programme on another channel earlier that week: http://www.independent.co.uk/a…..99542.html

"More death came with the start of American series Castle, mercifully of the fictional kind. The wildly talented Nathan Fillion plays the eponymous crime author Richard Castle, who is swept up in a police investigation into a series of murders based on the kills in his books.

There really seems nothing new here: the plot is clichéd, but not quite as badly as some of the lines. ("Who are you?" asks a detective to a corpse.) It's impossibly glossy and occasionally cheesy. So why is it so watchable? Well, those clichés are so bad that it in fact turns into brilliant parody; some lines are absolute gold and Fillion is, simply, magnetic. He has the film-star looks but he's not afraid to come the fool, and, in the words of Stana Katic, who plays the detective-soon-surely-to-be-his-love-interest, he's "like a nine-year-old on a sugar rush". It's CSI meets Murder, She Wrote meets Californication without the fornication. For a Friday wind-down, it's pretty darn good."

and again in one called The Yorker: http://www.theyorker.co.uk/new…..tItem11681