Review of Crime Traveller

"Crime Traveller" is a clever little TV show with two likable leads: its main problem is that it's clever in always the same, somewhat self-defeating way. It operates under the concept of time-travelling as a closed loop, in which you can't change the past, and whatever you do trying to change it is already embedded into the past. This limits the possibilities of the show, and after a while the pattern of its twists becomes familiar: when some "unknown figures" are present and/or run from the scene of the crime, it will be one or two of the leads. And then there is the huge plot hole of them having to return to the time machine at the exact same moment they began their "trip", but their "earlier" selves are never there! A few years later, another show came and combined time-travelling with mystery-solving in considerably more open and exciting ways; it was called "Tru Calling", and was also cancelled prematurely. I could see "Crime Traveller" continuing, but sooner or later it would have to break free(er) from its self-imposed limitations (edit: after watching an interview with the show's creator Anthony Horowitz, which is included as a DVD extra, I think he agrees with me!). **1/2 out of 4.