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Sky’s in-house drama studio may not generate the same deafening noise as that of Netflix or Amazon Prime Video but it has a knack — often through canny co-productions — for tractor-beaming in similarly huge names.

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Idris Elba and John Ridley brought a Hollywood sheen to Guerrilla, Tim Roth and Christina Hendricks will soon be seen in modern-day neo-WesternTin Star and now, mooring its gold-plated superyacht in the marina, here comes Riviera.

Toplined by Julia Stiles, created by Oscar-winning writer Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) — based on an idea from John Banville — and sprinkled with international names (Iwan Rheon, Adrian Lester, Chocolat’s Lena Olin), this £40 million, ten-episode thriller couldn’t really have a more accomplished team behind it.

So it’s all the more disappointing they conjure something that’s so muddled, humourless and — a handful of compelling moments aside — thuddingly generic.

Still, we open with an arresting plot catalyst. As art curator Georgina Clios (Stiles) bids on a