Miami is a cool place to make TV shows. Take Miami Vice or CSI: Miami. Both make full use of the beautiful beaches, fast cars and nubile young bodies on display, all designed to momentarily take your mind off the fact that you’re watching the box in a pokey flat in Hackney – or is that just me? Anyway, all these heavenly bodies take some work and that’s where Nip / Tuck comes in.

This gripping TV drama follows the lives of two Miami plastic surgeons and best friends, Sean McNamara and Christian Troy. When they’re not slicing, sucking and generally rebuilding their rich and beautiful patients they’re dealing with their turbulent home lives. Sean suffers a difficult marriage with sexy Brit Joely Richardson, whilst Christian is a self-styled Don Juan of South Beach.

Season one is available on Virgin Central from 20th February and starts with a corking episode which sees Christian operate on a Colombian drug lord who pays him in drug money. Naughty naughty.

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