Byline: Iain McKay; Angus Holland; Rochelle Siemienowicz; Jill Stark

CRITIC'S CHOICE REVIEWS: OUTLAWS; THE THING; AMERICAN CHOPPER: BILLY JOEL BIKE; A WORLD WITHOUT THIEVES; BARBIE IN THE 12 DANCING PRINCESSES TOP PICK OUTLAWS Tuesday 10pm, UK-TV ** Criminal defence lawyer Bruce Dunbar (Phil Daniels) is no bleeding heart. Unlike some legal-aid briefs who want to change the world by saving the criminal fraternity from themselves, one soul at a time, this Cockney wide-boy treats the petty shoplifters, drunk drivers and burglars he represents like goods on a production line. In his haste to get them processed by the magistrates court, Dunbar dispenses with the niceties, ramps up the cynicism and frequently breaks the rules. On the other side of the courtroom is ball-breaking prosecution lawyer Sarah Beckenham (Georgia McKenzie), who is equally jaded in her view of the legal system and the criminals who inhabit it. She is no sufferer of fools - as Dunbar puts it, "She's destroyed more male egos than public school." The death of Dunbar's partner at the start of the first episode prepares the way for wide-eyed new boy Theo Gulliver (Ray Emmett-Brown) - the perfect antidote to a seedy world in desperate need of some blind optimism. Theo, with his sheltered upbringing and middle-class guilt, sees himself as more social worker than solicitor, and is...