How to Get Away with Murder; Richard E. Grant goes bed hopping in Hong Kong

It's not like I really want to kill my wife. I've never gone so far as to actually decide whether I'd do it with a brick, a boat or a bowling ball. But come on, admit it, we've all been pushed to breaking point and wanted to kill our other half at one time or another. Haven't we? Oh … just me. Sorry, honey.

I had better be careful because my wife has seen every episode of CSI more than a few times (even the ones with the ridiculously intense ginger detective), so she no doubt possesses an encyclopaedic knowledge of ingenious ways to knock me off. If I'm found pushing up daisies after a freak accident involving a faulty toaster and half a barrel of nitroglycerine then you know where to start pointing the finger. Not that you'd get much to stick if she's been taking notes from the intriguing drama series How to Get Away with Murder (TVB Pearl, Thursday at 10.40pm).

The latest drama from Shonda Rhimes (Grey's Anatomy, Scandal) begins with four twenty-somethings arguing over how best to move a dead body (haven't we all had one of those nights?) With the flip of a coin, we jump back three months to find this group of eager law students leaping at the chance to assist on murder cases alongside no-nonsense professor Annalise Keating (above, centre; Viola Davis, who earned an Academy Award nomination for her role in The Help). As the students become entangled in a web of sex and murder, the story reveals them to be not exactly as they first appeared. On the face of it, the show shouldn't work, but with a fine ensemble cast and Davis shining in the lead role, the silliness becomes deadly compelling.

In the second series of Richard E. Grant's Hotel Secrets (TVB Pearl, Wednesday at 8pm), the charming and ebullient British actor continues his exploration of excess, opulence and salacious bedtime secrets right here in our little ol' city.

Grant is travelling the world in search of palaces of bling, and begins by dining with singer/actress/everything Karen Mok Man-wai in what he describes as "the most iconic, revered and quintessentially British hotel institution on the Island" - the Mandarin Oriental, to you and me.

His rummage behind the five-star facade of the city's exclusive hotels then takes him from the cheese bar at the Four Seasons (why have I not been to a cheese bar before?) to the InterContinental and onto the HK$140,000-a-night suite at the classy Peninsula. As with any show that features Hong Kong, our host pays a visit to Sam's Tailor, then it's on to the most vertigo-inducing hotel on the planet: the Ritz-Carlton.