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Doctor Who Rating: The Serpent Rating: Daleks in Downing Street – that ought to liven up the Cabinet reshuffles. Admit it, there were moments last year when you’d have paid good money to see a couple of those murderous, upturned dustbins shrieking ‘Exterminate!’ as they chased Dominic Cummings up Whitehall. Doctor Who (BBC1) went one … Read more
Pieces Of A Woman (15) Rating: Verdict: Harrowing but compelling Yellow Rose (12) Rating: Verdict: Stand by your ma The first day of January always feels to me more personal than other days — a day for introspection and making private resolutions (just as January 8 or thereabouts is usually about breaking them). So forgive me … Read more
Shame sniggering Sara Pascoe can’t see her Cuban trip’s a fiasco: CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews weekend TV By Christopher Stevens for the Daily Mail Published: 01:56 GMT, 28 December 2020 | Updated: 01:57 GMT, 28 December 2020 Last Woman On Earth Rating: Back To The 80s Rating: Sara Pascoe on the pull is an experience to … Read more
Black Narcissus BBC1, last night Rating: For rent, spacious holiday let with spectacular views, not suitable for vertigo sufferers. Pets welcome (no responsibility is taken for tragic animal accidents). Guests are advised to keep mirrors covered at all times. No wonder His Excellency the General is having trouble finding tenants for his Himalayan palace in … Read more
A sign of superior wit! Hilarious snaps reveal some VERY cleverly-worded notices that won’t fail to catch your attention People from the US have shared the most hilarious signs they’ve come across One advert invited clients to try one woman’s ‘worst coffee’ she ever had Another sign on a house told solicitors they would be … Read more
David Jason: Britain’s Favourite TV Star Rating: Marcus Rashford: Feeding Britain’s Children Rating: All right, ladies and gents, let’s be having you, it’s Christmas quiz time. Today’s special prize is a one-legged turkey— hold it up, Rodders, let the customers have a good gander at the bird. This magnificent bit of festive poultry is free … Read more
Let Him Go (15) Verdict: Very watchable curiosity Rating: Come Away (PG) Verdict: Misbegotten whimsy Rating: One Night In Miami Verdict: No knockout Rating: For much of this year, the pandemic has cruelly kept grandparents away from their grandchildren. Well, Let Him Go is set in the early Sixties and has nothing to do with … Read more
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night’s TV: Need a comedy straight man to crack the jokes? Bob’s your uncle! By Christopher Stevens for Daily Mail Published: 02:10 GMT, 14 December 2020 | Updated: 02:10 GMT, 14 December 2020 Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Christmas Fishing Rating: Small Axe: Education Rating: Has there ever been a comedy straight … Read more
The Prom (12A) Verdict: Exuberant fun Rating: The Midnight Sky (12A) Verdict: Ponderous sci-fi drama Rating: While I wouldn’t want to overload you with positive news in the week in which the first Covid-19 vaccines were administered, The Prom offers another way out of our vale of tiers, if only in the form of two … Read more
A Christmas Carol (Bridge Theatre, London) Verdict: A delicious nut roast Rating: The first of this year’s cornucopia of Christmas Carols opened this week with the revered Simon Russell Beale as Ebenezer Scrooge at London’s Bridge Theatre. And, wholesome and nourishing though Sir Nicholas Hytner’s adaptation of Dickens’s festive tale is, it is, in all … Read more