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Great minds being what they are, Lights Up: Sitting (BBC4) is the second programme this year to explore the personalities behind portraits.
Last month, comedian Jenny Eclair presented Drawers Off on Channel 4, where amateur artists took it in turns to disrobe and sit for a life class competition.
As they sketched, painted or posed, the contestants chatted away. Much more than skin was revealed.
Actress Katherine Parkinson, of Humans and The IT Crowd, tackled the same theme in her first play, Sitting (BBC4) part of the Lights Up series of theatre productions staged under lockdown rules.
Parkinson played Mary, a sad-eyed, sardonic single mother whose one escape from loneliness was the afternoon she spent each week, posing as a model for a well-to-do painter.
TV reviews: Some welcome light relief amid the gloom of morose murder-mysteries Independent.ie 07/03/2021 Eilis O Hanlon
What possessed BBC Four’s schedulers some years ago to decide that the best way to unwind at the weekend would be to watch morose Scandinavians kill equally morose Scandinavians, thus giving even more morose Scandinavian detectives something to investigate between musing on the ultimate meaninglessness of existence? Whatever it was, viewers have been grateful ever since.
The latest is Finnish drama
Man in Room 301. The premise is intriguing. Two-year-old Tommi was killed on a family holiday to Greece 12 years ago. A young boy who lived locally was blamed.
Patsy Kensit and one of the Kemp brothers from Spandau Ballet climb into a hot air balloon … It sounds like the beginning of a joke, or the basis of a new cartoon strip in Viz (still going, I checked). It was in fact the plot of crime caper McDonald and Dodds (STV, Sunday). Patsy and Martin played Mick and Barbara, part of a group of five who took to the skies only for the trip to end with one person dead. Not Patsy or Martin, obviously. You don’t cast Patsy and Martin only to kill them in the first ten minutes. Think of all the brilliant acting you would miss out on, especially from, ahem, Patsy.
Updated: 5 Mar 2021, 7:42
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FAIR play to those sly old dogs at ITV. They’ve discovered something Gordon Ramsay is worse at than hosting BBC1’s Bank Balance.
It took them less than 72 hours to do it as well.
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Fair play to those sly old dogs at ITV. They’ve discovered something Gordon Ramsay is worse at than hosting BBC1’s Bank BalanceCredit: Rex Features
All they needed was Saturday Night Takeaway’s Read My Lips game, a pair of headphones to muffle the noise and some bloke in Llanelli called Jamie bellowing mystery food items at Gordon via Zoom.
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