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Dec 28, 2020
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Staithes – lovely, but little (Photo: Chris Kirk)
I suggested a few days ago that the power of The Crown (Netflix) is that it features real people and that if the characters were fictitious it would not be such a crowd-puller. A reader counters: “Game of Thrones is set in imaginary kingdoms, concerns royal families and is watched by millions.” Hmm.
Not really a fair comparison, is it? Game of Thrones, being entirely fictitious, can offer warfare, nudity, dragons and multiple disembowellings while The Crown, being based on borin ol facts, has to get by with divorce, grumbling and Trooping the Colour.
Tuesday 22 December 2020, 13:21
Every week, the Must Watch podcasters review the biggest TV and streaming shows.
However, this week Hayley Campbell and Scott Bryan share their top recommendations for what s on this Christmas.
What will you be watching? Leave your comments below.
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Scott recommends: Zog and the Flying Doctors (Christmas Day, BBC One, 2.35pm) You can t help but fall in love with Zog. He s a dragon that means well and helps his friends, but has a tendency to crash into things (spoiler: a lot). He last appeared on our screens in 2018 in an animation short, which was also nominated for an International Emmy. There s now a new film, airing just before The Queen s Speech, which features Zog and his friend Pearl, who wants to be a doctor, against her father s (also the King s) wishes.
Inside the holiday cottage where Bob Mortimer stayed for Gone Fishing Christmas special
Bookings are up and interest in the fishing village of Staithes has gone through the roof since the programme aired
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There must be this belief among TV producers that so long as you throw a celebrity at a place, all will be well, and you don’t have to come up with any new ideas, which could prove tiring.
(I once had a new idea in 1976 or thereabouts; it was exhausting and I swore, never again.) So this week we had Nadiya in America, and Gordon, Gino and Fred in Lapland, and Bob and Paul fishing the rivers around Middlesbrough – and we don’t know where Joanna Lumley is, which is a worry.
Don’t we always know where Joanna Lumley is, usually? Should we ask? Should someone knock on her door? To find out if she’s OK?