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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.
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One of the great mysteries of TV in the last few years is the incomprehensible lack of noise around AMC s
The Terror. Produced by Ridley Scott, it landed in the US in 2018, where its viewing figures dwindled almost as quickly as the crew of the real-life expedition into the Arctic wastes on which it was based, and it never made it over to a UK channel.
Until now! BBC2 has sent the icebreakers in to free it and it s showing on Wednesday nights for the next couple of months. It makes perfect sense: it s a seafaring period novel adaptation (based on 2007 s