TV tonight: Micky Flanagan gives viewers the backstage treatment
9pm, Sky One
Cockney comic Micky Flanagan gives viewers the backstage treatment at his 2017 sellout An’ Another Fing tour in this documentary. Culminating in a run at the O2 in London, it has since become one of the world’s biggest comedy tours, and this film Posted 2020-12-18, Go to Source The Observer
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After a year to forget, 40 well-known figures tell us why they’re feeling positive about the future
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Credit: Illustration: Ellice Weaver for the telegraph
Is there too much negativity in the world? If there is, it’s probably our fault – the media, that is. Famously in the hard-hearted world of journalism, “if it bleeds it leads,” and our tendency to highlight bad news may have made an objectively terrible year seem even worse.
Scary headlines hold our attention because of negativity bias – the human desire not only to seek out bad news but to give it more credence. It’s why people remain scared of plane crashes when 99.99997 per cent of commercial flights land safely, and why the majority of people think extreme poverty is rising when it’s falling fast. (In one survey, only one per cent of respondents knew that it had decreased by half in 20 years. The rest were too pessimistic.)
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Micky Flanagan: Peeping Behind the Curtain
9pm, Sky One
Cockney comic Micky Flanagan gives viewers the backstage treatment at his 2017 sellout An’ Another Fing tour in this documentary. Culminating in a run at the O2 in London, it has since become one of the world’s biggest comedy tours, and this film charts Flanagan’s slow burn success from unvarnished archive footage of him performing in London pubs to then honing his brand of straight-talking observational comedy that can connect with an arena crowd.
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