Hullo.
A tricky* choice of viewing last night. With no Gilmore Girls
to watch, not even 3rd season second time through, the options were:
* Professional Dancing on Ice The Roadshow
, one of the Entertainments at the World Biathlon (and Other Sports and Entertainments) Championships.
* Britain's Psychic Challenge The Final
, which everyone knows (especially the contestants) I'd already ruled out in favour of...
* Jackanory Night*
. Which consisted of four tales - one by Kenneth Williams, who used many of the voices from Doily Woods; Judi Dench, before she became a Dane; Alan Rickman telling a Pooh
story, which is just wrong, everyone knows those are Willie Rushton's tales; and Rik Mayall's famed telling of George's Marvellous Medicine
. But they stopped it before the grand denouement, before George fed his amazing concoction to his granny. What happened next??
goes off and reads the book
Oh, that's fantastic. Quentin Blake's illustration must have been worth seeing!
There was also a decent documentary - the bloke who drew the illustrations while he was telling the story, the Littlenose tales, and a good mention for Jackanory Playhouse
.
If there's one fault in The Hill And Beyond
, it's the terribly slim entry for the live-action dramas. It wasn't as cutting-edge or (let's be honest) as good as ITV's Dramarama
, but the run deserves more than a quarter-page dismissal. That said, any ideas if ITV Kidz (or ITV3!) will be showing classics like A Young Person's Guide to Getting Their Ball Back!
Goodbye.
posted 20 Feb 2006, 19.29 +0000
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