This is what Alice in Wonderland might have been like had she gone to Glasgow rather than down the rabbit hole, and drank too much of that fortified wine that comes in the funny purple bottles rather than funny tea. Kevin McKidd excelled in a nightmarish ramble through the underbelly of the Western infirmary.
A prestige BBC Scotland drama
BBC2 is to broadcast a new series by Silver River on making the most of second-hand and antique furniture, with tie-in from Octopus brand Miller’s.
Grow Your Own Drugs for Christmas? (BBC 2, 8pm) is one of those aspirational programmes that TV companies put on from time to time, that make you dream of jacking it all in and going to live off the land, or something….
By Sian Brewis Leicester Mercury
This landmark series will see the ever popular Kevin McCloud following in the footsteps of the most notorious aristocrats, artists and architects of ‘the Grand Tour’.
GROW YOUR OWN CHRISTMAS is a one-off special that will see ethnobotanist James Wong show us how to make everything from presents to tree decorations, hangover cures to indigestion relief.
Silver River has hired former Endemol exec Shaun Parry to bolster its drive into scripted content, as its first-ever drama approaches TX in Scotland.
Off By Heart, BBC2 9pm, The Observer
An hour and a half long film about a children’s poetry competition? “Really, oh, great, thanks,” was my reaction on landing this preview. But – and this is an important but – this isn’t a precocious parent’s camcorder movie stretched to cover a culture-light Friday on the [...]
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