Here's something to warm the cockles: a fa-la-la-ing BBC2 trailer.
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It's not often Mock the Week gladdens the heart but the sound of Gareth Malone's newest recruits trilling over Dara O Briain would surely make even Scrooge smile. Clips of the Christmas specials of University Challenge and Never Mind the Buzzcocks also receive a choral backing track.
Tonight is the first instalment of Gareth Malone's new series, in which he teaches a new group of military wives to commemorate the outbreak of the First World War. Read More...
Inspired by the Russian Empire of the early 1800s, Bardugo's fantasy world includes a range of magical people known as Grisha, a mysterious barrier called the Shadow Fold, and several other concepts that those who haven't read the books might initially find hard to get their heads round.
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In the novels, the Grisha are people born with the ability to manipulate matter in its most basic form, practicing a study called the Small Science – that is crucially not the same as magic. Read More...
The good news for del Toro devotees is that although the story of the wooden boy has been adapted for the screen many times before in myriad different forms – including a dire "live-action" Disney remake earlier this year – this stop-motion version is enough of a departure from previous films to stand on its own, with the director's unmistakable stamp visible in just about every frame.
This is a wondrous, poetic adaptation full of charm and darkness in equal measure – in other words, more or less exactly what you'd want from a film titled Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. Read More...
