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KATHRYN FLETT'S My TV Week: Don't cancel Douglas, it's (almost) BRILLIANT
KATHRYN FLETT: Written by Steven ( Doctor Who , Sherlock ) Moffat, this never-less-than-intriguing four-parter about cancel culture certainly got off to a lickety-split start.
Karen Gillan is his (inevitably younger, certainly savvier) co-presenter, Madeline Crow, and Ben Miles their slippery producer/boss, Toby – with a magnificent Sir Simon Russell Beale as Douglas's agent, Bently. With its knowing take on both social and 'legacy' media, celebrity takedowns, #BeKind and #MeToo culture wars, and the potential for men of a certain age to be wrong-footed by Millennial/Gen Z mores, the first two episodes were mostly broad and bouncy laugh-out-loud satire – CB: 'None of us drink, actually.' Snow – the ever-enthusiastic guide – was gifted behind-the-scenes access to the restoration works too, so for anyone who dreams of seeing the extraordinary Army on home turf this engrossing doc is the next best thing to ticking it off the Bucket List.
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