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New Model Agency review: Lacking in focus, this fashion-shoot documentary is a garbled mess, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS


CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: From the start, New Model Agency (Ch4) told us next to nothing about what the Zebedee agency is and why we should bother with this documentary.

You don't need to know the epic novel by James Clavell, or remember the original TV version with Richard Chamberlain and Toshiro Mifune, to be swept away by the spectacular historical adventure Shogun (Disney+). A former Japanese prisoner-of-war, Clavell wrote his 1,100-page bestseller half a century ago, and the storytelling is dated: heroes and villains are all men, women exist chiefly as love interest. In Shogun (Disney+) Cosmo Jarvis (pictured), a man with a touch of the Richard Burtons in his voice, plays English adventurer John Blackthorne, shipwrecked and taken prisoner by a local samurai chieftain

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