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A+E Networks UK and Sky have commissioned The Royal Mob from Nutopia for the Sky HISTORY channel.

Shrek and Aladdin writer Terry Rossio adapted the book for screen.

Dawn French has revealed that she couldnt hug her husband in the first lockdown and they had to sleep separately because he was a front line worker.

How the Production Guild of Great Britain is adapting to improve representation and strengthen skills for production professionals

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Loading the player... WATCH: Dawn French talks all things her new book Because Of You "Its remarkable really, its about the very real day, the true happening when Roald Dahl aged six, met the real 60 year old Beatrix Potter.  He had a tough old time Roald when he was younger, his father died and his sister died. "And he asked his mother if he could go and visit Peter Rabbit, so she took him to Beatrix Potters garden, and Im sure Beatrix was a grumpy old thing who had many children running into...

Worzel Gummidge: Saucing Nancy – BBC One, 5.55pm Mackenzie Crook’s reinterpretation of scatterbrained scarecrow Worzel Gummidge is one of the great television moments of the past 12 months, so it is good to have a new adventure for Christmas. This time, Worzel visits a scrapyard with Susan and John and overhears the grumbling of a foul-mouthed old friend – the carved ship’s figurehead, Saucy Nancy.  Nancy would like nothing more than to return to the sea, and it falls to our heroic tri...

Worzel Gummidge: Saucing Nancy – BBC One, 5.55pm Mackenzie Crook’s reinterpretation of scatterbrained scarecrow Worzel Gummidge is one of the great television moments of the past 12 months, so it is good to have a new adventure for Christmas. This time, Worzel visits a scrapyard with Susan and John and overhears the grumbling of a foul-mouthed old friend – the carved ship’s figurehead, Saucy Nancy.  Nancy would like nothing more than to return to the sea, and it falls to our heroic tri...

Maureen OHara and John Wayne in The Quiet Man It’s the standout terrestrial channel offering on a Christmas Day which, bar a couple of nice new animations, Angela’s Christmas Wish (RTE1, 5.15pm) and Quentin Blake’s The Clown (Channel 4, 7.40pm), is more or less a repeat of last year’s. All the usual suspects are here: Strictly Come Dancing (BBC1, 4.45pm); Britain’s Got Talent Christmas Spectacular (UTV 8pm); Call the Midwife (BBC1, 7.40pm), and Mrs Brown’s Boys (RTE1, 9.45pm; BBC1, ...

Review Roald and Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse, review: a sweet tale of a very unlikely meeting 3/5 This inventive drama, that imagined Roald Dahl paying Beatrix Potter a visit, lacked a sprinkling of Christmas magic 24 December 2020 • 9:45pm Dawn French stars as Beatrix Potter Credit: Sky The disclaimer at the beginning of Roald and Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse (Sky One) explained: “Based on some real events… and some other entirely made up ones too.” Perhaps Peter ...