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Patsy Kensit and one of the Kemp brothers from Spandau Ballet climb into a hot air balloon … It sounds like the beginning of a joke, or the basis of a new cartoon strip in Viz (still going, I checked). It was in fact the plot of crime caper McDonald and Dodds (STV, Sunday). Patsy and Martin played Mick and Barbara, part of a group of five who took to the skies only for the trip to end with one person dead. Not Patsy or Martin, obviously. You don’t cast Patsy and Martin only to kill them in the first ten minutes. Think of all the brilliant acting you would miss out on, especially from, ahem, Patsy.
McDonald & Dodds is just one of the gems on today...
Detectives McDonald & Dodds are back on the case, Attenborough’s Life in Colour bursts onto our screens, and it’s a tense Bloodlands. Here’s what you shouldn’t be missing on TV tonight.
Our hand-selected recommendations for what’s on TV tonight include three TV shows, a film, live sport and the latest trending need-to-binge-on-now box set
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Pretty potent: A poison-dart frog
We all delight in the astonishing array of colours on display in the animal kingdom, but do we ever think about why a flamingo is pink or why a male mandrill has such a dazzlingly bright face? All