I hadn't realised that this was a four part series when I watched it's Christmas special. I might have to check the rest of it out. The Christmas special was truly bizarre, absurd TV though. It's a Charles Dickens based parody that I didn't quite understand at times while watching it. Not that it was difficult to follow, I just found myself asking "WHY?". I did enjoy it, it was just very weird and I wasn't expecting that. It stars Stephen Fry, David Mitchell & Robert Webb (Peep Show), Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd), Pauline McLynn (Father Ted, Shameless) and Johnny Vegas.
Just read the descriptions of its characters
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I don't need to explain what this is about. It's a two part feature length adaption for Sky One starring Eddie Izzard, Elijah Wood, Philip Glenister (Life on Mars) & Donald Sutherland among others. I loved it. Very impressed.
LOST CHRISTMAS was a one-off feature length special broadcast on the BBC in December and was the best bit of Christmas TV I watched. I absolutely loved it. It stars Eddie Izzard and Jason Flemyng and is about a mysterious being who has no recollection of his name or history but has the ability to find things people have lost. The film centres around many characters and what they have lost and in his quest to find out who he is and where he came from, he brings several characters individual stories together. It of course is rich in the usual Christmas sentimentality but has its darker moments also. It is definitely a modern day fairytale that I could see myself watching every Christmas. It really was quite stunning.
Very interesting documentary series from Stephen Fry about language. The origins and evolution of language, accents, slang, swearing, identity, influence, written language and the evolution of it from carvings, libraries to Twitter and a digital age. Well worth a watch!