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Richard Curtis's Christmas Actually raises the ghost of ropey light-entertainment past by Brian Logan

Festive variety show hosts Sanjeev Bhaskar and Jayde Adams are stodgier than Christmas dinner, with all the chemistry of a broken Bunsen burner To those of us of a certain age, few things are more Christmassy than variety. It's the cultural memory of Morecambe and Wise on Christmas Day, or Christmas with Val Doonican (ask your mums), or The Two Ronnies setting the sketches aside while David Essex sings A Winter's Ta…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM on December 10, 2023

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