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The week ahead: festive fun with killer Santas
Conrad Astley23/12/2005
THERE will be a weighty issue to consider as you digest your
turkey and mince pies this year.
The big question is of course - will David Tennant live up to the
very high expectations of viewers won over by Christopher Eccleston
earlier in the year.
This will finally be resolved as he battles the forces of evil
wearing his pyjamas in
Doctor Who: The Christmas
Invasion (Christmas Day, BBC1).
Whether or not Tennant steps comfortably into the role, we can be
guaranteed more brilliant ideas from the mind of Russell T Davies,
including sinister Santas, a killer Christmas tree and aliens who
control human minds.
For anyone who hasn't become bored rigid by Little Britain, this
Christmas will be perfect. For anyone who has, there's plenty to
back up their accusations of overkill.
Christmas Eve features the last episode in the series, while this
is followed by
Little Britain - a South Bank Show
Special (Christmas Day, ITV1).
Melvyn deciding to steer clear of Lithuanian art-house for a
one-off "low brow" show is one thing - he did The Darkness recently
- but the fact he convinced his ITV bosses to help promote a BBC
show is quite another.
The show, no doubt hilariously, features Mr Bragg talking to the
Lou and Andy characters, before they do that line.
As if that isn't enough, we also get
Little Britain
Night (Boxing Day, BBC3) - Matt Lucas and David Walliams
talking about their favourite episodes.
A team of comics who must have inspired the pair make an unexpected
comeback in
The Comic Strip Presents...
Sex Actually (Wednesday, Channel 4).
While the secret sex lives of respectable commuter-belt types have
been dealt with thoroughly by the likes of Lucas and Walliams, this
would have been cutting-edge stuff when Mayall, Planer etc broke
onto the scene in the early 80s. Their one-off return shows us how
it's meant to be done.
There is an even more nostalgic look at comedy with
The Two
Ronnies Christmas Sketchbook (Christmas Day, BBC1) paying
tribute to Ronnie Barker, while
The Unknown Tony
Hancock (Boxing Day, BBC2) provides some festive cheer by
exploring the complex comic who killed himself in 1969.
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