TV Review: McDonald & Dodds

~ Billy Mann

King Lear gets the ITV 8pm slot

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The new 8pm Sunday evening detective drama series on ITV, the one with the irritating sponsorship from SEAT cars, is ‘McDonald & Dodds’.

It replaces ‘Endeavour’, which is a tough ask. The first episode, ‘The Fall of the House of Crockett’, is a King Learish outing for Robert Lindsay (Wolfie ‘Citizen’ Smith of the Tooting Popular Front) as a putative baddy.

When his youngest daughter tells him to shove the inheritance money (£30m) up his arse, Lindsay is onstage for the RSC. Every look and word is pure Lear. Nice touch.

>> Read yesterday’s posting.

Published by Billy Mann

I'm originally from Liverpool and worked as a national magazine journalist for more than 30 years before suffering a stroke at age 53. I started blogging as part of a neuro-rehabilitation programme and wrote the very first entries with one finger of my disabled left hand. Later, art became another therapy for me at Headway East London's Submit To Love studios. I blog regularly and volunteer as a teaching assistant, coaching schoolchildren in aspects of journalism.

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