Dash and Lily: A characteristically wildly sentimental Christmas rom-com which nevertheless works exactly as such are meant to work

https://youtu.be/AmW5GO6btMM

| had a gloriously unashamed wallow in this magical gem! I really hope it becomes a Christmas classic as it has all the ingredients to make it so - not least a marvellous cast of endearing and involving characters. The resolution is both exactly what one could have predicted AND one that by its nature makes you think ‘oh, what a marvellous idea to conclude things in this way’.

But there is talk of a sequel…Mmm, will see how that shapes out…

Trapped; Series 2. As grippingly plotted and richly textured as Series 1 without merely recycling ideas.

Someone Has to Die: Sudsy Spanish drama in late-Franco Spain that falls, spectacularly, at the final fence