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Television

Shamelessly undemanding: ITV’s The Durrells reviewed

24 March 2018

9:00 AM

24 March 2018

9:00 AM

For as long as I can remember, Sunday nights have been the home of the kind of TV drama cunningly designed to warm the sternest of heart cockles. Think, for example, of Robert Hardy cheerfully bellowing his way through almost every scene of All Creatures Great and Small (‘PASS THE SALT, JAMES!’).

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