Christmas Eve TV: Joanna Lumley is frightful in a festive ghost story
Tobias Menzies also stars in a delightfully creepy adaptation by Mark Gatiss. Plus: Lenny Rush goes in search of Santa. Here’s what to watch this evening10pm, BBC Two Delightfully sinister...
By Phil Harrison, Nicole Vassell, Graeme Virtue, Simon Wardell and Stuart Heritage · The Guardian Culture
Tobias Menzies also stars in a delightfully creepy adaptation by Mark Gatiss. Plus: Lenny Rush goes in search of Santa. Here’s what to watch this evening 10pm, BBC Two Delightfully sinister fare for the night before Christmas; this creepy tale from Mark Gatiss is an adaptation of a short story by EF Benson. Tobias Menzies stars as Roger Winstanley, haunted since childhood by a peculiar dream. As he crouches in an air raid shelter (the story is set during the blitz, with flashbacks to an earlier era), he shares his vision with a sympathetic stranger. But as the ground shakes with bombs, too much imagination is a dangerous thing. Phil Harrison Continue reading...