David Frost: Hello, Good Evening and Farewell; When Miranda Met Bruce; David Attenborough's Rise of Animals; Peaky Blinders; Science Britannica – review

It's been a week for TV's grey knights, with Frost, Brucie – and Attenborough's brief history of spinesDavid Frost: Hello, Good Evening and Farewell (ITV1) | ITVPlayerWhen Miranda Met Bruce (BBC1) | iPlayerDavid Attenborough's Rise of Animals (BBC2) | iPlayerPeaky Blinders (BBC2) | iPlayerScience Britannica (BBC2) | iPlayerSuch was David Frost's unprecedented success on television in both Britain and America that his weekly bicontinental commute at the height of his fame was said (wrongly) to have put him in the Guinness Book of Records as the most travelled man on the planet. Meanwhile Bruce Forsyth is apparently the longest-serving TV entertainer of all time. Yet the reason neither man needs an introduction is in no small part due to their introductions."Hello, good evening and welcome" and "Nice to see you, to see you nice" – they're not exactly prose poems, but in the 1960s and 1970s a familiar catchphrase could take you a long way into the nation's hearts. Or at least provide easy material for the army of impressionists that passed for entertainment back then.In David Frost: Hello, Good Evening and Farewell, a tribute to the late presenter and interviewer, we learned that there was far more to the man than a memorable greeting. He was, said Michael Grade, the first real television creation. By which he meant that Frost didn't start in another medium and migrate to television. He went pretty much straight from Cambridge University to television fame. There was no gap ...
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