With Mad Dog in Edinburgh being a Plastic Paddy at the Scotland v Ireland match, there are really only two programmes he'll be watching this weekend...
6 Nations Rugby: Italy v WalesBBC1, Saturday 2.30pm
As Mad Dog will be watching this in from the back of noisy beer tent outside Murrayfield, the big issue will be whether that's pitchside punditry from ex-Wales captain Colin Charvis or a Mma Ramotswe in a trailer for...
No 1 Ladies Detective Club
BBC1, Sunday 9pm
It's Girlfriend TV all the way tonight as this follows on from the final part of Lark Rise To Camberwick Green (is that right?). And there's bound to be a similar element of cosy costume tomfoolery, if last year's Anthony Minghella-directed pilot is anything to go by. It looks wonderful but Mad Dog couldn't tolerate the books (written by an old white gent from the posh part of Edinburgh - there's gritty African reality for you), lapped up by the Duchess and her book group chums. Like in Lark Rise, there are too many loveable bucolic buffoons. Is it worse to condescend to the contemporary Developing World than to patronise the past? Very probably.
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