![]() The on-screen narrator, James Corden – who, as Charlie Brooker points out in his hilariously acerbic end-of-year round up, 2014 Wipe (BBC Two, Tuesday), is for reasons unknown a British "national treasure" – fills in the details of the story while travelling across an idyllic London. ![]() And then the magic of this perfectly cast and executed fairy tale takes over.ĭahl's story is adapted by Richard Curtis (and Paul Mayhew-Archer), so you know to expect a tug on the heart strings – and Hoffman easily shakes off Hollywood to fully become Mr Hoppy, a painfully shy American retiree, head to toe in beige, whose passions are his balcony garden and the ebullient, colourful widow Mrs Silver (Judi Dench), who lives downstairs. There's an uneasy moment in Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (BBC One, Thursday) when Dustin Hoffman appears and you're afraid that for the next 90 minutes you won't be able to stop thinking, Hey, that's Dustin Hoffman on the telly pretending to be an old man in a London tower block. ![]()
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