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Article: A shade on the light side.(Television program review)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Byline: PETER PATERSON
The Impressionists (BBC1); Agatha Christie's Marple: The Sittaford Mystery (ITV1) LIKE the hazardous moment when someone steps on to a boat with one foot just as the pesky vessel moves away with the other leg still on shore, The Impressionists found itself floundering helplessly between a learning experience for children and a grownup drama.
I suspect that the big splash that usually follows such dockside misfortunes will continue into next week (this docudrama is in three parts) when, a little postscript last night promised, Claude Monet will pronounce: 'There is love and there is work, and we only have one heart.' Quite what ...