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Article: Woz on the telly: IT'S PRATMAN; Treasure Island voiceover more wooden than the palm trees.(Features)
- Article from:
- Sunday Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 7, 2002
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Byline: John Kelly
THE problem with Treasure Island (RTE1, Sunday) is not the contestants, they are a suitably mad bunch.
No the trouble is Frankie the narrator,who obviously doesn't believe in the old TV maxim: "If you can fake sincerity you have it made."
Frankie doesn't "do" sincerity.
I'm afraid Frankie can only "do" sincerity if he's reading from a script.
The show features two teams, Red and Blue, which are dumped on a desert island to look for ...