Simon Hoggart

Comfort viewing

Foyle's War (ITV), Lark Rise to Candleford (BBC One), Horizon (BBC Two), Moving Wallpaper & Echo Beach (ITV).

issue 19 January 2008

Foyle’s War is back on Sundays, sporadically, with Kingdom filling in the gaps on ITV. The BBC has followed Cranford with Lark Rise to Candleford, a series which makes the intervening Sense and Sensibility look harrowing by comparison. The danger to television is not dumbing-down but, on Sunday nights at least, a sort of down-filled duveting-down.

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