James Delingpole James Delingpole

Ludicrous – and the makers know it: Sky One’s Prodigal Son reviewed

Would I watch it again? Probably, if I were on my own in a hotel in somewhere like Belarus and it was the only thing in English on the box

The star of Sky One's Prodigal Son is Michael Sheen’s lovably evil Dad. Image: David Giesbrecht / ©2019 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 
issue 22 August 2020

‘By the way, my name is Max. I take care of them, which ain’t easy, because their hobby is murder.’ Back in the early 1980s, when everything was lovelier, we were all so innocent that our idea of a brilliant and original new detective formula went like this: they’re sleuths — but they’re also rich and married! (Or, in the case of Magnum: he’s a sleuth — but he has a moustache and he lives on Hawaii! Or, with Bergerac: he’s a sleuth —but he lives on Jersey and is named after a region of France.

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