Worth Watching: ‘Race Across the World,’ ‘Succession,’ and ´Paula’
Plus some analysis of the BAFTA TV Award nominations.
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The BAFTA TV Award nominations came out this week, so there’s a little guide to the potential big winners below. It’s worth reminding that the awards celebrate the best of 2022 in the middle of 2023 (the 14th May 2023.)
So this means that we’ll potentially be celebrating Happy Valley — which is not eligible for this year’s awards — two months before the Paris 2024 Olympics.
SHOW OF THE WEEK
Race Across the World (BBC One, Wednesdays at 9pm) - Finally!! After three years of waiting, the much loved competition show where teams of two race from one part of the globe to the other (using a limited budget) is back, this time on BBC One.
Covid travel restrictions have meant that this series is more like Race Across the Country rather than Race Across the World. That takes away a little bit of the thrill, simply because one appeal is in seeing these teams grapple with border control, and potentially different languages. But in its place is a sense of one country’s vastness and varying climate, with 16,000 km being the distance teams have to cover in the space of only a few weeks.
They always cast so well in this show too, choosing participants who might be stuck in their life in one way or another. Seeing this trip boost their confidence and change their worldview is such a motivation to switch the television off and do the same.
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