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    Jan 22, 2024 2 minutes

    SATURDAY JANUARY 27

    THE FAMOUS FIVE

    Lashings of fun

    Three, 7pm

    How nice to have something new in this family viewing timeslot. Enid Blyton’s quaint English kids’ adventure gets a modern reworking by Famous Five fan Nicolas Winding Refn, the Danish-American film-maker best known for some very family-unfriendly films. It’s the first of a series of BBC telemovies very loosely based on the 21 novels about the quintet of

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