TV review Francis Brennan: All Hands on Deck; Pulling with My Parents – The Times

October 27 2019, 12:01am,The Sunday Times

Liam Fay

Big fun on the high seas is the brochure promise of Francis Brennan: All Hands on Deck, a would-be TV pleasure voyage in which the flamboyantly pernickety hotelier struts his stuff and his stuffiness on a luxury cruise liner.

From the earliest moments of this horrendous maritime disaster, however, it becomes deafeningly apparent that nobody is more aware of the speed and ferocity with which the show is hitting the rocks than its eponymous helmsman. At times, in fact, the bewildered panic evident in his increasingly shrill whinnies and squeals becomes heartrending as well as ear-splitting raw terror in the high Cs.

Cruising is not Brennans natural speed. The professional fusspot has built a lucrative public persona and inescapable TV brand on a tireless

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