Dive-bombing seagulls thwart its attempts to board a ship via the anchor chain. A sea snail, voiced by Sally Hawkins, lives on a rock in a harbour, pining to see the world. It’s a change of pace from the bloodletting and incest of Game of Thrones, where she has been seen most prominently in recent years. The story is simple enough, a meandering mainly rhyme narrated by Dame Diana Rigg. As with the duo’s best-known work, The Gruffalo, The Snail and the Whale is a children’s story with enough heart to be appreciated by grown-ups. Hovering between those two points is The Snail and the Whale, an animated adaptation of the 2003 book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. At the other end of the spectrum is Mrs Brown’s Boys. Sophisticated adult viewers have the dark, intense delights of Guy Pearce’s Scrooge in A Christmas Carol. So it’s helpful for the corporation’s public service remit that this Christmas there is entertainment to suit a range of tastes. The new Tory government has given every indication that the BBC can expect a scrap over the licence fee in the next few years.
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