TELEVISION

FT’s very own couch potato, STU NEVILLE, casts an eye over the small screen’s current fortean offerings

A cursory glance at the TV schedules will tell you that there’s a superabundance of UFO documentaries, ranging from the calmly analytical to the uncritically hysterical. UFO (Showtime, via Sky in the UK) is resolutely in the first category: indeed, with its use of montage and well-chosen background music it could almost have been made by Adam Curtis. Produced by JJ Abrams (with high production values as a result), this four-parter is an engaging attempt to objectively pull together at least some of the strands. Episode one, after some necessary scene-setting, mainly focuses on the Phoenix Lights and the work of investigative journalist Leslie Keen, who has spent decades sifting through the evidence, such as it is, and has concluded that whatever its nature the phenomenon is taken very seriously…

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