TELEVISION

FT’s resident couch potatoes, STU NEVILLE & RUTH MORRIS cast an eye over the small screen’s current fortean offerings

Amid a fanfare of publicity, Amazon Prime promises us an exclusive peek into the unique relationship between the royal family and the unexplained in The King of UFOs. Narrated by Howard Hughes, presumably not the dead one with tissue boxes on his feet, and produced by fortean musician Mark Christopher Lee, presumably not a descendant of Lord Summerisle. With such prestigious names, you would expect great things but what follows aspires to be Fortean TV upholstered by the creators of Twin Peaks. Cue Summerisle repeatedly walking in and out of his front door in the manner of a man who forgot to get some milk, followed by Richard Felix (not literally), revealing that most castles are (shock, horror) haunted. For a start, King George VI saw Elizabeth I eight times…

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