TELEVISION

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

In the crowded world of cryptozoology, the star attraction remains Bigfoot. Broadly, there are two schools of thought regarding the big hairy ones: first, that Sasquatches are living, breathing creatures that are a natural part of the ecosystem; second, that Sasquatch is a paranormal being, a spiritual entity long enshrined in indigenous folklore. (There is a third if you count the “there’s no such thing” camp, but as they think bears can talk to one another and throw stones we tend to ignore them.) As a result, programmes made about them tend to favour one school over another, or spend so much time attempting to reconcile the two that the water just gets muddier. It seems to have occurred to nobody to make two documentaries, side by side, in the…

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