Magic Ingredients Combine to Make a Series That's Just Wizard; Review

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Shoebox Zoo CBBC, 6.30pm Blood on the Turntable BBC Three, 9.00pm You don't often come across Peter Mullan in a wizard's cape, wielding a magical staff, and saying: "In every generation dawns a most auspicious day." He might possibly have been preparing for a Scottish Socialist Party electoral broadcast, but somehow I doubt it. You need more than spells to dislodge New Labour's shape- shifters.

As it was, this was Mullan the mystic, cast as supernatural "Michael Scot" in BBC Scotland's entirely fabulous Shoebox Zoo, a series for children that reminds adults of all the things they miss when they make the mistake of growing up. Co-produced with Canadian broadcasting, the drama is littered with star names and bursting with the confidence film-makers acquire when they know they are on to something.

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Magic Ingredients Combine to Make a Series That's Just Wizard; Review

You can measure that confidence in several ways. First up is the decision to bag every pre-teen viewer available. Shoebox Zoo went out yesterday on CBBC, the corpo...

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