The Independent - London, May 8th, 2007
Hours and hours of gently soporific clacking against a background of vibrant green, The History of Mr Polly was ITV1's attempt to show that it doesn't need snooker to get viewers dozing in their armchairs at the end of a bank holiday weekend. It also served as a useful reminder that not all minor novels by famous writers, in this case H G Wells, should be adapted for television. "I'm just sitting here in melancholic retrospectatiousness," said Lee Evans in the title role, and so was I, melancholically retrospec-tatious for a time when a sizeable chunk of a television company's drama budget wou...
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