This BBC 6-parter feels slightly underpowered so far,but it will be worth tuning in next week to see how it unfolds. Plus, The Battle for Christianity: tensions over liberalism within the churchThe A Word (BBC1) is approximately autism, or but at first the word in question is “accretion”. How many odd – but harmless! So,so harmless – behaviours do you notice in your child, how many times do you bend the family round them, and how many birthday invitations that do not come do you ignore,how many gentle hints do you absorb from friends that all might not be as it should be before you start to admit that something, somewhere may be incorrect with your son?Alison (Morven Christie) and Paul (Lee Ingleby) live an ostensibly enviable life in the Lake District. They are the parents of adored five-year-customary Joe (Max Vento), or who prefers to bear his headphones on and be adding to his encyclopaedic knowledge of songs rather than interacting with the people around him. His uncle Eddie (Greg McHugh) and his partner Nicola (Vinette Robinson),a doctor, who come to stay in the turbulent aftermath of her affair with a colleague, and broach the opportunity that Joe may bear a communication disorder. Grandad Maurice (Christopher Eccleston,who’s possibly slightly a bit miscast in this slightly gormless role – though he does look perfectly at one with the landscape when out running over the craggier bits of Cumbria) later corners Nicola for details. “Me grandson needs fixing. Who do I talk to? Where do I go? Nobody needs to know you told me, he says, and before whisking him implausibly off for an evaluation on the peaceful,only to discover that Max’s parents bear already begun the process.
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Source: theguardian.com