📺 'Super rich' PM in BBC children's Christmas special has parallels to Rishi Sunak, writers say
multi-millionaire Prime Minister, living in No 10
“Lamb is having a wonderful time eating Christmas dinner, thinking about himself and the kids are outside in the cold, which is sort of where we are now.” But Lindsay’s Victorian PM isn’t just inspired by the current incumbent. “Lamb was a very unpopular prime minister but we didn’t want to be too specific,” Thomas said. “He is also a PM who has lots of parties.”The satire continues in the next episode which finds the gang rehabilitated through the power of education after being caught red-handed and sent to a very smart British public school.
Co-writer Lucy Montgomery said: “We give Fagin a backstory where he himself lost his family through anti-semitic attacks. You understand his reasoning for collecting these children around him. We don’t steal from our own, he says. I think Dickens would’ve liked that.”is battling to lure young viewers away from US streaming giants serving up big-budget animation series. “It’s nice to see real-life people on screen that aren’t superheroes flying through the sky,” Thomas said.
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