Private View
Channel 5 has more arts programmes than the casual viewer would expect. But are they any good?
This programme, one of a series that uses glamorous star presenters to bait the arts hook, features what appears to be a staggeringly inept interview by Charlotte Rampling (perhaps, to take a charitable view, something was lost in the editing).
The programme is worth watching only because of its subject - the genial art collector Sir Denis Mahon showing off the glorious collection of 17th-century Italian paintings he has donated to the National Gallery.
His insights, his anecdotes and his enthusiastic expertise are a delight - except, it would seem, to Rampling, who gazes into the middle distance, thinking up her next irrelevant question.
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