For full TV listings for the week, see thetimes.co.uk/tvplannerViewing guide, by James JacksonThe MezzotintBBC2, 10.30pmIf All Creatures Great and Small is the loveliest thing on today (see pick of the week, page 23), there is also, at a spookier hour tonight, the return of a fine TV tradition: a BBC ghost story for Christmas Eve. Back after a year away is an MR James tale adapted and directed by Mark Gatiss, and as you’d expect it is one that creeps under your skin through its slow-burning restraint. It’s set in 1922, when Edward Williams (Rory Kinnear), a university art curator living alone, receives an engraving of an unknown country house with an imposing façade. Yet is it his imagination, or does

Source: The Times December 24, 2021 19:12 UTC