Professor T review: Frances de la Tour still sparkles like a diamond, 50 years ... trends now
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Professor T (ITV1)
Why does Frances de la Tour not have a damehood? It can't be that she was a Leftie firebrand in her youth — waving the red flag for the Workers' Revolutionary Party.
So was Dame Vanessa Redgrave, and that didn't stop her collecting her gong from the palace. In fact, swathes of theatreland were members of the WRP in the 1970s. It was practically obligatory.
Perhaps Miss DLT prefers to turn down honours. But that can't prevent her from being anointed a bona fide national treasure. She sparkles like a well-cut diamond in the setting of Professor T (ITV1), as the self-absorbed mother of Ben Miller's prissy criminologist, Jasper Tempest.
She can turn a short scene into the centrepiece of the show, just as she did half a century ago in Rising Damp against Leonard Rossiter, that most formidable of comic actors.
Why does Frances de la Tour (pictured, in Season 2 of Professor T in 2022) not have a damehood? It can't be that she was a Leftie firebrand in her youth — waving the red flag for the Workers' Revolutionary Party
She sparkles like a well-cut diamond in the setting of Professor T (ITV1), as the self-absorbed mother of Ben Miller's prissy criminologist, Jasper Tempest (pictured)
As Professor T returned, she was painting a series of 12 portraits of her Chihuahua Kafka in costume, for a zodiac calendar — with a mane as Leo, with horns as Capricorn, and so on.
