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FT’s resident couch potatoes, STU NEVILLE & RUTH MORRIS cast an eye over the small screen’s current fortean offerings

“Gwowing up in East London,” Jonathan Ross tells us, “we knew there were places where bad things ‘ad ‘appened, ‘aunted ‘ahses and Jack-the-Wippa.” Following on from his 2023 solo series Jonathan Ross: Myths & Legends, Wossy delves back into the paranormal with Haunted Homecoming (Discovery), accompanied by Help! My House Is Haunted alumnus and heavily tattooed medium Ian Lawman and writer, researcher and FT contributor Dr Kate Cherrell, whose main function appears to be frightening herself to death in front of mirrors. Ross returns to his childhood home, the London Borough of Leytonstone; we’re told the Ross clan relocated there in 1961, which Jonathan usefully informs us was 16 years after the war, helpfully reinforced with black and white footage of busy buses, women in headscarves, Wonderloaf delivery-vans and kids…

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