Jinsy in the Times

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The Times 9 January

There is a weather forecaster on This Is Jinsy, SkyAtlantic’s sui generis sketch show set on an island rooted in 1970s fashions and violent medieval tradition. He is a white bearded reincarnation of Stanley Unwin who delivers his “element repord” by reciting warnings of festering fog and clenched cloud while dressed in a red mini-dress on a podium. The first of the double helping had Stephen Fry as a guest star. He played a follicator (look it up). The second had Ben Miller as a pair of feral accountants. Only some of the silliness comes off, but I love it a little for its absurdist folk songs. Especially the one yesterday about vegetable tricks.

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Jinsy in the Metro

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METRO 14 Jan

This Is Jinsy, Sky Atlantic, 10pm It’s such a shame Jinsy aren’t in the Eurovision Song Contest because tonight’s offering from the island’s superstar folk diva Melody Lane, the potential smash-hit Five Special Potatoes, has got douze points written all over it – in tiny letters only legible to lice. Yes, it’s more inspired silliness from the Jinsy crew, with Arbiter Maven in fear of his life when an astrologer (Katy Brand), who specialises in rat bottom readings, prophesies his imminent demise.

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