TUESDAY 24 OCTOBER
Drama
Bon Voyage
9:00pm - 10:30pm
ITV1 London
VIDEO Plus+: 3279
Subtitles, audio description, widescreen
Episode written by Oliver Brown
1/2
The first episode of this latest ITV1 two-parter is very promising indeed, particularly if you like your TV dramas eerie and just a little bit scary. Tensions build very nicely as happy family - mum and dad Neil and Elizabeth (Ben Miles and Rachael Blake) and their two children - embark on a camping holiday in rural France. On their first camp-site stop they meet a friendly (perhaps even too friendly?) couple with a camper van, Simon and Linda (Daniel Ryan and Fay Ripley). But relations between the two couples become uneasy when there are strong hints that Simon and Linda are not all they seem. And when a child goes missing, the suspense ratchets up quite a few notches. Occasionally reminiscent of the early Steven Spielberg classic Duel, this is a pretty good attempt at injecting a few thrills into a good old-fashioned cat-and-mouse story. Unfortunately, as with an awful lot of these two-night tales, tomorrow's concluding episode disappoints.
RT reviewer - Alison Graham
Linda Holder - Fay Ripley
Neil Aldred - Ben Miles
Simon Holder - Daniel Ryan
Elizabeth Aldred - Rachael Blake
Rachel Aldred - Emily Beecham
Nicholas - Eric Bruneau
Toby - Alexandre Nachi
Armelle - Marie-Josee Tremblay
Yates - Johni Keyworth
David Aldred - Cameron Ansell
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