Paul Howlett We Bought a Zoo, (Cameron Crowe, 2011), 6.35pm, Film4 Crowe transposes the story of (former Guardian) writer Benjamin Mee's Dartmoor project to Los Angeles for this somewhat saccharine but likable family story.
Fortunately, with the fairly recent publication of David McCullough's book "John Adams" (Touchstone, 2001), this somewhat crusty but likable American is finally beginning to be recognized as the hero that he was.
And while likable, and somewhat unaware of his likability, he was pretty darn awkward around people.
"The Express" is more or less a biography of Davis, played by Rob Brown in a likable if somewhat stiff performance.
Walt Wallet, who emerged as the strip's protagonist, was a likable Chicagoan, somewhat adolescent in his obsession with cars, and an early study in the "dadbod".
Henry Fonda, too, is likable but somewhat more sympathetic and passive than a husband in such circumstances has any right to be.
Mr. Pegg's performance here, befitting his uptight, upright character, is somewhat one-note, if otherwise likable, with little of the Everyman depths that were finally tapped in "Shaun".
The televisual rendering of the Flash is likable enough, if somewhat overwrought: the dialogue, often delivered against a soundtrack of swelling, saccharine strings, is clearly aimed at the thickest 15-year-old who might be watching.
If Sheers has set himself a formidable task in asking us to care about a merchant banker, he has a somewhat easier task with the likable Michael, an innocent thrust by circumstances into a form of grieving usually reserved for the old.
Mr. Helm, lanky and likable, with the easy, somewhat synthetic-sounding laugh of a television professional, opens the show by recalling his exposure to Gray's 1977 production for the Wooster Group, which he calls "one of the most moving evenings I've ever spent in the theater".
