Ah, The Old Lady And The Pigeons (Pearl, 8pm). The immediate image that springs to mind is of an old woman singing Feed The Birds, Tuppence A Bag, in Mary Poppins, a cue to sit the kids in front of the television.
But in this short film, the title is as misleading as the lady, the antithesis of that Poppins character. Pigeon feeders do not come more sinister than this one, nor pigeons more bizarre.
A cartoon this may be, but French writer and director Sylvain Chomet's award-winning animation is not children's television. It is, though, a half-hour of unusual entertainment not to be missed by those who appreciate the oddball.
A group of overfed Texan tourists on a whistle-stop tour of Europe stand beneath the Eiffel Tower and wonder if they are in London, Paris or Amsterdam.
While pondering the strange things that the locals eat, such as horsemeat and goats cheese, they encounter a hungry policeman and an old lady who spoils the pigeons with cream cakes.
The policeman poses as a pigeon in order to receive her offerings. Come Christmas day, the now grossly fat officer gets a shock when the old lady changes the menu.
