Резюме: | Can Disney bring anything new to the trendy parent-and-child travelogue genre, with this show featuring a grizzled TV anchor and his son? What is the must-have travel accessory of 2020? A parent, of course. Who would go anywhere without one? Not Jack Whitehall, Russell Howard or Romesh Ranganathan, all of whom have presented travelogues with Mum or Dad in tow. Or, if your aged parent is no longer easily portable, an adult child can be substituted, à la Bradley Walsh (and Barney) on ITV’s Breaking Dad. So, who is the celebrity attraction in Rogue Trip? British viewers may struggle to correctly pick out the news anchor Bob Woodruff, but he has been a familiar square jaw on US television since he joined ABC News in 1996. In January 2006, his career path took a diversion when he sustained a brain injury from a roadside bomb in Iraq. Now all that experience – of reporting from war zones and adapting to unforeseen change – has been channelled into this new series for Disney+. Over the course of its six episodes, Bob and his 28-year-old son, Mack, will visit places including Papua New Guinea, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Lebanon and Ukraine. “Rougish nations” is their term to describe these former no-go conflict zones, which are beginning to open up to travellers. Continue reading... |