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David Walliams adaptations

The Midnight Gang (7.30pm, BBC1) is the latest book by the comedian turned author to be adapted for the screen. Here, we look at some of our other favourites… Mr Stink (2012) The first adaptation of one of David’s books stars Hugh Bonneville as a tramp who is invited with his dog, Duchess (played by Britain’s Got Talent winner Pudsey), to live in a little girl’s garden shed. With its underlying message about homelessness, this is a Christmas fable for the modern age (Saturday 29 at 7pm on CBBC).

Gangsta Granny (2013) second year, Julia McKenzie and adaptation it’s a star-studded is a grandmother came the The affair. next with a surprisingly colourful past, while Miranda Hart, Joanna Lumley and Robbie Williams are among the strong supporting cast (Friday 28 at 7pm on CBBC).

Billionaire Boy (2016) John Thomson is the widowed factory hand Len Spud, who becomes a billionaire after inventing a new kind of toilet roll called Bumfresh. But all his lonely son, Joe, wants is a friend. It seems that money can’t buy you everything after all (Sunday 23 at 7pm on CBBC).

Ratburger (2017) Sky’s dark festive adaptation is the story of a poor young girl whose life is being made a misery by her evil stepmother. But hope comes when she befriends a dancing rat, who shows up in her bedroom one day. Sheridan Smith and David Walliams (centre) are among the cast (Friday 28 at 6pm on Pick).