Overview
- ITN Productions is making a three-part Channel 5 series titled Michael Palin in the Philippines.
- While filming near Pagasa in the South China Sea, multiple outlets report Palin was caught between Philippine and Chinese coastguard ships.
- The route takes in Manila, Pagasa, El Nido, Moalboal’s underground rivers, the city of Marawi, and parts of Mindanao that the UK Foreign Office warns against visiting.
- A companion book of the same name will be published by Hutchinson Heinemann, and Channel 5 has not announced a broadcast date.
- Pagasa, also called Thitu, sits in disputed waters where China challenges Philippine control, which helps explain frequent face-offs at sea.