Read our Privacy noticeAs light-entertainment, schedule-filler television goes, you can’t really fault the logic behind Richard E Grant’s Very Modern Odyssey. Grant’s Channel 4 series plays dumb on this front – not really alluding to Nolan’s film or The Odyssey’s re-emergent relevance – but the thinking here is obvious. One of the big problems that Very Modern Odyssey runs up against is that the most resonant moments of Homer’s story were not historical, or even geographical, but magical. Richard E Grant embarks on a 'Very Modern Odyssey' ( Channel 4 )It also creates an amusing disconnect when Grant travels to the site of the Trojan War, in modern-day Turkey. Very Modern Odyssey attempts to ride a slipstream of interest that everyone could see coming – only to find that it’s already been left far behind.