no the flue aint plastic , its metal boiler flue, that now has the metal corrigated bendy stuff running inside it, that picture was taken a while back, so the kindling was just the tester, I now tend to burn just logs with newspaper to get it started, although the flue gets hot, luckerly not hot enough to melt those wires, although they have been re routed slightly
as for a telly, no
but I do have the portable DVD player, so I can sit there on rainy days, fire blazing, dogs sleeping,mug of coffee, watching "out of town" (remember that)