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Saturday, December 29, 2012
Ripper Street, Doctor Who, Call the Midwife, Luther.. (BLEEDING COOL).
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/12/28/video-the-bbcs-2013-new-season-trailer-doctor-who-luther-ripper-street-and-more/
Being from the States I have no idea who this woman is from Miranda, but is she mimicking Jennifer Saunder's Edina of ABFAB? Sounds just like her. Anyway, hope we see half of these shows on PBS or Masterpiece or BBC America! Are you guys listening at all?
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Brian Blessed, Stephen Daldry, Stephen Fry, Eddie Izzard, Clive Owen Set for Playing the Games By Dan Bacalzo • Jun 27, 2012 • London (THEATER MANIA)
Additional casting and details has been announced for Playing the Games, a program of work at the Criterion Theatre which will celebrate both artistic and sporting talent and feature artists as well as Olympians, July 26-August 12.
As previously reported, highlights include Stephen Fry interviewing the 400 meter hurdle gold medalist Edwin Moses (August 6), which is part of the lunchtime series in which a leading arts personality interviews a world-renowned sporting legend or Olympian on the stage of the Criterion Theatre.
Additional events in this series include television presenter and columnist Rick Edwards interviewing athlete Kriss Akabusi (July 30); film and theatre director and Creative Executive Producer of Ceremonies for the London Olympic Games Stephen Daldry interviewing Haile Gebrseselassie (August 7); and actor Clive Owen interviewing Adrien Niyonshuti (August 10).
READ MORE: http://www.theatermania.com/london-theater/news/06-2012/brian-blessed-stephen-daldry-stephen-fry-eddie-izz_58885.html
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
(Yahook TV - UK and Ireland) 2012 TV Preview
By Alan Tyers | Yahoo! TV Features – 5 hours ago
An early New Year highlight will be the second series of ‘Sherlock’ (New Year’s Day, 8.10pm, BBC1). Three stand-alone feature-length films lie in wait for the brilliantly eccentric Benedict Cumberbatch and the stolid, long-suffering Martin Freeman. Both are perfectly cast in their roles as Sherlock and Watson, and the three stories – ‘A Scandal In Belgravia’, ‘The Hounds Of Baskerville’ and ‘The Reichenbach Fall’ – get the year’s TV off to flyer.
Later in 2012, Cumberbatch stars in ‘Parade’s End’, a story about the lives and loves of the aristocracy around the time of World War I. He plays a conservative landowner who is having an illicit relationship with Rebecca Hall’s spirited suffragette; while Adelaide Clemens is his beautiful, vicious, socialite wife. Adapted from Ford Madox Ford's novels by Sir Tom Stoppard, and with a quality supporting cast on board, this looks like it could be top class.
[See also: Exclusive interview with Sir David Attenborough]
Talking of the antics of the historical elite, ‘Downton Abbey’ will return in September. In the meantime, its creator Julian Fellowes has turned his prolific pen to the enduringly fascinating story of the ‘Titanic’ in a four-part drama coming to ITV1 this Spring. Linus Roache, Celia Imrie and Toby Jones star. Fellowes promises that the action will focus not on the first-class passengers, or the poor devils in steerage, but the (as he claims) “previously untold” stories of the second class passengers. Sadly, despite our repeated letters, he has refused to include the Downton cast in the yarn; we believe that Miracle Recovery Matthew could have saved the day with some amphibious wheelchair heroics.Staying with the historical, men of a certain age upon whom the shower scene in ‘American Werewolf In London’ left a profound and lasting effect will be delighted to know that the peerlessly lovely Jenny Agutter will be back on screens in 2012. She heads the cast of ‘Call The Midwife’ (Miranda Hart is also involved) in a period drama about, well, midwives in 1950s East London. It looks a bit like a classier version of ‘The Royal’ (if such a thing is possible).
From the same era, newsroom drama ‘The Hour’ returns for a second series, and we’re excited that Peter Capaldi is joining the cast. The series will move on to 1957 and focus on the Cold War; presumably there will not be any Malcolm Tucker-like swearing.
Talking of journalism, we’ll be keeping our eye out for ‘Hacks’, starring Claire Foy as a tabloid editor on Channel 4 early in the year. Written by ‘Drop The Dead Donkey’ creator Guy Jenkin, it sounds like a dark black comedy about the lengths newspapers will go to in their search for the story.
[See also: Christmas soaps preview]
One woman with an opinion on that is Sienna Miller, who takes time off from sticking it to the media to star in an interesting-sounding drama about Alfred Hitchcock (played by Toby Jones). La Miller plays Tippi Hedren, who was the star of ‘The Birds’, and the object of Hitch’s obsession. ‘The Girl’ is a feature-length film and will be on BBC2.
If there’s anything that TV producers like more than a detective, it’s a “reimagining” of a beloved character as a youngster. Inspector Morse is the latest to get the treatment in ‘Endeavour’ (January 2nd, 9pm, ITV1). Steven Evans plays the grumpy young sleuth in 1965, already fond of crosswords and his car, investigating the case of a missing schoolgirl that takes him to Oxford. This is a feature-length film, plans are afoot for a series.
BBC2 is also getting in on the crime act with ‘Line Of Duty’ (featuring Vicky McClure and Lenny James), a heavy-sounding exploration of a fatal shooting by police and the ensuing cover-up. Topical comparison’s to 2011’s Mark Duggan case are already being made.
Given the economic times, it’s perhaps no surprise that dramas about winning the lottery are up front in writers’ minds. The great Timothy Spall stars in ‘The Syndicate’ for BBC1, a drama about a group of supermarket workers in Leeds whose lives are changed by six little numbers, and the fallout from their windfall. The presence of Spall, and the fact that it is written by Kay Mellor (‘Band Of Gold’, ‘Fat Friends’) pretty much guarantees that this five-parter will be warm, human and bittersweet.
We don’t know too much about Australian import ‘Winners And Losers’, which is coming to ITV2, other than to say that it’s about four unpopular girls whose lives are turned upside down by a lottery win.
[See also: Strictly Come Dancing 2011 Highlights]
One of the most intriguing ideas on the horizon is ‘Eternal Law’, which comes to ITV1 in January and imagines two angels sent to earth… to work in a law firm and influence humanity for good. Ashley Pharoah and Matthew Graham, writers of ‘Life On Mars’, are the men behind the frankly implausible idea of lawyers being anything other than devils, but we’re looking forward to seeing how this works out.January will also see Sky 1 dip their toes in big-budget drama with the lavish ‘Treasure Island’. A mighty cast including Eddie Izzard, Elijah Wood, Philip Glenister and Donald Sutherland tackle Robert Louis Stevenson’s great pirate yarn, and jolly good fun it is too.
In the world of comedy, we’re excited about rumours that ‘Mid-morning Matters With Alan Partridge’ might be coming to BBC2, although details are as yet unclear. Jack Whitehall is set for a BBC3 comedy about a useless teacher in ‘Bad Education’, while the delightfully quirky Zooey Deschanel comes to Channel4 in a sitcom about a girl who finds her boyfriend is cheating on her. She moves in with three blokes, and laughs ensue in ‘The New Girl’, which is on the channel in January.
Warwick Davis of ‘Life’s Too Short’ has been doing a pilot of a comedy panel game called ‘Ace Of Clubs’, and Sharon Horgan (‘Pulling’) stars in a fun-sounding BBC3 production about a woman wrongly imprisoned for murdering her boss. It’s called ‘Life Story’.
However, none of these sound like they might be as (unintentionally) funny as the surely dire reboot of ‘Dallas’ that is coming to Channel 5. And finally, great news for fans of campery: there’s a shake-up in the ‘Dancing On Ice’ panel as Gardiner and Bunton get the chop in favour of skating legend Katarina Witt… and Louie Spence!
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Rupert Penry-Jones, Philip Glenister in "Treasure Island" Youtube
Rupert Penry-Jones looks unbelievably good, so does this movie!
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Eddie Izzard has revealed he made a last-minute decision to ditch a West Country accent and play Long John Silver as a Cockney villain in a new adaptation of Treasure Island.
Izzard's famed pirate to be Cockney
The comedian plays the one-legged pirate in a Sky1 adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson story - in which a ship of pirates and sailors sets sail from Bristol in search of buried gold - and said he opted to make a break with tradition just before filming started.
"I chose to make him London rather than West Country," said Eddie.
"I was getting ready to do him West Country then I thought, 'Everyone does him West Country!' There must have been so many sailors from London too, and it just twisted it a bit and made it mine."
The 49-year-old added that it was also his idea to shave his head to play Long John Silver, saying he had been "planning to shave my head for some time".
Eddie said he only agreed to take on the role if the tone of the two-parter was more like Tim Burton's dark Batman and less like a pantomime or The Pirates Of Penzance.
He said: "I agreed to do it if it could be a kick-arse Goodfellas version. I think the analogy I was using was Tim Burton's Batman."
Producers used CGI to make it look as if Eddie had only one leg, and the actor said he learnt to enjoy using Long John Silver's crutch.
"It became part of the character and I actually grew to like it, you know how soldiers keep their guns with them at all times? I just wanted to be with that crutch," he said.
Treasure Island, which was filmed in Ireland and Puerto Rico and which also stars Donald Sutherland, Elijah Wood and Rupert Penry Jones, will be on Sky1 during the Christmas period.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
HUGH GRANT, EDDIE IZZARD IN LIVERPOOL FOR LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE
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Pick of next week - Labour Party Conference
But wait: Who needs political agendas and policy? It's Scouse Night
Welcome to our worldTHIS year for the first time ever the Labour Party's Annual Conference is in Liverpool.
Never mind Ed Milliband or Hillary Benn. Hugh Grant is in town, ladies, as is Eddie Izzard, all apparently holed up in or around the Jury's Inn.
“We want to make sure everyone who comes has an experience they'll never forget,” say's the local Labour branch. “We're going to showcase all that's best about our great city."
So what to serve delegates in the dark, strange city, far away from home: Why Scouse Night, of course.
“On the Monday night of conference we're going to throw a party called Scouse Night," proclaims the blurb.
Forget any worries about stereotypes: “We'll have a Beatles tribute band performing, we'll serve scouse pie, we'll be giving away some of the best scouse competition prizes Liverpool has to offer, and even have a special scouse karaoke room, complete with Beatles wigs!" it goes on.
One of many pictures we could have PhotoshoppedOh yes. Fight it as you might, in Liverpool we are never more than 10ft away from the scuttling of a synthetic mop top.
“Tickets for this unforgettable event are £15 each. Tickets strictly limited, and they've already started to sell quickly! To make sure you don't miss out, book your place now!" – and it gives the web address where you can buy tickets.
“Scouse Night promises to be a night that will live long in the memory.”
Or perhaps not. Depending on your love of sherry.
Sherry, we said. Not Cherie.
*Labour Party Scouse Night, Monday September 26, 8 till late, Circo Bar, Albert Dock, Liverpool 3. Tickets £15.
Oh, you want the address where you can buy tickets? Fair enough. Go here.
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