Showing posts with label silk. Show all posts
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Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Philip Glenister and Rupert Penry-Jones compete for detective drama
THE TELEGRAPH
By Tim Walker7:30AM BST 17 Apr 2014
Rupert Penry-Jones and Philip Glenister searched for treasure together in Sky One’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Now, the pair are fighting over it as the battle for the starring role in the television adaptation of Paul Mendelson’s new crime thriller The First Rule of Survival gets serious.
“Philip is in deep negotiations through a production company to do it,” Mendelson tells Mandrake at the launch of the novel at Daunt Books in Marylebone. “There is another actor called Rupert Penry-Jones. He is in deep negotiation, too, through another production company that wants to do it.”
Set in Cape Town, the book follows Colonel Vaughn de Vries as he revisits a case involving the abduction of three white schoolboys. As for who will win the role, I hear that Glenister, who, incidentally, attended the launch, is the frontrunner. “Ultimately, I guess the publisher decides and I guess I’m part of that decision,” says Mendelson. “Phil is one of my oldest friends. I’ve known him for 30 years and he was in the back of my mind when I wrote it.”
READ MORE HERE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10770877/Philip-Glenister-and-Rupert-Penry-Jones-compete-for-detective-drama.html
By Tim Walker7:30AM BST 17 Apr 2014
Rupert Penry-Jones and Philip Glenister searched for treasure together in Sky One’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island. Now, the pair are fighting over it as the battle for the starring role in the television adaptation of Paul Mendelson’s new crime thriller The First Rule of Survival gets serious.
“Philip is in deep negotiations through a production company to do it,” Mendelson tells Mandrake at the launch of the novel at Daunt Books in Marylebone. “There is another actor called Rupert Penry-Jones. He is in deep negotiation, too, through another production company that wants to do it.”
Set in Cape Town, the book follows Colonel Vaughn de Vries as he revisits a case involving the abduction of three white schoolboys. As for who will win the role, I hear that Glenister, who, incidentally, attended the launch, is the frontrunner. “Ultimately, I guess the publisher decides and I guess I’m part of that decision,” says Mendelson. “Phil is one of my oldest friends. I’ve known him for 30 years and he was in the back of my mind when I wrote it.”
READ MORE HERE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/10770877/Philip-Glenister-and-Rupert-Penry-Jones-compete-for-detective-drama.html
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Rupert Penry-Jones on life in America: 'I want to make it in Hollywood, but I WON'T BEG'
MAIL ON LINE
By NICOLE LAMPERT
PUBLISHED: 17:30 EST, 7 March 2014 | UPDATED: 17:30 EST, 7 March 2014
Rupert Penry-Jones has just come back from Hollywood.
Brits are having a bit of a moment over there on critically acclaimed shows like The Americans, Suits and Masters Of Sex, and Rupert has the sort of leading man good looks and posh accent that should have them rolling out the red carpet for him.
The only problem is, well... it didn't go brilliantly.
'I went to meet up with a few people but it's put me off for another few years,' says Rupert.
'I don't like the way that place makes me feel. When you go out to California, unless you're a movie star, you feel like a failure and I don't want to feel like a failure. If they call me, of course I'd do it, but I'm not going to go banging on doors. It's too demeaning and humiliating. I do want to work on an American show; the best of their TV is the best in the world at the moment. But I'm not going to beg.'
He didn't come away from LA completely empty-handed - he won a small part in the second series of a pirate drama called Black Sails - but he seems a little underwhelmed by it.
'I like to go into a series from the beginning and this is the second series,' he shrugs. 'I don't know what's going to happen to my character but it was fun to film; I got to spend a few weeks in Cape Town with my friend Toby Stephens, who's also in it.'
Normally at this time of year Rupert, 43, whose mother is To The Manor Born's Angela Thorne and whose father Peter Penry-Jones was an actor too, would be filming Whitechapel; but that was axed by ITV at the end of last year. He admits he's still surprised and a little bit angry that the channel didn't let the gory detective drama have a fifth and final series.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2575671/I-want-make-Hollywood-I-WONT-BEG-Rupert-Penry-Jones-life-America.html
By NICOLE LAMPERT
PUBLISHED: 17:30 EST, 7 March 2014 | UPDATED: 17:30 EST, 7 March 2014
Rupert Penry-Jones has just come back from Hollywood.
Brits are having a bit of a moment over there on critically acclaimed shows like The Americans, Suits and Masters Of Sex, and Rupert has the sort of leading man good looks and posh accent that should have them rolling out the red carpet for him.
The only problem is, well... it didn't go brilliantly.
'I went to meet up with a few people but it's put me off for another few years,' says Rupert.
'I don't like the way that place makes me feel. When you go out to California, unless you're a movie star, you feel like a failure and I don't want to feel like a failure. If they call me, of course I'd do it, but I'm not going to go banging on doors. It's too demeaning and humiliating. I do want to work on an American show; the best of their TV is the best in the world at the moment. But I'm not going to beg.'
He didn't come away from LA completely empty-handed - he won a small part in the second series of a pirate drama called Black Sails - but he seems a little underwhelmed by it.
'I like to go into a series from the beginning and this is the second series,' he shrugs. 'I don't know what's going to happen to my character but it was fun to film; I got to spend a few weeks in Cape Town with my friend Toby Stephens, who's also in it.'
Normally at this time of year Rupert, 43, whose mother is To The Manor Born's Angela Thorne and whose father Peter Penry-Jones was an actor too, would be filming Whitechapel; but that was axed by ITV at the end of last year. He admits he's still surprised and a little bit angry that the channel didn't let the gory detective drama have a fifth and final series.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2575671/I-want-make-Hollywood-I-WONT-BEG-Rupert-Penry-Jones-life-America.html
Friday, February 7, 2014
Rupert Penry-Jones on Silk series 3: It feels like a grenade has been thrown in (SPOILERS)
RADIO TIMES
Emma Daly
5:10 PM, 07 February 2014
Spoilers follow
With illness, divided Chambers and complicated romance at the heart of the new series of Silk, there’s plenty to be getting on with away from the action of the court.
But while star Rupert Penry-Jones says the very nature of a courtroom drama means “it could go on and on” (all sorts of cases can be brought to court, after all) the cast aren’t sure what’s next after series three.
“If feels like everyone gets blasted in different directions at the end of the series,” Penry-Jones tells RadioTimes.com. “We all sort of end up going off in different ways and no one knows where the other person is, literally. So it kind of feels like maybe [writer Peter Moffat] has thrown a grenade in and blown the whole show up.
“You never know what to expect with [Moffat]. He’s kind of written himself into a place, I don’t know what he’s going to do next. We as a cast aren’t sure whether its been written in a way that this is it or whether it’s got more,” Penry-Jones adds.
The actor, who plays barrister Clive Reader, says it’s very much up to how people “react to the show”.
If given the chance to stick with Silk, Penry-Jones says he’s not making decisions until “there’s a decision to be made”.
“It depends on what Peter says he’s going to do with the next series, if there is another series. I stayed in Spooks for four years, and that was a long time.”
But for now there’s enough going on in Silk. Clive’s “not trying to shag everything that moves” and, now a QC, has “got a lot more confidence”.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-02-07/rupert-penry-jones-on-silk-series-3-it-feels-like-a-grenade-has-been-thrown-in
Emma Daly
5:10 PM, 07 February 2014
Spoilers follow
With illness, divided Chambers and complicated romance at the heart of the new series of Silk, there’s plenty to be getting on with away from the action of the court.
But while star Rupert Penry-Jones says the very nature of a courtroom drama means “it could go on and on” (all sorts of cases can be brought to court, after all) the cast aren’t sure what’s next after series three.
“If feels like everyone gets blasted in different directions at the end of the series,” Penry-Jones tells RadioTimes.com. “We all sort of end up going off in different ways and no one knows where the other person is, literally. So it kind of feels like maybe [writer Peter Moffat] has thrown a grenade in and blown the whole show up.
“You never know what to expect with [Moffat]. He’s kind of written himself into a place, I don’t know what he’s going to do next. We as a cast aren’t sure whether its been written in a way that this is it or whether it’s got more,” Penry-Jones adds.
The actor, who plays barrister Clive Reader, says it’s very much up to how people “react to the show”.
If given the chance to stick with Silk, Penry-Jones says he’s not making decisions until “there’s a decision to be made”.
“It depends on what Peter says he’s going to do with the next series, if there is another series. I stayed in Spooks for four years, and that was a long time.”
But for now there’s enough going on in Silk. Clive’s “not trying to shag everything that moves” and, now a QC, has “got a lot more confidence”.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2014-02-07/rupert-penry-jones-on-silk-series-3-it-feels-like-a-grenade-has-been-thrown-in
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Rupert Penry-Jones: Blood, sweat and fears
THE AGE
Guy Davis
October , 2013
It begs the question: is Whitechapel actually a nice place to live? Does anyone even really want to go there?
“It is nice, actually,” Whitechapel star Rupert Penry-Jones chuckled.
“It’s become a very trendy part of London. It wasn’t always but now it’s where the young, cool people tend to go. I love it there – it’s got real atmosphere.”
Well, if the fourth season of Whitechapel is any indication, the area not only attracts the young and the cool but the crazy and the bloodthirsty.
The six episodes making up the season are split into three two-episode investigations undertaken by Penry-Jones’ DI Joseph Chandler, Phil Davis’ DS Ray Miles and their team, including unofficial consultant Edward Buchan (Steve Pemberton), a true-crime enthusiast.
And the cases they’re trying to crack? A witch hunt where the victims are crushed under boulders and burned alive at the stake, for one.
Then there’s mysterious deaths in the sewers that may be the result of feral pigs.
“And there’s one where someone is skinning people,” Penry-Jones said dryly. “This is possibly the most grisly season yet.”
But the actor, whose other notable small-screen roles include Spooks and Silk, rather likes it that way.
“To be honest, the scarier and more gruesome the better, as far I am concerned,” he said.
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-guide/blood-sweat-and-fears-20131006-2v1wc.html#ixzz2hEn157qG
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Rupert Penry-Jones: Whitechapel: Chandler, Miles and Buchan are back as yet another murder is committed on the streets of Whitechapel (SPOILERS)
YAHOO
By Daniel Wood | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Mon, Sep 9, 2013 22:50 BS
Whitechapel is back for its fourth season, and the first episode does not disappoint in the slightest. We immediately get acquainted to the three main characters, DI Joe Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones) and DS Ray Miles (Phil Davis) as they attend Edward Buchan's (Steve Pemberton) book signing, three leads have excellent chemistry together and waste no time re-establishing themselves.
Straight away we get the trademark eeriness and underlying horror that Whitechapel has been excellent at delivering so far and you can't help but feel a sense of dread and unease right from the start of the episode. The frequent flips between the book signing scenes and the first murder of the new series really helped to amp up the horror element by juxtaposing a seemingly innocuous book signing with the wince-inducing scenes of poor Alexander Zukanov (David Grant) getting crushed to death.
Whitechapel is a show that is never for the faint of heart, as it really does pull no punches, evidenced by director Jon East's almost cruel refusal to cut away just before the sickening moments happen. The caving in of Zukanov's chest was an incredibly affecting moment, as were several other moments throughout the episode, such as Dorothy Cade breaking the neck of a pigeon, and her eventual demise. This stalwart 'testing' of the audiences gag reflex and refusal to make things easy for them is a credit to the show.
Following Zukanov's murder the team finds itself embroiled in a storyline that mixes the occult with international espionage in a mash-up that provides many thrilling, and also completely disconcerting moments. You really get the sense that although quietly mocking its conceit, when Buchan mentioned Whitechapel as containing a 'Gate of Hell' that they really want you to consider this a possibility.
Match this with the fact that a creepy old lady in the book signing is called Louise Iver (Lucifer) uttering prophetic sentences about the main characters secrets and the apparent rogue agent Crispin Wingfield hinting that there was a force that was responsible for all of the previous Whitechapel cases. As a result we get the real sense that this is more than a crime procedural drama and that the show is maybe heading in a direction that sees the supernatural actually behind the real life crimes. Not sure what my thoughts are on that yet.
READ MORE HERE: http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/whitechapel-chandler-miles-buchan-back-yet-another-murder-215000817.html
Friday, August 30, 2013
Rupert Penry-Jones on what it's like being the most handsome toff on TV - and his wife makes of it all
I quite like making women go weak at the knees
By NICOLE LAMPERT
PUBLISHED: 16:32 EST, 30 August 2013 | UPDATED: 16:32 EST, 30 August 2013
The chiselled features of Rupert Penry-Jones don’t just turn heads, they set hearts a-flutter and reduce hitherto dynamic, accomplished women to simpering schoolgirls.
The towering star of Whitechapel and Silk is lusted after by everyone from the woman next door to the highest paid female TV presenter in the country.
According to Maxine Peake, his co-star in legal drama Silk, she can slip into the public gallery at the Old Bailey to research her role unrecognised, but when Rupert once accompanied her, 'Women were cooing and going all gooey over him.'
And who can forget that embarrassing interview last year on This Morning, when Holly Willoughby, who’s interviewed Hollywood stars, prime ministers and Olympic heroes, stammered, giggled and blushed before finally burying her face in a cushion to mask her discomfort?
No, there’s no denying Rupert’s a heart-throb. As his actress wife and former M&S voiceover doyenne Dervla Kirwan might have purred, 'Not just any heart-throb, but Britain’s heart-throb.'
Because, while most of his other pretty boy contemporaries have moved to Hollywood, the most handsome home-grown talent on British TV is thankfully still here, gracing our screens for up to six months of the year.
We meet on the appropriately creepy set of the fourth series of his horror detective show Whitechapel.
The disused Hornsey Town Hall in north London is a former Art Deco masterpiece now full of mysterious dark corridors, strange noises and rumours of ghosts. Rupert, 42, has been doing 12-hour shifts all week, but he strides into the room with a big smile.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2405760/I-quite-like-making-women-weak-knees-Rupert-Penry-Jones-like-handsome-toff-TV--wife-makes-all.html#ixzz2dVl4bXQl
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Saturday, August 24, 2013
Rupert Penry-Jones: ‘Silk’ Has American Debut on ‘Masterpiece Mystery!’
NEW YORK TIMES
By MIKE HALE
Published: August 23, 2013
Stories by lawyers about lawyers are often guilty of grandstanding for the jury (that’s us), and early in the first episode of “Silk” the barrister heroine is told, apropos of not much: “Fifteen years you’ve been doing this and you still believe, don’t you? Innocent until proven guilty.” Just in case we missed the point, it’s repeated by her a few minutes later: “Innocent until proven guilty. Four words to live by.”
It’s a little disturbing to think that this is such a novel concept in the British legal system, but we’ll have to take the word of Peter Moffat, the show’s writer and a former barrister who created two previous legal dramas for British television. “Silk,” which is about to start its third season on BBC, makes its American premiere as part of PBS’s “Masterpiece Mystery!” on Sunday night.
It’s set among the lawyers in a London chambers, and one hurdle for American viewers will be the unfamiliarity of terms like chambers as well as the roles of barristers, solicitors, clerks, pupils and crown prosecutors.
Silk
On PBS stations on Sunday nights at 9 (check local listings).
Produced by the BBC and Masterpiece. Written by Peter Moffat; directed by Michael Offer; Cameron Roach, producer; Hilary Salmon, executive producer for the BBC; Rebecca Eaton, executive producer for Masterpiece.
WITH: Maxine Peake (Martha Costello), Rupert Penry-Jones (Clive), Tom Hughes (Nick), Natalie Dormer (Niamh) and Neil Stuke (Billy).
READ MORE HERE: http://tv.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/arts/television/silk-has-american-debut-on-masterpiece-mystery.html?_r=0
By MIKE HALE
Published: August 23, 2013
Stories by lawyers about lawyers are often guilty of grandstanding for the jury (that’s us), and early in the first episode of “Silk” the barrister heroine is told, apropos of not much: “Fifteen years you’ve been doing this and you still believe, don’t you? Innocent until proven guilty.” Just in case we missed the point, it’s repeated by her a few minutes later: “Innocent until proven guilty. Four words to live by.”
It’s a little disturbing to think that this is such a novel concept in the British legal system, but we’ll have to take the word of Peter Moffat, the show’s writer and a former barrister who created two previous legal dramas for British television. “Silk,” which is about to start its third season on BBC, makes its American premiere as part of PBS’s “Masterpiece Mystery!” on Sunday night.
It’s set among the lawyers in a London chambers, and one hurdle for American viewers will be the unfamiliarity of terms like chambers as well as the roles of barristers, solicitors, clerks, pupils and crown prosecutors.
Silk
On PBS stations on Sunday nights at 9 (check local listings).
Produced by the BBC and Masterpiece. Written by Peter Moffat; directed by Michael Offer; Cameron Roach, producer; Hilary Salmon, executive producer for the BBC; Rebecca Eaton, executive producer for Masterpiece.
WITH: Maxine Peake (Martha Costello), Rupert Penry-Jones (Clive), Tom Hughes (Nick), Natalie Dormer (Niamh) and Neil Stuke (Billy).
READ MORE HERE: http://tv.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/arts/television/silk-has-american-debut-on-masterpiece-mystery.html?_r=0
Friday, August 23, 2013
Rupert Penry-Jones: Silk premiere's Sunday on Masterpiece (video)
MASTERPIECE
Sunday, August 25, 2013 at 9:00 pm on PBS
Barrister Martha Costello (Maxine Peake) is under pressure to win cases as she aspires to rise to the rank of Queen's Counsel, also known as "taking Silk." But Clive (Rupert Penry-Jones) is opposing counsel in a major case, and a formidable rival. See the premiere of Silk, Sunday, August 25, 2013, 9pm ET, on MASTERPIECE Mystery! [120 minutes; online video viewable in the U.S. only]
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Rupert Penry-Jones: 'Whitechapel' returns for series four: First look trailer
DIGITAL SPY
Published Wednesday, Aug 14 2013, 10:05am EDT | By Alex Fletcher
Whitechapel returns soon for its fourth series on ITV and the first trailer for the latest episodes has been unveiled today (August 14).
Watch the Whitechapel series four trailer below:
Read more: http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/news/a506703/whitechapel-returns-for-series-four-first-look-trailer.html#ixzz2by6PZRO7
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Published Wednesday, Aug 14 2013, 10:05am EDT | By Alex Fletcher
Whitechapel returns soon for its fourth series on ITV and the first trailer for the latest episodes has been unveiled today (August 14).
Watch the Whitechapel series four trailer below:
Read more: http://www.digitalspy.com/british-tv/news/a506703/whitechapel-returns-for-series-four-first-look-trailer.html#ixzz2by6PZRO7
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Saturday, July 13, 2013
Monday, July 8, 2013
RUPERT PENRY-JONES: SPOTTED IN THE TEMPLE: THE FILMING OF SILK SERIES 3 — AND RUPERT PENRY-JONES ISN’T HAPPY By Alex Aldridge (LEGAL CHEEK)
The good news for actor Rupert Penry-Jones, who plays barrister Clive Reader in hit BBC drama Silk, is that his character has finally been made a QC — as you can see below. The bad news is that he was forced to miss yesterday's historic Wimbledon final for the filming of the third series...
Can't believe I had two tickets for the final today and couldn't go cos I am filming silk. I hope everyone appreciates my sacrifice
Monday, July 1, 2013
Regarding Rupert Penry-Jones...At Wimbledon - Photo credit: Guardian and Getty
Rupert Penry-Jones and Jack Davenport - second row, center
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Sunday, June 23, 2013
Rupert Penry-Jones: BBC show Silk shot in Hatfield ‘court’
By Emma Hardwick, Reporter
Saturday, June 22, 2013
3:00 PM
A MOCK courtroom in Hatfield became the set for a BBC drama this week.
Silk, which highlights the problems modern barristers face, was being filmed at the University of Hertfordshire on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday.
Stars Maxine Peake, who was previously in Dinnerladies and Shameless, and Rupert Penry-Jones, from Spooks, were on set shooting scenes.
Filming took place at the entrance of the Law Court Building, at the de Havilland Campus, in Mosquito Way, and in their Crown Court Room.
The scenes will make up part of one episode of the third series.
Monday, June 10, 2013
Friday, May 3, 2013
Monday, April 29, 2013
Rupert Penry-Jones, Nicola Walker at Olivier Awards
LONDON, ENGLAND - APRIL 28: Nicola Walker with the Best Actress in a Supporting Role award with Rupert Penry Jones (L) and Romola Garai during The Laurence Olivier Awards at the Royal Opera House on April 28, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by Ben A. Pruchnie/Getty Images)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/getty/article/ALeqM5jYHImH_9n0sKt7z0bRTO7CAq4SAg?docId=167721476
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Wild swimming with the FT: Rupert Penry-Jones By Keith Watson
“Oh, are we doing wetsuits? I’ve only brought my Speedos,” says Rupert Penry-Jones, turning up with a towel tucked neatly under his arm. And to think I’d been worried we might not get any shots of Penry-Jones with his top off – now I’m faced with the prospect of measuring up in the budgie-smuggler stakes.
We’re meeting at the edge of a lake in Hampshire because Penry-Jones is a committed water baby, a sleek, aquatic athlete who has a wave machine – the swimming version of a treadmill – at his country home so he can keep his stroke ticking over when he’s not splashing about in the great outdoors. He’s part of a growing band devoted to Roger Deakin’s book Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain, for whom wild swimming is the best way of getting back to nature.
The good news, budgie smuggler-wise, is that the water is a touch cold for anything too skimpy. Luckily, Penry-Jones is very taken with the fancy wetsuits provided by Chris Rees, the manager at Lakeside Country Park, in Eastleigh. Rees is also proposing, for safety’s sake, to paddle alongside us in a kayak. Hang on a minute, you’re thinking; this isn’t all that wild, now is it?
Thursday, June 21, 2012
Rupert Penry Jones: "I don't have a problem with sex scenes" Claire Webb 12:30 PM, 20 June 2012 (RADIO TIMES)
What can't you miss?
Game of Thrones, for my sins. I was up for a part in it and that's why I started watching - to see how it went - and got hooked. I love how epic and gothic it is, and the whole idea of this medieval fantasy world. I'm a bit of a big kid. Before that my guilty pleasure was Homeland.
What would you resurrect?
I loved The Six Million Dollar Man and The Fall Guy. But I would bring back The Saint - he was a sort of 60s Robin Hood, played by Roger Moore.
Would you cast yourself?
I would love to, although I think it's time to put the spies and procedural shows behind me. That's why it was great to do the suspense thriller The Last Weekend (due to be broadcast in autumn). I play a high-flying lawyer, but it's not about his job, it's about relationships and jealousy…
Have you enjoyed sporting a wig in Silk?
I try and wear it as little as possible! The wig I had made for me got lost so I've a secondhand one and it's itchy. No, the thing I enjoy most is Peter Moffat's writing and working with the others - they're superb.
What's the most difficult thing you've had to do as an actor?
I don't have a problem with sex scenes, but I've had to kiss men now and again in my career and that was quite a tough call.
Is it also tough watching your wife, Irish actress Dervla Kirwan, kiss another actor?
It's not comfortable, put it that way…
Who controls the remote?
I do. Our two children are only allowed to watch TV at the weekend and we try to make them watch the channels that don't have ads otherwise they start asking us to buy lots of things.
What makes you turn off?
I'm sick of reality shows. It's cheap TV taking up time when good drama could be on and should be on.
READ MORE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-06-20/rupert-penry-jones-i-don't-have-a-problem-with-sex-scenes
Thursday, May 24, 2012
TV Review: Starlings sets the bar high for Sunday night drama Liverpool Daily PostMay 24 2012 (LIVERPOOL DAILY POST)
IF YOU believe the adverts, the home of “original British drama” is the BBC. That may be true some of the time. Tuesday nights, for example, tend to get some good dramas. Silks (Tuesdays, 9pm, BBC 1) is pretty good as legal dramas go.
And, of course, there are the big-money productions such as Sherlock, although the most recent series did take the whole “can we believe what we're seeing” thing a little too far – surely not even a genius like Sherlock could really survive a multi-storey fall on to concrete.
However, Sunday night at the moment – traditionally the home of drama of some sort – feels somewhat barren. The Voice vote results show (Sundays, 7.30pm, BBC 1) is crammed into 30 minutes and fenced in by Countryfile – which, truth be told, should really be called Townies-going-to-the-countryside-for-the-weekend-file – on one side, and Planet Earth Live, a programme mischeviously misnamed given how much of it depends on probable death, on the other.
ITV isn't much better. The traditional home of such homely dramatic delights such as Heartbeat, The Royal and Where The Heart Is seems now to rely on sporadic crime dramas such as Vera to punctuate the gaps in the year when Simon Cowell isn't ruling Sundays.
So it's a big hoorah for Sky One, the unlikely home of one of the best dramas – admittedly a comedy drama but lets be grateful for what we can get – on telly at the moment, and certainly the best offering on a Sunday night.
Starlings (Sundays, Sky One, 8pm) is like a modern-day Darling Buds of May, only without a young actress destined to go on to marry a movie star millionaire or be ulitimately best known for shouting 'oggy, oggy oggy' at an awards ceremony.
Or a celebrated comedy actor fresh from a sitcom set in inner-city London determined to show he can put on a good country accent. Thank god David Jason went on to do Frost. Shame about The Royal Bodyguard though.
Instead, Starlings has Brendan Coyle, fresh out of Downtown Abbey – maybe I was wrong about the reinvention – and Lesley Sharp, last seen in Scott and Bailey, arguably one of the most under-rated crime dramas going.
Read Morehttp://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-culture/liverpool-arts/2012/05/24/tv-review-starlings-sets-the-bar-high-for-sunday-night-drama-99623-31024524/
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