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And the winners of the BAFTA Television Awards 2012 are...
10 hours ago | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Last night the stars of the small screen gathered in London's Royal Festival Hall as the winners of the Arqiva British Academy Television Awards 2012 were announced. One of the big winners was the ITV drama Appropriate Adult, which saw Dominic West fending off strong competition from Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), Joseph Gilgun (This Is England '88) and John Simm (Exile) to claim the Leading Actor gong for his role as the infamous British serial killer Fred West, while co-star Emily Watson also claimed the Leading Actress award in a field that included Romola Garai (The Crimson Petal and the White), Nadine Marshall (Random) and Vicky McClure (This Is England '88).
Appropriate Adult enjoyed further success as Monica Dolan was recognised in the Supporting Actress category, although it lost out for Best Mini Series to Shane Meadows' acclaimed drama This Is England '88. Elsewhere, Coronation Street took home the award for »
- flickeringmyth
A Return For Sherlock's Ultimate Enemy?
16 hours ago | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Sherlock Holmes will be returning to our TV screens despite jumping to his death from the top of a London building, and now it seems his arch-foe could reappear again as well, despite bumping himself off in more violent fashion at the end of the last series.
More: Sherlock Creator Paid Tribute By His Two Leading Men
Andrew Scott, now freshly furnished with a BAFTA TV Award for his portrayal of the big-brained Moriarty in the two series thus far on screen, told the Radio Times that "it's very hard for him to come back. But nothing is impossible."
Asked what the best thing about working on the hit TV series was, Scott was quick to praise his leading man - "One of the best things about working on Sherlock was acting with Benedict. He's a really cool guy."
And he was full of good words about the series creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, »
- The Huffington Post UK
A Return For Sherlock's Ultimate Enemy?
16 hours ago | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Sherlock Holmes will be returning to our TV screens despite jumping to his death from the top of a London building, and now it seems his arch-foe could reappear again as well, despite bumping himself off in more violent fashion at the end of the last series.
Andrew Scott, now freshly furnished with a BAFTA TV Award for his portrayal of the big-brained Moriarty in the two series thus far on screen, told the Radio Times that "it's very hard for him to come back. But nothing is impossible."
Asked what the best thing about working on the hit TV series was, Scott was quick to praise his leading man - "One of the best things about working on Sherlock was acting with Benedict. He's a really cool guy."
And he was full of good words about the series creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, »
- The Huffington Post UK
Bafta TV acting awards won by stars of ITV Fred West drama
21 hours ago | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Prize winners at the Royal Festival Hall include Appropriate Adult, Sherlock, Great British Bake-Off, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle and Borgen
Mark Lawson: Baftas strike balance between popularity and risk
Appropriate Adult, ITV's chilling drama exploring the Fred West murders took a hat-trick of acting prizes at the British Academy Television Awards on Sunday night, with actors honoured for their portrayals of Fred and Rose West, and the appropriate adult of the show's title, Janet Leach.
Dominic West, Emily Watson and Monica Dolan paid tribute to West's victims and a sensitive script that avoided sensationalism.
West and Watson said they had initially been reluctant to take the roles. "Of course [I had doubts], but the script answered a lot of questions about the focus of the film," said West, who took the best actor award for his portrayal of the Gloucester killer.
"I was sure that this case should be addressed and that human depravity should be addressed. »
- Vicky Frost, John Plunkett
Bafta TV awards strike balance between popularity and risk
21 hours ago | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The Bafta TV awards victors are a mix of the searing and the cheering, with popular programmes rewarded alongside critical successes
Appropriate Adult takes acting award hat-trick at Baftas
A common complaint about cultural awards ceremonies – regularly aimed at the Oscars and the Man Booker Prize, for example – is that they honour the enthusiasms of an elite within the industry, rather than the films that people watch or the books they read. Such accusations of narrowness would be particularly disastrous for TV prizes because broadcasting, as the word suggests, is the most generally consumed medium there has ever been. And what's most striking about the 2012 Bafta award winners is that they have managed to recognise both popularity and risk.
This range has partly been achieved by the tailoring of categories, with the addition in recent times of statuettes for Soap and Continuing Drama (won last night by Coronation Street) and for Constructed Reality, »
- Mark Lawson
John Ostrander: Sherlock 2 – Revisiting The Original Revisionist
27 May 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
Spoiler Warning: In reviewing the second series on the BBC series Sherlock, I may discuss some plot points. If you haven’t seen it – and you should – and you want to remain unspoiled on plot twists, best skip this.
By the time I was ten I had read all of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. I love the characters, I love the settings, and I’ve watched many of the movie and TV incarnations of the world’s most famous detective. Basil Rathbone was my initiation to the cinematic Holmes and, for a long time, he was indelible. My major gripe with the Rathbone Holmes movies was that, with only the exception of one or two, they were all set in the era in which they were made, the 30s and 40s, and had little to do with the actual stories. I wanted the gaslight and the London »
- John Ostrander
BBC To Air Only 6 'Doctor Who' Episodes This Year
24 May 2012 4:06 PM, PDT | AirlockAlpha.com | See recent Airlock Alpha news »
While rumors still swirl that BBC is clamping down on some of the costs of "Doctor Who," showrunner Steven Moffat has confirmed that fans will only get six episodes of "Doctor Who" in 2012 -- one of them being the Christmas episode. It's the fewest number of "Who" episodes to be aired since 2009 when BBC decided to forego a regular season of "Doctor Who" and air just three specials instead. Such a split had been rumored for some time, and when BBC announced that the new seventh season wouldn't air until the fall (instead of the spring has had been traditionally done), such rumors really gained momentum. Moffat, however, isn't speculating on what's happening to the show. "I don't know, on this occasion, that the thinking particularly came from me, actually," Moffat recently told »
if only Great Expectations had a moral (and other adventures in social networking)
22 May 2012 4:21 PM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today: • Shorter Jeff Simon: Movies keep getting worse and worse, and it's all the fault of critics, because they trash bad movies. Critics should share blame for run of bad movies • Even the critics who praise his work are stupid? Doctor Who And Sherlock Writer Steven Moffat Brands Critics 'Stupid' • Might as well just plug all in into the Matrix now and have it done with. Children addicted to television face a lifetime hooked to the box say doctors as they warn a generation risks brain damage • I love this bit: "'She's a great story,' Kirkwood told the Hollywood Reporter. 'Her rise…is almost like Great Expectations -- with a moral.'" Because, you know, Great Expectations has no moral. I'm sure Hollywood will give that hack Dickens what-for. 'Rocky' producer to make Rebekah Brooks film about the famed »
- MaryAnn Johanson
'Doctor Who': Steven Moffat 'incredibly sad' to lose Karen Gillian and Arthur Darvill
22 May 2012 2:51 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
This coming season of the re-imagined "Doctor Who" will mark the end of fan favorites Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill) as companions to the Doctor (Matt Smith). The man who brought the show back to life, Steven Moffat is "incredibly sad" to see them go.
He tells Digital Spy, "Oh, it's incredibly sad. The thing you can forget about this is, while the audience are losing people that they see for a few months per year, Karen and Arthur are walking out of something that they've been involved with every day for years. It's not just a professional change, it is a personal upheaval."
Fans feel the same way and have been talking about the loss and blogging about it for months. Moffat continues, "I'm trying not to say it's like being dumped, but a huge part of your life changes. I think of Karen and Arthur, and »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Steven Moffat Hits Back At Doctor Who Critics
22 May 2012 9:11 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Screenwriter Steven Moffat has taken aim at critics of his recent Doctor Who plotlines, branding them "stupid".
Moffat took over as boss of the hit sci-fi show in 2010, and sanctioned pioneering stories which some fans have complained are complicated and confusing.
However, the writer has shrugged off the criticism, insisting the scripts are suitable as the show is popular around the world.
He tells the BAFTA Guru website, "There's been a weird backlash among, I presume, fairly stupid people about the fact the shows are complicated and clever, but (it is a) huge international hit... We make no apology. Don't expect to do the ironing; sit down, pay attention and think about it.
"Audiences like complexity. They follow intricately plotted soap operas all the time. It depresses me when people say, 'It's all far too clever.'" »
Win a Signed Sherlock Blu-ray and Poster
22 May 2012 8:30 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Sherlock's second series, now out on DVD, was, not mysteriously, excellent. But nothing was more enchanting than "Benedict Cumberbatch" itself. Not the man — that striking actor, otter look-alike, and upcoming Star Trek villain — but the name, the thing. Vulture would like to celebrate Cumberbatchery with a contest allowing you to win a Blu-ray and DVD of Sherlock season two, both signed by Cumberbatch and series creator Steven Moffat (of Doctor Who fame), and a series poster autographed by Moffat and wife-producer Sue Vertue. All you have to do is give us your best alternate definition of a Benedict Cumberbatch. Is it a bioluminescent sea vegetable? A code name for an early aqueduct prototype? We don't know; you do. Put your definition in the comments below — we'll pick the best, declare the winner on Wednesday, and send out the signed swag. (Entry cutoff is 6 p.m. Eastern tonight.) »
- Zach Dionne
Can a show recover from the loss of its creator?
22 May 2012 4:58 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Community fans have been left reeling by the firing of the show's creator Dan Harmon. But is there any hope for the cult sitcom, or do shows inevitably decline when their creators depart?
The news that Dan Harmon, creator of cult sitcom Community, had been fired last week caused shockwaves. Programmes lose their writers and producers all the time – but few are as important to the show as Harmon. Just as it's hard to imagine Mad Men without Matthew Weiner or The Sopranos missing David Chase, so it seems as though NBC and Sony – respectively the network and production company behind the show – have failed to understand that Harmon's idiosyncratic brain is central to Community's success.
The obscure references were all his, along with the format risks and multiple timelines: Community was adored by its fans because of Harmon's vision. Its difficult to imagine that the unfortunate David Guarascio and Moses Port, »
- Sarah Hughes
Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall – live chat with the co-creators
21 May 2012 3:08 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Highlights from the Sherlock live chat with Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, the co-creators of the British TV hit
Co-creators of the British TV hit Sherlock, Stevenn Moffat and Mark Gatiss (who plays Holmes's buttoned-up brother, Mycroft) joined Guardian readers for a live chat at 2pm on Monday, following Sherlock's sensational season two finale.
Though they remained tight-lipped about the secret behind "the Fall" and what's in store fore season three, Moffat and Gatiss did divulge several juicy tidbits, including the funniest thing that's happened on set and the inside scoop on Sherlock and Molly's dynamic.
Read through the Q&A here or replay the chat in the widget below:
Is there any part of the last two season that you feel extremely satisfied with?
Steven Moffat: Probably the pool scene at the end of The Great Game. And the way it resolved.
Mark Gatiss: All of it! »
- Matt Wells
News Nuggets: 'Doctor Who,' 'Sherlock' writer Steven Moffat wins special BAFTA honor
20 May 2012 11:02 AM, PDT | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
Steven Moffat to receive a special BAFTA honor: "Recognising his 'outstanding creative writing contribution to television,' the award will be presented on 27 May at London's Royal Festival Hall. Previous recipients include Russell T Davies, who preceded the 50-year-old Scot as 'Doctor Who's' head writer. 'Blimey! A special award!' said Moffat, 'I didn't even know I was ill.' The accolade follows the writing prize he received at last Sunday's Bafta Craft Awards for 'A Scandal in Belgravia,' the first episode of 'Sherlock's' second series." BBC Sherlock Holmes breaks the record as the most portrayed literary character in TV and film history: "Sherlock Holmes, who has been portrayed by actors like Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr., Tom Baker and many others, has broken the record for having more film and TV portrayals than any other literary character. The super sl. »
Why A Doctor Who Film Reboot Isn’t Happening & Never Will
20 May 2012 9:30 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
“The very brilliant David Yates was talking off the cuff and a little prematurely: there simply are no developed plans for a Doctor Who movie at the moment. But it’s an incredibly exciting idea to get that magic blue box flying across our cinema screens, so stand by for further developments.
However, if and when the movie happens, it will need to star television’s Doctor Who – and there’s only every one of those at a time. And it would need to come out of the same production operation that makes the series. Doctor Who is a vitally important BBC brand with a huge international audience and not even Hollywood can start this one from scratch.
So sorry if there’s been any confusion, but on the plus side it has reminded us all what an exciting prospect this could be. Whatever happens, the BBC and BBC Worldwide »
- Rupert David Bath
SciFi Mafia’s Fall 2012 Prime Time TV Schedule Now Includes Haven
18 May 2012 4:00 PM, PDT | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
Hey there, Mafiosi, we know we have been inundating you with fall TV news over the past two weeks. You’ll be happy to learn that we have, in fact, been keeping it all straight and are now giving you this little summary so that you can do the same.
Yesterday we got the news that beloved formerly-summer show Haven has been given a premiere date: September 21. They even gave us a lovely visual reminder:
Nice, right? Now we won’t forget.
To keep track of all the rest of the shows, though, we have this daily breakdown for you. If last year is any indication, we’ll won’t have the premiere dates settled until some time in August. We’ll continue to update the list as additional shows are announced, and as premiere dates are released. Ready?
Sunday
8/7c Once Upon a Time (ABC)
10/9c 666 Park Avenue (ABC »
- Erin Willard
Broadcast Networks Fall Sked: New and Old Genre Offerings, Part III
17 May 2012 2:24 PM, PDT | doorQ.com | See recent doorQ.com news »
With the broadcast networks done shoring up their fall schedule, let’s take a look at what genre fans (and the gays) have to look forward to:
CBS, the nation’s #1 broadcast network, is once again in a position to offer a few new shows, while continuing offer 47 different, yet the same, procedural cop shows. While some may not consider the CSI and NCIS franchise as science fiction, they do offer a lot of technobabble that really is more futuristic methodology than real science. So it’s more puedso-science mixed with the age-old mysteries that are about as mysterious as a puddle. One intriguing series will be Elementary, CBS’ attempt at emulating the BBC’s updated, modern version of Sherlock Holmes without copying it –to avoid lawsuits, you know. Jonny Lee Miller will play Sherlock Holmes, while Lucy Lui will play Jane Watson (ahhh, so see Steven Moffat and the BBC, »
- spaced-odyssey
Sherlock vs. 'Sherlock'
16 May 2012 6:24 AM, PDT | TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news »
CBS just announced that Elementary -- a modern-day retelling of the Sherlock Holmes stories starring Jonny Lee Miller as the lead and Lucy Liu as his Dr. Watson -- would be joining the schedule, Thursdays at 10 p.m. Alongside PBS Masterpiece's Sherlock (currently airing series two), that is the second updated incarnation of these tales. But Sherlock showrunner Steven Moffat isn't worried. In fact, he thinks Elementary is taking too many liberties with its storytelling.
Related - Is Your Favorite TV Show Coming Back Next Season?
"What we did with our Sherlock was just take it from Victorian times into modern day," he tells TheInsider.com. "They've got three big changes: it's Sherlock Holmes in America, it's Sherlock Holmes updated and it's Sherlock Holmes with a female Watson. I wonder if he's Sherlock Holmes in any sense other than he's called Sherlock Holmes. It's almost like they should have made Watson a woman but kept the show »
'Sherlock': Is Mycroft Holmes 'cleverer' than his famous brother?
15 May 2012 8:49 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Sherlock Holmes is the world's greatest detective and, depending on who you ask, Benedict Cumberbatch is the world's greatest Sherlock Holmes in the BBC's reimagining of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle mysteries, "Sherlock." But, says Mark Gatniss who co-created the series with Steven Moffat, there is someone smarter than Sherlock: His brother, Mycroft Holmes
To be exact, the word Gatniss used was "cleverer." Also, Gatniss may be a bit biased since he plays Mycroft himself.
The 3-episode Season 2 of "Sherlock" is currently airing in the U.S. and in a webchat with PBS, Gatniss was asked why the Holmes brothers are so brilliant and peculiar.
"Why are the Holmes brothers the way they are? What are their parents like? Maybe we'll see one day. I'd like to find a way of showing, more than we have, that [Mycroft] is actually even cleverer than Sherlock."
What do you think, Sherlock fans? »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Edgar Wright hopes to start shooting Ant-Man this year
15 May 2012 4:59 AM, PDT | www.themoviebit.com | See recent TheMovieBit news »
A founding member of The Avengers in the comics, Ant-Man has had quite a rocky road to the big screen. Over five years ago, Marvel Studio's approached Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish (who went on to co-write Tintin with Steven Moffat) to script a humorous take on the character, to be directed by Wright, to make up part of their shared cinematic universe they started with Iron Man. Following a scientist, Hank Pym, who develops a substance he uses to shrink to the size of an ant, it was never really considered a priority for the studio, but instead of canceling the project, Wright and Cornish have been working on the script over the last few years, delivering a third draft and concept art in July of last year. Now it seems that all signs point towards the film finally going ahead. First, Marvel Studio's head Kevin Feige mentioned that »
- noreply@blogger.com (Tom White)
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