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Brian Sewell: the BBC's factual television is an insult to the nation
15 June 2013 4:02 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Acerbic art critic Brian Sewell has denounced most factual TV as disgracefully dumbed-down – particularly on the BBC. Television writer Michael Hogan begs to differ
Michael Hogan: Brian, your speech at the recent Sandford St Martin Trust awards for religious broadcasting said TV was blighted by "ever-increasing vulgarity and ever-lower intellectual levels". Strong words. Did you have a particular programme in mind?
Brian Sewell: Nothing and everything. Now it all conforms to a formula. Even Islam: The Untold Story (C4), to which we gave one of the awards, immediately descended into a travelogue and became virtually indistinguishable from anything in which Michael Palin rambles around. Religious broadcasting, all broadcasting, ought to be better than that. We looked at David Suchet's In the Footsteps of St Paul and again, it just turned into a travelogue. Someone in the city of Tarsus said, "St Paul's father was a tentmaker here. »
- Michael Hogan, Brian Sewell
Robert Lindsay quits BBC Two drama 'Line of Duty' after two days
12 June 2013 1:40 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - TV news news »
Robert Lindsay has quit his role on Line of Duty after just two days on set.
The actor signed up to star in the second series of the BBC Two police drama in April, alongside Keeley Hawes and Jessica Raine.
The My Family star has now left the show after disagreements over his character Deputy Chief Constable Mike Dryden, reports The Sun.
Executive producer Simon Heath said: "It was a mutual decision. Sometimes you have different views of the part and you agree to disagree.
"Once we made a decision we needed to find someone else. But because of the nature of the show there were other scenes we could film in the meantime."
Casualty actor Mark Bonnar will take over the part.
Line of Duty was renewed for a second series last year, following impressive ratings during its first run. »
The Returned: how British TV viewers came to lose their fear of subtitles
7 June 2013 4:01 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Channel 4's French zombie drama is the latest import that will have us reading to keep up with the plot
In recent years, quality European drama has become so familiar to British viewers that Nigel Farage may well be experiencing night terrors. For most countries, non-native content is nothing unusual, as anyone who has found Towie improbably belching itself out of a hotel telly abroad can confirm, but the assumption had reigned for many years that anything featuring foreign tongues would make Britons squirm away in horror. Nowadays, continental drama routinely outclasses British counterparts with the ease of Barcelona taking on Grimsby Town. And not just critically: from the 30 most-watched programmes since BBC4 started in 2002, 14 places are taken up by episodes of Scandinavian thrillers The Killing, The Bridge and Borgen. It's a mystery why subtitled drama was missing from British television for so long.
Once, foreign-language shows were aimed largely at specific audiences. »
- Mark Jones
Broadchurch Season 2 Exclusive: Joe Sims Hopes For Nige Return
17 May 2013 3:16 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Chris Chibnall’s Broadchurch was a series that can claim to have totally gripped the nation. “Who Murdered Danny Latimer?” was the question on everyone’s lips. To call Broadchurch a phenomenon seems entirely appropriate- it was a ratings behemoth and garnered heaps of critical praise. A second series has already been commissioned and the first thrilling series is about to land on DVD here, as well as taking over America very soon.
One of the Prime Suspects was firm audience favourite Nige Carter, the well-meaning Plumber and best mate of the victim’s father. At times over-emotional and hiding a dark past even he was unaware of, Nige was portrayed by the charismatic and established performer Joe Sims.
In an exclusive interview, Sims was kind enough to discuss his approaches to acting, his varied career and his charity work with young people as well as the memorable time he »
- Oscar Harding
New Brit-Asian film Amar, Akbar and Tony starts shooting in West London
16 May 2013 8:32 AM, PDT | Bollyspice | See recent Bollyspice news »
Stars of television and the silver screen are among the cast line-up in a major new feature film set that began shooting in London last week. The ensemble cast, featuring some of the British Asian community’s most recognised celebrities alongside talented newcomers and familiar home-grown talent, will collaborate on the film, which celebrates multiculturalism within the UK.
Amar Akbar & Tony, is an independent production by writer and first-time film director Atul Malhotra, which embodies and celebrates the unique and vibrant landscape of the UK. A comedy drama with a highly original plotline and cleverly developed script, Amar, Akbar & Tony is scheduled for release later this year.
The title alludes to the 1970s Bollywood classic (Amar Akbar and Anthony) and revolves around the strong bond of friendship akin to brotherhood between the three main characters. But that is where the similarities with the Bollywood film ends. Amar, Akbar & Tony is »
- Press Releases
Hammer Chillers Online Audio Dramas Set to Begin June 7; CD Digipak Releasing July 26
13 May 2013 8:15 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Hammer Chillers is a new horror anthology series that will premiere June 7th. Available first as six 30-minute weekly downloadable episodes from the Hammer website, the collected series will also be released on CD July 26th with special bonus material.
Writers for the first series include some of the biggest names working in horror today: Stephen Volk (Ghostwatch, The Awakening), Mark Morris (Toady, Vampire Circus), Stephen Gallagher (Chimera, The Eleventh Hour), Christopher Fowler (The Bryant and May Mysteries), Paul Magrs (The Brenda and Effie Mysteries, Doctor Who) and comedian Robin Ince (Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage).
“Hammer films have been a massive influence on my writing from the days when I sneaked into the White Palace cinema in my home town of Pontypridd to see the likes of The Devil Rides Out and The Vampire Lovers,” says Stephen Volk. “Now to be writing an audio drama under the Hammer »
- The Woman In Black
Rewind TV: Hannibal; The Apprentice; Life of Crime; Murder on the Home Front; Great Artists in Their Own Words – review
11 May 2013 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Sky's Hannibal might have been more interesting with a bit more psychology and a bit less blood and guts
Hannibal (Sky Living)
The Apprentice (BBC1) | iPlayer
Life of Crime (ITV1) | ITVplayer
Murder on the Home Front (ITV1) | ITVplayer
Great Artists In Their Own Words (BBC4) | iPlayer
There are two ways of looking at the kind of psychologically rich and physiologically brutal fiction written by Thomas Harris, author of The Silence of the Lambs. The first is that it's a sort of cultural safety valve, a secure and harmless realm in which to explore the dark thoughts that haunt our nightmares. The second is that it's gruesome porn for sickos.
The more sophisticated understanding is obviously the former, but there's some queasy part of me that can't quite shake off the suspicion that the latter contains a kernel of truth. Given the popularity and critical acclaim these books have enjoyed, I »
- Andrew Anthony
2013 – a year of prequels, sequels and reboots | Marina Hyde
10 May 2013 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This period of economic hardship hasn't brought about the predicted burst of creativity – instead it's More of the Same
It's said there are only seven master plots in fiction (or five, or 20, depending on who's counting). But at the current rate of rehash, scientists predict there will be only seven master franchises come 2025. These will include: Spiderman (played by a different 26-year-old every three years); that thing with Vin Diesel and the cars (Fast and Forty-fourious will see the gang of ageing speedsters pull off a heist on mobility scooters); and any amount of spun-off Star Wars characters (to be tired of Boba Fett's backstory is to be tired of life). Oh, and Poldark.
Poldark's back, in case you missed the news, or perhaps assumed the reports had wormed through some tear in the commissioning continuum from 1996, which is the last time the 18th-century Cornish romantic saga was revived. »
- Marina Hyde
2013 – a year of prequels, sequels and reboots | Marina Hyde
10 May 2013 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
This period of economic hardship hasn't brought about the predicted burst of creativity – instead it's More of the Same
It's said there are only seven master plots in fiction (or five, or 20, depending on who's counting). But at the current rate of rehash, scientists predict there will be only seven master franchises come 2025. These will include: Spiderman (played by a different 26-year-old every three years); that thing with Vin Diesel and the cars (Fast and Forty-fourious will see the gang of ageing speedsters pull off a heist on mobility scooters); and any amount of spun-off Star Wars characters (to be tired of Boba Fett's backstory is to be tired of life). Oh, and Poldark.
Poldark's back, in case you missed the news, or perhaps assumed the reports had wormed through some tear in the commissioning continuum from 1996, which is the last time the 18th-century Cornish romantic saga was revived. »
- Marina Hyde
Bendedict Cumberbatch - Eight Steps To Stardom...
9 May 2013 9:27 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Benedict Cumberbatch has done the geeky man everywhere a massive favour. On Graham Norton's show last week, if the differing distances travelled by adoring fans are anything to go by, he proved that a classy nerd, if dressed in the right gear and with the requisite amount of charisma, can instil more admiration than even your average Hollywood hunk, in this case, sidekick Chris Pine.
Cumberbatch has been sneaking around the A-list for a while, with his impressive turn as Stephen Hawking marking him out as long ago as 2004.
Interview: Benedict Cumberbatch Tells HuffPostUK His Only Fear...
To mark his official embrace by Tinseltown with his entry into the blockbuster hall of Hollywood villainy, we count the eight steps to stardom climbed by an actor who can seemingly do no wrong...
Hawking (2004)
The actor with stints on Casualty and Silent Witness to his name won out over much bigger »
- The Huffington Post UK
Ashley Jensen interview: All Stars, Gnomeo & Juliet 2, Extras
2 May 2013 3:11 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Interview Caroline Preece 3 May 2013 - 06:21
With dance-tastic British film All Stars in cinemas now, Caroline caught up with one of its stars, Ashley Jensen, for a bit of a chat...
In a career stretching back more than two decades and counting, Scottish actress Ashley Jensen has starred in all kinds of things, from brief parts in The Bill and Casualty in the 90s, to BAFTA and Emmy award-winning roles in Extras and Ugly Betty.
Jensen's also provided the voices as Phlegma the Fierce in DreamWorks' hit How To Train Your Dragon, Nanette the frog in Gnomeo And Juliette, and the Surprisingly Curvaceous Pirate in The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists.
This week sees her appear in the British dance movie All Stars, in which a group of youngsters put on a show in a bid to save their financially ailing dance centre. Ahead of the film's release, Caroline »
- ryanlambie
Does Vicious mark the end of gay TV characters being invisible?
29 April 2013 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
New sitcom Vicious features a camp gay couple as leads. It may feel like a throwback, but it shows how far TV has come, from John Inman's flouncing character in Are You Being Served? and presenters using 'gay' as an insult
"Ground floor: perfumery, stationery, leather goods, wigs and haberdashery …" The one reason a gay man growing up in the 1970s remembers that mouthful is that it was the curtain-raiser to the only regular TV appearance of a male homosexual – the flouncing Mr Humphries in Are You Being Served?
John Inman, who played Humphries, insisted at the time that he wasn't gay. It was a triumph for method acting, then. But Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft's creation highlighted almost every historic prejudice about homosexual men – Humphries was predatory, vain and lived with his mother.
Forty years on, ITV1 has served up Vicious. We're invited to conclude that the world has changed. »
- Ben Summerskill
Downton Abbey, Broadchurch and beyond: how ITV got back on top
27 April 2013 12:01 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
TV thriller Broadchurch was an extraordinary hit. Perhaps most surprising was the fact that it was on ITV, not always seen as the home of edgy entertainment. But that's changing
There was something out of the ordinary about Broadchurch, the TV murder mystery that kept nearly 10 million viewers guessing until the killer of 11-year-old Danny Latimer was revealed this week. The work almost entirely of a single writer – unusual for an eight-part drama – it featured only one murder (the average episode of Midsomer Murders has four).
Most surprising of all, perhaps, was that Broadchurch was on ITV, not necessarily a channel known to viewers as the home of edgy (or edge-of-your-seat) thrills. At the risk of hyperbole, ITV claims it is the most tweeted-about TV drama ever, with a reported 260,000 tweets from 137,000 people – making it, to use a pre-Twitter phrase, genuine watercooler television.
ITV's director of television, Peter Fincham, who »
- John Plunkett
Casualty was right to take on female genital mutilation
21 April 2013 1:33 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
In an agenda-setting episode, Casualty featured a storyline that squared up to one of the most culturally sensitive issues in Britain – female genital mutilation
BBC's Casualty is not a programme known for its light touch. It doesn't tiptoe around issues – it bashes down their door and runs through them with boots on. In Casualty, cars are leather-seated smash-smash machines. In Casualty, windows are brittle mouths of doom. If I were mayor of the fictional town of Holby I would pedestrianise the hell out of it. I'd compress every tower block into a bungalow and enforce compulsory parachutes for everyone with cause to climb a ladder. But Casualty's lack of subtlety, its very black-and-whiteness, is why it was exactly the right forum to address female genital mutilation for the first time in British drama.
This is what happened on BBC1 at 9.10pm on Saturday, with 5 million people watching. Tamasha wanted »
- Eva Wiseman
'Bergerac': Classic detective drama to be remade by BBC
18 April 2013 2:10 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - TV news news »
The BBC is reportedly planning to remake Bergerac.
The classic drama - which aired on BBC One between 1981 and 1991 - followed Jersey-based detective Jim Bergerac (John Nettles).
The new series is in the early stages, with a script yet to be written, according to Broadcast.
However, the BBC is said to be keen to replicate the original's international appeal and is currently in discussions with global broadcasters and distributors.
Bergerac was created by Scottish writer Robert Banks Stewart, who has given his blessing to the remake.
"The team involved has full artistic freedom to recreate Bergerac the way they see it in the 21st century - though obviously the unique atmosphere of Jersey, and the island's involvement, will count for a lot," he said.
Banks Stewart recently told Digital Spy that he believes the UK television industry is neglecting older writers and criticised the BBC for relying on tried-and-tested formats. »
UK television neglecting older writers, says 'Bergerac' creator
17 April 2013 4:38 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - TV news news »
Veteran television writer Robert Banks Stewart has claimed that older writers are neglected by today's television industry,
Banks Stewart - who created the popular detective dramas Bergerac and Shoestring - spoke to Digital Spy about his decision to adapt his TV pitch The Hurricane's Tail into his first novel.
"Back when I was still firing in possible new series, I began to feel that the attitude was, 'He's nearly 70, this guy - forget it' - it was a bit deflating when a Head of Drama doesn't write back to you, but gets his secretary to do it," said the 81-year-old.
"That was my experience then and there's a lot of writers I know - especially around my age - who have been finding it very hard to get any ideas over."
Banks Stewart - who wrote for Doctor Who, The Sweeney and The Avengers as well - also criticised "top »
Joanna Page, 'Game of Thrones' star join new ITV drama 'Breathless'
16 April 2013 3:31 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - TV news news »
The cast has been announced for ITV's upcoming drama Breathless.
The series - which has started filming in London - is set in the 1960s and focusses on the lives of doctors and nurses at one of the capital's hospitals and delves into their "cauldron of lies, deception and guilty secrets, driven by love, ambition and sex".
Vanity Fair's Natasha Little will star as Elizabeth, the "elegant" wife of surgeon Otto played by Jack Davenport - who was revealed to have joined the cast as the lead character in February.
Friends of the couple, Dr Charlie Enderbury and his wife Lily will be played by Above Suspicion's Shaun Dingwall and Gavin & Stacey star Joanna Page.
Joining the cast as colleagues at the hospital are Catherine Steadman (The Tudors) as a nurse who catches Otto's eye and Oliver Chris (Green Wing) as a junior consultant engaged to Angela's sister Jean, »
Casualty turns spotlight on female genital mutilation
12 April 2013 4:09 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Campaigners hail move by BBC soap to take scandal out of the shadows on to peak-time TV for first time
Female genital mutilation will feature on prime-time TV for the first time on Saturday in Casualty, bringing a modern scandal out of the shadows, say campaigners.
The BBC soap is running a storyline about a girl who has undergone the procedure and is trying to protect her younger sister from the same fate. The younger girl is threatened with being taken abroad to her extended family for cutting and later with being subjected to it in the UK.
"Fgm has been in the shadows here in this country," said Efua Dorkenoo of Equality Now, one of the leading campaigners against the practice. "Because of that, we as a country are not really grappling hard with the fact that it is happening here."
There are thought to be 20,000 girls at risk »
- Sarah Boseley
Tony Garnett: 'BBC has little interest in poor people'
11 April 2013 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Ahead of retrospective of his work, Cathy Come Home creator says BBC output is dictated by its obsession with ratings
He made some of television's most ground-breaking political and social dramas over five decades, with Cathy Come Home, a story of a family's descent into homelessness, among daring classics that confronted the governments of the day.
But in a withering criticism of what he describes as the BBC's obsession with ratings and executive control, Tony Garnett has told the Guardian he would never be given the freedom to make those kinds of dramas today, even though the bleak social realism he depicted is as relevant now as it was in the early years of his career.
The corporation, he said, has little interest in "poor people" unless they are the subject of sneering. In an interview ahead of a retrospective of his work at the BFI in London, the producer, »
- Dalya Alberge
Langford on Soaps: John Paul and Doug Get Busy on "Hollyoaks"
3 April 2013 9:48 AM, PDT | The Backlot | See recent The Backlot news »
Langford's Picks And Pans
People of the Valley (Wales)
I’m really curious where this is going. Iolo seems determined to find a way to deal with his guilt and clear his conscience for what happened with Gethin and the show has made a point of saying Iolo just can’t walk away and pretend it never happened. Sion is handling his own guilt by burying himself in his religion, so what is Iolo going to do? I still think he’s going to try and help Gethin regain the ability to walk and who knows where that will lead. But wherever it goes, it’s obvious it’s going to take a long time to get there. I’ve seen several folks complaining that the story is dragging, which makes me wonder if they’ve ever watched this show before. I personally don’t mind a slow pace (soaps »
- Anthony D. Langford
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