Titanic 

The world's largest ship, the Titanic, meets with disaster when it strikes an iceberg on its maiden voyage.

Stars:

Peter McDonald, Steven Waddington, Glen Blackhall

4 wins & 9 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Peter McDonald	...	Jim Maloney (4 episodes, 2012)
Steven Waddington	...	Second Officer Lightoller (4 episodes, 2012)
Glen Blackhall	...	Paolo Sandrini (4 episodes, 2012)
Ruth Bradley	...	Mary Maloney (4 episodes, 2012)
Georgia McCutcheon	...	Theresa Maloney (4 episodes, 2012)
Antonio Magro	...	Mario Sandrini (4 episodes, 2012)
Perdita Weeks	...	Lady Georgiana Grex (4 episodes, 2012)
Stephen Campbell Moore	...	Thomas Andrews (4 episodes, 2012)
Jenna Coleman	...	Annie Desmond (4 episodes, 2012)
Linus Roache	...	Hugh, Earl of Manton (4 episodes, 2012)
Miles Richardson	...	John Jacob Astor (4 episodes, 2012)
Geraldine Somerville	...	Louisa, Countess of Manton (4 episodes, 2012)
Noah Reid	...	Harry Widener (4 episodes, 2012)
Angéla Eke	...	Madeleine Astor (4 episodes, 2012)
Diana Kent	...	Eleanor Widener (4 episodes, 2012)
Péter Kõszegi	...	George Widener (4 episodes, 2012)
Toby Jones	...	John Batley (4 episodes, 2012)
Maria Doyle Kennedy	...	Muriel Batley (4 episodes, 2012)
Peter Wight	...	Joseph Rushton (4 episodes, 2012)
Celia Imrie	...	Grace Rushton (4 episodes, 2012)
James Wilby	...	Bruce Ismay (4 episodes, 2012)
Sylvestra Le Touzel	...	Lady Duff Gordon (4 episodes, 2012)
Lloyd Hutchinson	...	Chief Steward Lattimer (4 episodes, 2012)
Lee Ross	...	Barnes (4 episodes, 2012)
Ralph Ineson	...	Steward Hart (4 episodes, 2012)
Simon Paisley Day	...	Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon (4 episodes, 2012)
Lyndsey Marshal	...	Mabel Watson (4 episodes, 2012)
Cian Barry	...	Fourth Officer Boxhall (4 episodes, 2012)
Brian McCardie	...	First Officer Murdoch (4 episodes, 2012)
David Calder	...	Captain Smith (4 episodes, 2012)
Ifan Meredith	...	Fifth Officer Lowe (4 episodes, 2012)
Olivia Darnley	...	Bessie Allison (4 episodes, 2012)
Larina Meszaros	...	Loraine Allison (4 episodes, 2012)
Dragos Bucur	...	Peter Lubov (4 episodes, 2012)
Sophie Winkleman	...	Dorothy Gibson (4 episodes, 2012)
Shane Attwooll	...	Billy Blake (4 episodes, 2012)
Ben Bishop	...	Stoker Lyons (4 episodes, 2012)
Will Keen	...	Chief Officer Wilde (4 episodes, 2012)
John Kazek	...	Steward Turnbull (4 episodes, 2012)
Eszter Zakariás	...	Woman 2 at Purser's / ... (4 episodes, 2012)
Matt Devere	...	Boilerman (3 episodes, 2012)
Sally Bankes	...	Mrs. Gibson (3 episodes, 2012)
Jonathan Howard	...	Sixth Officer Moody (3 episodes, 2012)
David Eisner	...	Benjamin Guggenheim (3 episodes, 2012)
Grainne Keenan	...	Laura Francatelli (3 episodes, 2012)
Tom Andrews	...	Seaman Hawkins (3 episodes, 2012)
Joseph May	...	Victor Giglio (3 episodes, 2012)
Mike Kelly	...	Seaman Royce (3 episodes, 2012)
Iain McKee	...	Seaman Scott (3 episodes, 2012)
Linda Kash	...	Margaret 'Molly' Brown (3 episodes, 2012)
Alexis Latham	...	Man in Corridor (2 episodes, 2012)
Laurie Hagen	...	Emma Sãgesser (2 episodes, 2012)
Mark Lewis Jones	...	David Evans (2 episodes, 2012)
Joséphine de La Baume	...	Madame Aubart (2 episodes, 2012)
Sophie Rundle	...	Roberta Maioni (2 episodes, 2012)
Ryan Hawley	...	Jack Thayer (2 episodes, 2012)
Thomas Aldridge	...	Steward Taylor (2 episodes, 2012)
Beatrice Zentai	...	Woman 1 at Purser's (2 episodes, 2012)
István Koncz	...	Gatti's Waiter (2 episodes, 2012)
Attila Bardóczy	...	Gatti's Waiter (2 episodes, 2012)
Christine Kavanagh	...	Marian Thayer (2 episodes, 2012)
Pandora Colin	...	Countess of Rothes (2 episodes, 2012)
Kevin Lukacs	...	American Valet / ... (2 episodes, 2012)
Izabella Urbanowicz	...	Alice Cleaver (2 episodes, 2012)
Margaréta Szabó	...	Woman #2 in Lifeboat / ... (2 episodes, 2012)

Storyline

Follows the lives of the ship's passengers, from all walks of life, as they travel on the maiden voyage of the ill-fated Titanic. From the wealthy family of the Earl of Manton, the designers of the ship, to the stokers in the engine room - who will make it onto the lifeboats?

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Plot Keywords:

ship | titanic | disaster | lifeboat | passenger | 

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Country:

UK Canada Hungary

Language:

English

Release Date:

2012 (UK)

Also Known As:

Titanikos

Filming Locations:

Stern Film Studio, Pomáz, Hungary

Company Credits

Production Co:

Deep Indigo Productions, Sienna Films, Mid Atlantic Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

190 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Trivia

One of the Irish passengers, Patrick A. O'Keefe, was a young man who boarded the Titanic when he was 21 years of age. Just days before he entered the Titanic, he had horrific dreams of the ship sinking and nearly canceled his ticket. However he decided to board on the ship anyway. Once the Titanic was sinking, he managed to survive on the "collapsible B" life raft. He died in 1939 in Manhattan from unknown causes at the age of 48.

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Connections

Referenced in Titanic Review (2012)

User Reviews

Sadly never seems to leave the deck

I wanted to like this mini-series, really I did. I love Downton Abbey and Gosford Park is great fun, so it isn't as if I am not a fan of Julian Fellowes. And this had a great cast on paper. Unfortunately, apart from some beautiful photography, gorgeous costumes and a wonderfully-rendered ship as well as some decent turns from Glen Blackhall and Geraldine Somerville, this soggy ITV drama sadly never seems to leave the deck. A main problem of mine was the pace. Most of the drama had a very rushed feel to it, consequently characters came and went, story lines(and rather derivative ones at that) were introduced but never satisfactorily elaborated upon or resolved(especially Mary Maloney's) and the main characters lack depth or even any sort of genuine personality and it doesn't help that here they are all underdeveloped stereotypes.

Some scenes particularly at the start take a while to get going, maybe in an attempt to give the characters depth but seeing as they failed with that aspect the first episode was dull, and the sinking scenes which had potential to be riveting lacked any true tension. The dialogue lacks the control and wit also of Downton Abbey and Gosford Park, it is all very stilted and soap-opera-ish with some parts like with the younger actors cringe-worthy and there are a couple of heavy accents too making some of the dialogue muddled. The rest of the acting considering the cast pedigree was disappointing, and the fact that a lot don't have much to do has a lot to do with it.

Toby Jones for example is a good actor, but is one of these, and for me he also had a character that was all too derivative of some of his other roles(such as a less-evil version of Quilp from The Old Curiosity Shop). The rest of the cast that aren't the main focus of the drama are so little used and so scatter-shot in their appearances that their acting is downright forgettable. All in all, a big soggy and largely unmoving disappointment, better than the animated versions, which are the "what-the-devil-did-I-just-watch?" sort of quality, but for a better version try the sumptuous James Cameron version which had an absolutely riveting last hour and especially the brilliant A Night to Remember. 4/10 Bethany Cox