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Post by sfsusan on Sept 22, 2020 20:58:25 GMT
It’s run into some trouble about its depiction of Asians too - mostly the absence of them I would think they'd object to being portrayed solely as taxi dancers, servants and clownish entertainers. Given how unflattering all the characters are, they're almost better off being absent from the screen.
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Post by TallPaul on Sept 26, 2020 10:06:24 GMT
It was a repeat, as almost all BBC programmes are these days, but having missed it the first time around, I watched, and very much enjoyed, The 7.39 last night on i-Player.
That too starred David Morrissey, having a midlife crisis, with Olivia Colman as his wife, and Sheridan Smith not his wife. 😉 It's all the RMT's fault! For someone with no formal training, she really is a good TV actor.
Then I watched Molly's Game. I have to admit I didn't twig until the end credits rolled, but Molly was played by sometime (maybe) West End star Jessica Chastain.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2020 17:16:10 GMT
Linzi Hateley was in Eastenders on Friday, as the Headmistress in the primary school.
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Post by n1david on Sept 30, 2020 19:12:26 GMT
I’ve enjoyed Hannah Waddingham’s turn in “Ted Lasso” very much. It’s an Apple TV+ series, so has fairly limited circulation, and it’s a bit of an odd beast, the story of an overwhelmingly good-natured but completely inexperienced American brought over to manage English Premier League football team AFC Richmond. Basic plot is that Waddingham got the football team in her divorce from her sh*t of a millionaire husband (Anthony Head) and she thinks Lasso will destroy the club that was her ex-husband’s passion. Initial episodes saw her presented as the archetypal rich b*tch, but later episodes have shown depth to her character. The show as a whole has a very uneven tone, some quite cruel and harsh humour in the same show as heartwarming morals about respecting each other. Nonetheless there’s been enough in it to get me through the series, and a lot of that has been Hannah Waddingham’s performance. Recommended if you have access to the service.
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Post by TallPaul on Oct 11, 2020 10:15:14 GMT
I watched one of those BBC4 re-runs of Top of the Tops on Friday night, from January 1990, when I was just a babe in arms. 😉
Up eleven places to number 14 was one Sharon D Clarke, or rather Sharon Dee Clarke. I had no idea she'd been a bona fide popstar in a former life.
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Post by crowblack on May 25, 2021 18:50:17 GMT
The new series of Fargo with Jessie Buckley and Ben Whishaw is on Ch4/All4 now and I'm delighted to say it's wonderful so far. If you love Miller's Crossing / O Brother Coens (and I do) it's very much in that area.
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Post by TallPaul on Apr 1, 2022 11:20:58 GMT
Steph Parry is playing a housing officer in series 3 of Hidden on BBC4. So far she's had 10 seconds in episode 1, and a full 30 seconds in episode 4.
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Post by justfran on Apr 1, 2022 12:28:05 GMT
Michael Xavier is appearing in the new series of Grantchester currently showing on ITV1.
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Post by alece10 on Apr 11, 2022 18:03:46 GMT
Just spotted Jenna Russell in Gentleman Jim on BBC.
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Post by d'James on Apr 11, 2022 19:13:02 GMT
Emma Williams was on Doctors today.
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Post by crowblack on Feb 6, 2024 22:19:59 GMT
Patsy Ferran will be playing a Tudor court jester in the upcoming comedy series Fools - sounds like a great role for her.
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Post by longinthetooth on Feb 7, 2024 0:10:43 GMT
The delicious Julian Ovenden is currently in Trigger Point, the latest thriller on ITV. I know he's done a lot of telly work as well as theatre, but thought it worth a mention.
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Post by Jon on Feb 7, 2024 0:30:09 GMT
Sharon D Clarke is going to be starring in a new Channel 5 drama called Ellis.
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Post by danb on Feb 7, 2024 14:52:37 GMT
The delicious Julian Ovenden is currently in Trigger Point, the latest thriller on ITV. I know he's done a lot of telly work as well as theatre, but thought it worth a mention. This second series of Trigger Point is really gripping, trashy binge able action drama. Highly recommended. (And Ovenden is absolutely tool in this. 🤣)
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Post by theatrefan62 on Mar 19, 2024 9:22:29 GMT
Tyrone Huntley in this week's Death in Paradise
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Post by anita on Mar 19, 2024 10:06:54 GMT
Tyrone Huntley in this week's Death in Paradise Yes. I recognised him too.
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Post by anita on Mar 25, 2024 10:31:41 GMT
Richard Fleeshman in "Death in Paradise" last night.
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