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Post by crowblack on Nov 1, 2018 22:27:39 GMT
The new BBC Watership Down has a great voice cast, but bloody hell, have you seen the stills? The rabbits look like something out of 'Crap Taxidermy'!
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Post by shady23 on Nov 4, 2018 20:56:53 GMT
Sharon D Clarke read 'Rusty the Squeaky Robot' by Neil Clark for the bedtime story on Cbeebies tonight!
Now on @bbciplayer
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Post by crowblack on Dec 25, 2018 13:04:04 GMT
The wonderful Patsy Ferran voicing an animated Princess in the Julia Donaldson cartoon on BBC1 today.
Zog.
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Post by crowblack on Feb 4, 2019 20:56:50 GMT
Jessie Buckley in the Endeavour repeat about to start on ITV3+1
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Post by Backdrifter on Feb 5, 2019 16:43:38 GMT
The title of this thread reminds me of a question someone asked on the old board. I think it was primarily in the 1970s when a performer had made a guest appearance on a TV show, over the end credits an announcer would tell us that specific performer "can currently be seen in Rookery Nook at the Alhambra Theatre, Blackpool" or such-like.
Why did they do that?
(I mean, why did they make such announcements, not 'why did anyone appear in Rookery Nook at the Blackpool Alhambra'. There must have been lots of folk on tv appearing in stuff on stage. Contract stipulation?)
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Post by crowblack on Feb 16, 2019 13:52:10 GMT
I'm very late to the party on this, but I'm a couple of episodes in to Penny Dreadful and loving it! Fantastic cast who seem to be enjoying themselves enormously, especially SRB's deliciously camp Egyptologist. It was originally on Sky, hence my lateness, but if you like Taboo, Ken Russell, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic etc. this may be right up your alley.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Feb 16, 2019 14:01:36 GMT
I'm very late to the party on this, but I'm a couple of episodes in to Penny Dreadful and loving it! Fantastic cast who seem to be enjoying themselves enormously, especially SRB's deliciously camp Egyptologist. It was originally on Sky, hence my lateness, but if you like Taboo, Ken Russell, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic etc. this may be right up your alley. It all ties up very nicely by the end too, ending on its own terms rather than being cancelled.
Just wait until Patti Lupone turns up, with an accent heretofore unknown to man.
Speaking of accents, I've started watching 'The Expanse' as it's been taken over by Amazon Prime. Jared Harris' 'Belter accent'* is a jaw dropping mix of Arfrikaaner, East Asian (I think), with a touch of 'white guy pretending to be Jamaican'.
*You'd have to watch it to understand but it's hard sci-fi, so basically futuristic with societies based on Earth, Mars and the asteroid belt.
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Post by crowblack on Feb 16, 2019 15:02:53 GMT
Alas I don't have it. I've heard good things about The Terror, also Amazon or something I don't have, so will investigate now it's on Bluray.
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Post by Cardinal Pirelli on Feb 16, 2019 15:06:20 GMT
Alas I don't have it. I've heard good things about The Terror, also Amazon or something I don't have, so will investigate now it's on Bluray. Yes, the Terror was excellent and, being an anthology series, wraps up nicely in one set of episodes.
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Post by david on Feb 16, 2019 15:15:22 GMT
I'm very late to the party on this, but I'm a couple of episodes in to Penny Dreadful and loving it! Fantastic cast who seem to be enjoying themselves enormously, especially SRB's deliciously camp Egyptologist. It was originally on Sky, hence my lateness, but if you like Taboo, Ken Russell, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic etc. this may be right up your alley. I’m another fan of Penny Dreadful. I thought it was well written and acted. It gave a nice spin on some classic Victorian literary charcters.
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Post by peggs on Feb 16, 2019 17:40:42 GMT
I too enjoyed penny dreadful, great casting which was what drew me in. SRB a delight, there's an interview somewhere where he most proudly declares that his amazing hair style was his own hair.
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Post by Jon on Feb 16, 2019 19:05:13 GMT
Denise Gough, Noma Dumezweni and Nathan Stewart Jarrett were in The Kid Who would be King.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 19:24:35 GMT
As were Mark Bonnar, Claudie Blakley, Angus Imrie, and Patrick Stewart.
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 16, 2019 22:16:50 GMT
Treadaway alert tomorrow at 9PM channel 4, in Traitors, a spy thing. Looks good. Also got Dame-in-waiting Keeley in it.
(It's Luke by the way, though I'm aware that most of us aren't too fussy.👥☺️)
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Post by Jon on Feb 16, 2019 23:38:19 GMT
As were Mark Bonnar, Claudie Blakley, Angus Imrie, and Patrick Stewart. Should we really count Patrick Stewart, he’s more known for Picard and Professor X than his theatre work.
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Post by waybeyondblue on Feb 17, 2019 8:48:50 GMT
As were Mark Bonnar, Claudie Blakley, Angus Imrie, and Patrick Stewart. Should we really count Patrick Stewart, he’s more known for Picard and Professor X than his theatre work. I think several generations of RSC members just took out a (terribly polite) contract on you, possibly by a deadly letter writing campaign.
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Feb 17, 2019 9:48:11 GMT
Should we really count Patrick Stewart, he’s more known for Picard and Professor X than his theatre work. I think several generations of RSC members just took out a (terribly polite) contract on you, possibly by a deadly letter writing campaign. And Alec Guinness is more Ben Kenobi?? Always makes me think when I see the thread title, what/who is a theatre actor?
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Post by NeilVHughes on Feb 17, 2019 10:15:08 GMT
The only actor who easily comes to mind is Antony Sher, never really made the transition to TV of Film in an iconic role or any role generally.
(History Man excepted, this was a long time ago, niche and believe he thinks he was miscast / surprised to be cast)
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Post by crowblack on Feb 17, 2019 10:20:41 GMT
what/who is a theatre actor? The ones who seem as committed / more committed to stage work, amphibians? Or those whose style is more suited to the stage, or who (unconventional looks?) would be leads on stage but relegated to 'character parts' on TV, though I think that is changing. There are others who come up through TV/film and have done little or no theatre, or those who do some early on but (one presumes, from their CVs) really wanted to work in TV/film and quit stage work for it as soon as they can.
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 17, 2019 10:51:08 GMT
Always makes me think when I see the thread title, what/who is a theatre actor? As the thread instigator maybe I should clarify what I meant, which wasn't particularly a discussion about who or what is a theatre actor. (Though do go ahead, by all means!) I simply thought it would be nice for us to tell each other when someone we'd seen and admired at an obscure production at, say, Trafalgar Studios or The Chocolate Factory was appearing in a TV drama and was maybe too unknown for the Radio Times (or whatever) to mention. Quite often we are made aware when Arthur Braincell from Love Island is making his first foray onto the small screen, but not well-trodden actors who maybe wouldn't draw the crowds, but who would probably definitely do a better job. It could also be for actors who have spent considerable years on stage, but are still relatively unknown to the general hoi polloi. Patrick Stewart and Alec Guinness really don't count! Antony Sher is a good example. I'll always remember the vast majority of the world expostulating "Ben WHO?" when a certain highly respected RSC actor was cast as Gandhi.
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Post by crowblack on Feb 17, 2019 12:29:04 GMT
when someone we'd seen and admired Yes - most of my friends never set foot in a theatre, so when I come back from a play brimming with enthusiasm for a performance or production I've got no-one to share it with - for a while it's like being into some obscure indie band (she says, as a lifelong Cardiacs fan). When that actor appears on TV I have something to point to and say, look, them, you see what I mean (most recently, ff-ing through God's Own Country to show Mum Patsy Ferran and Jonathan Strange for the Heff, and currently pestering friends to watch the BBC Les Miserables for Joseph Quinn and (fleetingly) Erin Doherty, for whom I am also going to have to watch The Crown).
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Post by waybeyondblue on Feb 17, 2019 20:04:02 GMT
Patrick Stewart and Alec Guinness really don't count! You will be receiving an extremely polite, but deadly, special delivery.
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 17, 2019 22:16:41 GMT
Patrick Stewart and Alec Guinness really don't count! You will be receiving an extremely polite, but deadly, special delivery. But....but.... My comments were taken out of context Your Honour.🔨
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Post by Tibidabo on Feb 17, 2019 22:43:49 GMT
Anyone watch it? If so, could they tell me what the heck was going on please! Bit of a disappointment - I was having a light problem. It was so dim I couldn't work out if there was more than one girl with shortish dark hair as she kept popping up in consecutive scenes, seemingly unconnected. Not impressed so far. All episodes are now available on iplayer so I might try a bit more. I did spot Edward Bluemel (Love in Idleness) behind Luke Treadaway during the maiden speech in the Houses of Parliament.
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Post by crowblack on Feb 17, 2019 23:18:59 GMT
Not yet - Sundays are Endeavour now for a bit!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 9:44:57 GMT
I did spot Edward Bluemel (Love in Idleness) behind Luke Treadaway during the maiden speech in the Houses of Parliament. And wouldn't we all like to be . . no, too easy.
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Post by crowblack on Feb 18, 2019 22:19:38 GMT
Oh, just seen (belatedly) that BBC2 has cancelled Quacks, which I thought was warming up nicely and had a far funnier Dickens (Andrew Scott!) than the godawful Very Very Very Dark Matter.
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Post by crowblack on Mar 8, 2019 13:59:59 GMT
Talking Pictures TV (Freeview 81) has Morgan - a Suitable Case for Treatment on at 10pm tonight. It hasn't been on TV in donkey's years and I don't think it's on DVD either so worth a look. I suspect the gender politics are utterly cringeworthy but the class politics and social mobility in many of these 60s films often makes them interesting viewing. Matthew Sweet says David Warner's Hamlet would be on his list if he got a time machine, and I'd defo hitch a ride with him for that.
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Post by crowblack on Mar 8, 2019 15:18:18 GMT
I suspect the gender politics are utterly cringeworthy Or even worse - there's a rape scene that I think was cut from the version I saw.
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Post by TallPaul on Mar 10, 2019 12:13:35 GMT
Elaine Paige, first lady of musical theatre and everyone's favourite Sunday afternoon radio presenter, is the special guest artiste on tonight's episode of Midsomer Murders. I know my very good friend Tibidabo will be watching, no doubt with a large glass of wine in hand. 🍷 And Annette Badland joins the cast, playing a woman...for once!
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