Obviously, it’s going to contain a few spoilers for season 4. UK viewers can watch this on Sky Atlantic tonight.
Month: February 2014
UK TV
Midsomer Murders visits Denmark for its 100th episode, The Killings of Copenhagen
It’s so easy to get caught up in the excitement of ‘Nordic Noir’ and its popularity over here, it’s easy to overlook another question: what TV of ours is popular in Scandinavia?
ITV’s Midsomer Murders, it turns out. Yes, that everyday story of a quiet English village, the population of which gets culled every episode in the most extraordinary ways, is ‘big over there’, at least in Denmark. So in acknowledgement of that fact, for the programme’s 100th episode, Midsomer Murders is leaving England and indeed Britain for the first time and heading over to Denmark.
Given the popularity of Nordic Noir over here, though, it seems appropriate that a few familiar faces from Danish TV would pop up in this episode. So watch this lovely trailer for the aptly titled The Killings of Copenhagen and see if you can spot a whole bunch of faces familiar from Nordic Noir shows, including Ann Eleonora Jørgensen from The Killing and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen from Borgen. In case you’re wondering, in the UK, it’ll air on ITV1 on February 12th at 8pm.
For even more info, Broadcast has a nice behind-the-scenes write-up of the episode.
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News: BBC1’s Anansi Boys, Paul Bettany is a Vision and Psych and Michael J Fox cancelled +more
The Daily News will return on Tuesday. Have a nice weekend!
Film
- Paul Bettany to play the Vision in The Avengers 2
Film casting
- Jason Lee, Katee Sackhoff, Milo Ventimiglia et al to star in Tell
- Hannah Ware to star in Agent 47
- Tom Hiddleston joins Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise
New UK TV shows
- BBC1 adapting: Anansi Boys
US TV
- USA cancels: Psych
- NBC cancels: The Michael J Fox Show
- Another Hannibal trailer
- Tuesday ratings
- Wednesday ratings
US TV casting
- Hank Azaria and Sherilyn Fenn join Ray Donovan
- Lance Reddick to guest on The Blacklist
- Zachary Knighton to recur on Parenthood
- Andy Richter to guest on The Millers
New US TV shows
- CBS developing: remake of Yes’s The Ran Quadruplets and John Cusack Wall Street drama
- Amazon green lights: Cocked pilot
- ABC green lights: 10 episodes of Astronaut Wives Club
- Starz green lights: comedy Survivor’s Remorse
- SyFy developing: adaptation of DMZ
- Lifetime green lights: 10 episodes of Marti Noxon’s Un-Real
New US TV show casting
- Jay Baruchel to star in FX’s Man Seeking Woman
- Peter Facinelli to star in NBC’s Odyssey
- Natalie Martinez joins ABC’s Secrets & Lies
- Sissy Spacek joins Netflix thriller
- Will Sasso to guest on NBC’s About A Boy
- Zachary Knighton to star in Fox’s Weird Loners
Day off
I’m having a day off tomorrow. Radical, huh? So no blogging but I’ll be back with the news on Friday. TTFN!
The Wednesday Play: Headmaster (1974)
Nowadays, with such a rich past to look back on, most people assume you had to be a famous playwright to get a play produced by the BBC’s Play For Today strand. However, John Challen proved that a first attempt by an unknown writer could still make it to the screen. A teacher at an education college in Lincoln, Challen wrote Headmaster, addressed it to BBC Plays Department, and carried on teaching. Director Anthony Page read it, liked it, and asked to direct it.
That “modest achievement”, a result of what Challen called “the hurly burly” of teaching for over 20 years, sees Frank Windsor play the titular head of a school with an increasingly tenuous grip on his position. Intriguingly, given that that it was made 40 years ago, Headnaster shows how little has changed in teaching, given its focus on the conflict between old and modern teaching methods, as well as the eternal jockeying for position amongst teaching staff.
The play was popular enough to merit a six-part series in 1977, written by Challen and with Windsor and other cast members retained. You can watch it below. Enjoy!