I’m assuming some catty detective work is going on near Baker Street.
TMINE
Year: 2014
News
More Banshee, more Still Open All Hours and more Rob Schneider
UK TV
- BBC1 green lights: Still Open All Hours series
- Sky and HBO to co-commission drama
- S4C now available on YouView
US TV
- Cinemax renews: Banshee
- Wednesday ratings
US TV casting
- Tony Trucks joins Franklin & Bash
New US TV shows
- CBS green lights: pilots for comedy The Mistake…
- …and terrorist drama
- MTV green lights: series of drama Finding Carter
- ABC green lights: comedy pilots Damaged Goods and Selfie
- HBO developing: adaptation of Lookaway, Lookaway
- Rob Schneider independently producing his own sitcom
- Trailer for El Rey’s From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series
New US TV show casting
- Timothy Omundson to star in ABC’s Galavant
- Jocko Sims to be a regular on TNT’s The Last Ship
- Dora Madison Burge to recur on The CW’s Star-Crossed
ITV to launch a pay TV channel, more Inside No 9, and a Supernatural spin-off
Film
- Thor 3 gets some writers
Film casting
- Daniel Craig to star in The Whole Truth
UK TV
- ITV to launch pay TV drama channel on Sky
- iPlayer requests up by a third in 2013
- BBC2 renews: Inside No 9
- ITV cancels: Breathless
- UKTV adds Watch, Gold, Dave and Alibi to Sky’s On Demand
New UK TV shows
- BBC Scotland green lights: pilot of comedy Mountain Men
US TV
- Fox renews: Bones
US TV show casting
- Lori Petty to guest on Orange is the New Black
- Gene Simmons to guest on CSI
- Jeremy Davies and Chris Diamantopoulos to guest on Hannibal
New US TV shows
- Amazon developing: pilots from Whit Stillman and Shaun Cassidy
- CBS greenlights: comedy More Time With Family
- The CW green lights: Supernatural spin-off, iZombie and Flash pilots…
- …as well as pilots for Identity and Jane the Virgin
- ABC green lights: The Winklers pilot, with Henry Winkler
New US TV show casting
- Tea Leoni to star in CBS’s Madam Secretary
- Goran Visnjic to recur on CBS’s Extant
- Jennifer Carpenter to star in ABC’s Sea of Fire, Patrick Murney joins TNT’s Public Morals
What TV’s on at the BFI in March 2014
It’s time for our regular look at the TV that the BFI is showing, this time in March 2014. Not much on this month, because of the full film schedule, but previews of the final two parts of the ‘Worricker Trilogy’, Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield, as well as a showing of the first part, Page Eight, and a short season of TV documentaries by Mira Hamermesh, including Maids and Madams, Talking to the Enemy and Loving the Dead.
The Weekly Play
The Wednesday Play: Land of Green Ginger (1973)
Hull’s not everyone’s cup of tea. The northern city, best known for fishing, has consistently been voted one of the worst places in Britain. Indeed, it was voted number 1 in the original ‘crap towns‘ survey.
Not everyone thinks that, though (indeed, it’s going to be 2017’s City of Culture). Rather fabulous UK playwright Alan Plater (The Beiderbecke Affair et al) wrote a typically wry and semi-loving look at Hull in the 1973 Play for Today Land of Green Ginger. Named after a street in Hull, the play sees its heroine Sally Brown (Gwen Taylor) having to deal with the prospect of being sent abroad to work. So she returns home from London to Hull to see if she still feels the same attachment for her home town – and for her old boyfriend. Will she decide to take the job abroad or return to live with Mike in Hull?
The play shows us Hull through Sally’s eyes, giving us the good and the bad, just as she sees both the good and the bad in the city. It also gives us folk music from The Watersons. Whether that’s your cup of tea might well determine what you think of the play. Enjoy!