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What TV’s on at the BFI in July 2012

1 June 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Richard Burton in Walk With Destiny

Time for our regular look at the TV that the BFI is showing, this time in the month of July 2012. There’s a surprising amount on offer, mainly as the result of an Aristocracy season that includes one of Richard Burton’s few TV plays, but also because there’s something of a BSkyB theme to the month, with a preview of Sinbad , which features that nice Naveen Andrews from Lost, a lot of comedy from Sky, including Moone Boy with The IT Crowd‘s Chris O’Dowd and Parents with Smack the Pony‘s Sally Phillips, as well as a panel discussion about comedy featuring Sky’s head of comedy Lucy Lumsden.

And is that weren’t enough, there are previews of BBC2’s Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, featuring lots of nice people including Jeremy Irons and that nice Tom Hiddleston from The Avengers, as well as an old version of Hamlet made for schools back in the 60s.

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Tickets to The Resistance, a Radio 4 pilot with Katherine Parkinson, Peter Davison and Alison Steadman

10 May 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Katherine Parkinson in The IT Crowd

Looks interesting – good pedigree. Do you think it’ll make series?

The Resistance (pilot)
The Resistance is a sitcom about Katrina Lyons, who pops back to her parents’ for the weekend to borrow some money and finds herself in the middle of an alien invasion.

The Geonin are not your typical alien invaders. Instead of the usual all-at-once approach to global domination (which usually fails, they’ve noticed) they’ve decided to start small. They’ve encircled a small English village with an impenetrable heat wave, preventing anything coming in or out. With Cresdon Green as their base, they will learn about humankind, using their knowledge to effectively and efficiently spread their domination over the rest of the world, bit by bit.

Katrina just wanted to borrow the money for a deposit on a flat. And, having been turned down, she’s really in no mood to stick around but the Geonin are not letting anyone in or out, and she has tickets to the theatre in London. So what choice does she have but to start The Resistance?

The Resistance is written by Eddie Robson (That Mitchell and Webb Sound), and stars Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff), Alison Steadman (Gavin and Stacey, Hamish and Dougal) and Peter Davison (A Very Peculiar Practice, The Complete Guide to Parenting).

Date: Wednesday 13 June
Venue: BBC Radio Theatre, London
Doors open: 7.15pm

To apply for tickets, visit the BBC Tickets Website.

Funny it doesn’t have Doctor Who in Peter Davison’s list of credits, isn’t it?

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A London Israeli film and television festival is launched – Seret 2012

10 May 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Traffic Lights

Ooh. This looks interesting:

SERET (‘movie’ in Hebrew) is the name of the new London Israeli Film & Television Festival, which is holding its inaugural event from 14 to 18 June 2012. Fourteen screenings will be held, showcasing the largest, most diverse and most exciting array of Israeli film and television ever seen in the UK. Alongside the screenings, SERET will also be holding a conference for those in the film and television industries.

In the last ten years, a growing number of Israeli films have been nominated and won awards in major film festivals around the world including Footnote, Strangers No More, Lebanon, Ajami and Waltz with Bashir. Israeli television is also making an impact internationally with programmes such as Hatufim (Prisoners of War remade into Homeland) and BiTipul (In Treatment) currently being screened on Sky Arts.

SERET seeks to showcase the outstanding contribution that Israeli film and television make to the arts, as well as promoting the richness and diversity of Israeli life and culture through these media. With a programme designed to appeal to a wide range of film lovers, there will also be opportunities to hear from some of the directors of the films featured.

Confirmed films for this year’s festival include Off White Lies (2011, Director: Maya Kenig), Invisible (2011, Director: Michal Aviad), In the Fifth Heaven (2011, Director: Dina Tzvi-Riklis), I shot my love (2010, Director: Tomer Heymann), Footnote (2011, Director: Joseph Cedar), Sharaqiya (2012, Director: Ami Livne), 2 Night (2011, Director: Roi Werner) and Lipstikka (2011, Director: Yonathan Segal).

There will also be screenings of episodes from hit television programmes including Pilpelim Tsehubim (Yellow Peppers) and Ramzor (Traffic Light). Several of the screenings will be followed by Q&As with the directors and those so far confirmed include: Michal Aviad, Tomer Heymann, Dina Tzvi-Riklis and Roi Werner.

During the festival SERET will also provide support to the objectives of the Anglo-Israel Co- Production Treaty (2011), through the staging of a conference for those in the film and television industries.

Tickets for screenings can be booked through the festival website www.seret.org.uk, where there is also more information on each film.

Not much by way of TV by the looks of it, but I’m curious to see what Ramzor is like, given that Traffic Light wasn’t too bad, but seemed a bit of a wasted opportunity.

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What TV’s on at the BFI in June 2012

3 May 2012 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Diana Rigg as Klytemnestra

Time for our regular look at the TV that the BFI is showing, this time in the month of June 2012. Not a huge amount but what there is is cracking.

As well as a 1962 production of The Winter’s Tale with Robert Shaw, Rosalie Crutchley, Ron Moody and Patrick Macnee, there’s an illustrated lecture on TV’s depiction of women in the workplace by Dr Rachel Moseley of Warwick University, and – Δευς! – it’s a season of Greek tragedies on TV, including that famous 1962 production of Elektra that ITV aired in Greek without subtitles, as well as Oedipus Tyrannus with Patrick Stewart, Ronald Radd and Rosalie Crutchley (again), Agamemnon with Helen Mirren and Diana Rigg, Peter Hall’s The Oresteia with David Bamber, and Iphigenia at Aulis with Roy Marsden and Fiona Shaw.

I’m going to be bankrupt before the end of the month, aren’t I?

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