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March 2010 at the BFI

25 January 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Time for our regular look at what TV’s on at the South Bank in London in March. The short answer is ‘not much’, bar a couple of iterations of Alice in Wonderland to coincide with Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, although for film lovers, there is a ‘blondes’ season, at least – be still my beating heart.

  • 9th/13th: Alice in Wonderland

    Directed by Jonathan Miller, and starring Wilfred Brambell, Alan Bennett and Michael Gough.
  • 11th/15th: The Wednesday Play: Alice
    The template for what became Dreamchild, this Dennis Potter-scripted drama mixes biographical detail with fiction to explore the relationship between Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll. Stars George Baker, Rosalie Crutchley and Deborah Watling.

Champions’ priority booking by phone: 11.30am February 1
Members’ priority booking opens: 11.30am February 2
Public booking opens: 11.30am February 9

Prices
£7.60 (members)
£5.25 (member concs)
£9.00 (non-members)
£6.65 (non-members concs)
Under 16s £5.

All shows are £5 on Tuesdays. Conc prices are available to senior citizens, students, unwaged and disability visitors. Proof of eligibility may be required.

As always, visit the BFI web site for more details

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Lost’s first five seasons to be reduced to 10 minutes by the Reduced Shakespeare Company

21 January 2010 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Lost - season 6

Although you can catch up with Lost‘s first five seasons in just eight minutes if you want, if you have 10 minutes to spare, the Reduced Shakespeare Company are planning on reducing Lost’s first five seasons themselves

The final series of Lost starts on Sky1 and Sky1 HD on February 5th and to celebrate The Reduced Shakespeare Company are putting on one of their unique performances condensing the last 5 seasons into less than 10 minutes. The result will be performed in front of a live audience of Lost fans. The event takes place in Covent Garden, London on Thursday 28th January at 7.30pm.

To be in with a chance of getting a pair of tickets to the event all the fans have to do is email their name, contact number and the email address of their plus one to [email protected]. The winners will then be selected and notified if they have received tickets on Tuesday 26th January.

The Reduced Shakespeare Company is a three-man comedy troupe that have succeeded in abridging the complete works of William Shakespeare and even the complete word of God. So surely, the last 5 seasons of Lost will be a walk in the park.

I’m told there’ll also be a video preview by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and the footage will be available after the event, so I hope to post that for those of you who can’t make it or aren’t lucky enough to get tickets. Good luck though everyone!

Caitlin Moran interviews Julie Gardner and Russell T Davies for BAFTA

13 January 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The YouTube one is unembeddable, but BAFTA itself has a nice vid of the recent event where Caitlin Moran of The Times interviewed Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner about Doctor Who. It’s 25 minutes so go make yourself a nice cup of tea first. BAFTA also has some other vids as well, if you’re interested, so click through to them if you have any more time after that.

UPDATE: BAFTA tell me they’re going to take down the embedded version soon, so watch it here before it disappears, or watch it on their web site when it does.

UPDATE 2: BAFTA now tells me their one’s going to stop working, but the YouTube one is now embeddable, so I’ve embedded that instead.

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