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Previews of forthcoming events and reviews of past events.

December at the BFI

21 October 2008 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Time for our regular round-up of tele events at the BFI.

  • 14th: The return of the yearly "Missing Believed Wiped" season. This features some of the first exhibits from Bob Monkhouse’s vast TV and film collection, and some BBC recoveries. Bob’s lot includes The Flip Side, an episode of My Pal Bob, some Top of the Pops and John Osborne in Chelsea at Eight. The Beeb’s efforts includes trailers for some 60s shows, a programme that’s gone through the Beeb’s new colourisation process designed to recover colour programmes from B&W-only recordings (Doctor Who or Year of the Sex Olympics, maybe?), and an episode from a 1950s classics-adaptation. 
  • 17th: Episodes of The Goon Show: The Whistling Spy, Tales of Men’s Shirts and The Last Goon Show of All. Part of the "Enduring Talents" season.
  • 22nd: To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the show, a collection of clips, rare footage, etc from Dad’s Army. Part of the "Enduring Talents" season.

Members’ priority postal booking opens 27 October
Members’ online and phone booking opens 3 November
Public booking opens 7 November

Despite promises in last month’s catalogue, it looks like An Englishman in New York isn’t in the programme this month; it’s probably a last minute removal, since it’s listed in the index under both "John Hurt in conversation" and "An Englishman in New York" and the front page talks about an "In focus" dedicated to TV literary adaptations. Fingers crossed for next month, then.

As always, visit the BFI web site for more details

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Preview: The IT Crowd – series three

20 October 2008 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

The IT Crowd

On Friday, I popped along to Pinewood Studios to watch an episode of the third series of The IT Crowd being filmed. I say ‘popped along’, even though that means a train journey to Slough and then a 10 minute taxi ride.

Join me after the jump for a few musings on the experience, some hints on what’s coming up in the series, and the revelation of which Doctor Who/No Heroics actor was the warm-up guy.

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New BBC sitcom pilot: Shush

6 October 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

I’m going to be off watching The IT Crowd being filmed that day, but if you’re interested, this looks promising, given the talent behind it:

Shush

17 October, BBC Television Centre

We’d like to invite you along to see two of Britain’s top comedy actresses, Morwenna Banks (Saxondale, The Thick Of It, Absolutely) and Rebecca Front (Nighty Night, The Day Today, Knowing Me, Knowing You) joining forces in Shush, an absurd sitcom pilot set in an archaic library perpetually fighting the threat of closure.

Alice (Rebecca Front) a hopelessly romantic misfit and Snoo (Morwenna Banks) an indolent meddler are determined to prove to the library inspector Raff (Ben Willbond) that they can attract new readers and raise enough funds to save their library.

Meanwhile, Alice finally looks set to go on her dream date with Dean, the local porn-mag seller (Simon Greenall).

Produced by Armando Iannucci (I’m Alan Partridge, The Thick Of It, The Day Today) and written by Morwenna Banks, Rebecca Front and Arthur Mathews (Father Ted, Big Train).

The Cast also includes Michael Fenton-Stevens and Alex Macqueen.

Recording on Friday 17 October at BBC Television Centre, Wood Lane, London. Doors open at 7pm.

To apply for tickets, call the BBC Ticket Line on 0370 901 1227