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Ghostwatch
Events

Pilot Light TV festival’s Ghostwatch 25th anniversary showing

25 August 2017 Rob Buckley Post a comment

TV’s not just for Londoners you know. Actually, probably you do know – this might just be something I’m discovering for myself. Similarly, not all TV festivals are for Londoners, either, and the Pilot Light TV festival is a prime example. Now about to enter its ‘third season’, it’ll be taking place in Manchester between 3rd and 6th May 2018:

At Pilot Light we are proud to produce a communal TV experience where fans and industry can come together to celebrate the past, present and future of television! In a very similar structure to a traditional film festival, Pilot Light TV Festival is hosted in Manchester over 4 days and will contain screenings featuring all kinds of series new & old plus exclusive panels featuring the writers, producers, directors, actors, commissioners, and more behind them!
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We believe that the television industry is in a state of revolution. A large number of the best writers, directors and producers have migrated from Cinema to TV in order to tell the greatest stories in pop culture. These shows are generally produced and seen in the arenas of television networks such as HBO, AMC, C4, BBC & ITV plus web content providers such as Netflix & Amazon. In recent years there has been a surge in independently financed TV Pilot and web series production and their popularity with audiences. We aim to function as a TV equivalent of independent film festivals, by finding the best of this new episodic content from around the globe and giving the talented creative teams behind them opportunities to network with fellow creatives and to place their projects in front of the most important pairs of eyes in TV: the fans and industry professionals!

Which is nice, obviously. I’m not 100% exactly sure how it works, though, since it appears to have some special events as well that don’t take place next year and don’t all take place in Manchester. Hmm.

Anyway, the best of these events by far is a 25th anniversary showing in both London and Manchester of the rather awesome Ghostwatch, followed by a Q&A with writer Stephen Volk, director Lesley Manning, actress Gillian Bevan (London only) and the writer/director of Ghostwatch: Behind the Curtains, Rich Lawden. I might actually go to it. The London one, obvs.

Manchester Event Details

30th October 2017 // Gorilla
7pm doors // 8pm start​
Tickets £15ADV – 18+​
TICKETS ONSALE HERE

London Event Details

31st October 2017 // Genesis Cinema
8.30pm doors // 8.45pm start​
Tickets £18.50ADV – 18+​
TICKETS ONSALE HERE

Before then, here’s a reminder of what you’re in for:

Sacha Dhawan in The Boy With The Topknot
BFI events

What TV’s on at the BFI in September-October 2017? Including The Last Post, Liar and The Boy With The Topknot

28 July 2017 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Every month, TMINE lets you know what TV the BFI will be presenting at the South Bank in London

We’re back to that curious time of year in the BFI calendar known as ‘September-October’, which is when we get a big rundown on both September and to a lesser extent October’s schedule, the latter of which will get a top-up in a month or so once the BFI catches up with itself.

There are two strands to the programming in this bi-month. The first is a jazz season, featuring archives appearances on British TV of greats including Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk.

The second, somewhat less surprisingly given the autumn TV season is nearly upon is, is previews of three upcoming UK TV programmes:

  • Peter Moffat’s The Last Post (with Jessica Raine and Ben Miles among others)
  • ITV’s suspiciously The Affair-like Liar (with that Ioan Gruffudd)
  • The Boy With The Topknot (featuring Marvel’s Iron Fist‘s Sacha Dhawan – yes, I will always be referring to him as that from now).

Q&As with cast and crew are scheduled for all three of those, so I’d book my tickets quickly, if I were you.

 

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Woody Harrelson as LBJ
News

Friends’ sisters reunited; Old Man Samuel L Jackson; Chris Pine’s TV show; Animal Kingdom, Angie Tribeca, Harlots renewed; + more

28 July 2017 Rob Buckley Post a comment

The Daily News will return on 4th September. Have a nice August!

Film trailers

Internet TV

  • Trailer for Amazon’s Comrade Detective

French TV

International TV

  • Trailer for AXN’s Absentia with Stana Katic
  • Hulu (US) – and maybe ITV Encore (UK) – renew: Harlots

US TV

US TV show casting

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting

Tim Roth in Tin Star
BAFTA events

What TV’s on at BAFTA in July/August 2017? Including Tin Star, Tracy Beaker and Sinemaes 2017

27 July 2017 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Every month (more or less), TMINE flags up what TV events BAFTA is holding around the UK

BAFTA’s not got its act together as much as the BFI does, so a quick warning that if you want to see Tin Star, you’ll have to get your skates on, because they’re showing it tonight (they only emailed me about it yesterday – not my fault guv’nor!).

TV Preview: Tin Star + Q&A

Thursday 27 July 2017 – 18.45
BAFTA 195 Piccadilly, London

A preview of Sky’s new drama, which follows an ex-metropolitan detective starting a new life in a secluded town in the Rocky Mountains. Followed by a Q&A with actors Tim Roth, Oliver Coopersmith, Abigail Lawrie and writer Rowan Joffe.

Sinemaes at National Eisteddfod (Anglesey)

Friday 5 August – Saturday 12 August
Bodedern, Anglesey

For a second year, BAFTA Cymru will host a programme of screening and events at its Sinemaes tipi at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, a festival celebrating Welsh culture and language.

BAFTA at 70 Open Weekend: BAFTA Kids Event – Tracy Beaker

Saturday 5 August  – 11.00
BAFTA 195 Piccadilly, London

BAFTA and CBBC will be screening an episode from The Story Of Tracy Beaker; Tracy Beaker Returns and The Dumping Ground in celebration of the 15th anniversary of the series. Followed by a Q&A and meet-and-greet with cast and crew.

Prices

BAFTA Members/Guests: Free
Public: £7.50

BBCs 1, 2 and 3 comedy pilots; Shooter shortened; Queen Sugar renewed; + more

27 July 2017 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Internet TV

  • BBC Three green lights: pilots of comedies Chinese Burn (with Yennis Cheung et al), Hailmakers (with Akemnji Ndifornyen and Samson Kayo), Wannabe (with Liz Brazier) and Enterprice (with Kayode Ewumi et al)

International TV

New UK TV shows

  • BBC One green lights: pilots of comedies Mister Winner (with Spencer Jones et al), Time Vine Travels Through Time and Static (with Rob Beckett)
  • BBC Two green lights: pilots of comedies The Other One and The Pact

US TV

US TV show casting

  • Li Jun Li joins Fox’s The Exorcist
  • Elizabeth Banks, Ed Begley Jr, Carrie Brownstein et al to guest on HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm
  • Mahershala Ali to star in HBO’s True Detective
  • Jaylen Moore promoted to regular, Nikolai Nikolaeff joins, Katherine Evans to recur on History’s Six
  • Breeda Wool to guest on NBC’s Midnight, Texas
  • Rachelle Lefevre and Missy Peregrym to guest on NBC’s The Night Shift

New US TV shows

New US TV show casting