The Weekly Play

The Wednesday Play: Alice in Wonderland (1966)

23 May 2012 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Alice in Wonderland

Once upon a time, the TV schedules in UK were full of plays. There were strands including The Wednesday Play, Play For Today, Theatre 625, Armchair Theatre, Espionage, Out of the Unknown, Tales of the Unexpected, Play of the Week, Twentieth Century Theatre, The Sunday Night Play and I’ve barely scratched the surface.

Now, we have Playhouse Presents on Sky Arts and that’s about it.

So today, in an effort to boost the ‘play count’, I’m starting a new strand on TMINE, appropriately entitled ‘The Wednesday Play’, that’s going to feature a different classic play each week. Now, I could start with almost anything, but since we have a taste for the unusual round here, let’s start with Jonathan Miller’s 1966 adaptation for The Wednesday Play of Alice in Wonderland, starring John Gielgud, Peter Sellers, Michael Redgrave, Michael Gough, Leo McKern, Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, Malcolm Muggeridge and Eric Idle.

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The making of SyFy’s Defiance

23 May 2012 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

SyFy has a new show coming called Defiance set 35 years in the future after aliens have arrived on Earth. Weirdly, as well as being a TV show, it’s also an online multi-player game that will interact with the show’s storyline. Here’s a great big movie about the making of both. Yes, sadly, it has Jaime Murray in it:

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Damon Lindelof’s very long, detailed defence of Lost and its finale

23 May 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Lost has, amazingly enough, been off the air for two years now, but the controversy about its ending continues. Former co-showrunner Damon Lindelof is in the middle of promoting the movie Prometheus, which he also wrote, but took an amazing 25 minutes to argue and discuss the merits of the Lost season finale with a guy from On The Verge.

I’m not sure the guy in question nails the problems with the finale – and the fact he thought the entire series was imaginary is an obvious issue with his questioning. To me, the problem was that the explanations we got were just either inconsequential and lacked depth (okay there’s a man in black and Jacob and their mum and a glowing light under the island. Is that genuinely what this is all about?) or they just didn’t answer the questions that needed answering (how did Jacob pick everyone? How did the numbers work? What actually is the nature of the island?).

But what do you think?

Wednesday’s “The Great Gatsby trailer, four Smash exits, and True Blood’s Alan Ball replacement” news

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Film

Trailers

  • Interactive trailer for Snow White And The Huntsman
  • Trailer for Baz Lurhmann’s The Great Gatsby with Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire

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