Anyone want some low-quality, location shots of future Doctor Who episodes? Nothing too spoilery (at least no more spoilery than the blog’s daily news), so if you want to see some more, come follow me over the jump.
UK TV
TV at the BFI in July
Time for our monthly round-up of forthcoming TV at the BFI. The big, if you can call it that, season is a retrospective of David Rose’s work. Rose was a drama-director producer at the Beeb, responsible for Z Cars amongst other things; he also helped to found Film Four.
- 5 July, 2pm: Licking Hitler + Match of The Day – two episode of Play for Today, one directed by David Hale about WW2 propaganda, the other directed by Stephen Frears looking at a family wedding.
- 5 July, 4.15pm: David Rose – My Journey Together. David Rose talks about some key productions.
The other TV event, other than a Dennis Potter play, Angels Are So Few (sort of the flipside of Brimstone and Treacle), being added to the Mediatheque, is a conversation with Hazel Adair, who created Britain’s first ever soap, Sixpenny Corner, as well as Compact and Crossroads.
- 11 July, 6.10pm: A screening of an episode of Compact followed by an interview with Hazel Adair.
Not much this month, but if you’re a big TV history buff, I’m sure you’ll be dropping by.
Members’ priority postal booking opens 26 May
Members’ online and phone booking opens 2 June
Public booking opens 6 June
Sitting Tennant
Today’s Sitting Tennant (from Poly again)
Ooh, she’s good, isn’t she? Another classic from Poly of David Tennant sitting. Note how he’s not using the chair in the right way, but the photo is still a valid entry. Is it a press shot or from an actual programme (“How I wish I could stand up again, but now I’m stuck”)?
Captions and/or links to more pictures of David Tennant in a not-vertical position, please!
News
Friday’s TV-AM news
The daily news will return on Thursday 29th May.
Film
- Terminator 4 plot details
- The first Hellboy 2 TV spot
- Richard Dreyfuss to play Dick Cheney in W?
- Beyonce to do Bond theme?
Radio
- Anne and Nick reunite with Mad Lizzie and Wincey Willis on BBC London 94.9
British TV
- James Marsters to play Buzz Aldrin for Moonshot?
- ITV to stop showing Pushing Daisies?
- Secret Diary of a Call Girl gets a third series [free registration required]
- The six candidates for the Beeb’s College of Comedy
US TV
- More episodes ordered for Law and Order: Criminal Intent
- Casting: Sam Neill, Sean Bean and Joss Ackland join Crusoe, CCH pounder joins Warehouse 13
- Guess who’s back in CSI next season (spoiler alert)
- ABC’s comedy casting includes Beau Bridges and Meagen Fay
- 24 prequel adds Eric Lively, Tony Todd and Gil Bellows to cast
- Ron Perlman to star in FX’s Sons of Anarchy
- Rosie O’Donnell and Fran Drescher writing their own sitcom
- A round-up of this year’s cancellations
Today's Joanna Page
Today’s Joanna Page: David Copperfield
Today’s Joanna Page is David Copperfield, in which she played Dickensian femme fatale Dora Spenlow – her first big role if you ignore the important part of “Servant” (not to be confused with “Servant” or indeed “Servant”) in Mike Figgis’ somewhat dry and empty yet sexed-up Strindberg adaptation Miss Julie. David Copperfield and Miss Julie mark the beginning of her costume drama period, which includes The Cazalets, To The Ends of the World, The Lost World and, of course, Aladdin at the Old Vic with Sir Ian McKellen, where she played ‘Panky’.
Dickens and I never used to get on together. Sure, everyone loves A Christmas Carol: that’s a truism. But after struggling manfully with Bleak House at school and my mother’s copy of Pickwick Papers at home, I decided I didn’t like him – too florid, the characters too grotesque and the Kingsley-esque character naming a major irritant.
But David Copperfield changed all that and we’ve never looked back. I’m going to rabbit on more about it after the break, to save you from spoilers, although the book’s 160 years old now – is that the longest ‘spoiler warning’ I’ve given so far?
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