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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2017 0:45:59 GMT
Matilda Wormwood's family would know! You should ask them!
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Post by crowblack on Oct 2, 2017 21:39:11 GMT
The Last Post is a disappointment so far - very slow and unengaging. In an interview in the Guardian, even Jessie Buckley sounds a bit lukewarm about it.
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Post by Jan on Oct 5, 2017 16:36:19 GMT
How could I forget? Rory Kinnear in Count Arthur Strong! Now I'm torn - I love Rory Kinnear but don't think I could bear to watch Count Arthur. (But thanks for the headsup crowblack. I may just peep out from behind a cushion.) That series is strange, quite run of the mill and conventional, but both of those two are considerable stage performers. Kinnear obviously, but like Dame Edna, Count Arthur on stage is a radical and edgy performer far removed from his sanitised TV version. In one of his shows he stood with his back to the audience drinking a glass of wine for a full five minutes because he’d forgotten they were there. Takes a genius to get away with that.
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Post by Tibidabo on Mar 23, 2018 20:01:06 GMT
Not only that. There's a Treadaway (queue nicely behind me @ryan) and Stephen Campbell Moore.
What a cast!
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Post by crowblack on Apr 10, 2018 13:10:52 GMT
Is anyone watching the BBC's Ordeal by Innocence? It's finally airing after reshoots to replace one of the cast. I wasn't sure about it at first - the script is by Sarah Phelps, whose work I really like, though she tends to make things very dark, and in this case I feared everyone was so horrible it would be hard to care about them, but stick with it - it works! I haven't read the novel and only know it from the 'Marple' adaptation with Juliet Stevenson & co., but Phelps seems to have made significant changes to the plot.
Btw, it was written to be shown over three days at Christmas, with the episodes set on three consecutive days leading up to a wedding, so I do think it would have made better sense to show it Easter Sunday, Bank Holiday Monday and the last episode this week rather than stringing it across three weeks.
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Post by Tibidabo on Apr 10, 2018 16:46:32 GMT
Is anyone watching the BBC's Ordeal by Innocence? I'm watching crowblack and quite enjoying it as well. I'm not normally one for Agatha Christie to be honest, but the telly was on and I kept walking past and seeing famous actors, so started to take more interest. I also like Sarah Phelps' work - I loved The Crimson Fields several years ago. Matthew Goode is amazing in this - I'd never really noticed him as one of Lady Mary's dull suitors, but he really comes into his own here. Also, Luke Treadaway. Wow! Great performance. (Though I'm not so thrilled about what they have done to his beautiful face..) I don't know the book so have no idea who is supposed to have done it. I'm plumping for either the secretary or Demelza, who had a bit of a personality transplant at the end of episode 2 but, as you say, they're all pretty vile. I was interested to read how they inserted the new actor in 12 days (at £1 million cost) in the middle of winter and had to do clever stuff to stop their breath outdoors creating fog. Also, Alice Eve didn't make it over from the States so her scenes are done with a split screen, taken from the original recording.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Apr 10, 2018 17:04:18 GMT
I gave up after the first episode. I found it over-directed and under-written. I need to have someone to care abut - even in a murder mystery. And they all seemed so deeply unpleasant as to completely lose my sympathy.
I cannot see that it was worth reshooting something that is more style than substance. My housemate, an avid Christie fan, says she can't work out who did it because they have changed so much from the original. It just seems wrong to trade off the Christie name if you are going to just use the title for your own story.
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Post by crowblack on Apr 10, 2018 17:25:46 GMT
her scenes are done with a split screen Wow - I didn't know! It looks seamless and summery throughout. Luke Treadaway's very good, and I really enjoyed Matthew Goode in this. He was in an ITV Marple many moons ago as a waspish son, and in the fairly recent Brideshead Revisited film alongside Ben Whishaw, which I think is better than the old Granada TV version and well worth a look. The characters in the ITV version of 'Ordeal' were generally more sympathetic, with some scenes played for laughs, but I really like what Sarah Phelps has done with this - oxfordsimon, give it another go!
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Post by Tibidabo on Apr 10, 2018 17:47:21 GMT
It looks to me as though it's better for those of us who have simply taken it as a TV drama oxfordsimon, rather than Christie aficionados. I know nothing about the original story or other productions so am not comparing it with anything. For me I'm just watching some top-notch theatre actors doing their stuff, wearing gorgeous clothes in a beautiful setting. More about the re-shoot - the fact that there are so many top actors in this made it more difficult to get them together. Apparently Matthew Goode had only 12 hours free within the time frame. (They were on location in Scotland.) Eleanor Tomlinson went straight from the original shoot to the Poldark set and then came straight back for the re-shoot from wrapping on the Poldark set. Anna Chancellor's fur coat had been borrowed and had to be tracked down along with props that were now on various sets throughout Europe. They were very lucky that the owners of the house they used liked the decoration they had done before the original shoot so hadn't changed it much. And yes, I do keep trying to see the joins...but haven't found any yet!
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Post by crowblack on Apr 10, 2018 19:27:24 GMT
Jessie Buckley was amazing in War and Peace Just seen a trailer for a film called 'Beast' with Jessie Buckley and Hangmen's Johnny Flynn, and looks like there'll be some Q&A screenings this month, possibly with the actors as well as the director. There's one at my local Picturehouse which I'll defo try to get to.
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Post by TallPaul on Apr 11, 2018 12:58:30 GMT
I don't know the book so have no idea who is supposed to have done it. {Spoiler - click to view} It doesn't matter if you've read the book or not. The ending has been changed.
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Post by Tibidabo on Apr 12, 2018 16:02:05 GMT
More of the lovely Mr. L. Treadaway. (Jack Whitehall's always good value for money too.)
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Post by londonmzfitz on Apr 12, 2018 16:27:03 GMT
Rosalie Craig is going to be in the new series of ITV's Endeavour - think it is due to be screened early 2018. Hadley Fraser was in the same episode wearing some natty duds. And a porn star tash.
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Post by crowblack on Apr 12, 2018 22:26:57 GMT
Ah, just realised I can get this series on Now TV! Thanks!
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Post by crowblack on Apr 22, 2018 14:15:07 GMT
Hmm, the FACT-website-advertised Beast Q&A in Liverpool is presumably just a preview screening cos the film has its London BFI Q&A on the same night!
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Post by crowblack on Apr 25, 2018 9:48:01 GMT
Beast was great - apparently the writer/director's feature debut and really impressive. Jessie Buckley is magnetic, Johnny Flynn and the rest of the cast also really good. I won't discuss plot points as it hasn't been released yet and we went in not knowing much about it. My local cinema bumped the preview screening up from the small screen to the big because they got a bigger audience than expected - maybe because Buckley had been on Woman's Hour that morning?
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Post by alece10 on Apr 27, 2018 21:15:00 GMT
EP just appeared on Home from Home BBC1 sitcom as Johnny Vegas mum.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2018 11:01:11 GMT
The Good Fight, one of the best programmes on tv, this week had Rob MaClure, Nikki M James, Megan Hilty, Alan Alder, alongside the regular amazing cast. Cush Jumbo is just fantastic in this and is my favourite character by far.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2018 11:36:58 GMT
Alice Fearn was the guest singer at Mick and Linda's wedding in EastEnders a few years ago.
Mazz Murray played a guest character on EastEnders last summer.
Various other theatre actors have been in EastEnders as extras.
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Post by alicechallice on Apr 28, 2018 12:08:12 GMT
I spotted Anna-Jane Casey in Corrie the other night.
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Post by peggs on May 12, 2018 6:53:23 GMT
There's a trailer up on the telegraph for the Antony Hopkins Lear, sorry on phone don't know how to link.
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Post by shady23 on May 12, 2018 6:56:52 GMT
It's the theatre special on BBC's Pointless tonight.
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Post by crowblack on May 15, 2018 22:52:29 GMT
Hope it's better than his last one!
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Post by mistressjojo on May 16, 2018 1:59:15 GMT
Hope it's better than his last one! Apparently he was mistaken for a homeless person while filming, and some kind soul offered directions to a shelter! Not sure if that mean's the thing is any better for you crowblack
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Post by crowblack on Jul 29, 2018 22:37:24 GMT
I'm surprised by how thick/lazy some 'entertainment' journalists are. I don't think I've seen a single article on the newly-released cast for The Crown that makes a reference to Erin Doherty's theatre work. Instead, they tell readers that her acting experience is one episode of Call the Midwife. I suppose it's no wonder kids think screen roles like that are just something that magically happens.
Great to see her go global in this - she's an amazing talent.
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Post by cheesy116 on Jul 30, 2018 0:13:03 GMT
Max Parker (I Cant Sing, Matilda, Guys and Dolls) is currently on Casualty. Baring in mind I don't watch it but I always see him tweet about it so there's a small chance he may not have actually had his episodes televised yet.
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Post by Stephen on Jul 30, 2018 2:20:26 GMT
Not an up to date mention but reminded after The Good Fight being mentioned above. 'The Good Wife' not only featured a stellar leading cast all with roots in theater but many many guest spots filled by Broadway actors. A few which spring to mind are Santino Fontana, Steven Pasquale and Nathan Lane. Alicia's son was also the lead kid in 13!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 30, 2018 7:16:48 GMT
I'm surprised by how thick/lazy some 'entertainment' journalists are. I don't think I've seen a single article on the newly-released cast for The Crown that makes a reference to Erin Doherty's theatre work. Instead, they tell readers that her acting experience is one episode of Call the Midwife. I suppose it's no wonder kids think screen roles like that are just something that magically happens. Great to see her go global in this - she's an amazing talent. Is it surprising though? They're probably either going by a press release or they just need to quickly knock something out. And to be fair, her theatre output is probably less than Carrie Hope Fletcher's and there are many well informed people on a theatre board who say they have no idea who she is so it's hardly a shock that someone from The Sun or Daily Hate Mail isn't going to know what Erin Doherty has been in.
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Post by kathryn on Jul 30, 2018 8:35:07 GMT
There isn’t a theatre equivalent of IMDB for journalists to consult. If an actor isn’t well-known enough to have a detailed Wikipedia page it can be quite difficult to find out what all their theatre credits are. And often Wikipedia pages of even quite famous actors lack detail of their theatre work.
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Post by profquatermass on Jul 30, 2018 8:51:11 GMT
I've never heard of Erin Doherty and a quick google reveals a couple of roles at the Old Vic. She's hardly Juliet Stephenson. Most of these articles are headlined 'Where might you have seen XX?' and Call the Midwife is rather more likely than two plays in London
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