BBC Original British Drama

[Deckerd]

You're just a bunch of Scrooges.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

You're just a bunch of Scrooges.

Now, did I say anything against the ad? No, I just posted something Charlie Brooker said.

 

[Starkers]

I think it's a fun little ad that everyone in likely was contractually obliged to star in anyway, and I'd love to know what kind of epic programme Brooker thinks could be made with the budget for a 30 second Strictly ad (bearing in mind again that likely Robbie Savage, Holly Vallance and co weren't paid any extra to be in it anyway) So you're left with a couple of streets, some no name extras and a film crew. Quick let's make Invasion Rochadale or something...

 

[danellis]

Is Charlie Brooker someone I'm supposed to have heard of? He's not in Eastenders or XFactor, is he?

Is there an argument that adverts like that add the to prestife of the BBC (thinking particularly of the "Perfect Day" cover they did some years ago)?

dJE

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^Charlie Brooker is a TV presenter, writer, critic and columnist in the Guardian.

 

[Admiral_Young]

Here's a few clips from "Sherlock" series two!

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/12/21/bunch-of-trailers-for-moffat-gatiss-sherlock/

 

[Bob The Skutter]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=huyrWMraYME[/yt]

The latest trail for the upcoming season.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I'm watching Love Soup.

It's weird seeing Jimmy Olsen as an English actor but he's been living over there for a while.

You can imagine the writers tossing their toys having to rewrite their scripts after some one decides to cast and American as one of their British buffering Archetypes.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

A new list of shows for this year has come out today

From The Guardian

The War of the Roses is an adaptation of Philippa Gregory's best-selling series of books The Cousin's War and is part of a renewed focus on BBC1 drama.
The BBC said that it is yet to cast the drama or decide the number of episodes.
Witches are also the subject of BBC1's traditional festive treat for children.
Following the success of airing author Julia Donaldson's children's books The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child in the past two festive seasons, BBC1 and Magic Light Pictures are bringing another one to life this December called Room on the Broom.
Also on the cards for Christmas is a three-part adaptation of what TS Eliot called "the first and greatest of English detective novels", Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone.


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Halloween will be marked by BBC1 with a three-part drama taken from James Herbert's haunted house chiller The Secret of Crickley Hall.
BBC1 will also feature new contemporary dramas with Ben Stephenson, controller of drama commissioning, announcing the arrival of Truckers.
Written by William Ivory and made by Company Pictures, the six-part series follows a group of men and women who work for the same haulage company driving 40-ton articulated lorries across the Midlands.
The BBC described it as "a warm, funny, bitter-sweet character-driven show about getting by in difficult times".
Speaking at a Broadcasting Press Guild lunch in London, Stephenson revealed that Sean Bean, Anna Maxwell Martin and Stephen Graham will be joining the cast of the next series of Jimmy McGovern's Accused.
He also said that Sir Derek Jacobi and Sarah Lancashire will be appearing in writer Sally Wainwight's new series about rekindled love, called Antony and Cleopatra.
Antony and Cleopatra is actor Derek Jacobi's first TV drama series since he appeared in ITV's monk drama Cadfael in the mid-1990s.
Other casting announcements made by Stephenson included Matthew Macfadyen taking the lead role in Tiger Aspect's new Jack the Ripper drama Ripper Street and Hayley Atwell to star in William Boyd's Restless.
In addition, Ben Miller island crime series Death in Paradise is being recommissioned for a second eight-part series and Denis Lawson is joining the cast of veteran detective show New Tricks.
Stephenson revealed that Denis Lawson, who is best known for his role of Holby City and appeared in the BBC's adaptation of Bleak House, is to become the new lead of BBC1 drama New Tricks. Lawson replaces former Likely Lads actor James Bolam who is leaving the show.


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He added: "I believe BBC1 showcases the biggest and broadest range of what mainstream drama can offer of any channel in the world. This year alone will see BBC1 launching over 20 new titles, as well as bringing back over 15 returning series."

 

[sidious618]

I just watched the first season of Luther and enjoyed it. Idris Elba was great but Paul McGann got a nice meaty part in the final episode which I quite liked.

I'm a Peter Davison fan and was looking into "The Last Detective" which is from a few years back. Can anyone speak to the quality of it?

 

[Starkers]

As a Herbert fan The Secret of Crickley Hall is interesting, not that great a book mind you so be interesting to see what they do with it. A proper version of Haunted at last would have been preferable (the film was terrible, missed the whole point of the book imo) and Creed would have been a blast!

Never did watch the LAst Detective, which given I'm a Davison fan as well is v poor form...

 

[Starkers]

Ooh, now I realise Joe Aherne is adapting and directing Crickley Hall I'm even more interested...

 

[Deckerd]

I just watched the first season of Luther and enjoyed it. Idris Elba was great but Paul McGann got a nice meaty part in the final episode which I quite liked.

The second season is even better, although shorter. It's basically two feature length episodes, each split into two. BBC have commissioned another set but I don't know when it will be appearing.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Looks like the third series of Luther is on the cards for next year, 4 more episodes. Also looks like Being Human and The Fades are gonna be cancelled, because the BBC have prioritised drama on BBC One and BBC Three only gets to have 1 drama.

The focus on BBC1 drama also came with the admission that the commitment to drama on BBC3 would be downgraded, with either Being Human or Lip Service axed after their next series or no recommission for The Fades.

 

[Deckerd]

Being Human doesn't look good for this season anyway. Too many changes. We fear change.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Ever had a fearboner?

 

[Deckerd]

People get worried when we post next to each other Guy. They think we'll rip open a hole the fabric of reality or something.

 

[Guy Gardener]

That's not good.

Boy scouts make fire by rubbing two sticks together.

but if theoretical m-theory boffins work out that they can build star-drives from rubbing out posts together, they're tell their masters, who will tell their masters and so on until MI5 kicks your door in, black bags you, ties your wrists to your ankles and readies you for transport to one of their secret prisons.

There's a time to be brash and boastful about how all-powerful you are, but it's not on the internet when there's echelon from a 150 countries trying to decide if you're noise or of some value.

 

[Deckerd]

Ackshully now I'm hoping some rough type will come and cuff me.

 

[Guy Gardener]

How do you pronounce Cuff backwards?