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Bonekickers BBC 8th June

Bob The Skutter

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From BBC Press Office

From the multi-award-winning co-creators of Life On Mars and Ashes To Ashes comes a new BBC One drama that is groundbreaking in every sense.

Bonekickers is a highly original six-part series about a dynamic team of archaeologists, led by Professor Gillian Magwilde (Julie Graham) and featuring Dr Ben Ergha (Adrian Lester), Professor Gregory Parton (Hugh Bonneville), Viv Davis (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) and Professor Daniel Mastiff (Michael Maloney).



Set against the backdrop of Bath, a city steeped in 3,000 years of history, each week the team uncovers a compelling mystery from the past that tells viewers something profound and revelatory about the present. Archaeology has never been so dramatic.



Julie Graham (Dalziel & Pascoe, William And Mary) is Gillian, a feisty Celt who heads up a team of archaeologists, working out of Wessex University.



Adrian Lester (Hustle, Ballet Shoes) is Dr Ben Ergha, a forensic expert who brings an objective understanding to the team, Hugh Bonneville (Miss Austen Regrets, Tsunami, Filth) is the encyclopaedic but terminally louche Professor Gregory Parton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Spooks, Trish Jones in Doctor Who) is the eager, young, post-grad intern, Viv Davis.



As a team their skills combine under a variety of imperatives to extract bodies, books, weapons and all manner of artefacts which lead them into an investigation of the past that will unlock dangers and mysteries in the present.



From the excavation of murdered 18th-century slaves to the possible discovery of the True Cross, each episode is a window on a period of history but, more importantly, a reflection on how we live now.



Running through the series is a greater puzzle that Gillian keeps to herself for fear of ridicule: the hunt for the greatest treasure in the history of Humankind, a hunt that drove her brilliant mother insane and a hunt that pits her wits against her academic nemesis – the arrogant, urbane TV historian, Professor Daniel Mastiff, played by Michael Maloney (The Forsyte Saga, The Jury, Truly Madly Deeply) – and that will culminate at the end of series one in a desperate race for glory which may destroy her in the process.

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Based in fact, the series has on board the expertise of Professor Mark Horton, Head of Archaeology at Bristol University, a specialist in the archaeology of historical societies around the world and Bonekickers consultant on the factual evidence and background to the relics featured in each episode.



Polly Hill, BBC Commissioning Editor for Independent Drama, says: "This is an exciting, bold, new series for BBC One, from the wonderful Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharaoh.



"They have created a contemporary show, which brilliantly brings history to life – our archaeologists investigate huge mysteries that may start in the past, but which are very much still alive and dangerous today.
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There's a trailer in the link. It'll be airing on BBC One and HD.

I've been interested in this since they announced it last year. Hopefully they've made something that lives up to their previous work. Anyone else interested?
 
Sounds interesting, might give it a go seeing as it looks like were are not getting another season of Hustle...:(

I don't watch much TV and the few programmes i do really enjoy either are short in episodes per season or just disappear into the ether...
 
Haggis and Tatties said:
Sounds interesting, might give it a go seeing as it looks like were are not getting another season of Hustle...:(

I don't watch much TV and the few programmes i do really enjoy either are short in episodes per season or just disappear into the ether...
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The new series of Hustle is filming this summer, airing early next year.
Danny and Stacie aren't going to be in it, but Mickey is coming back.
I just thought I should maybe spoiler warning that. Don't worry, it's just casting spoilers, no plot spoilers.
 
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I dunno... I enjoy watching specials about real archaeologists doing their work and learning stuff, but this show sounds like it's going to be trying too hard to punch it up and make it urgent and topical and melodramatic, and that could end up being very contrived.
 
Bob The Skutter said:
Haggis and Tatties said:
Sounds interesting, might give it a go seeing as it looks like were are not getting another season of Hustle...:(

I don't watch much TV and the few programmes i do really enjoy either are short in episodes per season or just disappear into the ether...
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The new series of Hustle is filming this summer, airing early next year.
Danny and Stacie aren't going to be in it, but Mickey is coming back.
I just thought I should maybe spoiler warning that. Don't worry, it's just casting spoilers, no plot spoilers.
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Nice find, looking forward to that....i wonder why we now lose two charactor's and get one back.......oh well we still have albert and ash.
 
Haggis and Tatties said:
Bob The Skutter said:
Haggis and Tatties said:
Sounds interesting, might give it a go seeing as it looks like were are not getting another season of Hustle...:(

I don't watch much TV and the few programmes i do really enjoy either are short in episodes per season or just disappear into the ether...
Click to expand...
The new series of Hustle is filming this summer, airing early next year.
Danny and Stacie aren't going to be in it, but Mickey is coming back.
I just thought I should maybe spoiler warning that. Don't worry, it's just casting spoilers, no plot spoilers.
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Nice find, looking forward to that....i wonder why we now lose two charactor's and get one back.......oh well we still have albert and ash.
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From Digital Spy

Adrian Lester will return for the fifth series of BBC One's con artist drama Hustle.

Lester was absent from the show's fourth run, with his character Mickey "Bricks" Stone heading to Sydney to execute an ambitious long con: selling the Sydney Opera House.

Robert Glenister and Robert Vaughn will reprise their roles as grifters Ash "Three Socks" Morgan and Albert Stroller. Marc Warren (Danny Blue) and Jaime Murray (Stacie Monroe) will not be back for series five.

Speaking about his Hustle return, Lester said: "It's great to finally get back into Mickey's shoes after a very busy couple of years both here and in the US.

"Tony (Jordan, the show's creator) and I have been discussing all sorts of stories and ideas for the next series and he has written some brilliant scripts with some classic twists - I'm already practising my pick pocketing!"

Jordan added: "Whilst Mickey has been away working the ultimate long con in Oz, his crew have all gone their separate ways. So, now he's back in blighty, Mickey's intent on getting back to business because as long as there is someone who wants something for nothing, Mickey will be there, happy to take a great deal of money off their hands for nothing in return."

Series five of Hustle will begin filming in London this summer and air on BBC One in 2009.
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I know Jamie Murray was in series 2 of Dexter, so maybe she's still off in America? And Marc Warren is here, there and everywhere, so I guess he's busy with other things.
 
Christopher said:
I dunno... I enjoy watching specials about real archaeologists doing their work and learning stuff, but this show sounds like it's going to be trying too hard to punch it up and make it urgent and topical and melodramatic, and that could end up being very contrived.
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You have no idea how melodramatic it is (I've seen the first one at a press screening). As Radio Times points out, it's very appropriate that a partial anagram of the title is 'Bonkers'.
Quitte fun once you've managed to pick up your dropped jaw though.
 
I'll probably watch it on I Player...how long does it take for BBC to air something on I Player once it has been aired on TV ?
 
NX_01 Mark said:
I'll probably watch it on I Player...how long does it take for BBC to air something on I Player once it has been aired on TV ?
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It varies, sometimes it's up within an hour of the show, other times it's a couple of days later. Most of the time it's the next day.
 
Re: Bonekickers BBC 8th July

Ditto on the title, one of the worse I have ever heard. Plus, I can't take the trailer seriously for the young actor trying to be a deadly serious religious fanatic with an Arctic Monkeys/Lily Allen accent! Can't tell if he's speaking with a northern or cockney accent. "The fire will be lit, and they will all come flocking to it!" my arse! Try lighting a fire under my arse and watch the consequences mate! This show gives me a shiver down my spine in the vein of Robin Hood, and that aint good!
 
I can't take much BBC drama seriously. I really dunno what it is about it but 90% of it leaves me cold. I'll give it a miss.
 
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