BBC Shows

[Sawyer]

Hannibal, The Fall, X-Files, War and Peace... when the **** does Gillian Anderson sleep?

 

[Fallen Angel]

Anyone catch the BBC's adaptation of 'And Then There Were None'? Part 1 of 3 was on today and it's pretty good. Episode 2 and 3 will be out the following days.

 

[BestGirl]

No, unfortunately. And Then There Were None is my favorite Christie novel. I'll probably wait for it to come out on DVD.

Anyone watch Dickensian? I hope it's good.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Can't wait for this.

'Robot Wars' Reboot Coming to BBC http://thr.cm/RBoeAL

Robot Wars, the British TV game show that first aired on the BBC in 1998, reaching a peak of 6 million viewers and spawning two seasons of U.S. spin-off Robot Wars Extreme Warriors on Spike (then known as TNN), is returning to U.K. screens.



The BBC announced Wednesday that the show is being rebooted for its BBC Two channel in an initial run of six hour-long episodes, set to be shot in a purpose-built arena in Glasgow and featuring a new structure with "more robots, more battles and more science" than before.

"The new series includes a raft of technological advances since the show first aired over a decade ago, and viewers can expect to see more innovative fighting machines as teams of amateur roboteers battle it out to win the coveted Robot Wars title," the public broadcaster said.
The new Robot Wars will be produced by Mentorn Media Scotland, in association with SJP Media and executive produced by Chris Brogden, Tinopolis' creative director entertainment, Andrew Robertson of Mentorn Scotland and Jo Street for the BBC.
"Robot Wars is an absolute TV classic and I'm thrilled to be updating it for the next generation of viewers," said Kim Shillinglaw, the controller of BBC Two and BBC Four. "With new technological advances making for an even more exciting and immersive experience, this is a fantastic example of the kind of content-rich factual entertainment that BBC Two excels at."

 

[chamber-music]

I'm dubious about Robot Wars being able to work in this day and age.
I think they would need to engineer something really spectacular to keep people interested. Saying that, Millions of people tune in to watch people in a baking competition so perhaps it isn't that hard to entertain people these days.

 

[Fallen Angel]

Why wouldn't it? New and better technology means better and hopefully more advanced robots. Only thing we need is Craig Charles and Jonathan Pearce back.

 

[antsman41]

chamber-music, any new teen/adult dramas along the lines of Skins, Misfits, and Glue?

I finally caught up to The Bad Education Movie, it was funny and good to see those characters again albeit lack of continuity, a little to gross for some stuff, and so forth.

 

[chamber-music]

chamber-music, any new teen/adult dramas along the lines of Skins, Misfits, and Glue?

I finally caught up to The Bad Education Movie, it was funny and good to see those characters again albeit lack of continuity, a little to gross for some stuff, and so forth.

There is Tripped which is a parallel universe Bill and Ted style show from e4.

 

[Golgo-13]

Check out Black Mirrors and Top Boy on Netflix. Two great British shows.

 

[antsman41]

Check out Black Mirrors and Top Boy on Netflix. Two great British shows.

I've seen all of Black Mirror and have Top Boy waiting on my external, excited for that one.

 

[flickchick85]

Don't know if anyone else has been watching War & Peace but I just watched the BBC episodes after feeling like something was "off" about the American airings, and oooh boy did they do a hatchet job on that! They aren't just cutting nice little character moments, but also, in at least one case so far (the American version's only one episode in), entire subplots. A&E/History/Lifetime should be ashamed, because PBS/Masterpiece would never! It's a shame they didn't have the money to shell out for the U.S. broadcast rights, but sadly, they could never compete with major cable networks.

Anyone who's able to watch the BBC version though, I highly recommend it. Aside from a mishandling of the Anatole Kuragin character, I'm finding it to be a pretty strong adaptation. The actors are killin' it.

 

[BestGirl]

Too bad. I was planning on watching the American episodes. Well, at least I now know I can skip them.

 

[flickchick85]

Well, the BBC edit of War & Peace just concluded, and it was fantastic. I totally cried. Now I just hope they'll release that version on blu-ray in America. I need it.

 

[Golgo-13]

I've seen all of Black Mirror and have Top Boy waiting on my external, excited for that one.

Sucks that they're not making a new season, and that it ends on a cliff hanger.

 

[chamber-music]

Sucks that they're not making a new season, and that it ends on a cliff hanger.

Rapper/Actor Drake is a big fan of the show and offered the production company money to make the third season last year.

Drake’s love of all things grime rightly extends to Top Boy, the Channel 4 series that starred Kano and Ashley Walters, aka So Solid’s Asher D.

He loves it so much, in fact, that he offered to fund a third series of the show, as Walters revealed in an interview with Not For The Radio.

“Drake thought it was proper,” he said. “This was via text. I was speaking to Future [The Prince] mainly, Drake’s manager. We were going back and forth. And we were like, ‘Put a deal on the table’.

“Eventually they got in contact and asked, ‘What’s happening with series three?’ I told them Channel 4 had cancelled it. They said, ‘That’s sad, but we’re going to do something about it.’ Furthermore Drake was like, ‘You need to break America’. He wanted to help.”

But the production company that owns the rights, Cowboy Films, wanted more money for the deal.

“We were going into meetings. Top Boy is the sort of brand we knew would sell to Netflix, Amazon. The numbers speak for themselves. So we had that power and the production company still owned the rights. And Drake made an offer and they turned it down. I don’t know what is going on with it – but I heard they are talking about a Top Boy Chicago.”

Walters says it costs $1.5 million per episode.

Sucks the production company is holding out for more money. Netflix got more seasons for fellow Channel 4 show Black Mirror.

Well, the BBC edit of War & Peace just concluded, and it was fantastic. I totally cried. Now I just hope they'll release that version on blu-ray in America. I need it.

I enjoyed it. I can't say I fully understood the Pierre character. I've never read the book but he seemed like a odd fellow. His existential crisis felt very Russian.

 

[Teelie]

I'm sure most people already heard this but Matt LeBlanc is set to become a presenter on the re-tooled Top Gear along with Chris "Not Captain America" Evans, Chris Harris and rumors of Sabine Schmitz being involved as well. And of course The Stig will return.

 

[Teelie]

Big(ger) Top Gear news is the cast will be a rather large 7 presenters.

Chris Evans, Matt LeBlanc, Sabine Schmitz, Chris Harris, Formula 1 commentator Eddie Jordan, and Rory Reid. And The Stig.

Ars Technica

And in related news, Jeremy Clarkson's Amazon show has begun filming for a likely similar May debut.

 

[chamber-music]

Anyone watch Happy Valley?

 

[flickchick85]

Anyone watch Happy Valley?

I literally just tore through the whole 1st series of that today. It is excellent. About to check out the S2 premiere now.

I enjoyed it. I can't say I fully understood the Pierre character. I've never read the book but he seemed like a odd fellow. His existential crisis felt very Russian.

LOL, very Russian indeed. He was on a search for self-identity, much like Tolstoy felt Russia itself was at the time, and his search was doomed as long as he looked for it within his class, because that class and all its trappings was his true prison. It was only when he was stripped of this identity as a prisoner that he was able to find his true self. That's how it plays out in the book anyway, I thought the series did a pretty good job of it.

 

[Golgo-13]

Anyone watch Happy Valley?

Yep, watched it in one day. Loved it. What it is about U.K shows that make them so much better produced/written than U.S ones?

 

[chamber-music]

I think James Norton from War & Peace and Happy Valley would make a good Bond or Bond villain one day.

 

[flickchick85]

I think James Norton from War & Peace and Happy Valley would make a good Bond or Bond villain one day.

Ha, true he really could play either one quite well. I got a crush on him watching Grantchester, which then made me hate myself watching him as such an utterly vile scumbag in Happy Valley, lol. He's quite a fantastic actor, though, imo.

 

[chamber-music]

Season three of Line Of Duty has been great.

Hot damn, episode 5 was crazy tense.

This show is like Infernal Affairs/Internal Affairs but with ground realistic police investigation procedures.

Each season builds an extra layer on the criminal conspiracy.

Gill is gives off Dolores Umbridge vibes.

 

[chamber-music]

Supernatural period drama 'The Living and the Dead' is coming soon to BBC2

Colin Morgan (Humans, The Fall, Merlin) will play the lead role of Nathan Appleby in brand new eerie mystery The Living And The Dead.

The original six part series for BBC One, created by Ashley Pharoah (Life On Mars, Ashes To Ashes, Moonfleet), will also star Charlotte Spencer (Glue, Stonemouth, Line Of Duty), as Charlotte Appleby, Nathan’s wife.

Somerset, 1894. A house that’s almost as old as the English countryside itself. A brilliant young couple inherit the farm and are determined to start a new life together. But their presence in this isolated corner of England starts to unleash strange, unsettling and dangerous supernatural phenomena that will start to threaten their marriage.

This is a drama steeped in the eeriness of the rural world at the moment when the industrial revolution came crashing in to disrupt all the old certainties. Uncanny, intriguing, disturbing. At the series’ heart is the love story of Nathan and Charlotte Appleby: deeply in love with each other but put under extraordinary pressure, they will have to fight to save their marriage and their home.

 

[chamber-music]

The latest Murder in Successville episode was great. Tom Davis and Paul Whitehouse broke character and started laughing during the interrogation scene.