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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 7:24:13 GMT
someone from The Sun or Daily Hate Mail Turns out the Guardian is the worst offender - a really mean spirited piece by one of their TV reviewers Stuart Heritage. Jack Thorne and others have taken to Twitter about it. I've only quickly glanced at that article but I'm not sure I can really see what is so particularly mean spirited about it. It's usual TV fluff stuff. And it really isn't untrue that Erin Doherty is probably the least known to the general TV viewing public (as good as she may be) and that Princess Anne is not a particularly interesting character (other than the kidnap attempt). Hell I'm pretty sure that many a theatre goer might struggle to pick Erin out of a lineup. If she's so good in The Crown then people will pick up on that and she'll become the breakout star, just like Vanessa Kirby. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 8:05:25 GMT
It's Stuart Heritage, so if it's not overtly mean-spirited in this specific instance, it's worth bearing in mind that he is reasonably mean-spirited on a fairly regular basis, so it's not hard to read it in all of his articles once you know it's always there somewhere, no matter how low-key.
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Post by kathryn on Aug 2, 2018 9:14:46 GMT
Most of the Gruan’s tv coverage is fairly mean-spirited - even when they are writing about the shows their readers clearly enjoy! They can’t wait to pillory stuff.
I think they’ve never quite gotten over middle-class snobbery about watching tv, so they always have to slightly sneer at it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 12:08:02 GMT
Fairy nuff. I obviously don't read his articles enough to know what he's normally like.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 2, 2018 12:39:57 GMT
Well I never watch ITV. I think its dreadful 😑
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 2, 2018 12:40:47 GMT
(Except Long Lost Family which I 💖!)
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Post by crowblack on Aug 2, 2018 12:49:07 GMT
what is so particularly mean spirited about it. He doesn't bother to find anything out about two upcoming young actors but rates their casting as 2 out of 5. As Jack Thorne points out, some young people could be really hurt by that - especially when he then goes and rates Helena B-C as 7/5 . |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 2, 2018 13:59:02 GMT
I'm sure most actors have been used to far worse than whether some nobody in an online article (that could be called 'lightweight' at best) rates them as 3/5 alongside Ben Daniels. So he hasn't bothered to find out anything about Erin Doherty? That (and more) happens pretty regularly with other actors on this very forum too and we're all supposed to love theatre. The article is rubbish but I still can't really see why people are so particularly sensitive about this one. All he's saying is that she's the least known of the announced cast (which is true) and even Jack Thorne calls her a "hidden secret". I'm sure she'll be marvellous. If she can make Princess Anne interesting then she'll be sensational.
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Post by crowblack on Aug 23, 2018 20:25:09 GMT
Andrew Scott in the new series of Fleabag.
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Post by crowblack on Sept 30, 2018 9:41:26 GMT
Chimerica and David Copperfield (Armando Iannucci-scripted film) casts now up on IMDB. Ben Whishaw as Uriah Heep! Looking forward to seeing him as a baddie again after all that Paddington and Mary Poppins.
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Post by crowblack on Oct 19, 2018 8:57:54 GMT
Milly Thomas' Dust (Soho Theatre, Trafalgar Studios) is being adapted for TV, which is great news - it really deserves a wider audience.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2018 10:38:49 GMT
Trevor White is in Doctor Who tomorrow.
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Post by shady23 on Oct 21, 2018 22:57:36 GMT
The entire box set of Informer is now on BBC is on iPlayer and as well as Sharon D Clarke being her usual amazing self, Rachel Tucker appears in four episodes (main appearances in episodes four and five). I loved this whole series.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 22, 2018 0:33:38 GMT
Giovanni Spano (Bat Out Of Hell; Mamma Mia) is a finalist on the X Factor this year.
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Post by crowblack on Oct 30, 2018 10:58:42 GMT
If you're wanting some Dickens for these dark nights, Christine Edzard's 1988 Little Dorrit is now on Netflix - amazing cast: Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Max Wall etc.
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Post by crowblack on Nov 1, 2018 22:27:39 GMT
The new BBC Watership Down has a great voice cast, but bloody hell, have you seen the stills? The rabbits look like something out of 'Crap Taxidermy'!
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Post by shady23 on Nov 4, 2018 20:56:53 GMT
Sharon D Clarke read 'Rusty the Squeaky Robot' by Neil Clark for the bedtime story on Cbeebies tonight!
Now on @bbciplayer
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Post by crowblack on Dec 25, 2018 13:04:04 GMT
The wonderful Patsy Ferran voicing an animated Princess in the Julia Donaldson cartoon on BBC1 today.
Zog.
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Post by crowblack on Feb 4, 2019 20:56:50 GMT
Jessie Buckley in the Endeavour repeat about to start on ITV3+1
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Post by Backdrifter on Feb 5, 2019 16:43:38 GMT
The title of this thread reminds me of a question someone asked on the old board. I think it was primarily in the 1970s when a performer had made a guest appearance on a TV show, over the end credits an announcer would tell us that specific performer "can currently be seen in Rookery Nook at the Alhambra Theatre, Blackpool" or such-like.
Why did they do that?
(I mean, why did they make such announcements, not 'why did anyone appear in Rookery Nook at the Blackpool Alhambra'. There must have been lots of folk on tv appearing in stuff on stage. Contract stipulation?)
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Post by crowblack on Feb 16, 2019 13:52:10 GMT
I'm very late to the party on this, but I'm a couple of episodes in to Penny Dreadful and loving it! Fantastic cast who seem to be enjoying themselves enormously, especially SRB's deliciously camp Egyptologist. It was originally on Sky, hence my lateness, but if you like Taboo, Ken Russell, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic etc. this may be right up your alley.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 14:01:36 GMT
I'm very late to the party on this, but I'm a couple of episodes in to Penny Dreadful and loving it! Fantastic cast who seem to be enjoying themselves enormously, especially SRB's deliciously camp Egyptologist. It was originally on Sky, hence my lateness, but if you like Taboo, Ken Russell, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic etc. this may be right up your alley. It all ties up very nicely by the end too, ending on its own terms rather than being cancelled.
Just wait until Patti Lupone turns up, with an accent heretofore unknown to man.
Speaking of accents, I've started watching 'The Expanse' as it's been taken over by Amazon Prime. Jared Harris' 'Belter accent'* is a jaw dropping mix of Arfrikaaner, East Asian (I think), with a touch of 'white guy pretending to be Jamaican'.
*You'd have to watch it to understand but it's hard sci-fi, so basically futuristic with societies based on Earth, Mars and the asteroid belt.
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Post by crowblack on Feb 16, 2019 15:02:53 GMT
Alas I don't have it. I've heard good things about The Terror, also Amazon or something I don't have, so will investigate now it's on Bluray. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2019 15:06:20 GMT
Alas I don't have it. I've heard good things about The Terror, also Amazon or something I don't have, so will investigate now it's on Bluray. Yes, the Terror was excellent and, being an anthology series, wraps up nicely in one set of episodes.
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Post by david on Feb 16, 2019 15:15:22 GMT
I'm very late to the party on this, but I'm a couple of episodes in to Penny Dreadful and loving it! Fantastic cast who seem to be enjoying themselves enormously, especially SRB's deliciously camp Egyptologist. It was originally on Sky, hence my lateness, but if you like Taboo, Ken Russell, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic etc. this may be right up your alley. I’m another fan of Penny Dreadful. I thought it was well written and acted. It gave a nice spin on some classic Victorian literary charcters. |
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