-
Gallic Noir (2)
Back in June of last year I blogged about the excellent French cops’n’justice show Engrenages. Slick, stylish, seedy, complex, and wonderful to look at, it had been screened in eight subtitled parts on BBC4 and did much to convince me that in the midst of UKTV’s creative meltdown there’s still one channel where you don’t…
-
Eleventh Hour: Subway
Here’s an image from the last act of my episode, screened Thursday March 12. That’s Marley Shelton as Rachel Young in the Philadelphia subway system. Here’s Rufus Sewell with episode guest star Mariel Hemingway: And that’s yer basic screaming mob of fleeing citizens in the background.
-
Crusoe on DVD
Amazon.com have announced that Crusoe: The Complete Series is available for Region 1 pre-order ahead of its release date on May 5th, 2009. I haven’t been involved with the DVD in any way, so I can’t tell you anything about it other than what you’ll find there. I don’t know how accurate some of the…
-
New Stuff
Well, I’m told that the information’s shown up on Wikipedia, so I suppose I’m safe to blab about it now… the good folks at JBTV were kind enough to invite me to take time off from development work to pitch something for the US version of Eleventh Hour, and my episode Subway will air on…
-
Books Do Furnish a Room…
…in a way that DVD or video cases don’t. If you’re in in any doubt about it, just look at the backgrounds in at-home TV interviews. I think it’s something tied in with the physical objects themselves, not just with the intellectual life they represent. A shelfload of shabby old middlebrow novels is way more…
-
Dose – y – do
Last night in the pub, we were discussing double entendres. I’d heard a good one, supposedly a Square Dance call. Unfortunately my telling of it coincided with one of those unexpected room-wide silences when everyone goes quiet and yours is suddenly the only voice to be heard. So to the woman in red at the…
-
Brian Clemens
I just heard from BFS Chairman Guy Adams that the great Brian Clemens will be joining Jasper fforde as a Guest of Honour at this year’s British Fantasycon. And if I’m really good I may get to do the interview. How cool is that? From the events page of the BFS Website: We are delighted…
-
Death of the Salesmen
Will I ever work for ITV again? Today’s bad news about the broadcaster (pick your own story, there’s one every day) makes it seem increasingly unlikely that there’ll be an ITV to work for. It seems unthinkable. Like a High Street with no Woolworths’. Today’s ITV isn’t a ‘dinosaur of the 60s’, as one commentator…
-
Culture Vultures and Slender Pickings
There are many advantages to living outside London as I do, but there are drawbacks too. If you want all that cosmopolitan stuff, you have to be there in the cosmopolis. Or whatever you call it. Most of the time it’s no big deal. I’ve got green fields, a dog and a big-screen TV, and…
-
You Wouldn’t Think It, But…
Ouch.
Hauling Like A Brooligan
Stephen Gallagher
