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Johnny Hollywood Explains It All
Last year I gave an e-mail interview to a journalist preparing an article for a US magazine. Turned out to be one of those pieces where a dozen of you oblige and the writer cherrypicks a quote or two from each. I never saw the piece so I’ve no idea of what may have been…
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Neill, Bean, Crusoe
Today’s Guardian has some accurate catch-up info on Crusoe casting: “Sam Neill and Sean Bean are to feature in a big-budget production of the Robinson Crusoe story being made by a UK independent producer for US network NBC. Crusoe is to be played by Philip Winchester, who featured in the 2004 movie remake of Thunderbirds,…
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Last ITV Viewer Located
Read the story here.
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CBS Fall Schedule
It’s just been confirmed that Eleventh Hour will air in the post-CSI slot on Thursdays at 10pm in CBS’s Fall schedule. In the words of one of the people who passed me the info, “This is huge”. It had already been tagged as “the biggest television deal ever made during development season” – which, if…
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Eleventh Hour USA
It’s been announced in Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily and elsewhere that, following a screening of the pilot for Les Moonves and other executives last week, CBS has now placed a series order for Eleventh Hour. Which I had an inkling of when certain of our prospective Crusoe directors weren’t available because they were booked…
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Wendigo, Night Tide
A week or two back, Stephen Volk asked me if I’d seen “the peculiar, eerie Wendigo“. And the answer was, yes, I have. Stephen Laws had discovered it and was determined that he was going to get me to see it. On the face of it, Larry Fessenden’s modestly-budgeted indie horror reads like a standard…
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Deadwood
Last year we made one of our US road trips. It’s by far our preferred kind of holiday; pick a part of the country we’ve never seen, book a flight, rent a car, and then launch. We’ve never been disappointed, and I’ve always come home with notebooks loaded with ideas and material. A couple of…
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La Roue
I just heard that Abel Gance’s monumental La Roue is to be released on DVD May 8th. La Roue was Gance’s major project before his five-and-a-half hour Napoleon. It’s an epic Zola-esque love triangle set against the iron and steam imagery of the French railways. I’ve been wanting to see it ever since I read…
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Sound Effects and TV History
This link from Mark Ayres tells of plans to issue a CD box set celebrating the 50th anniversary of the BBC’s now-defunct Radiophonic Workshop, pioneering in-house department responsible for themes and sound effects across a range of programmes. Ah, that original version of the Doctor Who theme – described by my godson as “ghosts screaming…
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Six Tales
Stephen Laws writes: “Completely by accident, I was looking at the TV schedules last night – and the title Spectre caught my eye (like I have exclusive rights on the word, or something). “Turns out that it’s the first of a six part Spanish series called 6 Tales to Keep You Awake – very much…
Hauling Like A Brooligan
Stephen Gallagher
