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Granada
Good Dog mentioned a couple of classic series and broke a memory… I was a Presentation trainee in Granada’s Manchester studios when they were making The XYY Man, and one of our control room monitors was hooked to the studio feed. So I saw everything the studio cameras saw, both during and between takes. I…
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Man in a Suitcase
I just finished working my way through the boxed set of the 1967-68 ITC series Man in a Suitcase. It’s taken me longer than I expected it to, and it’s provoked some mixed feelings. It’s a show that I was enormously impressed by, the first time around. And I still am, but in a qualified…
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Gallic Noir
I just got back from a few days in Paris (and if that doesn’t make you even a little bit jealous, then I can only suppose it’s a place you’ve never visited yet). As soon as I got to my hotel room I did what comes naturally to every visitor to a distant city. I…
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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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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
