Hauling Like A Brooligan

Stephen Gallagher

Category: television

  • Hey, Look Who We Got

    Helen Slater has joined the cast of Medea, my Eleventh Hour season closer that broadcasts on April 2nd. Yes, she was Supergirl, but she’s done loads of other stuff too. I was curious to see how our numbers would look after Thursday night, given that we were up against George Clooney’s return to ER. Which…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Return

    This Saturday, January 31st, 8.00pm on NBC; the second and concluding part of the Crusoe season finale. No, that’s not him on the slab. As far as I know there are no plans for a second season. I understand there’s some debate over whether Crusoe is a cancelled show or a completed miniseries. Miniseries is…

  • The Traveler

    Well, that’s how those Americans spell it… 8.00pm, Saturday, January 24th on NBC… the first hour of my two-part Crusoe season finale, in which our backstory and main story come together and I can promise you answers to all the questions raised in the Sam Neill/Jeremiah Blackthorn subplot. No, of course you won’t find them…

  • Where’s Skippy?

    Here’s a piece of cultural history if you’re of a certain age… a visit to the standing sets of a 60’s TV show finds them in a state of ghostly preservation with props, sets and decor still intact…

  • Network DVD Sale

    Thanks to Ian Dickerson for the news that Network DVD have cut their stock prices for online sales by 40% until Sunday 25th January. I’m caving in and going for the Department S boxed set now it’s under thirty quid. Though for the moment I’m still working my way through forty-seven hours of Danger Man…