Thanks to @mpsheritage.bsky.social I think I may have identified an original Sylvia Pankhurst artwork. Altho' for licensing agreement the pic below isn't the original - but to unravel the mystery read on...
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It's OK, I wasn't thinking about Virtual Murder. Eeriness over. It'd be good for WoT, mind.
Have you thought about Murder Rooms in the last few minutes?
Good idea, and another coincidence cos I said "Something in the water" because I thought saying "Strange" would sound like a suggestion.
It could help with thinking about the status of sf (etc) on UK TV in the 1990s. Oh and Ultraviolet + Game On = Being Human (which I adore)
My own fault for not saying Albion Market or The Tube
Snap! (I said Ultraviolet a few minutes earlier. Is there something in the water?)
For the Love of Albert, Eldorado, Ultraviolet
21 years ago... compressed too much because there's so much to say about it.
I got it wrong a couple of times back in t'day and still cringe, but in my defence I was never leafletted.
I gave up reading those booklets years ago - they were like an explosion in a semi-colon factory. Poor writing/proofing. However, yes, giving the correct name to the people who give you loads of stuff would be polite. Getting it wrong sometimes is ok but every time...
More Hartnell. More Camfield. Yes please. Will the Delegates arrive with name tags on?
It hasn't finished-finished - it'll be back in another couple of years ish after a break, a prequel and a film - but that finale was the end of the #callthemidwife we know, and was played as that, so the point sort of stands.
What's a decent interval before rewatching all fifteen series? I mean, it's already been a very long 25 minutes #callthemidwife
Now that #callthemidwife has finished, I'll have to update my old articles about it. I only called it the best drama series of the decade - selling it a bit short there. www.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk/?p=6553
Perfect final episode. Told at 300mph (several episodes in it), but perfect. #callthemidwife
Detective show instant commission on U&Alibi #callthemidwife
Top 3 today would be Richard II, Henry IV (either part), Measure for Measure (did it for A-level 30+ years ago, revisited it recently and pleasingly still don't know how I feel about it). Obviously Julius Caesar and Hamlet and and and... hang on, he's got some hits this lad.
Oh and Tom Baker voicing a promo for Television Entertainment Group, if that's your idea of etc.
Image of a 1980s multi-platform computer game as it appears in The Scramble for Cable.
It's blocked in some territories because of music. However, if this is your idea of a good time, there's some of this:
I uploaded 20/20 Vision: 'The Scramble for Cable' (C4, 26 October 1983). This looks at the projected rise in cable television, including The Gaming Network and video games and Milton Keynes News. youtu.be/LbBsLMRaIrw
Jenny Gilbertson: I uploaded this 1981 documentary about the work of this Scottish filmmaker. youtu.be/1Jj3rcspkLY (Reposting now that I've changed the thumbnail from the footage of her outside the Leicester Square Odeon promo for The Empire Strikes Back.) #filmsky
Filmmaker Jenny Gilbertson: I uploaded this STV documentary about her from 1981. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jj3... #filmsky Excuse thumbnail.
We lost Kenith Trodd last weekend, a brilliant producer and forward-thinking man who believed deeply in television and the British screen. He was ahead of his time in many ways. "A film is a film is a film."
My tribute is now up on the BFI website: www.bfi.org.uk/news/kenith-...
I was at Ken's bedside last week. He gave me some life-changing television (Singing Detective, Leeds United among them) and loved nothing more than a gossip over a long lunch. I also admired his positive forward-thinking attitude to new work, rather than getting cynical in his years. A one-off.
The device predates them both, as you suggest: "rosest rose", "liliest lily of the field", etc. I don't have my list to hand (an ice age ago I dug around for roots/routes for the Potter line, so be careful what you wish for).
Well said!
'Next time' showing they're going to return to the thalidomide family again - it means the world that they do that. This show. #callthemidwife
Cover of Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene.
‘Astonishing. I enjoyed a deeper working involvement in the making of the film than most authors are granted — but even so, there was so much going on that I didn’t know. Thank you for teaching me’ David Rudkin ‘Indispensable. It left me longing to see the film again and wishing that television today had room for works of such outstanding individual imagination’ Michael Billington
‘A comprehensive, immersive deep dive into the creation of David Rudkin and Alan Clarke’s massively influential and hallucinatory coming-of-age story. Highly recommended!’ Grant Morrison ‘Play for Today was, for many years, the most exciting strand in British television and Penda’s Fen is one of its most remarkable highpoints: visionary, original and under perfect control’ David Hare
‘A welcome revelation of insight, background and new resonances to Clarke’s masterwork’ Jim O'Rourke ***** ‘Surely the definitive statement on Penda’s Fen’ SFX Magazine ‘A first-class read. It is like witnessing a first-class documentary in written form’ Spencer Banks
Praise for our book Penda's Fen: Scene by Scene, @greavesian.bsky.social's definitive exploration of the classic Play for Today from script to screen. Available now from tenacrebooks.co.uk
Richard Harris in Lindsay Anderson's adaptation of Gogol's Diary of a Madman, Royal Court Theatre, London, March 1963 (ref. LA/3/10/4/4).
"I am Heathcliff." Wuthering Heights has long been an inspiration for filmmakers. In 1964 Lindsay Anderson attempted to film a version starring Richard Harris. Find out more in our new blogpost:
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