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Showing posts with label BBC America. Show all posts
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Monday, 18 March 2013
Sunday, 10 March 2013
Ripper Street: ‘Street’ signs What lies ahead for ‘Ripper’ crew in Season 2 By MICHAEL STARR Last Updated: 11:58 PM, March 8, 2013 Posted: 10:36 PM, March 8, 2013 (NEW YORK POST)
Fans of “Ripper Street” won’t be disappointed by tonight’s season finale — which ties up some loose ends and leaves other plot stones unturned.
“We wanted to make sure that, if we got only one series, that it would end in a way fans would find satisfying, at least, in some ways,” says “Ripper Street” creator Richard Warlow.
“We didn't want [the first season] to be incredibly open-ended because fans get frustrated,” he says. “They get invested in a series, some big questions are put to them, and then they don’t get any satisfaction.
“As a TV watcher I’m slightly resentful of those situations . . . and I didn't want ‘Ripper Street’ to be like that.
Warlow says he has a “strong sense” of where his characters will be in Season Two (filming begins in late April/early May). “It will be between six months and a year from where we left the characters,” he says. “I wanted to move into the final decade of the 19th century; the feel, the landscape and the culture has slightly changed.
“For Reid, to jump ahead any further would have been unfair to the character and [to] the issues we need to answer,” Warlow says. “We’ll be far enough ahead that’s he’s been able to get back to some sort of sense of normalcy.
“In Series 2, we’ll be looking at more of the political and cultural movements of the time as inspiration,” he says. “The premise of Series 1 was a group of people trying to make peace with their past.
“In Series 2 . . . how do they then go about living in a Victorian culture that’s economically depressed with . . . the feeling of doom and calamity that ends of centuries always bring?”
READ MORE: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/street_signs_fmSsE9xAVAOQR9tqwnvhWK
Saturday, 9 March 2013
MARTIN FREEMAN: Watch Martin Freeman discuss new Sherlock filming with Graham Norton (Video) (BBC AMERICA)
Sherlock fans, let’s face it, we’re all desperately scrabbling for any clues as to what is going on with Series 3, aren’t we?
Well, amid some faintly terrifying paintings of Watson and Sherlock “at it,” and the revelation that his head has not been as severely turned by the success of The Hobbit as you may assume, Martin Freeman let slip, on Comic Relief’s Big Chat – Graham Norton’s chat show marathon – that they start shooting the week after next.
Matthew Macfadyen: Critic’s corner: What’s on TV tonight By Matthew Gilbert | BOSTON GLOBE STAFF
Ripper Street Saturday at 9 p.m., BBC America
I’ve enjoyed this series, which wraps for the season on Saturday night. “Ripper Street” is yet another TV crime procedural, but the primitive forensics and the Victorian setting, with its killing poverty and moral hypocrisies, make it stand out. The writers manage to turn each murder case into more than just a whodunit, with themes about the brutality of war, labor strikes, and psychiatry. And Matthew Macfadyen has been a formidable lead. The series has been renewed for a second season.
http://bostonglobe.com/arts/television/2013/03/07/critic-corner-march/tvyrIEKpwRcALTX2YYVUQL/story.html
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Sunday, 3 March 2013
RIPPER STREET: Adam Rothenberg finds dream part in 'Ripper Street' (RED EYE)
SHOW PATROL
March 02, 2013|By Curt Wagner, @ShowPatrol | RedEye
March 02, 2013|By Curt Wagner, @ShowPatrol | RedEye
Set in London's rough East End in 1890, "Ripper Street" tells the story of H Division, the police precinct charged with keeping order in the aftermath of Jack the Ripper's reign of terror. Rothenberg plays American Homer Jackson, an ex-Army surgeon and ex-Pinkerton detective recruited by Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) to help the police, including Reid's right-hand man, Sgt. Bennet Drake (Jerome Flynn), to solve crimes.
Just as Jackson's the only American working with H Division, Rothenberg was the only American on set during filming.
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"I don't want to say [it was] totally life imitating art because I'm not nearly as interesting as Homer," he told me during a phone call from Gramercy, N.Y., where he lives. "But, yeah, there was a lot of that ... and that really helped in the flavor of the show. I actually kind of learned what being an American was all about by being surrounded by people who weren't. And, of course, that's part of what the show explores."
How Jackson, the consummate outsider, fits in with his new British "friends" has been one of the series more interesting aspects. Reid asked, then cajoled and then threatened him to remain at the inspector's beck and call to perform autopsies and use the burgeoning science of forensics to help solve cases. A fan of any vice you can imagine, Jackson's also gambled, gotten drunk (many times), been beaten up and clashed with the more straight-laced Drake, as well as Long Susan Hart (Myanna Buring), with whom he shares a dark secret.
Friday, 1 March 2013
HIT television drama 'Ripper Street' is set to return to film series two in Dublin on April 29 for four months in the Irish capital. (INDEPENDENT)
Laura Butler – 01 March 2013
An industry source told the Irish Independent that the cast and crew of the BBC production will once again shoot the entire series in Dublin and are scheduled to continue filming at Clancy Barracks until August 31.
"The whole team really enjoyed filming in Ireland last year and it worked out very well for the production," the source said.
The first instalment saw Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg play policemen and a doctor living in Whitechapel in 1880s London, in the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders.
- See more at: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hit-tv-series-ripper-street-set-for-second-shoot-in-dublin-29102214.html#sthash.eX5VanYn.dpuf
An industry source told the Irish Independent that the cast and crew of the BBC production will once again shoot the entire series in Dublin and are scheduled to continue filming at Clancy Barracks until August 31.
"The whole team really enjoyed filming in Ireland last year and it worked out very well for the production," the source said.
The first instalment saw Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn and Adam Rothenberg play policemen and a doctor living in Whitechapel in 1880s London, in the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders.
- See more at: http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hit-tv-series-ripper-street-set-for-second-shoot-in-dublin-29102214.html#sthash.eX5VanYn.dpuf
Thursday, 28 February 2013
RIPPER STREET: 5.2M Tune In To ‘Ripper Street’ Season Finale 28 Feb 2013 : By Eva Hall (IFTN)
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5.2 million people watched the eighth and final episode of series one, which saw Detective Reid, played by Matthew Macfadyen, attempt to end a slavery ring in Whitechapel.
The period drama aired on BBC One for eight weeks, starring Macfadyen (Pride and Prejudice) and Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones) as policemen, and Adam Rothenberg as a doctor. The trio were shown trying to instill order in the East London town of Whitechapel, during the aftermath of the Jack the Ripper murders.
The series shot entirely in Dublin last summer, and was a co-production between Ireland’s Element Pictures and the UK’s Tiger Aspect Productions and Lookout Point. All post production was also carried out in Dublin, with Egg Post Production working on all picture and sound post-production and Screen Scene looking after VFX.
The series has already been commissioned for a second run by the BBC, however it has not yet been confirmed whether it will return to the Clancy Barracks location of season one. Creator Richard Warlow will return for series two.
READ MORE: http://www.iftn.ie/news/?act1=record&only=1&aid=73&rid=4285823&tpl=archnews&force=1
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Jerome Flynn: GAME OF THRONES Season 3: Jerome Flynn Hints At Bronn Arc by ROCO on FEBRUARY 26, 2013 ·(Seriable)
Game Of Thrones actor Jerome Flynn has teased his character’s fractious trajectory in the fantasy serial’s upcoming third season, premiering March 31 on HBO.
In a chat with Access Hollywood, Flynn hinted that the love-in between his character Bronn and Peter Dinklage‘s Tyrion Lannister could meet stormy weather in the wake of Tyrion losing his job as Hand of the King to Tywin Lannister.
“He’s just about sticking it with Tyrion. He’s getting a bit frustrated, underpaid. He’s not got the position he had, but there’s still love between them. And some good, some nice scenes together, but not much.”
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