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lost_spook

Some British TV things

Feb 18, 2013 17:06

1. Petition to save The Hour (you can find all the details here via the links). It's fast heading up to 13,000 and needs over 2000 more people, so, if anyone else feels like saving yet another excellent TV show from winding up with a never-resolved cliffhanger, please go there. (It's about a BBC current affairs TV show in the 1950s with Romola ( Read more... )

the hour

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persiflage_1 February 18 2013, 17:24:29 UTC

Alas for the inevitably of time marching onwards... :(

Not seen The Hour.

lost_spook February 18 2013, 20:03:07 UTC

Yes, indeed. :-(

The Hour is very good - well worth a watch should the opportunity come your way. I haven't seen S2, but I'm looking forward to it - although less now if they cancel it and leave me hanging off a cliff!

persiflage_1 February 18 2013, 20:42:28 UTC

I probably won't - I started watching Dancing on the Edge - and am now nearly 2 eps behind (I've seen the first two but the fourth airs tonight!)

femme_slash_fan February 18 2013, 20:03:53 UTC

Oh RICHARD.... *sobs weakly* RIP you lovely man.

You know he's the reason I actually have an acting job next week... I'm going to be a wreck doing it now. >.<

lost_spook February 19 2013, 12:18:43 UTC

Aw. :-(

Oh, well, good luck with that - and how is that down to Richard, if you don't mind me asking you?

femme_slash_fan February 19 2013, 14:39:17 UTC

Yeah, I'm pretty broken right now.

Thanks, and well... he's the one got me in touch with Ms. Kendal... who was looking for out of work actresses to try and set up a show for us to show off our skillsets... and well, I'm one of them.

ravenskyewalker February 18 2013, 21:33:33 UTC

Shame about both The Hour (which I still haven't seen) and Briers. *sigh*

lost_spook February 19 2013, 12:20:21 UTC

The Hour is very good. I haven't seen S2 - it's taken me a long time to get hold of S1 - but I'm sure you'd like it. It's beautifully made, a very good cast and doesn't go to the predictable place it seems to be heading at the start, which impressed me. (And I would have liked it anyway, for all the rest even if it had.)

And, yes, it is sad about Richard Briers. :-/

dimity_blue February 18 2013, 23:17:37 UTC

I saw on Facebook that Richard Briars is gone. :o( I had no idea he was ill with emphysema either.

Fun fact about Richard Briars though: he dubbed the voice for the French king in The Three and Four Muskateers films. If you listen, you can tell it's him, but the dubbing is really well done.

lost_spook February 19 2013, 12:21:28 UTC

:-(

I didn't know that. Ha. I have those. I'll have to watch them again sometime and listen harder. It doesn't surprise me, though. Nothing about those two films surprises me any more. :lol:

swordznsorcery February 18 2013, 23:30:57 UTC

Good old Richard Briers. Such a nice man by all accounts. Always fun to see him in Ken Branagh's movies, and then later turning up in "Torchwood".

Did you ever see "Skallagrigg?" Terrific BBC play based on the book, about the experiences of British disabled people. It aired once in 1994, and hasn't been seen since. I looked it up earlier, after hearing the news, and found that it's been posted on YouTube. I recall being particularly impressed by Briers in that (although it's twenty years since I've seen it, of course).

It's here if you're interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4epmFseC6dQ. One of those things that seem almost forgotten now, which is a shame.

lost_spook February 19 2013, 12:22:35 UTC

Yes, he really does seem to have been. I read those quotes from him about his illness and had to grin - exactly the same way he always sounded. "It's a bugger, but there it is..."

I haven't - and thanks for the link, although I doubt I'll be able to just yet. But thanks.