Fake Show 2: Heroes of the Revolution (Main Cast & Setting)

[lost_spook]

I'm still working on the supporting cast and the episode guide, but I think the main cast and basic set-up has solidified pretty well, so here's part 1 of the first fruits of the isurrendered meme...

The prompt, from

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[grondfic]

Whoa! This is amazing. You have to Do It All now ...

(and then sell it to the Beeb - or failing that, Scandi-TV, who would film it all in tones of twilit menace and hopefully starring Sofia Helin, Kim Bodnia and Sidse Babette Knudsen)for oodles of cash.

[lost_spook]

Thank you! And, ha, I doubt I could manage it. But there will be an episode guide sometime soon.

You are right, though! And then a US TV network would buy it and remake it as a cheery patriot thing instead and everyone would be Outraged.

[lolmac]

I REALLY want this to exist!!!!!

[lost_spook]

It's a hard meme. Fake TV shows are so enticing. They don't have to deal with any reality, like unavailable actors, budgets, duff scripts. *sigh*

And thank you. :-)

[swordznsorcery]

This sounds great! And what a cast - Julian Glover and Paul Eddington. And, in a surprise piece of casting, that Alfred Burke feller too. ;) It's a great premise, and I can just see it having a dark, moody atmosphere. Probably a lot of dark rooms, and a lot of angry talking. (And a lot of having to be careful not to slam doors too hard, in case the doors wobble). I don't think I know Shiela Allen or Morris Perry, but they have perfect faces for this, so well done there. Who do we lobby to get a DVD release?!

The name Charles Terrell made me smile too, especially given the character breakdown. There's a marvellous character of the same name played by Anton Lesser in the BBC sci-fi series "Invasion: Earth". It's a terrible, terrible show, but he's superb; and had it been made twenty years earlier, Alfred Burke would have been an absolute shoe-in for the role!

[lost_spook]

Thank you! The casting is quite funny, in one sense, in that in 1973, most of these actors weren't as famous, though they were all known. Julian Glover probably was (but he hadn't been in all the cult films yet), Gemma Jones and Paul Eddington were known and noted but not yet famous, so Alfred Burke is the big name draw. I think.

(Sheila Allen was also in Children of the Damned, so you have seen her, but she got run over by a lorry fairly rapidly, so you'd hardly remember. She was also in Public Eye, though. PE was very handy for casting. :-D)

he name Charles Terrell made me smile too, especially given the character breakdown. There's a marvellous character of the same name played by Anton Lesser in the BBC sci-fi series "Invasion: Earth".

/o\ I have never heard of that, and got the last name at random out of a surnames dictionary. But I forgot to Google and check for that kind of thing. Whoops.

[swordznsorcery]

"Invasion: Earth" is best not heard of, trust me on this. ;) I had a rewatch a few years back, and if you ever want to see a study in growing irritation, try reading my episode reviews. Gods, it's awful. Charles Terrell is wonderful, though. Put upon, weighed down by sorrows, and endlessly misunderstood. He's also been thrown into the role of rather unwilling hero, which is why your choice of the name amused me, and why I think that Alfred Burke would have been so good in the part at one time. I can only hope that, had the show been made in the seventies, rather than the nineties, he'd have had more luck than Anton Lesser, and wouldn't have been the only member of the cast bothering to act.

I think in 1973 the viewing public would have been aware of your stars (Paul Eddington was in everything in the sixties) but probably they were recognisable faces rather than recognised names. So you get great actors on the cheap. Excellent! :D

[lost_spook]

So you get great actors on the cheap. Excellent! :D

My thoughts exactly! And, yes, if I'd made it in the late 70s, they'd all have cost twice as much and I'd have had to have other people. :-)

Put upon, weighed down by sorrows, and endlessly misunderstood. He's also been thrown into the role of rather unwilling hero, which is why your choice of the name amused me, and why I think that Alfred Burke would have been so good in the part at one time.

That's really funny. Possibly even bordering on eerie. And, yep, sounds about right!

[ramasi]

That meme is a bit cruel, it sets you up for being sad this doesn't exist! I don't know the actors, so some of it is probably over my head, but plot, setting, and characters look really intriguing! :D

[lost_spook]

Indeed! It is the evillest meme, for that. I remember from last time!

And thank you! It helps to know the actors, but I have pictures, so it doesn't really matter. :-)

[persiflage_1]

What, no David Collings? You astonish me!!!

:D

Nice work...

[justice_turtle]

He's a guest star. He dies. ^_^

[lost_spook]

*dies laughing*

This is completely true!! I have the supporting cast just about sorted. Next up is the episode guide, totally including in which episode David Collings does something treacherous/misguided, regrets it, whimpers, and dies (and by what unlikely means). (This is my treat for when I've done the hard bit. :lol:)

You know me far, far too well. ♥

(He was also destined to die in Enigma House, even though that was in the present day. Hmm, actually, I think he was dead all along in that one. I never got round to including that in the summaries.)

[justice_turtle]

♥ ^_^

('Scuse my brevity, I have the sleepy. There's a birthday party on upstairs and I can't find my earplugs.)