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Saturday, September 13, 2014

Noah's Ark

Noah's Ark is a 1997-1998 drama series starring Anton Rodgers as rural veterinarian Noah Kirby. Anton is well-remembered for some of his TV roles such as Fresh Fields, French Fields, May to December, Zodiac, Murder Most English, and Lillie. Angela Thorne (To The Manor Born, Farrington of the F.O., Three Up Two Down) played his wife, Val. Kate Alderton, the daughter of John Alderton and Pauline Collins, was also in this. Written by Johnny Byrne, who also wrote a lot of All Creatures Great & Small, One By One, Space 1999, some Doctor Who and was the creator of Heartbeat.
Noah's Ark

Friday, September 12, 2014

Donald Sinden 1923 - 2014

Donald Sinden has died. His co-star in Two's Company, Elaine Stritch, just died a few weeks ago.

Donald Sinden dies

The Gingerbread Girl

Doctor At The Top is nothing new here, but.............

The Gingerbread Girl is a 1993 comedy starring husband/wife Janet Dibley (The Two Of Us, Fat Friends, The Chase, Doctors) and Tyler Butterworth (Fiddler's Three, The Darling Buds of May) with Tracie Bennett (Rich Tea and Sympathy, Making Out, Joking Apart, Next of Kin, Burn It, Scott & Bailey).
The Gingerbread Girl

In The Club + The Secrets

Two new drama series from BBC.

In The Club is a serial written by Kay Mellor (Band of Gold, Playing The Field, Fat Friends, Between The Sheets, The Chase, Strictly Confidential, The Chase, A Passionate Woman, The Syndicate) featuring a "big" cast: Hermione Norris (See You Friday, Berkeley Square, Cold Feet, Wire in the Blood, Kingdom, Spooks, Outcasts, The Crimson Field), Katherine Parkinson (Doc Martin, The IT Crowd, Fear Stress & Anger, The Old Guys, Whites, The Honourable Woman), Jill Halfpenny (Peak Practice, EastEnders, Waterloo Road, Lightfields), Christine Bottomley (Early Doors, The Street, Massive, Hope Springs, Land Girls, Great Night Out), Hannah Midgley (Emmerdale), Will Mellor (Casualty, Hollyoaks, Sorted, Two Pints Of Lager, White Van Man, In With the Flynns, Broadchurch), Jonathan Kerrigan (Casualty, Heartbeat), Sacha Dhawan (The Last Train, Five Days, The Deep, Last Tango in Halifax), Tara Fitzgerald (Waking The Dead, The Body Farm, Game of Thrones), Brendan Patricks (Downton Abbey, Mr. Sloane), Shobna Gulati (dinnerladies, Coronation Street), Neil Pearson (Chelmsford 123, Behind The Lines, The Booze Cruise, The State Within, Drop the Dead Donkey, All The Small Things, See You Friday), Victoria Carling (Bonjour La Classe).
In the Club

The Secrets is an anthology series of five stand-alone dramas featuring the likes of Alison Steadman, Olivia Colman, Sarah Solemani, Steve Oram, Helen Baxendale, Joanne Froggatt, Ben Chaplin and Emilia Fox.
The Secrets

Cuckoo was back, but.........

The comedy Cuckoo returned for a second series, but it will be back in about 3½ months with a Christmas special.

Cuckoo

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Hope And Wire

Hope And Wire is a drama mini-series from New Zealand that aired back in early July. First, I had a lot of technical issues to deal with that I couldn't resolve with any satisfaction. Colin in New Zealand kindly provided a solution to that issue and then I held off for a spell hoping to come up with something else to add to the disc. The 3 episodes are all 90-minute feature-length so it requires about 2/3 of the disc. I think I would end up waiting a long time for something else that small. Since a lot of people in the UK are only interested in things British, I'll add that one of the major stars of this series is Bernard Hill. This is going to be screened at the Vancouver International Film Festival next month, so perhaps it will be hitting the satellite feeds in other countries in the future.
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Hope And Wire