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Fill me in on this series, please

posted 13 years ago by imdb-19700
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It looks to have a great cast, and Paula Milne's screenwriting talents are well-known. When is this scheduled to debut (other than just "2012"), and are there plans to air it in the United States? I highly respect Michael Kitchen's body of work, and with his ascendant career, I can't imagine him accepting this role unless he liked the concept.

I have to say, I think the only work of Milne's I am familiar with is Second Sight, which I enjoyed very much. It will be interesting to me to sample her work in a dramatic genre, rather then the somewhat dark thriller/mystery setting of SS. There is certainly plenty of horsepower at her disposal. If she can consistently write screenplays which challenge a cast as diverse and talented as this one, this series could go far.

[–] iamjossy 13 years ago

I certainly agree about Kitchen. He is brilliant. Would love to be able to see this. Of course, with our PBS Station in San Francisco, it will be years, if ever.
KQED is a weak station.

[–] cnb 12 years ago

I'm looking forward to this mostly because of Kitchen, too. He's amazing.

Well, iamjossy, if you've a means to watch Region 2 DVDs, there's always amazon UK:
http://tinyurl.com/88wj3k8

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[–] MaryLouStalin 12 years ago

Yes, I found it hard to care about any of the characters, especially when they seem to be so obviously set up as ciphers for the issues of the day (and now, I guess).

Things like the 2 guys having the funeral broadcast/sarky singing face off put me in mind of Look Back In Anger type writing. Was the dated period depiction of 'controversy' deliberate, or were they deliberately channeling kitchen-sink dramas of the period?

The more I think about it, the more the whole thing just came off as a slightly pointless history lesson.

In fairness it looks like it might grow into itself, just not sure that I'll be around to see that happen.

It's on series record anyway, so maybe I might give it another go.

[–] youngian67 12 years ago

There has been no shortage of zeigeisty 60s period dramas and this has a lot to look up to.

I hope it does span out to be more character based as the timeline is over familiar and this seems to be full of cliched markers of the period. After listening to the radio news of Churchill's illness Claire Foy's character goes to the room to read some Lady Chatterly and play the Who's My Generation (Times they are a Changing wouldn't have been much less heavy handed).

We also had joints, the pill, discussions for common market entry, avant garde art and men convincing the chicks sexual liberation is about sleeping around.

The bloke from Newcastle is a more believable archetype (Mr Square from the provinces) of what was on the whole a dull and drab decade for most people.

I suspect next week they will drop some acid and protest against the Vietnam war with Austin Powers.

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