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HDTV UK (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Tiger Aspect Productions has been commissioned by BBC Four to produce Crooked House, written by Mark Gatiss of The League of Gentlemen fame and directed by Damon Thomas. Fully shot in high definition, the cast includes Julian Rhind-Tutt (Green Wing), Mark Gatiss, Philip Jackson (Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk To Finchley), Lee Ingleby (George Gently), Jean Marsh (Sense And Sensibility), Samuel Barnett...
newsjiffy (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
"Banking common sense had been abandoned". This week on BBC Four Robert Peston looked at how the super rich have helped to cause the credit crunch. Many of Britain's super wealthy became rich through the supply of credit increasing due to low US interest rates, allowing a huge borrowing spree. In an attempt to make more money, individuals with terrible credit histories were allowed to borrow money...
thequacksoflife (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
There were a couple of decent programmes on the telly last night both on BBC 4. One was Julia Bradbury in Railway Walks . This was the second of four and was set in Snowdonia. Nothing flashy just nice views a few interesting snippets and a nice way to spend half an hour. The previous one the peak express is still watchable via the I-Player (if you live in the UK. Crime writer Andrew Martin's programme...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Ninety Naps a Day (as far as I could make out the number was arbitrary, chosen for its alliteration) trod a fine line between the tragic and the hilarious, neatly encapsulated in a scene where Christine, the wife of a narcoleptic, talked of the appalling loneliness of 38 years of marriage. In the foreground, Kenny snored quietly: "He may as well not be here half the time". Kenny started up: "What...
This is Guernsey (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
(Photo by Matthew Power / Rex Features) A GUERNSEY man has had a large input into a new BBC 4 … [visit site to read more]
Kasterborous (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Mark Gatiss is behind a new BBC Four drama that looks set to chill you to your very bones... Scripted by Gatiss and produced by Tiger Aspect, Crooked House tells the story of a house and its curse, a damning that exists due to its construction from the wood of old gallows... Julian Rhind-Tutt (Green Wing) is expected to appear, although the majority of casting is not known... although with a broadcast...
The Stage (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Derren Brown is to make his acting debut in Mark Gatiss' new BBC4 supernatural drama Crooked House.
Nick Anstead (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Great dpcumentary on BBC4 about Lee Atwater, the GOP campaign strategist famed (and defamed) for getting Bush I elected in 1988. It’s on the iPlayer for the next week. BBC iPlayer - Dirty Tricks: The Man Who Got the Bushes Elected.
Euro Crime (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Andrew Martin who writes the Jim Stringer railway series set in the early part of the twentieth century is presenting a programme on BBC4, Between the Lines : Railways in Fiction and Film : Novelist Andrew Martin presents a documentary examining how the train and the railways came to shape the work of writers and film-makers. At the beginning of the railway age, locomotives were seen as frightening...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Unlikely, but Jamie Oliver has started a pyramid scheme – Jamie's Ministry of Food, Channel 4. He's gone to Rotherham to show a dozen kitchen-dodgers how to cook healthy food, on the basis that they will pass it on to friends, who will then pass it on in turn. A bit like gonorrhoea, but wonderful. Some of the families Jamie meets eat nothing but kebabs and chocolate; their children are sallow and...
A Motörhead fan-blog (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
It's the final, yes you read right dear readers, the FINAL weekend of Studymania here in Victory Mansions so it is blog post micro this evening as I conserve energy and scarce brain matter; First of course, is my weekly ration of Steed & Peel in 'The Avengers' courtesy of BBC Four . It is becoming a part of my Friday evenings as much as my post work pint or Fish & Chips........ Not much Motörhead news...
Love and Liberty (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
A relative quickie today, as (for a change) I’m feeling rather under the weather (for a bigger change, I’m well-wrapped-up). I hope mainly to be asleep this evening, but if you’re insomniac BBC4 brings two episodes of The Avengers tonight. At 11.35 there’s Silent Dust , a bitter ecological fable with some memorable imagery but an uncertain tone, then at 12.25 the rather better Room Without a View :...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
BBC Four scores its highest ever ratings, with a night of train-themed programming.
Mr. Hood's World-Wide Whatsit (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Thanks to Alexandre Borovik for this tip-off about the new four-part TV series on BBC Four starting next week. Professor Marcus du Sautoy introduces The Story of Maths. In Egypt, he uncovers use of a decimal system based on ten fingers of the hand, while in former Mesopotamia he discovers that the way we tell [...]
Why Dont You Blog? (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
This is an advert for something you can’t see, unless it’s repeated on BBC4 some time this week, if you can get BBC4….. (I checked BBC iplayer and youtube, to no avail.) I know that the thought of a documentary about art might not strike you as utterly compelling, but that’s what it was - both “compelling” and a “documentary about art”. It was an old Omnibus programme made by David Hockney. He argued...
