Exclusive: UK-based Big Talk Productions is embarking on event drama series Sas: The Originals, based on Gordon Stevens' 2006 book, The Originals: The Secret History Of The Birth Of The Sas. James Wood, creator of the BAFTA-winning Rev, and Rupert Walters (Spooks) are teaming to pen the true story of the genesis of the British Army's Special Air Service. Stevens' book is based on over 120 hours of uncovered video and audio tape about the formation of the renowned special…...
- 10/4/2016
- Deadline TV
David Tennant should have foreseen his wife's fate but Mitchell and Webb manage to avoid the obvious
The Escape Artist (BBC1) | iPlayer
Ambassadors (BBC2) | iPlayer
A Very English Education (BBC2) | iPlayer
Presumably somewhere out there are people writing serious contemporary dramas that do not feature the maiming and murder of women. Good luck to them, you have to say, because what chance does their work stand of ever seeing the green light of commission?
Nowadays everything from highly crafted series – The Tunnel and The Fall – to the ropiest ITV three-parters are stuffed full of imperilled females and butchered corpses. And lovely interiors.
This is the modern vision of urban angst, all sleek design inside and outside a homicidal psychopath trying to get in. The basic formula to which so much television drama can now be reduced is mutilation plus decoration. It's as if the only way to break through the...
The Escape Artist (BBC1) | iPlayer
Ambassadors (BBC2) | iPlayer
A Very English Education (BBC2) | iPlayer
Presumably somewhere out there are people writing serious contemporary dramas that do not feature the maiming and murder of women. Good luck to them, you have to say, because what chance does their work stand of ever seeing the green light of commission?
Nowadays everything from highly crafted series – The Tunnel and The Fall – to the ropiest ITV three-parters are stuffed full of imperilled females and butchered corpses. And lovely interiors.
This is the modern vision of urban angst, all sleek design inside and outside a homicidal psychopath trying to get in. The basic formula to which so much television drama can now be reduced is mutilation plus decoration. It's as if the only way to break through the...
- 11/3/2013
- by Andrew Anthony
- The Guardian - Film News
Keeley Hawes has joined David Mitchell and Robert Webb's new sitcom Our Men.
The comedy drama series has been written by Rev co-creator James Wood with Spooks' Rupert Walters.
Our Men is set in the fictional Central Asian Republic of Tazbekistan, with Mitchell playing newly-arrived British Ambassador Keith Davies and Webb as his deputy head of mission Neil Tilly.
"It's such a good subject," Mitchell said last year of the set-up. "We couldn't believe that something along these lines hadn't been written before."
Hawes plays ambassador's wife Jennifer, with Yigal Naor (House Of Saddam) playing President of Tazbekistan Karzak.
The cast also features Susan Lynch, Amara Karanm, Shirvani Ghai, Natalia Tena and Debbie Chazen.
Guest stars for the series include Tom Hollander, Michael Smiley and Elliot Cowan
Our Men is a That Mitchell & Webb / Big Talk production, produced by Chris Carey and directed by Jeremy Webb.
It is...
The comedy drama series has been written by Rev co-creator James Wood with Spooks' Rupert Walters.
Our Men is set in the fictional Central Asian Republic of Tazbekistan, with Mitchell playing newly-arrived British Ambassador Keith Davies and Webb as his deputy head of mission Neil Tilly.
"It's such a good subject," Mitchell said last year of the set-up. "We couldn't believe that something along these lines hadn't been written before."
Hawes plays ambassador's wife Jennifer, with Yigal Naor (House Of Saddam) playing President of Tazbekistan Karzak.
The cast also features Susan Lynch, Amara Karanm, Shirvani Ghai, Natalia Tena and Debbie Chazen.
Guest stars for the series include Tom Hollander, Michael Smiley and Elliot Cowan
Our Men is a That Mitchell & Webb / Big Talk production, produced by Chris Carey and directed by Jeremy Webb.
It is...
- 3/5/2013
- Digital Spy
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