Louisa Mellor Feb 14, 2017
Ace anthology series Inside No. 9 returns next week for its third run. Here’s what its creators had to say at the press launch…
Having made audiences wince at characters put through all manner of horrors—murder, suicide, demonic possession—sadism would seem a fair accusation to level at Inside No. 9’s creators. It doesn’t stand of course, because the show’s so good that it’s all pleasure and no pain. Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith don’t seek to make people suffer in writing the series. “I wouldn’t say that’s what we enjoy, we’re not sadists!” Pemberton laughs at the series three press launch. “For us, it’s all about the narrative and taking that half-hour we have for each episode and weaving the story that takes you on the biggest journey.”
See related Tom Hiddleston interview: The Avengers,...
Ace anthology series Inside No. 9 returns next week for its third run. Here’s what its creators had to say at the press launch…
Having made audiences wince at characters put through all manner of horrors—murder, suicide, demonic possession—sadism would seem a fair accusation to level at Inside No. 9’s creators. It doesn’t stand of course, because the show’s so good that it’s all pleasure and no pain. Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith don’t seek to make people suffer in writing the series. “I wouldn’t say that’s what we enjoy, we’re not sadists!” Pemberton laughs at the series three press launch. “For us, it’s all about the narrative and taking that half-hour we have for each episode and weaving the story that takes you on the biggest journey.”
See related Tom Hiddleston interview: The Avengers,...
- 2/13/2017
- Den of Geek
Wil Jones Sep 28, 2016
Daniel Radcliffe chats to us about his quiz show addiction, Imperium, Swiss Army Man, and fake erections...
Pretty much every young actor in Hollywood must be pretty jealous of Daniel Radcliffe’s position. It’s been five years since he finished up being a boy wizard, and he’s now deep into the next stage of his career. Coming off one of the biggest franchises of all time, he’s basically been able to cherry pick whatever strange and interesting roles he wants. His latest two movies show the breadth of projects he’s taking on. Last week saw him go undercover as an FBI agent infiltrating Neo-Nazis in Imperium, and this week the notorious 'Daniel Radcliffe plays a farting corpse' movie Swiss Army Man finally makes its way to UK cinemas, following acclaim at film festivals around the world.
The first feature from music video directing duo The Daniels,...
Daniel Radcliffe chats to us about his quiz show addiction, Imperium, Swiss Army Man, and fake erections...
Pretty much every young actor in Hollywood must be pretty jealous of Daniel Radcliffe’s position. It’s been five years since he finished up being a boy wizard, and he’s now deep into the next stage of his career. Coming off one of the biggest franchises of all time, he’s basically been able to cherry pick whatever strange and interesting roles he wants. His latest two movies show the breadth of projects he’s taking on. Last week saw him go undercover as an FBI agent infiltrating Neo-Nazis in Imperium, and this week the notorious 'Daniel Radcliffe plays a farting corpse' movie Swiss Army Man finally makes its way to UK cinemas, following acclaim at film festivals around the world.
The first feature from music video directing duo The Daniels,...
- 9/27/2016
- Den of Geek
The BBC has commissioned its first feature-length scripted film for iPlayer - a comedy drama based on the rivalry between snooker players Alex Higgins and Steve Davis.
Endemol Shine indie Zeppotron will produce The Rack Pack, a 90-minute-plus film exploring the “glory days” of the 1970s and 80s snooker scene.
The film is penned by Shaun Pye, Mark Chappell and Alan Connor, the writing team behind Sky Arts’ A Young Doctor’s Notebook, which starred Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe and Mad Men’s Jon Hamm..
Luke Treadaway (Fortitude) will play ‘Hurricane’ Higgins, the naturally talented showman, while Will Merrick (About Time) has been lined up as the more conservative Davis, who under the guidance of snooker mogul Barry Hearn (Kevin Bishop) dominated the sport.
The film coincides with the 30th anniversary of the 1985 World Snooker Championships final between Davis and Dennis Taylor which was watched by 18.5m people - holding the record for the UK’s biggest...
Endemol Shine indie Zeppotron will produce The Rack Pack, a 90-minute-plus film exploring the “glory days” of the 1970s and 80s snooker scene.
The film is penned by Shaun Pye, Mark Chappell and Alan Connor, the writing team behind Sky Arts’ A Young Doctor’s Notebook, which starred Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe and Mad Men’s Jon Hamm..
Luke Treadaway (Fortitude) will play ‘Hurricane’ Higgins, the naturally talented showman, while Will Merrick (About Time) has been lined up as the more conservative Davis, who under the guidance of snooker mogul Barry Hearn (Kevin Bishop) dominated the sport.
The film coincides with the 30th anniversary of the 1985 World Snooker Championships final between Davis and Dennis Taylor which was watched by 18.5m people - holding the record for the UK’s biggest...
- 9/25/2015
- ScreenDaily
In a fan fiction-worthy feat of casting (Don Draper and Harry Potter!), Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe play older and younger versions of a Russian doctor in the four-part British miniseries "A Young Doctor's Notebook," which aired in the U.K. on Sky Arts in December and was the most successful program in the history of the network. Arts channel Ovation will air the period drama, which is based on a collection of stories by Mikhail Bulgakov adapted by Mark Chappell, Shaun Pye and Alan Connor, in the U.S., and today announced a date for the premiere. The first part of the miniseries will debut on Thursday, October 3 at 8pm Et, with subsequent installments airing weekly. "I'm thrilled that Ovation has picked up the rights to broadcast 'A Young Doctor's Notebook' stateside," said Hamm in the announcement. "Like our UK benefactor Sky Arts, they have proven to...
- 7/23/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
"A Young Doctor's Notebook," a British series that stars Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe, is getting a second season.
The four-part series debuted to good reviews last December on the Sky Arts channel in the U.K., as well as the largest audience in the channel's history. Radcliffe stars as a young, morphine-addicted doctor working in a remote part of Russia in 1917; Hamm plays an older, sober version of the same character looking back on his past.
The series is based on stories by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov; Mark Chappell and Shaun Pye ("The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret") and Alan Connor adapted it.
The first season is scheduled to air on cable channel Ovation in December; Season 2 will debut in the U.K. later this year. ...
The four-part series debuted to good reviews last December on the Sky Arts channel in the U.K., as well as the largest audience in the channel's history. Radcliffe stars as a young, morphine-addicted doctor working in a remote part of Russia in 1917; Hamm plays an older, sober version of the same character looking back on his past.
The series is based on stories by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov; Mark Chappell and Shaun Pye ("The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret") and Alan Connor adapted it.
The first season is scheduled to air on cable channel Ovation in December; Season 2 will debut in the U.K. later this year. ...
- 7/22/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Mikhail Bulgakov's chaotic account of his early career in medicine has been adapted for TV, with Daniel Radcliffe and John Hamm as the leads. Writer Alan Connor on the precision surgery involved
Like Chekhov, Mikhail Bulgakov was a doctor before he was a writer. He started writing at 29, and before then got to know plenty about the absurdity and intensity of medical practice. He had met a lot of people, and sawn off some of their legs.
After graduating from medical school in 1917, Bulgakov was sent to run a hospital in the remote Smolensk province, where his patients lived a brutal, essentially medieval existence. He turned these experiences into a series of short stories, collected in A Young Doctor's Notebook, a fictional account of a nameless doctor whose experience largely overlaps with its author's. His young doctor discovers that childbirth and tracheotomies go much faster, and get a lot messier,...
Like Chekhov, Mikhail Bulgakov was a doctor before he was a writer. He started writing at 29, and before then got to know plenty about the absurdity and intensity of medical practice. He had met a lot of people, and sawn off some of their legs.
After graduating from medical school in 1917, Bulgakov was sent to run a hospital in the remote Smolensk province, where his patients lived a brutal, essentially medieval existence. He turned these experiences into a series of short stories, collected in A Young Doctor's Notebook, a fictional account of a nameless doctor whose experience largely overlaps with its author's. His young doctor discovers that childbirth and tracheotomies go much faster, and get a lot messier,...
- 12/5/2012
- by Alan Connor
- The Guardian - Film News
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