Links for the holidays
Over the past couple of days there has been a lot of buzz about Snow fall - the avalanche at Tunnel Creek, written by John Branch for The New York Times. But 'written by' is only part of more
Over the past couple of days there has been a lot of buzz about Snow fall - the avalanche at Tunnel Creek, written by John Branch for The New York Times. But 'written by' is only part of more
This seasonal post is an edited version of one that I wrote last year for the blog of the research project about theatre plays on British television, Screen Plays. I hope it is sufficiently entertaining to bear repeating here. What more
I was in a kingdom of dreams today - and for the very last time. It was a relatively prosaic - but I must stress most enjoyable - meeting of the Southern Broadcasting History Group that took me once more more
My strangest (and most welcome) discovery of the week was the 1929 avant-garde film La perle (above). Thanks to The Forgotten: Never Explain a Mystery, Never Wake a Sleepwalker by David Cairns at the ever-excellent Mubi.com's Notebook, more
Yesterday we learned that a performance project on which we had been working seriously since August will not get broadcast funding. This was to have been a television version of a thrilling production that I admired immensely in the theatre more
Congratulations to our colleague Keith Griffiths, producer for our sister company Illuminations Films (along with Mark Burke for Warp X) of the Peter Strickland-directed feature Berberian Sound Studio. This is Screen Daily on the film's success last night: Berberian more
I am indebted to Stuart Ian Burns (@feelinglistless) and his estimable Hamlet Weblog for pointing out that - remarkably - BBC Worldwide has made available in full on YouTube seven plays from The BBC Television more
For yesterday's post I scribbled some notes about our filming this week for the research project Shakespearean London Theatres. With a company of nine actors we have been staging scenes from four early modern plays and more
So, you know, what does a producer actually do? Well, judging by the paucity of posts this week, when he's filming he certainly doesn't have time for his blog. Since Monday we have been shooting short drama scenes for the more
Time was in our house when the Advent calendar was the centre of the world right through December. But now our eldest, Nicholas, is studying at Ningbo in China (and blogging his time there), his brother Ben is more