Miscellaneous TV thread

wrathy, please refresh my memory as to what happened to Carol from Wire in the Blood. I recall he had his skull bashed and something happened to her in the house which was her key to leave the series...
The new chicks accent is hard to understand at times, grrr
 
She was offered a job in South Africa and took it, simple as that.

Carol Jordan will still appear in the books, which leave the TV series for dead if you haven't already read them, but Hermione Norris has decided to move on.

Some of you lot may be interested to know that a new Cracker telemovie will be on Seven this Friday night. I tried to download it this morning so I could watch it without commercials and it looks like Australia will be the first to see it :eek:. It won't be shown the UK until sometime in October.

Yes I love my Brit crime shows :). As habits go, that's one of my least destructive.

W
 
Hey Wrathy, how many of the Wire in the Blood episodes are based on Val McDiarmid's stuff? I know the first one is, and seeing as the series is named after one of her books I'm guessing that makes it at least two... but is it just a case of them using the characters and making their own stuff up?

I haven't actually watched the show yet and have only read one of the books (The Mermaids Singing).
 
Wrathchild said:
She was offered a job in South Africa and took it, simple as that.

Carol Jordan will still appear in the books, which leave the TV series for dead if you haven't already read them, but Hermione Norris has decided to move on.



W
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Cheers, Wrathy, little things like that bug me!

I've not read the books, I haven't time to log on here let alone read a book!
 
Spiff said:
Hey Wrathy, how many of the Wire in the Blood episodes are based on Val McDiarmid's stuff?
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Two episodes in the first season (The Mermaids Singing and Shadows Rising) and one in the latest (Torment) were based on Val McDermid's novels, and the books crap on the TV versions from very lofty heights indeed.

The other stories are, as you say, "them using the characters and making their own stuff up", but nothing happens without Val's approval. Robson Green partially funds the show out of his own pocket, y'see, and he's forever on the phone to Val asking her what colour hat Tony would wear. How do I know all this? Straight from the writer's mouth after she signed me book :).

W
 
Public service announcement: Blake's 7 rules. I hired a couple of the videos about fifteen years ago and couldn't get into it at all, so I pretty much wrote it off. Watching the first season on DVD has forced me to eat my words.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake's_7

Sapphire And Steel also rules. NCIS fans here might appreciate seeing Dr. Mallard (David McCallum) in a very different role, but the show has a lot more to recommend it than just that. It's part sci-fi and part detective yarn with the same atmosphere as a Victorian era ghost story. I don't think the DVDs are available here any more. Thankfully I have "unofficial backups" ;).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire_and_steel

W
 
I'm nowhere near the end yet (still watching Season 1) but the finale's reputation is legendary.

Am I the only one who daydreams about Jenna and Cally wrestling each other in a vat of custard? I do hope not...

Seriously though, B7 proves that Terry Nation was a much better writer than all but one of his Doctor Who stories ever gave him credit for.

W
 
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