March 2010

ITV Cancels “The Bill” After 26 Years

by Phil Gladwin on March 26, 2010

Yesterday the whole of The Bill production team was called into a meeting in the canteen to receive the news from the Executive Producer Johnathan Young that, after 26 years, ITV would not be renewing their contract for a new series, and that transmission would stop after the current episodes have been screened. This is [...]

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Battlestar Galactica to Caprica – That’s Some Fall

by Phil Gladwin on March 23, 2010

I finally succumbed and got the pilot for Caprica from iTunes. (I know, but I live in the UK. It’s hell keeping up with US drama sometimes.) I loved the first three series of Battlestar Galactica, deeply, fervently. Apart from a nostalgic cleaving to some Doctor Who episodes, on the whole I tend to avoid [...]

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They Needed Dennis Lehane in this Shutter Island

by Phil Gladwin on March 21, 2010

Saw this last week, and liked it. I wanted to love it, but I liked it. Clever idea, but an idea that we’d seen before. The Manchurian Candidate is too far away for a real comparison, but its shadow did fall across this one. Leonardo was Ok, but I was more interested in seeing just [...]

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