Archive for February, 2012
Scattershooting and more drama from BBC Showcase 2012
Even though it’s all things BBC all the time this week, there is still quite a bit of ‘industry shop talk’ going on in an around the convention centre and the hotel. Couple of things we’ve been able to pick up this week while taking a quick break from screening that seem to be making [...]
BBC Showcase – comedy, comedy, comedy in 2012
One thing was quite clear after day two in Liverpool at the 2012 BBC Showcase. While it’s been an exceedingly good year for the BBC with regards to drama with the premiere of Call the Midwife, the return of Whitechapel, the continuation of Upstairs Downstairs and the brilliant end to Spooks (MI5), it’s clear that [...]
BBC Showcase – Day one: Drama
It’s now down to business at the 2012 BBC Showcase and the opportunity to screen the best of the best when it comes to telly from the BBC. As we make the grueling 50 yard trek over bitter terrain from the hotel lobby to the screening booths for the 2012 BBC Showcase, it’s immediately clear [...]
Beatles, comedy, drama and more – BBC Showcase – day one
Any pre-conceived impressions of Liverpool that I had prior to arriving yesterday at Liverpool Lime Street train station were completely blown away today by spending a bit of time talking to residents of all ages about their city. I have never met a collective group of people that are more proud of their city than [...]
Bit and Bobs from BBC Showcase – Liverpool
As you slept away the night last night, Tellyspotting landed in Liverpool content to begin working very hard on your behalf, finding the best of British telly for broadcast on public television in the States for the coming year. After a quick 9-hour flight to London followed by a 2.5 hour train journey to Liverpool, [...]
Rod Stewart's 1971 tribute to the Dowager Countess
It’s that time again for the annual BBC Showcase where myself and about 600 of my closest friends around the globe get the opportunity to screen what that Beeb has in store for the worldwide television landscape in the next couple of years. After 20 years, we leave the lovely (at this time of the [...]
Terry Jones talks about writing Python sketches
Ever since that fateful day in 1974 when KERA, the public television station in Dallas, became the first PBS station in the U.S. to broadcast Monty Python’s Flying Circus I have wondered just what went on in the heads of Oxford graduates, Terry Jones and Michael Palin, and Cambridge graduates, Eric Idle, John Cleese and [...]
As the sun sets on Downton Abbey, take a brief peak into series 3
Aside from the massive anticipation of the first Maggie Smith/Shirley MacLaine battle of the mothers-in-law, the internet is already abuzz with thoughts on series 3 of Downton Abbey. While the U.S. is only 3 days removed from Sundays series 2 finale, Julian Fellowes sat down with The New York Times to reflect back on the [...]
Post Downton Abbey and Titanic, Julian Fellowes to write an Agatha Christie favorite
Post Downton Abbey Rule #1: One must keep busy in between series 2 and series 3. Post Downton Abbey Rule #2: Pay attention to Rule #1 or one will succumb to severe separation anxiety. This holds true not only for viewers of the runaway UK/US hit television series, but also for those both in front of [...]
