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Fawlty Towers Revisited migrates to Tellyspotting
Back in 2005, several of us had the good fortune of producing a special for PBS to celebrate the 30th anniversary of, perhaps, the greatest British comedy of all-time, Fawlty Towers. Hosted by Andrew Sachs, who brilliantly played Manuel, Fawlty Towers Revisited was both an unbelievable joy and a daunting challenge to produce. The daunting [...]
Sherlock = Cat; Moriarty = Mouse; Sherlock = Brilliant telly!
Sunday’s finale of Sherlock tops the good news/bad news list this week. First, let’s get the bad news out of the way….Sunday’s episode is the final episode in series two and, according to series producers, production on series three won’t begin until early 2013 in a perfect world. Now the good news….
Sherlock “The Reichenbach Fall” [...]
CBS’ Elementary – Behind the scenes
Elementary, the CBS version of a 21st century Sherlock Holmes, is set in New York City and stars Jonny Lee Miller as Sherlock and Lucy Liu as Joan Watson. With CBS’ announcement yesterday that Elementary will be broadcast on Thursdays at 10p ET, the same slot as NBC’s short-lived remake of Prime Suspect last Fall, [...]
Fry and Laurie getting the band back together
While the final episode of House is a mere six days away on Monday, 21 May, thankfully, Hugh Laurie is already trying to limit his down time. Seems as though Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry are ‘getting the band back together’ for a yet to be determined project. The British Comedy Guide has reported that [...]
Wallander 3 set for September 2012 on PBS
Word from PBS World Headquarters is that the newest series of Wallander now has a September 2012 broadcast transmission date set. The greatness that is Sir Kenneth Branagh will return as Kurt Wallander for another three installments of Swedish crime writer Henning Mankell’s classic detective series. Written by Peter Harness, who is known to PBS [...]
