John Simm in The Village. co. BBC One
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The hit BBC1 drama The Village will return with six all new episodes next year. The series chronicles the life of Britain’s oldest man – Bert Middleton, beginning with his early childhood memories from the turn of the last century. Life on Mars’ John Simm and Silk’s Maxine Peake won rave reviews for their portrayal of Bert’s parents during the turbulent years leading up to an including World War I. Writer Peter Moffat says season two will include “Boom and bust, the Charleston and the Black Bottom, motor cars, extreme politics, fish and chips, jazz, bananas, cinema, the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle classes.” TV newcomer Alfie Stewart will play Joe Middleton in season two.
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The hit BBC1 drama The Village will return with six all new episodes next year. The series chronicles the life of Britain’s oldest man – Bert Middleton, beginning with his early childhood memories from the turn of the last century. Life on Mars’ John Simm and Silk’s Maxine Peake won rave reviews for their portrayal of Bert’s parents during the turbulent years leading up to an including World War I. Writer Peter Moffat says season two will include “Boom and bust, the Charleston and the Black Bottom, motor cars, extreme politics, fish and chips, jazz, bananas, cinema, the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle classes.” TV newcomer Alfie Stewart will play Joe Middleton in season two.
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- 4/29/2013
- by Edited by K Kinsella
Extending from 1914 to 1920, the first series of epic new series The Village written by Peter Moffat comes to BBC One Sunday 31st March at 9pm.
The series stars John Simm and Maxine Peake as impoverished, alcoholic Peak District farmer John Middleton and his wife, Grace.
13-year-old newcomer Bill Jones, a member of the Nottingham-based Television Workshop, stars as young Bert Middleton, whose long life is central to the anticipated on-going serial. Bert is growing up in extreme poverty on a family farm in Derbyshire. He is twelve years old at the start of the series, and his days are filled with school, his friends, working in the fields with his father and secret swimming lessons with his brother Joe, whom he adores. Young Bert, like his brother, falls in love with new arrival Martha Lane the moment she arrives in the village. He is very confused as he watches the...
The series stars John Simm and Maxine Peake as impoverished, alcoholic Peak District farmer John Middleton and his wife, Grace.
13-year-old newcomer Bill Jones, a member of the Nottingham-based Television Workshop, stars as young Bert Middleton, whose long life is central to the anticipated on-going serial. Bert is growing up in extreme poverty on a family farm in Derbyshire. He is twelve years old at the start of the series, and his days are filled with school, his friends, working in the fields with his father and secret swimming lessons with his brother Joe, whom he adores. Young Bert, like his brother, falls in love with new arrival Martha Lane the moment she arrives in the village. He is very confused as he watches the...
- 3/26/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
There’s a certain strange tinge of melancholy starting to surround the final episodes of Merlin’s fifth run, what with our new foreknowledge of the show’s impending demise. It’s a good job, then, that with the eighth instalment of Season Five- The Hollow Queen- the writers prove once again they’re not letting the downbeat future prospects get them down, with another strong offering at the centre of the three-part arc of Gwen’s possession by Morgana. Sure, there are faults here and there this time around, but this week’s romp is still leaps and bounds ahead of the earlier mediocre adventures of this series.
Once again, Arthur finds himself at the hands of a cunning plot by the ever-reliable witch who’s plagued him for three entire seasons now, this time manifesting itself in Gwen’s attempts to have the Sarrum murder her betrothed.
There’s a certain strange tinge of melancholy starting to surround the final episodes of Merlin’s fifth run, what with our new foreknowledge of the show’s impending demise. It’s a good job, then, that with the eighth instalment of Season Five- The Hollow Queen- the writers prove once again they’re not letting the downbeat future prospects get them down, with another strong offering at the centre of the three-part arc of Gwen’s possession by Morgana. Sure, there are faults here and there this time around, but this week’s romp is still leaps and bounds ahead of the earlier mediocre adventures of this series.
Once again, Arthur finds himself at the hands of a cunning plot by the ever-reliable witch who’s plagued him for three entire seasons now, this time manifesting itself in Gwen’s attempts to have the Sarrum murder her betrothed.
- 11/29/2012
- by Tom Buxton
- Obsessed with Film
Digital Spy brought you an exclusive early image from this week's episode of Merlin - the evocatively-titled 'The Hollow Queen' - earlier this month, but now it's time to unleash the full bumper gallery of images that the BBC has bestowed upon us! Episode eight of the fantasy drama's fifth series sees Merlin (Colin Morgan) reach out to a young druid boy named Daegal (Alfie Stewart), but has our warlock hero let his kindness (more)...
- 11/20/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
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