“Into the Storm,” directed by Adam Brown, won the Grand Prize at the 2020 Kendal Mountain Film Festival on Sunday. Filmed over a six-year period, the film follows the story of a teenage surfer as he escapes the poverty of a barrio in Lima with the intention of becoming one of the top surfers in the world.
With no family support, no money and a constant fear of the local gangsters, who at one point shoot him, the film ends up at the (pre-covid-19) world finals for surfing where his talent and self belief speak for themselves. The jury were unanimous in their decision, describing Into the Storm” as a “nail-biting film with great depth.”
The Festival returned to its roots with the award of best mountain film going to “The Ghosts Above,” from Taylor Rees and Renan Ozturk. Filmed on Everest in an attempt to discover the fate of a...
With no family support, no money and a constant fear of the local gangsters, who at one point shoot him, the film ends up at the (pre-covid-19) world finals for surfing where his talent and self belief speak for themselves. The jury were unanimous in their decision, describing Into the Storm” as a “nail-biting film with great depth.”
The Festival returned to its roots with the award of best mountain film going to “The Ghosts Above,” from Taylor Rees and Renan Ozturk. Filmed on Everest in an attempt to discover the fate of a...
- 11/30/2020
- by George Bird
- Variety Film + TV
On June 19, 1865, slavery was abolished in Texas, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. It is a benchmark in Black history and is more timely now than ever as it is a day to celebrate and champion Black voices. That said, it is a good day for the debut of Channing Godfrey Peoples’ Miss Juneteenth, a film that spotlights the staple pageant associated with the day.
Directed and written by Texas native Peoples, Miss Juneteenth made its world premiere at Sundance earlier this year. The film stars Nicole Beharie, Alexis Chikaeze and Kendrick Sampson and follows Turquoise Jones (Beharie), a former beauty queen turned hard-working single mom that is preparing her rebellious teenage daughter Kai (Chikaeze) for the annual Miss Juneteenth pageant, hoping to keep her from repeating the same mistakes in life that she made.
“I grew up with Juneteenth so it was just second nature to me,” said Peoples told Deadline at Sundance.
Directed and written by Texas native Peoples, Miss Juneteenth made its world premiere at Sundance earlier this year. The film stars Nicole Beharie, Alexis Chikaeze and Kendrick Sampson and follows Turquoise Jones (Beharie), a former beauty queen turned hard-working single mom that is preparing her rebellious teenage daughter Kai (Chikaeze) for the annual Miss Juneteenth pageant, hoping to keep her from repeating the same mistakes in life that she made.
“I grew up with Juneteenth so it was just second nature to me,” said Peoples told Deadline at Sundance.
- 6/19/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
“Downton Abbey” producer Carnival Films has snagged the rights to “The Second Sleep,” the upcoming novel from “Fatherland” author Robert Harris.
The thriller will be published by Penguin Random House imprint Hutchinson in September. It will follow young priest, Christopher Fairfax, who arrives in a remote English village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with coins, fragments of glass and human bones, which the old parson used to collect. The question for Fairfax is did he discover something kept secret for centuries?
Bill Gallagher (“Jamestown”) will handle the adaptation, which NBCUniversal-owned Carnival said it is planning as a long-running series.
Carnival boss Gareth Neame said: “Robert Harris’ ‘The Second Sleep’ is an extraordinary work in its vision and originality, creating a rich world that speaks directly to our own. We are delighted to be working with Bill Gallagher again, whose inventiveness and sensitivity...
The thriller will be published by Penguin Random House imprint Hutchinson in September. It will follow young priest, Christopher Fairfax, who arrives in a remote English village to conduct the funeral of his predecessor. The land around is strewn with coins, fragments of glass and human bones, which the old parson used to collect. The question for Fairfax is did he discover something kept secret for centuries?
Bill Gallagher (“Jamestown”) will handle the adaptation, which NBCUniversal-owned Carnival said it is planning as a long-running series.
Carnival boss Gareth Neame said: “Robert Harris’ ‘The Second Sleep’ is an extraordinary work in its vision and originality, creating a rich world that speaks directly to our own. We are delighted to be working with Bill Gallagher again, whose inventiveness and sensitivity...
- 7/25/2019
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Carnival Films, the production company behind “Downton Abbey,” tackles 1620s America with the series “Jamestown” — a production that took place nowhere near Virginia, site of the original Jamestown colony. Instead the show was shot at locations just outside Budapest, where a Southern drawl has seldom been heard.
Yet tax incentives often speak louder than words, as do low labor costs. That’s why it was decided to re-create the historic Jamestown settlement in Central Europe, where the team worked with period experts and studied historical records to build an accurate reproduction of the town and nearby village of the Native American Pamunkey tribe.
Unlike many location builds, which remain in place for a relatively short period of time, the “Jamestown” buildings are outdoor, stable structures intended to stand for years.
With Season 2 about to premiere in the U.S. on PBS on Nov. 21, production just wrapped in Hungary on Season...
Yet tax incentives often speak louder than words, as do low labor costs. That’s why it was decided to re-create the historic Jamestown settlement in Central Europe, where the team worked with period experts and studied historical records to build an accurate reproduction of the town and nearby village of the Native American Pamunkey tribe.
Unlike many location builds, which remain in place for a relatively short period of time, the “Jamestown” buildings are outdoor, stable structures intended to stand for years.
With Season 2 about to premiere in the U.S. on PBS on Nov. 21, production just wrapped in Hungary on Season...
- 11/22/2018
- by Zoe Hewitt
- Variety Film + TV
I knew little about the birth of America before I ended up on the set of Sky 1’s Jamestown. Founded by the most extreme risk takers plus a few criminals who were given the choice of journey to the New World or face the noose, the task placed upon the few hundred inhabitants was an unenviable one. King James 1 wanted to establish a new colony and was driven by the desire to find gold, as rumoured the Spanish had done elsewhere on the continent.
Jamestown is an epic historical drama, described by the scriptwriter Bill Gallagher as a Jacobean western. That description alone defines the boldness of this production.
A whole village has been built to resemble what the first British settlement in Virginia, America would have looked like. The set was built in Hungary, a place that is proving popular for filming due to its rural, unspoilt beauty.
Jamestown is an epic historical drama, described by the scriptwriter Bill Gallagher as a Jacobean western. That description alone defines the boldness of this production.
A whole village has been built to resemble what the first British settlement in Virginia, America would have looked like. The set was built in Hungary, a place that is proving popular for filming due to its rural, unspoilt beauty.
- 4/17/2018
- by Amanda Carnac
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Author: Amanda Carnac
The characters in Sky1’s Jamestown may be brooding, conflicted and understandably depressed by their circumstances but in real life the actors couldn’t have been more upbeat. We were lucky enough to meet the cast of Jamestown on set as well as after the preview of episode 1 from series 2 and couldn’t have met a livelier bunch of people – Steven Waddington wanted to sing karaoke as soon as we handed him the microphone which made for a great start.
In the first interview we talk to Naomi Battrick, Ben Starr, Niamh Walsh, Abubakar Salim and Abiola Ogunbiyi. Naomi spoke of how her character Jocelyn had started off protected by her upper-class husband but this changes dramatically after she loses her husband at the beginning of series 2. She gave praise to the incredible set design which helped them feel ‘part of something real;’ a small village was built,...
The characters in Sky1’s Jamestown may be brooding, conflicted and understandably depressed by their circumstances but in real life the actors couldn’t have been more upbeat. We were lucky enough to meet the cast of Jamestown on set as well as after the preview of episode 1 from series 2 and couldn’t have met a livelier bunch of people – Steven Waddington wanted to sing karaoke as soon as we handed him the microphone which made for a great start.
In the first interview we talk to Naomi Battrick, Ben Starr, Niamh Walsh, Abubakar Salim and Abiola Ogunbiyi. Naomi spoke of how her character Jocelyn had started off protected by her upper-class husband but this changes dramatically after she loses her husband at the beginning of series 2. She gave praise to the incredible set design which helped them feel ‘part of something real;’ a small village was built,...
- 1/30/2018
- by Amanda Carnac
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Author: Amanda Carnac
Imagine being trapped in a tiny ship heading for America in 1617, not only are you unsure of whether you’ll make it, you also have no idea who your future husband will be if you reach your destination. The only thing you can be sure of is that even if the man who has paid for your passage turns out to be a rapist or drunkard, there’s no going back.
Writer Bill Gallagher, who also wrote Lark Rise to Candleford and Paradise, is experienced at drawing from real life events in history and when researching Jamestown, the first British settlement in America, decided he wanted to write a drama where women, despite being perceived as underdogs, use their intelligence to manipulate themselves into a position of power.
To try and turn this subject matter into a work of feminism was always going to be tricky. In...
Imagine being trapped in a tiny ship heading for America in 1617, not only are you unsure of whether you’ll make it, you also have no idea who your future husband will be if you reach your destination. The only thing you can be sure of is that even if the man who has paid for your passage turns out to be a rapist or drunkard, there’s no going back.
Writer Bill Gallagher, who also wrote Lark Rise to Candleford and Paradise, is experienced at drawing from real life events in history and when researching Jamestown, the first British settlement in America, decided he wanted to write a drama where women, despite being perceived as underdogs, use their intelligence to manipulate themselves into a position of power.
To try and turn this subject matter into a work of feminism was always going to be tricky. In...
- 7/14/2017
- by Amanda Carnac
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In what appears to be a further step in expanding its creation of original content, Netflix is to partner with UK’s ITV to co-produce a new eight-part thriller titled Paranoid. The show will be broadcast on UK television before arriving on the streaming platform later in 2016. The television event is being written by Bill Gallagher (Lark Rise To Candleford), and features a seemingly small but tragic incident that leads to international drama.
Paranoid will begin with a young woman doctor being brutally stabbed to death by a masked man while she plays with her three year old son in a busy community play park. The attack occurs in full view of multiple witnesses, and a group of detectives are tasked with investigating the incident, in order to figure out what happened and why. The information from one witness points to a much greater threat than anyone was expecting, however,...
Paranoid will begin with a young woman doctor being brutally stabbed to death by a masked man while she plays with her three year old son in a busy community play park. The attack occurs in full view of multiple witnesses, and a group of detectives are tasked with investigating the incident, in order to figure out what happened and why. The information from one witness points to a much greater threat than anyone was expecting, however,...
- 8/4/2016
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
Exclusive: Netflix has joined upcoming ITV drama Paranoid as co-producer. From Red Production Company, the eight-part thriller will air on ITV in the UK and roll out worldwide on the streaming service later this year. The conspiracy mystery centers around the murder of a female doctor in a rural children's playground in front of an abundance of eyewitnesses. The Paradise and Lark Rise To Candleford‘s Bill Gallagher is writer and will executive produce with Red founder…...
- 8/4/2016
- Deadline TV
Carnival Films, the NBC-Universal owned creator of ratings juggernaut Downton Abbey, is producing Jamestown, an eight part drama about the first British settlers embarking on their lives in America. The show was been commisioned by pan-Euro pay TV giant Sky. Bill Gallagher (The Paradise) has written the show. Max Beesley, Jason Flemyng, Dean Lennon-Kelly, Naomi Battrick, Sophie Rundle and Niamh Welsh are in the cast. The story begins in 1619, with the settlers seeking to…...
- 4/20/2016
- Deadline TV
BBC One has confirmed that it has cancelled The Paradise.
The period costume drama will not return for a third series, the broadcaster said in a statement.
"We are incredibly proud to have made two successful series of period drama The Paradise for BBC One," said a spokesperson.
"However, in order to make room for new dramas to come through, The Paradise won't be returning."
The Paradise - written and created by Bill Gallagher - was adapted from the classic French novel by Emile Zola and starred Emun Elliott, Joanna Vanderham and Ben Daniels.
Launched in September 2012 with 6.61m, the series premiered its second run in October last year to 6.04m.
The series finale, airing on December 8, pulled in 5.07m.
Ben Daniels on The Paradise series 2: 'Tom Weston is cruel, stubborn'...
The period costume drama will not return for a third series, the broadcaster said in a statement.
"We are incredibly proud to have made two successful series of period drama The Paradise for BBC One," said a spokesperson.
"However, in order to make room for new dramas to come through, The Paradise won't be returning."
The Paradise - written and created by Bill Gallagher - was adapted from the classic French novel by Emile Zola and starred Emun Elliott, Joanna Vanderham and Ben Daniels.
Launched in September 2012 with 6.61m, the series premiered its second run in October last year to 6.04m.
The series finale, airing on December 8, pulled in 5.07m.
Ben Daniels on The Paradise series 2: 'Tom Weston is cruel, stubborn'...
- 2/13/2014
- Digital Spy
The Paradise is returning to BBC One, with one new arrival certain to ruffle a few feathers - Ben Daniels (House of Cards, Law & Order: UK) is Tom Weston, Katherine's "cruel", "toxic" yet "charming" new husband.
Ahead of series two's debut on Sunday night, Digital Spy spoke to Daniels to find out what drew him to The Paradise department store...
The BBC has a strong reputation for period drama, so was working on The Paradise something you leapt at?
"Not because it was a period drama but because of the role - the description I was given of him. Bill Gallagher wrote to me and said, 'I'm thinking up a new character and I'd love you to play him - this is who he is'.
"He wrote the most fantastic synopsis of Tom Weston. Before I'd even read the script, he sent me a box-set of the first series so...
Ahead of series two's debut on Sunday night, Digital Spy spoke to Daniels to find out what drew him to The Paradise department store...
The BBC has a strong reputation for period drama, so was working on The Paradise something you leapt at?
"Not because it was a period drama but because of the role - the description I was given of him. Bill Gallagher wrote to me and said, 'I'm thinking up a new character and I'd love you to play him - this is who he is'.
"He wrote the most fantastic synopsis of Tom Weston. Before I'd even read the script, he sent me a box-set of the first series so...
- 10/17/2013
- Digital Spy
The Paradise PBS Masterpiece
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Tonight PBS Masterpiece introduced us to the magical world of The Paradise — a glitzy department store owned by a charismatic widower whose wife died in mysterious circumstances. The story was told from the perspective of Denise (Joanna Vanderham) a country girl who ended up working in the store because her Uncle couldn’t afford to hire her at his own struggling shop. Despite her lack of experience, Denise soon proved to be a natural salesperson and quickly caught the eye of the owner — whilst ruffling the feathers of her jealous co-workers. Beyond the central character, we quickly got drawn into an intriguing web of love, dark secrets and people doing their best to overcome class barriers.
Conceptually and stylistically, The Paradise is remarkably similar to the recently aired Mr Selfridge. Before you cry “foul”, bear in mind that The Paradise is an adaptation...
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Tonight PBS Masterpiece introduced us to the magical world of The Paradise — a glitzy department store owned by a charismatic widower whose wife died in mysterious circumstances. The story was told from the perspective of Denise (Joanna Vanderham) a country girl who ended up working in the store because her Uncle couldn’t afford to hire her at his own struggling shop. Despite her lack of experience, Denise soon proved to be a natural salesperson and quickly caught the eye of the owner — whilst ruffling the feathers of her jealous co-workers. Beyond the central character, we quickly got drawn into an intriguing web of love, dark secrets and people doing their best to overcome class barriers.
Conceptually and stylistically, The Paradise is remarkably similar to the recently aired Mr Selfridge. Before you cry “foul”, bear in mind that The Paradise is an adaptation...
- 10/15/2013
- by Edited by K Kinsella
Writer Bill Gallagher took on the daunting task of turning his six-part, 360-minute miniseries Conviction into a 90-minute film entitled Blood. It’s a tale about family, mankind’s capacity to do wrong, and the psychology involved in growing up with impossible expectations and the knowledge they’ll never be met. No matter how good Joe (Paul Bettany) and Chrissie [...]...
- 8/7/2013
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
The history of the British police movie is not a glorious one. Perhaps it's because (for the most part) U.K. coppers aren't allowed to carry firearms, which somewhat reduces the capacity for squib-happy action sequences. Or maybe it's the lack of glamorous locations for said shootouts, which can hardly compete with Manhattan or L.A. But after Edgar Wright imported the cop movie to rural Britain with "Hot Fuzz," we've seen a string of more straight-faced takes on the genre from the U.K., including the Jason Statham vehicle "Blitz," '70s remake "The Sweeney," and this spring's "Welcome To The Punch." Of course, you could take a different approach, a more realistic and unglamorous one, where not a single bullet flies and no car chases another. And that's pretty much what "Blood" does. Executive-produced by Sam Mendes, adapted from a mid-'00s BBC series called "Conviction" by original...
- 8/7/2013
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
Rlj Entertainment and Image Entertainment are proud to present “Blood,” a film directed by Nick Murphy, written by Bill Gallagher and starring Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham, Mark Strong and Brian Cox. The film, which revolves around two detective brothers, will be available on VOD July 11. The film will also be in theaters August 9 and available on DVD and Blu-ray September 10. Here’s more about the film: “The Fairburn brothers (Paul Bettany and Stephen Graham) are detectives who have lived under the shadow of their police chief father (Brian Cox) – a man known for doing whatever it takes to get a confession. When the brothers take an interrogation [ Read More ]
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- 6/19/2013
- by monique
- ShockYa
The blood of the title refers to the link between the overbearing ex-police inspector Lenny (Brian Cox) and his two sons, Joe (Paul Bettany) and Chrissie (Stephen Graham). Both young men have grown up under the shadow of his reputation, the myths he's created around himself and the brutal power he continues to exert. Even as his dementia increasingly shows itself, they can't escape, and they continue to follow his ways in the vain hope of winning his approbation. Things finally get out of control when a teenager is brutally murdered on the town's wintry seafront and a sort of confession is wrung from a notorious local paedophile by the obsessed, drunken Joe, with Chrissie assisting.
The film is expertly performed by a cast of familiar faces, and Mark Strong is particularly good as a scrupulous loner looked down on by his gregarious, heavy-drinking, conformist colleagues. It uses locations on the Wirral with considerable skill,...
The film is expertly performed by a cast of familiar faces, and Mark Strong is particularly good as a scrupulous loner looked down on by his gregarious, heavy-drinking, conformist colleagues. It uses locations on the Wirral with considerable skill,...
- 6/1/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Paul Bettany stars in this week's British crime drama Blood as Joe, a veteran cop who's driven to violence after a murder suspect he believes to be guilty is released without charge.
Digital Spy sat down with Bettany and director Nick Murphy (The Awakening) to discuss the film's portrayal of family, and its striking setting on the Lancashire coast.
Bettany also discussed the casting of Stephen Graham, who he had been hoping to work with for several years, as Joe's more sensitive brother Chrissie.
Mark Strong, Brian Cox, Zoë Tapper and Ben Crompton are among the supporting cast of Blood, which was adapted by Bill Gallagher from his own 2004 BBC series Conviction.
Blood is out now in UK cinemas.
Digital Spy sat down with Bettany and director Nick Murphy (The Awakening) to discuss the film's portrayal of family, and its striking setting on the Lancashire coast.
Bettany also discussed the casting of Stephen Graham, who he had been hoping to work with for several years, as Joe's more sensitive brother Chrissie.
Mark Strong, Brian Cox, Zoë Tapper and Ben Crompton are among the supporting cast of Blood, which was adapted by Bill Gallagher from his own 2004 BBC series Conviction.
Blood is out now in UK cinemas.
- 5/31/2013
- Digital Spy
The cast may be ironclad but this police procedural about bent coppers goes by the book
This police procedural about a pair of bent coppers goes by the book. Paul Bettany and Stephen Graham are brother bobbies who murder a murder suspect, Mark Strong's the colleague on their tail and Brian Cox is their confused elderly dad, whose dementia could let the secret slip at any moment. The cast is ironclad, but they struggle with a script by old school TV writer Bill Gallagher (Clocking Off, The Prisoner, Dalziel and Pascoe) that likes to doublecheck we've got everything before ambling off towards the next heavy trope. The dead man pops up to council his attackers; flashbacks fill the holes the dialogue left behind. The soundtrack rumbles incessantly, until the Bad Thing happens, when it cuts out for dramatic effect. Originality may be out of Blood's jurisdiction, but it manages to plods on,...
This police procedural about a pair of bent coppers goes by the book. Paul Bettany and Stephen Graham are brother bobbies who murder a murder suspect, Mark Strong's the colleague on their tail and Brian Cox is their confused elderly dad, whose dementia could let the secret slip at any moment. The cast is ironclad, but they struggle with a script by old school TV writer Bill Gallagher (Clocking Off, The Prisoner, Dalziel and Pascoe) that likes to doublecheck we've got everything before ambling off towards the next heavy trope. The dead man pops up to council his attackers; flashbacks fill the holes the dialogue left behind. The soundtrack rumbles incessantly, until the Bad Thing happens, when it cuts out for dramatic effect. Originality may be out of Blood's jurisdiction, but it manages to plods on,...
- 5/30/2013
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Director: Nick Murphy; Screenwriter Bill Gallagher; Starring: Paul Bettany, Mark Strong, Stephen Graham, Brian Cox, Zoë Tapper; Running time: 92 mins; Certificate: 15
You don't need to have seen Bill Gallagher's 2004 BBC series Conviction to recognise the small-screen roots of Blood, which begins in a relatively standard Sunday evening telly vein. After a 12-year-old girl is murdered, hardened and emotionally distant copper Joe Fairburn (Paul Bettany) becomes obsessed with tracking down her killer, with the case reminding him of an unsolved one from his past.
The police arrest Jason (an unsettling Ben Crompton), a smug and unrepentant creep with a history of child abuse. Joe and his more sensitive brother Chrissie (Stephen Graham) are convinced of his guilt, but he's released due to lack of evidence. This does not sit well with the increasingly unpredictable Joe, and an impulsive act of vigilante justice sends both brothers spiralling into moral decline.
Despite the limitations of Gallagher's script,...
You don't need to have seen Bill Gallagher's 2004 BBC series Conviction to recognise the small-screen roots of Blood, which begins in a relatively standard Sunday evening telly vein. After a 12-year-old girl is murdered, hardened and emotionally distant copper Joe Fairburn (Paul Bettany) becomes obsessed with tracking down her killer, with the case reminding him of an unsolved one from his past.
The police arrest Jason (an unsettling Ben Crompton), a smug and unrepentant creep with a history of child abuse. Joe and his more sensitive brother Chrissie (Stephen Graham) are convinced of his guilt, but he's released due to lack of evidence. This does not sit well with the increasingly unpredictable Joe, and an impulsive act of vigilante justice sends both brothers spiralling into moral decline.
Despite the limitations of Gallagher's script,...
- 5/30/2013
- Digital Spy
Ben Daniels has joined the cast of 'The Paradise'. The 'Cutting It' star will play former solider Tom Weston, who is married to Katherine Glendenning (Elaine Cassidy), in the second series of the BBC One period drama - an adaptation of an Emile Zola novel - and the 48-year-old actor was desperate for the role as soon as he read the script. He said: ''I'm a huge Emile Zola fan and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before...
- 5/24/2013
- Virgin Media - TV
Ben Daniels has joined the cast of 'The Paradise'. The 'Cutting It' star will play former solider Tom Weston, who is married to Katherine Glendenning (Elaine Cassidy), in the second series of the BBC One period drama - an adaptation of an Emile Zola novel - and the 48-year-old actor was desperate for the role as soon as he read the script. He said: ''I'm a huge Emile Zola fan and when Bill Gallagher said he was writing a new character for 'The Paradise' and had me in mind for the role, I knew I wanted to play Tom Weston before...
- 5/24/2013
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
The Paradise has begun shooting its second series.
Ben Daniels (House of Cards, Law & Order: UK) will join the BBC One period drama as Tom Weston, an enigmatic former soldier who is now married to Katherine (Elaine Cassidy).
"Tom's a fascinating animal and will certainly be ruffling a few feathers (and silks!) along the way," said Daniels. "I'm really looking forward to the next few months of filming."
Other new cast additions include Lisa Millett (Five Daughters) as bawdy but kind-hearted cook Myrtle, Katie Moore (Merlin) as Susy, Edie Whitehead as Tom's daughter Flora and Adrian Scarborough (Upstairs, Downstairs) as Fenton.
Joanna Vanderham (Denise Lovett), Emun Elliott (Moray), Matthew McNulty (Dudley), Sarah Lancashire (Miss Audrey), Stephen Wight (Sam) and Sonya Cassidy (Clara) will all reprise their roles for series two, which is set one year after the first run.
The Paradise - written and created by Bill Gallagher - is...
Ben Daniels (House of Cards, Law & Order: UK) will join the BBC One period drama as Tom Weston, an enigmatic former soldier who is now married to Katherine (Elaine Cassidy).
"Tom's a fascinating animal and will certainly be ruffling a few feathers (and silks!) along the way," said Daniels. "I'm really looking forward to the next few months of filming."
Other new cast additions include Lisa Millett (Five Daughters) as bawdy but kind-hearted cook Myrtle, Katie Moore (Merlin) as Susy, Edie Whitehead as Tom's daughter Flora and Adrian Scarborough (Upstairs, Downstairs) as Fenton.
Joanna Vanderham (Denise Lovett), Emun Elliott (Moray), Matthew McNulty (Dudley), Sarah Lancashire (Miss Audrey), Stephen Wight (Sam) and Sonya Cassidy (Clara) will all reprise their roles for series two, which is set one year after the first run.
The Paradise - written and created by Bill Gallagher - is...
- 5/24/2013
- Digital Spy
Blood is an upcoming psychological thriller directed by The Awakening helmer Nick Murphy. Definitely worth your full attention – that’s exactly why we’re here to share the latest trailer and pics from the whole thing, hope you’ll like it. Check it out, and remember: you can’t bury the truth… Murphy directed the whole thing from a script written by Bill Gallagher, which revolves around two brothers, Joe and Chrissie Fairburn, who collapse under the weight of their father’s shadow. Desperate to fill their father’s shoes, they commit the ultimate crime, which turns their lives into a downward spiral of guilt and paranoia. Blood stars Paul...
- 5/17/2013
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
Amid all the Cannes madness, here's a more homegrown effort for you: the new trailer for Blood, a thriller starring Paul Bettany and Stephen Grahams as Joe and Chrissie Fairburn, cops and brothers investigating the murder of a young girl. But the problem here isn't just finding out who was responsible, but covering up what happened next. For more on that, watch the trailer below. brightcove.createExperiences();As you can see, the film also stars Brian Cox as the brothers' father, a police legend who's just beginning his descent into dementia. The brothers are under pressure to live up to their father's reputation - which may lead to recklessness. Mark Strong plays fellow policeman Robert, who's soon putting pressure on the brothers as he investigates a related crime.Bill Gallagher, of TV series Blackout and Conviction, wrote the script, and Nick Murphy, who directed Rebecca Hall chiller The Awakening called the shots here.
- 5/17/2013
- EmpireOnline
Today we have two new quad posters for the upcoming thriller Blood. Check them both out below (click either for a larger version) Director Nick Murphy (The Awakening) led the helming duties based on a script by Bill Gallagher. The film stars Brian Cox, Mark Strong, Paul Bettany, Stephen Graham,Adrian Edmondson, and Ben Crompton Blood will be released to theaters on August 9th, 2013 Here’s the synopsis for the film The Fairburn brothers (Paul Bettany and Stephen Graham) are detectives who have lived under the shadow of their police chief father (Brian Cox) – a man known for doing whatever it takes to get a confession....
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- 5/2/2013
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
Image will distribute the Blood thriller starring Paul Bettany, Mark Strong, Brian Cox and Stephan Graham. The distributor has acquired U.S.. and Canadian rights to the film which made its premiere at the London Film Festival in October. Scripted by Bill Gallagher, the film looks at the collapse of a police family focusing on two cop brothers overshadowed by their former police chief father who must investigate a crime which they have actually committed.
- 4/21/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Image will distribute the Blood thriller starring Paul Bettany, Mark Strong, Brian Cox and Stephan Graham. The distributor has acquired U.S.. and Canadian rights to the film which made its premiere at the London Film Festival in October. Scripted by Bill Gallagher, the film looks at the collapse of a police family focusing on two cop brothers overshadowed by their former police chief father who must investigate a crime which they have actually committed.
- 4/21/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
BBC One has ordered a second series of The Paradise. The period drama - penned by Bill Gallagher - is currently airing on Tuesday nights and will return for eight more episodes in 2013. Set in the glamorous world of the first ever department store, The Paradise has attracted an average consolidated audience of 5.9m across its first five weeks. Danny Cohen, Controller of BBC One, said: "The Paradise has been the biggest new drama series on British television so far this autumn, and it has been really interesting to experiment with period drama on BBC One beyond the traditional Sunday night slot. "I'm delighted that the show will be returning for a second series, and can assure its loyal following that there are still some dramatic twists to come in the three episodes still to air this autumn." Bill Gallagher added: "I'm (more)...
- 10/30/2012
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Much like Nick Murphy’s first film, The Awakening, Blood is a beautifully shot piece of work and packed to the brim with skilled actors, yet it is Bill Gallagher’s TV-lite screenplay – unsurprising given his career as a TV writer – which bogs this corrupt cop flick down in risible clichés and wobbly drama.
Joe Fairburn (Paul Bettany) is a dedicated, skilled detective who works alongside his brother, Chrissie (Stephen Graham), as they are saddled with investigating the brutal murder of a young girl while weathering familial toils, specifically their overbearing, Alzheimer’s-afflicted father and former Chief of Police, Lenny (Brian Cox).
While Murphy has assembled a strong cast, Blood is too gainfully invested in its generic breadcrumb-following, painfully reminiscent of too many rote BBC police procedurals. Keenly skipping over the emotional beats – notably a potentially wrenching scene in which the mother is informed that her...
Much like Nick Murphy’s first film, The Awakening, Blood is a beautifully shot piece of work and packed to the brim with skilled actors, yet it is Bill Gallagher’s TV-lite screenplay – unsurprising given his career as a TV writer – which bogs this corrupt cop flick down in risible clichés and wobbly drama.
Joe Fairburn (Paul Bettany) is a dedicated, skilled detective who works alongside his brother, Chrissie (Stephen Graham), as they are saddled with investigating the brutal murder of a young girl while weathering familial toils, specifically their overbearing, Alzheimer’s-afflicted father and former Chief of Police, Lenny (Brian Cox).
While Murphy has assembled a strong cast, Blood is too gainfully invested in its generic breadcrumb-following, painfully reminiscent of too many rote BBC police procedurals. Keenly skipping over the emotional beats – notably a potentially wrenching scene in which the mother is informed that her...
- 10/11/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
A new co-production deal between BBC America Worldwide and Masterpiece will see two more U.K. titles coming to PBS. The Paradise is a rags-to-riches Victorian Era drama series set in Britain’s first department store. The Lady Vanishes is a 90-minute adaptation of the 1938’s Alfred Hitchcock thriller about a woman who gets caught up in a mysterious and menacing case of a missing person. The arrangement to bring the two shows to American audiences was put together by Jemma Adkins, Senior VP Sales and Co-Productions for BBC Worldwide America. Rebecca Eaton is the executive producer of Masterpiece, presented by Wgbh Boston. The Paradise stars What Maisie Knew’s Joanna Vanderham, Prometheus’ Emun Elliott, Upstairs Downstairs’ Sarah Lancashire and Game of Thrones’ Patrick Malahide. The Paradise is written and created by Bill Gallagher. Simon Lewis is producing with Susan Hogg as executive producer. Gallagher and Hogg worked together on...
- 10/9/2012
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
Christopher Eccelston has never been afraid to play unsympathetic characters and he's at it again in Bill Gallagher's feverish three-part thriller, playing a drunken, corrupt councillor who on an all-night bender cheats on this long-suffering wife (Dervla Kirwan) and batters a building contractor (David Hayman). The next day he throws himself in front of an assassin's bullet heading towards a witness about to testify against a local drugs gang. The country proclaims him a hero, but they don't know his violent secret yet. A gripping British TV thriller.
- 8/17/2012
- The Independent - Film
For Christopher Eccleston, small is always beautiful, whether it be TV thriller Blackout or Greek tragedy Antigone on the stage. He reveals why making films just doesn't compare
He strides across the polished tiled floor, past imposing columns and heavy, intricately carved doors. Outside, the Manchester winds are furiously buffeting the redbrick walls of this grand, turn-of-the-last-century university hall. There seems nowhere more appropriate to meet Christopher Eccleston: he has a face to fit buildings like this, an on-screen intensity that is the match of the architecture. But even so, his latest TV role looks set to stretch him: an unflinching, uncomfortable, three-hour examination of addiction and corruption, in which Eccleston goes from rock bottom to hero, as Manchester politician Daniel Demoys.
Written by Bill Gallagher, who adapted Lark Rise to Candleford for the small screen, Blackout puts alcoholism under the microscope in the course of its three episodes.
He strides across the polished tiled floor, past imposing columns and heavy, intricately carved doors. Outside, the Manchester winds are furiously buffeting the redbrick walls of this grand, turn-of-the-last-century university hall. There seems nowhere more appropriate to meet Christopher Eccleston: he has a face to fit buildings like this, an on-screen intensity that is the match of the architecture. But even so, his latest TV role looks set to stretch him: an unflinching, uncomfortable, three-hour examination of addiction and corruption, in which Eccleston goes from rock bottom to hero, as Manchester politician Daniel Demoys.
Written by Bill Gallagher, who adapted Lark Rise to Candleford for the small screen, Blackout puts alcoholism under the microscope in the course of its three episodes.
- 6/27/2012
- by Vicky Frost
- The Guardian - Film News
Lark Rise to Candleford creator Bill Gallagher’s newest creation is an adaptation of a novel by Emile Zola. The Paradise is a modern day take on Zola’s novel in which the principal characters are employees of a department store. Sarah Lancashire (Lark Rise to Candleford), Elaine Cassidy (Harper’s Island) and Matthew McNulty (The Syndicate) are among the cast. (Continued below)
Sarah Lancashire. Copyright BBC
The story centers around Denise Lovett who is played by Joanna Vanderham (The Runaway). She arrives in the North East seeking employment and finds herself working at a glamorous department store called The Paradise. The store is full of peculiar characters including a sinister man with a shadowy past and the colorful Miss Audrey (Lancashire) who oversees the ladies wear department. It isn’t quite Are You Being Served? but the BBC are promising 8 hour long fun filled episodes of romance and romps.
Sarah Lancashire. Copyright BBC
The story centers around Denise Lovett who is played by Joanna Vanderham (The Runaway). She arrives in the North East seeking employment and finds herself working at a glamorous department store called The Paradise. The store is full of peculiar characters including a sinister man with a shadowy past and the colorful Miss Audrey (Lancashire) who oversees the ladies wear department. It isn’t quite Are You Being Served? but the BBC are promising 8 hour long fun filled episodes of romance and romps.
- 5/18/2012
- by Edited by K Kinsella
Rising star Joanna Vanderham is to star as Denise Lovett, a young girl who works in a department store and gets caught up in the charms of the modern world, in a new period drama series Paradise, coming to BBC One, from Bill Gallagher, the writer of Lark Rise to Candleford.
Joanna (represented by Ken McReddie Associates) is originally from Dundee and landed the lead role of Cathy in Martina Cole's The Runaway for Sky1, alongside Jack O'Connell, whilst she was still at drama school in Cardiff. Her first feature film role is in What Maise Knew, alongside Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgard and Steve Coogan, due out this year.
Based on the novel by Emile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise is a rags-to-riches story set in the 1890s when Denise arrives in the city and falls in love with the intoxicating and dangerous charms of the modern world. Made homeless...
Joanna (represented by Ken McReddie Associates) is originally from Dundee and landed the lead role of Cathy in Martina Cole's The Runaway for Sky1, alongside Jack O'Connell, whilst she was still at drama school in Cardiff. Her first feature film role is in What Maise Knew, alongside Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgard and Steve Coogan, due out this year.
Based on the novel by Emile Zola, The Ladies' Paradise is a rags-to-riches story set in the 1890s when Denise arrives in the city and falls in love with the intoxicating and dangerous charms of the modern world. Made homeless...
- 5/16/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
BBC One is moving ahead with The Ladies’ Paradise, an eight-episode series loosely based on Emile Zola’s novel Au Bonheur Des Dames. Set in England’s first department store, the series tells the rags-to-riches story of Denise Lovett (Joanna Vanderham, Above Suspicion), a young girl who works in the store and gets caught up in the charms of the modern world. Denise is a 19th-century Working Girl – big-hearted, smarter than she’s taken to be and more ambitious than those pretty eyes suggest. BBC One put the series on the fast track a year ago with the hire of Bill Gallagher (Lark Rise) to write it. Marc Jobst is set to direct. Vanderham is with Wme.
- 5/16/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
BBC The Fuse
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We have heard plenty about Titanic and the new series of Doctor Who but what are the other shows to watch out for in 2012?
Line of Duty. Our Friends in the North star Gina McKee seems to pick her parts carefully and Line of Duty is already receiving rave reviews from critics at advance screenings. The drama centers around an investigation involving corrupt cops. The writer claims that members of the Metropolitan Police Force were less than helpful when he was researching the show and their actions have only served to heighten the excitement surrounding Line of Duty.
Savage. 2012 is already proving to be a good year for Warren Brown thanks to his role in the critically acclaimed Inside Men. The Luther actor plays a troubled cop in this...
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We have heard plenty about Titanic and the new series of Doctor Who but what are the other shows to watch out for in 2012?
Line of Duty. Our Friends in the North star Gina McKee seems to pick her parts carefully and Line of Duty is already receiving rave reviews from critics at advance screenings. The drama centers around an investigation involving corrupt cops. The writer claims that members of the Metropolitan Police Force were less than helpful when he was researching the show and their actions have only served to heighten the excitement surrounding Line of Duty.
Savage. 2012 is already proving to be a good year for Warren Brown thanks to his role in the critically acclaimed Inside Men. The Luther actor plays a troubled cop in this...
- 3/9/2012
- by admin
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Downton Abbey villain Rob James-Collier is set to take on a rather different role in ITV’s new drama series Love Life. The actor plays Joe – a man with a commitment phobia who decides to go hiking in the Himalayas when his long time girlfriend Lucy tries to formalize their relationship. In his absence, Lucy (Andrea Lowe) embarks on an affair with her married boss. When Joe returns, his ex, her lover and his wife and him find themselves embroiled in a complex web of love and lies.
Love Life is written by Lark Rise to Candleford creator Bill Gallagher. The cast of the three part drama also includes Sophie Thompson, Gregor Fisher and Alexander Armstrong. It will fill the 9 p.m. Thursday night spot currently filled by Kidnap and Randsom II.
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Downton Abbey villain Rob James-Collier is set to take on a rather different role in ITV’s new drama series Love Life. The actor plays Joe – a man with a commitment phobia who decides to go hiking in the Himalayas when his long time girlfriend Lucy tries to formalize their relationship. In his absence, Lucy (Andrea Lowe) embarks on an affair with her married boss. When Joe returns, his ex, her lover and his wife and him find themselves embroiled in a complex web of love and lies.
Love Life is written by Lark Rise to Candleford creator Bill Gallagher. The cast of the three part drama also includes Sophie Thompson, Gregor Fisher and Alexander Armstrong. It will fill the 9 p.m. Thursday night spot currently filled by Kidnap and Randsom II.
- 3/5/2012
- by admin
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Lark Rise to Candleford creator Bill Gallagher has put pen to paper on a new four part drama called The Fuse. Filming has just begun in Manchester and Liverpool and the BBC expect the show to air in Spring 2012.
Former Doctor Who actor Christopher Eccleston plays an alcoholic council official who wakes up one morning and realizes he may have committed a murder during his most recent drunken binge. Dervla Kirwan (Injustice) plays the long suffering wife who helps Daniel Demoys (Eccleston) overcome his demons and turnaround his flagging political career. However, one savvy detective is on Demoys’ case and his affair with the detective’s ex-wife only makes matters worse.
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- 11/10/2011
- by admin
A photograph of Christopher Eccleston filming his new BBC One drama The Fuse has been released. The drama, penned by Lark Rise to Candleford writer Bill Gallagher, stars Eccleston as a council official who has become increasingly disillusioned over the years. After an alcohol-fuelled night, Eccleston's character Daniel realises that he may be responsible for a murder, just as an act of redemption raises his public profile and lands him in the race for Mayor. The release of the photograph comes as it emerged that Dervla Kirwan has joined the cast as Daniel's wife Alex, while Ewen Bremner will play council official Jerry. Lyndsey Marshal will star as Daniel's sister Lucy, Andrew Scott will play (more)...
- 11/10/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Los Angeles, Nov. 3: Leading independent financing, production and sales company Im Global is co-financing, with BBC Films (who developed the film), dramatic thriller Blood. The film will be produced by Neal Street Productions, the company of Oscar winning director Sam Mendes and Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, Jarhead) and Nicola Shindler’s Red Productions (Bedlam, Queer as Folk), it was announced today by Im Global founder and CEO Stuart Ford. Nick Murphy (The Awakening) will direct the project from a script by Bill Gallagher, based on his original, award winning TV series, Conviction. It will star Paul Bettany (Legion, The Da Vinci Code), Brian Cox (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Red, The Bourne Supremacy) and Stephen Graham (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, This is England). Blood is the story of a father and his two sons who are all by-the-book cops, but after a young girl is brutally murdered...
- 11/3/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Downton Abbey star Rob James Collier has signed up for a lead role in ITV's new romantic drama Love Life. He will star opposite Dci Banks actress Andrea Lowe in the show, the broadcaster announced today. Love Life, which has been written by Lark Rise to Candleford and Conviction scribe Bill Gallagher, focuses on the relationship between Collier's character Joe and Lowe's Lucy. After Lucy pressures him to settle down, Joe goes travelling for a year - but when he returns, he discovers that Lucy is now (more)...
- 11/1/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
[1] Good things keep coming for the stars of Animal Kingdom, as Jacki Weaver lands a role in David O. Russell's The Silver Linings Playbook. Weaver will play Bradley Cooper's mother in the film, based on Matthew Quick's novel about a former high school teacher (Cooper) who’s just been released from a four-year stint at a mental institution into the care of his mother. Upon his release, the protagonist initially tries to win back his ex-wife but eventually falls into a romance with an eccentric young widow (Jennifer Lawrence). Also signed on for the project is Robert De Niro in an unnamed part. Chris Tucker was said to be in talks [2] for the part of Cooper's pal from the institution, but the latest reports don't mention him, so I'm guessing he's out. The Silver Linings Playbook is set to begin shooting this fall. [The Hollywood Reporter [3]] After the jump, Paul Bettany...
- 9/28/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Until recently, writer-director Nick Murphy’s credits mostly included a few episodes of the odd TV series or documentary. He’s now starting to make a big name for himself with his first feature film, The Awakening, starring Rebecca Hall and Dominic West, due out in November.
Murphy is now set to go behind the camera again for another feature, Blood, which is to be an adaptation of the Bill Gallagher’s TV series, Conviction, which Gallagher will himself adapt, ScreenDaily report.
The project is already taking shape nicely, with three fantastic lead actors attached in the form of Paul Bettany (Priest), Brian Cox (X-Men 2), and Stephen Graham (Snatch), the last of which Murphy has already worked with on the 2009 TV series, Occupation.
Neal Street Productions, whose credits include Jarhead, Starter For 10, The Kite Runner, and Revolutionary Road, has already secured funding from BBC Films and the BFI, which is terrific news,...
Murphy is now set to go behind the camera again for another feature, Blood, which is to be an adaptation of the Bill Gallagher’s TV series, Conviction, which Gallagher will himself adapt, ScreenDaily report.
The project is already taking shape nicely, with three fantastic lead actors attached in the form of Paul Bettany (Priest), Brian Cox (X-Men 2), and Stephen Graham (Snatch), the last of which Murphy has already worked with on the 2009 TV series, Occupation.
Neal Street Productions, whose credits include Jarhead, Starter For 10, The Kite Runner, and Revolutionary Road, has already secured funding from BBC Films and the BFI, which is terrific news,...
- 9/28/2011
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In 2004, BBC aired a miniseries titled Conviction, which centered on “two policemen who kill a murder suspect and are then plunged into chaos when they are forced to investigate their own crime.” While I’m sure that the show was a respectable effort, it’s receiving something of an upgrade — according to ScreenDaily (via ThePlaylist), a film version of this same story will begin shooting in January, with a cast that includes Brian Cox, Paul Bettany, and Stephen Graham. You probably know who the first two are, but Graham has appeared in some nice stuff over his career, ranging from Snatch to Public Enemies, with a recurring role as Al Capone on Boardwalk Empire currently occupying his time.
Directed by Nick Murphy, helmer of The Awakening, it’s being written by Bill Gallagher, the screenwriter of the original series. This isn’t the only connection between the two tellings, as Red Production Company are involved,...
Directed by Nick Murphy, helmer of The Awakening, it’s being written by Bill Gallagher, the screenwriter of the original series. This isn’t the only connection between the two tellings, as Red Production Company are involved,...
- 9/23/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Paul Bettany, Brian Cox and Stephen Graham have all become attached to Nick Murphy’s thriller "Blood" at Neal Street Productions and Red Production Company says Screen Daily.
The feature is an adaptation of BAFTA-nominated 2004 BBC TV series "Conviction", and the story follows two policemen who kill a murder suspect and are then plunged into chaos when they are forced to investigate their own crime.
Bill Gallagher ("The Prisoner") scripted the feature based on his own series. Pippa Harris will produce and shooting gets underway in January in the UK.
The feature is an adaptation of BAFTA-nominated 2004 BBC TV series "Conviction", and the story follows two policemen who kill a murder suspect and are then plunged into chaos when they are forced to investigate their own crime.
Bill Gallagher ("The Prisoner") scripted the feature based on his own series. Pippa Harris will produce and shooting gets underway in January in the UK.
- 9/23/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Screen Daily reports that Paul Bettany, Brian Cox and Stephen Graham will lead a big screen adaptation of an acclaimed 2004 BBC mini-series originally called “Conviction,” now simply retitled “Blood,” set to shoot this January. Screenwriter Bill Gallagher will pen an adaptation of his own material, which centered on two policemen in the Criminal Investigation Department or Cid being thrown into chaos by the murder of a twelve year-old girl and exploring, rather loftily, "the notion that everyone has the ability to kill and what it is that can trigger that reaction in any of us." By anyone’s standards the…...
- 9/23/2011
- The Playlist
Nick Murphy, director of The Awakening, the supernatural thriller just debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival, has cast a trio of thesps including Paul Bettany, Brian Cox and Stephen Graham to his fresh thriller movie entitled Blood. Bill Gallagher signs on to pen an adaptation of his own the BAFTA-nominated police drama Conviction. The [...]
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- 9/22/2011
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
ITV has ordered a new drama called Love Life. The three-part series focuses on the relationship between Lucy and Joe, who split up when Joe decides to travel the world after Lucy suggests having a baby. While Joe is away, Lucy ends up having an affair with her married boss. She eventually breaks up with him, only for Joe to return to her life. Joe is still hoping to get back with Lucy, but he is being pursued by a woman called Alex whom he met while travelling. The drama, which has been penned by Conviction, The Prisoner and Lark Rise To Candleford writer Bill Gallagher, is expected to use flashbacks to help viewers find out what happened in the (more)...
- 9/22/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Lark Rise To Candleford writer Bill Gallagher has started work on a new drama for BBC One. The Ladies' Paradise, which is based on a novel by Emile Zola, is set in the 1890s. It focuses on Denise, a young girl who is made homeless after the death of her father and moves to the city. She begins working at the first ever department store but soon discovers that there is a darker side to the shop. "This project has been close to my heart for a long time and I'm thrilled to be making it with the BBC," Gallagher said. "The Ladies' Paradise is set at exactly the same time as Lark Rise, but now we're in the city, at a (more)...
- 6/17/2011
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
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