Stop the presses. PBS’ “Masterpiece” will co-produce “Press,” a drama about the current state of the newspaper industry.
“Masterpiece” executive producer Rebecca Eaton announced the project at the Television Critics Association press tour on Sunday. “Press” will focus on two rival publications and examine the uncertain media landscape. Today’s newspaper industry is a different beast from what it was, and the hacking scandals, 24-hour news cycle, digital innovations, and competitive natures are just part of the drama.
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Mike Bartlett, who has written two episodes of the show so far, will executive produce. “Journalists are under threat in different places,” Bartlett told reporters at TCA. “I’m telling a story and I don’t know how it ends.”
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“Masterpiece” executive producer Rebecca Eaton announced the project at the Television Critics Association press tour on Sunday. “Press” will focus on two rival publications and examine the uncertain media landscape. Today’s newspaper industry is a different beast from what it was, and the hacking scandals, 24-hour news cycle, digital innovations, and competitive natures are just part of the drama.
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Mike Bartlett, who has written two episodes of the show so far, will executive produce. “Journalists are under threat in different places,” Bartlett told reporters at TCA. “I’m telling a story and I don’t know how it ends.”
He cited attempts to limit press in England, Trump’s takedown of a reporter at his most recent press conference and the lack...
- 1/15/2017
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Directors' group to investigate after Cannes film festival snubs women for Palme d'Or prize
The woman behind the hugely successful new BBC drama Parade's End is leading a campaign to give female directors a better deal in television.
Susanna White, whose adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's four-volume novel is winning widespread acclaim, is a member of Directors UK, a group representing British film and television directors, which has set up an all-women working party to examine the difficulties experienced by aspiring female directors. The move is partly a response to the fact that no women were entered for the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes film festival.
White told the Observer that she had only broken into the top ranks of directors with extreme difficulty. "I think my journey has been a very, very, slow one."
Welcoming the new focus, she said: "I'm very keen for this to happen.
The woman behind the hugely successful new BBC drama Parade's End is leading a campaign to give female directors a better deal in television.
Susanna White, whose adaptation of Ford Madox Ford's four-volume novel is winning widespread acclaim, is a member of Directors UK, a group representing British film and television directors, which has set up an all-women working party to examine the difficulties experienced by aspiring female directors. The move is partly a response to the fact that no women were entered for the Palme d'Or at this year's Cannes film festival.
White told the Observer that she had only broken into the top ranks of directors with extreme difficulty. "I think my journey has been a very, very, slow one."
Welcoming the new focus, she said: "I'm very keen for this to happen.
- 9/8/2012
- by Maggie Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Titanic producer Nigel Stafford-Clark has accepted responsibility for the ITV1 show's declining ratings. The £12m mini-series, written by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes, opened with nearly seven million viewers in March but has since lost over half its audience. Stafford-Clark admitted that the show's non-linear plot, which sees the ship hit the iceberg in each episode as it focuses on different classes, was his idea, and suggested that this was the reason for the ratings drop. "I have to accept that people have found it hard to get around. In that sense I am responsible," he told The Guardian. "The scripts were very good. Julian is not in any way responsible for this. He wrote the scripts over 18 months to two years, it was not done in a hurry. The series was sold off the back of the script." Executive producer (more)...
- 4/14/2012
- by By Colin Daniels
- Digital Spy
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Key Characters
In an age of class divides, the sinking of the Titanic was an event that impacted the ultra wealthy and the poorest of the poor. Both sets of people are well represented in this dramatization. At one end of the spectrum are aristocrats such as the Earl of Manton who is played by Linus Roache (Batman Begins). His relationship with his rebellious suffragette daughter Georgina (Perdita Weeks) is one of the themes the writers explore in the early episodes although Manton proves to be a heroic figure when the boat starts to sink.
Below deck, Glen Blackhall (Ten Winters) plays a poor Italian immigrant named Paolo Sandrini who falls in love with one of the second class section crew members who is played by Jenna-Louise Coleman. The nouveau...
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Key Characters
In an age of class divides, the sinking of the Titanic was an event that impacted the ultra wealthy and the poorest of the poor. Both sets of people are well represented in this dramatization. At one end of the spectrum are aristocrats such as the Earl of Manton who is played by Linus Roache (Batman Begins). His relationship with his rebellious suffragette daughter Georgina (Perdita Weeks) is one of the themes the writers explore in the early episodes although Manton proves to be a heroic figure when the boat starts to sink.
Below deck, Glen Blackhall (Ten Winters) plays a poor Italian immigrant named Paolo Sandrini who falls in love with one of the second class section crew members who is played by Jenna-Louise Coleman. The nouveau...
- 3/5/2012
- by admin
Julian Fellowes has promised that his ITV1 Titanic miniseries will tell "a very different version" of the story behind the famous ship's sinking. The 1912 tragedy has been adapted many times, most famously as 1958's A Night To Remember and James Cameron's 1997 Oscar winner Titanic, but the Downton Abbey creator insisted that his show would have a fresh slant on the events of the ship. Speaking at the miniseries launch in London yesterday, producer Nigel Stafford-Clark said: "We took the decision right at the start that we were making a very different version of the Titanic story and therefore while we were extremely grateful to Cameron for developing the technology that enabled us to do it, we weren't going to parallel ours to his." Fellowes said: "This is a portrait of a ship in a way that (more)...
- 3/2/2012
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
An upcoming TV dramatisation of the Titanic's fateful maiden voyage will "explode" several long-held myths about the disaster, according to producer Nigel Stafford-clark.
Network bosses in the U.K. will screen the four-part drama, titled simply Titanic, in April, exactly 100 years since the luxury liner sank in the Atlantic after setting sail from Southampton, England.
A team of researchers was employed to ensure the show is as accurate as possible - and Stafford-Clark reveals several anecdotes traditionally associated with the disaster will be exposed as myths.
Among the stories Stafford-Clark insists are untrue are reports the ship's band played Nearer, My God, To Thee as the liner went down, and that a heroic seaman saved hundreds of lives by supervising panicking passengers as they clambered into lifeboats.
He also believes the famous account of first officer William Murdoch's dog saving lives by barking to alert a nearby ship to the location of lifeboats is false, telling the March issue of Reader's Digest, "Unfortunately, it's a great tale without any basis in fact. There's no evidence that Murdoch even had a dog on board."...
Network bosses in the U.K. will screen the four-part drama, titled simply Titanic, in April, exactly 100 years since the luxury liner sank in the Atlantic after setting sail from Southampton, England.
A team of researchers was employed to ensure the show is as accurate as possible - and Stafford-Clark reveals several anecdotes traditionally associated with the disaster will be exposed as myths.
Among the stories Stafford-Clark insists are untrue are reports the ship's band played Nearer, My God, To Thee as the liner went down, and that a heroic seaman saved hundreds of lives by supervising panicking passengers as they clambered into lifeboats.
He also believes the famous account of first officer William Murdoch's dog saving lives by barking to alert a nearby ship to the location of lifeboats is false, telling the March issue of Reader's Digest, "Unfortunately, it's a great tale without any basis in fact. There's no evidence that Murdoch even had a dog on board."...
- 2/24/2012
- WENN
Linus Roache and Geraldine Somerville will star in Titanic, ITV's upcoming miniseries created by producer Nigel Stafford-Clark and writer Julian Fellowes. The four-hour miniseries serves to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of grand ocean liner Titanic. Also starring in Titanic are Celia Imrie, Toby Jones (Captain America: First Avenger), Perdita Weeks, Lee Ross, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Steven Waddington and Stephen Campbell Moore. Jon Jones directs the mini produced by Stafford-Clark and Chris Thompson. "There is a lasting fascination with the Titanic's one and only voyage, and never more so than in the year of its hundredth anniversary," said Stafford-Clark. "We will tell the story in a way that is bold, fresh and gripping...
- 4/6/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Linus Roache and Geraldine Somerville will star in Titanic, ITV's upcoming miniseries created by producer Nigel Stafford-Clark and writer Julian Fellowes. The four-hour miniseries serves to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of grand ocean liner Titanic. Also starring in Titanic are Celia Imrie, Toby Jones (Captain America: First Avenger), Perdita Weeks, Lee Ross, Jenna-Louise Coleman, Steven Waddington and Stephen Campbell Moore. Jon Jones directs the mini produced by Stafford-Clark and Chris Thompson. "There is a lasting fascination with the Titanic's one and only voyage, and never more so than in the year of its hundredth anniversary," said Stafford-Clark. "We will tell the story in a way that is bold, fresh and gripping...
- 4/6/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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