State Of Play at the NFT
The NFT have a talk about State Of Play at 6:30pm this coming Saturday (27th September), as part of TV2003. The Dwarf connection here is that as well as featuring director David Yates, writer Paul Abbott, and members of the cast, producer Hilary Bevan Jones is there as well - who also produced Red Dwarf V. Yes, I know it's tenuous. Shut up. I suggest that you all go and interrupt the event with questions about the departure of Juliet May.
Incidentally, I found about about this from last month's TV Zone (#167) - which also has an excellent piece by Andrew Pixley on Blackadder II. This includes a short boxout on the music for the show, most of which was composed by Howard Goodall himself. An excerpt from this is given below:
The minimalist music for the series was largely composed by Howard Goodall and performed by six musicians including a few solo items for Keith Thompson on recorder and Kate Young on keyboards. Jeremy Jackson performed the ballards on the closing credits sequences; these verses were written by Goodall after Ben Elton and Richard Curtis let him glace through the scripts in the pub whereupon Goodall made plot notes on a beermat.
Excellent, although it makes you wonder what it is with Red Dwarf and beermats. It's well worth getting hold of that article, as it's rather interesting. Same goes for each of Andrew's articles each month, and most of TV Zone itself, actually. On the minus side, they do appear to think that the term "lookm througfh" is acceptable.
Comments
Don't worry about tenuous links, just look at the news on my site :D any news these days is good news, no matter how small the connection :)
Ken Morley is appearing in that new thing on ITV, Margery and Gladys or whatever its called :)
Posted by Drzymala at September 23, 2003 05:54 PM
Hello John! :)
Delighted you enjoyed the piece on "Blackadder II". We're doing a two-part feature on "Porridge" at the moment and are about to start work on both "Hancock" and "Blackadder the Third" for future issues.
All the best
Andrew
Posted by Andrew Pixley at November 1, 2003 06:47 AM
It's Andrew Pixley, everybody!
*shakes Andrew's hand*
Posted by Ian Symes at November 1, 2003 05:11 PM
Andrew Pixley?! Result!
Posted by Darrell Jones at November 3, 2003 01:12 PM
>>It's Andrew Pixley, everybody!
*shakes Andrew's hand*
Hello Ian :)
*shakes Ian's hand back*
>>Andrew Pixley?! Result!
Gosh - in what way Darrell?
All the best
Andrew
Posted by Andrew Pixley at November 3, 2003 08:50 PM
Because you're *Andrew Pixley*, that's why! Aka 'That Man What Writes Them Dead Good Articles And Knows Everything About Everything'!
Basically, it just feels very honourable to be in your (online) presence. I'm trying not to sound sycophantic or anything, but you are a bit of a legend, really.
Oh, and that Doctor Who & Blue Peter thing you did was terrific. Reason enough, I'd say.
Posted by Darrell Jones at November 3, 2003 10:30 PM
Hello Darrell :)
>>Because you're *Andrew Pixley*, that's why! Aka 'That Man What Writes Them Dead Good Articles And Knows Everything About Everything'!
:D Well ... I just do some research, try to find something new out, write it up, and then hope that somebody else finds it of interest too.
>>Oh, and that Doctor Who & Blue Peter thing you did was terrific. Reason enough, I'd say.
Thanks. I think that hit a raw nerve with a lot of people ... but we knew it was a bit controversial when we did it. We had fun anyway. :)
All the best
Andrew
Posted by Andrew Pixley at November 4, 2003 06:26 AM
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