http://screenterrier.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/being-humans-aidan-turner- to-star-as.html
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I've seen him in Desperate Romantics and the Hobbit films. I have not watched Being Human (not my style).
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I came here because I had just read the casting announcement in this article, from which I also learned that BBC is planning a new series of Mapp & Lucia. (Should I be worried?)
http://tinyurl.com/ncqgbpb
Also, I just can't see David Walliams as Christie's Tommy Beresford, can you?
What did you think of Desperate Romantics, RM? It hasn't made much of a splash round here. I adore the Rossettis, et. al. I'll have to track it down. I'm not sure what to make of it all.
You're scaring me about Mapp and Lucia. I don't see how anyone could reproduce that magic. I'm with you about not seeing Walliams as Tommy Beresford. I hate to think whom they will cast as Tuppence.
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Hi greenegg.
Desperate Romantics -- total fluff. Not that there's anything wrong with fluff, but this was too overtly-stylized (steam-punk) for my taste and overly melodramatic without offering anything of substance. That said, it's not a long series; I wouldn't skip it unless you're really short on time.
(IMO, even when a program stinks, I want to examine it so I get as complete a picture as I can of the influences and trends in period drama. This kind of context is helpful in assessing the current status [health?] of the genre.)
Last time I checked, Desperate Romantics was still on netflix streaming.
Oops, forgot to address these other points:
You're scaring me about Mapp and Lucia. I don't see how anyone could reproduce that magic.
I agree. McEwan, Scales and Hawthorne were superb. Magic is the perfect way to describe it.
I hate to think whom they will cast as Tuppence.
Gosh, me too. Annis was utterly luminous in the role! How can they even try to cast in that direction with Walliams as Tommy?
I wonder who will play George Warleggan. Ralph Bates has some big shoes to fill.
shareYou're right. but I'm more anxious about demelza and Elizabeth.
Who would make a good Judd and Prudie? (Please, no Dawn French!)
Demelza will probably be played by an unknown Cornish actress in her late teens early twenties. Elizabeth I don't know. What about Demelza's brother Drake who was played by Kevin McNally? He was the reason why I watched the whole series and he is another actor who has big shoes to fill.
shareThey won't get that far in the first series, as it only covers the first two novels so it will be a while before we get a glimpse of Drake. (And I totally agree with you about him!)
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They aren't remaking the series any more than a new production of Hamlet is a remake; this is a new dramatisation of the
work.
Aidan Turner was excellent in Being Human. I think he'll make a fine Ross.
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