AMC Touts Ian McKellen For Best Actor From The Prisoner It's Awards Season, and that means that every studio and network runs ads in the trades touting the talent from their movies or shows for the consideration of the the Academy, or the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, or the Screen Actors' Guild, or whoever. Interestingly, AMC has chosen, in a two-page spread in The Hollywood Reporter, to put...
The Southwest African country of Namibia has been finding itself in entertainment, as well as sporting news. I am actually old enough to remember the TV series "The Prisoner", starring British actor Patrick McGoohan, from 1967. It's a series that had cult following for years. http://www.the-prisoner-6.freeserve.co.uk/ Like any older TV series that enjoys a cult status [...]
TV Review: The Prisoner (2009) So let’s talk about the elephant in the room, shall we? Two weeks since it aired and I still haven’t mentioned this. That’s because I only just got around to watching AMC’s new miniseries remake of Patrick McGoohan’s classic 1967 spy series The Prisoner this weekend. Well, I saw the first hour when it first aired, but only just caught up...
In today's Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day, you can purchase the classic British sci-fi series The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan, for $40.99 on Blu-ray (59% off the $100 msrp) or only $28.99 for the set on DVD (59%off the $70 msrp). Act now because the deal ends at midnight.
The reboot of Patrick McGoohan’s celebrated psy-fi series closed shop last night on AMC. But will it live on as long as its original copy? I pondered The Prisoner’s lasting legacy for Wired last week. The Prisoner: An All-Star Appreciation Patrick McGoohan’s stunning spy-fi series The Prisoner only lasted 17 episodes before sadly disappearing in 1969. [...]
Well, I would've wondered what the hell you were talking about, but still. Some spoilers behind the break! (Oh, and the scan's from Marvel's Greatest Comics #67 , reprinting "Within This Tortured Land" from Fantastic Four #85 ; written by Stan Lee, art by Jack Kirby, inks by Joe Sinnott. This was from the second part of a Prisoner -styled storyline, so it all fits!) Over at Bleeding Cool...
By Franklin Harris, Decatur Daily If Patrick McGoohan were still alive, I think his response to the people behind the remake of his classic 1960s TV series "The Prisoner" might go something like this: "Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages!"
Online discounts bring Patrick McGoohan's classic groundbreaking thriller adventure down to a more reasonable saving, but the restored HD image and supplements, including a comprehensive new documentary is well worth the price anyway!
R.I.P. Edward Woodward Callan's Red File has finally caught up with him. Yesterday, the world lost Edward Woodward, star of two classic spy shows: the terrific, gritty British series Callan from the Sixties and Seventies and its Eighties counterpart, the also-gritty American action series The Equalizer . Edward Callan and Equalizer Robert McCall had a lot in common; they were related in almost the...
This is one of my favorite TV intros, from The Prisoner (1967): Music by Ron Grainer, who also wrote the theme for Dr. Who . There's now a remake of The Prisoner , which began airing this weekend. I'm not convinced by it. It's certainly different from the original. It's okay that it's different, of course. James Caviezel shouldn't be the same Number Six as Patrick McGoohan any more than Daniel Craig...
Time is too short to explain here why I loved Patrick McGoohan’s influential series The Prisoner. Instead, Wired paid me to pontificate about it, starting with AMC’s ambitious reboot starring Sir Ian McKellen and Jim Caviezel. Might as well bring the worst news first: Review: The Prisoner Reboot Takes Sci-Fi Out of Spy-Fi Four decades after [...]
The Prisoner Blu-Ray On Sale At Deep Discount Deep Discount is running their semi-annual DVD sale right now, but it's not quite as good as it usually is. Instead of 20-15% off their usually already low prices, it's 40% off of the Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price this winter. In some cases, that equation works out in the consumer's favor. But in most, it means you don't save as much as you used...
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