'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The third and final episode of ITV’s serial Murderland, by David Pirie, was much meatier than last week’s. We finally learned the explanation for the murder of a single mum and part-time prostitute Sally, whose daughter Carrie, years later, is determined to solve the mystery so that she can get on with the rest of her life. As part of her detective work, Carrie decided to start working...
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job - showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
In a recent interview , where he promoted his television film, Murderland , actor Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid) explained the work ethics of TV acting versus being on a Harry Potter film set. Quote: "Doing TV is very different from films," he continues. "We're knocking out seven pages of script a day on this, and on Harry Potter we do one-and-a-half if we're lucky. I'd do more TV, if it was...
'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
The second episode of the three-parter starring the excellent Robbie Coltrane has just been shown. In David Pirie’s crime drama, Coltrane plays Hain, a discredited yet appealing cop whose lover worked as a part-time prostitute and was found stabbed to death in her home not long after he’d paid her a visit. The first episode showed events from the perspective of Carrie, the victim’s...
EastEnders BBC1, Monday 8pm After Friday’s series of bluff and double-bluffs as baby George’s father turned up at the maternity ward, the revelation that it was Darren who nine months previously had bedded Heather produced a muted “Huh? Really'” response from our house. Mind you,...
Oh. My. God. Can it really be, like, 16 years since it was 1993? I very much fear it can and the reason the thought is so bothersome is that I remember thinking, even back then, ‘Blimey, I really am getting on a bit. Can’t do pills nearly as often as I used to. The yawning grave beckons. Etc.’ This all came back to me while watching Murderland (ITV1, Monday) in which Robbie Coltrane...
‘Harry Potter’ star Robbie Coltrane fears the day when the boy wizard series would come to an end, for he would be out of job after that. The Scottish Heavyweight actor shot to international fame with his role as Hagrid in the blockbuster wizard movies. However, he has confessed that he dreads the future when they will [...]
'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
I caught up with the first episode of Murderland only 24 hours after it was first shown, which by my standards of TV viewing (I’m still waiting to watch my DVD of The Charmer, which dates back to the 80s) is pretty fast going. The attraction, of course, was Robbie Coltrane, that charismatic actor who was so brilliant in Cracker. Murderland is very different from Cracker. It’s written by...
You can vote in 20 categories for the 2010 SFX Awards. Each category has a list of nominees, but you can also choose Other and enter what you want for anything released between September 24, 2008 and December 5, 2009. The winners will be announced on Saturday, February 6. Doctor Who is nominated in the following categories: Best TV Show, David Tennant for Best Actor and Sexiest Male , Best TV Episode,...
As the alarmingly alliterative hairy Hogwarts handyman, Hagrid, Robbie Coltrane did plenty of acting with children, but none of them, and certainly not the wand-wooden Daniel Radcliffe, could ever have held even an enchanted candle to young Bel Powley. She played opposite Coltrane in the opening episode of Murderland , as Carrie, the daughter of a murdered prostitute, and she was terrific.