Peter Bowker

Exclusive: Bowker pens ITV hospital drama

The Stage (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009

Blackpool and Desperate Romantics writer Peter Bowker is developing a new medical series for ITV.

Peter Bowker and Coky Giedroyc at the Brontë Parsonage Museum

BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009

A new press release from the Brontë Parsonage Museum : Behind the Scenes of ITV’s Wuthering Heights Bafta-winning screenwriter Peter Bowker and director Coky Giedroyc , will be visiting Haworth to talk about their recent work adapting Wuthering Heights for ITV1. The special event will take place on Saturday 24 October at 7pm at the West Lane Baptist Centre in Haworth , and...

Friday's Welsh Odin news

The Medium is Not Enough TV blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009

Doctor Who Waters of Mars to air 7pm on Sunday 15th November Film Tony Scott to make film based on Chippendales creator Men in Black 3 ? Anthony Hopkins to play Odin in Thor Reese Witherspoon to star in Rule #1 Joe Cornish to direct Attack the Block British TV Tom Hollander to star in vicar comedy for BBC BBC to cut senior manager pay by 25% Peter Bowker to write medical series for ITV...

Our innermost gothic self

BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009

The broadcast of the first part of Wuthering Heights 2009 took place yesterday in Australia and according to the audience figures, Crikey considers it one of the losers of last night's TV programmes with an audience of 769,000. Is it really that bad? Incidentally, the Brontë Parsonage Blog has written about Saturday's event with screenwriter Peter Bowker and director Coky Giedroyc....

Wuthering Heights - 8:30pm

ABC TV (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009

Leading screen and television writer Peter Bowker has adapted the world famous love story of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.The haunting and gothic novel is a shocking and passionate portrayal of ungoverned love and cruelty across desolate landscapes with two of the most memorable lovers in literature. Tom Hardy plays dark and brooding Heathcliff alongside newcomer Charlotte Riley as...

Yorkshire gave the world the Brontë sisters

BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009

... less than enthusiastic. The two-part series, which has been adapted for the small screen by Peter Bowker, strips Bronte's labyrinthine plot to the bare essentials and spruces it up for modern audiences. The brooding atmosphere of the novel is swept away in favour of a fast-paced and spirited retelling of the ungoverned passion and malice shared by Cathy Earnshaw and her foster-brother,...

Wuthering wishy-washy

BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009

... is the beautiful, free-spirited foil to Tom Hardy's suitably brooding Heathcliff, who delivers Peter Bowker's script in pseudo-Shakespearean style. However, through modern eyes the story appears both over-complex and lacking credibility. But if the middle Bronte's work is your thing and you are willing to suspend your disbelief a little more than usual, you'll pass a pleasant couple...

October Half Term at the Parsonage

BrontëBlog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009

... in the Parsonage rooms. On the evening of Saturday 24th October the screenwriter for the drama, Peter Bowker, and director Coky Giedroyc, will be making a visit to Haworth to speak about the adaptation to an audience at the West Lane Baptist Centre . Tickets for this event are available from the Brontë Parsonage Museum by contacting jenna.holmes@bronte.org.uk / 01535 640188....

Iraq, Under the Boot

The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009

Screenwriter Peter Bowker discusses his miniseries Occupation, a gritty, street-level look at the war in Iraq that has been called one of the best Brit dramas of the decade. The ancient Iraqi epic poem "Gilgamesh," about a hero's battle with...

Rocking the Cradle of Civilization: An Advance Review of BBC America's Mini-Series "Occupation"

Televisionary (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009

... at the horrors of war, transforming the battlefield into something powerfully personal. Written by Peter Bowker (Blackpool) and directed by Nick Murphy, Occupation tells the story of those three soldiers--played respectively by Jekyll's James Nesbitt, Public Enemies' Stephen Graham, and Grownups' Warren Brown--as they come to grips with the staggering consequences of the choices they...

Occupation

Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009

Recently ReviewedOccupation (Movie -- BBC America, Sun. Oct. 18, 8 p.m.)By 'Occupation'Most Viewed:(6598 views)(6139 views)(2172 views)(1501 views)(1493 views)(1452 views)Filmed in Northern Ireland and Morocco by Kudos Film and Television and the BBC. Executive producer, Derek Wax; producer, Laurie Borg; director, Nick Murphy; writer, Peter Bowker. Mike Swift - James NesbittDanny Peterson...

Television Review | 'Occupation': Knocked Around by the Winds of War

New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009

... experience find reasons to return to the action. “Occupation” has an impressive pedigree. Peter Bowker, the author of “Viva Blackpool,” wrote the script, and it was produced by the same team that made “Life on Mars” and “MI-5.” (“Viva Blackpool” and “Life on Mars” were British hits that flopped when they were adapted and remade into American series. “MI-5” played here originally on...

• Film: Security Contractors Depicted in Television Show ‘Occupation’ - Feral Jundi

BBC America delivers a searing drama about the Iraq war

Zap2it.com - News (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009

... doctor.After Aliyah returns to Iraq, Swift volunteers for another tour of duty. Blue-collar Danny Peterson (Stephen Graham), awed by the amount of money to be made as a civilian contractor in Iraq, also returns to the country to partner with a former U.S. marine to grab a share of the billions in cash sent by the U.S. for reconstruction. The young and sensitive Lee Hibbs (Warren Brown),...