Posted September 24, 201311 yr 1g-BJr3vk2U Call the Midwife The plot follows newly qualified midwife Jenny Lee and the work of midwives and the nuns of Nonnatus House, a nursing convent, part of an Anglican religious order, coping with the medical problems in the deprived Poplar district of East London in the 1950s. The Sisters and midwives carry out many nursing duties across the community. However, with between 80 and 100 babies being born each month in Poplar alone, the primary work is to help bring safe childbirth to women in the area and to look after their countless newborns. Broadcast ○ 25 December 2013 (TBC) [Christmas special episode] Channel ○ BBC One Duration ○ 60 minutes (TBC) Cast ○ Jessica Raine, Miranda Hart, Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Judy Parfitt, Helen George Ratings ○ TBA The Paradise The story of the lives and loves of the people that work, shop and trade in and around the first department store in the North of England. The owner, widower John Moray, once a drapers boy in Emersons, the small shop that grew under his managership into The Paradise that dominates the high street to the detriment of the small shopkeepers. Broadcast ○ November 2013 (TBC) Channel ○ BBC One Series ○ 2 Duration ○ ? x 60 minute episodes Cast ○ Emun Elliott, Joanna Vanderham, Sarah Lancashire, David Hayman, Ben Daniels, Adrian Scarborough Ratings ○ TBA Truckers Funny, moving, painful and raucous, Truckers tells stories of real life, and ordinary people pushed to extremes. In each episode one character undergoes a life changing journey and we are along for the ride. In an age when technology would make us seem ever more connected, the series uses the truck driver, alone in his cab, as a way to explore how isolated we can become within modern society and the importance of real human connection. These are powerful, moving stories, but the tone is always joyous and each story is one of redemption. Broadcast ○ Autumn 2013 (TBC) Channel ○ BBC One Duration ○ 5 x 60 minute episodes Cast ○ Ashley Walters, John Dagleish, Stephen Tompkinson, Harry Treadaway Ratings ○ TBA Death Comes to Pemberley Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married and with two young sons, are preparing for the lavish annual ball at their magnificent Pemberley home. The unannounced arrival of Elizabeth’s wayward sister Lydia, however, brings an abrupt and shocking halt to proceedings when she stumbles out of her chaise screaming that her husband Wickham has been murdered. Broadcast ○ Winter 2013 (TBC) Channel ○ BBC One Duration ○ 3 x 60 minute episodes Cast ○ Jenna Coleman, Anna Maxwell Martin, Matthew Rhys, Matthew Goode Ratings ○ TBA Common Seventeen-year-old Johnjo O’Shea gives his cousin Tony and some mates a last-minute lift in his brother Patrick’s car. They tell him they’re going for pizza; Johnjo doesn’t know that they’re going to ‘have a word’ with a local loudmouth who needs putting in his place. As Johnjo waits in the car, one of their number, Kieran Gillespie, takes offence with an innocent bystander, Thomas Ward played by Harry McMullen, who is fatally stabbed. Broadcast ○ Winter 2013 (TBC) Channel ○ BBC One Duration ○ 1 x 90 minute episode Cast ○ Nico Mirallegro, Daniel Mays, Jodhi May, Philip Hill Pearson, Susan Lynch Ratings ○ TBA The 7.39 Carl Matthews is stuck. At the age of 45 his life has become routine. Every morning Carl fights his way onto the 7.39 train where he sees the same unhappy faces doing the same daily commute into Waterloo. Happily married to his best friend from college, Maggie, with whom he has two healthy, if sullen, teenage kids, life for Carl has become predictable. Broadcast ○ Autumn 2013 (TBC) Channel ○ BBC One Duration ○ 2 x 60 minute episodes Cast ○ David Nicholls, David Morrisey, Sheridan Smith, Olivia Coleman, Sean Maguire Ratings ○ TBA Last Tango in Halifax Celia Dawson and Alan Buttershaw are both widowed and in their seventies. They had had feelings for each other in the 1950s, though they were never acted upon and the two grew apart. In the present day they are reunited after both being persuaded to join Facebook by their respective grandchildren. Alan has "loved Celia since he was 16 years old whilst Celia is described as a woman who is "unfulfilled" having been unhappily married to a man she grew to hate. After re-encountering each other, Alan and Celia discover that they still feel as passionately for each other as they did when they were teenagers. Broadcast ○ Winter 2013 (TBC) Channel ○ BBC One Series ○ 2 Duration ○ ? x 60 minute episodes Cast ○ Derek Jacobi, Anne Reid, Sarah Lancashire, Nicola Walker, Tony Gardner, Ronnie Ancona, Edward Ashley Ratings ○ TBA --- So, what dramas from this line-up are you most looking forward to? I think I'm definitely going to be giving Death Comes to Pemberley a go, only because Jenna's in it. :kink: And anything with Sarah Lancashire MUST be good so I'll be watching Last Tango in Halifax (series 1 wasn't that bad, tbh).
September 25, 201311 yr Very excited for the return of 'The Paradise', I loved the first series. I weirdly got into it with my housemate after seeing it on iPlayer.
September 25, 201311 yr I'd love to see more one-off dramas on television. In the 1970s and '80s there used to be slots like Play For Today which had some brilliant dramas. We get them occasionally now (The Wipers Times is a very good recent example) but there isn't a regular slot for them :(
September 26, 201311 yr Author Very excited for the return of 'The Paradise', I loved the first series. I weirdly got into it with my housemate after seeing it on iPlayer. I've not seen the first series myself, but the second is interesting me. Debating to myself whether I should go back and watch it before this upcoming series starts. Is it worth it (ofc you say yes :kink:)?
October 1, 201311 yr I would! I think I might re-watch it tbh, because it's been a YEAR and I have a terrible memory. But I'm sure they'll recap over all the important things so I don't think you'll miss out on TOO much if you don't watch the first series.
October 1, 201311 yr Death Comes to Pemberley Matthew Goode Well I shall be tuning into this one for sure.
October 10, 201311 yr Author Just watched the first episode of 'Truckers'. That was the biggest load of shit... :lol: I suppose Maggie O'Niell being in it made it a bit of alright :wub: but otherwise it was terrible. Won't stay committed if it's not any better next week (the boss of the company is quite fit TO BE HONEST).
October 22, 201311 yr So happy that 'The Paradise' is back on tv now! :D :wub: I have a weird crush on Moray.
November 11, 201311 yr Is anyone watching 'The Paradise'? Yes. Not me though. I have been watching The Escape Artist with David Tennant which has been very good although somewhat implausible at times. Would somebody charged with a brutal murder really get granted bail without the prosecution even raising an objection? I don't think so.
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