#itv harlots

[gydima]

So Harlots is really not my kind of show, but Con's body language alone makes me want to bite him, so I figured it was worth compiling his scenes anyway.

Be warned: this is a show about prostitution in 18th century London, and these scenes also involve slavery and racism.

#con o'neill #con o’neill #nathaniel lennox #itv harlots #ofmd cast #i'm totally normal about this old british dude

[carrymelikeimcute]

Characters with Izzy Hands vibes

Nancy Birch - Harlots (even the ring - perfect).

Amalia True - The Nevers

#izzy hands #femme izzy hands #fem!izzy #amalia true #the nevers #nancy birch #itv harlots

[areyouwho-ithinkyouare]

itv Harlots was more feminist than anything any swerf has ever said or done actually

#itv harlots was like. here’s a show about sex workers that neither demonises OR glamorises the work #and that despite featuring several sex scenes every episode. somehow never gets male gaze-y.

[brian-in-finance]

Lauren Lyle as DS Karen Pirie. Photograph: World Productions for ITV

‘My dad didn’t sleep, he was so excited’: the ITV drama that’s rewriting the rules of crime TV

There’s an all-female creative team, an ‘alarmingly young’ detective and material from legendary writer Val McDermid. Karen Pirie’s creators explain their attempt to do something totally new.

By this stage, the announcement of another ITV crime drama has the novelty of a press release revealing that bees like pollen. But the makers of Karen Pirie insist that this one is different.

Despite loud rhetoric about equality, it’s still rare for a primetime show to have an all-female creative team. The Distant Echo is adapted from Val McDermid’s 2003 novel by actor-screenwriter Emer Kenny (who has also written for Harlots and Save Me Too), with Lauren Lyle (last seen in Vigil) taking her first lead role as DS Karen Pirie, a detective in the St Andrews area of Scotland.

It’s also rare for a show’s creative team to be so young. Lyle has her first lead role at 29 in a show steered by the 32-year-old Kenny as writer and executive producer. Kenny also co-stars, playing DS Pirie’s best friend, River.

“I was very aware of being a young showrunner,” says Kenny. “So I wanted to try to do something new with the mainstream ITV crime brand. My mantra was ‘cool and fresh’, which I said so often people were eye-rolling at me.”

“When I was sent the audition script,” says Lyle, “I thought: a lead detective role for someone in their 20s! You don’t see that.”

“I don’t think there’s any other police detective this young on TV,” adds Kenny. Many, though, exist in real life.

“The police advisers said that detective chief inspectors simply wouldn’t do most of the stuff they do on TV,” says Kenny. “The preliminary interviews and so on. They’d leave it to someone like Karen.”

McDermid, a beady procedural realist, is happy about such accuracy but never told Kenny what to do: “I want to write novels, not TV scripts.” The novelist, 67, felt she should be even more hands-off than usual on this TV project, because its aim was to feel younger than other police shows.

Emer Kenny, who is also the programme’s showrunner, as River Wilde. Photograph: World Productions for ITV

Neither Lyle nor Kenny came to McDermid’s work with preconceptions. “I was sent the book by ITV,” says Kenny, “and my sister’s a great crime reader and she said, ‘Ooh, Val, the Queen of Crime!’”

Lyle laughs. “I told my dad that I’d got this part, and he said, ‘You do know that’s by the Queen of Crime?’ My mum told me he didn’t sleep that night, he was so excited.”

Their relatives may risk a lawyers’ letter; the Agatha Christie estate, which trademarked the regal metaphor, has objected to its use by McDermid, who is likely to compromise on future dust jackets by being called “the Scottish Queen of Crime”.

Kenny deliberately watched ITV crime dramas, from Prime Suspect to Unforgotten, to find “a character and tone that hadn’t been done there”. Part of this was the decision that Karen would be casual about dressing and hairdressing, mirroring McDermid’s refusal to glamorise female characters.

People keep saying, ‘Have they put a kid on this case?’ — Lauren Lyle

“Except for covering up a few spots,” says Lyle, “I didn’t wear makeup. We wanted her to look alarmingly, confrontingly young. People keep saying, ‘Have they put a kid on this case?’”

In most cases, it might seem rude or irrelevant to mention that Lyle is 5ft 3in and Kenny 5ft 10in, but the camera angles play with this disparity and a further one with male colleagues towering over both. As Karen walks into a conference or has a door opened by a man twice as high and wide, her physical vulnerability adds tension.

“A journalist asked if I’d been cast because I was short,” says Lyle. “And, er, no! But, visually, it’s super-useful. When these huge men are shouting at Karen, in every sense belittling her, it does give me something to play with, always having to look up at them.”

With McDermid’s agreement, Kenny made many changes to The Distant Echo, not least because Pirie is a relatively minor character in the story, before being foregrounded for the next books in the series. In the novel, the central cold case – the death of a young woman on a night when she had contact with several now-prominent men – is being investigated by a journalist who, 19 years on, becomes a true-crime podcaster who keeps missing crucial clues.

This update echoes McDermid’s long-held irritation at those who tell her they have stopped reading crime novels because true crime is “better”.

Val McDermid, author of the original Pirie novel. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/The Guardian

“I think it’s entirely spurious,” she says, “to say that true-crime podcasts give you the truth and fiction doesn’t. In novels, I’ve written about things I couldn’t when I was a journalist, for various reasons, principally the libel laws in this country. There’s a real problem with true crime, because people often don’t have the investigative tools to do it in a way that feels credible. A lot of it is ‘he said/she said’ and I’m uneasy about that because it has a deep impact on people’s lives.”

Kenny acknowledges she has “put that thought into Karen’s mouth. True-crime podcasts are interesting because they are often campaigning but also very commercial. I terrify myself driving at night listening to something about a serial killer, and I wanted to write about why we put ourselves through that. I think we like the idea of a calm voice telling us we’ll find the answers. But you get the funny thing where they can’t resolve it and the audience feels cheated. At least with crime fiction you do get a solution.”

One thing that hasn’t dated since the book was written is internal and external sexism against successful women. Chosen to run a case despite her youth, Karen believes she has been fast-tracked on talent, but her male bosses cynically wish to look feminist.

For McDermid, “That’s a very typical thing in the workplace now. It’s always the same if somebody who remotely fits the category of minority gets a promotion. Nobody in the office or the workplace thinks it’s because they’re terrific at the job. It’s always because you’re a woman. It’s because you’re black. It’s because you’re deaf. That’s very demoralising over time.”

Kenny says: “Writing it, I could see both sides. Karen is good and deserves to be there but, on the other hand, she doesn’t want to be a tactical pair of tits. I’ve been put in writers’ rooms full of men and know I’m there as the female perspective. It’s good that I’m there – and I should be there – but if you’re the only one, it can feel queasy.”

A scene from Karen Pirie. Photograph: World Productions for ITV

Due to the plot of the source novel, the female-led team faced an issue that has become controversial in male-made television: a young woman as a victim of violence.

“I struggle myself,” says Lyle, “with the idea we’re always seeing women murdered on screen. But, in this, we are looking at it through the eyes of a young woman. And, also, the issue isn’t going anywhere: women are still being murdered and we haven’t resolved it. Why should we stop covering it on screen?”

Kenny’s negotiation of this issue, she says, was that “deliberately, there’s no gore, no gratuitous assault scenes. It’s a book written by a woman, a script written by a woman, and that’s crucial. The victim – Rosie – comes back in flashback throughout: she’s got a character and a life, she’s not just a body on a slab. I don’t think it’s about watching dead women for entertainment. The killing of women is a huge issue in society; when I was writing this, the news was all about Sarah Everard. I think it would be perverse to say I’m going to write about dead men instead.”

What makes for great page and screen fiction is crime with complex motivations, however deranged. With a cold case, there are enduring psychological repercussions for those who have escaped justice.

“To be walking around all day with that on your back,” wonders Kenny. “What does that do to you? This show is about choices and trauma and the ripple effect of trauma.”

“Because,” says McDermid, “it impacts not just on the killer, but everybody who’s been part of their life: their friends, their partners, their children. I mean, imagine getting to the age of 25 and finding out that your dad’s a killer. It’s not as if it’s something that’s happening in the present, where you could see for yourself the stresses and strains that might have led to such a thing. But there’s something from the deep past. How do you factor that in to your knowledge of someone?”

Karen Pirie is on ITV on Sunday 25 September at 8pm.

The Guardian

Remember… a journalist asked if I’d been cast because I was short. And, er, no! But, visually, it’s super-useful. When these huge men are shouting at Karen, in every sense belittling her, it does give me something to play with, always having to look up at them. — Lauren Lyle

#Tait rhymes with hat #Good times #Karen Pirie #ITV #The Guardian #23 September 2022 #Instagram story

[scotianostra]

Happy 65th Birthday comedian and actor Gordon Kennedy.

Gordon  was born of February 22nd 1958 in Glasgow but grew up in Tranent, East Lothian, he was educated at George Watson’s College in Edinburgh before studying physical education at Jordanhill College, now part of the University of Strathclyde.

I was a big fan of “alternative comedy” when it started to get going in the early 80’s Kennedy first got together with some friends in 1980 making his debut at the Edinburgh festival in 1980 under the name The Bodgers this led on to the channel 4 show Absolutely, with the same prominently Scottish team, he cut his teeth as an extra in several shows like Russ Abbot, Kenny Everett and Les Dennis beforehand.

Since then, his production company, Absolutely Productions, have made Welcome To Strathmuir, the BBC Scotland comedy starring John Gordon Sinclair, and Radio 4 comedy series Baggage with fellow Scots Peter Capaldi and Phyllis Logan. He went on to become more mainstream and was the original co-host of the National Lottery Lottery show on Saturday nights with Anthea Turner.I suppose those that didn’t follow the comedy scene will know Gordon from his time starring a Little John in noughties incarnation of Robin Hood on BBC 1.

If you’re a bit older you might recall him in the fab Glasgow Kiss with Iain Glenn and Sharon Small at the turn of the millennium or a few years later as Sgt. Bruce Hornsby in Red Cap. He was also the narrator in the first series of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, as well as Mac in oor ain soap River City for 18 months.

Kennedy sent an audition tape for a part Outlander, but missed out, I can’t find out what, if any part he was considered for, he bounced back though appearing in the mini series The Spanish Princess, which just like Outlander is shown on the Starz network in the States, he also appeared in 4 episodes of the British-American period drama  Harlots.

More recently Gordon has appeared in the ITV drama series Grantchester, the Scottish show Crime and the second series of forensic crime drama Traces, alongside Martin Compston  Giordon also turned up in an episode of the Amazon Prime series Mammals last year.

#Scotland #scottish #actor #tv presenter #narrator #happy birhtday #Glasgow. #glaswegian

[heavenboy09]

Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊 To You

A Very Amazing American Actress, Producer & Former Model

& She is Also The Daughter Of A Legendary Rockstar 👨‍🎤 🎸 Dad of a Famous Rock Band 🎸

Born On July 1st, 1977

She is an American actress. She began a modeling career at age 14 before making her film debut in Silent Fall (1994); she went on to achieve critical recognition with starring roles in Heavy and Empire Records (both 1995), as well as That Thing You Do! and Stealing Beauty (both 1996). She then appeared in films such as Inventing the Abbotts (1997), Armageddon (1998), Cookie's Fortune and Onegin (both 1999), Dr. T & the Women (2000), and One Night at McCool's (2001). She then played the elf Arwen Undómiel in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003), which became one of the highest-grossing film series in history.

Following the success of Lord of the Rings, She has appeared in a variety of roles, including the films Jersey Girl (2004), Lonesome Jim (2005), Reign Over Me (2007), The Strangers, The Incredible Hulk (both 2008), Super (2010), Space Station 76 (2014), Wildling (2018), and Ad Astra (2019). Outside of film, she starred in the HBO supernatural drama series The Leftovers (2014–2017), the BBC period drama series Gunpowder (2017), the ITV/Hulu period drama series Harlots (2018–2019) and the Fox procedural drama series 9-1-1: Lone Star (2020).

She is also a singer. Having sung with composer Howard Shore, she appeared as guest vocalist on The Lemonheads' album Varshons (2009) singing a cover of the Leonard Cohen song "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye". She appeared on the 2017 bonus disk of Evan Dando's album Baby I'm Bored (2003) providing featured vocals for the song "Shots Is Fired". In 2011, she released her debut single, "Need You Tonight".

She has served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for the United States since 2003, and as a spokesperson for Givenchy's line of perfume and cosmetics. She is the daughter of Steven Tyler and Bebe Buell, although she has a very close relationship with her adoptive father Todd Rundgren.

Please Wish This Amazing Actress Of Incredible Acting Talent, A Very Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 🎉 🎈 🎁 🎊

You May Know Her, But You Will Also Love Her

MS.LIV RUNDGREN TYLER

#Liv Tyler #Spotify

[cptrs]

#harlots #itv harlots #harlots: 201 #harlots: 203 #harlots: 205 #harlots: 207 #harlots: 208 #jessica brown findlay #charlotte wells #samantha morton #margaret wells #💁

[festeringfae]

#hulu harlots #itv harlots #harlots #harlots itv #harlots hulu

[shrewdslytherin]

NO SPOILERS PLEASE but can anybody tell me where I can safely stream Harlots season 3 online? I'm in Canada and only the first 2 seasons are on Britbox!

#harlots #harlots hulu #hulu #bbc #itv #britbox #british tv #uk #charlotte wells #margaret wells #lucy wells #lydia quigley #emily lacey #william north #lord fallon #amelia scanwell #jessica brown findlay #lesley manville #samantha morton #eloise smyth #sir george howard #hugh skinner #liv tyler #lady isabella fitzwilliam #isabella fitzwilliam

[drjohnweston]

“It was like telling the fox the hen house had been raided”

#Harlots #Harlots hulu #Steven Robertson #Betsy Fletcher #Alexa Davies #Robert Oswald #ITV Harlots #I'm sorry these are so dark it''s the best I could do

[artsridley]

Dedicated towards the actress of Lady Macbeth, Medea, Princess Feodora, Nancy Birch, Mary Cattermole, Chief Petty Officer Unamo...

The first group chat which is dedicated to the wonderful Kate Fleetwood is now open! Here you can geek out about the things she has been in or things related to her. Just remember to be kind to one another. 💙

#kate fleetwood #nancy birch #princess feodora #harlots #Harlots on Hulu #Lady Macbeth #Macbeth #willaim shakespeare #shakespeare #shakesqueer #willy shakes #shakespeeps #The Tragedy of Macbeth #the scottish play #Chief Petty Officer Unamo #Star Wars #Mary Cattermole #Harry Potter #itv victoria #victoria #queen victoria

[missjstanding]

anna's hands

#anna wilson-jones #anna wilson jones #lady emma portman #emma portman #lady portman #emma lescelles #itv victoria #victoria #victoria series #hands #anna's hands #ms. knagg #nick nickleby #lady leadsom #harlots

[agrippinaes]

this city is made of our flesh. every beam, every brick. we’ll have our piece of it.

harlots season one

#harlots #harlots itv #harlotsedit #perioddramaedit #mine

[brian-in-finance]

Video 📹

Karen Pirie

Lauren Lyle (Outlander) will take the lead role of Karen Pirie in a new ITV drama series from World Productions, the production company behind Line of Duty and Bodyguard.

True to Val McDermid’s iconic character, DS Karen Pirie is a young and fearless Scottish investigator with a quick wit and tenacious desire for the truth. Adapted by Emer Kenny (Harlots, Save Me Too), who also will play Karen’s friend, River Wilde, Karen Pirie costars Chris Jenks (Sex Education) as Jason “Mint” Murray and Zach Wyatt (Blithe Spirit) as DS Phil Parhatka. The series is based on celebrated crime author Val McDermid’s first “Karen Pirie” novel, The Distant Echo.

The first episode sees Karen tasked with reopening an unsolved murder case that has been the subject of a provocative true-crime podcast. When teenager Rosie Duff (Anna Russell-Martin, Casualty) was found brutally murdered in the Scottish university town of St Andrews in 1996, suspicion fell on the three drunken students who were discovered at the scene of the crime, claiming to have found her body: Sigmund “Ziggy” Malkiewicz (Jhon Lumsden, Pancake), Tom “Weird” Mackie (Jack Hesketh, Besa), and Alex Gilbey (Buom Tihngang, Death In Paradise). But with a lack of forensic evidence, no charges were brought and the investigation floundered. Twenty-five years on, someone appears to be willing to risk everything to keep the secrets surrounding the case hidden. Do the three men know more than they previously revealed? How flawed was the original investigation? And can Karen uncover the truth of what happened to Rosie that fateful night?

Additional cast members include Michael Schaeffer (The Salisbury Poisonings) as Tom “Weird” Mackie senior, Ariyon Bakare (His Dark Materials) as Alex Gilbey senior, and Alec Newman (Unforgotten) as Sigmund ��Ziggy” Malkiewicz senior. The series is filmed across Scotland.

Karen Pirie has been commissioned for ITV by Head of Drama Polly Hill. Drama Commissioner Huw Kennair-Jones oversaw production from the channel’s perspective. The program is executive produced by Simon Heath, World Production’s CEO, Emer Kenny, and Val McDermid; directed by Gareth Bryn (Line of Duty, Hidden); and produced by Clare Kerr (The Nest). Karen Pirie is produced in association with, and distributed by, ITV Studios. BritBox International will be the exclusive home to the series in North America.

https://thebritishtvplace.com/2022/06/britbox-announces-new-commissions-with-itv-and-bbc-including-death-in-paradise-spinoff/

Remember… we are going to make Karens cool again.

#Tait rhymes with hat #Good times #Glass Magazine #50th Issue #11 July 2022 #Karen Pirie #ITV #2022 #Instagram story #Instagram #My screenrecording

[moon-yean]

about the #harlots purge

Okay so I don’t know which way the Harlots fandom is going but since the #harlots tag was purged, I’ve decided to re-tag all my posts with #harlots hulu instead (there also used to be #harlots itv in the running but the show’s not airing on ITV anymore so that makes little sense).

@ all the other content creators, if you do this (you need to delete your #harlots tags), your posts will also show up in the #harlotsedit tag again... or at least some of them at any rate. Let’s repopulate the tag because it would be a shame if all that content would be lost!

#harlotsedit #harlots hulu #harlots itv #tv: harlots #well this is awkward bc i can't tag it with 'harlots' lol #so idk if people are going to see this post #but just throwing this out there

[blixalesbian]

ok im quitting watching period dramas if they kill their gays off like that

#first victoria itv now harlots ? my heart cant handle that #vgtxt