#jason watkins

[youlooklikeabeeandilikebees]

series 1 of being human out of context

#series 1 is so iconic #being human uk #being human bbc #being human #john mitchell #george sands #annie sawyer #herrick #nina pickering #aidan turner #russell tovey #lenora crichlow #sinead keenan #jason watkins

[sconesfortea]

Countdown to the 60th anniversary rewatch | 7.13: Nightmare In Silver

#doctor who #11th doctor #neil gaiman #matt smith #jenna coleman #warwick davis #jason watkins #eva de leon allen #kassius carey johnson #gif #my gifs #| #dwrewatch #doctorwhoedit #dwedit #queued

[thurstongrey]

#jason watkins #drakes london #drakes #tailoring #mensfashion #ivystyle #sprezzatura #sprezza #style #sartorial

[box-tunnel-pod]

Full moon is almost here! Tomorrow the Being Human podcast says goodbye to Mitchell and the first era of Being Human.

#being human #being human uk #aidan turner #john mitchell #lenora crichlow #russell tovey #jason watkins #Robson green #michael socha #lee ingleby #cult tv #tv podcast #supernatural #scifi #toby whithouse #vampires #werewolves #ghosts #sinead Keenan #bbc three #full moon

[old-deerstalker-hat]

Death In Paradise 12x03 / McDonald & Dodds 3x02

#death in paradise #dip #mcdonald and dodds #mcdonald & dodds #dipedit #tvedit #neville parker #naomi thomas #lauren mcdonald #ds dodds #ralf little #shantol jackson #tala gouveia #jason watkins

[fuckyeahmackenzieboyd]

The Bill is such an underrated episode! What's not to love when it's got Philip fucking Glenister in it???

#inside no 9 #philip glenister #steve pemberton #reece shearsmith #jason watkins #the bill

[rosalie-starfall]

The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle

#The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle #Miranda Richardson #Helena #Helena de Wend #Jason Watkins #Dr. Jonathan Fowler #Jonathan #my gifs #tv edits #tv : Comedy #tv : British #mredits

[drjohnweston]

Being Human Q&A 17th December 2022

Everything I can remember from the Q&A, under the read more because it's pretty long!!

Unfortunately, due to Covid, Kate Bracken was unable to attend the event.

Toby Whithouse on being asked why he had selected Making History 4.07 as the episode to be shown: "It was the most ambitious series where we changed the genre slightly, having two timelines running alongside each other with one happening 25 years in the future. This was the episode where those timelines converged."

They then aired the episode before Toby was joined onstage by Jason Watkins and Damien Molony.

Question to Toby: “Where did it all start?"

Toby had been asked to write a TV series about 3 university friends buying a house together, which after struggling to come up with ideas, eventually evolved into a person with anger management issues, a person with agoraphobia, and a person with addiction issues sharing a house, with one of the characters being named George.

At the same time TW had also written a short film romcom about a werewolf named George. The two ideas merged together to give the characters a story and the connections were made between agoraphobia and being a ghost and addiction and being a vampire.

The very first draft of the script was written purely as a sitcom and the second draft of the script was written as if it was an independent American short film.

At first people could not understand that it was a combination of horror, comedy, and drama, but Toby Whithouse thought that this was much more representative of real life, where we are never confined to one genre.

TW also spoke about how the stories he connected with the most were the ones that took place in our world. He said that “The best escapism was into stories that could take place around us.” And that “I was writing for 14-year-old me.”

On the subject of Being Human spanning genres, Jason Watkins added that in reality, at their most horrific moments, people make jokes. He also said that there was “Something colloquial, speakable, domestic, and modern” About the Being Human script.

Q: Were there any references to favourite vampires when creating the show?

TW spoke a little about the mythology and the limitations they were under. “If you can have the vampires only appear at night that is a production nightmare, a scheduling nightmare.”

He also spoke about two new pieces of mythology added in series 4 and how one they thought was perfectly logical and that they would get away with, and another that they thought there was no way the fans would forgive them for and would accuse them of “making shit up.” However, when the series aired those two pieces of new mythology, toxic werewolf blood and Rent-A-Ghosting vampires were received completely the opposite way around and TW was shocked that people hated toxic werewolf blood as a concept so much.

Q: What was it like for Damien Molony joining the series and how did he prepare?

When he went for his audition, he had been acting in the play Tis a Pity She’s a Whore and was spending every night being covered in fake blood from head to toe “like in Carrie”. He said that when he travelled down to the audition, he’d been unable to clean off all of the fake blood and thought that might have helped him to get the part, that the casting agents probably went “wow that guy’s really method.”

After getting the role, Damien watched all the previous series of Being Human and was sent 10 DVDs of vampire films to watch as a crash course 5 days before filming started. He was also given a playlist of music that Hal would listen to and talked about OCD and dominoes.

Later in the QA, an audience member asked specifically how he prepared to show Hal’s OCD, to which Damien replied that he watched lots of documentaries on channel 4 on demand (as the service was called back then) and that he used to spell out the name of the old American actor Hal Holbrook on his fingers on set.

He also added that the domino spiral was set up on set 2 weeks in advance of filming and that everyone on set had to resist the temptation not to touch it and had to tip toe around so as not to accidentally knock it, causing hours of work to put it back.

Another anecdote from Damien Molony came after being reminded about how much beetroot juice he had to drink when they were filming Making History, with 10 litres of beetroot juice having effects that caused him to phone his doctor dad with some worried questions.

The Q&A moved back to Jason Watkins, airing a clip of Herrick in the isolation chamber with Mitchell, George, and Annie in Bad Moon Rising 1.06.  Jason was asked “How did you approach a character with such a black heart”

Jason spoke about Herrick’s complete enjoyment of all the things that he does, his psychopathic nature. “As a villain, he has a pure appetite for it. He ticks all those awful boxes.”

Toby Whithouse added that Herrick “has one mode, summed up by the line “You’re a shark, be a shark.” He never has a single moment of doubt.

Jason Watkins also talked of Herrick as a “paternal figure, he has these sort of sons.” And how he needed to have people like Mitchell in that position, because he needed to be in control, describing it as “having control over somebody and needing that control to know where you are in the world.”

This prompted Ruby, the interviewer to ask about the relationships between vampires and their makers, pointing out that we had just witnessed a twisted version of that relationship in 4.07 between Hal and Cutler.

Damien Molony described Hal as a “straight-jacketed, terrified loner being suddenly confronted with the victim turned master” in Cutler. There was much praise from the panel for Andrew Gower’s performance as Cutler.

Another question to Damien: “As we as fans often see good Hal and Bad Hal and separate people, like Angel in Buffy”, do you see them as different” Damien described good Hal as closed off, straight-jacketed (again), and very controlled. Whereas he said that bad Hal is at ease and open.

Back to Jason Watkins who was asked “Could Herrick be redeemed if he shared a house with Annie Sawyer?” Jason started to go into a longer explanation, but Toby Whithouse replied with a simple no.

Back to the question about relationships between vampires and their makers, Jason Watkins brought up the existence of a script for a scene that was never filmed about Herrick’s recruitment (this is still accessible via the old official Being Human Blog archives and there is a link on my blog).

Jason also recalled the time they were filming Herrick’s resurrection for the end of series 2. Which was not filmed in an empty snowy field, but in a park in the middle of Bristol with a group of elderly people from a local care home watching from the side-lines.

Lastly from Jason Watkins, replying to an audience question about what he took from the role of Herrick, he spoke about how “it was a bit of a break for him” (career wise) and how Herrick’s confidence “was him on a really good day,” and that by playing Herrick it increased his own confidence in his work and performance.

As both members of the cast on the panel had played vampires, the questions had been more focussed on them.

Speaking about the werewolves, Toby said “Werewolves become boring after they’ve transformed, they just become a thing. … It’s all about the tension, the lead up and the aftermath.” That’s the interesting part.

An audience member asked if Toby could discuss the ghosts, saying “they are the glue of the show, how did you come up with them?”

Toby responded that actually, the ghost episodes had always been the hardest ones to write and that he tended to lean more into the comedy aspect with them, because both Lenora and Kate were good at comedy. He said that he always paired their characters up with more experienced ghosts, because both Annie and Alex were new to that world. But he also said that he had to start to break his own rules and bring Annie out of the house as “Ding Dong, it’s a ghost” turning up at the door as a plotline would have gotten old very quickly.

He shared that he and Gilbert had the same musical taste, and that it meant he could “write jokes about people like Marc Almond that only he (toby) would find funny.”

And finally, one audience member asked, “Did you ever see things online and think I wish we would have done that?”

Toby Whithouse replied “the online community I absolutely loved. It added another layer of joy. During series 2 airing someone came up with the idea that Professor Jaggat was a werewolf and that was why she wasn’t there at during the (first) transformation, and I thought oh that’s a really good idea.” He went on to add “You can’t pay too much attention to audience feedback.” And spoke about writing what audiences need rather than what they might necessarily want to see. But that he would read the (official) blog because it was fun and so many lovely things were said.

#being human #being human uk #toby whithouse #jason watkins #damien molony #herrick #hal yorke #please forgive any errors I haven't proof read it

[troubledtealover]

#mcdonald & dodds #mcdonald and dodds #cozy mystery #british #british tv #mine #screencap #screenshot #uk #itv #tala gouveia #jason watkins

[ljones41]

Top Five Favorite Episodes of "THE CROWN" Season Three (2019)

Below is a list of my favorite episodes from Season Three of the Netflix series, "THE CROWN". Created by Peter Morgan, the series stars Olivia Colman and Tobias Menzies as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh:

TOP FIVE FAVORITE EPISODES OF "THE CROWN" SEASON THREE (2019)

1. (3.03) "Aberfan" - A horrible disaster in Aberfan, Wales leaves scores of children dead. But when Queen Elizabeth II takes a week to decide to visit the town, she must confront her reasons for postponing the trip.

2. (3.06) "Tywysog Cymru" - Prince Charles is sent to Aberystwyth University to learn Welsh from an ardent nationalist in preparation for the ceremony for his investiture as Prince of Wales.

3. (3.04) "Bubbikins" - Left without a home by a political coup in Athens, Greece; Prince Philip's eccentric mother, Princess Alice of Greece, is invited to live in Buckingham Palace by the Queen.

4. (3.10) "Cri de Couer" - As her marriage to Anthony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowden falls apart; Princess Margaret finds solace in the arms of a much younger man. The Queen and the nation celebrate Elizabeth II's Silver Jubilee.

5. (3.08) "Dangling Man" - Prince Charles visits the exiled Duke of Windsor in his Paris chateau, only to find him very ill. Meanwhile, the Queen struggles to decide whether to make peace with him.

#the crown #the crown netflix #queen elizabeth ii #king charles iii #peter morgan #prince philip #olivia colman #tobias menzies #josh o'connor #british royal family #helena bonham carter #ben daniels #derek jacobi #geraldine chaplin #charles dance #charles edwards #clancy brown #jason watkins #harold wilson #erin doherty #andrew buchan #emerald fennell #harry treadaway #jane lapotaire

[augustusaugustus]

11.51 Losing Streak

Oh god that foot up in the end.

Andrew and Don clash when Don is dismissive about Andrew’s work on a murder case. Andrew, of course, is right in the end, thanks to his excellent instincts.

A nice guest appearance from Jason Watkins, as well.

#the bill #andrew monroe #jack meadows #steve loxton #jason watkins #don beech #bob cryer #the bill: series 11 #the bill: 1995 #the bill: episode: losing streak #the bill guest stars #britcom

[camyfilms]

WILD CHILD 2008

I didn't start it, it wasn't my fault, and if this were America, I would sue.

#wild child #2008 #emma roberts #natasha richardson #alex pettyfer #aidan quinn #georgia king #juno temple #kimberley nixon #linzey cocker #sophie wu #shirley henderson #shelby young #johnny pacar #daisy donovan #jason watkins #nick frost

[bob-the-movie-man-film-reviews]

Wicked Little Letters (15): You'd have to be a ******* **** not to enjoy this one.

#OneMannsMovies #Film Review of "Wicked Little Letters". #WickedLittleLetters. Sweary comedy genius from Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley. 4/5.

A One Mann’s Movies review of “Wicked Little Letters” (2024). It always gives me great joy to walk into a cinema screen and see that virtually every seat in the place is taken. A gasp-inducing joy! That’s what happened to me yesterday afternoon seeing “Wicked Little Letters”. This sweary but lovable tale is hitting a sweet spot with the ‘silver-dollar’ audience and I think word of mouth might…

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#WickedLittleLetters #Alisha Weir #Anjana Vasan #bob-the-movie-man #Cinema #Eileen Atkins #Film #film review #Gemma Jones #Hugh Skinner #Jason Watkins #Jessie Buckley #Joanna Scanlan #Lolly Adefope #Malachi Kirby #Movie #Movie Review #Olivia Colman #One Man&039;s Movies #One Mann&039;s Movies #onemannsmovies #onemansmovies #Paul Chahidi #Review #Timothy Spall #Wicked Little Letters

[corpyburd]

Myanna Buring as Froken de la Gardie in Count Magnus - A Ghost Story for Christmas by M R James

Sweden, 1863. A country not much visited by Englishmen. An exception is the inquisitive Mr Wraxhall, whose innocent rummaging through the archives of the noble de la Gardie family takes a sinister turn.

Wraxhall becomes fascinated by the long-dead founder of the dynasty, the fearsome Count Magnus, a tyrannical ruler who dabbled in alchemy and who once made a strange journey to the Holy Land on most unholy business. Despite the warnings of his hosts, Wraxhall is drawn ever deeper into the Count’s dark world and discovers that the dreaded aristocrat may not lie easy in his tomb... 👻😱

#myanna buring #Jason Watkins #count magnus #a Christmas ghost story #mark gatiss #ripper street #the witcher

[box-tunnel-pod]

Michael, Su and Elizabeth discuss the series 3 finale! Grab your Popcorn and Nespresso and listen here:

#being human #being human uk #aidan turner #lenora crichlow #russell tovey #john mitchell #sinead keenan #cult tv #ghosts #vampires #werewolves #toby whithouse #scifi #tv podcast #podcast #barry island #michael socha #robson green #lee ingleby #jason watkins

[local-blog-for-local-people]

Inside No. 9

Series 3, Episode 2 - The Bill

#Inside No 9 #IN9 #The Bill #Steve Pemberton #Reece Shearsmith #Philip Glenister #Jason Watkins #My Gifs