- Another JN What Might Have Been Archived Message
Posted by Joan aka HazelP
on July 24, 2011, 6:03 am
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Was JN filming Possession and/or Cypher at this time? I'm finding quite a few what might have been films/television movies with JN, including Toyer. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2002/feb/20/broadcasting.bbc?INTCMP=SRCH BBC embarks on hunt for supersleuth Jason Deans MediaGuardian, Wednesday 20 February 2002 07.29 GMT Article history The search is on for a new Sherlock Holmes as BBC1 presses ahead with an adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles for its Christmas schedule. The channel had hoped to secure Jeremy Northam, who most recently starred in the Robert Altman film Gosford Park, to play Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective. Northam, however, is unavailable and other actors in the frame are said to include Kenneth Branagh, Ioan Gruffud and Jude Law. The chosen actor will follow in the footsteps of Peter Cushing and Tom Baker, who played Holmes in BBC TV adaptations of the Hound of the Baskervilles in 1968 and 1982 respectively. The BBC has commissioned the TV movie from Tiger Aspect Productions, the company behind Teachers, Playing the Field and Rescue Me, an upcoming BBC1 comedy drama starring Sally Philips. The Hound of the Baskervilles has a budget of £3.5m. It is expected to be shot in the Isle of Man with Tiger Aspect's head of drama, Greg Brenman, executive producing. The TV movie has been pencilled in for a late-evening transmission on Christmas Eve. It follows the success of BBC1's most recent Conan Doyle adaptation, The Lost World, which went out on Christmas Day and Boxing Day last year. The BBC is also developing an adaptation of Robert Louis Stephenson's Treasure Island. The two classic dramas are a response to a recent call from Lorraine Heggessey, the BBC1 controller, for more family-oriented, action adventure programmes. Ms Heggessey has also ordered two costume drama adaptations from writer Andrew Davies. He has scripted TV versions of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and Sarah Waters's lesbian novel, Tipping the Velvet, which is set at the end of the 19th century. |