Fancy a free film and a pork pie? Barnsley filmmakers Rebecca and Dean Sills have made a new documentary. More below…
A Barnsley documentary shot over three days is set to commemorate an important anniversary this month, as the 28-minute Regeneration heads to the town’s Highgate Club on 25th April.
Shot and edited over the summer of 2023, the film became an unexpected success on the Amazon DVD charts, shooting up as high as #9 on the UK documentary bestsellers list.
Tracking the story of Barnsley’s local mining communities, filmmaker Rebecca Sills used archive photos and footage alongside original interviews to show how the area has changed since the UK’s coal industry heyday.
She said: “I’ve always been fascinated with my family history, and I thought this would be a fitting tribute to the mining community.”
Read more: Bergerac | Reboot in the works at UKTV
Now, after a...
A Barnsley documentary shot over three days is set to commemorate an important anniversary this month, as the 28-minute Regeneration heads to the town’s Highgate Club on 25th April.
Shot and edited over the summer of 2023, the film became an unexpected success on the Amazon DVD charts, shooting up as high as #9 on the UK documentary bestsellers list.
Tracking the story of Barnsley’s local mining communities, filmmaker Rebecca Sills used archive photos and footage alongside original interviews to show how the area has changed since the UK’s coal industry heyday.
She said: “I’ve always been fascinated with my family history, and I thought this would be a fitting tribute to the mining community.”
Read more: Bergerac | Reboot in the works at UKTV
Now, after a...
- 4/16/2024
- by James Harvey
- Film Stories
The crime drama Bergerac – a massive BBC One hit in the 1980s, starring John Nettles – is being rebooted. Here are the details.
Bergerac is back. Created by Doctor Who writer Robert Banks Stewart, the original series starred John Nettles and ran for nine series between 1981 and 1991. It became one of the biggest hits on the BBC schedules, all set on the island of Jersey.
The new version will give the show a “contemporary twist, as Bergerac is thrown into a knotty, high-stakes police investigation and challenged to his very core. He will be forced to confront his demons, while trying to save his family and career”.
The six-part UKTV Original series will be produced by BlackLight TV, part of Banijay UK, and written by Being Human creator Toby Whithouse, alongside Brian Fillis, Catherine Tregenna and Polly Buckle.
In a departure from the original show, the writers will weave one murder...
Bergerac is back. Created by Doctor Who writer Robert Banks Stewart, the original series starred John Nettles and ran for nine series between 1981 and 1991. It became one of the biggest hits on the BBC schedules, all set on the island of Jersey.
The new version will give the show a “contemporary twist, as Bergerac is thrown into a knotty, high-stakes police investigation and challenged to his very core. He will be forced to confront his demons, while trying to save his family and career”.
The six-part UKTV Original series will be produced by BlackLight TV, part of Banijay UK, and written by Being Human creator Toby Whithouse, alongside Brian Fillis, Catherine Tregenna and Polly Buckle.
In a departure from the original show, the writers will weave one murder...
- 4/15/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
Warning: contains major spoilers for Black Mirror episode “Loch Henry”.
A brushed cymbal, a laidback fretless bassline, jazz drums and some sleazy horns. Oh yeah, you think, crime. Then wait a minute, what’s that sound? An accordion?! Where are we – the mean streets of 1970s Chicago or the chirpy colour of a French 1960s Jacques Demy picture?
I’ll tell you where we are: Jersey.
Part of the Channel Islands between the UK and France, Jersey enjoys judicial independence and self-government, just like its most famous export (after tax avoidance): 1980s maverick detective Jim Bergerac.
Played by John Nettles between 1981 and 1991 on BBC One, Jim Bergerac was a police detective turned Pi, and the sheriff ’round Jersey’s picturesque parts. Handsome, troubled, popular with the ladies, and the driver of a signature burgundy Triumph Roadster, Bergerac used to be Mr Sunday Night. For a decade, just after Songs of Praise,...
A brushed cymbal, a laidback fretless bassline, jazz drums and some sleazy horns. Oh yeah, you think, crime. Then wait a minute, what’s that sound? An accordion?! Where are we – the mean streets of 1970s Chicago or the chirpy colour of a French 1960s Jacques Demy picture?
I’ll tell you where we are: Jersey.
Part of the Channel Islands between the UK and France, Jersey enjoys judicial independence and self-government, just like its most famous export (after tax avoidance): 1980s maverick detective Jim Bergerac.
Played by John Nettles between 1981 and 1991 on BBC One, Jim Bergerac was a police detective turned Pi, and the sheriff ’round Jersey’s picturesque parts. Handsome, troubled, popular with the ladies, and the driver of a signature burgundy Triumph Roadster, Bergerac used to be Mr Sunday Night. For a decade, just after Songs of Praise,...
- 6/16/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Warning: contains spoilers for the Black Mirror episode “Loch Henry”
“Pretty wee thing you’ve captured.” So says Janet McArdle to her son about his new girlfriend on first meeting her. Janet, a walking cardigan with a tiny voice, turns out to know a thing or two about capture…
Played by Monica Dolan in her second Black Mirror role after season five’s “Smithereens”, Janet lives alone, surrounded by kitsch ornaments and home-recorded VHS tapes of 1980s cosy crime series Bergerac, in the remote Scottish town of Loch Henry. She’s been a widow since the death of her police officer husband Kenny years earlier. When her student filmmaker son Davis (Samuel Blenkin) and his partner Pia (Myha’la Herrold) visit from London, it’s clear how unexciting and provincial they find Janet and her lifestyle. If only they knew.
Over the course of “Loch Henry”, Davis and Pia find out exactly who Janet is,...
“Pretty wee thing you’ve captured.” So says Janet McArdle to her son about his new girlfriend on first meeting her. Janet, a walking cardigan with a tiny voice, turns out to know a thing or two about capture…
Played by Monica Dolan in her second Black Mirror role after season five’s “Smithereens”, Janet lives alone, surrounded by kitsch ornaments and home-recorded VHS tapes of 1980s cosy crime series Bergerac, in the remote Scottish town of Loch Henry. She’s been a widow since the death of her police officer husband Kenny years earlier. When her student filmmaker son Davis (Samuel Blenkin) and his partner Pia (Myha’la Herrold) visit from London, it’s clear how unexciting and provincial they find Janet and her lifestyle. If only they knew.
Over the course of “Loch Henry”, Davis and Pia find out exactly who Janet is,...
- 6/15/2023
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
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