Seen any good drama lately?..here’s some:
Have you seen “Springtime for Hitler”? Hitlerarious.
John Adams, second president of the U.S. and father of John Quincy Adams, sixth president.
Wouldn’t mind seeing it, but it is unlikely that British television will invest in a series that portrays American history with the Brits as the bad guys. Public interest and ratings etc.
Never heard of it.
This is one is scheduled to be aired this evening by the BBC
yes I also like the good dramatic films
Been catching up on the Sharpe series as I missed most of it the firstime around.
Is it as good as the books?
If you liked the TV version, you’d probably like the Hornblower TV series as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Gm5E2oT88
Seen some of them. Not bad, but, as Naval characters go, I prefer Jack Aubrey of HMS Surprise.
Caught the first episode on More4, yesterday evening. Thought it rather good. I have t confess, I did at times have difficulty understanding what the actor portraying John Adams was saying, mainly when he was in bed chatting - in a throaty mumbling tone - with his wife. That aside it was very entertaining.
The problem I have with historical-drama, as opposed to fictional drama, (and particularly those which are usually presented in a partisan fashion by American media when portraying those dastardly Brits So, one can imagine my surprise when the Redcoats were found not guilty of murder), is that unless one his expert on the events concerned it is difficult to guage the truth and accuracy of what is being said. 
Interesting, is it not, that the two professions which Americans claim to despise the most i.e. Politics and Law; are both those which John Adams is portrayed as having having practiced with great, noble virtue. So, there is hope for RS yet.
Another film I caught this week (as I’ve been recovering from Man-flu), and had never seen before was ‘The Barbarian and the Geisha’ starring John Wayne. What a pleasant surprise. The portrayal of the Samurai/Shogunate Society of early 19th Century Japan was really quite well done. I was much impressed that Harris (John Wayne), was constantly referred to as Harris-San. It was about twenty minutes into the film before I became aware that his name wasn’t Harrison.
The Devil’s Whore
Caught th first episode of this new four-part series, last night. Just up my street. About time the Brits began to dramatize their history.
Who said the Yanks discovered liberty and led the way to political freedom? they were runaway Brits.
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[i]Last seen trying to destroy the world in Doctor Who, John Simm has swapped his sonic screwdriver for a sword in this epic re-telling of the English Civil War.
But what drew him to don a beard, wig and one hell of a scar for a role that he describes as: “Indiana Jones with knobs on”?
A tale of great political and historical significance, this story of love, loss and betrayal is seen through the eyes of young aristocrat Angelica Fanshawe, who is drawn to the anti-monarchist cause, changing her life for ever.
John stars as bloodthirsty mercenary and love interest Edward Sexby, who discoveres that there’s more to life than money.
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http://tv.sky.com/video-preview-the-devils-whore
The Devil’s Whore is a rollicking good drama - although the soldiers could do with a hair cut We have been seriously short of rollicking since The Tudors left. It was like losing noisy next-door neighbours. Silence like a poultice came to heal the blows of sound. Last night The Devil’s Whore (Channel 4) moved in, and they are a far classier family, superior in every way. No goings-on while the wife is away. No one being burned alive in the back garden. You were just congratulating yourself on your good luck when they started whacking each other with broadswords.[/i](Well, she is a woman! :lol: )
The BBC do it again:
[i]"David Tennant and Andy Serkis star in this one-off drama for BBC Two, based on the intertwined lives of two of the most significant men in 20th-century science.
A BBC/HBO co-production, Einstein And Eddington takes a closer look at the story behind the creation of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity and the personal lives of the men behind it. The all-star cast also includes Jim Broadbent (Longford), Lucy Cohu (The Queen’s Sister), Rebecca Hall (Starter For Ten) and Jodhi May (Friends & Crocodiles).
This human story chronicles two men who, during the First World War, refused to accept narrow nationalistic boundaries and, against the odds, continued to strive for a greater truth. Between them, they changed the world and proved one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century.
Opening in 1913, the drama tells the story of the then obscure German theorist Albert Einstein (Serkis), who had spent years working on his General Theory of Relativity, one that threatened two centuries of Newtonian certainty and the foundations of British science.
British scientist Arthur Eddington (Tennant) was one of the most prominent astrophysicists and Director of the Cambridge Observatory, a seat originally held by the father of British science, Sir Isaac Newton. Eddington’s wholehearted belief that “truth knows no boundaries” led him to start a correspondence with Einstein and to solely champion Einstein’s theories at a time when the rest of the British scientific community, and the public at large, were rejecting anything German, due to the country’s role in the First World War.
Eddington’s expedition to Africa to photograph light bending round the sun during an eclipse led to his proof that Einstein’s theory is right, turning Einstein into a worldwide superstar in 1919.
Einstein And Eddington was written by Peter Moffat (Hawking). It is produced by Mark Pybus (Wallis & Edward) and directed by Philip Martin (Hawking, Prime Suspect).
Moffat and Martin are reunited following the award-winning Hawking, BBC Two’s 2005 biopic of Stephen Hawking, who is considered the greatest mind in physics since Einstein.
Saturday 22 November
9.10-10.40pm BBC TWO "