Post by Annie V on Dec 17, 2014 19:00:38 GMT
Unmissable show?
I'm working my way through Justified, which has become my new favourite show. It just seems to keep getting better and better. No one has seen it, which really bugs me. There are a couple of actors in it. Walton Goggins, he's one of my favourite actors alive, basically. It's also got the scariest baddie I've seen for a long time, in season two: Mags Bennett, played by a Broadway actress [Margo Martindale]. She's truly chilling but also funny. As an actor she makes such weird choices.
TV turn-off?
I hated Homeland. People talk about it like it's an intellectually challenging show. It's less believable than 24. It had a period of believability … for about 75 minutes. I find Claire Danes's performance quite painful at times. The angst that she goes through, it's just too much for one person. Sit down for a bit.
Bring back …
Prospects. It's a show that Steve Edge and I, who write Starlings, would like to bring back ourselves. I think it's from 1985-86. It was sort of Minder crossed with Only Fools And Horses, about two young chancers in the East End during the Thatcher years, just trying to make a buck. A massively forgotten show.
Pitch us a TV show ...
I'd like to do a sci-fi time-travel show, where I could go to any time in history. Dress up as a second world war soldier or a caveman. Quantum Leap meets Father Ted.
Come Dine With Me line-up?
Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica. She'd just knock you around a bit, but get away with it. Rose Byrne, I'd like her in my house. Jim Broadbent. I've worked with him before and he's such a lovely man. And he has the best stories of anyone I've ever met. Jeremy Piven for the swagger. He'd have to be in character as Ari Gold, though. I don't want Mr Selfridge. And Withnail, for someone to lead the drinking and leave the food entirely. And burn the house down at the end.
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