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Powys County Times
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Powys County Times
Powys actor Tom Cullen to star as BBC hit the Gold returns
Powys actor Tom Cullen will be appearing on our screens this weekend as the BBC's hit show the Gold returns. Tom, who grew up in Llandrindod Wells, will reprise his role John Palmer in the factual drama series which is inspired by the true story of the 1983 Brink's-Mat robbery and the decades-long chain of events that followed. The Gold is the creation of highly acclaimed writer Neil Forsyth the creative force behind 'Bob Servant Independent' and 'Guilt'. The first series was a huge critical success with the Hugo Rifkind of The Times calling it "tremendous – I'm not sure there's been a drama like it in years' while the Evening Standard called it "a truly smart British crime drama with a classic feel and a knockout cast". The first series saw Cullen's Palmer work with Kenneth Noye, played by Jack Lowden, to melt down the stolen gold and launder it in the open market. According to Cullen, viewers can expect a big change in Palmer in the much anticipated second series. In an interview with the BBC ahead of the new series Cullen said: 'There's quite a large leap in terms of John Palmer from series one to series two. 'The themes of the show are a continuation of series one, in that it's about class, it's about money, it's about greed. It's about how money can be like an infection, and it can change the very makeup of a person. 'I also think it is about consequences. What happens if you push beyond your limits?' Help support trusted local news Sign up for a digital subscription now: As a digital subscriber you will get Unlimited access to the County Times website Advert-light access Reader rewards Full access to our app In the same interview with the BBC, creator Neil Forsyth added: 'The second series of The Gold picks up from the first series when the police realise they were only ever chasing half of the gold. 'This series follows the second half of the Brink's-Mat gold and it's also a story of the consequences faced by several of our key characters across the entire show. 'I always saw The Gold as a two series show, following the two halves of the gold, so this will be the final series.'
Edinburgh Live
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Edinburgh Live
Edinburgh actress says filming Netflix series Department Q was 'really special'
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Edinburgh actress Chloe Pirrie says she was 'thrilled' after getting the chance to shoot a Netflix series in her home city. Chloe, who plays Merritt Lingard in crime drama Department Q, spent six months filming the show in the capital. The 37-year-old is one of several Scottish cast members who have helped push the series to number one spot on Netflix's TV section, reports the Scottish Daily Express. When asked about the Scottish fluency at swearing, she joked: "We're just good at it. It's like a national sport." Pirrie grew up in swanky Stockbridge but moved to London at 18 to attend the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She said: "I've got family there that I hadn't seen for a while so it was great to be able to spend time with them. "A family member came to set - I've never had that before. That kind of stuff is really special." Sign up for Edinburgh Live newsletters for more headlines straight to your inbox Her Scottish co-stars include Jamie Sives and Mark Bonnar, back on screen together after starring in Guilt, as well as Hollywood regulars Shirley Henderson and Kelly Macdonald. Game of Thrones actress Kate Dickie and Leah Byrne from Call the Midwife also feature. The lead character is DCI Carl Morck played by English star Matthew Goode, and his on-screen character even enjoys some football banter with Sives' over the 1966 World Cup win and the 'goal' given by the Russian linesman. However, Pirrie - best known for roles in The Queen's Gambit and The Crown - says she didn't have time to let her hair down with the other cast members. Speaking on the red carpet at the show's premiere in London on Saturday, she said: "I didn't get to socialise with people as much as I probably would have liked because my schedule was so different to everyone else." Join Edinburgh Live's Whatsapp Community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. Based on a series of books by Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen, the series follows DCI Morck as he sets up a cold case unit while struggling with guilt over an incident that left a young police officer dead and another paralysed. He is reluctantly paired with rookie assistant Akram Salim, played by Swedish actor Alexej Manvelov. And Goode said the pair bonded during their time staying in the Scottish capital. "Most of the actors lived in Glasgow. It was only me and Alexej in Edinburgh," he explained, recalling a boozy trip to a French restaurant on their second day in the city: "We had lunch and were still there five hours later sort of six bottles of red wine down. If you become friends off-screen then it really helps on screen."
The Herald Scotland
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Herald Scotland
Scots noir is sharp, witty and a wee bit SNP. What would Taggart say?
*** HEAVEN knows what DCI Taggart would have made of the police officers in Netflix's new crime drama. With their edgy haircuts, vintage duds, and impossibly youthful looks, they look like escapees from a hipster magazine fashion shoot rather than cops. 'Only in Edinburgh,' Maryhill's finest would likely growl before tearing back to Glasgow. Dept Q has Edinburgh and Scotland running right through it, which is a neat trick given it is based on a series of Copenhagen-set novels by Danish writer Jussi Adler-Olsen. Netflix was also reportedly considering Boston for the location, but Edinburgh got the gig. Smart choice. Ditto the casting of Matthew Goode as DCI Carl Morck. On the face of it, Morck is just another grumpy maverick, but Goode adds charm and vulnerability to the mix when the occasion demands. As for the rest of the cast, almost every cool Scottish actor you can think of has received call-up papers, including Kelly Macdonald (No Country for Old Men), Mark Bonnar and Jamie Sives (Guilt), Kate Dickie (Red Road), Chloe Pirrie (Shell), Shirley Henderson (Bridget Jones - and that's just in the first three (of nine) episodes. Read more The tale opens with Morck back at work after a long spell off. A seemingly routine shout he and his partner (Ives) attended went catastrophically wrong, leaving Morck to pick up what is left of his career. His boss (Kate Dickie) sends Morck off to a new cold case unit, Dept Q. Holed up in a basement office among the broken desks and chairs, it looks like Morck is heading for the skip, too. Then he comes across the case of a missing lawyer (Chloe Pirrie) and is intrigued. If he can find out what happened to the advocate, mend relations with his troubled son, and convince his therapist (Kelly Mac) he's not such an arrogant so-and-so after all, things might just be okay again. After a cracking start the pace slows, and for long stretches little seems to be happening. There's some funny business going on with the timeline, and now and then the dialogue turns clunky, as if something has been lost in translation. And while we are at it, who ordered another maverick detective? A little classiness goes a long way in smoothing over such faults, and this adaptation by Scott Frank (The Queen's Gambit) has it to spare. Edinburgh, washed in blues and greys, looks moody and magnificent. The cast spark off each other as if they've worked together for most of their careers (as some probably have). Best of all, the writers have gone their own, defiantly Scottish, way with the material. The bleak outlook, the barbed humour, the slagging of Morck for being English - it's all here and funny with it. Is this the first attempt at nationalist noir we see before us? Dept Q is too savvy for that, but it has its moments when anything seems possible, and that's entertaining enough for now.
The National
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The National
Glasgow studios unite in boost to Scotland's screen industry
What began as an informal collaboration between Savalas Post and BSQUARED has now become a new partnership in delivering both picture and sound for some of the biggest household names in TV and Drama. The creative teams at both Glasgow-based studios had previously worked together on multiple projects, including Vigil, Shetland, Guilt, Crime, and Murder Is Easy. They decided that it was an 'obvious' decision the pair should join forces due to their creative relationship, which just 'clicked'. 'We really feel both companies attitude's to the creative process are aligned. We have a close connection and shared ideas on how things should be done, so that's why this makes sense,' Savalas's managing director Kahl Henderson told The National. READ MORE: 'It's needed now more than ever': Thousands march in support of Scottish independence Savalas and BSQUARED have already got a myriad of projects in the pipeline for the future, although they remain tight-lipped about what they may be due to strict embargoes. However, the pair did announce that they are currently collaborating on Coldwater, a six-part psychological thriller starring Andrew Lincoln, best known for playing Rick Grimes in The Walking Dead series, for ITV and Sister Pictures and will air later this year on ITV and ITVX. Founded in 1998, Savalas is known in the industry for their world-class sound production offering an array of services which include re-recording dialogue, sound design and Foley, the process which recreates everyday sounds in a bid to create more realistic and immersive scenes. Based in Glasgow's Film City, a dedicated space for TV and film firms, the multi-award-winning studio has worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including productions like Star Wars and Pixar's animated classic Brave. Savalas started as a music company, providing musical scores and theme tunes for TV shows, but Henderson said the firm quickly started branching out into other audio work within the industry. (Image: Supplied) 'Quite quickly we realised that we needed some more meat on the bones as a company,' he said. 'It's kind of hard to feed four mouths just as composers.' A stalwart of Scotland's off-screen industry, Savalas has decided to balance their audio expertise with visual specialists BSQUARED. Despite only being established last year, founders Colin Brown and Jon Bruce have more than 30 years' worth of experience between them, with the pair starting their own studio last year. Brown said: 'We recognised that there was a massive opportunity to develop the market for colour grading and industry has really evolved in Scotland over the last eight years. 'Up until about 2017 drama grading and finishing were predominantly being handled in London. It was a slow process to develop the necessary skills, build the right teams, and secure clients who trusted us to deliver high-quality work that could compete with London's established post-production facilities.' Bruce explained that there have been more opportunities open with more productions that film in Scotland, looking to keep post-production services in the country as well. Bruce said: 'The industry has changed, and with that, so has the perception of what can be achieved in Scotland. 'We've had the real pleasure to work on some amazing projects, all of which have benefited from staying in Scotland and I think there's an understanding now that the talent exceeds expectation.' Bruce added: 'Now we have found a lot more productions that want the full post production up here and that's great, but there's still a lot of work to be done.' Savalas's chief operating officer, Alan Geddes, shared Bruce's sentiments as he said productions like Shetland have helped people in the industry hone their skills, adding "the way to retain and grow that talent base is to encourage more production companies to come and post in Scotland.' Geddes said: 'We've got the talent here that can easily match talent from anywhere.' Henderson added: 'Scotland is genuinely world-class. That's not just a buzzword.' Both studios agree that for Scotland to have a strong film and TV industry, it needs to offer all aspects of what a project needs from the start, right to the end, which includes audio and visual post-production. READ MORE: John Swinney urges UK's biggest news agency to reconsider Scottish job cuts Henderson said: 'If you look at Creative Scotland and Screen Scotland, they want a strong film industry, and that has to be a complete film industry, a complete TV industry. 'That means we have to do everything, from scripts all the way through to the delivery of the final thing. If we can't do all of that in Scotland, then we don't have a complete industry. He added: 'And post production, obviously from our point of view, is a massive part of that.'
BBC News
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Shetland begins filming for series ten of the critically-acclaimed BBC drama
Reprising their roles as DI Ruth Calder and DI Alison 'Tosh' MacIntosh, Ashley Jensen and Alison O'Donnell have begun filming the 10th series of acclaimed BBC murder mystery drama Shetland with further casting announced. Shetland - a Silverprint Pictures (part of ITV Studios) production - will film in locations around Scotland and on the Shetland Isles over the coming months with the series debuting on BBC iPlayer and BBC One later this year. Joining the cast of Shetland alongside Jensen and O'Donnell for this new six-part series are Clive Russell (The Witcher, Sandman), Ellie Haddington (Motherland, Guilt), Niall MacGregor (The Bombing of Pan AM 103, Line of Duty), Greg McHugh (Guilt, The A Word), Frances Gray (Tom Jones, Vera), Louise Brealey (Such Brave Girls, Clique), Stuart Townsend (Into The Deep, Two Minutes to Midnight), Stephen McMillan (Toxic Town, Boiling Point), Saskia Ashdown (Karen Pirie, The Rig), Lila Rose (Traces), Joanne Thomson (Outlander, The Victim), Gabriel Akuwudike (Screw, The Beautiful Game) and Leigh Biagi (The Prodigal Father, The Lost King). Samuel Anderson (Amandaland, Back to Black) also joins the cast as the new Procurator Fiscal Matt Blake alongside series regulars Steven Robertson (playing DC Sandy Wilson), Lewis Howden (Sgt Billy McCabe), Anne Kidd (pathologist Cora McLean), Angus Miller (Donnie, Tosh's partner), Conor McCarry (PC Alex Grant) and Eubha Akilade (PC Lorna Burns). Originally based on award-winning novels by crime writer Ann Cleeves, the new series sees Calder and Tosh travel to the isolated hamlet of Lunniswick to investigate the sinister killing of an elderly woman. The team discover that the body of the retired social worker has been out in the elements for a number of days. The case will see Tosh and Calder excavate the victim's life, past and present, as well as the lives of those who knew her. They soon begin to uncover dark secrets and terrible deeds at the heart of this closeknit community. Gaynor Holmes, Commissioning Editor for the BBC says: 'Now in its tenth series, Shetland continues to go from strength to strength and is loved by audiences across the UK and internationally. We're very excited to see the fantastic creative team at Silverprint and their superbly talented cast and crew heading back into production with a compellingly new, gnarly and emotional murder-mystery.' Kate Bartlett, Executive Producer for Silverprint Pictures says: 'We're so excited about this new series of Shetland with Ashley and Alison, alongside our wonderful returning cast and a fantastic guest cast. Paul Logue has created a distinctive and emotionally complex story, set against the stunning and evocative landscape of the Shetland Isles. We're thrilled to be making this new series with such incredible Scottish talent in all areas of production.' Shetland is loved by millions of fans on BBC iPlayer and BBC One and, last year, it was in the top ten most watched BBC Drama series. In Scotland, it was the No.1 BBC Drama of 2024. Paul Logue is the lead writer of the new series of Shetland, alongside Denise Paul and Phil Mulryne. The series is produced by Louise V Say and directed by Ruth Paxton and Ruth Carney. Executive Producers are Gaynor Holmes for the BBC, Kate Bartlett, Paul Logue and Denise Paul for Silverprint Pictures Shetland is part of a growing list of BBC dramas from Scotland, including The Bombing of Pan Am 103 and returning series Vigil (series 3) and Granite Harbour (series 2), as well as new titles The Ridge, Counsels, Grams and The Young Team. Shetland will be distributed internationally by ITV Studios. Watch all previous series of Shetland on BBC iPlayer JM
