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Post by goodhelenstar on Oct 26, 2023 9:22:22 GMT
This is part of the BBC's series of shows from the 90s and if you somehow missed it when first shown, do watch!
It stars a young Robert Carlyle, post-Cracker and pre-Transpotting, as a policeman in a small rural village in the Highlands. He's insightful and a good copper but wants an easy life and keeps the peace through good judgement rather than strictly applying the law.
Sounds a bit twee but it really isn't, it's funny and at times quite sharp. You laugh with these characters rather than at them, and the first series at least covers issues which are real in small communities - domestic abuse, mistrust of incomers and arson for insurance fraud are all covered in the first three episodes.
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Post by sootycat on Oct 26, 2023 10:52:47 GMT
Watched that last night, very enjoyable.
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Post by linseed on Oct 26, 2023 12:02:26 GMT
In the days of “renting videos and CDs” there was a company called Love Film, and you could rent a cd, send it back and they would send another one on your list. It cost if I remember rightly about £5.99 a month. I watched some of these stories on one of those CDs. Quite fun, and I have read a lot of the MC Beaton books they are based on.
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Post by superdreen on Oct 26, 2023 15:37:53 GMT
I remember when this series came out, M C Beaton was on some television program where she was asked what she thought about how her books had been adapted for this series. The only comment she would make was ‘The scenery is beautiful!’
Made me wonder how much she got paid for the rights to the books.
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Post by linseed on Oct 26, 2023 15:44:58 GMT
She died about 3 years ago, so no chance of finding out.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Oct 26, 2023 16:09:12 GMT
I remember when this series came out, M C Beaton was on some television program where she was asked what she thought about how her books had been adapted for this series. The only comment she would make was ‘The scenery is beautiful!’ Made me wonder how much she got paid for the rights to the books. Well, yes, quite. Authors whose books are adapted generally look on them benignly, e.g. Ann Cleeves on the Shetland series, whose protagonist looks nothing like the Perez of the books and which invented a whole complicated relationship with his daughter who was actually Duncan's daughter. Or James Herriot who wasn't even Scottish in the first adaptation, or Margaret Atwood who was executive producer of the Handmaid's Tale which has gone several series beyond the original novel and is very different from Atwood's own sequel. Run all the way to the bank, and don't complain, at least not in public! |
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Post by beverley61 on Oct 26, 2023 16:35:35 GMT
That's exactly what Bernard Cornwell says. He doesn't interfere at all and Sharpe and The Last Kingdom the heroes were nothing like the books.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Oct 28, 2023 9:03:18 GMT
Just been listening to Philippa Gregory describing selling the rights of your work as 'like selling your firstborn into slavery' and having fights with film producers who routinely get historical details wrong, either because they haven't bothered to research it properly or because what they do looks better on screen. However, her main point was that the history she writes about is largely written from the perspective of English white men so I forgave her!
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Post by marion on Oct 28, 2023 9:58:48 GMT
In the days of “renting videos and CDs” there was a company called Love Film, and you could rent a cd, send it back and they would send another one on your list. It cost if I remember rightly about £5.99 a month. I watched some of these stories on one of those CDs. Quite fun, and I have read a lot of the MC Beaton books they are based on. What do you mean, linseed, “in the days of”? 😂😂😂 I still rent DVDs from Cinema Paradiso! I went to them after Lovefilm closed down. My neighbours can’t believe I do that and don’t have Netflix. |
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Post by linseed on Oct 28, 2023 13:30:44 GMT
I didn’t know you still could! thanks, I will look into them, I enjoyed renting my weekly DVD (I too don’t have Netflix)!
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Anymore to come?
