A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong Bbc Continuity Gets Hijacked Bbc One
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
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Last years was one of my Christmas highlights, it was very very funny.
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If last year's show was anything to go by they will probably have the big bloke who played Nanna and Peter's shadow as Tiny Tim and the little bloke who played John Darling as the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come
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Why "must" they? I assume they'll be paying an agreed sum. Whether it's "very well" or not is relative and we'll never know. Big of a pointless comment, really.
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What a bizarre response. My reasoning, obviously (as stated in the part of my post that you neglected to quote), is that they are a hugely successful company writing and performing a whole new production solely for a one-off tv broadcast, rather than putting it out for a long theatre run as they have done with their others.
I'm certainly not claiming to have knowledge of the sums involved, but I would be surprised if it wasn't a decent chunk by the average man's standards.
And I fail to see how my post is any more pointless than everyone elses!
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Derek Jacobi and Diana Rigg have been confirmed as special guest stars. Jacobi will take on the role as Scrooge. The dress rehearsal for the show was yesterday and they are filming it tomorrow.
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I hope they'll be as good as David Suchet was last year
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Niiiiice. So they're two of the professionals being screwed over by the amateurs then! I didn't see his sitcom, but Jacobi was brilliant as a (terrible) Shakespearian actor in 'Frasier' so he's got the comedy chops for sure.
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Any info on who Diana Rigg will be playing?
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Diana will do a dual role of Narrator and an Aunt of one of the characters
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Thanks, given that Suchet momentarily did a Poirot routine last year maybe she will do a Olenna Tyrell routine
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That would be good. Although that character does tend to swear. She could go all old school and do an Avengers routine.
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I'll give it a try but when is it on?
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Last year the Peter Pan one was shown on New Years Eve and repeated two days later so I suspect it might be the same this year
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That was my first thought but then I thought she'd be too old for that
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Great, looking forward to it. It was about the best thing on last year
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That's interesting.
I watched it several times last year, and now I've watched this copy.
I reckon the BBC filmed it twice, in front of two different audiences, because the moment I started watching this version it didn't seem quite right.
The lines are the same, but for the most part, not delivered quite so well. some of the camera angles aren't exactly the same. This feels like the 'dress rehearsal' version. I suspect they watched it back, and worked out how it could be better still, by slightly tweeking the performances here and there.
It gets rave reviews on you tube, but from the start I spotted it's not the copy broadcast last year. It's same dialogue all right, but NOT the same performance. In the theatre some days everything 'clicks' and you get absolute perfection. Other times, for whatever reason, you get a 90% type performance- and that's what this copy feels like.
If you remember it from last year, watch it back, and see if you agree with me.
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Watched it again (thanks to @Verence) and I'm 99% sure that's what was broadcast on BBC1. (not 100% because we started imbibing quite early on the day of broadcast!)
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Yes ive seen his sitcom with Ian mckellern. What a come down for theatre actors!
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Wouldn't it be better if it was shown *before* Christmas? It would be massively out of place if it was shown nearly a week after Christmas.
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I've seen all the plays Mischief Theatre Company have done, live on stage. They are all great - such a talented group of performers. David Suchet was great in last years recorded one as well (he wasn't in the regular show tour). Really looking forward to this
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Yes. Any TV payment would be "a decent chunk" by that standard. But it won't be any more than any commercial channel would have paid and it may even be a lot less. Either way I couldn't really care less how much they are or aren't paying them. And it's pointless (IMO, of course) precisely because it's irrelevant. Obviously you don't think so; hence your comment and I completely respect that
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