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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 9, 2018 0:42:41 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 25, 2018 12:30:18 GMT
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 26, 2018 17:15:06 GMT
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Post by mllemass on Mar 26, 2018 20:14:30 GMT
It's a shame that there was no mention of TCIT in this week's People magazine. I know that I'm someone who pays attention to their recommendations for the upcoming week, so I imagine that a lot of people won't know that it's on and won't watch it.
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 26, 2018 20:49:22 GMT
It's a humble project with an intellectual literature flavor and a very indie European feeling so it's not for everyone.
Also it's PBS. It's a big change with Patrick Melrose and a huge American cable channel involve. I guess the direct antecedent is Parade's End and still it felt HBO was very low-key with the publicity then. They subscribed him to participate to the Emmys, tho. He was nominated for it. PBS didn't bothered for The Hollow Crown and probably won't neither for it.
But it seems Showtime is pushing really hard for Patrick Melrose!
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Post by queenzod on Mar 27, 2018 2:33:57 GMT
It’s perfect for PBS, right in its wheelhouse, so I am a little surprised it wasn’t mentioned. It’s okay if it stays a tiny indie movie, tho. I think it accomplished what Ben wanted, which is a low key, non-Sherlock role and to build Sunnymarch. He’s gotten tons of acting kudos over it (as usual), and it certainly added to his cred and range.
Plus, I am so over the industry ignoring him for awards. It’s lessened the awards status in my mind. He got so tainted by that whole “internet boyfriend” gig, but I think he’s growing out of that now, thank god.
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Post by sgev1977 on Mar 27, 2018 3:07:38 GMT
He hasn’t won the BAFTA but he is still consistently considered for it and he seems to be really loved by Emmys voters so he is actually doing really well with awards. Just see the Patrick Melrose trailer or the press material. It’s so perplexing that the major award they found for Hugo Weaving to mention is an ensamble SAG nomination! In the trailer he and young Allison Williams are the only ones without kudos. He is an excellent actor and deserves more!
BC has won the three major theatre UK awards, an Emmy and a TV Critic’s Choice award and he has been nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, multiple Emmys, SAGs and BAFTAs, he is not ignored AT ALL. It’s just that he can’t win everything! And it’s true that there are politics in award comitees (BAFTA seems to prefer minorities, working classes and/or actors doing sordid stuff unlike Sherlock, etc.) but again he is almost always there in the list of nominees so I doubt his name is tainted! I’m sure he will win one some day!
EDITED: I just remembered how last year the favorite “posh” actor who supposedly would had been nominated was Tom Hiddleston (continuing with the hateful comparisons) for his hit series The Night Manager. He wasn’t! Nor the other big name in the cast: Hugh Laurie. Instead they nominated BC for a Shakespeare adaptation that was transmitted at an awful timeslot and had humble ratings. The rest were two minority actors and Robbie Coltrane playing a pedophile. The glamour posh TV series was The Crown but it didn’t have a male protagonist! Again he wasn’t ignored even when he wasn’t been predicted (he is sublime in the part, tho.! So he totally deserved it but awards are not necessarily about deserving them), Hiddleston was the one everyone was waiting for to be nominated so there were awkward articles about why he or his series weren’t considered. I can’t imagine they would did the same with BC and THC! Still the voters respect him enough to consider him even when his series wasn’t a major hit and the press wasn’t talking about it by then.
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