Treasure Island on Sky 1

Tipsy McSwagger

Starring Eddie Izzard, Elijah Wood, Philip Glenister and Donald Sutherland. Looking forward to this and the production values look great.

Biggins

Will catch it on repeat.
Don't want to miss Sherlock tonight!

DRAMA: Sherlock
On: BBC 1
Date: Sunday 1st January 2012 (starting in 1 hour and 41 minutes)
Time: 20:10 to 21:40 (1 hour and 30 minutes long)

A Scandal in Belgravia. Series 2, episode 1.
Contemporary crime drama, based on the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. A case of blackmail threatens to topple the monarchy itself, but soon Sherlock and John discover there is even more to it than that. They find themselves battling international terrorism, rogue CIA agents, and a secret conspiracy involving the British government. But this case will cast a longer shadow on their lives than they could ever imagine, as the great detective begins a long duel of wits with an antagonist as cold and ruthless and brilliant as himself.
(Editor's Choice, Stereo, New Series, Widescreen, Subtitles, Audio Described, 4 Star)

Director: Paul McGuigan
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman, Una Stubbs, Rupert Graves, Mark Gatiss, Andrew Scott

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JP Liz V1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gQrOsZFWu0

Looks good

RichT

Biggins wrote: »

Will catch it on repeat.
Don't want to miss Sherlock tonight!

Absolute rubbish on all over Christmas and the two things I have been waiting to see clash. :mad:

Biggins

RichT wrote: »

Absolute rubbish on all over Christmas and the two things I have been waiting to see clash. :mad:

Aye. Silly timing.
Good job in this case that Sky repeat stuff.

Tipsy McSwagger

It will be on sky anytime, it's very good so far.

Riddle101

I don't think it's accurate to the book but's it's quite good.

Also is it wrong that i'm comparing this show to Muppet's Treasure Island for some reason:o

humanji

I watched the first episode last night (recording the second now, so I can skip the bloody ads) and I thought it was excellent. Great cast and a really tense set of sequences at the end of the episode really made me want more.

Cicero

Good production....worth a 2nd watch sometime....Eddie was excellent in the lead role....now....over to Endeavour Morse on ITV for another 2 hours of TV vegetation:D

whoami1

If it were a stand-alone drama, then it might have been OK. However, they shouldn't have messed with the source material, as the story is too well-known. I wanted to like it, I really did, but it was at least 30 minutes too long, even allowing for ads, it dragged in the middle and the subplot with Silver's wife and Jim's mother didn't add to the story.

The characters of the doctor and the squire and Ben Gunn should have been at least 10 years older and should have been left as they were in the book. There were enough villians among the crew without adding the squire to their numbers.

While the production quality and values were high, and I thought that Eddie Izzard and Philip Glenister in particular were good, it was let down by the writers thinking that they knew better than RLS.

Riddle101

whoami1 wrote: »

If it were a stand-alone drama, then it might have been OK. However, they shouldn't have messed with the source material, as the story is too well-known. I wanted to like it, I really did, but it was at least 30 minutes too long, even allowing for ads, it dragged in the middle and the subplot with Silver's wife and Jim's mother didn't add to the story.

The characters of the doctor and the squire and Ben Gunn should have been at least 10 years older and should have been left as they were in the book. There were enough villians among the crew without adding the squire to their numbers.

While the production quality and values were high, and I thought that Eddie Izzard and Philip Glenister in particular were good, it was let down by the writers thinking that they knew better than RLS.

Agreed I don't know what they were thinking, making the Squire into a villian or other things in the movie. But i'd put it down to the director wanting to do his own thing, by remaking the story. It's a shame though, I would have preferred they had done it the way it was written in the book.