PREVIEW - advanced info on programmes about Liverpool

[gottago]

Awaydays based on the Wirral is on BBC2 right now. I've never heard of it and it doesn't rate well on IMDB.

[Babaloo]

I watched the first episode on i-player last night. It's not too bad for daytime tv. It's about a place called 'Dovefield' and it doesn't use instantly recognisable shots of Liverpool - an aerial shot of St George's Plateau for example. There's also one over the edge of St John's Gardens towards the Liver building. I think they are using the County Sessions House in lieu of the crown court. The rest are staple inner city shots with one of Toxteth Park cemetery (I couldn't really tell because clearly defining landmarks were absent) where the main character, Judge Patrick Coburn visits the family grave. His accent/idiom is all over the place. I guess if they wanted a more authentic sounding voice depicting a working class Liverpolitan who went to an Oxford college: a variation on how Frank Cottrell Boyce talks might not have come amiss.

The main premise seems to be a recently opened community justice centre headed up by an ex-scal made judge is in danger of having the rug pulled because of poor results and questions about his honour's past.

All the staples are there: old codgers who haunt the local alehouse (no bar this), the catholic priest at the centre of his community, out-of-control-young-scals-who-can-be-won-over-when-you-talk-straight-to-them, kids in care in danger of going prozzie, a statue of Our Lady Mother of God on a mantelpiece, a villian the colour mocha, a namecheck for John Lennon, a ...

Apparently Coburn left Liverpool or Dovefield in a hurry and there's a hint that he may be a bit of a crim himself - or on the run from the long arm of the law, or from an act of treachery or betrayal. Who knows and does that stop him getting his fat arse on a BMX and revisiting his local haunts? What do you think.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ice_This_Town/

[Babaloo]

Baby Hospital
9pm, ITV1

As documentary subject matter goes, there's little more emotive than the sickness of children, but there's an added resonance when the children are as young as they are here. The neonatal unit at Liverpool Women's Hospital cares for perilously ill babies in their first days and weeks of life, some weighing just half a pound, others who have been starved of oxygen during birth. The focus here is on the unimaginable bravery of the families.

[Paul D]

Next on:

Sunday, 22:25 on BBC One (North West only)
Synopsis
Episode image for Hidden Paintings of the North West

Paul McGann goes in search of the North West's hidden war paintings. With 80 percent of the national art collection in storage, there are thousands of hidden treasures in the basements and storerooms of our museums and galleries. Liverpool actor Paul McGann visits the Walker Art Gallery in his hometown and Manchester Art Gallery, in search of the lost art of World War II. In Liverpool he is captivated by the work of Britain's youngest war artist and in Manchester he finds some long-lost depictions of the city's prodigious war effort.

[Chris B]

Not that I think any of us on here will watch it (other than for morbid curiosity anyway), but just for the record, Desperate Scousewives starts on E4 on Monday 28th November.

[Chris B]

Sky Arts at the Open Eye Gallery

Comedian Alexei Sayle heads to Liverpool's Open Eye Gallery to speak to photgraphers Mitch Epstein and Chris Steele-Perkins and finds a wonderful archive of the city.

Wednesday 22nd February - 2:15am
Sunday 26th February - 2:00pm

Sky Arts 1 and Sky Arts 1 HD

Sky - 129
Virgin Media - 281/282


It's only on for ten minutes but is interesting enough.

[Chris B]

Liverpool's Titanic Girl

Wednesday 25th April
7:30pm - BBC1

Gillian Keaney narrates the story of May McMurray, the young girl whose letter to her father - who went down on the Titanic - inspired a series of events that brought Liverpool to a standstill.

This is being shown as a regional opt-out - the rest of the country gets Rip-Off Britain.

[roddyf]

Caught a snippet at the end of tonight's NWT, due to "schedule changes", it's now going to be shown next Monday, 30th April at 8.30. Rip off Britain must be more important!

[Rollingstone Gather]

The Liverpool Mayoral candidate is on BBC 2 next Tuesday at 8 pm in 'The Town Taking on China'


http://www.caldeira.com/tv-programmes.html

Blurb:

Tony Caldeira is a man on a mission - to create a British workforce who can defeat the economic might of China - using only cushions!

Until recently, manufacturing in China was cheap and that meant British manufacturing couldn't compete. Cushion-magnate Tony, like many businessmen, turned to Chinese workers to make his products. However, soaring wages in China mean that Tony is now embarking on an ambitious experiment - to bring jobs back to Britain. The question is - does Britain want to work?

More info on Tony Caldeira:
http://www.caldeira.com/pdf/ldp-busi...-sept-2010.pdf

[Awayo]

"Get your dirty pillows away from me!"