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February's
UK TV schedules are looking up....Star Trek : First Contact receives
it's terrestrial premiere on BBC1 on Thursday 8th Feb. @ 8.05
pm.
If you're lucky enough to
receive the UK Drama channel via satellite, then this Thursday
1st February @ 9 pm sees the start of a long overdue re-run of the
classic 1976 I, Claudius mini-series.
This is a truly epic 12 part
BBC series based on Robert Graves novel and set during the reigns of Roman
emperors, Augustus, Tiberius, Calligula and Claudius. It boasts a superb
cast including Derek Jacobi, Sian Phillips, Brian Blessed, George Baker,
John Hurt and Stewart.
If you thought corruption
and dirty dealings amidst the corridors of government were a modern invention,
think again!
On the down side, there's
still no sign of the BBC broadcasting the 'Best
of British' documentary about Patrick.....what are the schedulers up
to?
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Can we dare to hope that
Patrick will indeed be making a long awaited return to the English stage
this year?
In the Yahoo
chat on Wed 18 Oct. 2000 with Patrick and Amnesty International's
Exec Dir. William F Shulz, one of the questioners asked what new projects
he would be appearing in - to which Stewart replied: "I'm planning work
for 2001, which will include a TV film for TNT, which my company is co-producing
with Hallmark Entertainment, called Boss Lear. Set in the American West
in Texas in 1841. It will not be Shakespeare's language. I hope to be
doing a major revival of a great 20th century British play in England in
the summer. It'll be the first time I've worked on stage (other than A
Christmas Carol) in England in 15 years."
Then in a December thisislondon.co.uk
article about Jude Kelly - the artistic Director of West Yorkshire
Playhouse in Leeds - the following snippet appeared '....And she
has enticed Patrick Stewart to Leeds for a forthcoming production of JB
Priestley's Johnston over Jordan'
Of course this may all be
wishful thinking, but lets hope things do come to fruition - it's been
far too long since English theatre audiences could experience Stewart's
marvellous stagecraft.
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