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"Bleak House" News
Golden Globe Nominations
Posted at 6:58 AM (PST) on Thursday, December 14, 2006
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the nominations for the 64th Golden Globe Awards this morning.
Among those nominated are:
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama: Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland
Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Bleak House (PBS)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television: Gillian Anderson in Bleak House
The award show will air on Monday, January 15, 2007, at The Beverly Hilton Hotel.
For a complete list of nominations, click here.
Three more awards for Bleak House
Posted at 11:14 AM (PST) on Tuesday, November 28, 2006
The Royal Television Society (RTS) Craft & Design Awards 2005/2006 were presented on Monday 20 November 2006 at the Savoy Hotel, Strand, London WC2.
Among the winners...
Tape & Film Editing - Drama
Paul Knight: Bleak House BBC Drama/WGBH Boston/Deep Indigo for BBC One
“Editing at its most skilful – delicately treading the line between being modern, bold and fresh but also demonstrating the important skill of just telling a great story. Simple, clever, witty, emotive and exciting.”
Make Up Design - Drama
Daniel Phillips: Bleak House BBC Drama/WGBH Boston/Deep Indigo for BBC One
“The winner grasped the opportunities presented by the period setting, showing great courage in the range of looks and styles created for a huge cast of vibrant characters.”
Costume Design - Drama
Andrea Galer: Bleak House BBC Drama/WGBH Boston/Deep Indigo for BBC One
“Brilliantly achieved, the range of costumes created for the huge cast was notable for historical accuracy as well as the richness of the on-screen look. The winner was a vital part of a quite extraordinary design effort.”
Online Auction: Gillian's Decorated Tea Pot
Posted at 5:26 PM (PDT) on Saturday, August 26, 2006
 Description: Own the tea pot decorated by Gillian Anderson. Ms. Anderson is nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Actress In A Miniseries Or Movie for "Bleak House."
The tea pot is up for auction through Clothes Off Our Back.
Proceeds from the auction benefit the Television Academy Foundation's work with Educational Programs & Services and BAFTA's Scholarship Fund.
To bid on Gillian's tea pot, click here.
For Charles Dance's Decorated Tea Pot, bid here.
Ten Emmy Nominations for Bleak House
Posted at 7:35 AM (PDT) on Thursday, July 6, 2006
 The 58th Primetime Emmy® Awards and Creative Arts Emmys Nominations
Outstanding Art Direction For A Miniseries, Or Movie
Simon Elliot, Production Designer
Bill Crutcher, Art Director
Outstanding Cinematography For A Miniseries Or Movie
Kieran McGuigan, Director of Photography
Outstanding Costumes For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special
Andrea Galer, Costume Designer
Charlotte Morris, Assistant Costume Designer
Outstanding Directing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Dramatic Special
Justin Chadwick, Director
Outstanding Makeup For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Special (Non-Prosthetic)
Daniel Phillips, Makeup Department Head
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie
Charles Dance as Mr. Tulkinghorn
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Miniseries Or A Movie
Gillian Anderson as Lady Dedlock
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie
Denis Lawson as John Jarndyce
Outstanding Miniseries
Producers TBA
Outstanding Writing For A Miniseries, Movie Or A Dramatic Special
Andrew Davies, Screenplay by
For a complete list of today's nominations, click here.
The 58th Primetime Emmy Awards will be broadcast live on Sunday August 27 at 8/7c NBC, with Conan O'Brien as host of the Shrine Auditorium ceremony.
Bleak House now showing in Australia
Posted at 10:26 AM (PDT) on Monday, July 3, 2006
What the Dickens
By Michael Idato
The Sydney Morning Herald
July 3, 2006
When the long-running alien conspiracy drama The X Files ended in 2002 after nine years, its flame-haired star Gillian Anderson was at a professional crossroads. Her success on American TV, as the cool, adroit FBI special agent Dana Scully, made her a household name. Greater things should have followed. In the eyes of casting directors, however, she was a square peg in a city of round holes.
"It is a particular dilemma," Anderson says. "With someone like Jennifer Aniston, who was on television for a long time playing a specific character, what she has to offer in Friends is easily translatable to film, in terms of romantic comedy. You can see the marketable options.
"With Scully, I think, producers and directors have a hard time seeing how having Scully in their films would be beneficial and marketable. What they're not doing is taking into consideration that I might actually be able to do something other than Scully, so when someone is given my name they think, 'How does Scully fit into it? How does that seriousness or that aspect she brings to the screen fit in?' "
Faced with a choice between repetition or reinvention, she chose the latter, moving to London, where she had spent a decade as a child, and taking the first steps towards a transformation that is confirmed in the BBC's latest adaptation of Charles Dickens's Bleak House.
It is an outstanding adaptation from the pen of Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice, House of Cards, Tipping the Velvet), and Anderson, in a sweeping, powerful performance, easily silences her doubters. Boy, can she do more than Scully!
Read more...
New Photos: Gillian at "Bleak House" Screening
Posted at 11:12 PM (PDT) on Tuesday, June 13, 2006
 On June 8th, Gillian attended a screening of the highlights of "Bleak House" at the Directors Guild in West Hollywood, CA. The event was hosted by the Museum of Television and Radio and produced by the BBC, WGBH Boston and Masterpiece Theatre. Click here to view photos from the event, courtesy of Philiater.
Banff World Television Award for Bleak House
Posted at 1:41 PM (PDT) on Tuesday, June 13, 2006
BANFF WORLD TELEVISON FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES WINNERS FOR 27th ANNUAL BANFF WORLD TELEVISION AWARDS
June 12, 2006
Best Mini-Series: Bleak House
Produced By: BBC, WGBH Boston co-production in association with Deep Indigo
Broadcaster: BBC ONE
UK, USA
With the largest number of entries submitted over the past five years (Some 101 shows from 24 countries were nominated in 18 categories. More than 1,000 programs were entered for consideration.), awards were handed out in a variety of categories -- with 15 different countries taking home the honours. The BANFF International Jury met for several days prior the Festival to screen the 18 “Best-of” category winners and ultimately decided the Grand Prize winner overall.
Jury Chair, Loren Mawhinney said, “All members of the jury felt privileged to be given both this responsibility and this opportunity to screen such wonderful television.” The “Best-of” category winners were chosen by the BANFF Selection Jury and represent countries from around the world, including Belgium, Canada, Dominican Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
And here's an interesting little interview with Andrew Davies:
Daily Variety
June 12, 2006 Monday
SPECIAL REPORT 1: EMMYS: MADE-FORS & MINISERIES
Mini in the mix: 'BLEAK HOUSE'
By: Bob Verini
When Brit scribe Andrew Davies sets out to bring a great work of fiction to the screen, he doesn't avoid watching previous versions so as not to be unduly influenced. Instead, he actively seeks them out.
"Of course I do. I want to see what I might do the same way and what I want to do differently," says the vet adapter of close to two dozen classic novels, including Emmy contender "Masterpiece Theatre: Bleak House," recent winner of the BAFTA award as drama serial, kudos that Davies shared.
"But the main reason is that because I've usually seen them before, one can run a risk of unconscious plagiarism, as there's an awful possibility that you think you've found a unique way of handling a scene that isn't in fact your own writing. It's like composing your own 'original' tunes, as I like to do, and realizing that they're actually Mozart or the Beatles every time."
The BBC's 1985 "Bleak House" struck him as "a very good adaptation, wonderful performances, but rather slow by today's standards.
"I hoped we could have an edgy and quick style that would feel modern even though it's a period drama." Principal director Justin Chadwick shaped mini's contemporary look by using fluid multiple cameras and shooting rehearsals.
In addition, "the novel's heroine, Esther, had always irritated me. Such a smug little goody-goody. I thought, there are things I can do here; I can make her more sparky and lively for the audience to relate to." By emphasizing her strength and clear-eyed vision of the world, he cracked the character, helping thesp Anna Maxwell Martin to walk off with the actress BAFTA for her portrayal.
Wrestling with an enormous, complicated 19th century novel is in many ways simpler than adapting a contempo piece, avers Davies, but both offer similar challenges.
On "Bridget Jones' Diary," he says, "we had such arguments! Helen Fielding kept saying 'it's about modern life, and the urban family,' and I'm saying no, no, it has to be about Bridget's search for love and which guy she'll end up with. So it's the same kind of struggle. You always have to find the spine of the story."
Three more BAFTAs for Bleak House
Posted at 6:24 PM (PDT) on Friday, May 19, 2006
This year's British Academy Television Craft Awards were held on Friday 19 May 2006 at The Dorchester in London.
COSTUME DESIGN
BLEAK HOUSE - Andrea Galer (A BBC/WGBH Co-Production in association with Deep Indigo for BBC1)
EDITING FICTION/ENTERTAINMENT
BLEAK HOUSE - Paul Knight (A BBC/WGBH Co-Production in association with Deep Indigo for BBC1)
PRODUCTION DESIGN
BLEAK HOUSE - Simon Elliott (A BBC/WGBH Co-Production in association with Deep Indigo for BBC1)
For a complete list of winners, click here.
Gillian at the BAFTAs
Posted at 2:09 PM (PDT) on Sunday, May 7, 2006
Gillian attended today's BAFTA Awards in London, where she was nominated for Best Actress for her role in Bleak House.
Click here to view photos and a video clip interview of her arrival on the red carpet.
Thank you to Philiater, Adry, and Oberon.
Bleak House Wins Two BAFTAs!
Posted at 2:08 PM (PDT) on Sunday, May 7, 2006
The BBC's Doctor Who and Bleak House have triumphed at the British Academy Television Awards. They each won two awards at the London ceremony, including best drama series for Doctor Who, and best drama serial.
The BBC's Charles Dickens adaptation Bleak House, which had been nominated in four categories, also claimed the best actress award thanks to Anna Maxwell Martin's performance.
She beat fellow Bleak House star Gillian Anderson to the prize.
"I never expected to win," Maxwell Martin said after collecting her award.
"I didn't particularly want to beat Gillian Anderson. I think she's the most worthy of all of us in that particular category and obviously she's an incredible actress."
Actor Dennis Lawson, who played Mr Jarndyce in the critically acclaimed period drama, lost out on the best actor Bafta to Mark Rylance for The Government Inspector.
More at BBC News.
Updated, May 8:
And if any of the crowd harboured dreams of a life in showbiz themselves, they should perhaps remember Anna Maxwell Martin's description of her evening, as she waited to be named best actress.
"I've just felt very sweaty for the past hour and I desperately needed the loo, so really that's what I was thinking. Then when they announced me, I went into a blind panic."
Few could begrudge her an award after that.
For more on "The humble winners of Bafta night," click here.
Observer Magazine Interview
Posted at 6:22 PM (PDT) on Saturday, May 6, 2006
The magnificent Anderson
As the conspiracy geek's preferred pin-up, she was a global star at 24. But, after 10 years on The X Files, she was aching to return to normality... Now, with a nomination for her incandescent performance in Bleak House at tonight's Baftas, that's hardly likely. Here, Gillian Anderson shares dessert and divorce stories with Harriet Lane.
Read more...
Radio Times Cover This Week
Posted at 12:40 PM (PDT) on Wednesday, May 3, 2006
The annual glittering British Academy Television Awards (Baftas) take place on Sunday 7 May, and are celebrated in the new issue of Radio Times.
In the run-up to this week's awards, Bafta held a party for the nominees and RT rounded them up for an exclusive pre-ceremony photo shoot. Among those rubbing shoulders were David Attenborough, Gordon Ramsay, Davina McCall, Bruce Forsyth, and Gillian Anderson. RT's TV editor Alison Graham gives her tips on who could triumph (click here and here).
A video and photo gallery are available here.
Heads Up!
Observer Magazine: NEXT SUNDAY...
Our television special, with Gillian Anderson, Bill Nighy, Mitchell & Webb and a host of other stars. . .
Thanks, Sarah!
Bleak House leads Bafta Craft Award nominations
Posted at 9:20 AM (PDT) on Tuesday, April 11, 2006
By Liz Thomas The StageBleak House, Doctor Who, Elizabeth I and To The Ends of Earth are all up for four or more Bafta TV Craft Awards, with the BBC Charles Dickens’ adaptation leading the field with eight nominations.
Costume Design: Bleak House - Andrea Galer for BBC1, Elizabeth I - Mike O’Neill for Channel 4, The Queen’s Sister - James Keast for Channel 4, To the Ends of the Earth - Ros Ebbutt for BBC2.
Director: Justin Chadwick - Bleak House for BBC1, Joe Ahearne - Doctor Who for BBC1, Brian Percival - Much Ado About Nothing for BBC Drama Northern Ireland, Simon Cellan Jones - The Queen’s Sister for Channel 4.
Editing Fiction/Entertainment: Bleak House - Paul Knight for BBC1, Casanova - Nick Arthurs for BBC3, The Ghost Squad - Adam Recht for Channel 4, To the Ends of the Earth - Philip Kloss for BBC2.
Make Up and Hair Design: Bleak House - Daniel Phillips for BBC1, Casanova - Christine Allsopp for BBC3, Help - Vanessa White for BBC2, Elizabeth I - Fae Hammond for Channel 4.
Photography and Lighting (Fiction/Entertainment): Bleak House - Kieran McGuigan for BBC1, The Girl in the Cafe - Chris Seager for BBC1, To the Ends of the Earth - Ulf Brantas for BBC2, Twenty Thousand Streets under the Sky - John Daly for BBC4.
Production Design: Bleak House - Simon Elliott for BBC1, Elizabeth I - Eve Stewart for Channel 4, Rome - Joseph Bennett for BBC2, To the Ends of the Earth - Donal Woods for BBC2.
Sound Fiction/Entertainment: Bleak House sound team for BBC1, Colditz sound team for ITV1, Spooks sound team for BBC1, To the Ends of the Earth - Clive Derbyshire, Paul Hamblin, Rory Farnan and Craig Butters for BBC2.
Writer: Andrew Davies - Bleak House for BBC1, Russell T Davies - Doctor Who for BBC1, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant - Extras for BBC2, Peter Kosminsky - The Government Inspector for Channel 4.
The awards take place on 19 May at The Dorchester hotel in London.
Read more...
Bleak House Wins a Peabody Award
Posted at 6:51 AM (PDT) on Thursday, April 6, 2006
65th Annual Peabody Awards Winners Announced ATHENS, Georgia - The winners of the 65th Annual Peabody Awards were announced today by the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The winners, chosen by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media for 2005, were named in a ceremony in the Peabody Gallery on the University of Georgia Campus.
The Peabody recipients - from three continents and in seven languages - reflect the international scope of the competition. They range from television stations in Biloxi, Miss., and New Orleans, La., that provided heroic coverage of Hurricane Katrina's devastating landfall and aftermath, to "Yesterday," a South African film that personalized the continent's AIDS crisis. They include a Spanish documentary about China, the dramatic serials "Battlestar Galactica" and "Bleak House," Martin Scorsese`s "No Direction Home - Bob Dylan," and WNYC's Radio Rookies Project, which enables young people to find voices on radio. Multiple citations were awarded to HBO, the BBC and WGBH-Boston.
Bleak House BBC: "Absolutely compulsive viewing" said the Peabody board of this masterful, faithful-yet-modern adaptation of Charles Dickens' serial about a never-ending London law suit. A BBC, WGBH-Boston co-production in association with Deep Indigo.
The awards will be presented June 5 at a luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Jon Stewart, anchor of Comedy Central's two-time Peabody Award winner, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," will be the master of ceremonies. About the Peabody Awards: Today the George Foster Peabody Awards are often cited as the most prestigious awards in electronic media. Each year, from more than one thousand entries, the Peabody Board selects outstanding works exhibiting excellence, distinguished achievement, and meritorious service by radio and television networks, stations, cable television organizations, producing organizations, and individuals. Though there is no set number of awards, no more than 36 have ever been presented in a single year. Read more...
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