Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 987399)

Saw the trailers for this last week -looked interesting. Brenda Blethyn is a great actress, have seen in her in a few interesting films, she does quite a lot of alternative, non-mainstream work.

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 987419)

I saw some of the last series, thought it a bit slow.

How much do you think they get paid for staring in one of those detective series - like Morse, Frost etc etc on average? I don't know at a guess I'd say about £250,000 for a series!

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 987421)

Think your a bit off target kestrelx some extras get as much as £1000 for one day

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 987442)

I have a friend who does extra work on Corrie for £100 a day! If she appears it's for a few seconds with nothing to say...

Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 987457)

Well that's 900 less than Jaysay said! :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by wadey (Post 987516)

This is the second series but I've given up on it as they haven't got the accents right, there's some background here

The Vera Stanhope books, by Ann Cleeves

Originally Posted by ToffeeGuy (Post 987631)

Not a bad programme, saved mainly by a good performance by Brenda Blethyn.

But it gets on my nerves when the plots don't add up, characters don't react in a realistic way or a character doesn't reveal an important piece of evidence until the last 10 mins.

Like in Sunday's episode when the policeman's daughter who was in the fire buried the body of the main suspect. I thought he'd died when they were making petrol bombs so it was an accident and she had done nothing wrong, so why get rid of the body?

And why didn't the woman who was pregnant by the suspected man tell the police that she had spoken to the woman who had buried him?

It could be cut down to an hour.

There's only one TV tec for me and that's Morse. They were well written, beautifully filmed and John Thaw was perfectly cast. One of the best shows ever on British TV.

I'd give an honourable mention to Juliet Bravo as well. Local locations and simple, well written drama about old fashioned bobbies on the beat.

Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 987653)

I agree about Juliet Bravo, I was actually based in Bacup when they were making that series and they used Bacup nick as to outside shots for the program, often saw some of the actors in and about the town at the time

Originally Posted by ToffeeGuy (Post 987631)

Not a bad programme, saved mainly by a good performance by Brenda Blethyn.

But it gets on my nerves when the plots don't add up, characters don't react in a realistic way or a character doesn't reveal an important piece of evidence until the last 10 mins.

Like in Sunday's episode when the policeman's daughter who was in the fire buried the body of the main suspect. I thought he'd died when they were making petrol bombs so it was an accident and she had done nothing wrong, so why get rid of the body?

And why didn't the woman who was pregnant by the suspected man tell the police that she had spoken to the woman who had buried him?

It could be cut down to an hour.

There's only one TV tec for me and that's Morse. They were well written, beautifully filmed and John Thaw was perfectly cast. One of the best shows ever on British TV.

I'd give an honourable mention to Juliet Bravo as well. Local locations and simple, well written drama about old fashioned bobbies on the beat.