![]() ![]() If you are writing a comment for publication, please mark clearly "for publication". For all other inquiries please call the main Guardian switchboard on 020 3353 2000. To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email or phone 020 3353 3857. ![]() He won a Bafta best actor award last year for his work on the series." "The BBC mounted its own very successful adaption of Henning Mankell's Wallander novels starring Kenneth Branagh. ![]() And the BBC has played its part in developing and feeding this appetite. Speaking in Sweden, Lyons said: "As I'm sure many of you know, over the last few years the UK has enjoyed new exposure to Swedish crime fiction. Ironically for the BBC, the news of Zen's demise comes on the same day that BBC Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons praised the way the BBC had "developed" viewers' interest in European crime fiction, particularly Wallander. It is not unheard of for programmes to shift channels, with Men Behaving Badly transferring successfully from ITV to the BBC in 1992. Over its three episodes Zen averaged 5.7 million viewers, according to consolidated figures, around the same number as the first series of Wallander. On its first outing it beat ITV1's stalwart drama Agatha Christie's Marple, although the next two episodes lost out to Wild at Heart and Dancing on Ice.īased on the books by the late Michael Dibdin, Zen won good notices from television critics with the Mail on Sunday calling it, "compelling, stylish and intelligent drama" and the Sunday Telegraph billing it as "the detective drama of the year". Zen, which featured Sewell as the rakish but honest policeman Aurelio Zen, was heavily promoted by the BBC ahead of its BBC1 debut in early January. We were delighted that this fresh and stylish detective drama resonated with British viewers, television critics and fans of the novels alike and remain hugely proud of the three films." Left Bank also makes BBC1's Swedish detective drama Wallander, starring Kenneth Branagh.Ī Left Bank spokesman said: "Left Bank Pictures are currently in discussion with other UK broadcasters about Zen. Left Bank, the independent producer founded by former ITV comedy and drama executive Andy Harries, is now in talks with other broadcasters about continuing the series on a new channel. 'I didn't get into it until I took it home and stayed up two nights in a row.Lark Rise to Candleford was axed last month and last week another BBC1 drama, Outcasts, was shifted to a Sunday late-night slot part way through its run after disappointing ratings. 'I took it to the theatre when I was in Making It Better, and I read the first page 18 times,' he says. He only read it when he was told about the part in it for him. Middlemarch is only one of a long list of books that Sewell did not read at school. The metaphor would amaze his family and his teachers. 'Basically, the technique is like going from a maths lesson to an English lesson,' he has said. He is insouciant about doing two things at once. Sewell thinks the series gets better after the third episode (this Wednesday). In Middlemarch the charm and sexuality have already been impressive. His father, Bill Sewell, was an Australian animator who died when Rufus was 10. His mother, Jo, was Welsh, and was an artist and painter. Far from being intimidated by a cast including Felicity Kendall, Bill Nighy and Harriet Walter, he stole the honours, confirming his rich promise as a young actor. Rufus Sewell was born on the 29th of October 1967 in Twickenham, England. Stoppard had written a fine part, combining intelligence, authority and sexuality to it Sewell brought clarity, energy and his good looks. At 25, Sewell is the latest 'juve' - the dashing juvenile lead, like Jeremy Irons, Kenneth Branagh and Daniel Day-Lewis before him. Sewell, who began to smoulder in Wednesday's episode, is breathing the life back. Rugby and Heidelberg) so well that she smothers him even fans say that Will never came to life. George Eliot likes Will Ladislaw (half-English, half-Polish, ed. 'Go for the character go for quality,' she says, and, although this is what you would expect her to say, she is right. The casting director, Gail Stevens, isn't worried. But in the BBC's version of Middlemarch, Rufus Sewell's Will Ladislaw has hazel eyes set wide apart, a strong straight nose, and curly black hair falling across his forehead. IN GEORGE ELIOT's Middlemarch, Will Ladislaw, the romantic hero, has grey eyes rather near together, a delicate irregular nose with a little ripple in it, and hair falling backward. ![]()
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