Vera

jaysay · 23-04-2012, 18:39

Did anybody watch the new cop series on ITV1 last night set in the North East, staring Brenda Blethyn, as a detective, didn't really fancy it but the other have wanted to watch and I was quite surprised, quite good really

Bob Dobson · 23-04-2012, 21:16

Vera Duckworth - I haven't seen her in a while. She must be good if she can change to a North East accent.

mobertol · 24-04-2012, 15:48

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.

kestrelx · 24-04-2012, 17:22

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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.

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!

jaysay · 24-04-2012, 17:36

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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!

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

mobertol · 24-04-2012, 20:17

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...

kestrelx · 24-04-2012, 20:55

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

Who told you that? is that for films or TV there is a difference - films have bigger budgets than some TV stuff.

kestrelx · 24-04-2012, 21:03

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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...

Well that's 900 less than Jaysay said!

jaysay · 25-04-2012, 08:41

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Well that's 900 less than Jaysay said!

My other have has been a TV extra for 7 or 8 years now and I do know just a little about what they get paid

wadey · 25-04-2012, 11:28

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

jaysay · 25-04-2012, 17:44

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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

Somehow I missed the first series wadey, doesn't even ring a bell, thought it was new, thanks for the like

ToffeeGuy · 25-04-2012, 23:17

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.

jaysay · 26-04-2012, 08:53

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Originally Posted by ToffeeGuy

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.

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

kestrelx · 26-04-2012, 23:15

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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

I bet you saw it from the inside of a cell! You were based in side!

kestrelx · 26-04-2012, 23:18

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Originally Posted by ToffeeGuy

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.

Was that a repeat then as I'm sure there was a plot with a woman being burnt in a fire in the last one.

Morse is one of the best. Frost is a cool runner up and the original Taggart was very gritty - "there's been a murder!" a classic line!