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Quality of BBC drama "should be toned down", say licence fee-payers

TV News | Ed Williamson | 17th January 2013

BBC drama Ripper Street faces a backlash from licence fee-payers, who complain that its focus on being really quite good is gratuitous and inappropriate given its airtime.

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The Three Musketeers is certainly shaping up to be a film

Movie Trailer | Ali | 29th June 2011

Look at this new trailer; it has human actors in it, special effects of some derivation, it even appears to have a script. Yes, Paul WS Anderson's The Three Musketeers will be a film all right.

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Trailer: The Three Musketeers looks suitably ridiculous

Movie Trailer | Ali | 27th March 2011

Unsurprisingly, given that it's from the director of the Resident Evil franchise, historical accuracy is not high on the agenda. Sword-sporting gimps and giant airships on the other hand? YO.

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Robin Hood

Movie Review | Rob | 15th May 2010

The first time Ridley Scott made a big budget, historical epic with Russell Crowe, it worked out really rather quite well. Scott tried again five years later, only this time he roped in Orlando Bloom. That didn't work out so well. The lesson there is, don't work with Orlando Bloom. Now it seems Scott has learnt his lesson and got his Gladiatorial mate back for another historical/fictional jaunt, but this time, with bows, arrows and a Yorkshire accent (or something like it).

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