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Coming soon on BBC 2. The book is fascinating, a fantasy noir police procedural, set in an unnamed European city, looks worth checking out, was made into a stage play in the States.
Oooohh
I hope they don't **** it up
So do I and I’ve just noticed spell-check messed up the first City, bugger.
Fed up of all these new series being developed by Amazon and Netflix, with no sign of any licensing to other networks, so I’m excited at this being commissioned by the Beeb, so fingers crossed.
Troy was ****, well first 2 episodes anyway !
Ta f’that.
One of my fave books - second the "hope they don't fudge it up" sentiments...
Could do with a PSA when you see it advertised, I couldn't find anything on the BBC site about viewing time etc..
Genuinely interested as to how they will achieve this.
When I read it I put it into the "impossible to film" category, but will be watching to see if I was wrong.
Fed up of all these new series being developed by Amazon and Netflix, with no sign of any licensing to other networks, so I’m excited at this being commissioned by the Beeb, so fingers crossed.
A good number of these shows are cross-developed with Netflix/Amazon and the BBC together. The last couple of miniseries I've watched on iplayer I've streamed in higher quality from Netflix so I assume either they put a load of money in up front or bought rights later.
Could do with a PSA when you see it advertised, I couldn’t find anything on the BBC site about viewing time etc..
There was a trailer for it on Beeb 2 last night, I think it was, no transmission date, but ‘coming soon’.
Keeping tabs on it.
https://thewertzone.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/preview-city-and-city-tv-series.html
Due April.
Excellent!
6th April, trailer showed the date a few minutes ago.
9pm BBC 2 tonight
Recorded it, will watch it over the weekend. It’ll be interesting to see how they handle the twin city concept where nobody can or will acknowledge the existence of the other.
I’ve not read the book, but found the first episode intriguing, and will continue. I felt that the actor playing the sidekick (the co-opted beat officer) was miscast, as seemed to be in sit-com mode. Will tide me over until Westworld S2.
Watched the lot on iPlayer last night, first bit of TV I've watched in ages. Not really sure that the stuff they've changed really added much to it or is there a law that TV detectives have to have failed marriages that are inevitably connected to the cases they get?
Sooooo, just watched it over 2 nights on iPlayer
In not 100% convinced that this was better than the book, but I can see how it made things more TV friendly.
Overall i thought it was pretty darn good, if I'd not read the book, maybe I'd have found it harder to follow, but the book was much tougher to get my head round!
great to see some grown up sci-fi on BBC, good cast, good story, 8/10 from me