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Stephen Poliakoff's Dancing on the Edge
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Award-winning dramatist Stephen Poliakoff blows open the volatile world of 1930s London, in a story about a black jazz band’s rise to success, before violence and prejudice brings it crashing back to earth.
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Writer & Director: Stephen Poliakoff
Louis: Chiwetel Ejiofor
Pamela: Joanna Vanderham
Stanley: Mathew Goode
Sarah: Janet Montgomery
Lady Cremone: Jacqueline Bisset
Masterson: John Goodman
With Jane Asher, Tom Hughes, Anthony Head, Angel Coulby and Jenna-Louise Coleman.
Now, does anybody know when this will be airing on BBC Two?
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"Award-winning dramatist Stephen Poliakoff (The Lost Prince; Close My Eyes) blows open the volatile world of 1930s London, in a story about a black jazz band's rise to success, before violence and prejudice brings it crashing back to earth.
Set in an extraordinary period of immense change, the Louis Lester Band arrives at the forefront of an emerging musical movement: jazz. As the band grows in popularity and starts to mix with the upper classes, the intoxicating combination of music and parties pull the characters into a gilded but perilous world. Soon the band begins to feel immune from the prejudice hovering beneath the surface of society, but the sudden death of one of the band members creates a catastrophic turn in their fortunes. They immediately find themselves confronted by betrayal, and their privileged position is torn away from them as they begin to discover who their friends are. A stellar cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor(American Gangster; Salt), John Goodman (The Big Lebowski; The Artist), Matthew Goode (A Single Man; Brideshead Revisited) and Jacqueline Bisset (Bullitt) star in this explosive new drama, where for a moment music transcends the divisions of class and race, until fear and hate once again tear them apart."
Come on BBC give us a start date.
I don't think that's right, Brian Cox's Wonders of Life, a five part series, starts on Sunday 27th at 9.
I've seen the trails for this and in my opinion: meh:sleep:
I may give this a try though as I love John Goodman.
Them all..
These are actually now available - ahead of next week's start
Yeah worst music ever imo. But then there's jazz and there's jazz; I'm hoping it's not jazz but happy if it's jazz IYKWIM
For obvious reasons. :cool::D
Anna Friel was never shy about taking her kit off back in the day:D
haha .. happy 90s memories of Anna Friel was the topic of another thread just now.
Back on topic, I like Polly, and I've already heard a couple of reviews of this via twitter saying it's good. Looking forward to it - will make a change from weeks of vanilla tv.
The dance bands in the big hotels were all British names in the thirties and there were a lot of them.
http://www.dennydennis.co.uk/dennydennis/British_Dance_Bands.html
So is it just a drama? Or was there actually a similar band of black musicians and singers?
Very few black musicians enjoyed success in the thirties in the UK.
The exception was probably "Hutch" (Leslie Hutchinson), a cabaret pianist/singer the only name I can think of who was black and very popular with society in those days. Often featured on the radio.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XKk2Yl3tsw
Time Out review :
http://www.timeout.com/london/tv-and-radio-guide/dancing-on-the-edge
"all the makings of a synthesis of glamour and grit"
song from the show : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_cpljdE2Xo