John Hannah updates: 'A Touch of Cloth' and 'The Other Wife'

• A Touch of Cloth

Hoody chase clip has audiences excited about Charlie Brooker’s spoof crime drama A Touch of Cloth

Charlie Brooker has co-written A Touch of Cloth, a spoof police procedural, which goes out on Sky this August.

British journalist, screenwriter and broadcaster Charlie Brooker has teamed with actors John Hannah and Suranne Jones for a special one-off 120 minute-long comedy A Touch Of Cloth, which aims to spoof the very best (and worst) of British crime dramas made in the last decade. The promotional blurb from Sky promises “an all-encompassing parody … of every police procedural ever written.” The show will air on Sky 1 HD in August 2012.

    “After you’ve seen A Touch of Cloth you’ll never be able to watch another detective show again. Not because it’s a devastating pisstake, but because you’ll have smashed your TV to pieces in a disappointed fury,” commented Brooker, who is known for his unique brand of satirical pessimism.

The hoody chase scene teaser clip, which had been released to build buzz for the show, has spread like wildfire on the internet.

Source: ThePeriscope Post 

Also reported by On The Box  and Act On This 
 

• The Other Wife

The Swindon Advertiser reports on a young local boy’s experience of filming The Other Wife with John Hannah 
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John Hannah filming 'The Other Wife'

Star-studded international television drama films in Bath

An international television drama – starring John Hannah and Rupert Everett – is filming in Bath with the support of Bath & North East Somerset Council.

Hot on the heels of the Egyptian TV drama Herbert's Dream which filmed in Bath earlier this year, the Council is helping to host another international drama series in the city, The Other Wife, made for German television.

It is a welcome return for the Anglo-German production company Gate Television which visited Bath three years ago to film Four Seasons – another adaptation from the best-selling novels of Rosamunde Pilcher.

Locations this time round will include The Assembly Rooms, The Circus, Lansdown Crescent and the Theatre Royal in Bath, as well as Neston Park in Wiltshire.

This latest Rosamunde Pilcher production tells the story of the Kendall family who discover, that despite outward appearances, their lives are far from perfect.  The cast includes John Hannah and Rupert Everett.

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