Douglas Henshall: Shetland preview, Doors Open update, The Secrety of Crickley Hall reviews

 

From Douglas Henshall.com:

Douglas Henshall will be on the panel of judges for the Frank Deasy Writers award 2012 – 2013.
BBC Scotland has announced its plans to offer residencies for writers to develop ideas for BBC1, in hopes that one of their dramas will be commissioned through BBC Scotland.
Dougie said: “Writers are so crucial to drama – without them, people like me are out of work, so to be involved in this award is an honour. After all, writers are the past, present and future for drama.”
More here.

Dougie’s new TV drama Shetland, based on the work of popular crime-writer Ann Cleeves had a preview in Mareel on Wednesday 21st November 2012. Read about the event here and here

The Secret of Crickley Hall episode 2 will be shown on Sunday November 25th at 9pm and episode 3 on Sunday December 2nd at 9pm. A DVD of the drama is due to be released on December 3rd 2012.

Doors Open is being adverstised as part of ITV's Christmas drama season.

55 Days finished its run at the Hampstead Theatre on Saturday November 24th.
Source (including photo):  DouglasHenshall.com


There are detailed reviews of  the first episode of The Secret of Crickley Hall at Primetime and at SFX

MY SIX BEST BOOKS- DOUGLAS HENSHALL

Douglas Henshall, 47, is the actor best known as the star of Primeval, South Riding, Lipstick on Your Collar and Collision. He stars next month alongside Stephen Fry in the ITV1 art heist drama Doors Open.

Douglas Henshall discusses his favourite reads
The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Penguin, £10.99
A book about love and roulette – a giddy mixture.

I find my spirits soaring at the way he writes about love and plummeting to the very depths of hell at the way he writes about addiction. Gloriously romantic in that reckless Russian way.

If This Is A Man by Primo Levi
Abacus, £9.99
A most extraordinary book and the one which has had the biggest influence on me. An unimaginable story about his time in Auschwitz and the way he manages to keep his humanity alive and survive.

Heartbreaking, uplifting and humbling in ways I can’t begin to describe.

Summer Lightning by P G Wodehouse
Arrow, £7.99
The antithesis of Primo Levi. I adore all the Blandings books.

It’s a safe world where nothing bad is going to happen with the most glorious wit and the most absurd characters.
I’ve re-read and re-read them. They’re like Christmas; they never fail to put a smile on your face.

Women
by Charles Bukowski
Virgin Books, £8.99
Bukowski can be incredibly nihilistic. You can only read him in small doses before you want to kill yourself.

He was a man who wrote when drunk and edited when sober and there’s a brutal honesty with which he talks about himself and his success or failure in relationships with women. I found it quite poetic.

Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
Vintage, £7.99
I don’t think you can overestimate how important a book this was.

To use the Leith vernacular in the way he did, the rhythms and the poetry, it was a revolution in Scotland.

He talks about male friendship better than anyone and is the most important Scottish writer around.

The Gulag Archipelago
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Harper Perennial, £18.95
Sometimes I admire the people as much as what they write and this is an extraordinary piece by an extraordinary man.

It’s about incarceration by an unjust, criminal and inhumane people but the way in which he writes, well, I want to say this out loud walking around my house, not just read it.

Source (including photo): Express
 

Douglas Henshall

The Secret of Crickley Hall, 9pm, BBC1
Prepare yourself to be spooked good and proper by this three-part adaptation of the novel by horror writer James Herbert. A great cast includes David Warner who can't half do creepy well, along with Suranne Jones, Tom Ellis and Douglas Henshall. The action flits between a contemporary couple Ellis and Jones who are trying to come to terms with the disappearance of their young son and back to the war years. To try to escape the past they move to Crickley Hall (don't these people ever read horror stories?) which was once used as an orphanage. It is riddled with secrets as well as strange bumps in the night. It's enough to put you off that place in the country.
Source: This is South Wales

Douglas Henshall

The Secret of Crickley Hall 
The Secret of Crickley Hall was shown on BBC America as a three hour TV special on October 31st 2012
The BBC has now announced that The Secret of Crickley Hall episode one will be shown on BBC One in the UK on Sunday November 18th from 9 - 10 pm. The second episode will be shown week beginning November 24th, date and time to be announced. The Secret of Crickley Hall page has been updated with more information about the programme. Read more here
Source: Douglas Henshall | Livejournal

Shetland
Douglas Henshall attended the BAFTA Scotland screening of Shetland on 28 October. The screening was followed by a Q&A session.
Photos here  

Douglas Henshall: 'The Secrety of Crickley Hall' airdates, 'Shetland' interview, and '55 Days' rehearsal photos

The Secret of Crickley Hall
BBC America has announced that it will be showing The Secret of Crickley Hall, in which Douglas Henshall stars as Augustus Cribben, on October 28th 2012. The Three-hour event “The Secret of Crickley Hall” premières Sunday, October 28, 8:00pm ET/PT.

There will be a BAFTA TV preview of The Secret of Crickley Hall on Saturday November 3rd 2012, 4.30pm at the Broadway Cinema in Nottingham, followed by Q and A with Director Joe Ahearne. The event is part of the Mayhem Horror Festival, which takes place from October 31st till November 4th 2012.
More info here

A DVD of the drama is expected to be released in the UK on November 5th, which the BBFC has rated a 15. 

Source: Livejournal

Douglas Henshall – My Autumn

This versatile actor has worked all over the world – but he was blown away by the welcome in Shetland

Filming Shetland went really well. I enjoyed working there very much because of how friendly, welcoming and accommodating all the people were. They couldn’t have done any more for us – we did some Up Helly Aa scenes and the people who participated in that were amazing. They looked fantastic in all their gear. All the people who helped us with locations were great, too.

I had never been to Shetland before, it had always been a kind of mythological place for me. One of the nice things about my job is that you get to go to places. I hope we make another Shetland drama because then I’ll get to go back there. Everybody who was involved wants there to be another one, so fingers crossed. I think it’ll be good – we certainly all did everything we could to make it work.

My character is different to most TV detectives. He’s a pretty happy, solid guy just trying to do his job. He’s not battling any demons.

I stayed in the Kvelsdro Hotel in Lerwick (check), which was great. We didn’t get much time off while we were there, but we did have one great night in Lerwick Boat Club where a lot of musicians came and played. We sat and listened and also had a bit of a hooly and it was fantastic. I’ll remember that for a long time.

Now I’m looking forward to doing some theatre in the autumn. I’m appearing in the Howard Brenton play, 55 Days, at the Hampstead Theatre in London. I play Oliver Cromwell. There’s nothing quite like live theatre, but I wouldn’t say I have a preference between theatre, TV and films. I like the variety.

Autumn’s always a time to look forward to. It’s my favourite time of year, in fact, with all the fantastic colours – especially in Scotland.

I do quite a lot of travelling, and I’ve been to some fantastic places. I went to Buenos Aires with a production of Macbeth, and that was a city I really liked. Any city where the government building is pink has to have something going for it. I also made a film in India, and that’s the most extraordinary place. I’d like to go back there again.

I’m not sure where I’ll be going next – I’ll just have to wait and see. Hopefully I’ll get some time to relax. I like playing poker – it’s nice to have to use your mind in a completely different way. It takes me out of myself. I also like to play a bit of tennis, and do a bit of cooking, but most of all I just like to spend time with my friends.

Douglas, who hails from Renfrewshire, plays the lead role of detective Jimmy Perez in Shetland, a two-part drama written by David Kane, and adapted from the books by Ann Cleeves. Perhaps best known as the academic action man Nick Cutter in Primeval, his many other TV credits include South Riding, The Silence and Collision. Shetland will air on BBC 1 soon – keep an eye on the schedules.

Source: Aurora Magazine

55 Days : In Rehearsals

Photo gallery at Hampstead Theatre

Douglas Henshall: project updates

Update from Douglas Henshall Fan Pages
 

Please note Douglas Henshall did not play the part of Mowbray in Henry IV part 2 in the upcoming BBC production (trailers are now going out). It seems to have been a mistake made by the BBC in their December press release.

In December, Douglas Henshall filmed The Snipist, which has recently been shown on Sky Arts. He was hoping to begin work on Doors Open in February, but filming was delayed till April, so instead he played the sinister Cribben in TheSecret of Crickley Hall, which should be broadcast on BBC1 around the time of Halloween.

He recently filmed Doors Open with Stephen Fry in Edinburgh. After a break of two weeks, he is now back in Scotland to work on Shetland for BBC1. Filming takes place in Glasgow and Shetland and if the drama is successful it will lead to a new drama series.

Source: DouglasHenshall Fan Pages  

 

Douglas Henshall in new BBC drama

According to BBC media, Douglas Henshall is to join Suranne Jones and an all-star cast in The Secret Of Crickley Hall, a chilling haunted house event drama for BBC One this autumn. Filming starts this month in and around the Manchester area. 

Source: DouglasHenshall.com 

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