When Peter Capaldi flickers into view on the Zoom call, I half expect him to tell me to “F** Off!”
For TV viewers of a certain age, the 65-year-old Scottish actor will forever be Malcolm Tucker, the supremely sweary spin doctor in Armando Iannucci’s pre-Veep Brit political satire The Thick of It.
“It’s The Thick of It and Doctor Who,” says a charming (and clean-mouthed) Capaldi, about the roles he’s most recognized for (he played the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in the cult sci-fi series from 2013 to 2017). “Surprisingly, The Thick of It is still incredibly popular [the series wrapped in 2012]. People, generally very cool, smart young people, recognize me from that a lot. They generally just ask me to swear at them.”
Of course, there’s a lot more to Capaldi than Tucker and the Doctor. His scores of film and TV appearances include playing alongside Burt Lancaster in Bill Forsyth’s 1983 classic Local Hero,...
For TV viewers of a certain age, the 65-year-old Scottish actor will forever be Malcolm Tucker, the supremely sweary spin doctor in Armando Iannucci’s pre-Veep Brit political satire The Thick of It.
“It’s The Thick of It and Doctor Who,” says a charming (and clean-mouthed) Capaldi, about the roles he’s most recognized for (he played the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in the cult sci-fi series from 2013 to 2017). “Surprisingly, The Thick of It is still incredibly popular [the series wrapped in 2012]. People, generally very cool, smart young people, recognize me from that a lot. They generally just ask me to swear at them.”
Of course, there’s a lot more to Capaldi than Tucker and the Doctor. His scores of film and TV appearances include playing alongside Burt Lancaster in Bill Forsyth’s 1983 classic Local Hero,...
- 1/8/2024
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Our final letters page of the year! So: are our Star Trek: The Next Generation lookbacks returning? And do we hate The Mentalist?
Welcome to our final letters page of the year! What started as a bit of a daft idea in the pub - starting a letters page on a website - bizarrely seems to have worked. As such, we shall be retreating to the pub far more often in 2015 to think of more daft ideas. Nothing could possibly go wrong with that plan.
For now? Here's our final selection of your missives for 2014. And thank you for supporting this, one of our daftest ventures to date...
Iain M Banks Books
I'm not much of a bookworm, but when I am, I got a lot of time for Iain M Banks books.
I chanced upon your interview with Dougray Scott from October last year, where it is mentioned that...
Welcome to our final letters page of the year! What started as a bit of a daft idea in the pub - starting a letters page on a website - bizarrely seems to have worked. As such, we shall be retreating to the pub far more often in 2015 to think of more daft ideas. Nothing could possibly go wrong with that plan.
For now? Here's our final selection of your missives for 2014. And thank you for supporting this, one of our daftest ventures to date...
Iain M Banks Books
I'm not much of a bookworm, but when I am, I got a lot of time for Iain M Banks books.
I chanced upon your interview with Dougray Scott from October last year, where it is mentioned that...
- 12/18/2014
- by simonbrew
- Den of Geek
Alex's series looking back at the film careers of actors who've played the Doctor finishes with Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi...
Feature
Read the previous part in this series: the film careers of Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant, here.
By 2009, the new version of Doctor Who had become not only an integral part of Saturday night television and a huge Christmas ratings winner but also an international success all over again. David Tennant, who had played the Time Lord since 2005 and was, arguably, more popular than any Doctor since the mighty Tom Baker hung up his scarf in 1981, had announced his resignation from the part he loved in October 2008. Many wondered how the incoming showrunner, Steven Moffat, would follow Tennant and what kind of show would emerge.
Tennant spent much of 2009 on stage in Hamlet and was only able to devote small amounts of time to Doctor Who. Occasional specials...
Feature
Read the previous part in this series: the film careers of Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant, here.
By 2009, the new version of Doctor Who had become not only an integral part of Saturday night television and a huge Christmas ratings winner but also an international success all over again. David Tennant, who had played the Time Lord since 2005 and was, arguably, more popular than any Doctor since the mighty Tom Baker hung up his scarf in 1981, had announced his resignation from the part he loved in October 2008. Many wondered how the incoming showrunner, Steven Moffat, would follow Tennant and what kind of show would emerge.
Tennant spent much of 2009 on stage in Hamlet and was only able to devote small amounts of time to Doctor Who. Occasional specials...
- 6/4/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
BBC Facebook
Peter Capaldi has admitted to first day nerves during his first day of filming for BBC’s series 8 of Doctor Who:
“New job, first day, slightly nervous. Just like the Doctor, I’m emerging from the Tardis into a whole other world.”
You can say that again! Variously expected in trepidation by fans the world over for not being like ‘their Doctor’, will never be as good as the previous incarnation, is too young / old for the role, or just plain…plain, each Doctor goes through this stage. One thing is for sure though, which is by Christmas this year we’ll all love him!
Standing next to Jenna Coleman, new script in hand and wearing Matt Smith’s eleventh incarnation outfit, there was not much that we could glean from this single publicity shot; except perhaps that TV sets are always a let down when viewed...
Peter Capaldi has admitted to first day nerves during his first day of filming for BBC’s series 8 of Doctor Who:
“New job, first day, slightly nervous. Just like the Doctor, I’m emerging from the Tardis into a whole other world.”
You can say that again! Variously expected in trepidation by fans the world over for not being like ‘their Doctor’, will never be as good as the previous incarnation, is too young / old for the role, or just plain…plain, each Doctor goes through this stage. One thing is for sure though, which is by Christmas this year we’ll all love him!
Standing next to Jenna Coleman, new script in hand and wearing Matt Smith’s eleventh incarnation outfit, there was not much that we could glean from this single publicity shot; except perhaps that TV sets are always a let down when viewed...
- 1/7/2014
- by Paul Hammans
- Obsessed with Film
Interview Andrew Blair 14 Oct 2013 - 06:32
Ahead of the release of his new thriller Last Passenger, we chat to star Dougray Scott about realism, genres, and Iain Banks...
Over the phone, while a very quiet and slightly confused engineer inspected our boiler, Den of Geek chatted to Dougray Scott – former Triffid wrangler, Imf double agent, author of Death Of A Salesman and guest star in Highlander: The TV Series – about his new film Last Passenger.
Set on a quiet, late-night commuter train out of London, the first full-length movie from short-film director Omid Nooshin sees a small group of strangers trapped on the speeding train with no help coming from outside. Think Unstoppable directed by Mike Leigh, and then try not to let your imagination run away with you next time you step on board public transport...
How did you become attached to this project? What was it about...
Ahead of the release of his new thriller Last Passenger, we chat to star Dougray Scott about realism, genres, and Iain Banks...
Over the phone, while a very quiet and slightly confused engineer inspected our boiler, Den of Geek chatted to Dougray Scott – former Triffid wrangler, Imf double agent, author of Death Of A Salesman and guest star in Highlander: The TV Series – about his new film Last Passenger.
Set on a quiet, late-night commuter train out of London, the first full-length movie from short-film director Omid Nooshin sees a small group of strangers trapped on the speeding train with no help coming from outside. Think Unstoppable directed by Mike Leigh, and then try not to let your imagination run away with you next time you step on board public transport...
How did you become attached to this project? What was it about...
- 10/11/2013
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Peter Capaldi. He’ll obviously be very different from the three preceding rebooted Doctor Who Doctors, as we could have surmised from showrunner Steven Moffat‘s three words to describe the next Doctor: “Not. Matt. Smith.”
He played the despised Frobisher from Torchwood: Children of Earth, the one who had to make all the unfortunate decisions, other than Jack of course. He also played the main character in “The Fires of Pompeii” episode with the 10th Doctor and Donna. His facility with playing conflicted characters will serve him well in this new gig, if indeed they decide to take that route again.
One of my favorite bits of trivia is that he played the W.H.O. Doctor, I kid you not, in World War Z. That’s World Health Organization, but come on, that’s kinda cool.
Here’s his pic:
And here’s the press release, via the...
He played the despised Frobisher from Torchwood: Children of Earth, the one who had to make all the unfortunate decisions, other than Jack of course. He also played the main character in “The Fires of Pompeii” episode with the 10th Doctor and Donna. His facility with playing conflicted characters will serve him well in this new gig, if indeed they decide to take that route again.
One of my favorite bits of trivia is that he played the W.H.O. Doctor, I kid you not, in World War Z. That’s World Health Organization, but come on, that’s kinda cool.
Here’s his pic:
And here’s the press release, via the...
- 8/4/2013
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
The widely acclaimed science fiction writer Iain Banks, whose novel Complicity was made into a film starring Jonny Lee Miller and Brian Cox, has died of cancer at the age of 59. He had been ill for several months and taking chemotherapy in an effort to prolong his life.
Banks sprang to fame in 1984 with The Wasp Factory and went on to write The Crow Road, which became a popular television series, along with numerous other novels, many of which have been considered for films. He created the Culture series, considering how a human-like species might behave in an age of plenty, and he was described by the Times as one of the top 50 writers of the century.
To those of us who had the pleasure of meeting him, he was also a warm, likeable individual, known for his sense of humour. His use of the middle initial 'M'...
Banks sprang to fame in 1984 with The Wasp Factory and went on to write The Crow Road, which became a popular television series, along with numerous other novels, many of which have been considered for films. He created the Culture series, considering how a human-like species might behave in an age of plenty, and he was described by the Times as one of the top 50 writers of the century.
To those of us who had the pleasure of meeting him, he was also a warm, likeable individual, known for his sense of humour. His use of the middle initial 'M'...
- 6/8/2013
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
More Dickens and even more Shakespeare, but also new novels from Toni Morrison, Hilary Mantel, Zadie Smith, plus exciting new voices – 2012's literary highlights
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes,...
January
10 Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood, starring Matthew Rhys and Tamzin Merchant, begins – and, unlike the book, ends – on BBC2.
13 Michael Morpurgo's much-loved children's novel War Horse, a long-running favourite at the National and on Broadway, gets the Hollywood treatment. A tearjerking saga about a young soldier and his horse – it was only a matter of time before it was Spielberged.
16 Ts Eliot prize. Despite withdrawals from the shortlist over objections to a hedge fund's sponsorship of the prize, the Eliot remains the UK's premier poetry award, and its eve-of-event reading is always a treat. This year's shortlist includes Daljit Nagra, Carol Ann Duffy and John Burnside.
20 Release of film of Coriolanus, an Orson Wellesian effort directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes,...
- 1/6/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
The British production company Film and Music Entertainment, in partnership with director Dominic Murphy (White Lightnin'), have just announced several future projects, including an untitled Bronte film (Charlotte? Emily? Anne?) and Jesus Christ Airlines, about a heroic pilot in Biafra. But most tantalising is A Gift From the Culture, based on a short story by Iain M. Banks, originally published in Interzone and collected in Banks' The State of the Art.Murphy is writing the script, which if it sticks to source will be about a refugee from Banks' complex utopia The Culture, living undercover on a world that the anarchist socialist intergalactic colonial empire (yes, it's contradictory, we know) has just noticed, and being blackmailed into a violent act using a Culture-specific weapon.Banks' sci-fi novels (he also writes dark "mainstream" fiction without the M, notably The Wasp Factory and The Crow Road) are fat and full of ideas,...
- 10/22/2009
- EmpireOnline
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