Denis Lill (Charles Vaughan, Survivors) was interviewed by Kugan Cassius of iFilm at the 2013 Only Fools & Horses Convention which took place recently in Peterborough. Lill played the occasional, recurring role of Alan Parry in Only Fools & Horses.
Lill discusses his work in the series, his character’s view of others on the show, and refers to his more recent TV work on The Royal and his stage appearances in a number of different Agatha Christie productions.
A four-page full-colour ‘Time Machine’ feature on Survivors appears in the latest SFX magazine (Issue 227, November 2012).
Penned by Robert Fairclough, the feature tells (in brief) the story of the production of the show across all three series, introduces some of the key in-front-of-and-behind-the-camera creative team, and reflects on some of the highlights of series two and three. The piece is illustrated by a mixture of familiar BBC stills and DVD screen captures. No new interview or archival content has been sourced.
Lucy Fleming (niece of James Bond creator, the late Ian Fleming) has joined the publicity drive for the new James Bond film Skyfall and the range of new James Bond audio-books, the release of which co-incides with the Bon’s latest cinema outing.
Interviewed in GQ (‘Lucy Fleming on James Bond’s anniversary, her uncle’s legacy and die-hard fans’, 3 October), Fleming reflects on her uncle’s work and considers the different interpretations that have been made of his most famous creation on screen and on the page.
Speaking to the Evening Standard (‘Lucy Fleming: If I reveal the James Bond Skyfall plot I might be shot’, 3 October), Fleming revisits the different incaranations of Bond, and recollects some of the key events in her own personal life, and the intertwinning of her life and that of Ian Fleming’s legacy.
Lucy Fleming is also widely pictured attending the after-party for the launch of the new James Bond behind-the-scenes book Everything or Nothing – The Untold Story of 007, held on 1 October.
Barbara Broccoli, left, and Lucy Fleming right, at the Odeon West End, London, 1 October 2012
Everything or Nothing is out now.
The 007 Reloaded audiobooks are available from Audiogo.com
Skyfall is on general release from 26 October 2012
St Giles Church, in the abandoned village of Imber on Salisbury Common (the main location for series three episode Sparks) enjoyed one of its all-too-brief annual open weekends at the end of September, as reported on the BBC News site (29 September 2012).
Deserted Salisbury Plain village of Imber opened to public
A village in Wiltshire that was abandoned during World War II and then taken over by the military opened for the weekend.
The village of Imber is normally closed to the public as it is in a military training zone on Salisbury Plain.
More than 100 people attended a service at St Giles Church, in Imber, on Salisbury Plain.
On Sunday, a full peal of the bells was rung which took some two-and-a-half hours to complete.
It is the fifth time a full peal has been rung since a new set of six bells was re-hung in August 2010, after the original bells were taken out in 1950.
The entire civilian population of the village was ordered to leave in December 1943 to provide a training area for American troops preparing for the invasion of Europe during World War II.
They were never allowed to return.
Since 2005, when the church was taken over by the Churches Conservation Trust, more than £300,000 has been spent on renovations.
Survivors actress Lucy Fleming (Jenny Richards) appeared on the BBC Radio 2 Steve Wright in the Afternoon show on 5 September 2012, to discuss the new range of James Bond audio-books (007 Reloaded) being released this week.
The interview (in which Steve Wright mentions Lucy’s role in Survivors as part of the intro) can currently be streamed online (in the UK).
Lucy Fleming – Steve Wright in the Afternoon – 5 September 2012
Video of a brief Caroline Seymour Q&A appearance at the 2010 Journey to Where Space 1999 Convention held in Austin, Texas, USA on 16-18 July 2010 has recently be uploaded to YouTube.
In addition to the pre-screening Q&A, Caroline also spoke about her work at a separate session at the Convention, a video of which is also available on YouTube.
Several extracts from the original Survivors first series episode Genesis feature in Dominic Sandbrook’s new BBC 2 documentary TV series The ’70s.
In the third of four episodes, which focuses on the mid-1970s [‘Goodbye Great Britain 75-77’], Sandbrook makes reference to the resonances between the widespread ‘pessimism and paranoia’ gripping Britain at the time and the post-apocalyptic preoccupations of Survivors.
Sandbrook’s commentary (33ms 20s – 35ms 04s) is illustrated with extracts from Genesis (showing Anne Tranter’s first meeting with Greg Preston; and Abby Grant’s encounter with Arthur Wormley) and an oddly irrelevant aerial shot of some moorland (sourced from some other show).
Viewers in the UK can catch the episode on the BBC iPlayer service (until 9.59pm on Monday, 21 May 2012)
BBC - The '70s - 3 - ‘Goodbye Great Britain 75-77’ - Survivors
A rare opportunity to enjoy an episode from the original Survivors on the big screen is provided during the ID Fest film festival in Derby later in May.
The series three episode Law of the Jungle, which features a memorable guest appearance by Brian Blessed is being screened on Saturday 26 May at 12:45pm. The ‘Brian Blessed Television Showcase’ also includes an equally rare cinematic outing for one of the earliest installments of the Tales of the Unexpected anthology Lamb to the Slaughter, in which Blessed also co-stars.
At 7:00pm on the same day, the festival plays host to Brian Blessed: live in conversation, an opportunity to hear the actor and raconteur reflect on decades of work on the big and small screen.
Blessed’s appearance is followed by a screening of the kitch 1980s space-opera Flash Gordon, which features a scene-stealing peformance from Blessed as Prince Vultan.
