“The Heart of Me” screening on BBC
The Heart of Me is showing on BBC2 at 9.15pm on Saturday 12th March. It was filmed on the Island in 2001 and stars Helena Bonham Carter and Paul Bettany.
Local screening of “Owd Bob”
Owd Bob will be showing at Waterloo Methodist Church in Ramsey at 7.30pm, tomorrow night, 25th February 2005.
Our new films
Mistress of Spices has just started filming at Island Studios and is being directed by Paul Berges and Gurinder Chadra, the directors of Bend it Like Beckham and Bride and Prejudice. It is based on the book by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni of the same name.
Meanwhile, Keeping Mum is expected to start filming on the Island in early March and stars Rowan Atkinson, Maggie Smith and Patrick Swayze.
“Sons and Lovers”
Sons and Lovers, the adaptation of the D H Lawrence novel of the same name, is showing on Sky Movies 1 at 4pm on Thursday 10th February and Sky Movies 2 on Friday 11th February at 5pm.
“The Rotters’ Club”
“The Rotters’ Club”, one of our productions filmed over the Summer, is to be screened on BBC2 this Wednesday 26th January at 9pm as the first of a three-part series. For further information, please visit BBCs Website
“Best” – screening on Sky Movies
Best is showing on Sky Movies 9 on Tuesday 18th January at 8pm. For more information about the film please see our Past Productions page.
Plan Your Christmas and New Year Viewing!
The following Isle of Man productions will be screening on UK terrestial television over the Christmas period:
The Final Quest – ITV1 9pm Monday 27th December
I Capture The Castle – BBC2 6.10pm Tuesday 28th December
Tom Brown’s Schooldays – ITV1 9pm New Year’s Day
“On A Clear Day”
“On A Clear Day” is being premiered at the Sundance Film Festival as their opening film. For further information, please see the press release.
“Relative Values” local screening
“Relative Values” is being shown in Ramsey at Waterloo Methodist Hall tonight at 7.30pm. Entrance is free but donations can be made to The Ramsey Cottage Hospital League of Friends. No booking is necessary, please turn up on the night.
“Island At War”
The Minister for the Department of Trade & Industry, Alex Downie has confirmed that there will be no further collaboration with Granada Television on the drama series Island At War.
“Although the series was very popular and was pulling in an average of 5 million viewers per episode, ITV has a number of Second World War drama projects in hand or under consideration” said Mr Downie. “We will be working with ITV again on future projects, as well as collaborating with the BBC drama and film departments on a variety of other material.”