Nigel Planer Archives

Blackeyes (1989)

Rating: ★★★

Nov 26, 2005Character in a Book Comes to Life

TV mini-series from the great Dennis Potter in which the lead character in a smutty novel by an aging writer rebels against her fate. As always with Potter, this blurs fiction, meta-fiction and autobiographical elements

Director: Dennis Potter

Actors: Gina Bellman, Michael Gough, Nigel Planer

Category: Fantasy

26 November 200527 January 2021 by Roog

The Wind in the Willows (1996)

Rating: ★★★½

Aug 18, 2015Talking Animals/Absurdist Adventures

Monty Python's Terry Jones conducts a live-action adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic children's story

Director: Terry Jones

Actors: Terry Jones, Steve Coogan, Eric Idle, Nicol Williamson, …

Category: Fantasy

18 August 201523 October 2025 by Roog

Hogfather (2006)

Rating: ★★★

Jun 15, 2008Fantasy Comedy/Terry Pratchett Adaptation

The first in a series of Terry Pratchett Discworld adaptations for tv. This makes the odd choice of adapting one of the more complex and darker of Pratchett's usually comic books but it works fairly well overall

Director: Vadim Jean

Actors: Marc Warren, David Jason, Joss Ackland, Michelle Dockery, …

Category: Fantasy

15 June 200812 December 2024 by Roog

Flood (2007)

Rating: ★★

Nov 18, 2007London Deluged/Disaster Mini-Series

A British disaster tv mini-series that depicts London being overwhelmed by vast flooding and the struggle by civil authorities to cope

Director: Tony Mitchell

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Jessalyn Gilsig, Joanne Whalley, Tom Courtenay, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 November 200722 October 2025 by Roog

The Colour of Magic (2008)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 11, 2009Fantasy Comedy/Terry Pratchett Adaptation

The second live-action tv adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld books (in fact combining two books). This is uneven and oddly padded but beautifully produced

Director: Vadim Jean

Actors: David Jason, Sean Astin, Tim Curry, David Bradley, …

Category: Fantasy

11 January 20096 October 2025 by Roog