BS: Full Monty plus 25? years as TV series

Subject: BS: Full Monty plus 25? years as TV series
From: keberoxu
Date: 12 Apr 22 - 08:23 PM

No, I'm not making this one up.
Check out this publicity photograph from this very year, 2022.

Original Series coming soon to DisneyPlus UK

And here, twenty-five-or-so years on, are
the persons in the above photograph, from left to right:

William Snape, Paul Barber, Robert Carlyle, Hugo Speer, Steve Huison, "Dave's Wife" I don't remember the actress's name, and "Dave" himself, Mark Addy.
Tom Wilkinson wasn't present for the photo op,
but he is said to be included in casting for this series.

No, the men are NOT going to strip down to their altogethers!! Sorry.
But the series is going to see how these Northerners are getting on with their lives, all these years down the road.

Peter Cattaneo, whose experience directing the award-winning movie has made for some controversy,
has NOT been asked back, they are doing this without him.

Who else is coming back, though, includes
Simon Beaufoy, the original scriptwriter, and
Uberto Pasolini, the original producer.

Mind you, there are other names -- publicized elsewhere --
who are going to do the actual writing, but Beaufoy will oversee things in terms of developing characters and plot.

I have never heard of DisneyPlus UK, though.

Subject: RE: BS: Full Monty plus 25? years as TV series
From: keberoxu
Date: 20 Apr 22 - 11:36 AM

The cast for the television series will include
Coronation Street regular Bruce Jones, it is announced (by Bruce Jones on his Twitter account).
The series plans on eight episodes.

Subject: RE: BS: Full Monty plus 25? years as TV series
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Jun 22 - 09:47 PM

Photograph of Robert Carlyle and Mark Addy,
with a homeowner -- they shot on location at her home.
Something about her garden.
Gnomes, anyone?

from the homeowner's Twitter

Subject: RE: BS: Full Monty plus 25? years as TV series
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Jul 22 - 08:56 PM

Too bad about Hugo ("Gentlemen, the lunch-box has arrived") Speer.
He has been kicked out of the sequel series to the Full Monty.
There are allegations about nakedness.
It does make one wonder if
being cast in the Full Monty did something to Speer's, um, common sense?