By Any Means (BBC1)

JP Liz V1

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BBC One has released a trailer for their upcoming drama series By Any Means,
which is set to premiere on Sunday September 22nd at 9pm.


Created by a writing team comprised of Tony Jordan, Richard Zajdlic, James
Payne, Jeff Povey and Richard Lazarus, By Any Means has been described as a
“gritty police drama” which follows police officer Jack Quinn who runs a
clandestine police department that, when the legal system fails, go to any
lengths to bring the criminal elite to justice. Quinn’s shadowy and brilliant
team will go about their business, exploiting weaknesses, weaving a web of
cunning and deception that leads the unwary target into the arms of justice. The
series is produced by Red Planet Pictures and stars Warren Brown, Elliot Knight,
Shelley Conn, Gina McKee, Andrew Lee Potts, John Henshaw, Keith Allen, Kate
Dickie, Neil Maskell and Martin Jarvis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnXSj6vNpGA

mike65

Should be fun this, even if it smacks of stealing "high concept" nonsense from Hollywood!

JP Liz V1

mike65 wrote: »

Should be fun this, even if it smacks of stealing "high concept" nonsense from Hollywood!

Well Warren Brown

has described his new show as like The A-Team meets The Equalizer

_Whimsical_

Is there ANYTHING on or coming to the BBC that doesn't revolve around crime?
(apart from Strictly and baking shows)

How is the rest of the world not pulling their hair out at the thought of a full winter of "who dun it? Someone did" tv ? All of this police stuff looks interchangeable to me at this stage.

Dozen Wicked Words

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Is there ANYTHING on or coming to the BBC that doesn't revolve around crime?
(apart from Strictly and baking shows)

How is the rest of the world not pulling their hair out at the thought of a full winter of "who dun it? Someone did" tv ? All of this police stuff looks interchangeable to me at this stage.

All tv stations output are more or less the same. BBC would be a lot more diverse than most I think.

_Whimsical_

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

All tv stations output are more or less the same. BBC would be a lot more diverse than most I think.

Not in terms of creative drama content though, I think they're becoming much less diverse. We get a crime related drama for nearly every night of the week. Then a yearly 6wk costume drama is the only reprieve from murders and police and I don't think they're even doing that this year. It's as though only people in the 1800 to 1900s could possibly have personal lives and relationships nuanced enough to build a narrative around. I miss the more human drama based series, we need some things like Cold Feet,Life,Teachers etc that appeals to both genders and has strong enough writing not to need a paedophile,murderer,dead body,ego maniac police guy etc thrown in to add supposed momentum.

brian_t

_Whimsical_ wrote: »

Is there ANYTHING on or coming to the BBC that doesn't revolve around crime?
(apart from Strictly and baking shows)

How is the rest of the world not pulling their hair out at the thought of a full winter of "who dun it? Someone did" tv ? All of this police stuff looks interchangeable to me at this stage.

I think that you picked the wrong thread to raise this issue.

If the BBC came out in this timeslot, with the type of drama that you want they would be accused of trying to spoil ITV's premier of Downton Abbey.

JP Liz V1

Anyone watch this?

Reminded me of UK version of Leverage with less charming and likeable characters

Dozen Wicked Words

Thought it was pretty bad tbh. Poorly acted and the poor story line felt like a schoolboy had watched an episode of leverage and wrote an English version in his lunch break.

28 minutes into the first episode and really not imppressed. Touted as a gritty drama it's really a light, comedic whodunit with not a whole lot of charm or wit. It relies far too heavily on the same repetitive piece of music that feels like something found on the editing suite after they'd finished scoring an episode of Utopia.