Bafta Nominations
Congratulations to Sir Tom Courtenay, for his Bafta nomination as best supporting actor in ‘Unforgotten’.
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Royal Television Society Awards
Congratulations to Sir Tom Courtenay, on his Royal Television Society nomination as best actor for his performance as Eric Slater in ‘Unforgotten’. The award ceremony will take place on March 22nd at the Grosvenor Park hotel .
New Projects
Delighted to announce alongside filming season II of Unforgotten, Chris will be making two new projects later this year. ‘Innocent’ a four part thriller he co-created with Matt Arlidge, will shoot late summer, for broadcast early 2017. It will be produced by his company TXTV for ITV1, and will be written by Chris and Matt, and executive produced by Matt Arlidge, Chris Lang and Jeremy Gwilt. Cast to be announced.
Chris’s adaptation of Adam Creed’s first Wagstaffe novel Suffer The Children, “Dark Heart”, has also been green lit for ITV Encore, to be produced by ITV studios. Shooting starts in summer. Cast to be announced.
Broadcasting Press Guild Awards
Congratulations to Nicola Walker, who has been nominated for best actress by the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, for her role in Unforgotten.
The Awards will be announced at a lunch at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on Friday March 11th 2016, which will be attended by the winners, BPG members and leading broadcasting executives.
Best TV of 2015 roundups
“Unforgotten” has featured in a number of roundups of the best television programmes of 2015, garnering praise and plaudits from:
Click links to read the roundups.
French TV adaptation of “Torn” set to shoot for TF1
The French channel TF1 has acquired the rights to remake the RTS nominated drama ‘Torn’ to remake in French from TXTV. The adaptation, titled ‘Entre Deux Meres’ goes in to pre-production in Paris in February for broadcast later in 2016 on TF1.
The original, written by Chris Lang, was first broadcast in 2007 and was nominated for an RTS Television Award in 2008 as Best Drama Serial.
Unforgotten signed for Season Two
After the thrilling finale of ‘Unforgotten‘, ITV have commissioned a second series of the Chris Lang’s crime drama with Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar returning in the lead roles.
ITV’s drama boss Steve November announced “We are pleased with the audience response to Unforgotten and I am delighted to announce that it will be returning for a second series with a brand new story from the writer Chris Lang and Mainstreet Pictures, a winning formula who have kept ITV drama viewers gripped throughout the first series.”
Interviewed in Radio Times, Chris Lang said: “I absolutely adored working with Nicola and Sanjeev, who would obviously be the returning characters. All of the other characters would be new, it would be a new story, a new deeply historical case and I’d just love to spend more time with those people and start to weave another story together. It’s endless possibilities for not just a second but a third too — who knows how many series.”
Critical acclaim for “Unforgotten”
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‘A beautifully weighted tale of betrayal and lies, Nicola Walker is outstanding. Highly recommended.’
Observer
‘As fine a cop show as I’ve ever come across’
Daily Express
‘It’s quite superb.’
Guardian Online
‘The unfailingly stylish Unforgotten… uniformly compelling.’
Financial Times
‘Chris Lang’s understated masterly drama. I watched the first two rapt and absorbed. Nicola Walker is just brilliant. It’s such a great story, a pantheon of terrific actors.’
Radio Times
‘Nicola Walker is absolutely terrific, it was amazing.’
BBC Front Row
‘Utterly brilliant and dramatic… Nicola Walker is outstanding… unmissable.’
TV Times
‘Recalls the best Scandi-noir. The sombre mood and mounting tension rivet your attention and never let go… a brilliant cast. Stylish, intelligent, masterly.’
Financial Times
‘One of the best dramas I’ve seen in a long time.’
Radio Times
‘The first episode made an indelible mark, it’s extremely good storytelling, carefully paced, beautifully acted, a reminder how good TV crime drama can be.’
Daily Express
‘One of ITV’s best crime dramas…a stroke of genius…TV Gold’
Sunday Express
‘It takes actors of this power to do justice to the depth of the story..superb…next weeks climax will be unmissable’
Daily Mail
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‘What a distinguished piece of work “Unforgotten” has been.’
The Times
‘Exceptionally intriguing, utterly riveting. A brilliant format… outstanding and original.’
Daily Mail
‘Superb…just remember to breathe’
Sunday Mirror
‘I would like to declare this the year of Nicola Walker, she is the beating heart of this superlative crime series, her subtle performance anchoring an increasingly complex web of lies.’
Observer
‘Much has been made of this detective drama’s heavy weight cast but Chris Lang’s multi layered script is pretty impressive too.’
Saturday Telegraph
‘Outstanding drama…the performances have been brilliant throughout’
The Guardian
‘Oh – it’s really good.’
The Star
‘Top class acting and a series of twists lift this classy taut thriller above the raft of other crime procedurals. If you’ve been craving a big autumn whodunit look no further than this offering from writer Chris Lang who was behind last years brilliant Undeniable. Criminally good.’
The Sun
‘This brilliantly acted belter’
Daily Mirror.
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French adaptation of “A Mother’s Son” wins Best TV Film.
“Tu es mon fils” (adapted by Didier Le Pêcheur from Chris Lang’s series “A Mother’s Son“) has won the Best Single TV Movie (Meilleur Film Unitaire Francophone) at the 2015 Festival POLAR de Cognac.
The film aired on February 23rd and took a 23% share of viewing figures for TF1 and received rave reviews from the French press.
For more information (in French), visit the site for Tu es mon fils
“Unforgotten” premiere on ITV
Episode 1 of Unforgotten, written and created by Chris Lang , is broadcast on ITV on Thursday October 8. The series focuses on a cold case from years ago, when the bones of a young man are found beneath the footings of a demolished house. An investigation begins that will unravel the lives of four people who have been waiting for this moment for nearly forty years, as they discover that the past can’t, and won’t, stay buried for ever.
“Unforgotten” attracts 6.5 million viewers
The first episode Unforgotten, the six-part series penned by Chris Lang and starring Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar premiered to 6.5 million viewers on ITV according to BARB figures.
Unforgotten
Six-part crime drama centred around a historical crime that links four very different and seemingly unconnected suspects, unravelling secrets left buried for years.
DCI Cassie Stuart and DS Sunil ‘Sunny’ Khan reopen a cold case when a skeleton is discovered in the foundations of a demolished building, launching a murder hunt that could potentially date back decades.
The discovery of a car key near the body is the only clue to the identity of the victim, igniting a search to find out who he is and how, when and why he died.
With Nicola Walker, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Tom Courtenay, Trevor Eve, and Bernard Hill.
Praise for Unforgotten
‘A beautifully weighted tale of betrayal and lies, Nicola Walker is outstanding. Highly recommended.’
Observer
‘As fine a cop show as I’ve ever come across’
Daily Express
‘It’s quite superb.’
Guardian Online
‘Chris Lang’s understated masterly drama. I watched the first two rapt and absorbed. Nicola Walker is just brilliant. It’s such a great story, a pantheon of terrific actors.’
Radio Times
‘Nicola Walker is absolutely terrific, it was amazing.’
BBC Front Row
‘Utterly brilliant and dramatic… Nicola Walker is outstanding… unmissable.’
TV Times
‘Recalls the best Scandi-noir. The sombre mood and mounting tension rivet your attention and never let go… a brilliant cast. Stylish, intelligent, masterly.’
Financial Times
‘The first episode made an indelible mark, it’s extremely good storytelling, carefully paced, beautifully acted, a reminder how good TV crime drama can be.’
Daily Express
‘One of ITV’s best crime dramas…a stroke of genius…TV Gold’
Sunday Express
‘It takes actors of this power to do justice to the depth of the story..superb…next weeks climax will be unmissable’
Daily Mail
Cast:
- Nicola Walker
- Sanjeev Bhaskar
- Trevor Eve
- Bernard Hill
- Tom Courtenay
Written by: Chris Lang
Directed by: Andy Wilson
Produced by: Tim Bradley
Executive producers: Chris Lang, Sally Haynes and Laura Mackie.
Production Company: Mainstreet
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