True Love

[CaptainWaggett]

BBC1 Sunday 10.25pm

Two former Doctor Who stars - David Tennant and Billie Piper (or three if you count David Morrissey) - plus Jaime Winston, Ashley Walters, Lacey Turner and Jane Horrocks, star in BBC1's improvised drama series True Love, which follows five overlapping relationships across five episodes, starting on Sunday

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2012-...r-in-true-love

[pelam123]

"Improvised".

[didi-5]

It might be good ... it might be awful.

[Rowdon]

"Improvised".

Yes ... Oh dear.

[Dame Starry]

Tennant is never knowingly screened in my house - unfortunately, I can't do anything about the Virgin ads! For me, he is the biggest TV turn-off ever.

[Rowdon]

Improvisation works around the concept that the actor might spontaneously be as good as the writing of a professional author. I have yet to see anything that bears that out. But maybe it's just me.

[CaptainWaggett]

Improvisation works around the concept that the actor might spontaneously be as good as the writing of a professional author. I have yet to see anything that bears that out. But maybe it's just me.

It's never actually spontaneous though - stuff like Christopher Guest or Mike Leigh films/plays have more far rehearsals and 'workshops' than if they just wrote a script in the first place.

[Steve Crook]

Improvisation works around the concept that the actor might spontaneously be as good as the writing of a professional author. I have yet to see anything that bears that out. But maybe it's just me.

Improvisation can be done in many different ways. It rarely means that anyone makes it up on the spot.
Have you seen any of Mike Leigh's films?

Steve

[hankoler]

Improvisation is, I think self editing??

[Steve Crook]

Improvisation is, I think self editing??

No, it's more complicated than that. When actors talk about improvising for films like this they mean that they go through a lot of rehearsals where they try a scene one way and the director says "Well I liked that bit but I didn't like that other bit" so they try doing the other bit in a different way. They go through that process a number of times for each scene until they're all satisfied and then they shoot it.

With someone like Mike Leigh it's even more complicated because he gets each actor to work out the character's own back-story and they try out various things with that as well until director & actor are happy with it. He often does that with actors individually so that other actors in a scene don't know how a person will react or why

Steve

[Rowdon]

Improvisation can be done in many different ways. It rarely means that anyone makes it up on the spot.
Have you seen any of Mike Leigh's films?

Steve

I have seen many Mike Leigh films. You're right, of course, that is improvisation. Ken Loach too.

When I wrote my post I was suddenly revisited by improv sessions in drama classes and I couldn't stop the anguish, hence what I wrote.
Point taken.

Though there are parts of some of Loach's films that might have benefited from a scriptwriter.

Of course, there are also lots of scripted films that would have benefited from Ken Loach.

[agutterfan]

Jenny Agutter will be appearing in episode 3 of 5 ("Holly") of BBC's new 30 minute partly improvised series True Love tonight TUESDAY 19TH JUNE BBC1 10.35PM. She plays Holly's (Billie Piper) mum. See link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01k6b34