Word: ballykissangel
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...opening across Europe this month and his next four films following close behind, Farrell won't be unknown for long. Later this year, he'll appear as Jesse James in American Outlaws, and soon the lad who previously could be seen only in the bbc's Irish drama series Ballykissangel and a few below-the-radar movies will perpetually be at a cinema near you. Is he ready for impending stardom? "I don't know. How do you ever know?" he replies between sips of a vodka tonic. "I just have to take...
Everybody hates an Anglophile. Or at least everybody should. By this I mean the kind of buttered-scone Anglophiles who have supported middlebrow imports like Ballykissangel and Masterpiece Theatre through pledge drive after pledge drive: those self-hating televisual Tories who cling to genteel dramas and dotty, dated comedies as a Union Jacked bulwark against American TV's tendency to be so crude, so commercial...so American...
...rated by Nielsen, it's the edgier programming--running in blocks called Cool Britannia and the Britcom Zone--that has inspired a dedicated audience following and critical praise. But the channel also hedges its bets with BBC news and more traditional reruns like Dr. Who and, yes, Ballykissangel. "If you liked that kind of programming, now you can get a lot more of it," says Judith A. McHale, president and chief operating officer of Discovery Communications. (And the BBC will still sell shows to PBS and cable...
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