Peaky Blinders filming grinds to a halt once again after Covid scare Mirror 7 hrs ago Jamie Roberts
The stop-start filming for the sixth series of hit period crime drama Peaky Blinders hit a snag once again after a crew member reportedly returned a false positive test.
The test was in line with protocol for the BBC show and forced everyone who had been in contact with the worker to self-isolate. It follows an official announcement last year that filming would have to be put on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic.
At the time, the show s official social media accounts released a statement saying: After much consideration, and in light of the developing situation concerning Covid-19, the start of production of Peaky Blinders Series 6 has been postponed.
Viewpoint isn t interested in imitating Jed Mercurio s smash hit. It is a different beast entirely. ITV
The contrast is predominantly evident in its pacing. A significant portion of the chatter surrounding the series argues that it s moving far too slowly. Some have even proceeded a step further, labelling it boring , which could well be a symptom of having watched
Line of Duty the previous evening.
Despite being a relatively tame episode by its own standards – it included an almost 30-minute interrogation scene – it still squeezed in a dramatic car chase, a police standoff and a raid carried out by the Guardia Civil.
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Blackspace
The psychological thriller, set in an Israeli high school, was also picked up by RTL for Germany and NPO for the Netherlands in a series of deals by Federation Entertainment.
Netflix has acquired
Blackspace, a new Israeli thriller series set during a high-school shooting, for most of the world.
The 8-part series, written by Anat Gafni and Sahar Shavit and directed by Ofir Lobel, follows the police investigation into a massacre of four students at an Israeli high school carried out by anonymous masked figures. Key to the investigation is an app, Blackspace, that the school s pupils use to communicate with one another, sharing their secrets out of view of their parents and the adult world.
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