Sky One’s The Take comes to DVD
Sky One’s hit drama series, The Take, adapted from the best-selling novel by Martina Cole, is coming to DVD next month and can be pre-ordered from the seenit.co.uk store.
The drama stars Tom Hardy (Bronson, Stuart A Life Backwards) as Freddie Jackson, who out of jail, has made the right connections and now he’s ready to use them. With his faithful cousin Jimmy (Shaun Evans) by his side, Freddie is ready to take on the world. His wife Jackie (Kierston Wareing) dreams of having her husband home but she’s forgotten the rows and the girls Freddie can’t leave alone.
At first Freddie gets everything he ever wanted and Jimmy is taken along for the ride, the two creating a growing crime empire that gives them all the respect and money they’ve hungered for. But behind it all sits Ozzy (Brian Cox) - a legendary criminal godfather who manipulates Freddie and Jimmy’s fates from behind the bars of his prison cell.
Bitter, resentful and increasingly unstable, Jackie sees her life crumble while her little sister Maggie’s (Charlotte Riley) star rises. In love with Jimmy, Maggie is determined not to end up like her sister. Freddie and Jackie watch Jimmy and Maggie achieve all the dreams that they themselves failed to realise: love, family, stability and respect. Freddie soon proves himself to be unpredictably violent and extremely dangerous.
A jealous resentment and an inability to control himself force Freddie to put both the business and family at risk. Torn between being loyal to a cousin he loves and being true to his own destiny, Jimmy is forced to decide between protecting Freddie or the life he has built with Maggie…
Ahead of transmission on Sky One, Cole, one of the UK’s most prolific crime writers and the author of fifteen novels set in London’s gangland, commented: “The Take was my era – I wanted to capture that. The times changed then – the family dynamics changed. Every now and then I like to go back and take people back to another era and show them how something began.”
Martina Cole’s The Take comes to Sky One
The Take is a new four-part serial, adapted from the best-selling novel by Martina Cole, airing on SKy One later this month and starring Tom Hardy (Bronson, Stuart A Life Backwards) as Freddie Jackson.
Just out of jail, he’s done his time, made the right connections and now he’s ready to use them. With his faithful cousin Jimmy (Shaun Evans) by his side, Freddie is ready to take on the world. His wife Jackie (Kierston Wareing) dreams of having her husband home but she’s forgotten the rows and the girls Freddie can’t leave alone.
At first Freddie gets everything he ever wanted and Jimmy is taken along for the ride, the two creating a growing crime empire that gives them all the respect and money they’ve hungered for. But behind it all sits Ozzy (Brian Cox) - a legendary criminal godfather who manipulates Freddie and Jimmy’s fates from behind the bars of his prison cell.
Bitter, resentful and increasingly unstable, Jackie sees her life crumble while her little sister Maggie’s (Charlotte Riley) star rises. In love with Jimmy, Maggie is determined not to end up like her sister. Freddie and Jackie watch Jimmy and Maggie achieve all the dreams that they themselves failed to realise: love, family, stability and respect. Freddie soon proves himself to be unpredictably violent and extremely dangerous.
A jealous resentment and an inability to control himself force Freddie to put both the business and family at risk. Torn between being loyal to a cousin he loves and being true to his own destiny, Jimmy is forced to decide between protecting Freddie or the life he has built with Maggie…
Cole, one of the UK’s most prolific crime writers and the author of fifteen novels set in London’s gangland, comments: “The Take was my era – I wanted to capture that. The times changed then – the family dynamics changed. Every now and then I like to go back and take people back to another era and show them how something began.”
The Take starts Wednesday 17th June at 9pm on Sky1 and Sky1 HD
Sky 1’s The Take
Five comes to freesat
Bosses at Freesat have confirmed that the fledgling free-to-air service is finally to terrestrial channel Five from Tuesday November 18. The channel was initially unavailable to the service at launch and was only available to viewers of Sky’s satellite TV service.
Commenting on the addition of Five to the service, Freesat MD Emma Scott said “We’ve been looking forward to welcoming Five onto Freesat since we launched - and we know viewers have too. Five is a fantastic addition and we’re thrilled that the large number of homes that have already chosen Freesat will now be able to enjoy Five alongside around 140 other channels available without a subscription or contract.”
Viewers won’t need to take any action as Five will automatically appear on Freesat boxes at channel number 105.
Charles Constable, Director of Strategy at Five, said “I am delighted that Five will be available to Freesat viewers. Our launch will support three of Five’s objectives: to be universally available throughout the UK, to let viewers watch our programmes on the platform of their choice, and to enable as many people as possible to watch Five free of charge.”
Sky announce Clone Wars start date
Fresh from cinematic success, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, comes to Sky Movies and Sky Movies HD from Saturday, October 25th.
The weekly CG-animated series from executive producer George Lucas chronicles the adventures of fan favourites Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda as they struggle against the forces of the dark side led by Palpatine, Count Dooku and General Grievous during the divisive Clone Wars.
Lucas has said he felt “there were a lot more Star Wars stories left to tell” and that he was “eager to start telling some of them through animation and, at the same time, push the art of animation forward.”
Sky are treating the airing of the series as major movie event and will be airing half-hour “mini-movies” every week for an initial season spanning twenty-two episodes.
Ian Lewis, Director of Sky Movies and Sky Box Office said the broadcaster was “thrilled that this time we will be the first place anywhere that UK fans will be able to watch Star Wars: The Clone Wars.”
Lewis continues, “Visually stunning with story lines and characters that could only come from Lucasfilm, Star Wars: The Clone Wars will undoubtedly appeal to both to long-standing Star Wars enthusiasts and a new generation of fans. Yet this is Star Wars like you’ve never seen before, and so it is only right that we are able to broadcast the entire series in high definition.”