{"id":14937,"date":"2023-02-22T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14937"},"modified":"2023-02-22T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T11:10:10","slug":"blogathon-22-23-on-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=14937","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 22\/23: On the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A long time ago on November 4th (that&#8217;s a very prestigious date!) in the year 1985 the BBC broadcast the first episode of a TV series called Edge of Darkness<strong>*<\/strong>. The series was written by Troy Kennedy Martin (Z-Cars, The Italian Job, Kelly&#8217;s Heroes, Redcap, Reilly, Ace Of Spies, Bravo Two Zero), and starred Bob Peck, Joe Don Baker, and Joanne Whalley (later Whalley-Kilmer). I watched every one of the six 50-minute episodes, transfixed by the slowly strung-out story, the character &#8211; and acting &#8211; dynamics, the undercurrent of menace, and the accurately unglamorous portrayal of Thatcher&#8217;s Britain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday evening on a moderately geeky website (alright, I&#8217;ll admit it, a tremendously five-star wholly, concentrated and completely undiluted website of magnificent geekery) someone posted that Edge of Darkness was on iPlayer. This morning I have investigated and can confirm this is true. The series has been edited into one long film drama (c. 150 minutes). I watched the first 5 minutes, just to make sure the passage of time hasn&#8217;t turned it into something awful. I&#8217;m very pleased to report that it hasn&#8217;t, and it remains eminently watchable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So there is a strong chance that at some time over the coming weekend I may be enjoying a revisit to a TV show I haven&#8217;t seen for 38 years (Ye Gods, was 1985 really that long ago?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>*<\/strong>absolutely not to be confused with the most appalling 2010 film of the same name, starring Mel Gibson <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago on November 4th (that&#8217;s a very prestigious date!) in the year 1985 the BBC broadcast the first episode of a TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}