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Nigel Kneale RIP

 
 
sleazenation
11:06 / 01.11.06
Sad news Nigel Kneale, the creator of Quatermass and a the bedrock of modern TV SF has died... details here. His writing was consistantly ahead of his comtemporaries, sometimes by a count of decades - he was writing about reality TV about 30 years before Endermol launched Big Brother on an unsuspecting world...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:30 / 01.11.06
And let's not forget Kinvig.

This is indeed sad.
 
 
_Boboss
16:32 / 01.11.06
ah, v. sad. kind of fiting it happened this time of year i guess - watched 'ghostwatch' last night - not one of his of course, but the credible, lo-fi scares and intelligent script made me think very much of kneale, and how i should do my best to track down as much of his work as possible. a loss, and well, this news makes me think pretty poorly of torchwood really.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:39 / 03.11.06
Yesterday's Guardian had not only (on the Obituaries page) a big obituary, but also in G2 a big remembrance piece by Mark Gatiss.
 
  
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