After it sold 18,000 units on dvd in the first week (and thousands more since), Acorn have announced on twitter they'll release it on BR due to popular demand.
Wonder how many of those people have now picked it up on dvd and how many are not home entertainment nuts who would've picked up the BR but are now 'content' with the dvd?
After it sold 18,000 units on dvd in the first week (and thousands more since), Acorn have announced on twitter they'll release it on BR due to popular demand.
Wonder how many of those people have now picked it up on dvd and how many are not home entertainment nuts who would've picked up the BR but are now 'content' with the dvd?
You can bet a fair number of those 18,000 would have bought the Blu-ray and are now extremely pissed off.
Note to distributors: testing the waters with DVDs and then releasing BDs further down the road doesn't do anyone any favours. If the Broadchurch BDs sets don't sell you only have yourselves to blame if nobody buys them. Nobody wants to double-format-dip. Offer DVDs owners a discount on the BDs they should have been able to buy originally.
After it sold 18,000 units on dvd in the first week (and thousands more since), Acorn have announced on twitter they'll release it on BR due to popular demand.
Wonder how many of those people have now picked it up on dvd and how many are not home entertainment nuts who would've picked up the BR but are now 'content' with the dvd?
Have not been able to see this in the US(can we get this on BBC America or another station, would you know, thanks ?), what's it about(luv UK crime drama/mystery)? Maybe interested!
You can bet a fair number of those 18,000 would have bought the Blu-ray and are now extremely pissed off.
Note to distributors: testing the waters with DVDs and then releasing BDs further down the road doesn't do anyone any favours. If the Broadchurch BDs sets don't sell you only have yourselves to blame if nobody buys them. Nobody wants to double-format-dip. Offer DVDs owners a discount on the BDs they should have been able to buy originally.
I understand your point, but to be fair to the distributors, it was originally intended as a miniseries. Not even the creators thought it would be that successful, and it was only released a couple of weeks after the series ended, so they probably didn't have time to sort out a BD release...
I absolutely loved Broadchurch, but I held out on the DVD release incase this happened sometime down the line, and I'm glad I did, this set is definitely a must have on Blu for me
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Have not been able to see this in the US(can we get this on BBC America or another station, would you know, thanks ?), what's it about(luv UK crime drama/mystery)? Maybe interested!
It's a fantastic show, but as far as I know has not been aired in the US. I don't think I'm giving anything away by saying it's about the death of a boy in a small town and the investigation into how and why it happened. It's beautifully shot too.
Have not been able to see this in the US(can we get this on BBC America or another station, would you know, thanks ?), what's it about(luv UK crime drama/mystery)? Maybe interested!
It airs in the US on BBC America starting in August.
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I recently imported the DVD over. It hasn't arrived yet, but I'm not going to cancel or upgrade. I'm used to a lot of their shows and mini series only being available on DVD so I just watch them on my HDTV and not on my Home Theater Screen.
It airs in the US on BBC America starting in August.
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I recently imported the DVD over. It hasn't arrived yet, but I'm not going to cancel or upgrade. I'm used to a lot of their shows and mini series only being available on DVD so I just watch them on my HDTV and not on my Home Theater Screen.
I just mentioned this the other day in the other thread that discussed TV/BBC stuff on bluray.
Bit naughty of them to wait this long, there was no way I was buying the DVD.
I'd contacted ITV on Twitter at the time and they said there were no plans for a bluray release - either a white lie or they've changed their mind.
I'd contacted ITV on Twitter at the time and they said there were no plans for a bluray release - either a white lie or they've changed their mind.
Definately a change of mind. I reviewed the dvd release for a site and questioned Acorn about the possibility of a blu-ray but they said there were no plans (they didn't think it would sell as well as it would).
Coincidentally, the new dark C4 mini-series starring Colman entitled Run appears to be getting a dvd release only after it ends on TV (according to the press release I received).
I watched the 1 of 8 today and must say this appears to be an *excellent* series and well deserves a Blu-ray release! This is a superb production -- top notch in every way -- fabulous cast front to back, very well directed, acted, etc.
Just a note for those who did buy the DVD and are wondering if it's worth a double-dip for the blu-ray, the blu-ray version will have at least one alternate ending (different culprit, I believe).
All-New Episodes BBC AMERICA 8-part drama series ‘Broadchurch.’
Wednesdays at 10/9c
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[Show spoiler]About the Show
BBC AMERICA’s “Broadchurch,” which earned critical acclaim, including BAFTA nods, and broken records on Twitter in the UK, centers on the investigation into the murder of a young boy in a British seaside town.
Leading the investigation are two detectives – the strong yet compassionate local Detective Sergeant, Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman), and the by-the-book Detective Inspector Alec Hardy (David Tennant), Ellie’s newly appointed boss.
By circumstance they are partnered to solve the murder, keeping the newspapers from derailing the investigation and trying to prevent the crime from impacting tourism at the beach where the boy was murdered.
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[Show spoiler]The cast also includes Jodie Whittaker as Beth, Andrew Buchan as Mark, Will Mellor playing Stephen Turner and sees Arthur Darvill as the town priest Paul Coates.
The series is created and written by Chris Chibnall and executive produced by Chibnall and Jane Featherstone
Grief Destroys a Small Town in BBC America’s Devastating "Broadchurch"
DVR - CENTRAL 8/21/13 This has become my fav TV show so far this year! Fantastic, brilliant, captivating, beautiful, a must see for me, My 'cup of tea' is overflowing!!!
I love it so much, I've got an order in for the bd, should get it in mid-NOV.
Thank You my Brit friends U Keep cranking out these gems of your programs & I'll definitely be watching!!!
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[Show spoiler]The current state of TV feels like it's moments from breaking under the weight of mystery fatigue. Whether it's the missing girls on AMC's "The Killing," the serial killer turned political on FX's "The Bridge," or any number of procedural shows that pull from the "Law & Order" and "CSI" formulas, TV viewers are surrounded by death. Most of these programs, especially the network ones, provide comfort in increasingly difficult times—the killers are almost always brought to justice by the final scene and the shows seemingly ask their viewers, "Wouldn't it be great if the real world worked like this more often?" Even the more complex ones routinely portray death in the context of a mystery to solve and a bad guy to put away. Death is purely a plot device.
However, in the massive and deserving British hit "Broadchurch," finally arriving stateside starting on August 7, 2013 for an 8-week run, death is far more than just a plot device. It is an event that shatters history. Life can be marked by the time before and after it. Rarely has the history-dividing ripple effect of an unspeakable murder been more deftly and brilliantly captured than it is in this television event, one that justifies the attention it received in the U.K. and should make waves stateside as well.
Danny Latimer is dead. The only son of Beth (Jodie Whittaker) and Mark Latimer (Andrew Buchan) has been found on a beautiful beach at the base of a cliff and it is quickly determined that the young child couldn't have jumped. The angle isn't right. He was killed and placed there to make it look like a suicide. This is not the kind of thing that happens in a small town like Broadchurch. Such a violation of the natural order of things will forever alter numerous lives in this close-knit community.
On the day that Danny's body is found, Detective Sergeant Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman) thinks she's about to be promoted to Detective Inspector, but instead is passed over due to the arrival of an outsider, Alec Hardy (David Tennant), who comes to Broadchurch with a lot of his own baggage. Hardy has essentially been demoted to a small-town beat after messing up a major case involving another dead child. Miller and Hardy, the insider and the outsider, are thrown into the case of their careers when Danny's body is found. Hardy nearly works himself to death as atonement for his past professional sins, and Miller is forced to investigate her own friends and neighbors.
As in any good mystery, a roster of suspects is formed in the premiere. Danny's father is acting shady about his whereabouts on the night of the murder. His business partner Nige seems to know something he's not revealing. The Reverend (Arthur Darvill) keeps odd hours. A town outsider (Pauline Quirke) seems to be lurking around the crime scene in suspicious ways. Danny's boss at the local shop, Jack (David Bradley, pictured), has some skeletons in his closet. And what about the money found under Danny's bed? Or the odd behavior of Danny's friend and Ellie's son, Tom (Adam Wilson)? There's no dearth of suspects to keep viewers engaged through the run. In fact, the program boasts that it was the most Tweeted-about in U.K. history; bookmakers even took bets on who killed poor Danny Latimer. It's that engaging in terms of mystery.
"Broadchurch" uses undeniably familiar elements: The quirky small town has the feel of "Twin Peaks"; the crime-solving duo is reminiscent of "The Killing"; the brilliant use of setting echoes great fiction writers who have emphasized setting in their small-town mysteries like Dennis Lehane and Tana French; and the crashing waves and steep cliffs will take some viewers back even further to the work of Thomas Hardy (the surname of the show's lead detective seems not to be coincidental). It is how lead writer Chris Chibnall ("Torchwood") builds on the familiar that distinguishes the program from so many of its peers in the morbid subgenre of the day.
A murder investigation, especially one in a small town and one with the emotional current of the death of a child, brings secrets to the surface. As the search for Danny's killer drags on, more and more people in Broadchurch find their lives up-ended by it. Infidelity, past crimes, current betrayals—few programs in recent years have more deftly presented the dramatic concept that when rocks are overturned in the search for a murderer, more than one sin can be revealed. Chibnall approaches "Broadchurch" as not just the story of a murdered child, but also how a town responds to it. He even brings social media and modern journalism into the picture as local and national reporters end up playing a role in how this mystery unfolds.
While the mystery is engrossing and the procedural elements effective, the word that I keep coming back to in my response to "Broadchurch" is something that these programs often miss—grief. A mother putting away her dead son's clothes for the last time. A father who knows that his life will never be the same. A sister told "You have to be older than you are because I don't know where this ends." And a conclusion that devastates nearly as much as Danny's death, not just because of what it reveals, but because Chibnall and his team have made viewers feel like a member of this community over the previous seven episodes.
By the end of "Broadchurch," it's not only clear how people are related and what secrets they hold. The very geography of the town feels familiar, like we are walking the streets with Miller and Hardy, looking for a killer. And we become more and more aware that this story will come to an end with not just a tidy roll of the credits but significantly more pain than we started with. The resolution reminds me of David Fincher's "Seven" in that, while we know that we shouldn't open that box, we have to, if only to finally discover the truth.
With a narrative as dense as "Broadchurch," it helps greatly to have performers as talented as David Tennant and Olivia Colman in the lead roles. Supporting performances by Whittaker and Bradley deserve praise, but the show belongs to its central pair, two people distinct in their approaches to life and work who form a fascinating oil-and-water team. Tennant plays Hardy as a man on his own cliff edge, doing penance for failing a family before and unwilling to accept the possibility that he may fail another. Colman not only has a personal connection to the Latimers, but also knows every potential suspect that comes across her desk. She captures the reality of a person grieving a death in a small town who realizes that, in all likelihood, she knows the person responsible. It's an award-worthy performance.
The overall narrative of "Broadchurch" does sag a bit in the middle and the piece suffers from the natural awareness that early suspects are likely going to be cleared because, well, there are seven episodes to go. However, these are minor complaints for such a major accomplishment, a program that wholly justifies the current obsession with death in the TV landscape by standing so far above its peers. I'll take all the "CSI" wannabes if it means I get a "Broadchurch" every now and then as well.
'Broadchurch' series two 'not formulaic repeat', says ITV boss
Broadchurch series two
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Broadchurch series two will differ from the crime drama's first run, ITV's director of television Peter Fincham has said.
Speaking at the Edinburgh Television Festival, Fincham insisted that the thriller's new episodes will not be a "formulaic repeat of series one
David Tennant and Olivia Colman in 'Broadchurch'
Series creator Chris Chibnall is currently writing the new series, which star Will Mellor hinted could be a prequel.
Speaking to Digital Spy in May, Chibnall refused to confirm which members of Broadchurch's cast - which included Olivia Colman and David Tennant - would be back for series two.
"I would take nothing for granted, I would just wait and see!" said the writer.
A US remake of Broadchurch is also in the works at Fox, with Chibnall writing the pilot episode and also serving as an executive producer.
'Broadchurch' to get US television remake
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Broadchurch is to be remade for US television.
The UK crime drama - which debuted on ITV in March - will be adapted by Fox, for broadcast in late 2014 or early 2015.
Ellie Miller & Alec Hardy in Broadchurch Episode 6
Like the original, Broadchurch follows the investigation into the tragic and mysterious death of a young boy found dead on an idyllic beach.
Series creator Chris Chibnall will write the remake's premiere episode and also executive produce.
"Broadchurch is the kind of storytelling that grabs your attention and keeps you riveted with every minute - which is exactly what we look for in an event series," said Fox's chairman of entertainment Kevin Reilly.
"We love the layered characters, we've seen how well-received it's been in the UK and we're lucky to be able to bring a new version of this mystery to the US audience."
The original Broadchurch - which starred David Tennant and Olivia Colman - will premiere on August 7 at 10/9c on BBC America. A second series is also currently in the works.
'Broadchurch' Chris Chibnall Q&A: 'I asked to keep series two secret'
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[Show spoiler] If you want to relive the intense, fascinating and heartbreaking eight hours of television drama that was Broadchurch - or, whisper it, if you missed the show on first transmission - then you'll be pleased to know that the first series is now available to buy on DVD.
Yes, that's 'first series', because - as ITV sneakily revealed on the night the Broadchurch finale went out - there *will* be a second series, details of which are sketchy at this early stage...
Digital Spy spoke to the show's creator Chris Chibnall about the huge response to series one, the killer reveal and 'Slug-gate' - and also tried our best to get the scoop on series two! (Spoiler - we failed.)
Ellie Miller & Alec Hardy in Broadchurch Episode 6
Broadchurch has become something of a phenomenon - huge ratings, tours of the filming locations…
"The reaction to the show has been completely beyond any of our expectations. I lose my ability to talk about it, because it's very wonderful and very… 'humbling' is the best word I can use, that people responded to the story in such a way. I know it sounds like a really strange word to use, but it was a real surprise, I really didn't expect it, so it does feel genuinely humbling."
Arthur Darvill told us that you wrote the part of Rev. Coates for him. Did you write any other characters with actors in mind?
"Ellie was written for Olivia [Colman] right from the start, but I never thought we'd get her! Funnily enough, Susan was written with Pauline Quirke in mind - I couldn't get her out of my head. I always knew I wanted her - I remembered her in [1996 BBC crime drama] The Sculptress all those years ago and just thought she was a really terrific actor.
"Some were [written with actors in mind] but mostly they weren't, and even when you write parts for actors, you don't normally get them - sometimes it's just helpful as you go."
Alec Hardy & Rev. Paul in Broadchurch Episode 6
As a Doctor Who writer, were you aware of the fannish thrill you provided by putting Arthur and David Tennant together on-screen?
"Well, funnily enough, there was a bit of a moment where we thought, 'Can we do that, or does it look a bit too in-jokey?' - but actually you just go, 'They're the best actors'.
"But certainly when they met at the read-through, I saw them approach each other and I thought, 'If I could get my camera-phone out now, it would explode the internet!'
"But it was just a delight, because as a writer and a producer, you think, 'I'd love to see those two actors in a scene together, because they're very interesting, powerful actors' - so that was the thrill of it.
"I also knew that if you put a vicar in a show, you've got to be really careful about avoiding those clichés and I thought Arthur would just bring a modernity and a truth and a freshness to it, which I think he did brilliantly."
Given that you were writing for Olivia, you must have known that she'd blow viewers away with those final 'reveal' scenes…
"Yeah, I knew I was writing for her by that point - when I was writing those scenes, we'd already started shooting, so I really had a sense of her and of the relationship between her and David [Tennant] on-screen, so it was a real joy to write, knowing those people can deliver that in spades."
Alec and Ellie in Broadchurch Episode 4
Did you know the identity of the killer from the outset or did that develop as you wrote?
"Yeah, [I knew]. I wrote a very rough first draft and then I literally woke up one morning with the resolution in my head, which has never happened. It's that thing you see in films where people sit bolt upright and go, 'Oh my God!' - that happened!
"So then I altered the script, but that was before it had gone to ITV or anybody had read it, so from that point on, [the killer's identity] was embedded and it couldn't have been anyone else, because that became what the piece was about."
So you literally had a 'lightbulb moment'?
"Yeah! It doesn't happen often, at all. Normally the lightbulb moments only happen after 16-hour days, lots of cups of tea and a bit of weeping… so yeah, that was nice! But then you have to work it all into place and think about what that means thematically and narratively and how you pay that off."
When the final episode went out, many fans were shocked by the fate of the Broadchurch slug - did you expect that?
"(laughs) Well, the slug is set up in episode two, so when you buy the DVD, you can see! In the very first three minutes of episode two, you can see Ellie looking at this slug on the carpet and it's like her home has been invaded by an intruder - that image was very deliberately placed there very early on to imply that things are wrong in her house."
Series two won't focus on the murder of the slug then?
"I don't think we'll be doing 'Slug-gate' but who knows?"
Alec and Ellie in 'Broadchurch' Episode 2
In terms of series two, was a continuation of Broadchurch pre-planned or was it a response to the huge success of the first run?
"It wasn't a response to the first series. When we had the meeting to green-light the first series, I said to [ITV's Director of Television] Peter Fincham and [ITV's Director of Drama Commissioning] Laura Mackie, 'If it works, we could do this [for series two]' and they smiled politely and said, 'Yes, great… in your dreams!'
"Before the show went out, Peter was very positive and encouraging about it and said if things went well, he would like to do more. So it had been an ongoing conversation really and then when the response came in…. and it was more the response than the ratings, to be honest. It was more that people were enjoying it - that's when we had it confirmed.
"But it's always been planned and ITV have been so brilliant, because I asked to keep it secret, because I think if you'd known [the show was coming back] it would've slightly spoiled the suspense and I wanted people to just be in the moment and enjoy it while it was on."
That big reveal worked brilliantly well...
"It's nice - what you never get to do is tell viewers directly that something they love is going to come back and I just suddenly thought we had an opportunity to do that. ITV were so quick to respond to that, because it meant we had to change our end titles, we had to change our running time slightly… there were lots of little technical things you had to do to make that work.
"Also, we had to not tell people [it was coming back] and that was harder than you might think! So it was great - I'd said, 'Wouldn't it be great to put a card up saying 'Broadchurch will return'…like in James Bond!'
"It was lovely not to have to do it in a little announcement in six months, but to go… 'Here you go, thank you for watching and there will be more!'"
'Broadchurch' David Tennant as DI Alec Hardy and Olivia Colman as DS Ellie Miller
With series two, I know you want to keep your cards close to your chest…
"Yes, I do!"
Can you give any hints about the second series?
"None whatsoever! I don't have to give you anything! (laughs) It'll take us a while to do it, so there's no point talking about it now. When we're ready to tell you a little bit more, we will, but we deliberately kept our secrets with the first one and we'll try and do a little bit of the same with the second."
Surely David and Olivia will be back though?
"I would take nothing for granted, I would just wait and see! We'll tell you when we're ready!"
[Show spoiler]David Tennant and Olivia Colman lead ITV's chilling Broadchurch, a murder mystery that steers clear of the twee, picture-postcard format, says Ben Lawrence
All at sea: Tennant and Colman must solve the murder of an 11-year-old boy
Olivia Colman opens a small, white paper parcel and dares anyone in the room to come and see what’s inside. A member of the production team strides over and looks into the package, puzzled.
“Ragworms!” says Colman, breaking into a wide, toothy smile and hands the bag of greeny-blue and orange creatures around. She bought the sweets on a whim. Everyone stops what they’re doing and starts “ooh-ing” and “aah-ing”. It’s not often that the set of a TV drama offers that sort of relaxed jollity, but then Broadchurch is being filmed in Bridport on Dorset’s lovely Jurassic coast. The cliffs slope dramatically, the sky opens up before us and everything is regulated by the steady murmur of the sea. Technical crew lark about near some newly painted beach huts. In the distance you can see Pauline Quirke walking Bailey, her chocolate Labrador, across the sands. Everyone, it seems, is in a holiday mood.
But Broadchurch is no twee, picture-postcard drama. We’re not in Midsomer territory. The eight-part series, written by Chris Chibnall (Doctor Who, United), focuses on the devastating fallout in a small community when the body of 11-year-old Danny Latimer (Oskar McNamara) is found on the beach. Colman stars as DS Ellie Miller, a detective who knows the Latimer family. She has been recently passed over for promotion and is forced to tackle the case with her newly appointed boss, DI Alec Hardy (David Tennant) who has arrived from the Met, his career in the doldrums after he has botched a high-profile murder case.
Although there’s tension between Miller and Hardy, Colman and Tennant are thick as thieves. They insist on being interviewed together, and after some mock thespian banter (“Olivia being in it was a bit of a drawback, to be honest”), they talk about this project with the required level of seriousness.
“Broadchurch is a murder mystery, but it’s more than that,” says Tennant. “It’s about the way something reverberates around a small community, and the sort of behaviour the incident incites.”
“One little crack has repercussions throughout the town, and it’s fascinating to follow it,” agrees Colman. “It is very grim, though. I mean, you can’t really get worse than the death of a child. Most of us have got kids and it’s very hard to watch Jodie and Andrew [Whittaker and Buchan who play Danny’s parents] as their faces crumble and they’re putting themselves through the emotional wringer.”
The difficult subject matter of Broadchurch was given a grim topicality when, during filming, five-year-old April Jones went missing from near her home in Machynlleth, north Wales.
“You do think about it all the time,” says Colman. “The other morning, I was giving my little boy toast and then you stop and realise that the missing child’s parents won’t be able to do that any more. It’s horrible.”
Later on, the Broadchurch producer Richard Stokes appears. He is wary when speaking about the April Jones case. “You do have to separate it,” he says. “Chris Chibnall had to step away and take a breather because there are parallels between the case and what he has written. When you see real people going through grief, you have to remove yourself from the real horror that they’re going through.”
In the drama, we follow every section of the community including a creepy newsagent (David Bradley), a misanthrope (Quirke) and a trendy young vicar (Arthur Darvill) who may or may not be using the boy’s death to spread the word of God throughout the town.
This sense of community which Broadchurch offers feels curiously old-fashioned in the 21st century, but both Colman and Tennant believe it to be realistic.
“I live in London and people say there is no community spirit there, but I don’t think that’s true,’ says Colman. “I know all my local shopkeepers. I would like to think we all look out for each other.”
I wonder if the reality might be rather different for Tennant, who at various stages of his career has been pursued by the tabloids. Surely it is hard for someone with his profile to simply fit in.
“I’ve tried not be reclusive,” he says carefully. “You have to get on with your life and try not be influenced by what you think might be around the corner.”
The other point that needs to be made about Broadchurch is that the BBC is airing a very similar drama in the same week. Mayday, starring Sophie Okenedo and Lesley Manville, focuses on the disappearance of a young girl during an annual May Day parade in a small rural town.
Richard Stokes is fully aware of the coincidence. “Both shows are made by [production company] Kudos and so Chris (Fry, the producer of Mayday] and I read each other’s first drafts,” he says. “I have to say that although Mayday has a similar premise to Broadchurch, the two shows go off in very different directions. I’d like to think there is room for both. It’s a pity about the timing, though – it looks like we’re copying each other!”
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Grief Destroys a Small Town in BBC America’s Devastating "Broadchurch"
This has become my fav TV show so far this year! Fantastic, brilliant, captivating, beautiful, a must see for me, My 'cup of tea' is overflowing!!! 
Keep cranking out these gems of your programs & I'll definitely be watching!!! 
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