Richard Armitage tangentially related
Urban and the Shed Crew:
- A Region 2 DVD for pre-order has appeared on Amazon.co.uk. January 14 is the projected shipping date. You will need a region-free DVD player to play it outside the U.S. I’ll believe it when I see it.
Berlin Station:
- On the process of choosing Angela Merkel’s successor. (Since this article appeared, her successor has been chosen: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, called “AKK”).
- Interview with Leland Orser. And another.
- Here’s a vid of Orser in Budapest in which he mispronounces “Armitage.”
- Berlin Station has also made a number of US “what to watch” lists this week (e.g., Washington Post, which hated it originally; Seattle Times) — are the critics going to like this season better?
- For U.S. viewers, scenes from Berlin Station 3.2 here and here.
Ocean’s 8:
Kudos for Armitage:
- Armitage tweeted it already: Castlevania on a list of best performances of the year. The season 1 DVD/Blu-ray is available now.
- Wolverine: The Long Night also made Apple’s best podcast list.
- Heads You Win is a November listener favorite; and his titles make the “best of 2018” lists at Audible in three categories (Mysteries and Thrillers; Customer Favorites; and Romances.
Things Armitage has said:
- He’s a fan of Schitt’s Creek. The series has filmed a holiday episode.
Collateral attractions:
- Anne Hathaway (Ocean’s 8) may appear in a Sesame Street movie.
- Lee Pace (The Hobbit)’s Angels in America revival gets a mention as a top 10 production of 2018.
Social media:
- Tumblr is banning porn. This is going to be really hard on a lot of fandoms.
Things we’ve talked about:
Random interesting:
Amazon UK say the Urban DVD will play in Europe.
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Do you have VLC media player in the States? In Europe, it plays Region 1 DVDS , so possibly it is region free (although it would be a bit of a gamble to buy Urban specially) . Hope you will be able to get a playable copy.
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I’ve had a region-free DVD player since month 3 of Armitagemania, so I’m not too worried. Sorry for being unclear — “believe it when I see it” refers to my skepticism that Brady will ever meet an announce date. Once it’s available on DVD eventually there will be “other options,” too.
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Ha yes, that’s why I bought a region- free dvd player too. Maybe VLC media player
will help others without . I’ll not believe Urban the DVD has been been released till I’m holding it
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I also bought a region free DVD and It was for Richard that I did it. I have ordered several DVD’s from Amazon UK and they come in good condition.
However am doubtful of Urban and the Shed Crew coming in, but I did preorder and they don’t charge you until it is shipped. So will keep my eye out.
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I think it’s possible that if they have a lot of pre=orders and no item, they might advocate to the distributor on the part of the orders.
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so, all the interview with Orser and non with Armitage…is that linked to possibly Orser having a bigger role and Richard a much reduced one as has been suspected?
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I think that’s a likely reading. Also, Armitage did ALL the publicity in season 1 and a lot of it for season 2 — when in both cases Ifans should have been doing more. So maybe there’s a confluence of things going on here. Armitage isn’t in as many episodes (perhaps due to the scriptwriting, perhaps due to his own request), so he wouldn’t have as much to say?
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