Once Upon A Time pilot

[craigoxbrow]

The weird outlier of the Festivals here is the Television Festival, which runs for a single weekend and can only be attended if you spend a couple hundred quid on an all-in ticket. But this year, in a bit of a spinoff, the Filmhouse has been showing some selected previews of relevant shows.

Let's Kill Hitler! sold out in minutes, despite being a preview by twenty-seven-and-a-half hours, but I was able to get a ticket for the pilot of Once Upon A Time which will air here... maybe sometime, somewhere, probably once the first season is completed, and that doesn't start in the US for two months.

It's a very low-key urban fantasy, apart from some big "wow" flashbacks to the storybook world most of the cast hail from, with nothing much fantastical bleeding into the real world... yet. Still, the people who have been trying to adapt Fables to TV must be spittin'.

And Robert Carlyle said hello in a twenty-second video intro. I imagine if he'd been there in person it would have gotten a better screening time than 11am. He plays Rumpelstiltskin in full scenery-chewing panto style, which seems appropriate.

Comments

[coffee-lifeform.livejournal.com]

I really liked Fables. How did Once Upon A Time look - any good?

[craigoxbrow.livejournal.com]

Interesting, but a very different spin (quieter and pretty much totally down-to-Earth/soapy except in the flashbacks to the fairytale world). A bit like comparing Doctor Who or Buffy at their most demented to something like Survivors.