Tag Archives: Michael Hodgson

Passenger. Television Drama Review.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Cast: Wunmi Mosaku, David Threlfall, Rowan Robison, Barry Sloane, Natalie Gavin, Matilda Freeman, Ella Bruccoleri, Daniel Ryan, Jack James Ryan, Adian Nik, Sophie Ellicott, Hubert Hanowisz, Luke Ayres, Debbie Rush, Sean Gilder, Nico Mirallegro, Shelley Williams, Clare Burt, Gemma Wardle, Anna Tymoshenko, Neil Sandland, Shervin Alenabi, Terri-Ann Brumby, Ray Castleton, Synnove Karlsen, Harry Egan, Tom Lister, Karen Henthorn, Michael Hodgson, Richard McIver, Pam Shaw, Andrew Readman, Alexandra Hannant, Lisa Allen, Natalie Grady, Nadia Albuna, David Atkins, Elijah Braik, Kirsty Hoiles, Narinder Samra, Alejandra Becelar Pereira.

Catch 22, Theatre Review. Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating: * * *

Cast: Daniel Ainsworth, Philip Arditti, Geoff Arnold, Victoria Bewick, Simon Darwen, Michael Hodgson, Liz Kettle, Christopher Price, David Webber.

Joseph Heller adapted his novel Catch 22 for the stage in 1971 and today the script is more or less unchanged. As it is difficult to get the rights to adapt the script, Northern Stage’s director Rachel Chavkin has done what other companies have shied away from, and has put her own mark on this classic war tale.

Inspector George Gently, Gently Between the Lines. Television Review.

 Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby, Lisa McGrillis, Robert Pugh, Ruth Gemmell, Steve Evets, Charlie Richmond, Matt Stokoe, Alan Renwick, Christopher Connel, Finn Burridge, Liam Caffry, Paul Dingwall, Michael Hodgson, Samantha Phyllis Morris, Fiona Boylan, Caroline O’Neil, Don Gallagher, Simon Hubbard, Cheryl Dixon.

It may be hard to define what makes the Inspector George Gently series such compelling television. After all, there is an abundance of police dramas constantly on the go, like a merry go round that just keeps getting fuller and faster as more channels are added and then you go and include the Nordic Noir series, the United States imports which these days are too clean, too clinical and far too science based as if they are an advertisement for a thousand microscopes rather than the actual detective, the dogged gumshoe approach.