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| Last Updated: Tuesday, 9 May 2006, 06:29 GMT 07:29 UK Hannibal It's an epic story: an army of 60,000 treks 1,500 miles, to march on the capital of its greatest rival. Thanks to inspired generalship, they take the surprise route, over the mountains - with the aid of 37 elephants. It happened two thousand years ago - and it is, of course, Hannibal's march on Rome. Now, the BBC is producing a new drama depicting the life of Hannibal Barca, the 26 year old North African who conceived the daring plan. We talked to the star, Alex Siddig about the new drama, which you can see this Sunday night on BBC One. Although the new production may look glossy, it was filmed on a shoe string in Bulgaria, according to Alex. "The budget was a packet of crisps and half a pint of lager," he told us. The drama climaxes with a battle in which 60,000 Romans died "There was some computer trickery," Alex told us. "But one of the director's specialities is making something that cost ten quid look like ten million quid." |
| QUOTE (Hippy @ May 10 2006, 11:58 AM) |
| :lol: Cheers LP :thumbsup: |
| QUOTE (little pixie @ May 10 2006, 12:00 PM) | ||
You`re welcome, sir. ;) Next week`s Radio Times has a tiny article and pic on him. :) |
| QUOTE (Hippy @ May 10 2006, 12:06 PM) | ||||
For some reason I just found info on Hannibal Lecter/Silence of The lambs :shrug: |
| QUOTE (little pixie @ May 10 2006, 12:11 PM) | ||||||
Perhaps you need remedial classes in Googling ? :p ;) Actually, it took me a couple of goes. :blush: Erm , albanian walnut ? :blink: |
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| SUNDAY 14 MAY Drama Hannibal 8:30pm - 10:00pm BBC1 VIDEO Plus+: 84882 Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-described Episode written by Matthew Faulk and Mark Skeet Drama combined with the last historical evidence and computer graphics to tell the story of history's most famous military genius as Hannibal marched on Rome through the icy mountains of the Alps with 90,000 soldiers and 37 elephants, to this day the most audacious military campaign ever. His resolve to challenge his sworn enemy, the Romans, on their own soil was an act so daring that few believed it possible. And the legacy of this war, fought 300 years before the birth of Christ, still haunts Western civilisation. Alexander Siddig |
| QUOTE (Hippy @ May 10 2006, 10:20 AM) |
| ..is due to star in new BBC drama! Unfortunately I couldn't find anything about it on the Beeb website but iirc it's about the bloke who crossed the alps to attack the romans (Hannibal???). <<awards himself 10/10 for quality and depth of info provided>> |
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| Last Updated: Thursday, 11 May 2006, 08:23 GMT 09:23 UK BBC revamps website search system The BBC has updated the way net users can search across its news and sport websites and its programme webpages. The new search system launches on 11 May and should make it easier for users to find webpages, audio and video from any part of the BBC. The search system aims to give visitors a single way to seek out the latest editions of popular programmes such as The Archers. Initially 300,000 audio and video clips will be searchable via the site. Channel hopping The changes being brought in allow users to choose the bits of the BBC they want to search. "Search has come on a lot in the last few years, said Daniel Mermelstein, head of search products at the BBC News website who led the revamping project. "People expect a certain way of displaying the results and for data to follow that convention." He hoped that the new layout will be more familiar to people as it resembles what they see on search sites such as Google, MSN, Yahoo and others. "It's a much more standard search interface," said Mr Mermelstein. Also gone are the artificial divisions between news, sport and the rest of the BBC that the old search system imposed on users. Previously users could search either the news and sport sites or the rest of the BBC. Many people now download rather than tape favourite programmes "As a user experience that was a bit odd because people do not tend to divide it that way," he said. "What exact departmental silo it comes from is irrelevant." Now a search across the whole of the BBC includes news and sport. Alternatively users can restrict searches to just news and sport. Behind the scenes w**k has been going on since September 2005 to unify the data held by the BBC News and Sport websites and the web information put together by other parts of the organisation. In total the index behind the search site holds 1.5 million pages. One of the most important parts of the new system, said Mr Mermelstein, was the ability to look for audio and video segments right across the BBC's output. "That has been difficult to find before because only the news and sport sites had the audio/video search capability," he said. Initially only a handful of audio and video segments will be indexed and searchable via the new interface, said Mr Mermelstein. The full range of BBC programmes is likely to be added late in 2006. Behind the scenes the BBC is standardising the labelling system for the audio and video segments that will be put on the web. This w**k will feed into development of a personal media player that will let people watch and listen to BBC programmes when they want to rather than just at broadcast time. Standardised labels will make it much easier to index all the media content and make it searchable, said Mr Mermelstein |
| QUOTE (goth willow fan @ May 16 2006, 10:37 AM) |
| Not sure about the sets, as I don't think HBO had anything to do with Hannibal, and all we really saw of Rome was the floor of the Senate and the odd wall. And Dave, it's the BBC, of course it'll be on again (and then again on UK Drama or whatever). |
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| It was. But I doubt that meant they could nip in and film a few bits and bobs for Hannibal. |
| QUOTE (willowroolz @ May 17 2006, 09:27 AM) |
| So who did he play? Face? MurdocK? Hannibal himself? Mr T???! :o :ponder: |
| QUOTE (little pixie @ May 17 2006, 10:31 AM) | ||
:lmao: He was Hannibal - whenever he defeated the Romans, he said ` I love it when a plan comes together `. :whistling: |
| QUOTE (little pixie @ May 17 2006, 10:31 AM) |
| he said ` I love it when a plan comes together `. :whistling: |
| QUOTE (willowroolz @ May 17 2006, 11:13 AM) | ||
Oi, you nicked my next line :tear: :snooty: Don't get all full of yerself because you reached 3000 posts, young lady <_< :p :lol: |
| QUOTE (little pixie @ May 17 2006, 01:04 PM) |
| Did someone say something ? :snooty: :p :lmao: |
| QUOTE (willowroolz @ May 17 2006, 01:30 PM) | ||
Nobody important :p :lmao: ;) |
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:lmao: :blink: <_< :p :lol: ;) Yup, I think that expresses my full range of emotions. :D |
| QUOTE (willowroolz @ May 17 2006, 04:04 PM) | ||||||
I could see you chewing the scenery from here :lol: ;) |