{"id":2451,"date":"2009-01-06T13:46:30","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T13:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2009\/01\/the_diary_of_an\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T13:46:30","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T13:46:30","slug":"the_diary_of_an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/the_diary_of_an\/","title":{"rendered":"The Diary of Anne Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC1 is stripping The Diary of Anne Frank at 7pm this week in place of The One Show, and I must say that after yesterday&#8217;s lambasting of poor TV, this is a refreshing change. It&#8217;s fabulous. Ellie Kendrick plays Anne herself, and is wonderfully naturalistic in her performance. After a few exterior scenes to convey Amsterdam, with Anne&#8217;s parents (a very dour Tamsin Grieg and a practically unrecognisable Iain Glen as her upstanding father) bustling her across the city, stars stitched into their coats, the action moves into a claustrophobic interior set as the family settle in for the long haul.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll freely admit that I&#8217;ve never read the book, but you really feel that a teenager is talking to you as life goes on. It may be up against Emmerdale, but this is a finely made drama that I&#8217;ll be looking forward to throughout this week.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, if you&#8217;ve not been watching Underbelly on FX, you&#8217;re missing out on an absolute treat. Telling the story of the gangs of Melbourne over a ten-year period, the series is reaching its conclusion. Last night&#8217;s episode saw an horrific killing of an otherwise nasty piece of work in front of his children. This <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jason_Moran#Murder\">actually happened<\/a>.<br \/>\nUnderbelly aired in Australia a while ago, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Underbelly-Complete-Season-Kat-Stewart\/dp\/B001B1G6O6\">the UK DVD<\/a> is out in a few weeks if you&#8217;ve not watched this great miniseries.<br \/>\nAnd if, for some reason, you&#8217;re not able to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b00gndt1\/The_Diary_of_Anne_Frank_Episode_1\/\">the iPlayer<\/a>, The Diary of Anne Frank is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Diary-Anne-Frank-Ellie-Kendrick\/dp\/B0014HKQK2\">out on DVD<\/a> next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC1 is stripping The Diary of Anne Frank at 7pm this week in place of The One Show, and I must say that after yesterday&#8217;s lambasting of poor TV, this is a refreshing change. It&#8217;s fabulous. Ellie Kendrick plays Anne herself, and is wonderfully naturalistic in her performance. After a few exterior scenes to convey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}