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  Bouquet of Barbed Wire to be released on DVD

Bouquet of Barbed Wire is scheduled to be released on DVD on September 20 by ITV Home Entertainment. To pre-order your copy go to lovefilm.com

Waking The Dead - Series 7 (6 discs) is scheduled to be released on DVD on May 3rd. To pre-order your copy go to Play.com

Production shot from the soon to be released movie "She's Out of my League" starring Alice Eve which also has Trevor and Sharon in it. The film is scheduled to be released on March 12. and on April 22nd in the Netherlands.

March 5. 2010

ITV has announced a new three-part thriller series, Kidnap and Ransom, which will star Trevor Eve and Helen Baxendale. Kidnap and Ransom has been written by Patrick Harbinson, who's written episodes of 24, Law and Order and ER, and will film in South Africa this spring. Trevor Eve will play an international hostage negotiator, Dominic King, who gets involved in the case of a businesswoman (Emma Fielding) who is kidnapped in South Africa. But when the release is botched and they strike again in Britain, the motives of the kidnapper, Willard (John Hannah), become far more sinister. With trouble brewing at home with his wife, Sophie (Natasha Little) and teenage daughter - and his team, boss Angela (Helen Baxendale) and ambitious assistant Carrie (Amara Karan) pushed to the limit, King must draw on all his reserves to bring the victims home alive. No word yet on when Kidnap and Ransom will screen.

According to Digital Spy.co.uk, the BBC denies that series Spooks and Waking the Dead will be axed.

According to an article on Mail Online, Waking the Dead will be back on screens in 2011. Insiders also claim that Trevor Eve's 'cold case' detective drama Waking The Dead will not return after the next series airs. The drama, which began 10 years ago, is said to be expensive and is regarded as 'having run its course'.

November 2. 2009

Trevor Eve is joining host of stars from the art world, television, film, music and sport to raise money for the National Literacy Trust and has customised an envelope, creating a unique work of art which you can buy - so start saving!

Take me home "It's where my family is and therefore my heart" by Trevor Eve

For two weeks from 2 November 2009, a host of celebrity-designed envelopes will be auctioned on eBay as part of the sixth annual 'Pushing the Envelope' charity campaign. Famous names providing their support this year include actor Sir Ian McKellen, fashion designers Zandra Rhodes and Giles Deacon, comedian Stephen Merchant, illustrator Quentin Blake, authors John le Carre and Ken Follett, as well as Olympians Colin Jackson and Keri-anne Payne. If you're interested in finding out more then visit the campaign's website or keep up dated by following them on Twitter

Trevor Eve will head cast in Guy Andrews's adaptation of controversial incest drama from 1976

Actor Trevor Eve is to star in a modern reworking of Andrea Newman's steamy, taboo-busting 1970s psychological drama, A Bouquet of Barbed Wire, for ITV1. Adapted by Guy Andrews, whose credits include Lost In Austen and Prime Suspect, the three-part series will explore the consequences of a father's obsessive love for his daughter and "how secrets once buried in the past return to haunt their lives". Trevor Eve will play Peter Manson, whose apparently successful life is turned upside down when his teenage daughter Prue reveals she is pregnant by her teacher, Gavin Sorenson. Newman's book, first published in 1969, caused controversy when it was originally adapted for television by LWT for ITV in 1976 with its story of infidelity, lust and incest. A sequel, Another Bouquet, was made a year later. Clive James, in his Observer review of the first series, commented that "by the end everybody had been to bed with everybody else except the baby". The original ITV version starred Frank Finlay as Peter Manson, Susan Penhaligon as Prue, and James Aubrey as Sorenson. Commissioned by the ITV controller of drama commissioning, Sally Haynes, the new version will be made by independent production company Mammoth Screen, who recently produced ITV1's Wuthering Heights, and whose joint managing directors Michele Buck and Damien Timmer are overseeing ITV1/AMC's upcoming remake of The Prisoner. "It's a timeless, multilayered tale of a family torn apart by secrets from the past," said Haynes. "It created a stir during the 1970s when first produced for television, and 30 years on we're convinced a modern day audience will be just as intrigued by its themes of paternal jealousy and incestuous relationships." Timmer added: "The original TV version of A Bouquet of Barbed Wire was one of the most controversial dramas of its era, busting taboos which still have the power to shock decades later. Guy will bring a thrilling, modern sensibility to the story." Filming is scheduled for November, with broadcast due next year.

According to the Radio Times, WTD's new series starts airing on September 6th on BBC1 from 9:00 PM - 10:00 PM.

Just got word back from the BBC and they confirmed that the 8th series will start in week 36! They also confirmed this series consists of 4 stories each in 2 parts.

August 26. 2009

When: Monday 31 August 2009
Time: 8:30pm - 10:00pm
Where: BBC1
Cast: Trevor Eve,Eve Myles,Samuel Davies,Mari Ann Bull,Nicola Reynolds,Mark Lewis Jones

Drama tells the story of ten-year-old Dylan and his family's struggle to keep their small petrol station, which sits at the foot of a mountain in North Wales, afloat. When Dylan's father suddenly leaves home, things get even tougher for him, his sisters Minnie and Marie, baby brother Max and his mother. Dad's departure, however, coincides with the secretive arrival of a convoy of men and trucks who take residence on top of the mountain, and who will change the village of Manod forever...

Sharon Maughan will guest-star opposite her husband Trevor Eve in the new series of Waking the Dead, the first time the couple have ever appeared together on screen. She has a leading role in the opening two-part episode of the BBC1 drama, which stars Eve as maverick detective Peter Boyd. According to "What's On TV" the 8th series of WTD is scheduled to air in September. To find out more go here!

The adaptation of Framed by Macmillan Children's author Frank Cottrell Boyce is to be broadcast on BBC1 this August Bank Holiday, with Trevor Eve and Eve Myles to star.

Set almost entirely in Wales, the drama tells the story of 10-year-old Dylan Hughes and his family's small petrol station; when his father leaves the family, it coincides with the arrival of a contingent from the National Portrait Gallery in London, who have brought paintings to Wales for safe-keeping after the gallery was flooded. The novel was inspired by the real-life practice during the Second World War of keeping paintings in Welsh mines. "Framed" was directed by Andy De Emmony, who has previously directed "Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story" and "God On Trial"; the producer is Richard Burrell and the executive producer Jessica Pope. "Framed" will be broadcast as a primetime feature-length dramatisation on BBC1 on Sunday 30th August.

Trevor Eve and Eve Myles star in Framed, a brand new family drama for BBC One. When a secretive convoy of men and trucks start arriving in a remote Welsh village, the villagers discover that the National Gallery in London has been flooded and its priceless paintings are being sent to Wales for safe storage in the bowels of the old slate mine (just as they were during the Second World War). In charge of this operation is Lester, an intelligent but reserved curator who prefers paintings to people. That is until a funny and pivotal misunderstanding leads him to invite the local children to view the paintings inside the mountain, setting off an extraordinary chain of events that transform the lives of the villagers and, eventually, Lester himself. Framed is adapted by Frank Cottrell Boyce from his best-selling children's novel.

July 10. 2009

Before he became an acclaimed children's author, Frank Cottrell Boyce enjoyed a successful career as a film screenwriter. The two strands of his career combine with the filming of his 2005 novel, Framed, which the BBC starts shooting in April. It stars Trevor Eve as one of the principal characters; the director of the National Gallery. Shooting will be on location in North Wales around Blaenau Ffestiniog and is due to be finished in May. The TV-film will then hopefully air in a family-friendly slot next Christmas.

February 20. 2009

This is a copy of the doodle Trevor has drawn for Epilepsy Action, a working name of the British Epilepsy Association, to be auctioned on eBay from February 27th in aid of National Doodle Day. For more information about the charity, the auction and doodles by other celebrities; please visit www.nationaldoodleday.org.uk. Fans can also text vote (see website) - the celebrity with the most texts will win the 'Dood', a sculpture the winner keeps...

January 26. 2009

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Sarratt Post Office underwent a temporary face lift this week as it starred in a hit BBC murder mystery drama. The Post Office, on the Green, was transported to the fictional village of Morbury for an episode of the award-winning Waking the Dead, scheduled to air in March. The series, starring Trevor Eve and Sue Johnston, features the Met police's Cold Cases Unit - set up to investigate old cases with state-of-the-art DNA technology. And despite heavy snow storms on Tuesday night film crews continues to let the cameras roll. Post mistress Pat Regan said: "It's not actually that unusual, they have filmed a lot of things around the village over the years as well as a few films. In this case they were filming a young lad flocking through magazines in the shop." Further details of the script, however, remain a closely guarded secret.

October 30. 2008

BBC Drama Production confirmed today that two of its flagship drama series, Waking The Dead and Silent Witness would return to BBC One in 2009. Waking The Dead stars Trevor Eve as DI Boyd, the no-nonsense head of the Met's Cold Case Unit. Sue Johnston, Tara Fitzgerald and Wil Johnson also return as members of Boyds crack squad in the International Emmy award-winning drama series. Filming of the new five-part series begins later this year for broadcast in 2009. Kate Harwood, Head of Drama Series & Serial says: "We are delighted to announce Waking The Dead and Silent Witness are set to return to BBC One in 2009 to grip audiences with more bold, original stories.

May 15. 2008