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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #160 on: October 09, 2015, 09:31:31 AM »
Hello all - I am new and I am extremely grateful that a lot of BBC and ITV shows seem to show up on Netflix in America eventually - just requires an extraordinary amount of patience ...which I tend to lack! But at least it's hope.

 He looks so great in that Frankenstein poster - Sean is at his best in period costume in my opinion.

The only reason to watch Legends was for Sean. The rest of the cast and the writing was pretty weak. He was mesmerizing and impressed me with the way he can switch up the accent now. I remember the first time I heard him do an American accent and I cringed. But, I also think I personally ONLY want to hear his Yorkshire accent or even the RP accent. Everything else just seems "wrong" somehow - LOL! No fault to him or his talent at all - just my "ear lust" speaking out here. I hope the revamped 2nd season is better!

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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #161 on: October 09, 2015, 10:05:37 AM »
Hello, Laura. Nice to meet you!

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Sean is at his best in period costume in my opinion.
I was almost going to agree with you unequivocally, but then I remembered Extremely Dangerous, one of my favourites.  But he is excellent in period dramas.

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The only reason to watch Legends was for Sean
Yes. That's why I watched it. ;)

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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #162 on: October 10, 2015, 11:16:03 AM »
Frankenstein As London Serial Killer On A&E

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The suggestion for the idea of the Baron Frankenstein as London serial killer likely comes from a fairly brief section in the Mary Shelley novel where the monster of his creation has demanded that the student-scientist Frankenstein create a mate for him, and while on his travels, stopping in London, Frankenstein mentions that he attempted to gather “the materials” necessary for this task. In the novel, this effort is not detailed, but obviously in this case “materials” to create a female version of his creature would require body parts, and female parts in particular, with prostitutes the most handy of fresh subjects, combining a bit of Jack the Ripper with the Frankenstein mythos.

The body Inspector Marlott finds in the river is a small one, like a child, so the suggestion might be that Frankenstein is trying to create a family for the monster which rules him, or perhaps a replacement for his own son, murdered by the monster. We have likely a whole series of clues to follow before the revelation. Police “Inspectors” didn’t quite yet investigate crimes in Georgian London, with an organized police force not appearing until Victoria ascended the throne, but perhaps that will be part of the Frankenstein Chronicles story. It is unclear at this point whether this will be a one-off series, or more misadventures are intended, but with Sean Bean’s habit of getting killed-off too soon, maybe it’s just the six-parts.

The crime drama also stars Anna Maxwell Martin, Charlie Creed-Miles, Ed Stoppard, Elliot Cowan, Hugh O’Conor, and Kate Dickie. An air-date has not been set.
 
http://www.frankensteindiaries.com/2015/10/frankenstein-as-london-serial-killer-on-ae/

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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #163 on: October 11, 2015, 03:41:44 AM »
A&E Networks bypasses ‘X-Files’ and ‘The Last Panther’ for city shot drama

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One of North America’s leading television networks has snapped up the Armagh-filmed ‘Frankenstein Chronicles’ this week – giving hopes of an economic and tourism boost to the district after airing.

As Armagh I exclusively revealed in July, the show -a reimagining of Mary Shelley’s gothic horror, starring Sean Bean and featuring much of our beautiful city as a backdrop – was to be offered for sale worldwide, giving a huge potential global audience.

And that potential has not only been realised but exceeded all expectations!

This week, MIPCOM – the TV industry’s premiere ‘buying’ event in Cannes in France – welcomed a record number of over 13,700 delegates from 108 countries.

That included more than 4,800 acquisition executives, including the Arts & Entertainment Networks – or A&E for short.

Highlights included the unveiling by Sky Atlantic/Canal Plus of the hugely anticipated ‘The Last Panther’.

And the world premiere of ‘The X-Files’ reboot was also met with huge interest.

But A&E – which is headquartered in New York and tags itself with the catchline ‘Be Original’ – bypassed all in favour of the Frankenstein Chronicles.

The American cable and satellite TV channel broadcasts coast to coast in the United States and across Canada.

In fact, it now reaches close to one billion homes (96 million if you want to be precise!).

Depending on the popularity of the show – and it is already being hotly tipped – such a major coup could provide a fantastic spin-off.

A MIPCOM source told Armagh I: “This event is in its 31st year and every year it’s a who’s who and what’s hot and what’s not of TV. Shows can be made or broken here. It really is that simple.

“A big backer on board, willing to spend this amount of money on your show, shows real faith. If you hook the right audience the potential is huge. Fans very often want to visit sets, want to see the locations. It’s not all about the drama and what’s there, it’s about everything, the whole package.

The acquisition by A&E will also give hope that the Frankenstein Chronicles could see a second series commissioned.

And, if that happens, it would be hoped that filming would return to Armagh.

ITV, meanwhile, has no confirmed date as yet for screening here, but confirmed to Armagh I in August it was “now scheduled for late autumn 2015”.
http://armaghi.com/ae-networks-bypasses-x-files-and-the-last-panther-for-city-shot-drama/

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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #164 on: October 12, 2015, 08:56:59 AM »
Robin Jarossi London journalist and editor of http://CrimeTimePreview.com  – previewing the latest crime shows on TV.

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Watched ITV's #TheFrankensteinChronicles last night – intelligent, gripping, historical crime drama with #SeanBean. Review soon…
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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #165 on: October 13, 2015, 05:17:50 AM »
The Frankenstein Chronicles, ITV Encore, Sean Bean

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Georgian London is brought thrillingly to life as Sean Bean hunts a ghastly foe

With Sean Bean heading a cast that includes Anna Maxwell Martin as Shelley and Steven Berkoff as William Blake, it’s a six-parter that rises above your average shock fest or cop procedural. With its well-worked background themes of bodysnatching and abandoned children, the writers have stitched together a story with heart as well as a brain.

Sean Bean is terrific as the investigator Marlott

The year is 1827 and the setting is switched from Switzerland to London. Bean’s Inspector John Marlott is working undercover on the Thames trying to catch opium smugglers when his men discover an ‘abomination’ in the muddy foreshore – a body made from the pieces of eight children.

Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel (Tom Ward) is none too delighted when Marlott brings the ‘object’ to the attention of the authorities. The politician fears it is the fiendish work of opponents of the Anatomy Act, which aims to regulate the practice of surgery and remove the barbers and bodysnatchers that give it a bad name. He wants Marlott to expose the perpetrator of this heinous crime, telling him that ‘details of your investigation must remain confidential’.

Sean Bean, who has just finished a stint in the US series Legends, is suitably craggy and deferential as the investigator who is low on the social ladder and has a hellish job on his hands. As he tries to piece together any leads he can about the poor children that may have been used to create the body in the river, he hears tales of kids abducted by a monster around Smithfield meat market.

Dank, shadowy, with great CGI

He is also a deeply compromised protagonist, telling the parents of one missing girl, ‘I know what it is to grieve.’ He has syphilis and has lost his own family.

The production looks splendidly dank and shadowy, and the digital work does wonders in recreating landmarks such as Greenwich as seen from a misty, muddy Thames.

Where series such as The Tudors offered a kitsch pantomime version of history, the creators of The Frankenstein Chronicles are clearly fascinated by the Georgian period and use it intelligently in this narrative. And it’s suitably creepy, too.
 
http://crimetimepreview.com/2015/10/the-frankenstein-chronicles-itv-encore-sean-bean.html/

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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #166 on: October 15, 2015, 04:43:20 AM »
Can someone tell me if this is a new trailer?It's not available to watch in my country :frustrate:


ITV Encore | The Frankenstein Chronicles | Coming this November

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMNM7JPX8Y



And different from this one?  http://vk.com/video-691836_171163314?list=faab862635075315f4



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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #167 on: October 15, 2015, 04:59:49 AM »
Can someone tell me if this is a new trailer?It's not available to watch in my country :frustrate:

Not available to me, either.  Humf!

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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #168 on: October 15, 2015, 06:20:44 AM »
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#TheChroniclesOfFrankenstein starring Sean Bean is coming in November. New and exclusive to ITV Encore, Sky -123.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkMNM7JPX8Y

https://twitter.com/ITV/status/654635395544559616

Can someone tell me if this is a new trailer?It's not available to watch in my country :frustrate:

Not available to me, either.  Humf!

Richard Arnold  Presenter, Good Morning Britain, ITV.@Hellomag & @WomansOwn.
https://twitter.com/RichardAArnold/status/654604974568046592

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My day so far... #Breakfast with #jamesbond & #brunch with #seanbean #FransteinChronicles #itvencore #gothic #drama #gameofthrones #nedstark #legend #winteriscoming #dayjob! 

http://iconosquare.com/p/1096263505820157966_218517209

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We're with Sean Bean & Ed Stoppard getting ready for The Chronicles of Frankenstein, coming soon to ITV Encore 

https://twitter.com/ITV/status/654610045834035200
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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #169 on: October 15, 2015, 09:05:39 AM »
November.     :thumbsup:

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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #170 on: October 15, 2015, 01:33:12 PM »
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Fun morning at the #FrankensteinChronicles junket - great show, & mother Richo is super jeal I got to meet Sean Bean 

https://twitter.com/RichoJourno/status/654725400275234817

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« Reply #171 on: October 16, 2015, 12:37:40 AM »
Sean Bean stars in The Frankenstein Chronicles, New & Exclusive to ITV Encore

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An ITV Encore Exclusive, The Frankenstein Chronicles is coming this November.

A thrilling and terrifying reimagining of the Frankenstein story as crime drama, starring multi-award winningSean Bean as police investigator John Marlott who goes in search for a chilling & diabolical foe.

"Step into the darkness"

Inspector John Marlott is recruited by Sir Robert Peel to assist the investigation of a series of crimes in 19th Century London, which may have been committed by a scientist intent on re-animating the dead.

Joining Sean Bean is an all star cast including Anna Maxwell Martin, Richie Campbell, Samuel West, Ed Stoppard, Charlie Creed-Miles, Steven Berkoff and Kate Dickie.

Available on Sky channel 123, Sky Go & NOWTV
 
http://www.itv.com/encore/new-exclusive-to-encore-sean-bean-stars-in-the-frankenstein-chronicles


http://www.itv.com/encore


Why they're not making the trailer available to watch for everyone is beyond me. :frustrate:





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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #172 on: October 16, 2015, 01:34:24 AM »

Why they're not making the trailer available to watch for everyone is beyond me. :frustrate:
I know. I saw on a FB page where somebody in Russia said they couldn't see it, and somebody in the States said the same thing, and I'm in southern Europe. So who the hell CAN see it? Only the UK? What does ITV gain -- or not lose-- by doing this? And are they going to make it bloody difficult to see?  :wellll:

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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #173 on: October 16, 2015, 12:00:32 PM »
Thanks to Rebecca for the find  :thumbsup:


The Frankenstein Chronicles new trailer

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1149944948368598






more screencaps here    http://seanbeanonline.net/forums/index.php?topic=4758.msg109371#new



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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #174 on: October 18, 2015, 01:23:09 AM »
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Book complimentary tix to our premiere of ITV's #FrankensteinChronicles, an all time classic. http://ow.ly/Tu7Uo   
https://twitter.com/Everymancinema/status/655352998844080128

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ITV First Look presents the premiere of The Frankenstein Chronicles (ITV Encore's first original commission) on Wednesday 11th November, exclusively at Everyman.

11th November, 6.20pm

Maida Vale is the host venue for the live Q&A and tickets include drinks reception on arrival:

MAIDA VALE

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« Reply #175 on: October 18, 2015, 01:34:05 AM »
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Maida Vale is the host venue for the live Q&A ...
Who is doing the "A" I wonder?

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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #176 on: October 27, 2015, 01:41:11 PM »
The Frankenstein Chronicles     Channel  ITV Encore     Episode: 1 of 6     Wed 11 Nov 2015   10.00pm - 11.00pm
 



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  Wed 11 Nov 2015   10.00pm - 11.00pm

Episode 1 - World without God

London 1827: River Thames at night - a smuggling operation is underway – suddenly, a river police launch is bearing down on the smugglers and a fight breaks out, followed by a furious chase to the shore.

John Marlott, a senior river police officer and veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, paces the shoreline of the Thames reviewing the aftermath.  A sharp police whistle draws his attention towards a small shape lying at the waters edge.  As he approaches he sees it is the body of a child, a young girl around 10 years of age.  Her body is covered in crude sutures, and is a horrifying sight.  He reaches down to touch the dead hand – but in a moment of terror, the hand grabs him back!

The dreadful corpse is brought to the urgent attention of the Home Secretary, Sir Robert Peel, who summons Marlott, and tells him that he wants him to undertake a private investigation. The leading surgeon at St Bart’s hospital in Smithfield, Sir William Chester, tells Marlott that the corpse was made up of seven or eight bodies stitched together. 

Marlott is put to work within the offices of the Bow Street Runners, and recruits an optimistic young runner, Nightingale, to assist him. Marlott’s attention is then drawn towards a slum dwelling where criminal Billy Oates masterminds his gang of child criminals.  There he discovers a young girl Flora.  He also finds a painting on the wall.  It is “Little Girl Lost” by the artist William Blake – Marlott resolves to investigate further.

 
http://www.itv.com/presscentre/ep1week46/frankenstein-chronicles



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« Reply #177 on: October 28, 2015, 01:28:03 AM »
Free tickets to The Frankenstein Chronicles screening with ITV First Look



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  ITV First Look presents the premiere of The Frankenstein Chronicles, ITV Encore's first original commission exclusively with Everyman.

Multi-award winning actor Sean Bean stars in the 6-part series as Inspector John Marlott, recruited by Sir Robert Peel to assist the investigation of a series of dark and heinous crimes in 19th Century London, which may have been committed by someone trying to recreate the horrors Mary Shelley's Frankenstein .

For more details on the screening events;

www.everymancinema.com/itv

Free tickets:
 http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/everyman-cinemas-8424436125
 
http://www.itv.com/encore/see-the-frankenstein-chronicles-first-with-itv-first-look



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Joining us for the live event at Maida Vale are actors Richie Campbell, Tom Ward, Eloise Smyth, producer Tracey Scoffield and Emmy nominated director and writer Benjamin Ross.
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ITV Encore Sets Premiere Date For ‘The Frankenstein Chronicles’
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ITV Encore’s Sean Bean fronted drama series The Frankenstein Chronicles will premiere on Wednesday November 11th at 10pm, it has been announced. 
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Re: The Frankenstein Chronicles
« Reply #178 on: October 28, 2015, 09:02:07 AM »
This show by far will be my favorite Halloween Treat!  :kissy

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« Reply #179 on: October 29, 2015, 08:56:55 AM »
The Frankenstein Chronicles, ITV

 Olly Grant hears how the team behind ITV Encore’s detective spin on Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece recreated 1920s London across 40 Northern Ireland locations
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Crouched over a dissection table in a Gothic-looking castle cellar, Benjamin Ross is having an honesty moment. “Let’s face it,” he says. “Who needs another Frankenstein?” Given that the writer/director had spent the past few years working on a series with Frankenstein in the title, and that the table in front of us was covered in rubber body parts, this seemed surprising. Lift the bonnet on his show, however, and you can see where he’s coming from.

The Frankenstein Chronicles is a six-part crime drama starring Sean Bean. It’s an unusual confection of genres: horror-meets-detective-show-meets-period-thriller, with Bean as a Georgian sleuth on the trail of a macabre crime. The body of a young girl has been discovered in the Thames, but on closer inspection seems to have been stitched together from body parts.

Real history underpins the horror elements, from cameos (albeit fictionalised) from Mary Shelley (Anna Maxwell Martin) and William Blake (Steven Berkoff) to electrical experiments on dead flesh; and from contemporary social issues like ‘resurrectionism’ (bodysnatching) to the decline of religious faith. The whole thing is couched with gritty social realism – a concept that was there from the start, says Ross, who co-created, wrote and directed all six episodes.

“It all started with Sarah Wise’s history book The Italian Boy – a true story about grave robbers, murderers and police work in 1830s London,” he says. “It was a very interesting story and I was exploring the possibility of an adaptation. It turned out several people had already tried, but it wasn’t flying.

“As I was reading, two ideas occurred to me: that you could do Frankenstein, but with an emphasis on social history; and that you could do it as a detective story – telling it from the outside in rather than the inside out, like a whodunit.”

While Chronicles is set in 1820s London, the series was shot entirely on location in Northern Ireland. Game Of Thrones casts an inevitable shadow – in today’s venue, Gosford Castle in Armagh, you can still see traces of Littlefinger’s brothel in the room in which the monitors are parked.

Locating here was partly down to Rainmark Films exec producer Frank Doelger – like Bean, a Thrones alumnus who knows Belfast well – alongside the usual financial equation of lower costs plus high-end TV tax break, with support from NI Screen.

But familiarity and cash weren’t the only reasons for the move. “London in 1827 was not the same as the Victorian London that people are used to seeing,” explains fellow exec producer Tracey Scoffield, the former BBC Films exec who set up Rainmark with Doelger in 2005. “This is a city that was much smaller and surrounded by rural villages – one of our scenes has the characters travelling down country lanes to the city from Stoke Newington – and you can achieve that here in a way that you can’t in modern London.”

They managed it with some impressive country-hopping, too – a total of 120 sets across 40 different venues, according to production designer Ashleigh Jeffers. “That’s more than I’ve ever done in one go,” says the former Thrones art director.

One of the beauties of shooting in Northern Ireland – alongside the huge diversity of landscapes within ready access of Belfast – is its relative lack of overdevelopment. Unprimped period buildings pop up in unlikely places.

One key location was Galgorm Manor, near Ballymena. “We just hit upon it by accident,” says Jeffers, who helped scout some of the venues with locations manager Andrew Wilson.

“We were driving one day in December when the light was fading fast and we did a double-take as we passed – so we did a cold call. Here was a Georgian house with its old sash windows still intact, which is a rare thing these days. We were able to get three parts of our story out of that, including some early scenes set in the famous Rookery slums.”

Location-only shooting
Jeffers also reconstructed the House of Commons in the wood-panelled hall of Belfast’s Campbell College public school, one of writer CS Lewis’s alma maters. Other locations include the National Trust’s Temple of the Winds tower at Mount Stewart and Greyabbey House in County Down.

One advantage of a location-only shoot is that it avoids the repetition intrinsic to some TV serials.

“Obviously, having a central exterior location is very helpful if you have a precinct drama, be it Call The Midwife or Ripper Street,” she says. “But when the audience sees that same location turning up week after week, it can feel a bit reductive. We’ve managed to avoid that by having a very large number of locations to create a coherent London.”

Ultimately, Scoffield is confident they have achieved something visually and thematically fresh with Chronicles; the time-worn monster trope smartly resurrected.

“I think this is a really commercial idea, but an intelligent one too,” she says. “It has some quite serious themes in it – as indeed did Shelley’s novel. It’s not just a silly fantasy – it’s a serious piece of work.”


Frankenstein Chronicles: Artistic Inspiration

The gritty realism that underpins the look and themes of The Frankenstein Chronicles was present in the lighting too.

Director of photography Ian Moss, who started his career with Stanley Kubrick on horror classic The Shining, is a fan of naturalistic shooting – he lit a recent episode of ITV’s The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher using virtually nothing but candles and oil lamps.

His main visual inspiration for Chronicles was the painter Yoshio Markino, who specialised in aqueous London street scenes around the turn of the 20th century.

“There’s a wonderful delicacy in his paintings – he used to wet down his canvases and paint while they were still damp to give this very effective fogginess, and I wanted to emulate that,” says Moss.

The new Vantage One T1 lenses operated happily in ultra-low light while providing a strikingly “beautiful close focus” – though his focus puller, Andy Gardner, may not have thanked him for the extra work.

“With this lens, the cornea of an eye will be sharp, but not the eyelashes,” says Moss. “Then you’ve got all the movement of the camera on top. It was a nightmare for Andy.”

Moss also drenched the interiors with artificial smoke to help refract natural light. Finally, he went through an estimated 25,000 candles, imported from France.

“They’re made from beeswax with a derivative of petroleum, which gives off a lot more smoke,” he explains. “That’s on top of the smoke I’d be putting into these locations as well. It was very difficult for the cast and crew to work with. I had quite a few technicians coming up to me saying ‘Thanks very much for using those candles’, as they evacuated a tonne of soot and grime from their noses.”

 
http://m.broadcastnow.co.uk/5096051.article

http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/features/the-frankenstein-chronicles-itv/5096051.article


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