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There have been many productions over the years where one actor is making up half or at least a quarter of the whole cast. Jim Carrey as both Charlie Baileygates and Hank Evans in Me Myself and Irene, Toni Collette as Tara Gregson, Alice, Bryce, Buck, T, Chicken, Gimmie and Shoshana, Nina Dobrev as Elena Gilbert, Katherine Pierce and Amara (Sorry Spoilers!), to name but a stunning few. And now Orphan Black, where Golden Globe nominee, Tatiana Maslany is Sarah Manning, a girl living on the streets and off her wits, who discovers Elizabeth Childs, Alison Hendrix and Cosima Niehaus, all identical to her and she finds that they aren't related, technically - they're clones. Clones is another very interesting theme to tackle, you have the ethics, the science, the consequences to look at and examine. In this show, the clones are under threat from something or someone unknown. Jordan Gavaris portrays Sarah's foster brother, Felix and Kevin Hanchard is Detective Art Bell, El...

From what I could see from the IMDb lukewarm response, it appears that British humour doesn't necessarily translate that well when it is presented to American audiences. (Especially when the accent, local vocabulary are both a bit tricky to get into). Anyone who loved Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels will be completely won over. Which is sad, because this is one highly entertaining film. I was laughing at every well crafted joke in the film, and loved every moment. Based on the TV series, in 1975 its a cops show in essence, tough guys being rough with suspected and known criminals. Ray Winstone is the main character, DI Jack Regan, proving that age doesn't slow a guy down (not too much at least) and making wisecracks at every opportunity. Plan B (Ben Drew) is his right hand man, DC George Carter and the two work well as the head of the team, the Flying Squad, which the rest of the crew are portrayed by Hayley Atwell, Caroline Chikezie, Allen Leech, Ronnie Fox,...

Since (and probably before) Bram Stoker wrote Dracula, we have always been fascinated with the supernatural. But who would have guessed that a book first published in 1897, based on a real person: Vlad Tepes III aka Vlad the Impaler, who lived back in the 15th Century , would have spawned such a huge range of other stories, all devoted to the undead, even the lycanthrope, two hundred years after Dracula was first published? (Quick note - in the TV series Da Vinci's Demons, the character of Vlad is actually used in one episode, correctly portrayed as the ruler of Wallachia. Funnily enough, the actor who portrays him is Paul Rhys, who had a small recurring role in some episodes of a TV series: Being Human. More on that later) Not me. Now, staying with the undead to begin with, at one at the scale, (staying with the best known for now) we have the Twilight Series. This end of the scale, named the G rated area, we have the vampires that "sparkle" in the sun instead of ...