Single father
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Single father |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English and Scottish English , mainly Glaswegian |
| Production company |
BBC ( BBC Scotland ), Red Production Company |
| length | 240 minutes |
| Episodes | 4 of 60 min. |
| genre | drama |
| Director | Sam Miller |
| script | Mick Ford |
| production | Peter Gallagher Anne Mensah ( Exec. ) Nicola Shindler ( Exec. ) |
| music | Murray Gold |
| camera |
Ulf Brantås ( DP ), parallel shoot with two film cameras |
| cut | Katie Weiland |
| First broadcast | October 10-31, 2010 on BBC One |
| occupation | |
Single Father ( dt. Lone father ) is a four-part mini-series of the Scottish BBC . Director Sam Miller ( The Bill , Luther , Elephant Juice ) shot the screenplay by Mick Ford ( Silent Witness , William and Mary , The Fourth Protocol ), with David Tennant ( RSC , Broadchurch , Doctor Who ) in the title role . For his convincing performance, Tennant received the TV Choice Award for Best Actor in 2011 and was among the three nominees for the RTS Award in this category in the same year.
Each of the four parts takes about 60 minutes. It tells the fictional story of the photographer Dave, who has to look after the five-member blended family after the accidental death of his wife Rita ( Laura Fraser ) . Coping with his everyday life as a suddenly single father and how the family dealt with Rita's death together, as well as the affection between Dave and Rita's best friend Sarah ( Suranne Jones ), which grew in the mourning, characterize the action, which takes place over five months after Rita's death extends. The four-part series was first broadcast on October 10, 2010 on the public television broadcaster BBC One .
production
The main location is the fictional Hillingdon Drive 5 near Pollok Country Park (Most Beautiful Park in Europe 2008) in Glasgow . Parts of the action take place in Edinburgh .
The miniseries were filmed mainly in Glasgow and Paisley ( Strathclyde , Scotland ) with two cameras at the same time. This practice is unusual for film and especially television productions. Among other things, it made it possible to maintain a greater degree of spontaneity in the children's performances, since scenes do not have to be repeated as often in order to obtain recordings from different distances and viewing directions. The cameras were mostly set up at a greater distance, and close-ups were made possible by zoom. As Tennant and Jones point out in the making-of short film, this created a kind of theatrical atmosphere among the actors. The actors often did not know who / what exactly and from what distance was being filmed at any given moment and were thus encouraged to perform a particularly holistic representation, such as on stage. According to Mark Heap, the simultaneous use of multiple cameras also supported a fluid workflow and the almost seamless, theater-like transitions of the scenes into one another.
Unlike many other British TV shows, all of the actors speak with their own accent. Tennant, Fraser, Keenan-Green, McIntosh, McCole, McKinven and the child actors actually grew up in Glasgow or Paisley and speak Glaswegian depending on the location, as do most of the actors in the minor supporting roles. Sophie Kennedy Clark is from Aberdeen and speaks Doric, another Regiolect of the Lowland Scots . No Scottish English speak against the in-laws Robin, the drawn Matt and Sarah, and living in Edinburgh Stuart (the four actors Heap, Brown, Jones and Graves are from different regions of England and speak each with their own accent).
Murray Gold ( Doctor Who , Torchwood , Queer as Folk ) composed the music for the film, while Ulf Brantås ( Nobel Laureate's wife , Lilja 4-ever , together! ) Was responsible for the lighting and visual atmosphere as Director of photography . The BBC first aired the four-part series between October 10 and 31, 2010 on its main channel BBC One .
action
The photographer Dave Tiler lives with his wife Rita, their three children and Rita's eldest daughter Lucy in Glasgow. Dave also has an older daughter named Tanya from his marriage to Michelle who has become a friend of the family. Tanya already has a young son of her own.
Rita works with her best friend Sarah in a primary school. Sarah lives with Matt, who likes to be a math teacher but doesn't want to have children himself. When Rita dies in a traffic accident, Dave and the children look for ways to deal with their grief and loss. Sarah and Matt as well as Rita's adoptive sister Anna, whose husband Robin and mother Beatty try to help the now single father. Ten weeks after Rita's death, Dave collapses under the burden of everyday life and its suppressed grief. Sarah is there for him and feelings develop between the two that are more than just friendly.
Meanwhile, Lucy asks about her biological father. Dave assures her of help with the search. During his research, he finds that Rita has had regular contact with Lucy's supposedly unknown biological father all the years she has lived with Dave. He has doubts about whether he is the father of his children. When the trial begins, the question of the amount of the compensation required is in the room, attorney Robin urges Dave to make a clear statement. Dave sees this as an invitation to measure his beloved wife's worth in money and cannot bring himself to a decision. Robin finally takes the negotiation in hand for him.
Dave and Sarah's relationship grows stronger and they sleep together, being surprised by Dave's youngest daughter Evie. Matt becomes suspicious and confronts Sarah, Sarah breaks up with him. When Matt finds out Sarah has slept with Dave, in revenge, he sleeps with Dave's adult daughter Tanya, who has long been making advances to him. Only then does he tell her about Dave and Sarah. The humiliated Tanya flees to her father and confronts him in front of the children with her suspicion that Sarah and Dave had a relationship before Rita's death. The children are horrified and Lucy immediately decides to move out. Dave and Sarah split up. Dave wants to take care of his children.
Dave seems overwhelmed, he has money problems and is afraid of losing Lucy to her rich biological father and having to raise his younger children by himself, and he does not yet know whether he is their real father. During the trial against the police unit that caused the accident, it turns out that the police officers only turned on the siren during the accident and are therefore fully responsible for Rita's death. Dave's money worries are settled by the compensation payment negotiated by his brother-in-law.
The test whether the three children of Dave are positive is positive; Dave is the father of all three. Lucy decides not to move in with her biological father. Sarah and Dave haven't seen each other for several months, the whole family realizing their absence. The children finally convince Dave to win back Sarah, but she has already quit her job and wants to move away from Glasgow. The whole family makes their way to her and find her at the packed moving van, where Dave and Sarah again confess their love to each other and Sarah also reveals that she is expecting a baby from him.
occupation
- David Tennant - Dave Tiler
- Laura Fraser - Rita Tiler, b. Morris
- Suranne Jones - Sarah, Rita's best friend
- Natasha Watson - Lucy Morris, Rita's 15 year old daughter with Stuart
- Chris Hegarty - Paul Tiler, Ritas and Dave's 11 year old son
- Robert Dickson - Ewan Tiler, Ritas, and Dave's 9 year old son.
- Millie Innes - Evie Tiler, Ritas and Dave's 6 year old daughter.
- Sophie Kennedy Clark - Tanya Tiler, Dave's 18-year-old daughter by first marriage who already has a son
- Isla Blair - Beatty, Rita's adoptive mother
- Warren Brown - Matt, Sarah's friend
- Rupert Graves - Stuart Quinlan, Lucy's biological father
- Neve McIntosh - Anna, Rita's adoptive sister
- Mark Heap - Robin, Anna's husband
- Jenni Keenan-Green - Michelle, Dave's ex-wife
- Stephen McCole - Jimbo, Dave's football friend
- Gabriel Green McGillivray - Samuel, Tanya's four year old son
- Charlotte Pyke - Francine Quinlan, Stuart's French wife
- Mariam Metreveli - Jemma Quinlan, Stuart and Francine's daughter
- Sesili Metreveli - Alice Quinlan, Stuart and Francine's daughter
- Neil McKinven - Headmaster
Trivia
Neve McIntosh compared her character with the mythological Kassandra , because Anna gets on the nerves of her fellow human beings so much that no one listens to or believes her well-intentioned warnings.
Laura Fraser (Rita) and David Tennant (Dave) had already played the protagonistic lovers in Russell T Davies ' BBC three-part series Casanova in 2005 . Rupert Graves (Stuart) and David Tennant stood together in 1997-1998 for Wilson Milam's production of David Rabe's black comedy Hurlyburly on the stage of the Old Vic and later in the Queen's Theater ; the piece was Tennant's West End debut. Director Sam Miller worked with Tennant in 2005 on The Quatermass Experiment (remake of The Quatermass Xperiment ). For Luther , Miller worked again with Warren Brown from 2010-2013.
Under the influence of film history, David Tennant started the adoption process for the son (* 2002) of his partner Georgia Moffett , who was already pregnant with their first daughter at the time. The boy's adoption was completed in the summer of 2011, and the couple finally married the following December.
Web links
- Single Father program page of the BBC ( English )
- Single Father in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Single Father at Serienjunkies.de
Individual evidence
- ^ TV Choice Awards 2011 , BBC News . September 13, 2011. Accessed September 14, 2011.
- ↑ RTS Program Awards 2011 . In: Royal Television Society . Retrieved March 8, 2018.
- ↑ Single Father Filminfo on David-Tennant-News.com, archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
- ^ Pollok Park. Britain's Best Park . Archived from the original on June 15, 2008. Retrieved June 20, 2008.
- ↑ a b c s. Making-of