#get that man on an early 2010s bbc period piece.

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actor au jensen would get to play the joker at least once. by the way.

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So, I Hear You Liked: 1917

More World War One Films

I was very excited about 1917 when it first came out because it almost perfectly coincided with the 100th anniversary of the First World War, a conflict that I love to read about, write about, and watch movies about. This period is my JAM, and there's such a lot of good content for when you're done with Sam Mendes's film.

Obviously there are a lot of movies and TV shows out there - this is just a selection that I enjoyed, and wish more people knew about.

Note: Everyone enjoys a show or movie for different reasons. These shows are on this list because of the time period they depict, not because of the quality of their writing, the accuracy of their history or the political nature of their content. Where I’m able to, I’ve mentioned if a book is available if you’d like to read more.

I'd like to start the list with a movie that isn't a fiction piece at all - Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old (2019) is a beautifully produced film that allows the soldiers and archival images themselves, lovingly retimed and tinted into living color, to tell their own story. It is a must watch for anyone interested in the period.

Wings (1927), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), A Farewell to Arms (1932, 1957), The Dawn Patrol (1938), Sergeant York (1941), and Paths of Glory (1957) are all classics with a couple of Oscars between them, and it's sort of fun to watch how the war gets changed and interpreted as the years pass. (The Dawn Patrol, for instance, might as just as easily be about the RAF in World War 2.)

All Quiet is based on a famous memoir, and A Farewell to Arms on a Hemingway novel; both have several adaptations and they're all a little different. Speaking of iconic novels, Doctor Zhivago (1965) based on the Pasternak novel of the same title, examines life of its protagonist between 1905 and the start of the second World War.

I think one thing historians agree on is that the start of World War One is worth discussing - and that there's a lot of backstory. Fall of Eagles (1974), a 13 part BBC miniseries, details the relationships between the great houses of Europe, starting in the 1860s; it's long but good, and I think might be on YouTube. The Last Czars (2019) takes a dramatized look at the Romanovs and how their reactions to the war lead to their eventual demise.

As far as the war itself, Sarajevo (2014) and 37 Days (2014) both discuss the outbreak of hostilities and the slow roll into actual battle.

The Passing Bells (2014) follows the whole war through the eyes of two soldiers, one German and one British, beginning in peacetime.

Joyeux Noel ( 2005) is a cute story - it takes place early in the war during the Christmas Peace and approaches the event from a multinational perspective.

War Horse (2011) is, of course, a name you'll recognize. Based on the breakout West End play, which is itself based on a YA novel by Michael Morpurgo, the story follows a horse who's requisitioned for cavalry service and the young man who owns him. Private Peaceful (2012) is also based on a Morpurgo novel, but I didn't think it was quite as good as War Horse.

The Wipers Times (2013) is one of my all-time favorites; it's about a short lived trench paper written and produced by soldiers near Ypres, often called Wipers by the average foot soldier. The miniseries, like the paper, is laugh out loud funny in a dark humor way.

My Boy Jack (2007) is another miniseries based on a play, this one about Rudyard Kipling and his son, Jack, who served in the Irish Guards and died at Loos. Kipling later wrote a poem about the death of his son, and helped select the phrase that appears on all commonwealth gravestones of the First World War.

Gallipoli (1981) is stunning in a way only a Peter Weir movie can be; this is a classic and a must-see.

Gallipoli is a big story that's been told and retold a lot. I still haven't seen Deadline Gallipoli (2015) an Australian miniseries about the men who wrote about the battle for the folks back home and were subject to censorship about how bad things really were. For a slightly different perspective, the Turkish director Yesim Sezgin made Çanakkale 1915 in 2012, detailing the Turkish side of the battle. Although most of The Water Diviner (2014) takes place after the war is over, it also covers parts of Gallipoli and while it didn't get great reviews, I enjoy it enough to own it on DVD.

I don't know why all of my favorite WWI films tend to be Australian; Beneath Hill 60 (2010) is another one of my favorites, talking about the 1st Australian Tunneling Company at the Ypres Salient. The War Below (2021) promises to tell a similar story about the Pioneer companies at Messines, responsible for building the huge network of mines there.

Passchendaele (2008) is a Canadian production about the battle of the same name. I'd forgotten I've seen this film, which might not say very much for the story.

Journey's End (2017) is an adaptation of an RC Sheriff play that takes place towards the end of the war in a dugout amongst British officers.

No look at the Great War is complete without a nod to developing military technologies, and this is the war that pioneers the aviation battle for us. I really wish Flyboys (2006) was better than it is, but The Red Baron (2008) makes up for it from the German perspective.

One of the reasons I like reading about the First World War is that everyone is having a revolution. Technology is growing by leaps and bounds, women are fighting for the right to vote, and a lot of colonial possessions are coming into their own, including (but not limited to) Ireland. Rebellion (2016) was a multi-season miniseries that went into the Easter Rising, as well as the role the war played there. Michael Collins (1996) spends more time with the Anglo-Irish war in the 1920s but is still worth watching (or wincing through Julia Roberts' bad accent, you decide.) The Wind that Shakes the Barley covers the same conflict and is excellent.

The centennial of the war meant that in addition to talking about the war, people were also interested in talking about the Armenian Genocide. The Promise (2016) and The Ottoman Lieutenant (2017) came out around the same time and two different looks at the situation in Armenia.

This is a war of poets and writers, of whom we have already mentioned a few. Hedd Wynn ( 1992) which is almost entirely in Welsh, and tells the story of Ellis Evans, a Welsh language poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele. I think Ioan Gruffudd has read some of his poetry online somewhere, it's very pretty. A Bear Named Winnie (2004) follows the life of the bear who'd become the inspiration for Winnie the Pooh. Tolkien (2019) expands a little on the author's early life and his service during the war. Benediction (2021) will tell the story of Siegfried Sassoon and his time at Craiglockhart Hospital. Craiglockhart is also represented in Regeneration (1997) based on a novel by Pat Barker.

Anzac Girls (2014) is probably my favorite mini-series in the history of EVER; it follows the lives of a group of Australian and New Zealand nurses from hospital duty in Egypt to the lines of the Western Front. I love this series not only because it portrays women (ALWAYS a plus) but gives a sense of the scope of the many theatres of the war that most movies don't. It's based on a book by Peter Rees, which is similarly excellent.

On a similar note, The Crimson Field (2014) explores the lives of members of a Voluntary Aid Detachment, or VADs, lady volunteers without formal nursing training who were sent to help with menial work in hospitals. It only ran for a season but had a lot of potential. Testament of Youth (2014) is based on the celebrated memoirs of Vera Brittain, who served as a VAD for part of the war and lead her to become a dedicated pacifist.

Also, while we're on the subject of women, though these aren't war movies specifically, I feel like the additional color to the early 20th century female experience offered by Suffragette (2015) and Iron-Jawed Angels (2004) is worth the time.

As a general rule, Americans don't talk about World War One, and we sure don't make movies about it, either. The Lost Battalion (2001) tells the story of Major Charles Whittlesey and the 9 companies of the 77th Infantry division who were trapped behind enemy lines during the battle of the Meuse Argonne.

I should add that this list is curtailed a little bit by what's available for broadcast or stream on American television, so it's missing a lot of dramas in other languages. The Road to Calvary (2017) was a Russian drama based on the novels of Alexei Tolstoy. Kurt Seyit ve Şura (2014) is based on a novel and follows a love story between a Crimean officer (a Muslim) and the Russian woman he loves. The show is primarily in Turkish, and Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, who plays the lead, is *very* attractive.

Finally, although it might seem silly to mention them, Upstairs Downstairs (1971-1975 ) Downton Abbey (2010-2015) and Peaky Blinders (2013-present) are worth a mention and a watch. All of them are large ensemble TV shows that take place over a much longer period than just the Great War, but the characters in each are shaped tremendously by the war.

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Hugh Masekela

Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer. He has been described as the "father of South African jazz." Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as "Soweto Blues" and "Bring Him Back Home". He also had a number 1 US pop hit in 1968 with his version of "Grazing in the Grass".

Early life

Masekela was born in KwaGuqa Township, Witbank, South Africa to Thomas Selena Masekela, who was a health inspector and sculptor and his wife, Pauline Bowers Masekela, a social worker. As a child, he began singing and playing piano and largely was raised by his grandmother, who ran an illegal bar for miners. At the age of 14, after seeing the film Young Man with a Horn (in which Kirk Douglas plays a character modelled on American jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke), Masekela took up playing the trumpet. His first trumpet, from Louis Armstrong, was given to him by Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, the anti-apartheid chaplain at St. Peter's Secondary School now known as St. Martin's School (Rosettenville).

Huddleston asked the leader of the then Johannesburg "Native" Municipal Brass Band, Uncle Sauda, to teach Masekela the rudiments of trumpet playing. Masekela quickly mastered the instrument. Soon, some of his schoolmates also became interested in playing instruments, leading to the formation of the Huddleston Jazz Band, South Africa's first youth orchestra. By 1956, after leading other ensembles, Masekela joined Alfred Herbert's African Jazz Revue.

From 1954, Masekela played music that closely reflected his life experience. The agony, conflict, and exploitation South Africa faced during the 1950s and 1960s inspired and influenced him to make music and also spread political change. He was an artist who in his music vividly portrayed the struggles and sorrows, as well as the joys and passions of his country. His music protested about apartheid, slavery, government; the hardships individuals were living. Masekela reached a large population that also felt oppressed due to the country's situation.

Following a Manhattan Brothers tour of South Africa in 1958, Masekela wound up in the orchestra of the musical King Kong, written by Todd Matshikiza.King Kong was South Africa's first blockbuster theatrical success, touring the country for a sold-out year with Miriam Makeba and the Manhattan Brothers' Nathan Mdledle in the lead. The musical later went to London's West End for two years.

Career

At the end of 1959, Dollar Brand (later known as Abdullah Ibrahim), Kippie Moeketsi, Makhaya Ntshoko, Johnny Gertze and Hugh formed the Jazz Epistles, the first African jazz group to record an LP. They performed to record-breaking audiences in Johannesburg and Cape Town through late 1959 to early 1960.

Following the 21 March 1960 Sharpeville massacre—where 69 protestors were shot dead in Sharpeville, and the South African government banned gatherings of ten or more people—and the increased brutality of the Apartheid state, Masekela left the country. He was helped by Trevor Huddleston and international friends such as Yehudi Menuhin and John Dankworth, who got him admitted into London's Guildhall School of Music. During that period, Masekela visited the United States, where he was befriended by Harry Belafonte. He attended Manhattan School of Music in New York, where he studied classical trumpet from 1960 to 1964. In 1964, Makeba and Masekela were married, divorcing two years later.

He had hits in the United States with the pop jazz tunes "Up, Up and Away" (1967) and the number-one smash "Grazing in the Grass" (1968), which sold four million copies. He also appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, and was subsequently featured in the film Monterey Pop by D. A. Pennebaker. In 1974, Masekela and friend Stewart Levine organised the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa set around the Rumble in the Jungle boxing match.

He played primarily in jazz ensembles, with guest appearances on recordings by The Byrds ("So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" and "Lady Friend") and Paul Simon ("Further to Fly"). In 1984, Masekela released the album Techno Bush; from that album, a single entitled "Don't Go Lose It Baby" peaked at number two for two weeks on the dance charts. In 1987, he had a hit single with "Bring Him Back Home". The song became enormously popular, and turned into an unofficial anthem of the anti-apartheid movement and an anthem for the movement to free Nelson Mandela.

A renewed interest in his African roots led Masekela to collaborate with West and Central African musicians, and finally to reconnect with Southern African players when he set up with the help of Jive Records a mobile studio in Botswana, just over the South African border, from 1980 to 1984. Here he re-absorbed and re-used mbaqanga strains, a style he continued to use following his return to South Africa in the early 1990s.

In 1985 Masekela founded the Botswana International School of Music (BISM), which held its first workshop in Gaborone in that year. The event, still in existence, continues as the annual Botswana Music Camp, giving local musicians of all ages and from all backgrounds the opportunity to play and perform together. Masekela taught the jazz course at the first workshop, and performed at the final concert.

Also in the 1980s, Masekela toured with Paul Simon in support of Simon's album Graceland, which featured other South African artists such as Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Miriam Makeba, Ray Phiri, and other elements of the band Kalahari, with which Masekela recorded in the 1980s. He also collaborated in the musical development for the Broadway play, Sarafina! and recorded with the band Kalahari.

In 2003, he was featured in the documentary film Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony. In 2004, he released his autobiography, Still Grazing: The Musical Journey of Hugh Masekela, co-authored with journalist D. Michael Cheers, which detailed Masekela's struggles against apartheid in his homeland, as well as his personal struggles with alcoholism from the late 1970s through to the 1990s. In this period, he migrated, in his personal recording career, to mbaqanga, jazz/funk, and the blending of South African sounds, through two albums he recorded with Herb Alpert, and solo recordings, Techno-Bush (recorded in his studio in Botswana), Tomorrow (featuring the anthem "Bring Him Back Home"), Uptownship (a lush-sounding ode to American R&B), Beatin' Aroun de Bush, Sixty, Time, and Revival. His song "Soweto Blues", sung by his former wife, Miriam Makeba, is a blues/jazz piece that mourns the carnage of the Soweto riots in 1976. He also provided interpretations of songs composed by Jorge Ben, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Caiphus Semenya, Jonas Gwangwa, Dorothy Masuka and Fela Kuti.

In 2006 Masekela was described by Michael A. Gomez, professor of history and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University as "the father of South African jazz."

In 2009, Masekela released the album Phola (meaning "to get well, to heal"), his second recording for 4 Quarters Entertainment/Times Square Records. It includes some songs he wrote in the 1980s but never completed, as well as a reinterpretation of "The Joke of Life (Brinca de Vivre)", which he recorded in the mid-1980s. From October 2007, he was a board member of the Woyome Foundation for Africa.

In 2010, Masekela was featured, with his son Selema Masekela, in a series of videos on ESPN. The series, called Umlando – Through My Father's Eyes, was aired in 10 parts during ESPN's coverage of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. The series focused on Hugh's and Selema's travels through South Africa. Hugh brought his son to the places he grew up. It was Selema's first trip to his father's homeland.

On 3 December 2013, Masekela guested with the Dave Matthews Band in Johannesburg, South Africa. He joined Rashawn Ross on trumpet for "Proudest Monkey" and "Grazing in the Grass".

In 2016, at Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim performed together for the first time in 60 years, reuniting the Jazz Epistles in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the historic 16 June 1976 youth demonstrations.

Social initiatives

Masekela was involved in several social initiatives, and served as a director on the board of the Lunchbox Fund, a non-profit organization that provides a daily meal to students of township schools in Soweto.

Personal life and death

From 1964 to 1966 he was married to singer and activist Miriam Makeba. He was the father of American television host Sal Masekela.

Masekela died in Johannesburg on the early morning of 23 January 2018 from prostate cancer, aged 78.

Awards and honours

Grammy history

Masekela was nominated for a Grammy Award three times, including a nomination for Best World Music Album for his 2012 album Jabulani, one for Best Musical Cast Show Album for Sarafina! The Music Of Liberation (1989) and one for Best Contemporary Pop Performance for "Grazing in the Grass" (1968).

Honours

Rhodes University: Doctor of Music (honoris causa), 2015

University of York Honorary Doctorate in Music 2014

Order of Ikhamanga: 2010 South African National Orders Ceremony, 27 April 2010.

Ghana Music Awards: 2007 African Music Legend award

2005 Channel O Music Video Awards: Lifetime Achievement Award

2002 BBC Radio Jazz Awards: International Award of the Year

Nominated for Broadway's 1988 Tony Award for Best Score (Musical), with music and lyrics collaborator Mbongeni Ngema, for Sarafina!

2016 MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs): Legend Award

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Fall Fusion 2020 (The CW)

Normally during this time of year, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and The CW get ready to unveil their primetime rosters.  However, this year will be much different, due to the uncertainty surrounding the Coronavirus pandemic.  Virtually all Hollywood productions are currently shut down until it can be determined that they are safe to reopen.  As a consequence, most of the fall pilots weren’t able to be completed in time for network executives to screen them ahead of constructing the 2020-21 network television season.  

Although the networks will still be doing “upfronts” in May, they won’t be live...and, more pointedly, they will probably be more tentative when it comes to potential calendar dates.  After all, we won’t know when series are ready to have their exact premiere dates green-lit until we have a more concrete timeline of when they can go back into production.

While many writing rooms have been able to operate and interact – in preparation for next season – remotely, the on-set production cannot resume until safety precautions are developed.  Presumably, these protocols will involve:  medical screening and constant testing for all cast and crew members; appropriate sanitization regimes to keep the sets clean; and creative ways to mitigate risk (such as more closed sets, “bottle episodes,” and tapings where studio audiences are absent).

The “bubble shows” for this season are probably more likely to return than they would have been in past traditional seasons, just because they are familiar commodities with infrastructure already in place...and there is obviously a lack of completed pilots for new series that could replace them.  These could-go-either-way series include:  Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist, Good Girls, Council of Dads, Lincoln Rhyme, Indebted, and Perfect Harmony on NBC; For Life, American Housewife, Emergence, Single Parents, Bless This Mess, Schooled, blackish, mixedish, and The Baker & The Beauty on ABC; All Rise, Bob Hearts Abishola, The Unicorn, Man with a Plan, Broke, Carol’s Second Act, Tommy, MacGyver, Magnum P.I., SEAL Team, and S.W.A.T. on CBS; Katy Keene on The CW; and The Moodys and Outmatched on Fox.

Some new programs have already received a straight-to-series order, whereas others could receive a blind pickup commitment based on their written premises.  In addition, I wouldn’t be surprised if some shows are held over until later in 2021, just so the networks have a way to hedge their bets if there was a “second wave” of studio shutdowns due to hypothetical re-infections in late-2020 or early-2021.

Based on this unprecedented state of limbo Hollywood finds itself in, I am constructing a tentative “blueprint” for each broadcast network from the limited information we have.  I have constructed their respective schedules in three hypothetical programming “waves” – November/December/January, February/March/April, and May/June/July.

Obviously, any productions are subject to further delay based on extenuating circumstances. Likewise, a series that receives a more limited order of 13, 16, or 18 episodes could see its episode order expanded, if filming circumstances grow more favorable and the specific show performs well upon its return.

(All times are Eastern/Pacific; subtract one hour for the Central/Mountain time zones)

(New shows highlighted in bold)

Featured network for today’s column…

THE CW

Sunday

8:00 – 72 Hours: True Crime (late-2020) / Batwoman (early-2021) / Stargirl (mid-2021)

9:00 – Dragon’s Den (late-2020) / Supergirl (early-2021 through mid-2021)

For fall “filler” programming, The CW could dip into the library of Canadian partner CBS to re-broadcast episodes of 72 Hours: True Crime and Dragon’s Den.  The former ran from 2004 to 2007 where it profiled non-fictional crime scenes; the latter is an international phenomenon that inspired the U.S.-based Shark Tank, and the Canadian version led by head judge Jim Treliving would be the most logical iteration for re-broadcast by The CW.

By January or February, the Batwoman / Supergirl bloc could return; and, if Stargirl (starring School of Rock’s Brec Bassinger) proves to be a hit this summer, it could return by May or June (once Batwoman has closed its sophomore season).

Monday

8:00 – Hyderdrive (late-2020) / All-American (early-2021) / Supernatural (mid-2021)

8:30 – The Goes Wrong Show (late-2020) / All-American (early-2021) / Supernatural (mid-2021)

9:00 – Pushing Daisies (late-2020) / Black Lightning (early-2021) / Maverick (mid-2021)

For fall “filler” programming, The CW can turn to British favorites from its CW Seed streaming service.   Hyperdrive, a BBC-based sci-fi sitcom starring Nick Frost (The World’s End) and Miranda Hart (Spy), could share the first hour of the night with Mischief Theatre’s phenom The Goes Wrong Show.  The second hour could be occupied by select episodes of Pushing Daisies, a cult favorite from 2007-08 that originally aired on ABC but now finds its streaming rights owned by CW Seed.

By January or February, All-American and Black Lightning would return as a pair.  Once they complete their respective 16-episode runs by April or May, Supernatural would air its final seven (currently unproduced) episodes into the summer.  Paired with Supernatural could be Maverick, a political/college alternate universe thriller with Brockmire’s Reina Hardesty in the title role.

Tuesday

8:00 – I Ship It (late-2020) / The Flash (early-2021 through mid-2021)

8:30 – Gavin and Stacey (late-2020) / The Flash (early-2021 through mid-2021)

9:00 – Chris Haddock’s Intelligence (late-2020) / Green Arrow & The Canaries (early-2021) / Roswell New Mexico (mid-2021)

For fall “filler” programming, the CW Seed musical rom-com I Ship It could be paired into the same hour alongside the imported James Corden classic Gavin & Stacey.  The second hour of the night can be filled by the 2006-07 Canadian crime procedural Intelligence.

By January or February, The Flash’s seventh season should be ready to air new episodes, as a lead-in for the Katie Cassidy-led Arrow spinoff tentatively titled Green Arrow & The Canaries.  Then, in that same 9pm time slot, Roswell would return for its third season by April or May.

Wednesday

8:00 – The Fades (late-2020) / Riverdale (early-2021 through mid-2021)

9:00 – Dominic Minghella’s Robin Hood (late-2020) / Superman & Lois (early-2021) / Katy Keene (mid-2021)

For fall “filler” programming, the short-lived BBC supernatural drama The Fades could be recycled for six weeks, paired with the 2006-09 British version of Robin Hood (featuring The Hobbit’s Richard Armitage, True Blood’s Lucy Griffiths, Supergirl’s David Harewood, and Lost in Space’s Toby Stephens).  Since The Fades only has six weeks’ worth of content, Robin Hood could air double-episodes up through the new year until Riverdale is ready to air.

Alongside Season 5 of Riverdale could be the Tyler Hoechlin / Bitsie Tulloch spinoff Superman & Lois, expanding the Berlantiverse even further.  After Superman & Lois airs approximately 13 episodes, Katy Keene can return for a late-spring / early-summer sophomore season.

Thursday

8:00 – Ken Riddington’s House of Cards (late-2020) / Nancy Drew (early-2021) / Legends of Tomorrow (mid-2021)

9:00 – Married Single Other (late-2020) / Legacies (early-2021) / Walker (mid-2021)

For fall “filler” programming, the original House of Cards (which aired as a four-part British miniseries in 1990) could be on The CW’s schedule for four or five weeks.  The second hour can be filled by the 2010 British suburban drama Married Single Other.  Since these two imported entries combined would only fill one month-and-a-half worth of programming, iHeart Radio might need to commission some special programming to coincide with the autumn/winter holidays. Continued airings of Burden of Proof can be a fallback option.

By January or February, Nancy Drew and Legacies should be paired together to run through May.   Then, as the summer approaches, Legends of Tomorrow would begin airing its sixth season, coupled with the Walker, Texas Ranger reimagination; since Supernatural’s Jared Padalecki will be in the Chuck Norris role for the new Walker, it would be fitting that the series airs its freshman season in tandem with Supernatural airing its own final episodes.

Friday

8:00 – Master of Illusion or The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (late-2020) / Charmed (early-2021) / Penn & Teller or Whose Line Is It Anyway? (mid-2021)

9:00 – Primeval (late-2020) / Dynasty (early-2021) / In The Dark (mid-2021)

For fall “filler” programming, along with a repurposed version of Master of Illusion, The CW could import the BBC Victorian period piece The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, which would be especially apt to air close to Christmas.  ITV sci-fi hit Primeval should air 36 episodes’ worth of content whenever the former entries weren’t able to.

By January or February, Charmed and Dynasty would return as a duo.  When those two finish out their third and fourth seasons, respectively, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Whose Line is it Anyway?, and In The Dark will be reliable early-summer programming.

Of course, new original series (including scripted programming) could be developed throughout the year and added to the schedule in piecemeal fashion.  It’s just going to depend on how quickly location shoots and live studio audiences can be reintegrated into productions as commonplace, once again.

Until then, TV shows will have to find creative ways around that...or develop alternative types of programming.

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would you be willing to make a list of your favorite lesser know period dramas so people new to the genre can watch them? You post so many pictures of shows I don't know! ty love your blog :)

I absolutely would! (sorry it took me a little while to get around to this!!!! Forgive me!!!)

I’ll start with my three favourites because I feel like they’re lesser known and they are brilliant, in my opinion.

Harlots (2017- present) - A drama series about brothels and sex work in 18th century London. Absolutely fabulous, historically accurate in almost every aspect, include the variety of its characters. You can watch it on Hulu and NowTV as well as streaming it online. Also, the DVD of Season 1 is released tomorrow so!

Magnificent Century (2011-2014) , Magnificent Century: Kosem (2015-present) - Although technically two different series, MC: Kosem is a follow-up to Magnificent Century. These are two Turkish soap operas set during a period in Ottoman history known as “the Sultanate of Women”: basically a period during the 16th and 17th century where a woman from the Ottoman harem, be she a concubine, a mother or a sister, held considerable power, sometimes even more so than the reigning sultan. The first series of MC is available with English subtitles on Netflix: after that, the rest of the episodes can be watched on YouTube alongside this translation site. Same goes for Kosem, although the first episode was released officially with English subtitles on YouTube and can be watched here. The episodes are all very long: some about 2 and a half hours. But it’s such a great franchise, I love it so much.

Peaky Blinders (2013-present) - Set in working class Birmingham just after the First World War, it’s essentially about British gangsters, specficially the Shelby family, though it focuses most on their young patriarch, Tommy Shelby. It’s superb. The cast are amazing (Cillian Murphy, Sam Neil, Tom Hardy...) and it’s just so energetic, political and dynamic. I think I love it for two big reasons: 1) We hardly ever get period dramas about working class Britain and when we do, they’re always miserable and depressing. Peaky Blinders can be miserable and depressing but it also shows these families for what they are: the absolute backbone of this country. And 2) The Shelby family are half-Rromani. I’m half-Rromani myself so to see a representation for me on a primetime BBC TV series has been so good. They speak the language sometimes too! And indulge in some of the traditions. I recently saw Peaky Blinders on a stupid list of “Yet more period dramas about white British people” and it was ANNOYING. It’s been great for Rromani representation. You can watch it on Netflix!

That got super long, so here are a few lesser known period dramas (both films and TV series) that I have watched in my time and would absolutely recommend:

Charles II: The Power and the Passion (2002) - Apart from the fact this is about my favourite historical figure ever and is absolute perfection, it also has a stellar cast (Rufus Sewell, Helen McCrory, Martin Freeman, Rupert Graves, Shirley Henderson, Ian McDiarmid....need I go on?).....so if you want BBC period drama perfection, as well as a foray into the Best Period of British History Ever (the years 1660-1685 I DO NOT MAKE THE RULES), it’s a must-see.

Maison Close (2010) - Similar to Harlots in that it’s about a brothel, but it’s set in France in the 1870s. It’s just as gritty and realistic in its portrayal of sex work, though. It was very popular but cut short, unfortunately. Still an absolute must-see! You can watch it with English subs on Amazon Prime, and I assume it is easily streamed.

Bajirao Mastani (2015) - This is a Bollywood epic so it does have musical numbers but it’s also absolutely phenomenal. It’s set in the Maratha Empire in the early 1700s and is about the famed Peshwa (Prime Minister), Baijrao, and his love for a Muslim Raput princess, Mastani (who’s also a warrior and swords-woman.) Bajirao is also married to another woman called Kashibai who loves him dearly. It’s about love, it’s about prejudice and it’s about women trying to find some common ground for the man they love.

Shakespeare in Love (1998) - This is not necessarily lesser-known but I feel like it’s one of those films you literally have to see, especially if you like period pieces. It’s a comedy, largely fictional and tells the tale of how a young Will Shakespeare came to write Romeo and Juliet. He falls in love with a young noblewoman called Viola de Lesseps, who also happens to be an aspiring actor in a time when women are barred from the stage. Whilst the cast really blows every other cast I’ve mentioned out of the water, the highlight is probably Judi Dench as Elizabeth I. She has about....idk.....15 minutes screen time at most? But she won an Oscar for her performance anyway.

Elizabeth I (2005) - There are so many things about the Virgin Queen but this is my favourite since it covers the latter years of Elizabeth’s reign and focuses on both her political and personal life. I especially love her romance with Robert Dudley (played by Jeremy Irons) because usually, we see them as young people and it’s nice to see them older and experienced. Helen Mirren plays Elizabeth and....well....it’s Helen Mirren.

There are definitely more, especially ones set during my favourite period (17th & 18th century) which I don’t mind making another post for. But these are some of my faves!

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Top 10: Plastician’s Essential Dubstep & Dark Garage Classics

3 weeks to go until our experts host our last UKF10 go crazy, noting a total year of 10 year anniversary celebrations.UKF10 takes place December 14 at Studio 338, among Greater london's best-suited raving dens for the full-spectrum bass selection our team've enlisted. Plastician is just one of numerous DJs helping our company celebrate our biggest year to time, he's heading up Area 2 with Emalkay, Joker, The Others B2B Subscape as well as Enada. It's our best dubstep selection in Greater london in years.To celebrate,

our company have actually asked him to decide on 10 essential dubstep standards. He carried out certainly not let our company down. He's connected with beyond than the famous classics and universal anthems and pulled for one thing deeper. Right coming from 2001 dark garage to 2010 halftime blends, he is actually selected 10 great instances of master plans, standards and also boundary-breakers in the course of dubstep's 1st 10 years.While each of

these created shakes on the underground, and also a lot of were regularly hammered at dubstep's prehistoric melting pot FWD, not every one of all of them changeover to the broader dance and also have not been actually therefore intensely played because. Even to enthusiasts that existed during the time, a number of these keep tracks of are going to be actually a new expertise. Move to Center 338 on December 14 to experience a similarly-executed choice.

"There'll be a mix of everything," mentions the Terrorhythm bossman who just recently released the mystical Tracksuit Goth's launching, his tag's initial dubstep file in years. "A couple of grime and also dubstep classics. Bunches of brand-new things. I'm truly taking pleasure in exactly how dubstep has gotten back to its origins a bit, it's additional regarding the feel as well as the tip as well as it is actually obtained its own swing back once again. It needs to be a great one. It'll be terrific to see all these process in the exact same room. Our experts observe each various other at festivals however it is actually unusual to observe it take place in a club, especially in Greater london."

See you on December 14. In the meanwhile, understand these 10 cult foundation-setting dubstep tracks as picked through the man himself ...

Skream-- Shake-It (Tempa, 2008)

This one's coming from Skreamizm Vol 4. The very most widely known monitor on that particular EP was Oskillatah yet this was my favourite. It only had that swing to it that a great deal of monitors were actually losing at that time. I'm in fact playing this a lot once more today, the collision provides it that vibe which failed to follow the even more automated canal that was actually prevailing when this came out. Skream was actually thus prolific in the course of this period, it is actually incredible remembering just the amount of he made.Roxy & El-B

-- Cuba & (Bison Recordings, 2001)

This is an outright FWD anthem long before the night even grabbed Plastic Individuals! Going straight back to the style's garage bases. El-B was one of the black garage trailblazers that played such a solid job in the audio. Roxy worked together along with him a couple of times as well as they were actually both aspect of El-B's Ghost Records workers. Unfortunately he is actually no more along with us.Mark One

-- Plodder (Communicable, 2005)

Score typically obtains overlooked, due to the fact that he was actually stemming from Manchester but he carried out some amazing monitors. We each arrived through around the exact same opportunity and participated in one another's paths and this was actually a continuous track in my set for a long times. It is actually an effective unearthed gem. Our experts both toured United States all together around this time around. It was our 1st US excursion and our company were actually along with Bogdan Raczynski as well as Todd Osborn Soundmurderer as well as Grant Wilson-Claridge that manages Rephlex. I 'd never listened to everything like the songs the fellas were actually playing, it was a genuine ear and eye opener. We were actually untamed youngsters at that time, that was a psychological scenic tour. And obviously right now Score's flipped the game and also is eliminating it as Solardo. Fair game to him, he is actually the man of the instant, yet he's still the same old Score whenever I view him. Respect.Menta-- The Spirit(

Self-released, 2002 )This was a traditional in

the very early days, Croydon, just before a great deal of us obtained to play FWD. Hatcha would certainly play this on buccaneer continuously. Menta is really Art pieces and also Danny Harrison as well as they were actually all component of a collective who were part of D' n 'D Productions and also 187 Lockdown as well as that entire rate garage motion. This was their darker task for the noise that will ultimately come to be dubstep. It had not been called that at that time. We all knew it as the FWD audio. These men, Horse power Productions, El-B, Oris Jay. They were the ones putting in the foundations long just before dubstep became a thing.Coki-- Reddish Eye (Big Apple, 2007) My favorite Coki song. Everyone knows Tortured,Pulverized, Burning and also clearly Evening

, but this one definitely reminds me of playing shows along with Skepta, he enjoyed this song too as well as I have actually acquired a bunch of minds of playing it with him. Coki had his own sound, however the wonderful thing back then was actually that every person had their very own noise. There weren't that a lot of developers as well as the ones at the cutting edge went to the cutting edge of their own. There weren't that numerous copycats. All people that actually pushed the audio as well as brought in a mark on it had their personal noise; Joker, Silkie, Art Pieces, Benga, Skream. Every person sounded therefore different to every other as well as Coki was actually a little a creature back then.Joker-- Digidiesign(Om Device Pop Hair Remix )(Self-release, 2010 )

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French Shoegaze, Dream Pop & Noise Pop, a quick guide, Vol. 2

In our Volume 1 you discovered / revisited Welcome to Julian (90’s), Dead Horse One, Stuck in the Sound, Venera 4, Soon she Said, Automatic Fiction, Candelabre (see our collaboration) and the Sigh (90’s).

You are here again for a other musical treat, as we continue to introduce you to some of the fantastic bands that France has (had) in our favorite genres. This second volume, like the ones to follow, includes past, present, big and small bands in no particular order.

First a big thank you to Elisabeth (Kill the Moose), Margot (Tapeworms), Michel (Lucie Vacarme), Evol (Dead & Nothing Collective), Yann (Marble Arch), Pierre (Dead Mantra) and their bandmates for taking the time to ensure that their band’s information was accurate.

LUCIE VACARME (90’s)

Lucie Vacarme, from Toulouse, is one of the main and most influential French Shoegaze (called ‘Noisy Pop’ then) band of the 90’s. This the first recorded musical experience of Michel Cloup, known for having worked in one of the major bands of the French scene of the 90s, Diabologum. They disbanded in 1993.

The band was known for their saturated and hazy sound, at the limit of the audible, especially in concert (those of Toulouse and Bordeaux in the first part of Lush were known to have caused tinnitus).

Despite the support of Bernard Lenoir (the French Equivalent of John Peel), Lucie Vacarme did not break through.

All readers of ‘Les Inrocks’ knew the band even if it was not easy to get their CD’s. I for one had the CD’s copied on tape as I could not get the CD proper (always out of stock when I looked). Unfortunately, I have lost the tape since unfortunately.

The band had more influence on the limited ‘Noisy Pop’ French musical scene as the time that they think. Many bands (my band Smiling Marianne, The Sigh, …) knew Lucie Vacarme’s music and we were inspired by some of it, if only to know that French bands could make such great music. Milkyway was to our opinion one of the best Shoegaze album around. Thanks guys.

There is a little story as Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) featured on the band’s album, as detailed in Michel Cloup’s interview in ‘Soul Kitchen’

“We sent our first EP to Thurston Moore. He sent us a postcard back. We had suggested to Kim, at the time when they recorded ‘Dirty’ to make a featuring on our song "Kelly Kiss". She did it over the phone with a very bad sound and accent. Fortunately, we wrote her name on the booklet and people were able to know she featured”.

One of their songs, ‘Souffle incandescent’ features on DKFM ‘Shoegaze classics and rarities vol2’ that can be found here on Mixcloud.

The band’s lineup was:

David Amsellem : guitar, voice

Michel Cloup : guitar

Patrice Bellanti : bass

Valery Lorenzo : drums

The music work is as follows:

1990: Metalvox, EP

1992: Milkyway , Album

1993: Audioscope, EP

Some of the songs we love:

ALCEST

The presentation of the band on Wikipedia tells us that Alcest is a French Post-Metal band from Bagnols-sur-Cèze, founded and led by Neige (Stéphane Paut). It started in 2000 as a Black Metal solo project by Neige, soon a trio, but following the release of their first demo in 2001, band members Aegnor and Argoth left the band, leaving Neige as the sole member.

In 2009 drummer Winterhalter from Les Discrets (and formerly Peste Noire) joined Alcest's line-up, after eight years with Neige as the sole full-time member.

Since its creation, Alcest has released five studio albums and a number of EPs and split releases. Their fourth album, 2014's Shelter, marked a dramatic shift towards a distinctly Shoegaze sound, however their latest album Kodama marks a partial return to their earlier Blackgaze sound. The band are widely credited with pioneering the Blackgaze/Post-Black metal genre, particularly through their EP ‘Le Secret’ released in 2005.

Alcest's fourth effort, entitled ‘Shelter’, was released on January 17, 2014 via Prophecy Productions. It features a guest appearance by Neil Halstead (Slowdive). Stylistically the album is a radical departure for the band, dropping all traces of metal from their sound and fully committing to the Shoegaze side of their sound. Neige later said in an interview that

"We are proud of it, but I think it was maybe a bit too influenced by other things. I really was obsessed with Slowdive at that time. Shelter still sounds very ‘Alcest’, but maybe not as much as the other records.”

On January 22, 2019, the band announced that they would start recording their next studio album the following day.

The current line-up is:

Neige – lead vocals, guitars, keyboards (2000–present), drums (2000–2009), bass (2001–present)

Winterhalter – drums, percussion (2009–present)

The current live musicians are:

Zero – guitar, backing vocals (2010–present)

Indria Saray – bass (2010–present)

The music work to date is:

2005: Le Secret (2005, re-recorded version in 2011) EP

2007: Souvenirs d'un autre monde, Album

2010: Écailles de Lune, Album

2012: Les Voyages de l'Âme, Album; BBC live session

2014: Shelter, Album

2016: Kodama, Album

2019: Spiritual instinct, Album

Some of the songs we love:

NøTHING COLLECTIVE

The Nøthing Collective is a Collective of like-minded French bands within the Shoegaze / Noise Pop / Altrock / Dreampop genres. They include an extensive lineup of some of the best current French artists.

They present themselves as follows:

“No matter where, no matter who and no matter how. What matters is the sound. What brings us together is the desire to have one. What binds us is the will to defend it. What we are passionate about is the desire to reveal it to you.”

The bands part of the collective so far are: A V G V S T, Future, Dead, Dead Horse One (see our Volume 1), Marble Arch (see below in this guide), Maria False, Saintes, Seahorse Hunter, Still Charon, Venera 4 (see our Volume 1), Beat Mark, Cavale Blanche, Des Roses, Giirls's facebook, Hermetic Delight, Mara, The name of the band, San Carol, Shadow Motel, Soft Blonde, Volage, Tapeworrm (see below in this guide), La Houle, T/O, Bank Myna, Good morning TV, Big Wool, Soon She Said (see our Volume 1), Brace! Brace!, Son of Fonos, That Green, The same old Band, Boy Head, Soon, Beat Mark, Boreal Wood, Maara, My lovely underground, Shadow Motel, San Carol,

The compilations that include the bands above to date are:

2013: We want nøthing more than nøthing #1

2014: Songs from Nøthing #2

2015:nøthing #03, nothing #4

2018: nøthing #05

There are too many songs and bands to choose from and we invite you to look / listen to their Bandcamp page and enjoy the quality and variety is contains.

Needless to say, Nøthing Collective was one of our main resources to source great bands for this Guide. More bands form the Collective will be included in the next volumes of this guide.

  MARBLE ARCH

As stated on the band’s social media, “Like the white marble monument -located on the West end of Oxford Street- from which the group borrowed its name, Marble Arch was cut for triumph. Having perfectly digested Shoegaze and Dream Pop's secrets, their music has been oriented toward childhood and experimentation.

After the first DIY record, Yann Le Ravazet had some time to think about the musical tone and sounds of his new record. He didn’t want it to be labelled Shoegaze nor Dream Pop. As a matter of fact, we’d be more likely to hear reverberated pop (Remeniscence), saturated pop (the infectious song “I am on My Way”), nostalgic pop (Moonstruck), synthetic pop (Instant Love) or even contemplative pop (Gold).”

The band has indeed evolved between the first and second album, though still into the music world of reverberation.

Les inrockuptibles (the French NME) did a very good interview of the front man from which this is extracted:

"In 2014, we discovered Yann Le Razavet with 'The Bloom Of Division', album entirely designed by the light of his bedside lamp. Under the name of Marble Arch, the young musician flew far away from the noisy shoegaze of his first band, Maria False, and delivered many of titles full of foggy nostalgia and twilight lyricism. Full of an elegance and finesse rather rare in France, 'Children Of The Slump' is without a doubt a very good record, and even when wholly mustering our critical mind, there is not much at fault."  -- Les Inrockuptibles

Band Members are:

Yann Le Razavet, vocals, guitar and keyboard

Thomas Tan, Lead guitar

Adrien Vernet, guitar, backing vocals

Thomas Beilles, Bass

Danny Kendrick, Drums

Music work to date

2013: echidna, EP

2014: The bloom of division, Album

2016: The Sand, single

2019: Children of the Slump, Album

Some of the bands’ songs we love:

KILL THE MOOSE 

Kill The Moose is an alternative rock band, strongly influenced by the British Shoegaze scene of the early 90's.

It was founded in 2015 by Elisabeth and Alex, in Nice, on the French Riviera. Kill the Moose is a concentrate of noise energy mixed with melodies that remain in the forefront. The songs are ethereal, pop and sweet, drenched in a wall of sound, full of reverb and distortion, with the beats of a deep bass and powered-up drums.

Note that the name ‘Kill The Moose’ is not a tribute to Shoegaze's British band ‘Moose’, but a reference to a Monty Python piece.

The lineup is:

Elisabeth Massena, Vocals

Alex Ornon, Guitar

Alexis Fedunizin, Bass

Nicolas Bonnet, Drums

Arthur Arsenne, Guitar

 The music work to date is:

2017: Demo #1

2018: Good Girl EP; The World Is Your Oyster EP; Contented Eye (Adorable cover); To The Moon And Back EP; Suzanne (Moose Cover)

2019: Into My Arms (Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds Cover)

Some of the songs we love:

DEAD

Dead is a Coldwave / Noise / Electronic band from Rennes. Their music errs more towards the Early Cocteau Twins and The Cure (disintegration period). Their combination of synth waves and reverb guitars give a beautiful cold and dark feeling.

The band present themselves as follows:

"What more can you say about a band called DEAD that hasn’t already been made abundantly clear at first glance?

The fact that these French mercenaries of noise can conjure up such a powerfully dark aesthetic before even hitting a note is impressive, but when they finally do, they unleash a far more potent beast entirely. If DEAD aren’t already mapping out the future destruction of the planet, they’ve sure as hell written the soundtrack.

Bleak, confrontational, but with a firm command of rhythm and deep grooves, this might be the dancefloor antidote we’ve been waiting for."

The line-up is:

Berne Evol, vocals

Brice Delourmel, guitars

Bernard Marie, drum machine & keyboard

Musical work to date is

2012: Transmission, EP

2014: Verse, EP

2016: Voices, Album

2019: Dreams, EP

Some of our favorite songs from the band:

TAPEWORMS

Tapeworms is “3-piece rock band, mostly eating French fries, listening to Smash Mouth and watching Evil Dead. From Lille, they're trying their best to produce some noisy, dreamy, aggressive but kind music.”

An interview in Section 26 summarizes the band in a few words: ‘Do It Yourself’ is in the DNA of the band, which is outlined in the former student room of Theo, when they have fun with Margot covering Sparklehorse or Drop Nineteens on an online beat box, with an old cassette player as recorder. Eliott, used to play with his big brother, then started on the drums "We began to rehearse my grandmother’s attic. Tapeworms is really born at that time, fed with her pies and 90’s music. " Tapeworms has a shoegaze sound, noisy pop, immersed in the tradition of the 90's.

The band members are

Margot Magnière: Bass, Vocals

Théo Poyer: Guitar, Vocals

Eliott Poyer: Drums

The music work to date is:

2016: All Stars, EP; Tapeworms, single; macadam star, single.

2018: Everything Will Be Fine, long EP

Some of the songs we love:

DEAD MANTRA

Dead Mantra were created in 2009 in le Mans. The define their music as being “Gregorian Shoegaze”. They are part of the record label Cranes Records with Dead Horse One

The inrockuptibles give a very good overview of the band’s sound

"The maliciously saturated guitars sneak around a powerful rhythmic base. From this wall of sound, a veritable ice-cold and cavernous maelstrom, pierce the dark and delicate dark-pop melodies of The Dead Mantra. Young Manceaux, spotted by the Cranes Records label, stand as worthy French heirs of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club for swirling psychedelism and The Jesus & Mary Chain for shoegaze violence. Perfect harmony between devastating fury and sinuous writing."  -- Guilhem Denis, Inrocks

The lineup is:

Paul, guitars and vocals

Pierre Hamelin, drums

Louis, guitars

Henri, Bass

The music Work to date is:

2018: Saudade Forever, Album

2015: MXEICO Remixed

2014: Nemure, Album

2012: Split EP with Dead Horse One

2010: Path Of Confusion, EP

Some of the songs we love to discover the band:

For once we include a Music Video as ‘Mxeico’ is a genuine original piece worth watching and listening. As a warning, it contains male nudity.

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World Cup 2018: Uruguay ease to victory over Russia to win Group A

World Cup 2018: Uruguay ease to victory over Russia to win Group A

World Cup 2018: Uruguay ease to victory over Russia to win Group A

World Cup 2018: Uruguay 3-0 Russia highlights

Russia’s impressive start to the World Cup ended as they had a man sent off and were easily defeated by Uruguay, whose victory means they top Group A.

Uruguay will go on to face Portugal in the last 16, while hosts Russia play Spain.

There was a party atmosphere around the scorching Samara Arena before kick-off, with fans having travelled from all over the country keen to share in the good feeling surrounding their national team.

Russia had scored eight goals in sweeping victories over Saudi Arabia and Egypt and were already guaranteed to progress, but they went behind in their final group match after only 10 minutes when Luis Suarez drilled in a clever low free-kick.

It got worse for Stanislav Cherchesov’s side when a Diego Laxalt effort from 25 yards was deflected in by Denis Cheryshev, leaving his keeper Igor Akifneev stranded and in the position of having conceded three goals at the tournament without making a save.

Akinfeev did then come out to block a Rodrigo Bentancur chance, with Roman Zobnin just scrambling the rebound clear of Edinson Cavani, before Igor Smolnikov picked up a second yellow card and was sent off 35 minutes into his World Cup debut.

After the break, Russia’s 10 men composed themselves and at least managed to wrest back some control of the match, with Uruguay always looking dangerous but perhaps happy to concede possession and protect their lead.

The hosts were rewarded with their best chances of the match, the first to Artem Dzuba, who fired wildly over the bar from inside the box, the second by Fedor Smelov, who dazzled to find space in behind the Uruguay defence but failed to pick out a team-mate with what looked to be an easy cut-back.

But the final word was left to Cavani, who put several earlier misses behind him to get his first goal of the tournament by stabbing in from close range after an Akinfeev parry, ensuring Russia finished as runners-up.

Russia’s party atmosphere falls flat

You could say this was the first time Russia had faced quality opposition at this tournament, and for many the manner of this defeat will mark them out as vulnerable in the next round.

Right from the outset, and even at the end when there was very little hope of a comeback emerging, there was much of the same remarkable vocal support from the stands. But on the pitch there was very little of the dynamism we saw from Russia’s players in their opening two victories.

Almost every set-piece was delivered too long, and there were so many key sloppy passes – like Yuri Gazinskiy’s to begin the passage of play that led to Suarez scoring from a free-kick – or Mario Fernandes’ when for once early in the second half Uruguay looked like they might be opened up.

Perhaps the fact that Russia, the lowest ranked team here at 70 in the world, started this game having already qualified affected their approach. Perhaps it was the oppressive heat. Midfielder Aleksandr Golovin, one of their best performers here so far, was also rested.

What is certain is that now, having finished second, Russia will play their next match at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium, where they beat Saudia Arabia 5-0 in the tournament’s opening match. It will be another sell-out partisan crowd.

Their opponents there will be Spain – with the 2010 World Cup winners secure their place as Group B winners with a draw against Morocco.

Suarez shows up as Uruguay maintain perfect start

Suarez free-kick gives Uruguay early lead

There was very little doubt about who would win this game after an early period in which Russia were blown away.

Suarez looked determined to impress after his poor opening match against Egypt, and it was his clever low free-kick that set the tone for what was a very comfortable victory.

There was plenty of noise from the stands – so Uruguay goalkeeper Fernando Muslera will have had many quieter games in terms of volume – but he had little work to do as he became his country’s all-time leading appearance maker at the World Cup.

At his 14th match at the tournament, and on the occasion of his 100th cap, Uruguay simply out-performed Russia, and of course were for much of the game a player better off.

There was even finally a goal for Cavani right at the end. For a long time it looked like it would not come as the Paris St-Germain striker endured a mostly frustrating evening.

He missed three good chances before finally things fell into place as the rebound from an Akinfeev parry landed kindly at his feet.

The Uruguay fans stayed long after the final whistle to cheer their team. For them it is three wins from three, but their next match will be a much more serious test.

Man of the match – Luis Suarez (Uruguay)

Barcelona striker Luis Suarez moved one goal behind Uruguay’s record goalscorer at the World Cup, Oscar Miguez, with his seventh in total and his second in Russia this summer

Russia need to score first – the stats

Uruguay have finished as first round group winners for the fifth time, having done so previously in 1930, 1950, 1954 and 2010.

Russia are the first European side to fail to top their group as the host nation since Spain in 1982.

Russia are now winless in each of their six World Cup matches in which they have conceded the first goal (D1 L5).

Uruguay are the first side to win all three of their group games without conceding a single goal since Argentina in 1998 (seven goals scored, none conceded).

Uruguay have won three consecutive World Cup matches against European opposition for the first time since a run of four straight victories between 1950 and 1954.

Russia’s Denis Cheryshev scored the sixth own goal at this year’s tournament, the joint-most number of own goals at a single World Cup (also six in 1998).

Russian defender Igor Smolnikov is the first outfield player to be sent off for the host nation of a World Cup since Marcel Desailly for France against Brazil in the 1998 final.

Edinson Cavani became just the second player to score a goal in three separate World Cup tournaments for Uruguay (2010, 2014 and 2018) after his strike partner Luis Suarez.

Fernando Muslera, celebrating his 100th cap in this game, became Uruguay’s all-time leading appearance maker at the World Cup (14) overtaking Ladislao Mazurkiewicz.

‘We could have won by more’ – what they said

Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez: “Russia did not push us around, they tried to put us into a corner. Not only did we prevent them from doing that, but we put them in their half of the pitch in the first half. We could have won by even more goals.

“We did not manage to score on certain counter-attacks that we should have. Sometimes the timing wasn’t perfect. We need to improve very quickly, because any match in the round of 16 will be extremely difficult.

“The result and to be top of our group pleased me most. We won by a wide margin but I like the fact that we didn’t concede. We need to work towards that end. And I liked the dedication and concentration that my team had. They were focused from end to end, the entire squad. They executed the plan.”

Russia coach Stanislav Cherchesov: “Even when we had 10 people on the pitch, they were running hard and they wanted to attack more. That’s why I brought on a substitute.

“Psychologically, we are well prepared for the next games.

“This is one thing and when you come to the pitch to play the game it’s another. This is an art to be prepared at any second.”

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