TV & Satellite Week – 13 July 2019

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WORDS: EMMA BULLIMORE, RICHARD MCCLURE. PHOTOS: BBC, IT V, NETFLIX, PA IMAGES

The 2018 adaptation of William

Makepeace Thackeray’s Regency-set novel

starred Olivia Cooke as social climber

Becky Sharp. An all-star cast included

Tom Bateman as soldier Rawdon Crawley,

Martin Clunes as Sir Pitt Crawley and

Frances de la Tour as Lady Matilda Crawley.

Fans of Regency dramas

won’t want to miss this

upcoming Netflix series,

which is currently in production. Based on Julia Quinn’s

best-selling novels, the drama is set in London’s high

society and centres on the eight close-knit siblings

of the Bridgerton family. It’s produced by Scandal’s

Shonda Rhimes, while Dame Julie Andrews voices

sharp-tongued narrator Lady Whistledown.

Vanity Fair on ITV

Bridgerton on Netflix

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Now aged 50,

the twins are

working on a

new album

Brothers

in arms

This week on TV

Matt and Luke Gossreunite for a special

night of Bros-themed fun on BBC

Bros: After the Screaming Stops

became the surprise highlight of

last Winter’s TV schedule as the

music documentary charted the

rise and fall of Matt and Luke Goss

• the twin brothers behind 1980s
  pop band Bros – as they reunited
  for two shows in London.
  Among the
  unintentionally
  hilarious
  moments was
  Matt’s analysis
  of the pair’s
  relationship:
  ‘He’s a rectangle.
  I am a rectangle.
  Together we are
  a square... That’s
  a fortress.’

HOSTS WITH THE MOST

This week, there’s another chance

to see the documentary as Bros

stage a takeover of BBC4 for one

night only. The duo will also be

presenting music and interviews, as

well as programming celebrating

some of their musical influences.

Luke admits he was ‘utterly

blown away’ by the positive reaction

to their own documentary, which

was described by one critic as,

‘Spinal Tap meets Smash Hits.’

‘We didn’t want to make a

promotional piece saying, “Look

how fabulous we are,”’ adds Matt.

‘Those documentaries irritate me’.

The documentary also made the

pair reassess their relationship. ‘It’s

easy to look at it as just me and Matt

arguing, but it ended up building

so many bridges between us,’ says

Luke. ‘I had no idea it would be like

therapy, but it helped us

communicate again.’

Now, after being

catapulted back into

the spotlight, the

brothers’ future

plans include

a new album,

while Matt has

co-written the

score for a musical

adaptation of

1970s drama Upstairs

Downstairs, which he hopes

to bring to London’s West End.

Meanwhile, fans are demanding

a follow-up to After the Screaming

Stops – but will they get one?

‘It would have to be an entirely

different kind of film... not just

another fly-on-the-wall,’ says Luke.

Matt, on the other hand, seems

keener: ‘The film only touched the

tip of the iceberg of our lives – we’ll

definitely do another one!’

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ON CHILDHOOD

‘The best toy we had growing up

was a dart. No dartboard,

just a dart’ – Matt

ON HEROES

‘One of my songs is

We’re All Kings, which is

about a man sweeping

the road. He’s one of my

kings because I’m thankful I

don’t have to sweep the road’ – Matt

ON GAMES

‘Please can we start a petition as

Bros for this ridiculous thing where

you can’t even play conkers – you

have to wear goggles. That is

the biggest problem, you

can’t play conkers in

England’ – Matt

ON SHYNESS

‘Once bitten, twice shy.

Twenty times bitten,

a little shy’ – Luke

ON SUPERSTITION

‘I made a conscious decision

because of Stevie Wonder not

to be superstitious’

• Matt

WORDS OF WISDOM

NEW MUSIC

A Night In with Bros

Friday, BBC4 HD, 10pm

‘I had no idea it would be

like therapy, but it helped

us communicate again’

LUKE GOSS

The best one-liners from Bros: After the Screaming Stops...

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‘Rome wasn’t built

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• Luke

The boys during

their 1980s fame