Danny Boyle
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How Brian Paddick helped Danny Boyle put the Met on TV
As C4's controversial police drama airs tonight, a former senior officer at the Met talks about his role as adviser.
Maggie Brown and Vanessa Thorpe, The Observer, 9th February 2014Radio Times review
Shambles, swearing and spin: if you've missed The Thick of It, you're in luck. Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong have applied the high-farce formula to the Metropolitan Police for this scabrous comedy drama directed by Danny Boyle.
Their Met, led by James Nesbitt as Commissioner, is obsessed with public image: top brass fret so much about media coverage that any actual policing comes a distant second. This gets ugly (and funny) in tonight's pilot, when a series of shootings breaks out across London on the day a new American PR chief (Brit Marling) arrives in the job. The script is sharp and cruel, though occasionally the delivery feels a little too delivered: throwaway realism is what's needed here. Roll on a full series.
David Butcher, Radio Times, 9th February 2014Babylon - TV review
For the 90 minutes that Danny Boyle's comedy-drama pilot was on I laughed - and despaired too.
Rebecca Nicholson, The Guardian, 9th February 2014TV review: Danny Boyle tackles topic of the moment
Babylon's best scene was its opening one, in which several tooled-up, testosterone-addled members of the show's deftly cast ensemble were caught on camera phone bursting into a man's home and tasering his testicles.
Ellen E Jones, The Independent, 9th February 2014Babylon, episode 1, Channel 4, review
While it had many strengths, Babylon was not quite as great as the sum of its parts and the problem lay in Danny Boyle's direction. He may be Britain's most-lauded director but his filter of coolness was at odds with the very British, rather dyspeptic dialogue of Sam Bain and Jessie Armstrong.
Ben Lawrence, The Telegraph, 9th February 2014Babylon: Danny Boyle's return to TV
Danny Boyle has collaborated with Peep Show writers Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain on Babylon, an ambitious new cop show. Craig McLean went on location.
Craig McLean, The Telegraph, 7th February 2014Danny Boyle-directed pilot of Babylon is underwhelming
New police comedy-drama from Bain & Armstrong shows no sign of becoming brutal and edgy satire.
Brian Donaldson, The List, 7th February 2014Babylon: Danny Boyle returns to TV to mock the police
What happens when the makers of Trainspotting and Four Lions train their sights on the Met for a Channel 4 comedy drama?
Julia Raeside, The Guardian, 31st January 2014Brit Marling: the Hollywood star on Channel 4's Babylon
From Sundance to Hollywood to... the Met Police? Brit Marling talks about her role in Danny Boyle's Babylon, pub culture and why she's glad she turned down a job in banking.
Lucy Broadbent, The Telegraph, 29th January 2014Danny Boyle returns to TV with Babylon
Danny Boyle is pulling his hair until it stands up on end, talking animatedly to his cinematographer. Both men appear tense as they prepare to shoot a scene in a disused building yards from London's Tower Bridge.
Andrew Preston and Amy Raphael, Daily Mail, 25th January 2014