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Stella Maru · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 2248 Location: Brighton

Mrs Inbetweeny

As part of what the BBC are calling a "multiplatform revamp" for the failing BBC3, "the digital youth channel is also undergoing a major rebranding as it approaches its fifth anniversary with a pink logo replacing its current blue design and talking animated blobs."

As part of this "multiplatform revamp" BBC3 has bought in from Tightrope Pictures a pilot drama called Mrs Inbetweeny which will be broadcast this year and spun out into a series in 2009 if the pilot proves popular - Stella

Mrs In-Betweeny, billed as a "dark comic look at modern British family life" featuring a long-lost uncle who returns as a pre-op transsexual named Emma. - BBC Press Office.

"Mrs Inbetweeny follows siblings whose parents are estranged from each other and are not around to care for their children. The only option is for their long lost uncle from the USA to bring them up. But when he arrives, he's no longer an uncle – he's now their pre-op transsexual aunt Emma (the part will be cast as a woman).

Mrs Inbetweeny is written by Caleb Ranson and executive produced by Paul Abbott." - BBC Press Office

CheekyCat · Joined: 20 Aug 2007 Posts: 460 Location: UK

Conratulations Reenie.............your own show on the BBC!! Wink

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Scaeme · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 2:04 pm Post subject:

lol. I was thinking of Reenie the Inbetweenie too Razz

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**Reenie** · Reporter Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 3581 Location: Glasgow

Yippee!

**Hellfrozeover** · Advisor Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 775 Location: UK

I know some people will want a transsexual to play in the part but I think it's just as positive that they've found a woman to play it and not just created a "Brenda and Audrey" situation.

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**Alan314159** · Advisor Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 389

Hellfrozeover wrote:

I know some people will want a transsexual to play in the part but I think it's just as positive that they've found a woman to play it

I agree. Nobody demands that, for example, someone playing a lawyer in their favourite TV show/film has actually passed the bar - it's called acting! Very Happy

Provided it's done well, of course. Good researchers FTW.

**Flameboy** · Last edited by **Flameboy** on Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:16 pm; edited 1 time in total

And in fact, saying

Stella Maru wrote:

(the part will be cast as a woman).

doesn't (in my book anyway) automatically exclude the possibility that they could cast a trans woman in the part.

Stella Maru wrote:

executive produced by Paul Abbott

The man behind Shameless Very Happy

Sounds promising then...

Scaeme · Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:40 pm Post subject:

Also, who would like to bet that the "From the USA" means San Franscio? Razz

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Lauren Fields · Joined: 25 May 2007 Posts: 103 Location: Bristol, UK

I wouldn't get your hopes up if BBC3's previous parade of mindless turd is anything to go by.

**Flameboy** · Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 6:25 pm Post subject:

Lauren Fields wrote:

I wouldn't get your hopes up if BBC3's previous parade of mindless turd is anything to go by.

Mindless turd? Well, that's a matter of opinion really, isn't it - I quite like BBC3 actually. Not everything on it, but a reasonable amount - more than on most channels. Plus, I think the general feeling was that they did a pretty good job on the Danny documentary about a transguy last year.

Dave

hazel · Joined: 02 Mar 2007 Posts: 68

Alan314159 wrote:

Hellfrozeover wrote:

I know some people will want a transsexual to play in the part but I think it's just as positive that they've found a woman to play it

I agree. Nobody demands that, for example, someone playing a lawyer in their favourite TV show/film has actually passed the bar - it's called acting! Very Happy

Provided it's done well, of course. Good researchers FTW.

so when people play laywers and doctors on tv shows, they're just, gasp, pretending? Shocked

do people know about this deception?
Laughing

seriously though
it would be great to actually have a transsexual woman play the part of a transsexual woman, but as long as they didnt actually set out to exclude any trans actresses when they were doing the casting then if the best actress for the role was born female then i can live with it.

Scaeme · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:50 am Post subject:

I'm sure there must be trans actors and actresses out there. So I suppose the question is why are they bieng refused work? Isnt that illegal in the UK?

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**Flameboy** · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:54 am Post subject:

Scaeme wrote:

I'm sure there must be trans actors and actresses out there. So I suppose the question is why are they bieng refused work? Isnt that illegal in the UK?

In what way are trans actors and actresses being refused work? Just because you don't personally know of any in the mainstream doesn't mean that there aren't any in smaller theatre companies who are working regularly. Or even that there aren't some who are stealth and already on mainstream TV! I agree that it's unlikely that there are any stealth trans people acting on, say, Eastenders, as I'm sure the gutter press would have a field day with them if there were. But maybe that just means that there are no trans actors or actresses who want to put themselves in that sort of situation.

Dave