Then Kelly accidentally reveals everyone's salaries. It's Jonathan's birthday but he's finding it hard to celebrate. Will the team pull together all the new characters and stories in time for the launch of Echo Beach? Later, Jason Donovan insists on being signed as a series regular, and Jonathan decides to create a character who looks "a bit like Tiffany from EastEnders". Jonathan Pope wants a show with intrigue and passion Nancy wants to see the back of him and the writers just want an end to all the changes. Prior to Echo Beach star Susie Amy's promotion to series regular, Jonathan Pope comments that he will "bump" the writers credit in all future episodes in order to facilitate this. Moving Wallpaper characters Tom Warren, Carl Morris, and Gillian McGovern are credited on-screen as writers during early Echo Beach episodes, while Jonathan Pope is credited as a producer during the opening titles of Echo Beach 's entire first series. The first series of Moving Wallpaper was broadcast alongside Echo Beach. Kelly Brook appears as herself playing Renaissance character Samantha Hall (series 2 and Renaissance).Alan Dale appears as himself playing Renaissance character John Priest (series 2 and Renaissance).Susie Amy appears as herself (series 1).Hugo Speer appears as himself (series 1).Martine McCutcheon appears as herself (series 1).Jason Donovan appears as himself (series 1).Raquel Cassidy as Nancy Weeks, an executive in charge of continuing drama.Elizabeth Berrington as Mel Debrou, a cast liaison.Dave Lamb as Carl Morris, a script writer.James Lance as Tom Warren, a script writer.Sarah Hadland as Gillian McGovern, a script writer.Lucy Liemann as Samantha Phillips, a script editor.Ben Miller as Jonathan Pope, an Executive Producer.After rejection by the network, Pope forces a website editor to upload the pilot to the itv.com website (again linking to the real-life circumstance).Ĭast and characters Main cast and characters However, a clause in Pope's contract compels the network to allow him to make a pilot for a new show, which largely by accident turns out to be the "zombie show" Renaissance. Series two picked up from this point with the news that the network had cancelled Echo Beach (mirroring the real-life circumstance). Series one ended with the producer on the verge of learning whether a second series of Echo Beach had been commissioned. Moving Wallpaper storylines revolve around a crazed producer, Jonathan Pope (played by Ben Miller), trying to hold together an assortment of egotistic and neurotic writers and actors through the vicissitudes of Echo Beach production (series one), while simultaneously fighting off his bitchy boss. A shortened version of this episode, with a running time of nine minutes, was screened after the conclusion of the second series only on the ITV website, ITV Player. Unlike Echo Beach in series one, which was a full broadcast series, Renaissance was a half-hour pilot. The companion soap Echo Beach was cancelled, however, and the storylines of series two instead revolved around a "zombie show" called Renaissance. Ī six-episode second series of Moving Wallpaper was commissioned and began airing on ITV on 28 February 2009, again in the Friday 9 pm slot. Series two premiered on ABC1 each Friday night at 10:15pm from 19 February 2010. Yet, this time, Echo Beach was separated from its sister program and placed in an early Saturday evening timeslot three days later. Both programmes were later repeated on the higher-rated ABC1 channel a year later from on Wednesday nights. In Australia, series one of Moving Wallpaper aired back-to-back with Echo Beach on ABC2 each Friday at 8:30pm from. The "fictional" soap opera Echo Beach was itself shown immediately afterwards at 9.30 pm. Filming for series one started in July 2007 and the show began airing on ITV on 10 January 2008, continuing at 9 pm on Fridays thereafter for twelve weekly episodes. The show was created by Tony Jordan and produced by Kudos for ITV. The title, Moving Wallpaper, is a disparaging term applied to uninspiring television series, or to television in general, referring to the perception that modern television viewers are "mindless absorbers of images", as if staring at wallpaper. Ben Miller confirmed in May 2009 on his Twitter account that no further series would be made. The second series shifted to the production of a "zombie show" called Renaissance. The subject of the first series was the production of a soap called Echo Beach, each episode of which aired directly after the Moving Wallpaper episode about its production. Moving Wallpaper is a British satirical comedy-drama television series set in a TV production unit. Moving Wallpaper title card, which is styled to look like a word-processor
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