Swedish article about The Case TV movie
Translation:
Musical thriller is a new concept, invented by the wonderful television. The BBC and Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish TV are currently devoting their joint efforts to it and co-producing “The Case” which is being recorded on board the new Finnish boat Svea Regina, moored at the quay in Värtahamnen on Wednesday morning.
There was the world star and Sweden-lover Cliff Richard, Olivia Newton-John film actress and the strangely charming Tim Brooke-Taylor, “known from TV”
“The Case” as the program is to be called is by no means a concern for the BBC alone. It is an English-Swedish-Norwegian-Finnish co-production and the initiative comes from TV 2’s internationally oriented producer Hans Lagerkvist who worked with this type of productions already during the days of the single-channel system. He is also the one who is in charge of the recording from the Swedish side.
Big brother Sweden, Norway, Finland together - it is still the BBC that is the biggest and most experienced and it is of course thanks to this big brother that Cliff Richard is standing up as a star in the co-production. The blonde who entered Svea Regina at dawn is also an Englishman: his name is Tim Brooke-Taylor, and have you seen the TV series “Goodies” so you’re probably laughing.
Beautiful film star Olivia Newton-John completes the English top trio in “The Case” which is to be something as unusual as a “musical thriller”.
Something like this has never been done before, but we hope to make it work, says Hans Lagerkvist. He doesn’t look particularly worried and his confidence in the BBC people is great. “They have enormous experience when it comes to judging scripts.”
The main producer and director Michael Hurll is responsible for the script together with Eric Davidson, BBC.
Tim Brooke-Taylor says he is glad that he didn’t write the script this time: You can blame everything on the writers and that feels very nice. - He knows what he’s talking about because he’s also a writer and writes scripts, among other things at Marty Feldman. He likes acting best in front of the camera and claims that he only writes because it increases his chances of getting in and acting.
Mildly insane Tim Brooke-Taylor is a Cambridge student, and it was during his studies that it all began. From Cambridge came a whole group of mildly insane entertainers who hit English television and went out into the world. He is one of them, a man with a cheerful and friendly, slightly crazy attitude that feels very British.
For the first time he is now collaborating with Cliff Richard, both meet in a joint laughter and play a confusion comedy for the Swedish news lists.
Cliff Richard has taken a different path: a path lined with gold records. He started as a rock idol in the late 50s and continued as a pop idol. He became interested in religion and devoted himself to gospel in the 60s, also made the film “Two-a-penny” for Billy Graham’s revival movement. He has remained the same throughout as a crowd favorite and most recently a year ago he was chosen as pop singer of the year in England.
Cliff Richard has been to Stockholm many times. Two years ago he toured Scandinavia and made the TV program “Cliff in Scandinavia”. This time the recordings are being made on board the Svea Regina in Stockholm, Vaxholm, Helsinki and Norwegian ports.
Norway also contributes to the co-production with the singing group Dizzy Tunes. From Finland come Viktor Klimenko, Matti Ranin and Pekka Laiho. The Swedish contribution is called Family Four.
In England the program will be broadcast on September 2. TV 2 has not yet booked “The Case”, but the program may be broadcast around Christmas.
By Elisabeth Sorenson
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