TV.com has announced their cast for the upcoming Above Suspicion installment. Julian Sands is one of the new guest stars. Read who the rest of the new cast are at  Tv.com

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Variety has a review of Meant To Be.

A floppy-haired guardian angel falls for the British redhead he’s supposed to protect in “Meant to Be,” a lush Puerto Rico-set romantic comedy that cheerfully proceeds as if Wim Wenders’ “Wings of Desire” — or even its mainstream remake, “City of Angels” — never existed. Technically, this second stab at an English-language project by Belgian producer-turned-helmer Paul Breuls (“The Hessen Affair”) hits all the marks, though the actors’ fizzy energy never quite compensates for the elementary screenplay. “Meant” goes out in limited release Stateside this fall before a no-doubt safer landing in ancillary.

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Above Suspicion will return for a third serial, ITV has confirmed! Read about it HERE.

Sorry for my absence! I hope there are still visitors coming by here…Sherlock Holmes is out on DVD now so I’m sure by now most of you have already gotten yourself a copy. I loved the movie and Kelly was great in her small but important role.

I am going to work on getting screen caps from the movie for our gallery very soon. Speaking of the gallery; I am about to set up a new gallery at another host. Then everyone can finally see all the images we have, plus the ads are sooo much better (and less annoying)!

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Wacky, stylish short film with Kelly Reilly. Multiple award winner on the festival circuit incl: Best Cinematography – Brief Encounters, Canal Plus Best Short, Best Short – Milan, Best Photography – Barcelona Film Festival.

Kelly Reilly plays DC Anna Travis: Kelly Reilly was inundated with gritty scripts after filming the first Above Suspicion and the dark, psychological thriller Eden Lake. However, she is quick to reveal she doesn’t intentionally seek out the darker productions.

“I can see why people would think I only do dark films after Above Suspicion and Eden Lake, it’s not the case – these scripts just seem to find me! After I did Eden Lake I got sent every horror film under the sun! I do also make nice light, fluffy films as well!

Eden Lake was a completely different kettle of fish, I’d seen a short film from first -time director James Watkins and I found it incredibly haunting. The thing that really interested me in Eden Lake is that we do have a responsibility to kids to show they’re not all thuggish hoodies that are portrayed in the press. However, we need to understand that somewhere along the way we have bred a society where there are children that have so much violence in them, and we need to figure out a way to correct that.

I have to say I didn’t take the role of Anna Travis because of the goriness that transpires in these scripts! She’s just a really interesting character climbing a ladder in her own career, as am I, and there are some things about her that I can just relate to.”

“Lynda writes brilliantly well for women. Travis is such a complex character, she’s not this alpha female trampling through the male world of police murder investigation, she’s a woman who wears high heels and sometimes gets it wrong. She also isn’t the fantasy or the role model, she is flawed and it all amounts to her coming across as a more believable human being and I love that.

When I did the first Above Suspicion over a year ago I had an idea in my head of what Travis’s character should be from reading Lynda’s books but when I started, to be honest, it was all a stab in the dark! I didn’t really know what I was creating and how it would be perceived, so I did my homework and just hope the character I represent now is entertaining, smart and something that I’d want to watch myself.

In the first film I really felt like I had started from the beginning with Travis. It’s her first murder investigation; she doesn’t really know who she is in the world. It’s almost as if she’s not really comfortable in her own skin. By the time I came to filming The Red Dahlia I had more of an understanding of who Travis was. Even though she still doesn’t have a huge amount of experience and comes unstuck from time to time, she has gained a great deal more confidence.”

After living in LA for the last few months Kelly remarks on her particular fondness for the down trodden British TV character.

“Audiences don’t want to be duped, they want to be on the side of the underdog! I think it’s something we English do better. When you watch American TV they all seem to be so flawless. However, the characters from Above Suspicion just look like they’ve not washed in a few days because they’ve been working so hard!

It may seem depressing that as Brits we almost don’t trust a British character on TV if there are no problems with them, they need to be flawed in order for us to find them believable. There are days I find myself on set where I think ‘What the hell am I doing? I’m making a film about women who are cut up in bits!’ But at the same time I would rather do a piece that looks truthful rather than it all looking lovely and unbelievable.”

In the first series of Above Suspicion the relationship between Detective Chief Inspector James Langton and Anna Travis is an intense one. They are reunited when Langton heads up the case of The Red Dahlia and the tension is just as strong as before.

“She hasn’t worked with Langton since her first case and I think even though he’s invested a lot of time in her talent he still likes to keep her in her place. She wants to break free from the shackles he places on her – she feels frustrated at times. She’s increasingly one step ahead of everybody but sometimes she can go too fast and as a result ends up making mistakes. It’s part of the arrogance of youth rather than somebody who’s been doing murder investigations for 20 years and can see the bigger picture and is aware of where the pitfalls are.

It does become obvious that there is something that’s going on between Langton and Travis but it’s not a ‘Mills and Boone romantic gazing’ at each other type of situation, it’s much more complicated. Time has passed since the first case and there seems to be a trust between them now. They make a curiously good double team, they’re two lonely figures, so finding someone in their line of work that’s so similar, brings out some more tender moments between them. She eventually realises she does like him despite his gruff crocodile manner!”

“There wasn’t a day that went by where we weren’t laughing and taking the mick out of one another especially when we were dealing with such heavy material. There was a level of loveliness that I wouldn’t trade for the world. It was such a hard, intense shoot that you want to be working with people that you’re happy to see in the morning.”

Kelly is also set to star in Me & Orson Wells, Triage and Guy Ritchie’s movie called Sherlock Holmes later this year.

“I’ve got three films coming out this year Triage starring Colin Farrell, Me & Orson Wells starring Zac Effron and Claire Danes, and Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. I really enjoyed working on the new Sherlock Holmes film, it’s amazing how Guy Ritchie’s managed to completely recreate Victorian England in his own unique style. Then there’s Robert Downey Jr, Jude Law, Mark Strong a really great cast – it was such fun, Robert Downey Jr is awesome!”

Kelly’s film credits include Sherlock Holmes, Triage, Me & Orson Wells, Eden Lake, Mrs Henderson Presents and Pride & Prejudice. Her television credits include Lynda La Plante’s Above Suspicion, A for Andromeda, He Kills Coppers and Joe’s Palace.

Source: ITV

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