Movie Pick for Aug 2015 (week 1)

I won't do this every week but if I spot a film coming up on TV with good nudity that may otherwise be overlooked I'll try to mention it on the blog.

Here are two less-often seen films which have topless scenes involving British actresses.

Both are on this coming week on the Freeview channel Movie Mix (ch32)
(Movie Mix is known as More>Movies on Sky and Freesat)


On Wednesday 5th August at 9:00pm is Fortress 2: Re-Entry (2000) in which Liz May Brice has a couple of topless scenes (all of them in the shower).  She is one of the main actors in the film.

Liz May Brice is a fairly familiar face on British TV appearing recently in Eastenders and she was a regular in Bad Girls in 2005-2006

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On Friday 7th Aug at 10:50pm is 8mm 2 (2005) in which Frances Da Costa has a topless scene.  Her role is a small one in the film playing a dancer from Brighton working in a strip club in Budapest where the film is set.  Her topless scene is in the dancers' dressing room.

Frances Da Costa (now known as Francesca Kingdon) appeared on TV as regular character Yasmin Salter in two series of Footballers Wive$: Extra Time in 2005-2006 which was ITV2's spin-off series to Footballers' Wives

8mm 2 has a lot of other nudity from actresses of other nationalities playing models or strippers, as well as from the main actress Lori Heuring.

New Section: British Nudity Database

A new section has been added to the Topless Review site.

http://www.toplessreview.altervista.org/bndb/
(or http://www.toplessreview.altervista.org/bndb/index.htm)

The BRITISH NUDITY DATABASE is an alternative way to access the British actress information on the main Topless Review Database.

The information is the same as that on the existing database site but with a few innovations that some may find useful.

Example screen image

1. All names are combined onto one list (rather than having lower-profile names sidelined off into the Sleeper Scenes and Seventies Starlets sections),  This also includes Irish actresses and any other non-UK areas of the British Isles.  Additionally a small number of European actresses are included whose careers were largely based in the UK.
2. In addition to an index of the Names, there is now also a second index ordered by Title.  This new index presents the titles in alphabetical order showing for each title a list of the actresses who have scenes in that production.  Both indexes remain on the screen all the time,
3. In the main detail area the film/programme titles for each scene description entry are clickable.  This automatically repositions the Title Index to show that title enabling you to quickly discover if any other actresses are listed for that same title.

There is no bespoke search function and the intention is that you would use your browser's inbuilt search facility.  The two indexes (Names and Titles) load as single complete A-Z pages to give the Browser's search function the full list to search upon.

The new section is a snapshot of the current database and does not have an ongoing new entries page or any coloured icon markers to show which items are new since the last update.  The existing Topless Review Database will still be the place to see the most recent new entries.

NOTE: The site relies on frames so if you are using a phone/tablet browser that doesn't properly implement independently scrolling frames then it will prove difficult to use.  The navigation functionality is achieved entirely via links and it does not employ any Javascript/VBScript code.

Heads Up #14: Crocodile Shoes

Next Friday the Drama channel start showing the 1994 BBC drama series Crocodile Shoes written by and starring Jimmy Nail as Geordie factory worker Jed Shepperd who becomes a country and western star.  Series 1 covered his rise to fame and series 2 in 1996 was about how he copes with his new-found fame.  The show's theme music became a real life chart hit for Jimmy Nail.

Alex Kingston in Crocodile Shoes

Alex Kingston had a topless scene in the first series although I currently do not have any information on which episode it was from.  There were 7 episodes.  She was not in the second series which had 6 episodes.






Crocodile Shoes
Episode 1 begins on Friday 12th June at 11pm on the Drama Channel
Series 1: Originally shown: 10th Nov to 22nd Dec 1994 on BBC1
Series 2: Originally shown: 14th Nov to 19th Dec 1996 on BBC1

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UPDATE: 28 June 2015
The scene in question appeared in episode 3 entitled "The Deal".

Heads Up #13: The Wimbledon Poisoner

This coming weekend the True Entertainment channel are showing the 2-part BBC black comedy The Wimbledon Poisoner first broadcast in 1994.  It stars Robert Lindsay as a henpecked solicitor who decides to resort to drastic measures to rid himself of his nagging wife.

It has a topless scene featuring Melanie Kilburn.

The Wimbledon Poisoner
Part 1: Saturday 23rd May 2015
Part 2: Sunday 24th May 2015
Both at 9pm on True Entertainment
Originally shown: 11 & 18 December 1994 on BBC1

Melanie Kilburn in The Wimbledon Poisoner

NOTE: I didn't realise until now, but I've been told that unfortunately True Entertainment is not available to Freeview viewers in Wales because the space needed for it is taken up by Welsh viewers having the Welsh language channel S4C.  True Entertainment is available on the Sky platform in Wales if that is an option for you.  

Heads Up #12: A Likeness In Stone, etc

The True Entertainment channel are showing the 2-part BBC murder mystery A Likeness In Stone first broadcast in 2000.  It starred Liam Cunningham as a detective inspector determined to solve a case he previously worked on, when the body of a missing student is finally discovered ten years after she went missing.

It had several topless scenes featuring Rebecca Palmer.

A Likeness In Stone
Part 1: Saturday 16th May 2015
Part 2: Sunday 17th May 2015
Both at 9pm on True Entertainment
Originally shown: 11 & 12 September 2000 on BBC1

Rebecca Palmer in A Likeness In Stone

Next Friday on the Drama Channel is an episode of Bergerac that featured a Greta Scacchi topless side view scene.  It is the final episode of the first series The Hood and The Harlequin.

When this episode was shown last year on the channel I didn't mention it because I assumed it would be edited for daytime broadcast, but it turned out not to be (perhaps it was deemed OK for daytime because her nipples are not seen?).

Now that the episode has come around again I'll mention it for anyone interested.

Bergerac
Episode: The Hood and the Harlequin
Friday 22nd May 2015 at 9:00am and 4:00pm on Drama Channel
Originally shown: 20 December 1981 on BBC1

Greta Scacchi in Bergerac

Killing Me Softly Mix-Up

Yesterday (2nd May) at 9pm the film billed to be shown on the True Entertainment channel was Killing Me Softly starring Heather Graham.  My listings magazine and the Freeview EPG both gave plot details and character names that indicated it would be this 2002 film.

I was planning on watching it since I'd not seen it before, but then when it started it unexpectedly turned out not to be that film at all!

Instead it was an unheralded showing of a BBC TV rarity from 1996, also called Killing Me Softly, starring Maggie O'Neill as a woman who is driven to extreme measures by her violent alcoholic husband.  It was originally shown in the Screen One strand.  It was unedited with all the expected nudity intact.



Clearly I couldn't issue a "heads up" post for it on this occasion because of the incorrect billing - but True Entertainment do have a tendency to show things again every few months so when/if it comes round again I'll post an alert.

It could well be that True Entertainment have some sort of tap into these now rarely-if-ever seen BBC Screen One/Screen Two films because a few months ago they showed Saigon Baby starring Douglas Hodge and Kerry Fox which was a Screen Two from 1995.

New Section: The Topless Review Guides

LINK: http://www.toplessreview.altervista.org/TopRevGuideHome.htm

A new section of the site has been created called The Topless Review Guides. 
The idea of it is to take the cast lists of popular British TV series and indicate for each episode which actresses have some known nudity in other TV shows, films or in magazine photos or paparazzi uncoverings. 

To begin with two guides have been created, both for Doctor Who. 
  • One for the Classic Era up the 1996 Television Movie;
  • And the other for the Modern Series from 2005 onwards.

If you spot any missing information it can be reported via this blog.

More Guides will follow if it there is sufficient interest.