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	Cracker
		But Cracker is proof that a show that draws on a popular formula can still be exciting and original, and draw critical acclaim and respect as well as through-the-roof ratings.
		Cracker has never been afraid to take risks--to make its villains sympathetic, to show that the police can make mistakes--and that's one of the reasons it makes such good drama.
		In Cracker, the subject was tacked through the story of a man--Albie Kinsella--who had been there at the stadium when the disaster happened, and whose life had been scarred by the experience.
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	Cracker (UK TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cracker is the title of a television crime series in the United Kingdom, made by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern.
		Cracker returned to television screens a decade after "White Ghost" in the 2006 special episode, "Nine Eleven", written by McGovern and directed by Antonia Bird.
		Cracker's conception was also in some ways a reaction against the police procedural approach of fellow Granada crime serial Prime Suspect, placing more emphasis on emotional and psychological truth than on correct police procedure.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cracker_(British_television) (1652 words)

	Cracker (british Television)
		Fitz is a classic antihero, unfaithful to his wife, alcoholic, a chain smoker, overweight, addicted to gambling, manic, foulmouthed and sarcastic; and yet cerebral and excellent at his speciality: getting into the heads of violent criminals.
		Cracker's conception was also in some ways a reaction against the police procedural approach of fellow Granada crime serial '' Prime Suspect '', placing more emphasis on emotional and psychological truth than on correct police procedure.
		In 1995 a short spoof episode, ''Prime Cracker'', was produced for the BBC 's bi-annual Red Nose Day charity telethon in aid of Comic Relief.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/Cracker_(British_television) (1130 words)

	Jimmy McGovern
		Cracker is still probably one of the most accomplished pieces of work that he has done when you consider the scale of the series, the depth of characters and the influence it has since had on the crime/police drama genre.
		His most recent work though was 'Gunpowder, Treason and Plot' which was screened on british television in 2004 (and starred Robert Carlyle) and dealt with the saga of Mary Queen of Scots, James I and the gunpowder plot.
		Often when Cracker isn't written by McGovern it tends to lose it's edge a little, but the character's are also his creations, so therefore Fitz really is never quite the same unless he's speaking McGovern's words.
	www.crackertv.co.uk /jimmymcgovern.htm (578 words)

	Cracker [1993 - 1996] - Introduction @ EOFFTV
		Cracker worked primarily because it refused to compromise and refused to treat its audience like idiots - it acknowledged that its subject matter was dirty, distasteful and often very bloody, and it assumed that its audience was adult enough to deal with that on their own.
		Cracker's attitude was that if you didn't like it, you could stop watching at any time - it simply didn't care and certainly wasn't going to change its ways just you were a bit upset about what it was doing.
		Cracker exposes the raw underbelly of post-Thatcherite Britain, a nation crippled by an uncaring regime, where the working class has been robbed of its dignity and where the social fabric is in danger of being torn apart at any moment.
	www.eofftv.com /introduction/c/cracker_1993_introduction.htm (780 words)

	Cracker
		Instead of using the typical television compression format of the dominant "master" scene with cutaways to a sub-dominant "slave" scene, both actions are flattened into an alternating montage that moves the action with remarkable speed.
		As this is "public television", it's also freed from the lock-step Act structure with commercials interrupting the narrative.
		As Hollywood continues to pander to adolescents with its retinal strobing and fantasy imprinting, the lack of substance in its stories is obvious from the empty spaces between the propaganda and the thrill-kills.
	www.culturecourt.com /M/LR/Cracker/Cracker.htm (4986 words)

	Florida Cracker: Busy Bobbies
		British police said on Saturday they had arrested 14 men in a major new anti-terrorism operation in the capital just three weeks after uncovering a suspected plot to bring down U.S.-bound airliners over the Atlantic.
		The men were arrested on suspicion of "the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism", and were being held at a central London police station, police said.
		LONDON (AFP) - British police are currently trying to monitor “thousands” of potential security suspects, the head of the anti-terrorism unit at London’s Metropolitan Police said in an interview to be broadcast Sunday.
	www.florida-cracker.org /archives/003465.html (582 words)

	Cracker (British television) - Starsummary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The televising of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth in June 1953 was an important landmark for British television with an estimated 20 million people watching the event on sets owned by neighbours and friends and on large screens erected in public venues for the occasion.
		Cracker was a Bafta-winning landmark on British television but a flop in its American guise, while the networks couldn't seem to devise a way of making the politically incorrect Ab Fab acceptable for American audiences and consequently it never escaped from the clutches of development hell.
		British television at its finest: "'Would that we in America had the BBC,' they would say." The fact that both of these were ITV dramas tickled him pink.
	www.starsummary.com /topics/Cracker-(British-television) (3482 words)

	Cracker News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		One of the great characters of British TV, Dr. Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald, was a hulking police psychologist with a taste for drinking, smoking and cracking cases.
		Y ou may recognize him as Hagrid from the Harry Potter follies, but in England, Robbie Coltrane is revered for Cracker, the series of TV movies in which he played Fitz, a ferocious police psychologist.
		ROBBIE COLTRANE is returning as Fitz the shrink for a one-off episode of Cracker, his first check-in with the character for almost a decade.
	www.topix.net /tv/cracker (597 words)

	FOXNews.com - Cracker Barrel Updates Billboards - Business And Money \| Business News \| Financial News
		Cracker Barrel, which is a subsidiary of CBRL Group Inc. based in the Nashville suburb of Lebanon, has grown from one restaurant in Lebanon in 1969 into 550 full-service restaurants and gift shops in 41 states, mostly in the Southeast, Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and Southwest.
		Cracker Barrel officials have said they're considering running ads on radio and television in early 2007 but have not said how much they plan to spend.
		Cracker Barrel previously faced numerous lawsuits and a federal inquiry over complaints of refusing to serve fl customers, discriminating against minority workers and firing gay employees.
	www.foxnews.com /wires/2006Nov23/0,4670,CrackerBarrelBillboards,00.html (803 words)

	NPR : On Television
		Television critic Andrew Wallenstein wonders whether tabloids and Internet gossip have made it impossible for even minor celebrities to keep their sexuality a secret.
		Day to Day television critic Andrew Wallenstein says that, although the show is a remake of a popular Spanish-language telenovela, it feels more like a small-screen version of the recent feature film The Devil Wears Prada -- a satiric send-up of the inner workings of a fashion magazine empire.
		Television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews Desire and the trend to copy the success of the wildly popular and sometimes wildly melodramatic soap operas.
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	Cracker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		Unfortunately, A truly authentic version British Cracker would not have worked or even been attempted in the U.S. Plus, American Cracker never was given a chance to develop properly as a U.S. series.
		If were going to use British television as the measure, most U.S. TV would jump the shark the first episode, unfortunately.
		As much as I hate to say it, as Cracker is my all time favourite TV series, it probably “jumped the shark” at ‘Brotherly Love’ which marked the end of Jimmy Beck and the end of Jimmy McGovern writing the series.
	www.jumptheshark.com /c/cracker.htm (2250 words)

	Philadelphia Daily News \| 10/30/2006 \| Ellen Gray \| 'Cracker' returns, with Iraq war theme
		THERE WAS A time when it was thought that only the British could get away with putting an arrogant, substance-abusing genius at the center of a TV series.
		Then Fox imported the veddy British Hugh Laurie to play a Vicodin-addicted genius of a doctor in "House," and he became very, very popular.
		It's the world as it is from a British slant, though, so to find what occurs in tonight's "Cracker" even remotely believable, you're going to have to remember that terrorism is a much older reality for those who faced it on their own soil long before anyone had heard of Osama bin Laden.
	www.kentucky.com /mld/kentucky/entertainment/television/15883196.htm (513 words)

	Cracker Bag \| A Short Film
		Cracker Bag, completed in April 2003, is Ivin’s first short drama.
		Cracker Bag was the only Australian film in competition with just 9 other short films from around the world.
		'Cracker Bag', a jointly funded venture between Jane and Glendyn, is her first short film and will have it's world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival after having been accepted into Official Selection.
	www.exit.com.au /crackerbag/film.html (549 words)

	SacTicket // DVD/Video
		It's a tribute to the brilliance of Mirren and Coltrane (both of whom were multiple winners of BAFTA awards, the British equivalent of the Emmys, for their performances in these roles) and to the writers of their series that Tennyson and Fitz come across so believably, as talented but seriously flawed people.
		In the three episodes of "Cracker" that are included in the new DVD, Geraldine Somerville (later in "Gosford Park") stands out as detective Jane Penhaligon, Fitz's best friend and ally on the police force, a detective whose struggles against entrenched male chauvinism are at least as trying as Jane Tennyson's.
		"Cracker's" first season in Britain, beginning in September 1993, consisted of a series of self-contained 100-minute dramas, of which the first three are presented on this DVD edition in their original order, which differs from the order in which they were aired in the United States starting in 1997.
	www.sacticket.com /static/movies/dvd_video/policedramas.html (997 words)

	Television Heaven
		Under McGovern and fellow Cracker writer Paul Abbot's expert scripting, the dark and seedy underbelly of the Northwest was exposed to the cynically insightful gaze of Fitz's almost Sherlockian intellect in a series of complex, intelligent stories, which drew the viewers into a psychological cesspool of unrestrained psychosis and violent aberration.
		The success of Cracker was such that it near single-handedly reinvigorated the entire genre of the psychological thriller series for British television.
		The format was sold to US television where a number of the stories were remade under the title of Fitz.
	www.televisionheaven.co.uk /cracker.htm (478 words)

	Amazon.com: Cracker: DVD: Robert Pastorelli,Angela Featherstone,Carolyn McCormick,Robert Wisdom,Josh Hartnett,R. Lee ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		"Cracker" is one of those series that, in my opinion, should never have played on network television; it's my belief that the show would likely have enjoyed a much longer life had it played as a cable TV series.
		Since the American version of "Cracker" had such a limited run, it's quite possible that this may end up being the only DVD release that we'll ever see of this series and, as such, should be savored for the late Robert Pastorelli's fine performance in the title role.
		Had the American version of Cracker been produced in a better era of television, it would have been given the chance to gain an audience (as MASH was) and would have become a classic.
	www.amazon.com /Cracker-Robert-Pastorelli/dp/B00008ZZ7H (1186 words)

	Television Programming
		Many television programs show pedestrians who cross the street in the middle of the block, young children who swim without adult supervision, and bicyclists who do not use helmets or other protective clothing.
		One of television's appeals for parents is that it serves as an immediate way to silence and sedate toddlers.
		television, however, is a one-way street, and you had better stay glued, ask no questions, and take no time for thought, because the next scene will appear in seconds and there is no rewind.
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	British television doing swimmingly across the pond : Television : Boulder Daily Camera
		Three shows are in development: "I'm With Stupid," an odd-couple show about "a guy with cerebral palsy in a wheelchair and a homeless guy"; "The IT Crowd," a comedy about the secret life of geeks in a large corporation; and "Saxondale," a comedy about a relationship between a former roadie and a pest exterminator.
		Hollywood is littered with the corpses of failed remakes of such British shows as "Cracker," "Men Behaving Badly" and "The Kumars at No. 42." Fox canceled the 2003 remake "The Ortegas" even before it aired.
		British producers rarely translate American formats in the same way Americans do, largely because they don't have similarly sized budgets.
	www.dailycamera.com /news/2006/nov/12/tvxx3 (973 words)

	Crackerjack Cracker
		Of course, the advantages of the British shows are that they take their time to develop a story, and here the show had to just jump right into the action.
		Of course, this is LA, and remember that the OJ case fell apart because of supposedly sloppy forensic practices.
		This is too much depth for American television, where stories tend to became "villain of the week" pieces, like Batman going after Catwoman this week, then The Riddler next week.
	www.cinemonkey.com /reviews/cracker/cracker.html (2777 words)

	Cracker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		The members of Cracker are backstage at Craig Kilborn's "Late Late Show," waiting to perform their new single "Shine." Most artists would be excited about this television appearance, but it's business as usual for these road-worn veterans.
		Some songs are the tried-and-true Cracker style, which is basically cutting them live in the studio, but some of the other songs were really constructed, using the new editing capabilities.
		Such experimentation is part of the reason why Cracker -- even with its ever-shifting personnel -- has flourished for a decade, when so many peer bands have split (or at least, lost their major-label contracts).
	home.earthlink.net /~elbroome/articles/cracker.html (1007 words)

	Cracker TV Show - Cracker Television Show - TV.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
		In spite of marital and family problems, he has a knack for getting inside the minds of the criminally disturbed, and is called upon to assist the police in difficult cases that they cannot otherwise solve.
		Cracker ran for three seasons and was a consistent ratings success.
		Easily one of the best British crime dramas ever made, Cracker starred Robbie Coltrane as Eddie "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a drinking, gambling forensic psychologist whom helped the Manchester Police solve extremely difficult seemingly unsolvable cases.
	www.tv.com /cracker/show/9851/summary.html (309 words)

	Cracker - Television Tropes & Idioms
		British show originally broadcast in the "Television Serial" format (also used for e.g.
		The main character, Fitz, played by Robbie Coltrane, is a psychologist who does profiling for the Manchester police force.
		There is considerable continuity from one story to the next (unusual in Television Serial format shows) and watching them out of sequence would be inadvisible.
	tvtropes.org /pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Cracker (153 words)

	The 101 Things that we Know and Love Television For
		The Yorkshire Television yellow logo proved to be one of the scariest for some 1970's children, while the Thames logo, thanks to Kenny Everett leaping through it gave some of us the fright of our lives.
		She became an institution, an even though her appearances on television were limited to night times and early mornings in the 1980's, due to the advent of daytime television.
		People think that this usually happens on radio stations, and not television station, but the truth of the matter is that the reason why we don't seem to notice these atmospheric conditions is because we don't tune our television sets in manually every time we change television channels.
	www.webspawner.com /users/asperger/britishtv101.html (11267 words)

	tvdvdreviews.com -- Cracker: The Complete First Season DVD Review
		In the first season of Cracker, a British series that ran in the U.S. on AandE, Fitz and company take on three big cases.
		The first, "The Mad Woman in the Attic," involves an amnesiac who may or may not be responsible for several brutal murders that occur in and around train stations.
		Cracker is often entertaining, but ultimately it is not as strong as it should be.
	www.tvdvdreviews.com /cracker.html (691 words)

	Cracker Classic TV Show
		I just introduced them to my 19-year-old cousin from NY, telling her that I can't think of any American-made comparisons for the quality of the writing (so literate and so full of allusions to learned things) and the grittiness of the plots.
		Cracker is in the very top echelon of writing and acting, no matter what the medium.
		Robbie Coltrane won the 1994 British Press Guild Award for the role of Fitz in Cracker.
	www.classictelly.com /programme.php?Programme=Cracker (907 words)

	Stories Tagged 'cracker' » Netscape.com
		Gadgets and Tech – Mills declined to speculate on the origins of the attacks but unnamed US government sources and security experts are pointing the finger of blame towards China.
		News – The demonstration on the Turing Bombe at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, will show how the British used the Enigma machine to crack codes which the Germans thought were unbreakable.
		Cracker decided to re-record all their songs the label planned to put out…
	music.netscape.com /tag/cracker (351 words)

	The Empire on Big Screen and Small
		U.S. have, in the past ten to fifteen years, used British television programming to “brand” their networks.
		U.S. cable stations such as AandE and Bravo have relied on British television programming to distinguish their networks from others.
		Cracker mystery series) into its schedule and then promoted this programming to position its brand and attract a particular target audience.
	www.uiowa.edu /~mmla/abstracts2006/TheEmpireonBigScreenandSmall.htm (314 words)

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