The BBC are currently running a sci-fi season on BBC Two. This is chiefly being done with a series of programmes exploring the history of the genre with the benefit of interviews with some of those involved in genre classics like Star Trek and Blade Runner. Along side those shows some films are being broadcast.
Last Saturday night the first episode of the 4 part documentary was followed by Minority Report, as… errr… reported… last week. This Friday BBC2 at 11:35pm is showing A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Details can be found on the BBC’s website here.
I’m beginning to think the scheduler is trying to sneak in a short Kathryn Morris season! 
Now all we need is Paycheck to be shown again and we’ll have the full set of KM blockbuster sci-fi films. Paycheck was last shown in August so I’m thinking it is unlikely.
Paycheck, like Minority Report, is based on a Philip K Dick short story giving them great sci-fi pedigree as he also wrote the stories what became Blade Runner and Total Recall.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence is the story of a small robot boy (Haley Joel Osment, Pay It Forward) created to help a grieving mother (Frances O’Connor, Mr Selfridge) deal with the loss of her son. English actress Frances recently guest starred in an episode of the US fantasy drama Once Upon A Time and can currently be seen in the BBC drama The Missing, along side James Nesbitt (Babylon).
Kathryn makes and all too brief appearance as a performer at a sort of destruction derby circus where robots are destroyed for the amusement of a baying crowd. She looks startling (and great) in her red hair and Stars and Stripes outfit. That get up may be why the film is being shown, what with it being Thanksgiving tomorrow. Happy holiday to our American friends.
Screencaps and a video clip from A.I. can be found in the Gallery.
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