Talk:Sharpe (TV series)

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[edit] Cornwell

According to the Bernard Cornwell website - http://www.bernardcornwell.net/index.cfm?page=12 The story behind the film version of Sharpe's Gold - when they were filming it the actor who was first cast as Sharpe broke his leg. Filming had to stop while an insurance claim was made. Sean Bean then replaced the original actor, but the producers decided that if they re-shot the original script the insurance company would claim they had suffered no real loss. So that script was abandoned. Jooler 07:36, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

There are two separate re-enactment societies fighting for the spot on the external links section who have been having an edit war at one point 81.178.243.81 replace the rival web adress with www.growup.com and User:Samuel Blanning reverted to this version. Jooler 11:46, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Hey will the DVD be avaliable in Canada? Jamhaw 19:03, 26 June 2006 (UTC)jamhaw

[edit] Relation to books

Would it be helpful to list the dates of the original book next to the film title?

Maybe turn the list of episodes into a table something like this:

Title Location, Year First Broadcast Book written Comments
Sharpe's Rifles Portugal, 1809 May 5, 1993 1988
etc.
etc.
Sharpe's Challenge India, 1817 April 23 & 24, 2006 1998 & 1999 Based on the novels Sharpe's Triumph and Sharpe's Fortress set in 1803


Can't get the borders to look right, but you get the idea.

Bryces 01:55, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

Hi gang. It seems to me the Sharpe articles need a serious spring-clean. Here's some thoughts about where I think we should go with this and related articles:

  • Finer definition between the books and television series. At the moment, the books don't even seem to have a main article (although they do have a category, oddly). The books main artivle is at Richard Sharpe (fictional character). 82.73.198.140 10:26, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Culling of cruft from the article. We can move lists like the episode one to separate articles quite easily, as is done on other wiki pages. The opening of the article needs to be cut down to essentials and the rest distributed into the various required subheadings.
  • General extension of the article - the 'discrepancies' section is the biggest part in itself!
  • Cutting down of redlinks.

Well, those are just a few suggestions. I'll be trying to tackle as many of these as possible by myself, but any help appreciated! Added the much-needed infobox prior to this. Palaeologus 02:04, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

I've created Sharpe's Rifles (film) & Sharpe's Eagle (film) articles, and the Template:Sharpe Films template. Any suggestions appreciated! - Palaeologus 05:52, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Individual episode pages

There is a big debate going on Wikipedia-wide about the place of individual episode pages, with some editors arguing for a blanking and redirect for all existing pages not fully compliant with WP:EPISODE. It might be worth keeping an eye on the debate at Wikiproject television discussion and Village pump. There are some constructive suggestions by a number of people (with sandbox examples) amidst the emotive mud-slinging. Perhaps we can all contribute and reach a suitable consensus/policy.Gwinva 14:44, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] reenactment link which keeps getting added in

The following link keeps getting inserted into this article:

which is relevant to the 95th Rifles article, not this one. Repeated attempts to add it in can be considered spamming. --BrokenSphereMsg me 18:28, 28 December 2007 (UTC)