“On the set of the Musketeers we are incredibly adolescent!We also
enjoyed making prank calls. I spent half an hour on the phone to
Clarks pretending to be a man who couldn't get his shoe off.” Tom sharing
with us how hard and serious this filming business is... ;)
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Gentleman of the Road- Currently in post production.Musketeers Series 2 is currently on our screens, Friday nights at 9pm UK (USA from 17th Jan)Musketeers Series 3 - Recommissioned by the BBC and shooting starting in April 2015.War & Peace -Currently shooting in St Petersberg in Russia
Tom in Paris for Musketeers BBC Showcase. Back in early December Tom was, along with Luke, Howie, Santiago, Maimee, Executive Producer Jessica Pope and Costume Designer Phoebe De Gayein Paris promoting Season 1 of the show which launched on the TMC Channel inFrance. They again participated in Q & A session in front of a live audience which not only contained press but also fans of the show. Lucky fans got to mingle withthe cast at the event and judging from the photos a great time was had by all. The cast also had the unique opportunity to meet the French actors who will voice their characters on the TMC broadcast of the show. A huge thank you again to Reetu Kabra (@ReetuKabra) from BBC Worldwide for supplying the info and photos.
Operation Smile fundraising by Tom’s fans-“The Burketeers” As I’ve already posted, Tom supports Operation Smile & attended the Carols byCandlelight event last December(will post more about that later!). Tom’s fans (known as ‘Burketeers’) decided that as a Christmas present we would raise money for Operation Smile in his name. By the time we arrived at the Carols night we had raised over £2500! We continue to fundraise for Operation Smile and our new aim is to get to £10,000 for Tom’s birthday present on 30th June. We have raised over £8,000 now in total (over £9000 including gift aid). If you wish todonate ‘Smiles for Tom’ in honour of his birthday then you can go to www.JustGiving.com/BurketeersBirthday (you can also click on the “Team Burketeers” link if you wish to see the overall fundraising total.) Additionally you can text donations, if you are in the UK, of £1,£2,£3,£4,5 or £10 by texting BURK81 £1(or the amount of your choice) to 70070. Thank you to everyone who has supported this so far! XxBelow are the two thank you videos Tom posted about the fundraising. :)
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Tom to feature in BBC's new drama ‘War and Peace’In January the BBC announced a new 6 part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's book ‘War and Peace’. Tom will be playing the part of Fedor Dolokhov and will be costarring along with Gillian Anderson(Great Expectations),Ade Edmondson, Lily James,Paul Dano and James Norton. Shooting started at the beginning ofFebruary in Russia,Lithuania and Latvia.Photos are already emerging of Tom in St Petersberg in Russia.More photos and news as I find them!(Thank you to theVK James Norton Community, Varya Gorodnichaya and the VK Musketeers community for the photos. :) )
Series 3 musketeers!Fantastic news for Musketeers fans. The BBC has recommissioned a third series of The Musketeers. Filming will start up again in Prague in April 2015. Congratulations to all involved in getting another series!
Tom at Operation Smiles Candles by candlelight event in LondonIf you remember I posted earlier on that Tom would be attending the Carols ByCandlelight event in London in aid of the charity Operation Smile UK. Well I'mpleased to report Tom did indeed turn up and a wonderful night of festive music,readings, chatting and fundraising was had by all. I will be posting a full report with photos of the evening but in the meantime I will share a couple here andcan confirm Tom is a lovely man and very patient!:)
Tom on the Musketeers publicity trailTom has had a busy December and January! Along with trips to South Africa andParis, Tom and the rest of the cast made several UK appearances in the run up tothe premier of Series 2 of the Musketeers on BBC 1. First up Tom, Luke, Howie and Santiago appeared at a press event in London then went on to be interviewedby London Live. Then they were off to Manchester to appear on BBC breakfast. Whilst there they also recorded a BBC Radio Manchester interview with Phil Trow. Then they dropped in on Steve Wright on Radio 2 and finally Radio 1's Nick Grimshaw got to chat with them.Unfortunately the radio and breakfast videos are no longer available on iplayer but the press event in London and London live can still be seen.
Carols by Candlelight report now up.Have finally finished my report of the Carols by Candlelight fundraising event heldback in December 2014. To find out what a group of intrepid Tom fans (Burketeers)got up to and how Tom survived the encounter go here! Gallery to follow soon!
Tom filming Musketeers and War and peace. Series 3 of the Musketeers is now on block 2 of filming and we have already seen some early photos of Tom as Athos. Tom's look for Dolokhov has influenced Athos's appearance as filming for both has overlapped. Talking of War and Peace the BBC's Reetu Kabra kindly shared a shot of a Tom on location in Lithuania in his Dolokhov costume. It's shaping up to be a very lavish production and can't wait to see it later on this year. A huge thankyou again to Reetu Kabra (@ReetuKabra) from BBC Worldwide for supplying the info and photos.
Burketeers win fund raising award!Congratulation to all Burketeers. We have won the group fundraisers award 2015given by Operation Smile uk. They surprised and honoured us in April and it's hugely deserved by all of you! Massive well done! :) Tom also sent us the message "#Burketeers “I’m sorry to not be there. I’m truly humbled by what has beenachieved, spearheaded by Angie and her regiment. Thank you all” (Big thank you to Operation Smile uk for their kindness but it may take me a while to forgivethem for springing that on us! :D)Also to update we have now raised over £17,000 (Over £19,000 with gift aid)in honour of Tom's birthday. That's 113/129 kids in all getting new smiles!Thank you for supporting this! http://www.justgiving.com/Teams/Burketeers
Tom in new Radio 4 play -Cyrano De Bergerac. Keep your ears open for Tom heading the cast of a new radio adaption of CyranoDe Bergerac. It will be broadcast in 5, 15 minute episodes over the next weekstarting from Monday 15th June 2015 at 10.45 am (repeated 19.45pm)on Radio 4 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xxh6x
Tom appearing at London Film and Comic Con! Tom has signed up to appear at (subject to prior commitments) LF&CC atLondon’s Olympia on the 18th July.Tom will be doing photo and autograph sessions.Details along with prices and how to order tickets can be found at http://www.londonfilmandcomiccon.com/ (Maimie McCoy will also be appearing on the same day!)