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Mint creator on how “intimate” series differs from other crime dramas

Mint creator on how “intimate” series differs from other crime dramas

Published by Daniella Wilson

New BBC drama series Mint follows Shannon, the daughter of a crime boss, played by Emma Laird. It charts her journey as she meets Ben Coyle-Larner’s character Arran, a boy she falls in love with, but who’s situation puts him at odds with her family. The series may nominally be a crime drama, but it shows very little of the specifics surrounding the criminal world it inhabits. We don’t see the operations of the family, but instead focus on the individuals within it and their interpersonal, emotional relationships. The series comes from Scrapper writer and director Charlotte Regan, who spoke exclusively with Radio Times about what inspired her to create the series. “I think it came from watching a lot of stuff like this on TV, and seeing some of the characters I wanted to see,” he said. “Like a character like Shannon, who’s really shut off from the world but then going through quite a lot, or a character like Arran who has so much vulnerability. “So, I think it came from loving that …

The biggest ways Dune Part 3 differs from the book — for better and worse

The biggest ways Dune Part 3 differs from the book — for better and worse

Published by skeptic

The trailer for Dune: Part Three, director Denis Villeneuve’s epic climax to his sci-fi movie trilogy, has dropped, and the next movie looks just as spectacular as the first two. Maybe Dune: Part Three will finally net Villeneuve and his collaborators some of the Oscar gold that eluded them with Parts One and Two. These movies are based on the Dune novels by Frank Herbert. The first two movies covered 1965’s Dune, and followed Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) as he transformed from the scion of a noble house into the leader of the desert-dwelling Fremen people on the planet of Arrakis. Dune: Part Three will adapt 1969’s Dune Messiah, which takes place several years into Paul’s reign as the Emperor of the Known Universe. Whenever a book gets adapted for the screen, some things are going to change. Dune: Part Three is no exception, but are the changes for better or worse? Dune: Part Three is “action-packed” and “a thriller” Dune: Messiah is one of the quieter books in the franchise Speaking to press at …

Shaun Evans reveals how Betrayal most differs from other spy thrillers

Shaun Evans reveals how Betrayal most differs from other spy thrillers

Published by Daniella Wilson

Endeavour star Shaun Evans is back on ITV, this time starring in four-part spy thriller Betrayal, in which he plays a mid-career MI5 officer. The series follows Evans’s character John, as he finds himself under investigation, while also struggling with problems in his personal life, and becoming increasingly convinced that a hardline faction of the Iranian regime are planning an attack. When speaking with RadioTimes.com exclusively about the series, Evans noted that when adding to a genre as well established as the spy thriller, you have to bring “a fresh, new voice” to it. Evans said that the way in for him and the team behind the programme was to make John an “everyman figure”, and to look at “the daily life, the reality of what it’s actually like to work for the security services”. “The idea that you could be dealing with international terrorism at work and coming home and having to bath the kids or put a wash on, for me, seemed very fertile territory if we really wanted to dig into the …

New study reveals how gaze behavior differs between pilots in a two-person crew

New study reveals how gaze behavior differs between pilots in a two-person crew

Published by José Betancourt

New research utilizing eye-tracking technology has demonstrated the ability to accurately distinguish between the roles of a pilot flying and a pilot monitoring based solely on gaze behavior. These findings indicate that visual scanning patterns are reliable indicators of task engagement and team dynamics in a cockpit environment. The study, which suggests potential advancements for adaptive automation systems, was published in the journal Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors. Sophie-Marie Stasch, Yannik Hilla, and Wolfgang Mack from the University of the Bundeswehr Munich and the University of Zurich conducted this investigation. The researchers sought to address a significant gap in aviation safety regarding how flight crews manage multitasking. Commercial and military flights often require two pilots to coordinate complex duties, yet most research on pilot workload focuses on single operators. Flight manuals typically prescribe a structured division of labor where tasks are handled sequentially. Real-world operations often force crews to engage in concurrent multitasking due to unexpected events or weather changes. This discrepancy can lead to varying levels of cognitive load that are difficult for …