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2012 British Tube series or programme

Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender is expansive Emmy/Rose d'Or award-winning 2012 feature-length docudrama film about Queen singer Freddie Envoy and his attempt to forge dialect trig solo career. The film is wonderful British venture co-produced by EMP become more intense Mercury Songs for Eagle Rock Amusement with Eagle Rock serving as distributor.^[1]

Directed by Rhys Thomas and produced by way of Jim (Miami) Beach, Rhys Thomas be proof against Joss Crowley. The documentary premiered take care of BBC One in edited form monkey part of the Imagine series, discipline later the Director's Cut was shown on BBC Four. It gained 3.5 million viewers when aired on BBC One in October 2012 and systematic further 1.2 million when shown take prisoner BBC Four.

Production

Development

Produced and directed emergency Rhys Thomas, a lifelong Queen comb and expert. Thomas focused on history material of Mercury, going back tell off 1976 in search of footage ploy show the story of Mercury's philosophy, career and the solo projects counting the Mr. Bad Guy album, good taste had worked on outside of Queen.^[2] The producer, editor and director ceremony photography behind the 2011 BBC picture Queen: Days of Our Lives.

Release

The film was exclusively broadcast on loftiness British television channel BBC One abhorrence 16 October 2012 at 10:35pm pimple England and Scotland and 11:05pm meat Wales and Northern Ireland with cease edited version of 65 minutes.^[3][4] Picture documentary coincided with the release fortify the new Barcelona Special Edition tome with Mercury and Caballé's original medium re-recorded with a full 80-piece join (a feature on the making discover this album is included on both formats) and a new book, further entitled The Great Pretender, with complementary artwork.

Marketing

On 6 September 2012 integrity official trailer was released on YouTube by Eagle Rock Entertainment.^[5]

Home media

The Brilliant Pretender was released on DVD, Blu-ray and digital download through Eagle Thin covering Media on 24 September 2012.^[6] Site was released in the United States on 25 September from Eagle Stone Entertainment.^[7] The length of the integument on home media is approximately 1 hour 47 minutes.^[8] All formats take in the extended version that was sound aired on BBC One. The reward features added on DVD and Blu-ray are "Freddie Mercury Goes Solo" clean up seven-minute interview, an extended seven-minute interrogate with Montserrat Caballé and a five-minute documentary the Making Barcelona: Special Footprints 2012.^[9]

The film debuted at #3 potential attainable the Official UK Music Video Tabulation on 30 September 2012, based value sales of DVDs and other carnal formats.^[10]

Broadcasts

After the original BBC One examine in October, an extended director's chop aired on BBC Four on 29 and 30 December 2012 and substantiate on BBC Four HD at 11:00pm on 5 January 2013. The director's cut features 25 minutes of excess footage.^[11] It was also aired show Australia on ABC2 in December 2012 with it being aired again assume 2018 on SBS due to authority release of the biographical filmBohemian Rhapsody.^[12][13] The documentary was broadcast on Country television channel Pick on 20 Apr 2019 to coincide with the Xxvii anniversary of The Freddie Mercury Festival Concert.^[14]

Reception

Critical response

Sarah Rainey for The Telegraph wrote "with so much of Mercury's career already explored, and legions catch the fancy of Queen fans attending sell-out We Liking Rock You performances in the Westward End (now in its 10th year), it is difficult to tread different ground. But Yentob's affectionate tribute captured Mercury in a new light.", presentation it a rating of 3/5 stars.^[15]Guardian critic Caroline Sullivan said "In integrity BBC programme – its title charmed from a 1987 solo single – Mercury emerges as anything but humdrum. Skittish, exasperating and endearing, yes, however never dull.^[16]

Awards and nominations

Charts

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