“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... ;)
As this is an unofficial site, all mistakes,foul ups and glaring errors are all mine! - BritAngie
Tom Burke
Lorem ipsum dolorCommodo velit pariatureIn sed adipisicing magna officiaCommodo velit pariatureVeniam dolor quiNostrud nisi velit aliquip
Products
Gentleman of the Road- Currently in post production.Musketeers Series 1 & 2 is currently being aired in many countries like France & the Czech Rep.Musketeers Series 3 - In post production. Slated to be broadcast in the UK in March 2016War & Peace -Currently being broadcast in the UK.(Soon USA)
War and Peace set to broadcast early 2016War and Peace hits our screens 3rd January for 6 episodes in the UK on BBC1at 9pm Sunday nights.In the USA it’s out on the 18th January on the History,A&E and Lifetime Channels.Thank you to the farfar away site for these promo pics.
Older news
Tom attends Box Clever event.Tom attended a Box Clever Very Clever Friends meeting on the 29th November in London. Tom is a patron of this charity which introduces children to theatre and who take productions and workshops to schools & venues across the country. Aside from the meeting itself there was a performance of Box Clevers own version ofDicken’s ‘A Christmas Carol’. If you would like to become a Clever (or very clever )friend please checkout this page for info. :)
Tom at Newcastle Comic Con.Tom and Alexandra attended Newcastle’s film and comic con and as usual a cohort of fans was there to report on the day. I was lucky to go along myself andit was a wonderfully relaxed and fun event. Tom and Alex also did a Question and Answer session which was extremely entertaining. Report & gallery to follow.
Tom at London Film and Comic Con. So the 18th July arrived and Tom, Maimie and Luke all attended the London Film &comic con as planned. Myself and other fans had the pleasure of meeting Tom again and it was a wonderful but very busy, hot and long day. I’ll be posting a link to my own report here in a day or so but wanted to say a thank you to Lukeand Maimie for being so lovely to us, but a huge huge thank you to Tom for beingso good to all us fans again! Despite being probably very overwhelmed, hot and tired he was patient with everyone and lovely as always. (Also thank you for the group photo! xx) (Massive thank you also to everyone who has generously donated photos of the day.- Lesley, Susan, Nicola, Nikki, Anne, Jane, Drifty, Jenny and Sarah XX)
Tom sends us a new video message!Following on the news stories below, Tom sent me a lovely message to share witheveryone, below. It covers everything from the convention, fundraising, birthday presents to the pitfalls of recording long messages! A massive thank you to Tomfor taking the time to do this. I know you are very busy and it’s really, really, really, *REALLY* appreciated. :) (Three versions of the video below - (apologies for the overkill!) the original whichdoes look a bit dark on some screens, a second smaller resolution, file size & lighter version, which is probably better for viewing on a mobile as it should useless bandwidth, & finally a full res edit by Cathy Helms which has had the levelstweaked. Hopefully one of these will work! :D)Original
Burketeer fundraising for Tom’s birthday and pressies! As previously reported after the astonishing success of fundraising for Tom’s Christmas present,Burketeers embarked on raising funds in honour of his birthday.Our initial target was a cumulative total of £10,000 but in true Burketeers style we eventually raised an incredible £19,385 (£21,962 with gift aid) That’s 146 lifechanging operations for kids all over the world. Thank you so much for making this such a huge success and continually confounding my expectations.You areamazing people! xx Also whilst this was going on we also arranged for a few smallgifts to be sent to Tom including a fabulous birthday book full of messages and poems from fans, a designer tea set and specially blended tea for him. Thank youagain to everyone who was involved in these gifts- those who donated,submittedmessages, worked on and organised these gifts. None of these things happen without your support and hard work. (Special mentions to Cathy Helms, Fiona Perry and Cheryl Anderson.) Thank you! :)
New online fan magazine As you know Tom’s fans are a very creative and industrious lot and one of our number decided to use her design skills to have a stab at a non profit fan magazine for a bit of fun. What though she ended up with is a 90 page magazinefull of wonderful things. Assisted by other writers from fandom it’s an interestingread! Thank you to Christine (@Christine_GHH /SXNCLAIRE on the forums) alongwith AnnaL, Polly, Donna, Susan, Glynis and Pheonix. Any questions or if you want to submit an article please contact Christine on twitter or the forums. The magazine can be found on the forum. :)
Tom at Newcastle Film & Comic Con & new photos. Tom along with Alexandra Dowling will be appearing at the Newcastle Film & comiccon this coming Sunday(yes it’s short notice!) Entry costs £15.00. Autographs andphoto ops with Tom are £20.00 each and for Ally they are £10.00 each. Please seethe comic con website for details of how to book tickets. Please come along & support Tom & Ally if you can. These events are actually alot of fun. :) We’ve also had a few new photos posted from filming by Jessica Pope(@PopeJessica),Howard’s sister, Natalie, and two lucky people who bumped into the cast in Prague- Magdalena.j.v and David Kerda .A huge thank you to them for giving me permission to repost on the site. :)
Smaller res and lighter
Cathy Helms edit (thank you!)
Tom attends War and Peace press premier. Tom turned up to support the press screening of the first episode of War and PeaceLondon on the 14th December. From the press reviews it looks as though we are in for a huge treat as they were all overwhelmingly positive. Thank you to Reetu Kabra (@ReetuKabra) from BBC Worldwide and the farfar away site for the photos.
Tom at Operation Smile’s Carols by Candlelight 2015. So it’s that time of year again and at very short notice we found out that on 15th December Tom would be attending Operation Smile UK’s candle by candlelight eventagain. It was again at the beautiful St Botolph’s without Bishopsgate church in London and it was a joyous if somewhat packed event. This year a good deal ofthe attendence was made up of Burketeers and Tom had a very busy evening meeting and greeting the rather large number of us. I’ll be posting up a reportand Gallery of photos soon.
