Supacell is a British superhero series heading to Netflix in June from Rapman, and here’s the trailer.
While America generally has the monopoly on superhero films, Britain has had its fair share of caped crusaders over the years.
The most recent example is Emma Moran’s Extraordinary, which is now available to watch on Itvx. From 2009 to 2013, Howard Overman achieved huge success with five series of irreverent comedy drama Misfits. Drew Pearce, who went on to co-write Iron Man 3 with Shane Black, began his career writing the little seen superhero sitcom No Heroics in 2008.
Perhaps the biggest shame, though, is that the film adaptation of clasic 1970s cartoon Bananaman, which was voiced by Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, also known as The Goodies, never materialised, though a stage musical premiered at the Southwark Playhouse in 2017.
Netflix drama Supacell is the next to have a go, and...
While America generally has the monopoly on superhero films, Britain has had its fair share of caped crusaders over the years.
The most recent example is Emma Moran’s Extraordinary, which is now available to watch on Itvx. From 2009 to 2013, Howard Overman achieved huge success with five series of irreverent comedy drama Misfits. Drew Pearce, who went on to co-write Iron Man 3 with Shane Black, began his career writing the little seen superhero sitcom No Heroics in 2008.
Perhaps the biggest shame, though, is that the film adaptation of clasic 1970s cartoon Bananaman, which was voiced by Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Graeme Garden, also known as The Goodies, never materialised, though a stage musical premiered at the Southwark Playhouse in 2017.
Netflix drama Supacell is the next to have a go, and...
- 3/20/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
Contains spoilers for the Taskmaster series 11 finale
The suit. The ‘tache. The smile. The preternatural speed with which he’s able to snatch a marshmallow from an opponent using a pair of kitchen tongs. There’s a great deal to admire about Taskmaster series 11 contestant Mike Wozniak, so admire him we will. Right here. Starting now. Tick tock: it’s Wozniak o’clock.
Who is Mike Wozniak?
He’s an absolute bloody milk guzzler, that’s who.
Like Harry Hill, Graham Chapman, Graeme Garden and Paul Sinha before him, Mike Wozniak trained and worked as a doctor before becoming a stand-up. Healthcare’s loss was comedy’s gain. His 2013 Edinburgh Fringe show, in which Wozniak played an outmoded light entertainer, received a Best Comedy Show nomination.
On the subject of Edinburgh, series 11 isn’t Mike Wozniak’s first Taskmaster experience. Before he developed the format for television, Alex Horne performed...
The suit. The ‘tache. The smile. The preternatural speed with which he’s able to snatch a marshmallow from an opponent using a pair of kitchen tongs. There’s a great deal to admire about Taskmaster series 11 contestant Mike Wozniak, so admire him we will. Right here. Starting now. Tick tock: it’s Wozniak o’clock.
Who is Mike Wozniak?
He’s an absolute bloody milk guzzler, that’s who.
Like Harry Hill, Graham Chapman, Graeme Garden and Paul Sinha before him, Mike Wozniak trained and worked as a doctor before becoming a stand-up. Healthcare’s loss was comedy’s gain. His 2013 Edinburgh Fringe show, in which Wozniak played an outmoded light entertainer, received a Best Comedy Show nomination.
On the subject of Edinburgh, series 11 isn’t Mike Wozniak’s first Taskmaster experience. Before he developed the format for television, Alex Horne performed...
- 5/21/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Tim Brooke-Taylor, star of the hit 70s BBC comedy show “The Goodies,” died on Sunday after contracting coronavirus, according to his agent. He was 79.
Brooke-Taylor got his start at the famous Cambridge University theatre club Footlights, where he performed alongside future “Goodies” co-stars Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden and “Monty Python” legends John Cleese and Graham Chapman. He then transitioned into radio, appearing on multiple BBC shows including the comedy program “I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again,” where he worked again with his fellow Footlights performers.
But it was in 1970 when Brooke-Taylor, along with Oddie and Garden, got his big break with “The Goodies,” a hit sketch/sitcom show that ran for 12 years on BBC. Many of the episodes featured the trio as a group of oddjob workers that declared in a slogan that “We Do Anything, Anytime.” The show was one of the first to use stop-motion...
Brooke-Taylor got his start at the famous Cambridge University theatre club Footlights, where he performed alongside future “Goodies” co-stars Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden and “Monty Python” legends John Cleese and Graham Chapman. He then transitioned into radio, appearing on multiple BBC shows including the comedy program “I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again,” where he worked again with his fellow Footlights performers.
But it was in 1970 when Brooke-Taylor, along with Oddie and Garden, got his big break with “The Goodies,” a hit sketch/sitcom show that ran for 12 years on BBC. Many of the episodes featured the trio as a group of oddjob workers that declared in a slogan that “We Do Anything, Anytime.” The show was one of the first to use stop-motion...
- 4/12/2020
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
British comedian and actor Tim Brooke-Taylor has died at the age of 79 after contracting coronavirus.
In a statement, his agent confirmed the news: “It is with great sadness that we announce Tim’s death early today from Covid-19. Joining [Cambridge University] Footlights in 1960 took him to providing a huge variety of splendid entertainment — television, radio, theatre, film, books, DVDs, CDs, quizzes, etc — all of which he undertook with energy and a great sense of fun.”
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Brooke-Taylor is perhaps best known as a member of UK comedy trio The Goodies with Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. They had a BBC television show which ran for more than a decade...
In a statement, his agent confirmed the news: “It is with great sadness that we announce Tim’s death early today from Covid-19. Joining [Cambridge University] Footlights in 1960 took him to providing a huge variety of splendid entertainment — television, radio, theatre, film, books, DVDs, CDs, quizzes, etc — all of which he undertook with energy and a great sense of fun.”
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Brooke-Taylor is perhaps best known as a member of UK comedy trio The Goodies with Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. They had a BBC television show which ran for more than a decade...
- 4/12/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
British actor and comedian Tim Brooke-Taylor, star of popular BBC series “The Goodies,” has died of coronavirus at 79.
The actor’s agent confirmed to Variety that Brooke-Taylor died early Sunday from the virus.
Brooke-Taylor’s career in comedy began at Cambridge University, where he was part of the renowned Footlights Club — a launchpad for such comedy talents as John Cleese, Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson — before moving into radio at public broadcaster BBC, where his shows included comedy program “I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again.” He first appealed on panel show “I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue” in 1972 and continued to make regular appearances on the program.
His transition into television included such highlights as “At Last The 1948 Show,” where he was a writer-performer alongside Cleese, as well as comedy series “Marty” and “Broaden Your Mind.”
His break-out success, however, came with BBC Two series “The Goodies,...
The actor’s agent confirmed to Variety that Brooke-Taylor died early Sunday from the virus.
Brooke-Taylor’s career in comedy began at Cambridge University, where he was part of the renowned Footlights Club — a launchpad for such comedy talents as John Cleese, Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson — before moving into radio at public broadcaster BBC, where his shows included comedy program “I’m Sorry, I’ll Read That Again.” He first appealed on panel show “I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue” in 1972 and continued to make regular appearances on the program.
His transition into television included such highlights as “At Last The 1948 Show,” where he was a writer-performer alongside Cleese, as well as comedy series “Marty” and “Broaden Your Mind.”
His break-out success, however, came with BBC Two series “The Goodies,...
- 4/12/2020
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Remember Kinvig, Clone, Not With A Bang? These are the UK sci-fi sitcoms you’re unlikely to see on comedy best-of lists…
With E4 sci-fi comedy commissions, Tripped and Aliens, and in-development Channel 4 projects, Space Ark and Graham Linehan/Adam Buxton collaboration The Cloud, in the works, a new crop of sci-fi sitcom could be making its way to UK TV.
Making funny sci-fi on a small-screen budget is tough enough without the additional pressure of having to attract viewers more traditionally down-to-earth in their sitcom tastes. Sci-fi sets and effects can be seen as prohibitively expensive by comedy commissioners (which is perhaps why the best UK sci-fi sitcoms of recent years has been on BBC Radio), and the genre’s niche status doesn’t scream mainstream hit. Over the years, one or two stand-outs have managed to straddle the sci-fi and comedy TV worlds, but plenty more have stumbled in the attempt.
With E4 sci-fi comedy commissions, Tripped and Aliens, and in-development Channel 4 projects, Space Ark and Graham Linehan/Adam Buxton collaboration The Cloud, in the works, a new crop of sci-fi sitcom could be making its way to UK TV.
Making funny sci-fi on a small-screen budget is tough enough without the additional pressure of having to attract viewers more traditionally down-to-earth in their sitcom tastes. Sci-fi sets and effects can be seen as prohibitively expensive by comedy commissioners (which is perhaps why the best UK sci-fi sitcoms of recent years has been on BBC Radio), and the genre’s niche status doesn’t scream mainstream hit. Over the years, one or two stand-outs have managed to straddle the sci-fi and comedy TV worlds, but plenty more have stumbled in the attempt.
- 7/23/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Richard Osman has admitted that he expected Pointless to "disappear" after one series.
Osman, who has worked behind the scenes in television for 20 years, will appear solo in BBC Two's new quiz show Two Tribes from today.
Pointless's Richard Osman has a new show: What is Two Tribes?
However, he told Digital Spy that "you never know" whether a new programme will take off or not.
"The only show I was certain was going to be a hit from our pilot onwards was Deal or No Deal, I knew that was going to be a hit," he said. "I just thought, 'There's no way this show is not going to do well'. And apart from that you honestly can't tell.
"I thought Pointless would do its first series, 30 episodes, and then disappear. I thought it was quite unwieldy and complicated and who's going to get it? So I thought Pointless would disappear.
Osman, who has worked behind the scenes in television for 20 years, will appear solo in BBC Two's new quiz show Two Tribes from today.
Pointless's Richard Osman has a new show: What is Two Tribes?
However, he told Digital Spy that "you never know" whether a new programme will take off or not.
"The only show I was certain was going to be a hit from our pilot onwards was Deal or No Deal, I knew that was going to be a hit," he said. "I just thought, 'There's no way this show is not going to do well'. And apart from that you honestly can't tell.
"I thought Pointless would do its first series, 30 episodes, and then disappear. I thought it was quite unwieldy and complicated and who's going to get it? So I thought Pointless would disappear.
- 8/18/2014
- Digital Spy
Bananaman has released its first teaser poster.
The film, based on DC Thomson's iconic superhero, debuted the artwork at London McM Expo.
"Adventure never tasted so good," reads the strapline.
A Bananaman movie website appeared online in March, but no details have been revealed about the project.
The Beano publisher is collaborating with Elstree Studio Productions on the film.
Bananaman is the alter ego of Eric Wimp, who transforms into the caped hero every time he eats a banana.
He debuted in Nutty in 1980, before transferring to The Dandy and The Beano.
The strip was later adapted into a popular TV show in 1983, running for three series and starring The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden.
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The Bananaman movie will be released in 2015.
The film, based on DC Thomson's iconic superhero, debuted the artwork at London McM Expo.
"Adventure never tasted so good," reads the strapline.
A Bananaman movie website appeared online in March, but no details have been revealed about the project.
The Beano publisher is collaborating with Elstree Studio Productions on the film.
Bananaman is the alter ego of Eric Wimp, who transforms into the caped hero every time he eats a banana.
He debuted in Nutty in 1980, before transferring to The Dandy and The Beano.
The strip was later adapted into a popular TV show in 1983, running for three series and starring The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden.
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The Bananaman movie will be released in 2015.
- 5/27/2014
- Digital Spy
Bananaman is expected to transfer to the big screen in 2015.
The comic book character is rumoured to be the subject of a new film release, after new website Banamanmovie.com recently emerged.
The website was registered last year and appears to be owned by DC Thomson, the original publishing company which first issued Bananaman.
It also involves Elstree Studio Productions, and teases fans to #PeelThePower in 2015.
DC Thomson has yet to officially announce the movie project.
Bananaman is the alter ego of Eric Wimp, who transforms into the caped hero every time he eats a banana.
He debuted in the Nutty comic in 1980, before transferring to The Dandy and The Beano.
It was later adapted into a popular TV series in 1983, running for three series and starring The Goodies stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden.
Last year, Digital Spy toyed with the idea of Bananaman becoming a movie,...
The comic book character is rumoured to be the subject of a new film release, after new website Banamanmovie.com recently emerged.
The website was registered last year and appears to be owned by DC Thomson, the original publishing company which first issued Bananaman.
It also involves Elstree Studio Productions, and teases fans to #PeelThePower in 2015.
DC Thomson has yet to officially announce the movie project.
Bananaman is the alter ego of Eric Wimp, who transforms into the caped hero every time he eats a banana.
He debuted in the Nutty comic in 1980, before transferring to The Dandy and The Beano.
It was later adapted into a popular TV series in 1983, running for three series and starring The Goodies stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden.
Last year, Digital Spy toyed with the idea of Bananaman becoming a movie,...
- 3/18/2014
- Digital Spy
Hadrian's wall, Culloden, the poll tax, Jacob Rees-Mogg: yes, England has inflicted an awful lot of angst and pain on Scotland down the centuries – but, look, we still don't want you to leave
1 Sorry for calling every last one of you "Jock". We now know it's offensive, especially if you're a woman.
2 So sorry for the years of heartless Conservative governments that you never voted for that ripped the heart out of the Scottish mining, steel and shipbuilding industries, butchered public services and imposed an unwonted, dismal neo-liberal ethos on a land to which such a callous political and economic philosophy was inimical.
3 And for making you guinea pigs for Margaret Thatcher's disastrous poll tax, inflicting it on you a year before England and Wales, and then – somehow! – forgetting to backdate the rebate for the tax when it was abolished in the early 90s.
4 Sorry for the 1746 Dress Act that banned tartan,...
1 Sorry for calling every last one of you "Jock". We now know it's offensive, especially if you're a woman.
2 So sorry for the years of heartless Conservative governments that you never voted for that ripped the heart out of the Scottish mining, steel and shipbuilding industries, butchered public services and imposed an unwonted, dismal neo-liberal ethos on a land to which such a callous political and economic philosophy was inimical.
3 And for making you guinea pigs for Margaret Thatcher's disastrous poll tax, inflicting it on you a year before England and Wales, and then – somehow! – forgetting to backdate the rebate for the tax when it was abolished in the early 90s.
4 Sorry for the 1746 Dress Act that banned tartan,...
- 2/20/2014
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
Threatened by funding cuts, Bristol's Slapstick Festival is 'the most important celebration of this kind of comedy in the world'
Comedians including satirist Marcus Brigstocke and impressionist Rory Bremner are staging a benefit concert to save a festival dedicated to a brand of humour that is a century old – silent movie slapstick.
The one-night show aims to shore up the finances of Bristol's Slapstick Festival, after a cut in funding threatened to end the annual four-day extravaganza of silent comedy films. Also on the Stand Up For Slapstick bill on 24 June are Arthur Smith, Lucy Porter and veteran writer and performer Barry Cryer.
"The Slapstick Festival has grown during eight years to become perhaps the most important celebration of this kind of comedy anywhere in the world," said former Goodie and organiser Graeme Garden, a patron and director since 2007. "Silent comedy marks the start of modern humour. But, more importantly,...
Comedians including satirist Marcus Brigstocke and impressionist Rory Bremner are staging a benefit concert to save a festival dedicated to a brand of humour that is a century old – silent movie slapstick.
The one-night show aims to shore up the finances of Bristol's Slapstick Festival, after a cut in funding threatened to end the annual four-day extravaganza of silent comedy films. Also on the Stand Up For Slapstick bill on 24 June are Arthur Smith, Lucy Porter and veteran writer and performer Barry Cryer.
"The Slapstick Festival has grown during eight years to become perhaps the most important celebration of this kind of comedy anywhere in the world," said former Goodie and organiser Graeme Garden, a patron and director since 2007. "Silent comedy marks the start of modern humour. But, more importantly,...
- 6/17/2012
- by Christopher Stevens
- The Guardian - Film News
PBS Masterpiece Theatre Birdsong Episode One Review jpg
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At times during episode one of the PBS Masterpiece theatre drama Birdsong I thought I was watching The Pillars of the Earth as I saw Eddie Redmayne carving statues and lusting after a seemingly unavailable woman. In this show as in that one, Redmayne’s character was pronounced dead only to rise again in the shadow of a derelict church. The comparisons between the two shows end there though as Birdsong played out in the trenches of World War I rather than in medieval England.
The Hour‘s Abi Morgan was tasked with bringing the popular novel to life and I was expecting Birdsong to be in the mold of Dr Zhivago and other war-time epic stories.
N Conrad
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At times during episode one of the PBS Masterpiece theatre drama Birdsong I thought I was watching The Pillars of the Earth as I saw Eddie Redmayne carving statues and lusting after a seemingly unavailable woman. In this show as in that one, Redmayne’s character was pronounced dead only to rise again in the shadow of a derelict church. The comparisons between the two shows end there though as Birdsong played out in the trenches of World War I rather than in medieval England.
The Hour‘s Abi Morgan was tasked with bringing the popular novel to life and I was expecting Birdsong to be in the mold of Dr Zhivago and other war-time epic stories.
- 4/24/2012
- by Edited by K Kinsella
The Chaser team and Channel Seven will go into production on their new show this week.
The Unbelievable Truth is produced by The Chaser team’s Giant Dwarf productions and adapted from the BBC Radio4 show of the same name, co-created by The Goodies’ Graeme Garden – who gets a ‘co-creator’ title on this new version.
A panel style show, the program will feature comedians trying to trick each other into believing lies “while smuggling unbelievable but true facts past each other”.
Hosted by The Chaser’s Craig Reucassel, Julian Morrow and Andrew Hansen will be team captains.
In a statement, Morrow Giant Dwarf’s executive producer said: “The most bizarre fact in the entire series is that Channel Seven have agreed to make a show with us involved. But I suppose it is called The Unbelievable Truth.”
Brad Lyons, Seven’s head of production said: “I liked it better when...
The Unbelievable Truth is produced by The Chaser team’s Giant Dwarf productions and adapted from the BBC Radio4 show of the same name, co-created by The Goodies’ Graeme Garden – who gets a ‘co-creator’ title on this new version.
A panel style show, the program will feature comedians trying to trick each other into believing lies “while smuggling unbelievable but true facts past each other”.
Hosted by The Chaser’s Craig Reucassel, Julian Morrow and Andrew Hansen will be team captains.
In a statement, Morrow Giant Dwarf’s executive producer said: “The most bizarre fact in the entire series is that Channel Seven have agreed to make a show with us involved. But I suppose it is called The Unbelievable Truth.”
Brad Lyons, Seven’s head of production said: “I liked it better when...
- 2/7/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Call the Midwife
N Conrad
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BBC One controller Danny Cohen is so impressed with Call the Midwife that he has commissioned an eight part second season of the show just two episodes into its first season. Heidi Thomas (Cranford) based the drama on the Jennifer Worth’s popular series of books about midwives working in the East End of London during the 1950s.
The first episode drew close to 10 million viewers and the second episode pulled in almost nine million. The cast includes British TV stalwarts such as Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris and Miranda Hart as well several newcomers such as Jessica Raine. Call the Midwife season two will air during 2013.
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BBC One controller Danny Cohen is so impressed with Call the Midwife that he has commissioned an eight part second season of the show just two episodes into its first season. Heidi Thomas (Cranford) based the drama on the Jennifer Worth’s popular series of books about midwives working in the East End of London during the 1950s.
The first episode drew close to 10 million viewers and the second episode pulled in almost nine million. The cast includes British TV stalwarts such as Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris and Miranda Hart as well several newcomers such as Jessica Raine. Call the Midwife season two will air during 2013.
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- 1/24/2012
- by admin
Birdsong. BBC
N Conrad
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At times during episode one of the BBC drama Birdsong I thought I was watching The Pillars of the Earth as I saw Eddie Redmayne carving statues and lusting after a seemingly unavailable woman. In this show as in that one, Redmayne’s character was pronounced dead only to rise again in the shadow of a derelict church. The comparisons between the two shows end there though as Birdsong played out in the trenches of World War I rather than in medieval England.
The Hour‘s Abi Morgan was tasked with bringing the popular novel to life and I was expecting Birdsong to be in the mold of Dr Zhivago and other war-time epic stories. The soundtrack was good but...
N Conrad
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At times during episode one of the BBC drama Birdsong I thought I was watching The Pillars of the Earth as I saw Eddie Redmayne carving statues and lusting after a seemingly unavailable woman. In this show as in that one, Redmayne’s character was pronounced dead only to rise again in the shadow of a derelict church. The comparisons between the two shows end there though as Birdsong played out in the trenches of World War I rather than in medieval England.
The Hour‘s Abi Morgan was tasked with bringing the popular novel to life and I was expecting Birdsong to be in the mold of Dr Zhivago and other war-time epic stories. The soundtrack was good but...
- 1/23/2012
- by admin
Call the Midwife
B Van Heusen
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Episode two of Call the Midwife saw the introduction of a new character: Chummy (Miranda Hart). She is an accident prone, jolly hockey sticks, Hooray Henry goofball who quickly got on the wrong side of Sister Evangelina (Pam Ferris). Crashing your bike into a policeman is not a good way to announce your arrival in the neighborhood but Chummy redeemed herself later in the episode by successfully delivering a breach baby.
Meanwhile, Anna Hathaway lookalike Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine) found it hard to separate her personal life from her professional life as she struck up a friendship with an Irish runaway who was trying to escape a life in prostitution. Lee helped the pregnant girl find refuge in...
B Van Heusen
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Episode two of Call the Midwife saw the introduction of a new character: Chummy (Miranda Hart). She is an accident prone, jolly hockey sticks, Hooray Henry goofball who quickly got on the wrong side of Sister Evangelina (Pam Ferris). Crashing your bike into a policeman is not a good way to announce your arrival in the neighborhood but Chummy redeemed herself later in the episode by successfully delivering a breach baby.
Meanwhile, Anna Hathaway lookalike Jenny Lee (Jessica Raine) found it hard to separate her personal life from her professional life as she struck up a friendship with an Irish runaway who was trying to escape a life in prostitution. Lee helped the pregnant girl find refuge in...
- 1/23/2012
- by admin
Midsomer Murders
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Midsomer Murders returns to ITV with an all new episode on 1 February at 8.00 p.m. Neil Dudgeon who replaced John Nettles last year and Jason Hughes, resume their roles as the South of England’s top detectives. The guest stars for The Dark Rider include veteran William Gaunt (Without You) and Eleanor Bron (Doctor Who). Former BBC drama chief Jo Wright (Lovejoy) produced the story. The episode was largely filmed at Knebworth house in Hertfordshire and features members of the Sealed Knot war reenactment society.
The Dark Rider centers around the wealthy DeQuettevilles who regularly host civil war reenactments on the grounds of their home. The family and the mock battles are disrupted after a number of people claim...
B Van Heusen
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Midsomer Murders returns to ITV with an all new episode on 1 February at 8.00 p.m. Neil Dudgeon who replaced John Nettles last year and Jason Hughes, resume their roles as the South of England’s top detectives. The guest stars for The Dark Rider include veteran William Gaunt (Without You) and Eleanor Bron (Doctor Who). Former BBC drama chief Jo Wright (Lovejoy) produced the story. The episode was largely filmed at Knebworth house in Hertfordshire and features members of the Sealed Knot war reenactment society.
The Dark Rider centers around the wealthy DeQuettevilles who regularly host civil war reenactments on the grounds of their home. The family and the mock battles are disrupted after a number of people claim...
- 1/21/2012
- by admin
London Comedy Film Festival
A quick burst of winter blues-banishing, with comedies old (1960s heist comedy Go To Blazes), new (a preview of the new Muppets movie) and both old and new (a "world premiere" read-through of The Day Off, a movie written for Tony Hancock by Galton and Simpson, which was never made). Guest of honour is Edgar Wright, who introduces a double bill: Shaun Of The Dead and Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet, with guests and a Q&A; and there are discoveries to be made in anarchic French movie The Fairy and a secret new British comedy.
BFI Southbank, SE1, Thu to 29 Jan
Steven Severin: Vampyr, Nationwide
Following the success of his spooky live soundtrack to Jean Cocteau's avant-garde 1932 film The Blood Of A Poet last year, the former Siouxsie And The Banshees bassist embarks on a tour with another freshly rescored classic. This...
A quick burst of winter blues-banishing, with comedies old (1960s heist comedy Go To Blazes), new (a preview of the new Muppets movie) and both old and new (a "world premiere" read-through of The Day Off, a movie written for Tony Hancock by Galton and Simpson, which was never made). Guest of honour is Edgar Wright, who introduces a double bill: Shaun Of The Dead and Mike Leigh's Life Is Sweet, with guests and a Q&A; and there are discoveries to be made in anarchic French movie The Fairy and a secret new British comedy.
BFI Southbank, SE1, Thu to 29 Jan
Steven Severin: Vampyr, Nationwide
Following the success of his spooky live soundtrack to Jean Cocteau's avant-garde 1932 film The Blood Of A Poet last year, the former Siouxsie And The Banshees bassist embarks on a tour with another freshly rescored classic. This...
- 1/21/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Mad Dogs
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The boys are back in town … well back on a Spanish island anyway. Season two of Sky One’s Mad Dogs began precisely where season one left off with Quinn staring down a hired hitman. Luckily for him, his three friends decided to dispatch the would-be assassin with a hit and run move that Jeremy Clarkson would have been proud off.
After a mishap at the port, they found themselves on the island of Ibiza where they indulged in a spot of money laundering. Things went well up until the point where the money launderer planted a bomb in their car. It would appear that Alvo’s business associates are on their case even though they thought they had...
B Van Heusen
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The boys are back in town … well back on a Spanish island anyway. Season two of Sky One’s Mad Dogs began precisely where season one left off with Quinn staring down a hired hitman. Luckily for him, his three friends decided to dispatch the would-be assassin with a hit and run move that Jeremy Clarkson would have been proud off.
After a mishap at the port, they found themselves on the island of Ibiza where they indulged in a spot of money laundering. Things went well up until the point where the money launderer planted a bomb in their car. It would appear that Alvo’s business associates are on their case even though they thought they had...
- 1/20/2012
- by admin
The Goodies
Amazon.com Widgets
Kieran Kinsella
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Like most people born in the 1970s, I was a huge fan of the Goodies as a kid. My personal favorite was Graeme Garden who I regarded as “the sensible Goodie.” As I grew up, I began to realize that The Goodies was just one highlight in a distinguished career during which the Scotsman established himself as one of Britain’s top comedy performers. While he is a well known entertainer, many people do not realize that Graeme Garden is also a qualified physician. Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Graeme and I began by asking him how he made the transition from medical school graduate to TV funny man.
“I appeared in a couple of plays at school,...
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Kieran Kinsella
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Like most people born in the 1970s, I was a huge fan of the Goodies as a kid. My personal favorite was Graeme Garden who I regarded as “the sensible Goodie.” As I grew up, I began to realize that The Goodies was just one highlight in a distinguished career during which the Scotsman established himself as one of Britain’s top comedy performers. While he is a well known entertainer, many people do not realize that Graeme Garden is also a qualified physician. Recently, I had the opportunity to interview Graeme and I began by asking him how he made the transition from medical school graduate to TV funny man.
“I appeared in a couple of plays at school,...
- 1/17/2012
- by admin
A child star as Oliver Twist, he became a key figure in epoch-making TV comedy
'Please, sir – I want some more." Rationing was still in force when, under the eye of David Lean's camera, a thin, pale eight-year-old boy named John Howard Davies raised his gruel bowl and dared to request a second serving. That image of Davies in Oliver Twist (1948) spoke to the mood of the moment – suggesting the sort of deprivation that postwar Britain was attempting to legislate out of existence. One scene called for Davies, who has died of cancer aged 72, and his fellow child actors to look on enviously as the bigwigs of the workhouse devoured a great pile of pastries, hams and chicken. The astonished expressions are genuine. None of these boys had ever seen food like it.
The film's production company, Cineguild, had launched a national campaign to secure a talented unknown for the title role.
'Please, sir – I want some more." Rationing was still in force when, under the eye of David Lean's camera, a thin, pale eight-year-old boy named John Howard Davies raised his gruel bowl and dared to request a second serving. That image of Davies in Oliver Twist (1948) spoke to the mood of the moment – suggesting the sort of deprivation that postwar Britain was attempting to legislate out of existence. One scene called for Davies, who has died of cancer aged 72, and his fellow child actors to look on enviously as the bigwigs of the workhouse devoured a great pile of pastries, hams and chicken. The astonished expressions are genuine. None of these boys had ever seen food like it.
The film's production company, Cineguild, had launched a national campaign to secure a talented unknown for the title role.
- 8/25/2011
- by Matthew Sweet
- The Guardian - Film News
Queen's honours list also includes CBEs for oscar-winner Colin Firth and singer Bryan Ferry, and OBEs for Ashes heroes
A collective sigh of relief will be heard across Britain, quickly followed by a suitably awful pun: "Knight to see you, to see you knight." At 83 the evergreen entertainer Bruce Forsyth has finally got his long-predicted knighthood.
The nod comes in the Queen's 2011 birthday honours list – one of 965 people whose diverse services to society, including David Cameron's "big society", are recognised on Saturday.
But after years of speculation, gossip and tabloid outrage against the tardiness of Whitehall and Buckingham Palace, Forsyth's gong is the eye-catcher. The entertainer, who is enjoying a renaissance as host of BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, started his career at 14 and fronted countless game shows, perhaps most memorably The Generation Game. He admitted that he feared the day might never come but said the elation...
A collective sigh of relief will be heard across Britain, quickly followed by a suitably awful pun: "Knight to see you, to see you knight." At 83 the evergreen entertainer Bruce Forsyth has finally got his long-predicted knighthood.
The nod comes in the Queen's 2011 birthday honours list – one of 965 people whose diverse services to society, including David Cameron's "big society", are recognised on Saturday.
But after years of speculation, gossip and tabloid outrage against the tardiness of Whitehall and Buckingham Palace, Forsyth's gong is the eye-catcher. The entertainer, who is enjoying a renaissance as host of BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, started his career at 14 and fronted countless game shows, perhaps most memorably The Generation Game. He admitted that he feared the day might never come but said the elation...
- 6/10/2011
- by Michael White
- The Guardian - Film News
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