BAFTA has pulled the curtain back on its Television Awards nominations, and This Is Going To Hurt and The Responder are leading the chase for a famous bronze mask.
The BBC dramas each have six nominations across the BAFTA Television Awards and BAFTA Television Craft Awards, including Leading Actor for Ben Whishaw and Martin Freeman.
Whishaw plays junior doctor Adam Kay in This Is Going To Hurt, which was co-produced by AMC. Freeman features as an urgent response police officer in The Responder.
This Is Going To Hurt is nominated for Mini Series, while The Responder will compete in the Drama Series race. Adam Kay and Tony Schumacher will both do battle in the Writer: Drama category at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards.
The BBC has a total of 81 nominations, putting it comfortably ahead of its nearest rival Channel 4, which has 33 nominations. Netflix scooped 24 nominations, while Apple TV+ was...
The BBC dramas each have six nominations across the BAFTA Television Awards and BAFTA Television Craft Awards, including Leading Actor for Ben Whishaw and Martin Freeman.
Whishaw plays junior doctor Adam Kay in This Is Going To Hurt, which was co-produced by AMC. Freeman features as an urgent response police officer in The Responder.
This Is Going To Hurt is nominated for Mini Series, while The Responder will compete in the Drama Series race. Adam Kay and Tony Schumacher will both do battle in the Writer: Drama category at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards.
The BBC has a total of 81 nominations, putting it comfortably ahead of its nearest rival Channel 4, which has 33 nominations. Netflix scooped 24 nominations, while Apple TV+ was...
- 3/22/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Catherine Tate is bringing her character Nan back to BBC One.
Following 2014's one-off special, Joannie 'Nan' Taylor will feature in two extra half-hour episodes for the channel.
The new specials, directed by Geoff Posner, will be filmed later this year for broadcast in 2016.
Tate, Brett Goldstein and Dan Swimer are penning the scripts.
"Nan is one of the most iconic comedy characters of our time, and it's thrilling to welcome her back to BBC One," said BBC controller of comedy commissioning Shane Allen.
"Catherine's performance is as close to comic perfection as you can get."
Watch Nan in Holby City for a 2013 Children in Need sketch below:...
Following 2014's one-off special, Joannie 'Nan' Taylor will feature in two extra half-hour episodes for the channel.
The new specials, directed by Geoff Posner, will be filmed later this year for broadcast in 2016.
Tate, Brett Goldstein and Dan Swimer are penning the scripts.
"Nan is one of the most iconic comedy characters of our time, and it's thrilling to welcome her back to BBC One," said BBC controller of comedy commissioning Shane Allen.
"Catherine's performance is as close to comic perfection as you can get."
Watch Nan in Holby City for a 2013 Children in Need sketch below:...
- 5/20/2015
- Digital Spy
'Henry V' Movie Actress Renée Asherson dead at 99: Laurence Olivier leading lady in acclaimed 1944 film (image: Renée Asherson and Laurence Olivier in 'Henry V') Renée Asherson, a British stage actress featured in London productions of A Streetcar Named Desire and Three Sisters, but best known internationally as Laurence Olivier's leading lady in the 1944 film version of Henry V, died on October 30, 2014. Asherson was 99 years old. The exact cause of death hasn't been specified. She was born Dorothy Renée Ascherson (she would drop the "c" some time after becoming an actress) on May 19, 1915, in Kensington, London, to Jewish parents: businessman Charles Ascherson and his second wife, Dorothy Wiseman -- both of whom narrowly escaped spending their honeymoon aboard the Titanic. (Ascherson cancelled the voyage after suffering an attack of appendicitis.) According to Michael Coveney's The Guardian obit for the actress, Renée Asherson was "scantly...
- 11/5/2014
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Multi award-winning Milton Jones, often fondly referred to – mainly by himself – as ‘the weird bloke with the shirts from Mock The Week’, releases the DVD of his live show Lion Whisperer on 21st November 2011. We have three copies of the DVD to give away.
Lion Whisperer is the eagerly awaited second live stand up DVD from Milton, with his first Milton Jones – Live Universe Tour. Part 1: Earth’ released in 2010. Coming ‘live’ from Milton’s dressing room at the start of the DVD, Milton Jones’ grandfather gives an insight into the bizarre world of Milton… interrupted at an opportune moment by Milton arriving on stage at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London. Join the surreal one-liner merchant for over 60 minutes of family entertainment including a surprise appearance of his very own ‘grandfather’ exploring the weird and wonderful world of the Jones’s.
Milton’s unique charm has bought him legions of fans across the UK.
Lion Whisperer is the eagerly awaited second live stand up DVD from Milton, with his first Milton Jones – Live Universe Tour. Part 1: Earth’ released in 2010. Coming ‘live’ from Milton’s dressing room at the start of the DVD, Milton Jones’ grandfather gives an insight into the bizarre world of Milton… interrupted at an opportune moment by Milton arriving on stage at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London. Join the surreal one-liner merchant for over 60 minutes of family entertainment including a surprise appearance of his very own ‘grandfather’ exploring the weird and wonderful world of the Jones’s.
Milton’s unique charm has bought him legions of fans across the UK.
- 11/18/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Milton Jones: Lion Whisperer Live
Stars: Milton Jones | Produced by Geoff Posner, David Tyler | Directed by Geoff Posner
Christmas is upon us so you know what that means for the DVD market – shelves filled with fitness ans stand-up comedy DVDs. We’ve been sent a whopping amount to review this year, the first of which is only the second stand-up DVD from Milton Jones. Who he? The bloke with the crazy hair, colourful shirts and surreal jokes on Mock The Week. That’s who. He’s also an award-winning stand-up comic, winning the Perrier Award in 1996, Time Out Best Comedy Award in 2003, and he’s the current holder of the 2011 Chortle award for Best Headliner, not bad for a 15 year comedy career…
Shot at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London during Jones’ twice-extended 2010/2011 sell-out UK tour, Milton Jones: Lion Whisperer Live sees the comedian take his routine, consisting of punchy one-liners that,...
Stars: Milton Jones | Produced by Geoff Posner, David Tyler | Directed by Geoff Posner
Christmas is upon us so you know what that means for the DVD market – shelves filled with fitness ans stand-up comedy DVDs. We’ve been sent a whopping amount to review this year, the first of which is only the second stand-up DVD from Milton Jones. Who he? The bloke with the crazy hair, colourful shirts and surreal jokes on Mock The Week. That’s who. He’s also an award-winning stand-up comic, winning the Perrier Award in 1996, Time Out Best Comedy Award in 2003, and he’s the current holder of the 2011 Chortle award for Best Headliner, not bad for a 15 year comedy career…
Shot at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London during Jones’ twice-extended 2010/2011 sell-out UK tour, Milton Jones: Lion Whisperer Live sees the comedian take his routine, consisting of punchy one-liners that,...
- 11/2/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Pozzitive.co.uk is billed as a new online ‘Encyclopaedia Of British Comedy’ and was launched by Pozzitive owners David Tyler and Geoff Posner with the aim of providing a friendly, insider’s-eye view to the wealth of information they have, all of which is now at your fingertips.
Pozzitive is a multi-award winning comedy production company (6 BAFTAs, 6 Sony Awards and 2 International Emmys), and over the years have produced and directed such classic TV , Radio and Online projects as “Spitting Image”, “Coogan’s Run”, “Not The Nine O’Clock News”, “French & Saunders”, “Harry Enfield & Chums”, “Dinnerladies”, “Little Britain”, “The Paul & Pauline Calf Video Diaries”, “Saturday Live Again”, “Radio Active”, “Carrott’s Lib” and “The Young Ones”.
They continue to work on comedy projects such as Armando Iannucci’s ‘Charm Offensive’ and ‘Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation’. They are also currently producing the second series of popular sitcom “Cabin Pressure...
Pozzitive is a multi-award winning comedy production company (6 BAFTAs, 6 Sony Awards and 2 International Emmys), and over the years have produced and directed such classic TV , Radio and Online projects as “Spitting Image”, “Coogan’s Run”, “Not The Nine O’Clock News”, “French & Saunders”, “Harry Enfield & Chums”, “Dinnerladies”, “Little Britain”, “The Paul & Pauline Calf Video Diaries”, “Saturday Live Again”, “Radio Active”, “Carrott’s Lib” and “The Young Ones”.
They continue to work on comedy projects such as Armando Iannucci’s ‘Charm Offensive’ and ‘Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation’. They are also currently producing the second series of popular sitcom “Cabin Pressure...
- 6/8/2009
- by Paul Larn
- The Cinema Post
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