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Funny Woman
''Funny Woman'' is a British drama television series directed by Oliver Parker and adapted for the screen by Morwenna Banks from the best-selling novel '' Funny Girl'' by Nick Hornby. It stars Gemma Arterton with an ensemble cast including Tom Bateman, David Threlfall, and Rupert Everett. The first series began airing on Sky Max on 9 February 2023, with all six episodes available on Now. In August, it was renewed for a second series. Series 2 launched in the UK on Sky Max, Sky Showcase and Now on 6 September 2024. Synopsis The series follows Barbara Parker (stage name Sophie Straw), a Blackpool beauty queen who becomes a comedy star in the male-dominated sitcom industry in 1960s London. Cast The show includes fictionalised portrayals of personalities from the period including Frankie Howerd (Robert Forknall), Eleanor Bron (Emma Humpston), Val Doonican (Mike Prior), Spike Milligan (Alexander Jonas) and John Fortune (Nathan Chatelier). Music Episode 2 features "Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Funny Lady
''Funny Lady'' is a 1975 American biographical film, biographical musical film, musical comedy-drama film and the sequel to the 1968 film ''Funny Girl (film), Funny Girl''. The film stars Barbra Streisand, James Caan, Omar Sharif, Roddy McDowall and Ben Vereen. Herbert Ross, who helmed the musical sequences for ''Funny Girl'' (which had been directed by William Wyler), serves as the director. The screenplay, written by Jay Presson Allen and Arnold Schulman as based on a story by Schulman, is a highly fictionalized account of the later life and career of comedienne Fanny Brice and her marriage to songwriter and impresario Billy Rose. The primary score was by John Kander and Fred Ebb. The film was nominated for numerous awards including Golden Globe nominations for Streisand as Best Actress and Best Actor for Caan. Streisand revisited the soundtrack to the film in her 2016 concert. Plot Fanny Brice, now finishing her Broadway show after its success has come and gone in the midst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nainita Desai
Nainita Desai is a British composer of film, television and video game music. She is known for her scores for the films '' For Sama'', ''The Reason I Jump'' and '' American Murder: The Family Next Door'', and video game '' Telling Lies''. In 2016, Nainita was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit. Life and career Nainita was born and raised in London by her Indian parents. She holds a degree in mathematics and studied sound design at the National Film and Television School. She started her career as a sound designer on the films ''Little Buddha'', Lessons of Darkness and '' Death Machine''. Filmography Selected films * '' Little Terrorist'' (2004) * ''Forced Confessions'' (2012) * ''Molly'' (2014) * ''Checkpost'' (2014) * ''The Life After'' (2018) * ''Anemone'' (2018) * '' Untamed Romania'' (2018) * ''//_sleeper'' (2018) * ''Exit Eve'' (2019) * ''Lab Rat'' (2019) * ''Enemy Within'' (2019) * ''Darkness Visible'' (2019) * '' For Sama'' (2019) * ''The Reason I Jump'' (2020) * '' American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spike Milligan
Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was an Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright and actor. The son of an English mother and Irish father, he was born in British Raj, British India, where he spent his childhood before relocating in 1931 to England, where he lived and worked for the majority of his life. Disliking his first name, he began to call himself "Spike" after hearing the band Spike Jones, Spike Jones and his City Slickers on Radio Luxembourg. Milligan was the co-creator, main writer, and a principal cast member of the British radio comedy programme ''The Goon Show'', performing a range of roles including the characters Eccles (character), Eccles and Minnie Bannister. He was the earliest-born and last surviving member of The Goons (The Goon Show), the Goons. He took his success with ''The Goon Show'' into television with ''Q... (TV series), Q5'', a surreal sketch show credited as a major influence on the members of ''Monty Pytho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Doonican
Michael Valentine 'Val' Doonican (3 February 1927 – 1 July 2015) was an Irish singer of traditional pop, easy listening and novelty songs, noted for his warm and relaxed vocal style. A crooner, he found popular success, especially in the United Kingdom where he had five successive Top 10 albums in the 1960s as well as several hits on the UK Singles Chart, including " Walk Tall", '' Elusive Butterfly'' and ''If the Whole World Stopped Loving''. ''The Val Doonican Show'', his eponymous variety programme, featured his singing and a selection of guests, and it had a long and successful run on BBC Television from 1965 to 1986. Doonican won the Variety Club of Great Britain's BBC-TV Personality of the Year award three times. Early life and career Doonican was born on 3 February 1927 in Waterford, Ireland, the youngest of the eight children of Agnes (née Kavanagh) and John Doonican. He was from a musical family and played in his school band from the age of six. When hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Bron
Eleanor Bron (born 14 March 1938) is an English stage, film and television actress, and an author. Her film roles include Ahme in the Beatles musical ''Help!'' (1965), the Doctor in '' Alfie'' (1966), Margaret Spencer in '' Bedazzled'' (1967) and Hermione Roddice in ''Women in Love'' (1969). She has appeared in television series such as ''Yes Minister'', ''Doctor Who'' and ''Absolutely Fabulous''. Early life Bron was born on 14 March 1938 in Stanmore, Middlesex, into a Jewish family. Before her birth, her father Sydney had legally changed his name from Bronstein to Bron, in an effort to enhance his newly founded commercial enterprise, Bron's Orchestral Service. Her elder brother was the record producer Gerry Bron. She attended the North London Collegiate School and then Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read Modern Languages. She later characterised her time at Newnham as "three years of unparalleled pampering and privilege". Career Early work Bron began her career in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie Howerd
Francis Alick Howard (6 March 1917 – 19 April 1992), better known by his stage-name Frankie Howerd, was an English actor and comedian. Early life Howerd was born the son of a soldier Francis Alfred William (1887–1934)England & Wales, Death Index: 1916–2005 and Edith Florence Howard (née Morrison, 1888–1962), at the City Hospital in York, England, in 1917 (not 1922 as he later claimed). His mother worked at the Rowntree's factory. The family lived in Hartoft Street, which he later described as ''"a poorish area of the city near the River Ouse, Yorkshire, River Ouse"''. He retained an affection for his home city, to which he often returned. When his father was posted to Woolwich Garrison, Woolwich, the family moved to Eltham, London while he was a young child, and he was educated at Shooters Hill Sixth Form College, Shooter's Hill Grammar School in Shooter's Hill.Howerd, Frankie (1976) ''On the Way I Lost It'', W.H. Allen, Career His first stage appearance was at ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alistair Petrie
Alistair Petrie (born 30 September 1970) is a British actor. He has starred in '' The Bank Job'' (2008), ''Cloud Atlas'' (2012), '' Rush'' (2013) and '' Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' (2016). Petrie has also starred in the Channel 4 television series ''Utopia'', the BBC One television series '' The Night Manager, Sherlock,'' and ''Undercover'', and as Mr. Groff in the Netflix original comedy-drama series ''Sex Education''. Early life Petrie was born 30 September 1970 in Catterick, North Yorkshire. He was brought up in the Middle East, mainland Europe and East Africa. His father was an RAF fighter pilot. He trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He went to Bradfield College in Berkshire. Career Theatre Petrie spent his early career in theatre around the country before joining the RSC where productions included Shakespeare's ''Troilus and Cressida'' and Henrik Ibsen's ''Brand'' opposite Ralph Fiennes. In 2005, he joined the National Theatre, where he sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clare-Hope Ashitey
Clare-Hope Ashitey (born 12 February 1987) is a British actress. She attended the Centre Stage School of Performing Arts, Southgate, London, Southgate while being educated at The Latymer School, in the Edmonton, London, Edmonton area of London, for seven years. She took a gap year between school and university to work on the film ''Children of Men'' (2006). In 2018, she starred in the List of original programs distributed by Netflix, Netflix Original crime drama series Seven Seconds (TV series), ''Seven Seconds''. Early life and education Ashitey was born in London Borough of Enfield, Enfield to Tina, a medical secretary, and Paul, a dentist, who are both from Ghana. She has an older sister, Grace, who studied at the University of Warwick, and an older brother. Ashitey attended Brimsdown primary school in Brimsdown, Enfield before being educated at The Latymer School in Edmonton, North London. She graduated in anthropology from SOAS, University of London in 2009. Filmography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauty Queen
A beauty pageant is a competition in which the contestants are judged and ranked based on various physical and mental attributes. Per its name, beauty pageants traditionally focus on judging the contestants' physical attractiveness, sometimes solely so, but most modern beauty pageants have since expanded to also judge contestants based on "inner beauty"—their individual traits and characteristics, including personality, intelligence, aptitude, moral character, and charity. Though typically perceived as a female-oriented competition, male beauty pageants also exist, as do child beauty pageants for youth. The term beauty pageant refers originally to the Big Four beauty pageants: Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss International, and Miss Earth. Hundreds and thousands of beauty contests are held annually, but the Big Four are considered the most prestigious, and are widely covered and broadcast by news media. The earliest formal beauty pageants were held in the 19th century, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackpool
Blackpool is a seaside town in Lancashire, England. It is located on the Irish Sea coast of the Fylde peninsula, approximately north of Liverpool and west of Preston, Lancashire, Preston. It is the main settlement in the Borough of Blackpool, borough of the same name. Blackpool was originally a small hamlet; it began to grow in the mid-eighteenth century, when sea bathing for health purposes became fashionable. Blackpool's beach was suitable for this activity, and by 1781 several hotels had been built. The opening of a railway station in 1846 allowed more visitors to reach the resort, which continued to grow for the remainder of the nineteenth century. In 1876, the town became a borough. Blackpool's development was closely tied to the Lancashire cotton mill, cotton-mill practice of annual factory maintenance shutdowns, known as wakes weeks, when many workers chose to visit the seaside. The town saw large growth during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods. By 1951 its popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Now (Sky)
Now (formerly Now TV and often stylised as NOW) is a subscription over-the-top streaming television service launched in the United Kingdom in 2012. It is operated by Sky Group in Europe, and Xfinity in the US; both owned by the American media conglomerate Comcast. Now offers both live streaming and video-on-demand without a contract. The service offers "passes" for various types of content, for a monthly fee on a pay-as-you-go basis. Differing passes offer films, sports and entertainment from Sky such as material from Sky Atlantic and Sky Cinema, and from British and American licensed third-parties such as Fox. The service is available to consumers through retail Roku-based Now TV digital media players (in both set-top box and HDMI dongle form factors) as well as via an app on computers, various mobile devices, some game consoles and set-top boxes. It is separate from and not viewable through the Sky Go Internet service, or via Sky's digital satellite television service Sk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Max
Sky Max is a British pay television channel and on-demand service which launched on 1 September 2021. It is owned and operated by Sky Group, a subsidiary of Comcast. The service broadcasts a variety of drama, comedy-drama, and unscripted series. Sky Max was announced on 28 July 2021, along with Sky Showcase, to replace Sky One; the former flagship which had been on air for nearly 40 years. Sky Max broadcasts the entertainment and drama output previously shown on Sky One, while most of Sky One's comedy output was transferred to Sky Comedy. Current programming Comedy drama * '' Brassic'' (series 3–6; 2021–present) * ''Funny Woman'' (2023–present) * '' Mr. Bigstuff'' (2024–present) * '' Small Town, Big Story'' (2025) Unscripted Game shows * '' A League of Their Own'' (series 16–19; 2021–present) * '' Never Mind the Buzzcocks'' (series 29–32; 2021–present) * ''Rob Beckett's Smart TV'' (2024–present) Reality * '' Rob & Romesh Vs'' (series 4–7; 2022–presen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
