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Round The Bend
''Round the Bend!'' is a satirical British children's television series, which ran on Children's ITV for three series from January 6, 1989, to May 7, 1991. The programme was produced by Hat Trick Productions for Yorkshire Television. After its first run concluded, it was later repeated on Channel 4, The Children's Channel and Nickelodeon UK (the "Yorkshire Television Production" and "A Yorkshire Television Production for ITV" company logos were also removed from the end of the episodes in each case, and they would just fade to black where they originally were), and was nominated for an RTS Award. The programme was created by the team behind the comic '' Oink!'' ( Patrick Gallagher, Tony Husband, and Mark Rodgers). The puppets, animated characters and main sewer set were designed by Gallagher, who was also the programme's graphic designer. The puppets were made by the team who made the ones for Central Television's ''Spitting Image''. ''Round the Bend!'' was a satirical parod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Satire
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming or exposing the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. A feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm —"in satire, irony is militant", according to literary critic Northrop Frye— but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to question. Satire is found in many a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Glover
Jonathan Philip Glover (born 26 December 1952) is an English actor. He has appeared in various television programmes including '' Play School'', '' Survivors'', the Management consultant in '' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'', '' Casualty'', ''Bodger & Badger'' and ''Peak Practice''. He provided the voices of several characters in the ''Animals of Farthing Wood'' animated series, and is also known for voice-acting for '' Noah's Island'', ''Spitting Image'' and the character King Trode in the English language version of the PlayStation 2 game '' Dragon Quest VIII''. He often appears in radio plays for Radio 4. He was a regular on the Radio 4 satirical programme '' Week Ending'' during the 1980s. He played the upper crust English character ''Mr Cholmondley-Warner'' in spoof 1940s government documentaries in '' Harry Enfield's Television Programme'' with excessive Received Pronunciation. His voices for ''Spitting Image'' included the Duke of Edinburgh, weather forecaste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hat Trick Productions
Hat Trick Productions is an independent British production company that produces television and radio programmes, mainly specialising in comedy, based in London. History Hat Trick Productions was founded in 1986 by Rory McGrath, Jimmy Mulville, and Denise O'Donoghue. Its first commission was ''Chelmsford 123'', a situation comedy for Channel 4. Two years later, Geoffrey Perkins became company director, and helped to produce shows such as ''Father Ted'', ''Whose Line Is It Anyway?'', and '' Have I Got News for You''. Perkins left the organisation in 1995, to become head of comedy for BBC Television. Hat Trick International struck a first look deal with Cardiff Productions and has a joint venture with British television writer Jed Mercurio called HTM Television, with this production company responsible for dramas such as ''Bloodlands'' with James Nesbitt and the forthcoming ''DI Ray'' with Parminder Nagra. Current programmes Hat Trick * '' Bloodlands'' (BBC One 2021–present) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Almond
Albert may refer to: Companies * Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic * Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands * Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia * Albert Productions, a record label * Albert Computers, Inc., a computer manufacturer in the 1980s Entertainment * ''Albert'' (1985 film), a Czechoslovak film directed by František Vláčil * ''Albert'' (2015 film), a film by Karsten Kiilerich * ''Albert'' (2016 film), an American TV movie * ''Albert'' (Ed Hall album), 1988 * "Albert" (short story), by Leo Tolstoy * Albert (comics), a character in Marvel Comics * Albert (''Discworld''), a character in Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld'' series * Albert, a character in Dario Argento's 1977 film ''Suspiria'' Military * Battle of Albert (1914), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France * Battle of Albert (1916), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France * Battle of Albert (1918), a WWI battle at Albert, Somme, France People * Albert (given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Hawkins
Martin William Hawkins (February 20, 1888 – October 27, 1959) was an American athlete who won the bronze medal in the 110 m hurdles at the 1912 Summer Olympics. A track star at the University of Oregon, Hawkins later attended law school at Oregon and became a lawyer and judge in Portland Portland most commonly refers to: * Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state of Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States * Portland, Maine, the largest city in the state of Maine, in the New England region of the northeas .... sports-reference.com References 1888 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykola Pawluk
Mykola Andrej Pawluk (born 23 June 1956) is an English television video editor whose career has spanned four decades mostly in the media of comedy. He has twice been nominated for a BAFTA. Born in Windsor in Berkshire, the son of Wasyl Pawluk and Gerta L Giesen, he was raised in Egham in Surrey by his German mother and Ukrainian father. He attended Egham Hythe Secondary Modern School in Egham during the 1960s. He married Julia Ince in 1981. Pawluk's editing credits include ''Terry and June'' (1979), ''The Black Adder'' (1983), ''The Kenny Everett Television Show'' (1983–1988), ''French and Saunders'' (for which he received his first BAFTA nomination in 1989), ''Chelmsford 123'' (1990), ''Harry Enfield's Television Programme'' (1990–1992), ''Drop the Dead Donkey'' (for which he received his second BAFTA nomination in 1991), ''Harry Enfield and Chums'' (1994–1998), ''Men Behaving Badly'' (1994–1998), '' Is It Legal?'' (1995–1998), '' Father Ted'' (1996–1998), ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Cross (TV Editor)
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Michael or Mike Cross may refer to: * Michael Cross (1942–2022), British Royal Air Force officer * Michael Cross (painter) (fl. 1633–1660), Anglo-Spanish painter and copyist * Mike Cross (musician) (born 1946), American singer-songwriter and musician * Mike Cross (politician) (1944–2013), American businessman and politician in Louisiana * Mike Cross, American guitarist with Sponge Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera (; meaning 'pore bearer'), are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate throug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise O'Donoghue
Denise O'Donoghue, OBE (born 13 April 1955, in Wembley) is a British television production company executive. Early life She attended the Catholic St Dominic's Convent Grammar School in north-west London (became St Dominic's Sixth Form College in 1979). She graduated in 1979 with a BA in Politics from University of York. Career With Rory McGrath and Jimmy Mulville, she co-founded the independent British TV production company Hat Trick Productions in 1986. As a television producer, O'Donoghue has worked on shows such as the original British version of ''Whose Line is it Anyway?'', and '' Have I Got News for You''. McGrath left the company in 1992. In 2003, O'Donoghue and Mulville, as the remaining co-founders of Hat Trick, were listed in ''The Observer'' as two of the 50 funniest people in Britain. Personal life O'Donoghue married Mulville in 1987. They divorced in the mid-1990s but continued to work together. In 2006, she married Michael Holland, an oil shipping businessman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big George
George Webley (29 May 1957 – 7 May 2011), better known by the stage name Big George, was a British musician, composer, bandleader and broadcaster who has been described as one of Britain's most successful theme music writers. Early life Webley was born in Clapham, London. His aunt Vera was the fan club secretary for Frankie Laine, who was Webley's godfather on 1 June 1957. His first introduction to music was when Donald Swann attended his primary school to play to all the pupils after the school's music teacher died. Webley later said "From the first moment he lifted the piano lid, I knew the direction my life was going to take." Webley left school at the age of 14 to go on the road with a showband. He became friends with and regularly accompanied Herbie Flowers in his late teens after writing to the bassist for advice and was a session bass player until the age of 30. Music career He became a musical director for EMI at 30 and produced dozens of chart records. In 1989, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Franglen
Simon Franglen (born Westminster, London, England) is an English composer of classical and film music. He is also a record producer and former musician. His credits include four of the list of top grossing films and six of the list of best-selling albums of all time. His film work includes a number of well-known movies, including ''Avatar'', for which he received Golden Globe and Grammy nominations for the theme song, and for being the producer of " My Heart Will Go On" from ''Titanic'', for which he won a Record of The Year Grammy Award. Other film credits range from David Fincher's '' Seven'','' The Amazing Spider-Man'', ''The Magnificent Seven'', to arranging music for the James Bond films ''Skyfall'' and ''Spectre''. Music career Franglen has worked with Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Quincy Jones, David Foster, Toni Braxton, The Corrs, Monica, Bee Gees, Luciano Pavarotti. Currently there are over four hundred music credits to F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Sheridan
Susan Haydn Thomas (18 March 1947 – 8 August 2015) better known as Susan Sheridan, was an English voice actress. Her roles included Noddy in '' Noddy's Toyland Adventures'', Princess Sylvia in '' Muzzy in Gondoland'', Trillian in the BBC radio series ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' and Princess Eilonwy in the animated film '' The Black Cauldron''. Early and personal life Sheridan trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Sheridan married the musician Max Brittain and had three daughters. She died from breast cancer on 8 August 2015, aged 68. Voice roles Sheridan's voice roles include; *''Alex Builds His Farm'' - Alex *''Fire Tripper (English version)'' - Shu *'' Moomin (English dub)'' - Moomin *'' Noddy's Toyland Adventures'' - Noddy, Tessie Bear and other character voices *''Budgie the Little Helicopter'' - Additional characters *'' The Little Polar Bear'' *''Round the Bend'' *''The Goose Girl'' *'' The Family-Ness'' *'' Jimbo and the Jet-Set'' *'' Albe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Robbins
Kate Elizabeth Robbins (born 21 August 1958) is an English actress, singer and songwriter. She came to prominence in the early 1980s when she scored a top ten single on the UK Official Charts with "More Than in Love", while she was appearing in the television soap opera ''Crossroads''. She went on to become a prolific voice actress, most notably for nine years with the satirical show ''Spitting Image''. Early life Robbins is the older sister of fellow actress Amy Robbins, sculptor Jane Robbins, and ''The Sheilas'' singer Emma Robbins. Her older brother is radio broadcaster and actor Ted Robbins. Through her sister Emma she was the sister-in-law of Simon Shelton and through her sister Amy she is the sister-in-law of actor Robert Daws. Her father was Mike Robbins, who grew up in Hightown, Wrexham, the son of Ted, who served as the secretary of the Football Association of Wales for more than 35 years. She attended Wirral Grammar School for Girls in Bebington, Cheshire. Robbins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
