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Strictly Confidential (TV Series)
''Strictly Confidential'' is a six-part drama, written by Kay Mellor and originally shown on ITV from 16 November to 21 December 2006. Plot It stars Suranne Jones as Linda, a bisexual ex police officer turned sex therapist, who shares a practice in Leeds with her brother-in-law, played by Tristan Gemmill. Her life is complicated by the fact that her husband Richard, her business partner's brother, played by Cristian Solimeno, has low fertility and cannot give her the baby she wants. She is all for asking his brother (her business partner) to be a sperm donor, which does not sit well with his wife ( Kate Isitt). Linda's husband (Richard) is also not keen on the idea at all but lets Linda go ahead and ask his brother who consents to be a sperm donor. Sexual tension becomes obvious between the pair, and they soon begin sleeping together, with disastrous consequences for all involved, especially Angie (Eva Pope), Linda's ex-lover who is still very much in love with Linda. Furthe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Drama
Comedy drama (also known by the portmanteau dramedy) is a hybrid genre of works that combine elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), drama. In film, as well as scripted television series, serious dramatic subjects (such as death, illness, betrayal, grief, etc.) are handled with realism and subtlety, while preserving a humorous tenor. The term "dramedy" began to be used in the television industry in the 1980s. Modern television comedy dramas tend to have more humour integrated into the story than the comic relief common in drama series, but usually contain a lower joke rate than sitcom, sitcoms. History In Theatre of ancient Greece, Greek theatre, plays were considered comedies or tragedies (i.e. drama): the former being light stories with a happy ending, and the latter serious stories with a sad ending. This concept even influenced Theatre of ancient Rome, Roman theatre and theatre of the Hellenistic period. Theatre of that era is thought to have long-lasting infl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Mellor
Kay Mellor (née Daniel; 11 May 1951 – 15 May 2022) was an English actress, scriptwriter, producer and director. She was known for creating television series such as '' Band of Gold'' (ITV, 1995–97), '' Fat Friends'' (ITV, 2000–05), and '' The Syndicate'' (BBC, 2012–21), as well as co-creating CITV's children's drama ''Children's Ward'' (1989–2000). Early life Kay Daniel was born in Leeds on 11 May 1951 to a Catholic father, George, and a Jewish mother, Dinah. Her parents' marriage was unhappy, and Dinah suffered from George's domestic violence. She had an affair before seeking a divorce. She raised her children as a single parent in Ireland Wood and kept the affair a secret for more than 30 years. In 1967, Mellor become pregnant aged 16 and married the child's father, Anthony Mellor, who was 17. The couple had two daughters, television producer Yvonne Francas (born 1968) and actress Gaynor Faye (born 1971). When Mellor told her mother about being pregnant, she m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Network)
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television network. It is branded as ITV1 in most of the UK except for central and northern Scotland, where it is branded as STV (TV channel), STV. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been Legal name, legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time: BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was, for decades, a network of separate companies that provided regional television services and also shared programmes among themselves to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs ITV1, the ITV1 cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Digital Spy
Digital Spy (DS) is a British-based entertainment, television and film website and brand and is the largest digital property at Hearst UK. Since its initial launch in 1999, Digital Spy has focused on entertainment news related to television programmes, films, music and show business to a global audience. As well as breaking news, in-depth features, reviews and editorial explainers, the site also features the DS Internet forum, Forum. History (1999) In early January 1999, Iain Chapman launched the website, providing news, rumours and information on Sky's new digital satellite platform Sky (UK and Ireland), SkyDigital. At the same time, Chris Butcher launched the ONfaq website, offering similar news and information on the UK's new digital terrestrial platform ITV Digital, ONdigital. Both sites proved to be popular, attracting many visitors eager for more news about these rapidly developing TV platforms. Chapman and Butcher discussed the idea of a merger of the two sites, to cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suranne Jones
Sarah Ann Akers (née Jones; born 27 August 1978), known professionally as Suranne Jones, is an English actress and producer. Known for her numerous collaborations with screenwriter Sally Wainwright, she rose to prominence playing Karen McDonald on ITV's ''Coronation Street'' between 2000 and 2004. Upon leaving, she furthered her television career in drama series such as ''Vincent'' (2005–2006), '' Strictly Confidential'' (2006), ''Harley Street'' (2008), and ''Unforgiven'' (2009). Jones starred as Detective Rachel Bailey in the police procedural '' Scott & Bailey'' (2011–2016), and garnered further attention with headline roles in '' Single Father'', '' Five Days'' (both 2010), '' A Touch of Cloth'' (2012–2014), and '' The Crimson Field'' (2014). For her portrayal of Gemma Foster—a GP who suffers personal betrayal—in '' Doctor Foster'' (2015–2017), Jones received several awards, including the 2016 British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Subsequent cred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds
Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It is the largest settlement in Yorkshire and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds Metropolitan Borough, which is the second most populous district in the United Kingdom. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production and trading centre (mainly with wool) in the 17th and 18th centuries. Leeds developed as a mill town during the Industrial Revolution alongside other surrounding villages and towns in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It was also known for its flax industry, iron foundries, engineering and printing, as well as shopping, with several surviving Victorian era arcades, such as Kirkgate Market. City status was awarded in 1893, and a populous urban centre formed in the following century which absorbed surrounding villages and overtook t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tristan Gemmill
Tristan John Gemmill (born 6 June 1967) is a British actor from London, most notable for his roles as Dr Adam Trueman in ''Casualty'' and Robert Preston in ''Coronation Street''. Early life and education Son of Brasenose College, Oxford-educated watercolour artist Andrew Gemmill, formerly employed by the BBC and in the recruitment business (son of the first-class cricketer William Gemmill), and Diana, daughter of Sir Robert Peter Burton-Chadwick, 2nd Bt, Gemmill was educated at Holmewood House School, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, up to the age of 13. He then won an Academic Scholarship to Tonbridge School. Gemmill's paternal grandmother was from New Zealand. Career He is best known for his TV work, appearing in former Channel 5 soap opera ''Family Affairs'', '' Where the Heart Is'', BBC Three's ''Grass'' and Kay Mellor's drama series '' Strictly Confidential''. He also played DC Mitch Cowen in ''EastEnders'' in 2005. Another minor role was as an actor in a crime reconstr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristian Solimeno
Cristian David Solimeno (born 27 April 1975) is a British actor, writer and director. Personal life Solimeno was born in Hammersmith, London, England. He grew up in Paris and is of English and Italian descent via his father Ambrogio. Career He has played DC Dick Hall in the fifth and final series of '' Wycliffe'' in 1998, Jason Turner in ''Footballers' Wives'', and has also had a number of guest roles in other British television series, and appeared in the 2000 film '' Dead Babies'', 2005 Happy New Year special of ''The Vicar of Dibley'' and the 2006 series '' Strictly Confidential''. He was The Guardian in '' Highlander: The Source''. He starred alongside Philip Glenister, John Simm and Ashley Walters is the 2008 film ''Tu£sday''. In the same year he appeared in '' Perfect Hideout''. In 2011, Solimeno wrote and directed a feature film called ''The Glass Man'' starring Andy Nyman and James Cosmo. In 2013, he played Jonathan in ''The Bible'' TV Mini-Series. In 2013 and 2014, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Isitt
Kate Isitt is an English actress known for her role as beauty therapist Sally Harper in the BBC television situation comedy '' Coupling''. From 1995 to 1998, she played Alison, a secretary in a solicitors' office, in '' Is It Legal?''. Isitt had a minor part in the film of '' The Saint'' (1997). In 1998 she played alongside Alan Davies in "Black Canary", an episode of the BBC TV mystery series ''Jonathan Creek'' and as Davies's wife in a pilot episode of the BBC comedy, ''A Many Splintered Thing'' (of which a series was made in 2000, by which time Isitt had joined the cast of ''Coupling''). In the same year she appeared in Stephen Poliakoff's BBC TV drama, '' The Tribe'', with, among others, Anna Friel and Joely Richardson. She also appeared as a woman whose husband became a surrogate father in '' Strictly Confidential'' in 2006. In the same year, she played alongside Demi Moore in the Craig Rosenberg directed film, '' Half Light''. She plays Louisa in the BBC Radio 4 Sitcom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erotic Asphyxiation
Erotic asphyxiation (variously called asphyxiophilia, hypoxyphilia or breath control play) is the intentional restriction of oxygen to the brain for the purposes of sexual arousal. With a partner (or alone), the act often involves strangulation. The term autoerotic asphyxiation is used when the act is done by a person to themself. Colloquially, a person engaging in the activity is sometimes called a ''gasper''. Erotic asphyxiation can lead to accidental death due to asphyxia. The erotic interest in asphyxiation is classified as a paraphilia in the ''Diagnostic and Statistical Manual'' of the American Psychiatric Association. Physiology Concerning hallucinogenic states brought about by chronic hypoxia, Dr. E. L. Lloyd notes that they may be similar to the hallucinations experienced by climbers at altitude. He further notes that no such state occurs in hypoxia brought about by sudden aircraft decompression at altitude. These findings suggest to him that they do not arrive pure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eva Pope
Eva Rebecca Pope (born 16 November 1967) is an English actress, best known for her portrayal of longest-serving headmistress Rachel Mason in '' Waterloo Road'', and appearances in ''Coronation Street'', '' Dream Team'', '' Bad Girls'' and '' Hetty Feather''. Early life and education Eva Pope was born in Appley Bridge, Wigan, Lancashire on 16 November 1967. She trained to be an actress at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1988. Career Pope's first major role was playing the villainous Tanya Pooley in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' from 1993 to 1994. Since then, she has made appearances in ''Cold Feet'', ''The Bill'', '' Heartbeat'', '' Peak Practice'' (as Claire Brightwell), '' Men of the World'', ''Holby City'', '' Casualty'', '' Strictly Confidential'', '' Adventure Inc.'', ''Vincent'' (as Cathy Gallagher), '' Bad Girls'' as prison governess Frances Myers, ''Life on Mars'', '' Sorted'', '' Spooks: Code 9'' and the film '' Shadow Man''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 British Television Series Debuts
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics A six-sided polygon is a hexagon, one of the three regular polygons capable of tiling the plane. A hexagon also has 6 edges as well as 6 internal and external angles. 6 is the second smallest composite number. It is also the first number that is the sum of its proper divisors, making it the smallest perfect number. It is also the only perfect number that doesn't have a digital root of 1. 6 is the first unitary perfect number, since it is the sum of its positive proper unitary divisors, without including itself. Only five such numbers are known to exist. 6 is the largest of the four all-Harshad numbers. 6 is the 2nd superior highly composite number, the 2nd colossally abundant number, the 3rd triangular number, the 4th highly composite number, a pronic number, a congruent number, a harmonic divisor number, and a semiprime. 6 is also th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
