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As If (British TV Series)
''As If'' is a British comedy-drama programme broadcast on E4 and later on Channel 4. There were 76 episodes across four series, the first broadcast on 22 January 2001 and the last on 31 July 2004. Premise The series focused on six young adults who lived in London. Each episode was presented from a different character's point of view, which up to that point in time had never been done before in a comedy-drama television programme. ''As If'' was one of the flagship launch programmes of E4, the new pay entertainment channel from Channel 4. The programme's success saw it move to the main channel. The programme had a cult following and received critical acclaim. It was considered groundbreaking and was compared to another British serial drama ''Hollyoaks''. Part of the programme's identity was the style, such as surreal fly-on-the-wall style camera work, fast camera transitions, wacky sound effects added to some scenes and the distinctive theme music (the tune "Would you...?" by t ... [...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] |
The Blair Witch Project
''The Blair Witch Project'' is a 1999 American psychological horror film written, directed, and edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez. One of the most successful independent films of all time, it is a " found footage" pseudo-documentary in which three students ( Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, and Joshua Leonard) hike into the Black Hills near Burkittsville, Maryland, to shoot a documentary about a local myth known as the Blair Witch. Myrick and Sánchez conceived of a fictional legend of the Blair Witch in 1993. They developed a 35-page screenplay with the dialogue to be improvised. A casting call advertisement on '' Backstage'' magazine was prepared by the directors; Donahue, Williams, and Leonard were cast. The film entered production in October 1997, with the principal photography lasting eight days. Most of the filming was done on the Greenway Trail along Seneca Creek in Montgomery County, Maryland. About 20 hours of footage was shot, which was edite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Monaco
Gerard Monaco is a British actor who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Monaco's first film was Mike Leigh's ''Vera Drake''. He has since had roles in movies including Dame Jane Campion's ''Bright Star'' Jerry Bruckheimer's '' Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides'' (directed by Rob Marshall), and ''Starter for Ten''. Monaco's theatre career includes Lindsay Posner's 2009 revival of Arthur Miller's ''A View From the Bridge'', in which Monaco made his West End debut playing Marco, opposite Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Ken Stott and Hayley Atwell. He has appeared in a number of plays at London's National Theatre, including Steven Pimlott's final production, Tennessee Williams's ''The Rose Tattoo'' starring Zoë Wanamaker (Pimlott died in the second week of rehearsals and artistic director Nicholas Hytner took over as director). He has also played opposite Lesley Manville in the premier of Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s play, '' Her Naked Skin'' (directed by Howard Dav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Sinclair (actor)
Adam Sinclair (born 18 April 1977) is a Scottish actor. He is best known for his role as Jason Jackson in ''Boyz Unlimited and'' starred in the television series ''Mile High'' and has appeared in supporting roles in films like ''National Lampoon's Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj, Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj''. Personal life Sinclair is originally from East Kilbride, Scotland. He met his wife, Michelle Kath, in Hawaii while working on the set of ''To End All Wars''. Michelle is the daughter of Terry Kath, a founding member of the rock band Chicago (band), Chicago, former stepdaughter of actor Kiefer Sutherland, and older half-sister of Sarah Sutherland. Selected filmography * ''Boyz Unlimited'' as Jason Jackson (1999) * ''To End All Wars'' as John (2001) * ''Hollyoaks: Movin' On'' as Jake (2001) * ''As If (British TV series), As If'' as Dan Parker (11 episodes between 2001 and 2002) * ''Mile High'' as Will O'Brien (38 episodes between 2003 and 2005) * ''Holby City'' as Alan Thom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Wilson-Jones
Anna Wilson-Jones (born 8 October 1970) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Juliet Miller in the television series '' Hotel Babylon'' and main character Tim Bisley's ex-girlfriend Sarah in the series ''Spaced''. Acting career In 1999, she appeared as Katie May in the six part mockumentary '' Boyz Unlimited''. In 2000, she appeared as Sandra Harrison in the last episode of ''Inspector Morse'', "The Remorseful Day". From 2004 to 2005, she was in the Sky One television series '' Hex'', as Jo Watkins, and in 2006 the Channel 4 adaptation of the novel '' Sugar Rush'', as Anna. She has also appeared in '' As If'', '' Monarch of the Glen'', '' Wonderful You'', '' Waterloo Road'', ''Rosemary & Thyme'' in 2003 in the episode The language of flowers and '' Ashes to Ashes''. Wilson-Jones has also featured in ''Midsomer Murders'' in 2013, the ITV parapsychology drama ''afterlife'' in which she plays Jude Bridge, the former wife of Robert Bridge (played by Andrew Lincol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Poets Society
''Dead Poets Society'' is a 1989 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman. The film, starring Robin Williams, is set in 1959 at a fictional elite boarding school called Welton Academy, and tells the story of an English teacher who inspires his students through his teaching of poetry. ''Dead Poets Society'' was released in the United States on June 2, 1989. The film was a critical and commercial success, receiving generally positive reviews from critics and grossing $235.9 million worldwide against a $16.4 million budget, becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 1989. The film received numerous accolades, including Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Director, as well as a Best Actor nomination for Williams. The film won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, the César Award for Best Foreign Film and the David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Film. Schulman received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Wars
''Star Wars'' is an American epic film, epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the Star Wars (film), eponymous 1977 film and Cultural impact of Star Wars, quickly became a worldwide popular culture, pop culture phenomenon. The franchise has been expanded into List of Star Wars films, various films and Star Wars expanded to other media, other media, including List of Star Wars television series, television series, Star Wars video games, video games, List of Star Wars books, novels, List of Star Wars comic books, comic books, List of Star Wars theme parks attractions, theme park attractions, and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, themed areas, comprising Universe of Star Wars, an all-encompassing fictional universe. ''Star Wars'' is one of the List of highest-grossing media franchises, highest-grossing media franchises of all time. The original 1977 film, retroactively subtitled ''Star Wars (film), Episode IV: A New Hope'', was followed by the sequels ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Five Colours In Her Hair
"5 Colours in Her Hair" is the debut single by English pop rock band McFly, released on 29 March 2004 as both the lead single from and the opening track of their debut album '' Room on the 3rd Floor''. Written by Tom Fletcher, James Bourne, Danny Jones and Ben Sargeant, the track is especially well known for its "Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo!" lyrics at both the beginning and the ending of the song, with the music itself being indebted to 1960s surf and beat music, and was inspired by Susan Lee, a character played by actress Emily Corrie in the TV series '' As If'', who wore coloured dreadlocks. The CD and 7-inch formats feature a duet with Busted singing a cover of the Kinks The Kinks were an English rock band formed in London in 1963 by brothers Ray Davies, Ray and Dave Davies, and Pete Quaife. They are regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s. The band emerged during the height of British ... song "Lola (song), Lola". The track debuted atop the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McFly (band)
McFly are a British pop rock band formed in London in 2003. The band took their name from the ''Back to the Future'' character Marty McFly. The band consists of Tom Fletcher (lead vocals, guitar, and piano), Danny Jones (lead vocals, harmonica, and guitar), Dougie Poynter (bass guitar, vocals) and Harry Judd (drums). They were signed to Island Records from their 2004 launch until December 2007, before creating their own label, Super Records. McFly rose to fame after fellow band Busted, with whom they later formed McBusted, helped launch them by inviting them to tour in 2004. In 2005, they won the Brit Award for Best British Pop Act. McFly's debut album, '' Room on the 3rd Floor'', debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart and is certified as double platinum; this led to them taking the record, in the ''Guinness Book of Records'', as being the youngest band ever to have an album debut at number one—a title taken from the Beatles. A month after the album was released, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreadlocks
Dreadlocks, also known as dreads or locs, are a Hairstyle, hairstyle made of rope-like strands of matted hair. Dreadlocks can form naturally in Hair#Texture, very curly hair, or they can be created with techniques like twisting, Backcombing, backcombing, or crochet. Etymology The word ''dreadlocks'' is usually understood to come from Jamaican Creole ''dread'', "member of the Rastafari, Rastafarian movement who wears his hair in dreadlocks" (compare Nazirite), referring to their fear of God, dread or awe of God. An older name for dreadlocks was ''Wiktionary:elflock, elflocks'', from the notion that elf, elves had matted the locks in people's sleep. Other origins have been proposed. Some authors trace the term to the Mau Mau rebellion, Mau Mau, a group of whom apparently coined it from British Empire, British colonialists in 1959 as a reference to their dreadful hair. In their 2014 book ''Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America'', Ayana Byrd and Lori Tharps cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UHI Millennium Institute
The University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) () is an integrated, tertiary institution encompassing both further and higher education. It is composed of 10 colleges and research institutions spread around Inverness, the Highlands and Islands, Moray and Perthshire regions of Scotland. UHI offers further education, undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes which can be studied at a range of locations across the area and online. It has 31,000 students, including 19,779 further education students and 11,210 higher education students. History While UHI is Scotland's newest university, many of its 10 colleges and research institutions have longer histories, the earliest having been founded in the 19th century. The UHI network has had a unique structure and the way that it has evolved as a multi-campus institution has been constrained by a legislative framework that deals with further and higher education separately. Technology has played an important part in connecting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
