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Ashling O'Shea
Ashling O'Shea is a British-Irish actress. She initially completed a university degree in Theatre Studies with the intention of going into Theatre Therapy. O'Shea then trained and took acting classes whilst doing other jobs, and she began working with Little Fish Theatre, who gave her first acting role outside of university. From 2015 to 2021, O'Shea performed in various stage productions, including ''My Name is Rachel Corrie'', ''Keeping Faith'', ''Dear Children, Sincerely'', ''Eris'' and ''Run(a)way'', among others. O'Shea appeared in the short film ''Screening'' (2017) and made a guest appearance in the web series ''Bed&Bridget'' (2019). In 2021, she had a guest role in ''Temple (TV series), Temple'' and that same year she portrayed Ismene in the digital production of ''Antigone (Sophocles play), Antigone''. O'Shea was also cast as Rumi Joshi, a main character of the eight-part television series ''Rebel Cheer Squad'', which was released in 2022. From 2022 to 2024, O'Shea portraye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebel Cheer Squad
''Rebel Cheer Squad'' is a British teen thriller series that premiered on BBC iPlayer on 14 February 2022. The series acts as a spin-off series to ''Get Even'' (2020), both of which were adapted by Holly Phillips from the book series ''Don't Get Mad'' by Gretchen McNeil. ''Rebel Cheer Squad'', like its predecessor, focuses on a group of schoolgirls who form a group to expose bullies at their school. Cast Main * Renee Bailey as Leila Harris * Amelia Brooks as Grace Ellington * Lashay Anderson as Clara Harris * Ashling O'Shea as Rumi Joshi * Elliott Wooster as Sam Recurring * Asha Banks as Brooke * Kat Ronney as Viola * Don Gilet as Coach Harris * Aaron Garland as Reece * Olivia-Mai Barrett as Meg "Mouse" Beeman * Ramanique Ahluwalia as Jess * Ryan Quarmby as Miles * Kirsty Hoiles as Ms Carson * Niyi Akin as Evan Guest * Jessie Mae Alonzo as May * Jake Dunn as Christopher Development Following the premiere of ''Get Even'' on BBC iPlayer in 2020, production on a follow-up se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length Narrative film, narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niamh Blackshaw
Niamh Blackshaw is an English actress. She began her career appearing in television advertisements which included a national advertisement for Mr Kipling. She was then cast in the guest role of Lara Cutler in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' in 2017. Since 2018, she has portrayed the role of Juliet Nightingale in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'', for which she received a nomination for Best Newcomer at the ''Inside Soap'' Awards. Early and personal life Prior to studying acting, Blackshaw trained as a dancer, and at the age of eleven, she began attending Rossendale Dance and Drama Centre, where she completed her LAMDA and Trinity exams. She also attended Canon Slade School in Bolton, where she studied Latin for her A-Level exams, amongst other subjects. Blackshaw was interested in attending Cambridge University, until she pursued acting as a career. Blackshaw has Lyme disease. Career Blackshaw began her acting career appearing in television advertisements, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juliet Nightingale
Juliet Nightingale (also Quinn) is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera '' Hollyoaks'', played by Niamh Blackshaw. ''Hollyoaks'' announced the character and Blackshaw's casting on 4 September 2018, with the actress making her first appearance as Juliet on 21 November 2018. Juliet is introduced as the half-sister of Romeo Nightingale (Owen Warner) and the daughter of Donna-Marie Quinn ( Lucy-Jo Hudson) and was brought into the soap as part of the decision to expand their family. Juliet is later revealed to be Mac Nightingale's ( David Easter) daughter. The shock twist links her to the established Nightingale family, especially Marnie ( Lysette Anthony), who she forms a close bond with. Juliet is initially portrayed as an aggressive and harsh character, with an initial storyline seeing her bully Brooke Hathaway ( Tylan Grant) due to seeing them as an easy target. However, throughout her tenure, her vulnerable and emotional personality has been expl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre 503
Theatre503, formerly the Latchmere Theatre, is a theatre located at 503 Battersea Park Road in Battersea in the London Borough of Wandsworth, above the Latchmere pub. The venue is known for promoting the work of new writers. History The theatre was founded in 1982 as the Latchmere Theatre (the name taken from that of the pub downstairs), an offshoot of the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill Gate. It is a custom-built studio theatre. The opening production was a new adaptation of ''Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'', which proved so successful that the production transferred to the West End. In 2004 the theatre was renamed as Theatre503 under Artistic Director Paul Higgins, and became a home for new writing. In 2006 Paul Robinson and Tim Roseman were appointed as Artistic Directors with the brief of developing the theatre's profile. Robinson was sole Artistic Director from 2012 to 2016. Under Robinson and Roseman, the venue saw the premiere of works by writers including Duncan Macmill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hearst Communications
Hearst Communications, Inc., often referred to simply as Hearst, is an American multinational mass media and business information conglomerate based in Hearst Tower in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Hearst owns newspapers, magazines, television channels, and television stations, including the ''San Francisco Chronicle'', the ''Houston Chronicle'', '' Cosmopolitan'' and ''Esquire''. It owns 50% of the A&E Networks cable network group and 20% of the sports cable network group ESPN, both in partnership with The Walt Disney Company. The conglomerate also owns several business-information companies, including Fitch Ratings and First Databank. The company was founded by William Randolph Hearst as an owner of newspapers, and the Hearst family remains involved in its ownership and management. History The formative years In 1880, George Hearst, mining entrepreneur and U.S. senator, bought the '' San Francisco Daily Examiner.'' In 1887, he turned the ''Examiner'' over to his ... [...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 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 digiNews (1999) In early January 1999, Iain Chapman launched the digiNEWS 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 a lot of attention from visitors eager for more news about these rapidly developing TV platforms. Very soon Chapman and Butcher discussed the idea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaq Qureshi
''Hollyoaks'' is a British television soap opera that was first broadcast on 23 October 1995. The following is a list of characters that first appear in the show in 2021, by order of first appearance. All characters are introduced by the show's executive producer Bryan Kirkwood, or by his successor, Lucy Allan. Brad King (Tom Benedict Knight) made his debut in January as the boyfriend of Trish Minniver (Denise Welch). Shaq Qureshi (Omar Malik), the step-cousin of Sami Maalik (Rishi Nair), made his first appearance in March, as well as Fergus Collins ( Robert Beck). AJ and Curtis Pritchard also made guest appearances as Marco and Jacob, respectively. Timmy Simons (Sam Tutty) debuted in June as somebody working for Fergus. July saw the arrival of Becky Quentin (Katie McGlynn), a friend of Diane Hutchinson ( Alex Fletcher). Cathy Shipton joined the cast in August as Lydia Smith, the aunt of Luke Morgan (Gary Lucy). She was followed by Ali Shahzad (Raji James), the father of Shaq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newsquest
Newsquest Media Group Ltd. is the second largest publisher of regional and local newspapers in the United Kingdom. It is owned by the American mass media holding company Gannett. It has 205 brands across the UK, publishing online and in print (165 newspaper brands and 40 magazine brands) and reaches 28 million visitors a month online and 6.5 million readers a week in print. Based in London, Newsquest employs a total of more than 5,500 people across the UK. It also has a specialist arm that publishes both commercial and business-to-business (B2B) titles such as ''Insurance Times'', '' The Strad'', and '' Boxing News''. History Newsquest was founded in 1995 when U.S. private equity partnership Kohlberg Kravis Roberts financed a £210 million management buy-out of the Reed Regional Newspapers group of British papers from Reed Elsevier. In 1996 Newsquest swapped its Yorkshire titles for Johnston Press’s Bury, Lancashire area titles and £9.25 million, sold some of its titles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bolton News
''The Bolton News'' – formerly the ''Bolton Evening News'' – is a daily newspaper and news website covering the towns of Bolton and Bury in north-western England. Published each morning from Monday to Saturday and online every day, it is part of the Newsquest media group, a subsidiary of the U.S media giant Gannett Inc. Briefly ''The Bolton News'' has an approximate circulation of 7,589.Hold The Front Page On 11 September 2006 the ''Bolton Evening News'' became ''The Bolton News'', which saw the newspaper being sold from the morning onwards. It considered several names, including ''Bolton Daily News'' and ''Bolton News''. Newsquest bought these internet domain names in May 2006. The editor of ''The Bolton News'' is Richard Duggan (who also oversees ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolton School
Bolton School is an independent day school in Bolton, Greater Manchester. It comprises a co-educational nursery, co-educational infant school (ages 3–7), single sex junior schools (ages 7–11) and single sex senior schools including sixth forms (ages 11–18). With over 2,400 pupils, it is one of the largest independent day schools in the country. History Early history Established as Bolton Grammar School, it is not known exactly when the boys' school was founded although it is recorded in 1516. In 1525, William Shaw of Wigan sold land worth 33s 4d p.a. towards the maintenance of a schoolmaster to teach grammar in Bolton. In 1644, it was endowed by Robert Lever and so began the start of a long relationship with the Lever name. During the 17th Century, the school moved from its original Tudor building to new premises beside the Parish Church in Bolton. Bolton Girls' Day School was established on 1 October 1877 as one of the earliest public day schools for girls in the coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC IPlayer
BBC iPlayer (stylised as iPLAYER or BBC iPLAYER) is a video on demand service from the BBC. The service is available on a wide range of devices, including mobile phones and tablets, personal computers and smart televisions. iPlayer services delivered to UK-based viewers feature no commercial advertising. The terms BBC iPlayer, iPlayer, and BBC Media Player refer to various methods of viewing or listening to the same content. Viewing or recording live television broadcasts from any UK broadcaster or viewing BBC TV catch-up or BBC TV on-demand programmes in the UK without a Television licensing in the United Kingdom, TV licence is a criminal offence. In 2015, the BBC reported that it was moving towards playing audio and video content via open HTML5 standards in web browsers rather than via Flash or its Media Player mobile app. On 17 October 2018, the BBC iPlayer Radio brand was replaced with BBC Sounds. In 2019, the BBC improved the format quality, taking the highest available o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
