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Babs (2017 Film)
''Babs'' is a BBC biopic about the life of British actress Dame Barbara Windsor. Details of the film were announced by Charlotte Moore, the BBC's Acting Director of Television, on 26 May 2016, a week after Windsor made her final appearance in ''EastEnders'' as the long-running character Peggy Mitchell. The film, written by ''EastEnders'' scriptwriter Tony Jordan, shows Windsor in the 1990s as she prepares to go on stage and recalls events from her life, including her childhood and marriage to gangster Ronnie Knight, as well as her rise to fame as part of the '' Carry On'' cast. It was broadcast on 7 May 2017, to coincide with Windsor's 80th birthday. Upon the announcement of the project, Windsor spoke of her delight that Jordan had been chosen to write the screenplay: "Tony knows the real me and what makes me tick and I was particularly taken by the way he wants to tell my tale which is not in the way people will expect it to be. ..I am honoured and excited that Tony and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Jordan
Tony Jordan (born 21 July 1957) is a British television writer. For many years, he was lead writer and series consultant for BBC One soap opera ''EastEnders''. He has written over 250 episodes for the programme since 1989, including the 2008 Single-hander (EastEnders), single-hander "Pretty Baby....". He created the series ''Hustle (TV series), Hustle'', ''HolbyBlue'', ''City Central (TV series), City Central'', ''Moving Wallpaper'', ''Echo Beach (TV series), Echo Beach'', ''The Nativity (TV series), The Nativity'', ''The Passing Bells'' and ''Dickensian (TV series), Dickensian'', and co-created ''Life on Mars (British TV series), Life on Mars'' and ''By Any Means (2013 TV series), By Any Means''. Career Beginning his career as a market trader, Jordan began writing at the age of thirty-two. He joined ''EastEnders'' after sending a spec script to the BBC about market traders, with a covering letter saying he had been born and raised in the East End of London. The BBC turned down ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Moran
Nick Moran (born 23 December 1969) is an English actor and filmmaker. His roles include Eddie the card sharp in ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'' and as List of Harry Potter characters#S 2, Scabior in ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1'' and ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Part 2''. Early life Moran was born in the East End of London, to a hairdresser mother and an The Automobile Association, Automobile Association worker father. He grew up on the South Oxhey council estate near Watford and the Greater London boundary. Career Film Moran's first hit film appearance was in 1990 alongside Roger Daltrey and Chesney Hawkes, in ''Buddy's Song (film), Buddy's Song'' (1990). His first lead role was later that year, in Vera Neubauer's ''Don't Be Afraid'' (1990). He then went on to star with Britpack waifs Hans Matheson and Samantha Morton in a Coky Giedroyc short, ''The Future Lasts a Long Time'' (1996). In ''Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 In British Television
This is a list of events that took place in 2017 relating to Television in the United Kingdom. Events January February March April May June July August September October November December Debuts BBC ITV Channel 4 Channel 5 Other channels Channels and streaming services New channels Defunct channels Television shows Changes of network affiliation Returning this year after a break of one year or longer Continuing television shows 1920s 1930s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Ending this year Deaths See also * 2017 in British music * 2017 in British radio * 2017 in the United Kingdom References External links List of 2017 British television series at IMDb {{Years in TV by country, 2017 2017 in British television, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantabulosa!
''Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!'' is a 2006 BBC Four television play starring Michael Sheen as the British comic actor Kenneth Williams, based on Williams' own diaries. Cheryl Campbell plays Williams's mother, Lou. Michael Sheen performed extensive research for the role, watching archive footage and reading books. He also followed the cabbage soup diet to lose to play Williams. Viewing figures were 860,000 for its original airing, including timeshift, making it by far the most popular BBC Four broadcast of March 2006. Its repeat showing on 17 March 2006 garnered another 252,000 viewers. Sheen's performance won a Royal Television Society Award for Best Male Actor,RTS programme awards – winners 14 March 2007, |
Hattie (film)
''Hattie'' is a television film about the life of British comic actress Hattie Jacques, played by Ruth Jones, her marriage to John Le Mesurier (Robert Bathurst) and her affair with their lodger John Schofield (Aidan Turner). First broadcast in January 2011, it became the most watched programme on BBC Four ever and outdid biopic '' The Curse of Steptoe'', which had held the record since 2008. Jacques' son Robin Le Mesurier later described Jones' performance as "(having) captured my mother perfectly". Cast * Ruth Jones as Hattie Jacques * Robert Bathurst as John Le Mesurier * Aidan Turner as John Schofield * Jeany Spark as Joan Malin * Jay Simpson as Bruce * Graham Fellows as Eric Sykes * Marcia Warren as Esma Cannon * Stephen Critchlow as Gerald Thomas * Susy Kane as Young Actress * Lewis MacLeod as Eamonn Andrews * Brian Pettifer Brian Pettifer (born 1 January 1953) is a Scottish actor who has appeared in many television shows, and also on stage and in film. He is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British Newspaper#Daily, daily Newspaper#National, national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its modern name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821), are published by Times Media, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' were founded independently and have had common ownership only since 1966. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. ''The Times'' was the first newspaper to bear that name, inspiring numerous other papers around the world. In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as or , although the newspaper is of national scope and distribution. ''The Times'' had an average daily circulation of 365,880 in March 2020; in the same period, ''The Sunday Times'' had an average weekly circulation of 647,622. The two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Billen
Andrew William Scott Billen (born 30 December 1957) is a British journalist, children's author, and staff feature writer on ''The Times'' newspaper. Early life Andrew Billen was born in London on 30 December 1957 and brought up in Brentwood, Essex. He attended Brentwood School from 1965 to 1977, which at the time was still a direct grant grammar school. He gained a BA in English from Christ Church, Oxford in 1980. Career Billen started on newspapers at the ''Sheffield Star'', a daily newspaper across South Yorkshire. From 1984 he was a writer on the Times Diary for ''The Times'' and became the paper's arts correspondent in 1988. In 1989 he moved to ''The Observer''. In 1997 he joined the London ''Evening Standard'' as chief interviewer. He returned to ''The Times'' in 2002, where he wrote the weekly "The Andrew Billen Interview" for five years. He was the paper's main television reviewer from 2007 to 2017. For ten years up to 2007 he worked in a freelance capacity as the ''N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as ''The Daily Telegraph and Courier''. ''The Telegraph'' is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", was included in its emblem which was used for over a century starting in 1858. In 2013, ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph'', which started in 1961, were merged, although the latter retains its own editor. It is politically conservative and supports the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. It was moderately Liberalism, liberal politically before the late 1870s.Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalismp 159 ''The Telegraph'' has had a number of news scoops, including the outbreak of World War II by rookie reporter Clare Hollingworth, desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chitra Ramaswamy
Chitra Ramaswamy is a British journalist of South Asian descent. Her books are ''Homelands: The History of a Friendship'', published by Canongate Books, and ''Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy'', published by Saraband. Ramaswamy is currently a restaurant critic in Scotland for the Alba supplement in the Scottish edition of ''The Sunday Times''. She was one of the Guardian's TV reviewers. Biography Ramaswamy grew up in Richmond, London. She has a BA in English Literature from University of Glasgow. She is bisexual and lives in Edinburgh, Scotland with her partner Claire and two children. Awards and honours In 2016, Ramaswamy won a Scottish first book award: Saltire Society Literary Awards' First Book of the Year Award. and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize In 2022, ''Homelands: The History of a Friendship'' was listed by The Guardian as one of its memoirs of 2022. and the Saltire Society Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Books * ''Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrissie Watts
Chrissie Watts is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', played by Tracy-Ann Oberman. She first appeared on 29 April 2004 and transpired to be the second wife of the show's "most enduring character", Den Watts (Leslie Grantham) - and thus became a prominent regular for the next 18 months. In 2005, Chrissie was the focus of one of "the programme's biggest and most high-profile narratives" when she killed her husband in self-defence at the end of the special 20th anniversary episode. The broadcast, airing on 18 February, was watched by 14.34 million people - with "almost 60% of possible viewers" tuning in to see Chrissie killing Den. The character was credited by former head of BBC Drama Serials, Mal Young, as "anchoring the success of the anniversary storyline", and was described on the news programme ''BBC Breakfast'' as the "centrepiece" of the show, with the on-screen drama playing out over the course of 2005 and culminating in Chrissie's departure on 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Den Watts
Den Watts is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', played by actor Leslie Grantham. He became well known for his tabloid nickname, "Dirty Den". Den was the original landlord of The Queen Victoria public house from Albert Square who first appeared when the show debuted on 19 February 1985. From then onwards, the character had a turbulent marriage with his alcoholic first wife Angie Watts, Angie (Anita Dobson). In 1986, Den discovers that Angie lied to him about having six months to live and got revenge by giving her divorce papers on Christmas Day 1986, which was watched by over 30 million viewers. Den continued his close relationship with their adopted daughter Sharon Watts, Sharon (Letitia Dean). Den soon became involved in storylines that mostly contributed to the character's magnanimous and "bad boy" persona, such as Den impregnating 16-year-old Michelle Fowler (Susan Tully) – which resulted in a long-standing feud with Michelle's mother Pauline Fowle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carry On Camping
''Carry On Camping'' is a 1969 British comedy film, the 17th release in the series of 31 ''Carry On'' films (1958–1992). It features series regulars Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Terry Scott, Hattie Jacques, Barbara Windsor, Bernard Bresslaw, Dilys Laye and Peter Butterworth. The film was followed by '' Carry On Again Doctor'' in December 1969. Plot Sid Boggle and his friend Bernie Lugg are partners in a plumbing business. They take their girlfriends, prudish Joan Fussey and meek Anthea Meeks, to the cinema to see a film about a nudist camp called Paradise. Sid has the idea of the four of them holidaying there, reasoning that in that environment their chaste girlfriends will relax their strict moral standards. Despite having reservations, Bernie agrees to co-operate with Sid in the scheme, which they attempt to keep secret from the girls. They travel to a campsite named Paradise. After paying the membership fees to the owner, money-grabbing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
