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Beyond Fear (film)
''Beyond Fear'' is a British television crime dramatisation, first broadcast on 30 March 1997, the opening night of Channel 5, that details the kidnap of estate agent Stephanie Slater by convicted murderer Michael Sams. The drama was adapted from Slater's acclaimed book of the same name by screenwriter Don Shaw, with Jenny Wilkes assigned to direct. ''Beyond Fear'' starred Gina McKee as Slater and Sylvester McCoy as Sams, with Judith Anthony, Kitty McGeever, Sally Rogers and Iain Rogerson also appearing in key roles. Gerard Gilbert of ''The Independent'' gave praise to ''Beyond Fear'', writing: "The undoubted jewel in Channel 5's rather wobbly opening-night crown. This is a fine, unsalacious reconstruction of Slater's brave cat-and-mouse encounter with her captor, and Gina McKee gives a convincing portrayal of a normal young woman in an intolerable situation. Former '' Doctor Who'' alumni Sylvester McCoy is gruffly menacing as Sams." 1.7 million viewers tuned it for the drama's ... [...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] |
Channel 5 (UK)
Channel 5 is a British free-to-air public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television channel launched in 1997. It is the fifth national terrestrial channel in the United Kingdom and is owned by Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of American media conglomerate Paramount Global, which is grouped under Paramount Networks UK & Australia division. During ownership by the RTL Group, it was branded as Five between 16 September 2002 and 13 February 2011. Richard Desmond purchased the channel from RTL on 23 July 2010, announcing plans to invest more money in programming and return to the name Channel 5 with immediate effect, and it was relaunched on 14 February 2011. On 1 May 2014 the channel was acquired by Viacom (2005–2019), Viacom (now Paramount Global) for £450 million (US$759 million). Channel 5 is a general entertainment channel that shows both internally commissioned programmes such as ''Amanda Owen, Our Yorkshire Far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Television Films
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Terence Beesley
Terence Beesley (7 September 1957 – 30 November 2017) was an English actor. Early life Born in London to Irish parents, he studied at the City Lit in London in 1980, and then trained as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Career Television His television work included '' Cadfael'', ''The Bill'', '' Where the Heart Is'', ''Heartbeat'', ''Midsomer Murders'', '' EastEnders'' (as Derek Branning in 1996), '' Casualty'', '' Down to Earth'', '' Plotlands'', '' Agatha Christie's Poirot'', '' She's Out'' and ''What Remains''. He starred in Peter Kosminsky's ''15, The Life and Death of Phillip Knight'', and played General Bennigsen in the BBC adaptation of ''War and Peace''. Theatre His stage work included British theatre performances as the title role in Shakespeare's ''Richard III'' (1995) and as the Vicomte de Valmont in '' Les Liaisons Dangereuses'' (1994) for multi Barrymore award winner director Mark Clements and his own adaptation (with Colin Wakefiel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Alexander (actor)
Bruce John Alexander (born 28 May 1946) is a British actor, best known for his portrayal of Superintendent Norman Mullett in the ITV television series ''A Touch of Frost'', in which he plays the superior of the main character Jack Frost, played by David Jason. Career Alexander was born in Watford, Hertfordshire, and has appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He played Ferdinand in the 1989 production of John Webster's ''The Duchess of Malfi''. In November 2016, he was in a "Read Not Dead" performance of Beaumont and Fletcher's The Coxcomb at the Sam Wanamaker theatre on Bankside. In 1990, he appeared as a doctor in the first episode of the comedy ''Keeping Up Appearances'' (entitled "Daddy's Accident"), and has also featured in episodes of numerous TV series, including ''The Bill'', '' Casualty'', '' EastEnders'', ''Midsomer Murders'' and ''Doc Martin''. In 1997, Alexander had a small role in the James Bond film '' Tomorrow Never Dies''. In 2013, he played the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Di Sherlock
Di or DI may refer to: Arts and media Music * Di, a tone in the solfège ascending chromatic scale existing between Do and Re * dizi (instrument) or di, a Chinese transverse flute * ''D.I.'' (band), a punk band from Southern California ** ''D.I.'' (EP), a 1983 EP by the same band above Other media * '' The D.I.'', 1957 military film by Jack Webb * '' Dagens Industri'', a Swedish financial newspaper * DI.FM, an internet radio service Businesses and organisations * Defence Intelligence, a UK military intelligence agency * Defensa Interior, an anti-Franco militant anarchist group in 1960s Spain * Deseret Industries, an LDS thrift store * Desert Inn, a former casino in Las Vegas * Direction Italy, a liberal-conservative political party in Italy * Dirgantara Indonesia, an Indonesian aircraft company * Discovery Institute, an intelligent design advocacy group * Norwegian Air UK, a UK based airline (IATA designator) * DynCorp International, a major United States defense contractor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Mason (actor)
Robert William Mason (29 July 1951 – 21 September 2004) was a British actor and writer, born in Rochdale, Lancashire. Throughout 1976 he played Terry Bradshaw in ''Coronation Street'' and later as Sergeant Eddie Slater in '' The Lakes'' in 1997. He also had a regular role in '' Casualty'' during the early 2000s. Mason also appeared in '' The Bill'', ''Felicia's Journey'', '' Doctors'', '' Where the Heart Is'', '' Black Box'', '' The Missing Postman'', '' Between the Lines'', '' Juliet Bravo'', '' Peak Practice'', '' Clocking Off'', '' Teachers'', '' Cutting It'', and '' Dalziel and Pascoe'' episode " Under World". During the 1980s he concentrated on writing, scripting the plays ''Love in Vain'' and ''Working Class Hero'' in 1982 and 1983 respectively. Between 1981 and 1989 he penned scripts for Coronation Street ''Coronation Street'' is an English soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960. The programme centres around a cobbled, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True Entertainment
True Entertainment was a former British free-to-air television channel that was launched on 3 August 2009, replacing Showcase TV. The change was originally scheduled to happen on 1 July 2009, but a late change put the change "on hold until further notice". Whilst the bulk of its programming were movies, similar to sister channels True Movies 1 and True Movies 2, the channel aimed to establish itself as a general entertainment channel. Its licence first appeared on the Ofcom website in January 2007 (initially named "Toon TV", this was changed to "AnimeCentral" in June 2007, to "True Entertainment" in June 2008, and to "Showcase TV" on 26 August 2008. It then changed back to "True Entertainment" on 10 June 2009. Its logo is the same as the True Movies 1 and True Movies 2. On 5 July 2010, True Entertainment was launched on Freesat. On 1 March 2011, True Entertainment launched on Virgin Media. True Entertainment was launched on Freeview channel 61, with the exception of trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilisations, and helps people in need. Beginning with William Hartnell, thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; in 2017, Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to officially play the role on television. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the series with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation, a plot device in which a Time Lord "transforms" into a new body when the current one is too badly harmed to heal normally. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was published on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only the online edition. The newspaper was controlled by Tony O'Reilly's Irish Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to the Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer Alexander Lebedev in 2010. In 2017, Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel bought a 30% stake in it. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. The website and mobile app had a combined monthly reach of 19,826,000 in 2021. History 1986 to 1990 Launched in 1986, the first issue of ''The Independent'' was published on 7 October in broadsheet format.Dennis Griffiths (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 330 It was prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Shaw (screenwriter)
Don Shaw is a British screenwriter and playwright. His credits include '' Survivors'', '' Doomwatch'', ''Orde Wingate'', and ''Bomber Harris''.''Derby Telegraph'' (20 June 2009)"No big screen return for Cloughie" Retrieved 13 January 2013. Shaw stated that before he took on writing for ''Survivors'', 'I was very much an up-and-coming hot-shot writer. I was being sought after by ''The Wednesday Play'' and ''Play for Today ''Play for Today'' is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stag ...'' and things like that.' Awards In 1990 Shaw was nominated for a Bafta for his work on the TV film ''Bomber Harris''. References External links * British male screenwriters Living people English television writers English science fiction writers British science fiction writers 1934 births British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Sams
Michael Benneman Sams (born 11 August 1941) is an English kidnapper, extortionist and murderer. He kidnapped Julie Dart in July 1991 and later murdered her following her attempted escape. He subsequently kidnapped Stephanie Slater in January 1992, eventually releasing her after payment of a ransom. Slater was also raped during her imprisonment by Sams. After Sams was convicted and imprisoned, he attacked a female probation officer. He also became known for his attempts to sue the prison, initially successfully, for losing his artificial leg, and then because his bed was too hard. Life Michael Sams was born and raised in Keighley, West Riding of Yorkshire. He joined the Merchant Navy at the age of 20. After three years, he returned to Keighley and worked as a lift engineer, graduating to become a central heating engineer, later establishing his own company.Kirby, Terry, "The Michael Sams Trial: Train spotter's obsession left chain of clues", ''The Independent'', 9 July 1993. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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