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Bonekickers
''Bonekickers'' is a BBC drama about a team of archaeologists, set at the fictional Wessex University. It made its début on 8 July 2008 and ran for one series. It was written by ''Life on Mars'' and '' Ashes to Ashes'' creators Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharoah. It was produced by Michele Buck and Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen Ltd and co-produced with Monastic Productions. Archaeologist and Bristol University academic Mark Horton acted as the series' archaeological consultant. Adrian Lester has described the programme as "'' CSI'' meets ''Indiana Jones'' ..There's an element of the crime procedural show, there's science, conspiracy theories—and there's a big underlying mystery that goes through the whole six-episode series." Much of the series was filmed in the City of Bath, Somerset, with locations including the University of Bath campus (which does not offer Archaeology courses). Additional locations included Brean Down Fort and Kings Weston House (both for episo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Strong (director)
James Strong is a British television and film director and writer, best known for his work on ''Broadchurch'' for which he was BAFTA-nominated for Best Director Fiction 2015. He trained at Granada TV and has directed episodes of the shows ''Holby City'' and '' Doctors'', as well as seven episodes of ''Doctor Who'' and two episodes of its spin-off series '' Torchwood''. His work on the ''Doctor Who'' episode "Voyage of the Damned" won him a BAFTA Cymru award for Best Director in 2008. He also directed the 2024 Peabody Award winning series Mr Bates vs The Post Office. Professional In 2007, he directed the autobiographical documentary '' Elton John: Me, Myself & I'' and in 2008 he directed three episodes of '' Bonekickers''. He then directed '' Hunted'' and ''Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story'' and '' Silent Witness'' in 2010 followed by the feature film '' United'' and ''Downton Abbey'' in 2011. He was lead director and associate producer on ''Broadchurch'', which won s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Graham
Matthew Graham is a British television writer, and the co-creator of the BBC/Kudos (production company), Kudos Film and Television science fiction series ''Life on Mars (UK TV series), Life on Mars'', which debuted in 2006 on BBC One and has received international critical acclaim. Career Graham began his career writing for the Children's ITV bicycle courier teen drama ''Streetwise'' in 1990, co-penning every episode of its second and third series. Following this, he moved to the BBC to write for fellow children's dramas ''Byker Grove'' and ''The Biz (TV series), The Biz'', as well as ''EastEnders''. Graham then wrote for the popular BBC Two drama series ''This Life (1996 TV series), This Life'', and created and wrote the post-apocalyptic drama serial ''The Last Train (TV series), The Last Train'' for ITV Network, ITV. He also wrote episodes for ''Spooks (TV series), Spooks'' and ''Hustle (TV series), Hustle'', and "Fear Her", an episode of the Doctor Who (series 2), 2006 series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Graham
Julie Graham (born 24 July 1965) is a Scottish actress from Irvine, Ayrshire. Her credits include ''Taggart'' (1986), '' The Fruit Machine'' (1988), ''Nuns on the Run'' (1990), '' Harry'' (1993–1995), '' The Near Room'' (1995), '' Preaching to the Perverted'' (1997), '' Bedrooms and Hallways'' (1998), '' Some Voices'' (2000), '' At Home with the Braithwaites'' (2000–2003), ''William and Mary'' (2003–2005), '' Bonekickers'' (2008), '' Doc Martin'' (2011), ''Tower Block'' (2012), ''The Bletchley Circle'' (2013), ''Shetland'' (2014–2022), ''Benidorm'' (2016–2018), ''Doctor Who'' (2020), '' Queens of Mystery'' (2019–2021), ''Midsomer Murders'' (2013,2023), '' Ridley'' (2023), and '' This City Is Ours'' (2025). Early life Graham was born on 24 July 1965, in Irvine, Ayrshire, Scotland. She was raised by her mother Betty who died from lung cancer at age 50 when Julie was a teenager. Career Graham has appeared in the Channel 4 ''Blood Red Roses'' (1986, filmed in East Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Nicholls (actor)
Gerard Paul Greenhalgh (born 12 April 1979), known professionally as Paul Nicholls, is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Joe Wicks (EastEnders), Joe Wicks in the BBC One, BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', DS Sam Casey in the ITV1, ITV drama ''Law & Order: UK'', and Steve Bell (Ackley Bridge), Steve Bell in the Channel 4 drama ''Ackley Bridge.'' Career Nicholls made his television debut in 1990 at the age of 10, in ''Children's Ward''. In 1994, he appeared in the BBC children's drama ''Earthfasts (TV series), Earthfasts'' and ''The Biz (TV series), The Biz'', a teenage performing arts drama filmed at Hampton Court. In 1996, he appeared in an episode of ''Out of the Blue (1995 TV series), Out of the Blue''. Later that year, Nicholls began portraying the role of Joe Wicks (EastEnders), Joe Wicks in the BBC One, BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', a role which he played until 1997, and a cameo appearance in 2024. Nicholls appeared in several teenage stage roles, notably as Ala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Pharoah
Ashley Pharoah (born 13 September 1959) is a British screenwriter and television producer. He is best known as the co-creator/writer of the successful drama series ''Life on Mars'', which began on BBC One in 2006, and creator/writer of the family drama '' Wild at Heart'', which aired on ITV1 from 2006 until 2012. Early life attended Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, an independent school in Bristol. Career began his television writing career on the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' in 1991, on which he worked for four years and where he met co-writer Matthew Graham. He went on in 1994–1995 to contribute five episodes to the popular BBC One drama series ''Casualty'' and four episodes to ''Silent Witness'' (1996).Monastic Productions biography For [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Lester
Adrian Anthony Lester (born Anthony Harvey on 14 August 1968) is a British actor. He is the recipient of a Laurence Olivier Award, an Evening Standard Theatre Award and a Critics' Circle Theatre Award for his work on the London stage, and has also been nominated for a Tony Award. Early life and education Lester was born on 14 August 1968 in Birmingham, the son of Jamaican immigrants, Monica, a medical secretary, and Reginald, a manager for a contract cleaning company. From the age of 9, Lester sang as a boy treble in the choir of St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham. At 14, he began acting with the Birmingham Youth Theatre. After leaving Archbishop Masterson RC School, Lester attended Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College for one year, before winning a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1986, at which he completed three years of training, graduating in 1989. Career Theatre Lester received an Ian Charleson Award commendation and a Time Out Award for h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brean Down Fort
Brean Down Fort was a Victorian naval fortification designed to protect the Bristol Channel. It was built above sea level on the headland at Brean Down, south of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England. The site has a long history because of its prominent position. The earliest recorded settlement is from the Early to Middle Bronze Age. The current buildings were constructed in the 1860s as one of the Palmerston Forts to provide protection to the ports of the Bristol Channel, and was decommissioned in 1901. During World War II it was rearmed and used for experimental weapons testing. The site has been owned by the National Trust since 2002, following a £431,000 renovation project, as part of its Brean Down property and is open to the public. The fort was used as a location for filming of the second episode, "Warriors", of the BBC television drama '' Bonekickers''. The fort was also used for exterior scenes of the Royal Marines attack on the villains base on Cragfest Island in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Horton (archaeologist)
Mark Chatwin Horton, FSA, (born 15 February 1956) is a British maritime and historical archaeologist, television presenter, and writer. Academic career Horton attended Peterhouse, Cambridge, graduating and receiving a doctorate. He is Professor of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage at the Royal Agricultural University in Cirencester, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Bristol. One of his former students is the archaeologist and television presenter Sam Willis. He is part of a project to establish the Cultural Heritage Institute in the former Great Western Railway carriage works at Swindon, offering research and masters training from 2020. He has conducted excavations in Zanzibar, Egypt, the Caribbean, North America, Central America and France, as well as sites in Britain. His chief publications are on the Swahili site of Shanga, Kenya, between 1980 and 1986 and more recently sites on the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, notably Tumbatu, Ras Mkumbuu, Mtambwe Mkuu and C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mammoth Screen Ltd
Mammoth Screen Limited is a UK-based production company that was established in 2007 by Michele Buck and Damien Timmer. It produces drama for key UK broadcasters, especially ITV, and international distribution. ITV announced on 1 June 2015 that it had acquired Mammoth Screen, which is now part of ITV Studios. Productions North Korean hacking allegations In October 2017 it was reported that an upcoming drama about a British nuclear scientist taken prisoner in North Korea, commissioned by Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation. It is state-owned enterprise, publicly owned but, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is funded en ... and with the working title ''Opposite Number'', had caused the production company's computer network to be targeted by North Korean hackers. The project was subsequently shelved. References External links *Mammoth Screen on IMD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chavenage House
Chavenage House, Tetbury, Gloucestershire is an English country house. A Grade I listed building, it is described in the ''Gloucestershire: Cotswolds'' volume of the Pevsner Buildings of England series as "the ideal sixteenth-century Cotswold stone manor house". History The estate of Chavenage was sold to Edward Stephens of Eastington in Gloucestershire in 1564. He built the house in the Elizabethan style, the then-current early Renaissance architecture, adding large windows to the south of the porch. Much of the glass was obtained from redundant religious buildings such as nearby Horsley Priory, following the Dissolution of the Monasteries a generation earlier. On Edward's death in 1587, the estate passed to his son, Richard Stephens of Eastington. On Richard's death in 1599, the estate passed to his son Nathaniel Stephens, then only ten years old. When the Civil War tore the country apart in the 1640s, Stephens and Chavenage were Parliamentarians or Roundheads, on the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheldon Manor
Sheldon Manor near Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, is Wiltshire's oldest inhabited manor house and dates back to Anglo-Saxon times. Its structure is mostly 17th-century, and it is a Grade I listed building. History The medieval settlement of Sheldon, first mentioned in 803, no longer exists, having been deserted by 1582; a 1976 survey confirmed its remains to lie to the rear of the Manor, which itself stands on the site of an older habitation known as " The Holloway". The manor of Sheldon was granted to Sir William de Beauvilain in about 1180; on his death, as a Norman, it was forfeit to The Crown as an escheat and then granted to the de Godarville family in 1231 by Henry III. In 1250 it passed to Sir Geoffrey Gascelyn on his marriage to Joan de Godarville. In 1424 the Manor was sold to Sir Walter Hungerford, and after some time was eventually granted to Catherine Parr temporarily until the Hungerford heir achieved majority. For many years, the property was tenanted until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Rhys
Paul Rhys (born 19 December 1963) is a Welsh actor with an extensive career in theatre, radio, television and film. Early life Rhys was born in Neath to working-class Catholic parents, Kathryn Ivory and Richard Charles Rhys, a labourer. He is of part- Irish descent on his mother's side. From the age of ten, he bred and trained horses, becoming a highly accomplished rider. A committed punk during his youth, Rhys sang in several bands. His first acting job was playing Liverpudlian judo expert Ralph in John Godber's hit play ''Bouncers'', before leaving for London, where he qualified for his Equity card by singing jazz standards at lunchtime for Peter Boizot's Pizza Express and Kettners. Career Rhys received a Bernard Shaw Scholarship to study at RADA. In the first term he was spotted by Philip Prowse and was invited to perform in Oscar Wilde's ''A Woman of No Importance'' at the Glasgow Citizens Theatre, playing the illegitimate son, Gerald. He also appeared as Dean Swift in Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
