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Britannia (TV Series)
''Britannia'' is a British historical fantasy Drama (film and television), drama television series created by Jez Butterworth and Tom Butterworth. The show was the first co-production between Sky UK and Amazon Prime Video and stars Kelly Reilly, David Morrissey, Zoë Wanamaker, Mackenzie Crook, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Eleanor Worthington Cox. It first aired on Sky Atlantic in the UK beginning 18 January 2018 and on Amazon Prime Video in the US beginning 26 January 2018. The first series aired on Epix beginning 2 August 2020. Pop songs were used as theme music for the three series to date: Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man" (series 1), his "Season of the Witch (song), Season of the Witch" (series 2), and "Children of the Revolution (song), Children of the Revolution" by T. Rex (band), T. Rex (series 3). In March 2023, the series was cancelled after three seasons. Synopsis ''Britannia'' is set in 43 AD, when the Roman conquest of Britain, Romans invaded Britain. Julius Caesar had Julius C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historical Drama
A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in the past, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents history, historical events and characters with varying degrees of fiction such as artistic license, creative dialogue or scenes which compress separate events. The biographical film is a type of historical drama which generally focuses on a single individual or well-defined group. Historical dramas can include romance film, romances, adventure films, and swashbucklers. Historical drama can be differentiated from historical fiction, which generally present fictional characters and events against a backdrop of historical events. A period piece may be set in a vague or general era such as the Middle Ages, or a specific period such as the Roaring Twenties, or the recent past. Scholarship In different eras different subgenres have risen to popularity, such as the westerns and sword and sandal films that dominated Nor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Julian Alistair Rhind-Tutt (born 20 July 1967) is an English actor. He is best known for playing Dr "Mac" Macartney in the comedy television series '' Green Wing''. Early life Rhind-Tutt was born on 20 July 1967 in West Drayton, London, the youngest of five; there was a 10-year gap between him and his two brothers and two sisters. He attended the John Lyon School in Harrow, Middlesex, where he acted in school productions, eventually taking the lead in a school production of ''Hamlet'' that played at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the mid-1980s. After reading English and Theatre Studies at the University of Warwick, he attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London where he won the 1992 Carleton Hobbs Award from BBC Radio Drama. Career Rhind-Tutt's first significant acting role was as the Duke of York in ''The Madness of King George'' (1994). This was followed by a succession of lesser television and film roles. He then landed a major role in William Boyd's First W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rick McCallum
Richard McCallum (born August 22, 1954) is an American film producer known for his work on ''The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles'' as well as the ''Star Wars'' Special Editions and Prequel Trilogy. He is best known for his frequent collaborations with American filmmaker George Lucas, though he was also a long-time producer for British television playwright Dennis Potter, most notably on '' The Singing Detective'' and '' Dreamchild.'' Early career and collaboration with Dennis Potter McCallum's career as producer began with '' Pennies from Heaven'' (1981), the film version of the 1978 BBC TV drama, for director Herbert Ross and writer Dennis Potter. After the commercial failure of the film, Potter invited McCallum to go to work in England. During the 1980s, McCallum's work with Potter included producing the films '' Dreamchild'' (1985), an unusual exploration by Potter of the creation of ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'', which was nominated for two BAFTA awards, and '' Track ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Thomopoulos
Anne Thomopoulos is a television producer and was senior vice president at HBO. She served as an executive producer for the series ''Rome'' (2005–2007) and miniseries '' Generation Kill'' (2008). Career Anne Thomopoulos, a former senior vice president at HBO, began her career with the mandate to create a dramatic series department. She did so developing '' Oz'' (1997–2003), HBO's first one-hour drama series. Subsequently, she established the acclaimed miniseries division, developing and overseeing Emmy and Golden Globe winning ''From the Earth to the Moon'' (1998), ''The Corner'' (2000), and '' Band of Brothers'' (2001). Thomopoulos also developed and executive produced HBO/BBC historical dramatic series ''Rome'' (2005–2007), the HBO miniseries '' Generation Kill'' (2008) and ''Camelot'' (2011) for Starz. Additional productions include the historical series ''Borgia'' (2011–2014) for Canal+, ''Black Box'' (2014) for ABC and ''Versailles'' (2015–2018) for Canal+. Persona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Mendes
Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes (born 1 August 1965) is a British film and stage director, producer, and screenwriter. In 2000, Mendes was appointed a CBE for his services to drama, and he was Knight Bachelor, knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours, 2020 New Years Honours List. In 2000, Mendes was awarded the Shakespeare Prize by the Alfred Toepfer Stiftung F.V.S., Alfred Toepfer Foundation in Hamburg, Germany. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain."Sam Mendes gets directing honour" BBC. Retrieved 18 June 2012 In 2008, ''The Daily Telegraph'' ranked him number 15 in their list of the "100 most powerful people in Culture of the United Kingdom, British culture". Born in Berkshire to a Trinidadians and Tobagonians, Trinidad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippa Harris
Dame Philippa Jill Olivier Harris (born 27 March 1967) is a British film and television producer. She co-founded Neal Street Productions in 2003 with Sam Mendes and Caro Newling. Harris was a script editor at ITV and Channel Four before becoming a development executive at BBC Films and then an executive producer for BBC Drama Serials. In that role her projects included ''Warriors'' and ''Love in a Cold Climate''. Harris became Head of Drama Commissioning for the BBC in 2001. Commissions during her time there included ''Daniel Deronda'' and ''The Lost Prince''. Harris has executive produced several films including '' Things We Lost in the Fire'' and '' Revolutionary Road'' starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. For TV Harris produced '' Stuart: A Life Backwards'' featuring Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch and executive produced ''Call the Midwife'', ''Penny Dreadful'' and ''The Hollow Crown'' and ''Britannia''. Harris served as Adviser to the former leader of the Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Davidge
Neil Davidge is an English record producer, songwriter, film score composer and musician. Once an associate of dance producers DNA, he is best known as the long-term co-writer and producer for trip hop collective Massive Attack. In 1997, he also produced the Sunna album '' One Minute Science''. During that time he has established a career as a film score composer including projects such as ''Push'', Bullet Boy, Trouble the Water, and additional music for ''Clash of the Titans''. Artists he has worked with include Unkle, Damon Albarn, Elizabeth Fraser, Mos Def, David Bowie, and Snoop Dogg. In 2012, he composed the soundtrack to the video game '' Halo 4'' and recorded "The Storm That Brought Me To You" with Tina Dico and Ramin Djawadi for the ''Clash of the Titans'' soundtrack, the first vocal track for which he is credited as an artist separately from Massive Attack. In 2017, Davidge composed the critically acclaimed soundtrack for the TV series, ''Britannia'', and in 2023 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Season Of The Witch (song)
"Season of the Witch" is a song by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan released in August 1966 on his third studio album, '' Sunshine Superman''. The song is credited to Donovan, although sometime collaborator Shawn Phillips has also claimed authorship. Because of a dispute with Donovan's record company, a UK edition with the song was not released until June 1967. In 1967, Brian Auger and the Trinity included a version with Julie Driscoll on vocals on their album 'Open'. In 2019, Lana Del Rey covered the song for the soundtrack of the film ''Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark''. Composition and recording "Season of the Witch" was recorded at the CBS studios in Hollywood, California, where most of ''Sunshine Superman'' was recorded. According to Donovan, he and Phillips wanted a "rock-combo sound" for the song and chose some local musicians from the local clubs. They included Lenny Matlin on keyboards, Don Brown on lead electric guitar, Bobby Ray on bass and "Fast" Eddie Hoh on dru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donovan
Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer. He emerged from the British folk scene in early 1965 and subsequently scored multiple international hit singles and albums during the late 1960s. Donovan discography, His work became emblematic of the flower power era with its blend of Folk music, folk, Pop music, pop, Psychedelic music, psychedelica and jazz stylings. Donovan first achieved recognition with live performances on the pop TV series ''Ready Steady Go!'' in 1965. Having signed with Pye Records that year, he recorded singles and two albums in the folk vein for Hickory Records, scoring three UK hit Single (music), singles: "Catch the Wind", "Colours (Donovan song), Colours" and "Universal Soldier (song), Universal Soldier", the last written by Buffy Sainte-Marie. He then signed to Epic Records, CBS/Epic in the US and became more successful internationally, beginning a long collaboration w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurdy Gurdy Man
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" is a song by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan. It was recorded in April 1968 and released the following month as a single. The song gave its name to the album '' The Hurdy Gurdy Man'', which was released in October of that year in the United States. The single reached number 5 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in the U.S. and number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. Donovan wrote " Hurdy Gurdy Man" while in Rishikesh in India, where he was studying Transcendental Meditation with the Beatles. The recording features a harder rock sound than Donovan's usual material, supplying a range of distorted guitars and aggressive drums. It also features an Indian influence with the use of a tambura, a gift to Donovan from George Harrison, who also helped write the lyrics. The song may have been influenced by " Green Circles", a psychedelic 1967 song by Small Faces. The similarity is in the melody of the descending verse, the strange vocal delivery, and the topic of being visited by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Pemberton
Steven James Pemberton (born 1 September 1967) is a British actor, comedian, director and writer. He was a writer and actor for BBC's ''The League of Gentlemen'' with Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson. Pemberton and Shearsmith also co-wrote and starred in the black comedy ''Psychoville'' and the anthology series ''Inside No. 9''. His other notable television performance credits include ''Doctor Who'', ''Benidorm (British TV series), Benidorm'', ''Blackpool (TV series), Blackpool'', ''Shameless (British TV series), Shameless'', ''Whitechapel (TV series), Whitechapel'', ''Happy Valley (TV series), Happy Valley'' and ''Mapp & Lucia (2014 TV series), Mapp & Lucia''. He also appeared in feature films such as ''Lassie (2005 film), Lassie'', ''The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (film), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Mr. Bean's Holiday and Better Man (film), Better Man.'' Early life Steve Pemberton was born in Blackburn, Lancash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annabel Scholey
Annabel Scholey (born 1983 or 1984) is an English actress. She has performed extensively on stage and is known for her roles in the BBC supernatural drama '' Being Human'' in 2009 and as Anne-Marie Blake in the true crime drama miniseries '' The Sixth Commandment'' in 2023. She also played the leading role of Maddie in the musical feature film '' Walking on Sunshine'' (2014). Early life and education Annabel Scholey was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire. Her father is a retired fireman and her mother is a nurse. She has one younger sister, who is a teacher. She trained at the Oxford School of Drama on a scholarship, graduating in 2005. Career Stage Scholey first stage job was in 1996, when she was 13. She appeared as Louisa von Trapp in a production of '' The Sound of Music'' alongside Janie Dee. Scholey performed several times in Chichester Festival productions, including ''The House of Special Purpose'' (2009), ''Wallenstein'' (2009), ''Hobson's Choice'' (2007). In 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
