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Help (2021 Television Film)
''Help'' is a 2021 British drama television film about the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, written by Jack Thorne and directed by Marc Munden. It follows Sarah (Jodie Comer), a young health care assistant who starts working at a care home in Liverpool, where she cares for Tony ( Stephen Graham), a middle-aged man who has early-onset Alzheimer's disease; when the pandemic hits the UK, both their worlds are completely transformed. It premiered on Channel 4 on 16 September 2021. Plot In 2019, Sarah begins working as a care assistant at Bright Sky Homes, a care home in Liverpool. She is good at connecting with the residents, in particular a middle-aged man called Tony, who has early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Tony frequently walks out of the building and wanders the streets to try and go to his mother's house, forgetting that she has died and their home now belongs to another family. The work load is tough, but everyone's world is turned upside down when the COVID-19 pand ...
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Jack Thorne
Jack Thorne FRSL (born 6 December 1978) is a British playwright, television writer, screenwriter, and producer. A massive fan of hard science fiction, he is best known for writing the stage play '' Harry Potter and the Cursed Child'', the films '' Wonder'' (2017), '' Enola Holmes'' (2020) and the latter's sequel (2022), and the television programme ''His Dark Materials'' (2019–2022). Between 2010 and 2015, Thorne co-wrote three mini-series – '' This Is England '86'', '' This Is England '88'' and '' This Is England '90'' – with director Shane Meadows. Thorne's two 2025 mini-series, '' Toxic Town'' and ''Adolescence'', were released on Netflix to widespread critical acclaim. Early life Thorne was born in Bristol on 6 December 1978. He was educated at St Bartholomew's School in Newbury, Berkshire, and matriculated in 1998 at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was forced to "degrade" (drop out to return at a later date) due to ill health in his third year, but returned to ...
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service has over 5,500 journalists working across its output including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, th ...
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Empire (film Magazine)
''Empire'' is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Media Group. The first issue was published in May 1989. History David Hepworth of Emap, the publisher of British music magazines ''Q magazine, Q'' and ''Smash Hits'', proposed the idea of launching a film magazine similar to ''Q''. They recruited ''Smash Hits'' editor Barry McIlheney to edit the new magazine, with Hepworth as Editorial Director. Hepworth drafted a one-page proposal outlining the magazine's objectives, including a commitment to reviewing and rating every film released in UK cinema. The proposal also stated, "''Empire'' believes that movies can sometimes be art, but they should always be fun." The first edition (June/July 1989) was published in May 1989, featuring Dennis Quaid and Winona Ryder on the cover for the film ''Great Balls of Fire! (film), Great Balls of Fire!''. The magazine achieved its initial sales target of 50,000 copies. Film reviews were given a star rating between 1 and 5, with no ...
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George Faber (TV Producer)
George Stephen John Faber (born 30 November 1959) is a British television producer. He was the founder and joint managing director of Company Pictures, one of the UK's largest independent drama production companies, twice winner of Best Independent Production Company at the Broadcast Awards and also winner of Best European Production Company at the Monte Carlo TV Festival. In 2014 he founded The Forge which produced ''National Treasure'' starring Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters and Andrea Riseborough. He was born in Kensington, London. TV output *'' Collateral'' (BBC/Netflix) *''National Treasure'' (Channel 4) *''London Irish'' (Channel 4) *'' The White Queen'' (BBC) *'' The Village'' (BBC) *'' Secret State'' (Channel 4) *'' Beaver Falls'' ( E4) *'' The Shadow Line'' (BBC) *'' The Runaway'' (Sky 1) *''Women in Love'' (BBC) *'' The Silence'' (BBC) *'' Generation Kill'' (HBO) *'' The Devil's Whore'' (Channel 4) *'' Einstein and Eddington'' (BBC) *''The Invisibles'' (BBC) *''The Pala ...
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COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Soon after, it spread to other areas of Asia, and COVID-19 pandemic by country and territory, then worldwide in early 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) on 30 January 2020, and assessed the outbreak as having become a pandemic on 11 March. COVID-19 symptoms range from asymptomatic to deadly, but most commonly include fever, sore throat, nocturnal cough, and fatigue. Transmission of COVID-19, Transmission of the virus is often airborne transmission, through airborne particles. Mutations have variants of SARS-CoV-2, produced many strains (variants) with varying degrees of infectivity and virulence. COVID-19 vaccines were developed rapidly and deplo ...
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Alicya Eyo
Alicya Eyo (born 16 December 1975) is an English actress, best known for her roles as Denny Blood in the ITV prison drama series '' Bad Girls'' and Ruby Haswell in the ITV soap opera ''Emmerdale''. Early life Eyo was born on 16 December 1975 in Huyton, Merseyside. Her mother, Sue, is a jazz singer. She grew up in the Toxteth area of Liverpool. Her love of drama started when she was nine, and she attended drama and dance classes every Saturday. When she was 14, she moved to London with her family. She trained at the Courtyard Theatre School. Career Early career Eyo's first television appearance was in 1997, in '' Casualty'', which was filmed earlier. She also made an appearance on '' Hetty Wainthropp Investigates'' and appeared in Gold the follow-up drama series to Band of Gold as a young prostitute involved with Yardie gangsters who come over to Bradfords red light district from Leeds to clear up the Lane. In 1999, Eyo appeared with Goldie in the David Bowie film '' Everybo ...
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Arthur Hughes (British Actor)
Arthur Hughes (born 1992) is a British actor known for his roles as Ryan McDaniel in the Netflix series '' The Innocents'' and Ruairi Donovan in BBC Radio 4 series ''The Archers''. His stage appearances include the role of Laurent in '' La Cage aux Folles'' at the Park Theatre, London, Phil in '' The Solid Life of Sugar Water'' with Graeae Theatre Company. and the title role in ''Richard III'' for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Personal life Hughes attended Aylesbury Grammar School, and graduated in 2013 from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. He has radial dysplasia affecting his right arm. In between acting roles, Hughes has worked as a bartender, a meet and greeter, and a sales and marketing representative. Career After starting his career in theatre and radio, Hughes landed his first big television role in 2018 with the Netflix series '' The Innocents'', in the series regular role of Ryan McDaniel. In 2022, he played disability activist Alan Holdsworth in the B ...
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Andrew Schofield (actor)
Andrew Schofield (born 12 October 1958) is an English actor best known for starring as the Narrator in Willy Russell’s original production of the musical Blood Brothers (musical), ''Blood Brothers'' in 1983, and playing Johnny Rotten in Alex Cox's 1986 film ''Sid and Nancy''. Early life Born in Kirkby, LancashireMiles, Tina.Film-makers behind Liverpool FC film Fifteen Minutes That Shook The World set to make spin-off. ''Liverpool Echo'', 26 April 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2023 to Joseph and Josephine Schofield, Andrew Schofield attended St Kevin's Roman Catholic Comprehensive School. At 15 he was cast in Willy Russell's first Play for Today, ''Death of a Young, Young Man''. Stage His stage credits include starring as the Narrator in Willy Russell's original production of ''Blood Brothers (musical), Blood Brothers'' in 1983 at the Liverpool Playhouse and in the subsequent transfer to the Lyric Theatre (London), Lyric Theatre in London's West End. He also appeared as George in ' ...
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Indy100
''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 daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. ''The Independent'' won the Brand of the Year Award in The Drum Awards for Online Media 2023. History 1980s 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 produced by Newspaper Publishing plc and created by Andreas Whittam Smith, Stephen Glover and Matthew Symonds. All three partners were former journalists at ''The Daily Telegraph'' who had left the paper towards the end of Lord Hartwell's own ...
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Food Bank
A food bank or food pantry is a non-profit, charitable organization that distributes food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger, usually through intermediaries like food pantries and soup kitchens. Some food banks distribute food directly with their food pantries. St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance, St. Mary's Food Bank was the world's first food bank, established in the US in 1967. Since then, many thousands have been set up all over the world. In Europe, their numbers grew rapidly after the 2007–2008 world food price crisis, global increase in the price of food which began in late 2006, and especially after the 2008 financial crisis began to worsen economic conditions for those on low incomes. Likewise, the 2020s in economic history, inflation and economic crisis of the 2020s has exponentially driven low and even some middle income class consumers to at least partially get their food. The growth of food banks has been welcomed by commentators who see them ...
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Fourth Wall
The fourth wall is a performance dramatic convention, convention in which an invisible, imaginary wall separates actors from the audience. While the audience can see through this "wall", the convention assumes the actors act as if they cannot. From the 16th century onward, the rise of illusionism in staging practices, which culminated in the realism (theatre), realism and naturalism (theatre), naturalism of the Nineteenth-century theatre, theatre of the 19th century, led to the development of the fourth wall concept. The metaphor suggests a relationship to the mise-en-scène behind a proscenium, proscenium arch. When a scene is set indoors and three of the walls of its room are presented onstage, in what is known as a Box set (theatre), box set, the fourth of them would run along the line (technically called the proscenium) dividing the room from the auditorium. The ''fourth wall'', though, is a theatrical convention, rather than of set design. The actors ignore the audience, f ...
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Shithead (card Game)
Shithead (also called Karma, Palace or Shed) is a card game, the object of which is to Card game#Shedding games, lose all of one's playing cards. There are many regional variations to the game's original rules. History and name The game became popular among backpacker tourism, backpackers in the late 20th century. Cards A standard 52-card pack with French suit symbols is used. Aces are high. Deal From a shuffled deck (cards), deck of cards, the dealer (card player), dealer gives each player nine cards: three downcards in a row, three upcards on top of the downcards, and three hand cards. The upcards can only be played once the hand cards have been exhausted, and the downcards can only be played once the upcards have been played. Rearranging After the deal (cards), deal and before play (cards), play begins, players may switch their hand cards with those face up on the table in order to produce a strong set of upcards (ideally high cards, 2s or 10s) for later in the game. ...
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