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Melissa (1997 TV Series)
''Melissa'' is a five-part British television crime drama series, written and produced by screenwriter Alan Bleasdale, that broadcast across five nights from 12 to 20 May 1997 on Channel 4. Based upon the 1964 play by playwright Francis Durbridge, the series stars Tim Dutton, Julie Walters and Adrian Dunbar in the principal roles, and is the fourth adaptation of the play for television, following the 1964 original, an Italian adaptation in 1966, and a BBC adaptation in 1974 starring Peter Barkworth and Joan Benham. Notably, the first three episodes are based entirely upon a single line of dialogue featured in the original play, and have been described as somewhat of a "prequel" to the original. The complete series was released via 4DVD on 12 June 2006, available as an individual title or in a box set with two of Bleasdale's other Channel 4 productions, '' G.B.H'' and ''Jake's Progress''. Reception The series received a number of particularly critical reviews in the press, a fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime film is a film belonging to the crime fiction genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and fiction. 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 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" explaining that these categories are additive rather than exclusionary. ''China ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Benham
Joan Benham (17 May 1918 – 13 June 1981) was an English actress best known for her portrayal of Lady Prudence Fairfax in the ITV period drama series '' Upstairs, Downstairs''. She was born in London and was the first cousin of Hollywood actress Olive Sturgess. Although her career mostly centred on television, Benham began her career appearing on the West End stage in the 1940s and continued to appear on the London stage periodically throughout her career. She appeared on Broadway as Helena in the 1954 revival of William Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' opposite Patrick Macnee as Demetrius. Joan Benham appeared in sixteen episodes of ''Upstairs, Downstairs'', from the first to the last series, as a Bellamy family friend, Lady Prudence Fairfax. Other London Weekend Television roles for her saw her appear as Lady Loftus in the comedies '' Doctor in the House, Doctor in Charge'' and ''Doctor on the Go'' and as Cecily Foyle, the friend of prison governor Faye Boswe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel 4 Television Dramas
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1990s British Television Miniseries
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as the 15th pope. Births Valerian Roman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990s British Drama Television Series
Year 199 (Roman numerals, CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new Roman legion, legions, Legio I Parthica, I Parthica and Legio III Parthica, III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung of Geumgwan Gaya, Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya confederacy, Gaya (traditional date). By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 British Television Series Endings
Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 16 – Murder of Ennis Cosby: Near Interstate 405 (California) on a Los Angeles freeway, Bill Cosby's son Ennis is shot in the head in a failed robbery attempt. * January 17 – A Delta II rocket carrying a military GPS payload explodes, shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. * January 18 – In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 6 Spanish aid workers and three soldiers, and seriously wound another. * January 19 – Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years, and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city. (→ Hebron Agreement) * January 23 – Madeleine Albright becomes the first female Secretary of State of the United States, after confirmation by the United States Senate. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Quarshie
Hugh Anthony Quarshie (born 22 December 1954) is a Ghanaian-born British actor. He is known for his long-running role as Ric Griffin on the BBC One medical drama ''Holby City'' (2001–20), and for playing Captain Panaka in the ''Star Wars'' film '' Episode I – The Phantom Menace'' (1999). He is also known for stage roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, of which he has been a member since 1981 and an associate since 2005. His film work includes '' Highlander'', '' Nightbreed'' and '' Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald''. In 1987, he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and in 2022 he was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for playing Neville Lawrence in ''Stephen'' (2021). He has also won a Critics' Circle Theatre Award and an Emmy Award. Early life A member of the Euro-African community of Ghana, Quarshie is of mixed Ghanaian, English and Dutch ancestry. He was born in Accra, Ghana, to Emma Wilhelm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ross (actor)
David Ross (born 19 January 1945) is an English actor who has worked in theatre, cinema and television. His best-known roles include playing the first Kryten and the second Talkie Toaster in science-fiction comedy ''Red Dwarf'', Elgin Sparrowhawk in the BBC One sitcom ''The Green Green Grass'', and as Mr. Sedley in a 1998 serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's novel '' Vanity Fair''., and Mr Bumble, the beadle, in the 1999 TV Adaptation of Oliver Twist. Ross also played Inspector Martin in ''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes,'' Mr. Sherwin in ''Basil'', a cheating betting shop owner in the BBC One comedy '' Goodnight Sweetheart'', Basil Tyler (a kind-natured, well-meaning cab driver and postman who was unlucky in love) in John Sullivan's BBC comedy drama '' Roger Roger'', and Donald Moss (a DHSS officer) in Alan Bleasdale's'' Boys from the Blackstuff''. On BBC Radio 2 in 1985, Ross starred alongside Jack Smethurst in the second series of ''A Proper Charlie'' (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Bleasdale
Gary Bleasdale (born in Liverpool, Merseyside in 1962) is an English actor. Bleasdale has appeared in many television programmes since 1978 when his first role was playing the lead in an episode of the final series of ''Z-Cars''. He played Kevin Dean in ''The Black Stuff'' (1978), and its sequel '' Boys From the Black Stuff'', (1982). He was a regular on ''The Harry Enfield Show'' for ten years playing one of ''The Scousers''. He has also appeared in ''Casualty'', ''Roger Roger'', ''The Bill'' and many other UK television dramas. He played the Sheriff's sergeant in the 2006 BBC adaptation of ''Robin Hood''. Bleasdale played a brute in 'On The Ledge', at The Royal Court Liverpool in April/May 2008 and Terry in 'Lost Soul' at The Royal Court in September 2008. He also had a part as a bar patron in the ''Ouroboros'' episode of the BBC TV series Red Dwarf. As a playwright he has written three radio plays for BBC Radio 4. His second radio play, '' A Song For Edmond Shakespeare'', was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
