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Nethra Tilakumara
Neethra Rita Tilakumara (born 14 June 1999), known professionally as Nethra Tilakumara, is an English actress. She is best known for her roles as Yasmin in the BBC iPlayer coming of age comedy drama series '' Flatmates'' (2019–2021), Kat in the CBBC sitcom ''So Awkward'' (2019–2020) and Naisha Jadu in the ITVX teen drama series '' Tell Me Everything'' (2024). Early life Neethra Rita Tilakumara was born in Westminster, central London on 14 June 1999, the eldest child of four. She has three younger siblings; a brother Anuk (born 2002) and twin Savini and Saviru (born 2004). She is of Sri Lankan descent and grew up in Borehamwood, south Hertfordshire. Tilakumara took acting classes at the local Stagecoach Performing Arts branch. She went on to pursue a BTEC Extended Diploma at Emil Dale Academy. She also attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School. Career Tilakumara began her career as a child actress with the role of Singing Soraya in the 3D comedy film '' Horrid Henry: The M ...
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Westminster
Westminster is the main settlement of the City of Westminster in Central London, Central London, England. It extends from the River Thames to Oxford Street and has many famous landmarks, including the Palace of Westminster, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, Trafalgar Square and much of the West End of London, West End cultural centre including the entertainment precinct of West End theatre. The name () originated from the informal description of the abbey church and royal peculiar of St Peter's (Westminster Abbey), west of the City of London (until the English Reformation there was also an Eastminster abbey, on the other side of the City of London, in the East End of London). The abbey's origins date from between the 7th and 10th centuries, but it rose to national prominence when rebuilt by Edward the Confessor in the 11th century. With the development of the old palace alongside the abbey, Westminster has been the home of Governance of England, Engla ...
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Child Actor
The term child actor or child actress is generally applied to a child acting on stage, television, or in film, movies. An adult who began their acting career as a child may also be called a child actor, or a "former child actor". Closely associated terms include teenage actor or teen actor, an actor who gained popularity as a Adolescence, teenager. Many child actors find themselves struggling to adapt as they become adults, mainly due to typecasting. Macaulay Culkin and Lindsay Lohan are two particularly famous child actors who eventually experienced much difficulty with the fame they acquired at an early age. Some child actors have successful acting careers as adults; for example Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore, Jake Gyllenhaal, Selena Gomez. Other child actors have gone on to successful careers in other fields, including director Ron Howard, politicians Lech Kaczyński, Lech and Jarosław Kaczyński, and singer Jenny Lewis. Regulation In the Unite ...
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Millie Inbetween
''Millie Inbetween'' is a British children's sitcom series broadcast on CBBC and starring Millie Innes. The first episode premiered on 1 October 2014, with the final episode airing on 12 December 2018. It focuses on 12-year-old Millie and her 15-year-old sister whose parents have recently split up. In August 2019, Richard Wisker confirmed that he, Tallulah Greive and Theo Stevenson would reprise their roles from ''Millie Inbetween'' in an BBC iPlayer, iPlayer sitcom ''Flatmates (British TV series), Flatmates'', aimed at an older audience. Production In March 2014, BBC commissioned a new 13-part series called ''The Millie Show''. The show name was then changed to ''Millie Inbetween''. It was filmed in Dumbarton, Dumbarton, Scotland at the River City Studios, in Northern Ireland in the BBC Blackstaff Studio Complex, and at local locations that resemble Glasgow. Plot Series 1 Millie McDonald (Millie Innes) is a 12-year-old girl who lives with her 15-year-old sister Lauren McDonald ...
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Spinoff (media)
A spinoff or spin-off is any narrative work derived from an already existing work that focuses on different aspects from the original work. History One of the earliest spin-offs of the modern media era, if not the first, happened in 1941 when the supporting character Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve from the Golden Age of Radio, old time radio comedy show ''Fibber McGee and Molly'' became the star of his own program ''The Great Gildersleeve'' (1941–1957). Description A spin-off (also spelled spinoff) is derived from already existing works that focus on more details and different aspects from the original work (e.g. particular topics, characters or events), and includes books, radio programs, television show, television programs, films, video games, or any narrative work in any medium. In genre fiction, the term parallels its usage in television; it is usually meant to indicate a substantial change in narrative viewpoint and activity from that (previous) Narrative thread, storylin ...
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Our Girl
''Our Girl'' is a British television military drama series written and created by Tony Grounds broadcast on BBC One from 2013 until 2020. The series began with a feature-length television pilot first broadcast on 24 March 2013 starring Lacey Turner as Molly Dawes, a young working-class woman, who joins the British Army after deciding her life is going down the drain. Following the feature-length pilot episode, a continuation show was commissioned, with Turner reprising her role for the first series, which commenced broadcast on 21 September 2014. Turner left the show after the first series leading to Michelle Keegan being cast as a new character, Georgie Lane, to serve as the new series' protagonist. In January 2019, it was confirmed by the BBC that Keegan would return for a fourth series; she also announced that it would be her last series. It began broadcasting on 24 March 2020. Following Keegan's departure, it was confirmed in August 2020 that the fourth series of ''Our G ...
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Military Fiction
Military fiction is a subgenre of science fiction or alternate history, focusing on military activities, such as war, battles, combat, fighting; or military life. Classes of military fiction Types of military fiction include: * War novels, including written military fiction * War films, military fiction in cinema * Military and war video games Subgenres of military fiction include: * Military science fiction * Naval fiction * Indian military fiction (of India) Works and elements of military fiction Works of military fiction: * List of military science fiction works and authors Elements of military fiction: * Military spacecraft in fiction Creators of military fiction * Military-entertainment complex * List of military science fiction works and authors See also * Adventure fiction * Military sci-fi * Chanbara (genre) * Chivalric romance (genre) * Military history * W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction * Western (genre) The Western ...
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BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's oldest and flagship channel, and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, primetime drama and entertainment, and live BBC Sport events. The channel was launched on 2 November 1936 under the name BBC Television Service, which was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution. It was renamed BBC TV in 1960 and used this name until the launch of the second BBC channel, BBC2, in 1964. The main channel then became known as BBC1. The channel adopted the current spelling of BBC One in 1997. The channel's annual budget for 2012–2013 was £1.14 billion. It is funded by the television licence fee together with the BBC's other domestic television stations and shows uninterrupted programming without commercial advertising. The television channel had the highest reach ...
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List Of Our Girl Episodes
''Our Girl'' is a British television military drama series, written and created by Tony Grounds, which follows the lives of those in the British Army. The show's feature-length pilot episode was first broadcast on BBC One on 24 March 2013. Following the episode, a series was commissioned. The show's first series consisted of five episodes and aired between 21 September and 19 October 2014. The second series consisted of five episodes that aired from 7 September to 5 October 2016. Shortly before series 2 ended, ''Our Girl'' was renewed for a third series. Series 3 consisted of 12 episodes that were split into two units: the first consisting of four episodes that aired from 10 to 21 October 2017, and the second consisting of the remaining eight airing from 5 June to 24 July 2018. The fourth series, which was announced in 2019, consisted of six episodes airing from 24 March to 28 April 2020. In August 2020, after Michelle Keegan departed from the series, it was announced that '' ...
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Horrid Henry (TV Series)
''Horrid Henry'' is a British Animated series, animated children's television series based on the British Horrid Henry, children's book series of the same name by Francesca Simon. The series is produced by British company Novel Entertainment, in association with Nelvana for its first series. It was broadcast from 30 October 2006 to 17 May 2019 on CITV. It is currently available to stream on Netflix in the UK. 250 episodes were produced in total. Episodes Characters and cast Production and development The series was first announced to be in development on 2 October 2003, when Novel Entertainment announced they had secured exclusive TV, film, and home entertainment rights to the franchise from Orion Children's Books. They then announced that a planned animated series was in development, which would feature a new animation style that would bring the books to life. More information was confirmed in March 2004. At Cartoon Forum 2004, 26 episodes would be produced, although no re ...
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List Of Horrid Henry Episodes
The following is a list of ''Horrid Henry'' episodes. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (2006–2007) Season 2 (2009–2010) Season 3 (2011–2012) Season 4 (2014–2015) In 2013, another 52 episodes of Horrid Henry were commissioned and set to first premiere in late 2014. This is also the last season to be on CITV. Season 5 (2018–2019) In May 2018, a fifth series was commissioned by Novel Entertainment with another 42 episodes, 10 less than the previous 4 series, making it 250. Netflix premiered the first 12 episodes on 15 December 2018, then 10 more episodes premiered on 14 January 2019, followed with the rest of the series on 17 May 2019. A screening of 3 new episodes was hosted by Dick and Dom in a BAFTA Kids preview at the Princess Anne Royal Theatre, London on 17 November 2018. Another screening of 3 new episodes took place in a BFI Funday TV Preview on 17 February 2019. Specials In September 2020, it was announced that Novel would be produ ...
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Francesca Simon
Francesca Isabella Simon (born 23 February 1955) is an American-born British author. She is most famous for writing the ''Horrid Henry'' and ''Evil Evie'' series of children's books. She is the daughter of screenwriter and playwright Mayo Simon (not to be confused with Simon Mayo, a British radio DJ). Biography Simon was born on 23 February 1955 in St. Louis, Missouri. She grew up in California and studied at Yale University and Jesus College, Oxford, where she majored in medieval studies and Old English. Simon worked as a journalist, writing for ''The Sunday Times'', ''Guardian'', ''Mail on Sunday'', ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''Vogue'' (US). She is married to an English husband, Martin Stamp, and has one son called Joshua (born 1989). Simon got the idea for the ''Horrid Henry'' books when a friend asked her to write a story about a horrid child. She also wanted to write about sibling rivalry and families where one child was considered "perfect" and the other "horrid". Many ...
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Horrid Henry
''Horrid Henry'' is a children's book series by Francesca Simon and illustrated by Anthony Ross. It has been adapted for television, film and theatre. Books The first ''Horrid Henry'' book was written and published in 1994 by Orion Books. Up until 2015, 24 official ''Horrid Henry'' titles were published in the series with a special one-off 25th Anniversary book, published in 2019. The series has sold more than 21 million copies worldwide. The books are a slice of life series featuring the titular Henry, a wildly misbehaved boy who will typically be faced with a problem and then will often retaliate in interesting ways that involve trickery, rule-breaking and elaborate practical jokes. Henry has a younger brother, Perfect Peter, who is the exact opposite. Almost every character is known by an alliterative nickname (Rude Ralph, Moody Margaret, Brainy Brian, etc.) with a few exceptions e.g. Mum, Dad and Miss Battle-Axe. According to Francesca Simon, she got the idea for the ...
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