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Strike (TV Series)
''Strike'' (also known as ''C. B. Strike'' internationally) is a British crime drama television programme based on the book series '' Cormoran Strike'' by J. K. Rowling under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The programme was first broadcast on BBC One on 27 August 2017, after receiving an advance premiere at the British Film Institute on 10 August 2017. The programme follows Cormoran Strike ( Tom Burke), a war veteran turned private detective operating out of a tiny office in London's Denmark Street, who uses his unique insight and his background as a Special Investigation Branch investigator to solve complex cases that have eluded the police along with his assistant, subsequently business partner, Robin Ellacott ( Holliday Grainger). Nineteen episodes across six series have been broadcast to date, each series adapting a novel: '' The Cuckoo's Calling'' (2013), '' The Silkworm'' (2014), '' Career of Evil'' (2015), '' Lethal White'' (2018), '' Troubled Blood'' (2020), and '' Th ... [...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] |
Denmark Street
Denmark Street is a street on the edge of London's West End running from Charing Cross Road to St Giles High Street. It is near St Giles in the Fields Church and Tottenham Court Road station. The street was developed in the late 17th century and named after Prince George of Denmark. Since the 1950s it has been associated with British popular music, first via publishers and later by recording studios and music shops. A blue plaque was unveiled in 2014 commemorating the street's importance to the music industry. The street was originally residential, but became used for commercial purposes in the 19th century. At first, metalwork was a popular trade but it became most famous as "the British Tin Pan Alley" housing numerous music publishers' offices. This market declined in the 1960s to be replaced by music shops and independent recording studios. The Rolling Stones recorded at Regent Sound Studio at No. 4 and popular musicians, including David Bowie and the Small Faces, often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Crompton
Benjamin Lorton Crompton (born 1974) is an English actor and stand-up comedian, has appeared on the BBC sketch show '' Man Stroke Woman'' and as Colin in the BBC Three sitcom '' Ideal'' from 2005 to 2011). Crompton portrayed Eddison Tollett on the HBO high-fantasy series ''Game of Thrones'' from 2012 to 2019. Other credits include '' All or Nothing'' (2002), '' Clocking Off'' (2001-2003), ''The Mayor of Casterbridge'' (2003), '' Housewife, 49'', '' Pramface'' (2012-2014), '' The Great Fire'' (2014), '' The Suspicions of Mr Whicher'', ''Blood'' (2012), '' Zapped'' (2017), ''Motherland'' (2017), ''Vera'' (2018), '' Marcella'' (2018), '' Peterloo'' (2018), and ''Rebecca'' (2020). Career Crompton appeared in the 2002 film '' All or Nothing'' (2002), the TV series '' Clocking Off'' (2001-2003), he worked alongside Ciarán Hinds in ''The Mayor of Casterbridge'' (2003), and with Victoria Wood in the Television movie '' Housewife, 49''. He played Ewan in ''102 Dalmatians'', and appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Futon Critic
''The Futon Critic'' is a website that provides articles and information regarding prime time programming on broadcast and cable networks in the United States. The site publishes reviews of prime time programming and interviews of people in the television industry, as well as republishing Nielsen ratings data reports, and press releases provided by television networks and streaming television platforms. ''The Futon Critic'' was founded by Brian Ford Sullivan in 1997. History Brian Ford Sullivan, CEO of Futon Media, registered ''The Futon Critic'' on January 14, 1997. From its founding, the site has published reviews on prime time programming, as well as interviews its staff conducted with members of the television industry. The site also contains sections of articles dedicated to republishing press releases, network schedules and Nielsen ratings data, which have been cited by articles on websites such as '' The Huffington Post'' and TV by the Numbers. Its publications ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HBO Canada
HBO (previously known as HBO Canada, and still referred to as such on social media) is a Canadian premium television network from Crave (formerly The Movie Network), which is owned by Bell Media under license from Warner Bros. Discovery. The channel is primarily devoted to original programming and special events sourced from the HBO and Cinemax subscription services in the United States, as well as domestic motion pictures. Although branded distinctly from Crave's other channels, HBO is not available in Canada as a standalone channel; it is only included with a subscription to either the Crave linear pay-TV service through a television provider, or the Crave OTT streaming service. Home Box Office, Inc., the Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiary that operates HBO's American and international services, is not a shareholder in the Canadian HBO channel, and only licenses the name, logo and programming to Bell Media. History Background and launch left, 150px, HBO Canada logo us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cinemax
Cinemax is an American pay television network owned by Home Box Office, Inc., a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched on August 1, 1980, as a "maxi-pay" service to complement the offerings of its sister premium network, HBO (Home Box Office), Cinemax initially focused on recent and classic films. Today, its programming primarily includes recent and classic theatrically released films, original series, documentaries, and special behind-the-scenes features. It operates eight 24-hour linear channels and offers a traditional subscription video-on-demand service called Cinemax On Demand. Cinemax previously provided a TV Everywhere streaming platform, Cinemax Go, which is no longer available. However, its linear channels are accessible through multichannel video programming distributors such as Apple TV, Amazon Video, and Roku. History Home Box Office, Inc., owned by Time Inc.'s Time Life, Time-Life Broadcasting unit, launched a movie-centered pay service called Take 2 on A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hello! (magazine)
''Hello!'' (stylised in all caps) is a British weekly magazine specialising in celebrity news and human-interest stories, first published in the United Kingdom on 21 May 1988, following the format of '' ¡Hola!'', the Spanish weekly magazine. It often covers aristocrats, celebrities and royalty. Its editorial focus is illustrated by the fact that for 21 consecutive editions, straddling 2022 and 2023, it featured Catherine, Princess of Wales. Editions ''Hello!'' was launched in 1988 by publisher Eduardo Sánchez Junco, owner and chairman of Spain's ''¡Hola!'' magazine. ''¡Hola!'' was created in 1944 by husband and wife Antonio Sánchez Gómez and Mercedes Junco Calderón. In 2006, Rogers Media launched '' Hello! Canada''. In 2007, the Madrid office reorganized and changed out the management for the Canadian version. In 2019, St. Joseph Communications took over the publishing for ''Hello! Canada'', together with other Canadian magazines such as ''Chatelaine'', ''Maclean' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ink Black Heart
''The Ink Black Heart'' is a crime novel written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It was released on 30 August 2022. It is the sixth and longest novel in the '' Cormoran Strike'' series. Plot After Strike and Robin visit The Ritz for Robin's 30th birthday, Strike attempts to kiss Robin; she evades the kiss. Feeling rebuffed, Strike starts a relationship with Madeline, an acquaintance of his ex-fiancée Charlotte, a relationship he keeps secret from Robin. Edie Ledwell, an animator who co-created the successful cartoon ''The Ink Black Heart'' on YouTube and which is now being adapted into a film on Netflix, visits the agency. She asks Robin to investigate the identity of Anomie, who co-created ''Drek's Game'', an online game based on the cartoon, and who started harassing Edie on social media after she criticised the game. Robin refers Edie to another agency with more cybercrime experience. Within the game, two moderators appear t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Troubled Blood
''Troubled Blood'' is a crime novel written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The novel is the fifth in the '' Cormoran Strike'' series, and was released on 15 September 2020. The story follows private detective Cormoran Strike and his business partner Robin Ellacott as they investigate the disappearance of Margot Bamborough, a doctor who vanished in 1974. The book explores themes of change, loss, and absence, and the changing face of feminism. Upon release, ''Troubled Blood'' became a bestseller and won the Crime and Thriller Book of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. The novel has been adapted as part of the ''Strike'' television series. Plot ''Troubled Blood'' begins in August 2013 and ends on Robin's 30th birthday on 9 October 2014. While visiting his terminally ill aunt Joan in Cornwall, Strike is approached by a woman who wants to hire Strike's firm to investigate the disappearance of her mother, Margot Bamboroug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lethal White
''Lethal White'' is a crime novel written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is the fourth novel in the '' Cormoran Strike'' series, and was published on 18 September 2018. Background ''Lethal White'' is preceded by '' The Cuckoo's Calling'', '' The Silkworm'', and '' Career of Evil''; there are tentative plans to follow it with at least five more stories. Rowling announced the completion of the manuscript on 23 March 2018, after approximately two years of writing, and the book was released on 18 September 2018. ''Lethal White'' follows the private detective Cormoran Strike and his partner Robin Ellacott. The story begins with a prologue following immediately after the conclusion of ''Career of Evil'' detailing events taking place at Robin's wedding reception. Plot At Robin Ellacott's wedding to Matthew Cunliffe, Cormoran Strike's capture of the Shacklewell Ripper the night before is widely known, except by Robin. She realis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Career Of Evil
''Career of Evil'' is a crime novel written by British author J.K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is the third novel in the '' Cormoran Strike'' series of detective novels, and was published on 20 October 2015. It is followed by '' Lethal White'' in 2018, '' Troubled Blood'' in 2020, '' The Ink Black Heart'' in 2022, and '' The Running Grave'' in 2023. Plot After murdering a woman, an unidentified man stalks Robin Ellacott, whom he sees as part of his plan to exact revenge against private investigator Cormoran Strike. Robin, having worked for Strike for a year, is now a full-time investigator in addition to being his secretary. Strike has developed a relationship with radio presenter Elin but continues to harbour feelings for Robin, whose fiancé Matthew disapproves of the work she is doing. One day, Robin receives a package containing a woman's severed leg and a message quoting the Blue Öyster Cult song "Mistress of the Salmon Salt (Quicklime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Silkworm
''The Silkworm'' is a crime fiction novel written by British author J. K. Rowling, published under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. It is the second novel in the '' Cormoran Strike'' series of detective novels and was published on 19 June 2014. It was followed by '' Career of Evil'' in 2015, '' Lethal White'' in 2018,'' Troubled Blood'' in 2020, '' The Ink Black Heart'' in 2022 and '' The Running Grave'' in 2023. Plot summary Several months after solving the Lula Landry case, Cormoran Strike is asked by Leonora Quine to locate her novelist husband Owen, a controversial figure whose attempts to recreate the success of his first novel have failed. Owen disappeared around the same time his latest book, ''Bombyx Mori'', was leaked. The book has been deemed unpublishable due to its mixture of sexual assault, torture, and cannibalism as well as its slanderous depiction of the people in Owen's life. Strike sets out interviewing the others portrayed in the manuscript: Owen's lover Kath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
