Teletubbies Say Eh-oh!
''Teletubbies'' is a British children's television series created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport for the BBC. The programme focuses on four differently coloured characters known as the Teletubbies, named after the television screens on their bellies. Recognised throughout popular culture for the uniquely shaped antenna protruding from the head of each character, the Teletubbies communicate through gibberish and were designed to bear resemblance to toddlers. The series rapidly became a commercial success in Britain and abroad. It won multiple BAFTA awards and was nominated for two Daytime Emmys throughout its run. A single based on the show's theme song reached number 1 in the UK Singles Chart in December 1997 and remained in the Top 75 for 32 weeks, selling over a million copies. By October 2000, the franchise generated over £1billion () in merchandise sales. Though the original run ended in 2001, a rebooted series was green-lit in 2014. The reboot premiered on CBeeb ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Anne Wood
Anne Wood, Order of the British Empire, CBE (born 18 December 1937) is an English children's television producer, responsible for creating shows such as ''Teletubbies'' with Andrew Davenport. She is also the creator of ''Tots TV'', ''Boohbah'' and ''Rosie and Jim''. She was a recipient of the Eleanor Farjeon Award. Early years She was born in Spennymoor, County Durham, England, and grew up in Tudhoe Colliery, a small coal-mining village nearby. Career She qualified as a secondary school teacher through the Bingley Training College in Yorkshire and took up her first teaching post back home in Spennymoor. She married Barrie Wood in 1959 and moved to Surbiton in Surrey where she took up a teaching role at Hollyfield Road Secondary School. This was the era of the first children's paperback book and Anne became an early pioneer of a children's paperback book club scheme for schools set up by Scholastic Corporation, Scholastic Publications. She retired from teaching on the birth of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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John Schwab
John Schwab is an American actor, TV producer and musician who resides in London. He produced ''The Hide'' with Christopher Granier-Deferre, which was nominated for a BIFA 2010. He is best known for his film and television roles, such as lawyer Travis Tygart in the 2015 drama film '' The Program'' (2015), baseball player Lefty Grove in the 2018 biographical drama film '' The Catcher Was a Spy'' (2018) and television producer Jotham Starr in the television miniseries ''Dark Money'' (2019). He has worked on British television series such as ''Doctor Who'', '' Clone'', ''My Dad's the Prime Minister'', '' Hotel Babylon'' and '' The Mallorca Files''. His voice work in animation and video games include Dane in '' Crysis: Warhead'', Zeck in ''Boo, Zino & the Snurks'', Vinnie in '' Thomas & Friends: The Great Race'', Timo in '' Gladiators of Rome'', Jin in ''Xenoblade Chronicles 2'' and '' Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna - The Golden Country'', Dandelion in ''The Witcher'' video games, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Daniel Rigby
Daniel Rigby (born 6 December 1982) is an English actor and comedian. He received a BAFTA TV Award for his leading role as Eric Morecambe in the 2011 BBC television film '' Eric and Ernie''. Early life Rigby was born in Stockport, Greater Manchester. He attended Cheadle Hulme School and, after studying performing arts at Stockport College, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He is the cousin of Blossoms frontman Tom Ogden. Career Rigby has worked as a stand-up comedian, having appeared at the Latitude Festival, won the 2007 '' Laughing Horse New Act of the Year'', and been a nominee for winner of the 2007 So You Think You're Funny competition. In 2007, he moved to television roles with the BBC period drama '' Lilies''. In 2011, Rigby won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance as the late comedian Eric Morecambe in '' Eric and Ernie'', beating both Matt Smith and Benedict Cumberbatch for their roles as the Doctor and Sherloc ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rolf Saxon
Rolf Saxon (born July 7, 1955) is an American stage, film, and television actor. He is known for his role as William Donloe in '' Mission: Impossible'' and '' Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning'', as well as for his voice-over work in numerous video games, movies and TV shows, including as the narrator for the US dub of the BBC children's series ''Teletubbies''. Life and career Rolf Saxon was born at Fort Belvoir in Alexandria, Virginia on 7 July 1955. He has worked with the American Conservatory Theater, Cal Shakes, Berkeley Mime Troupe, and Omphalos Street Theatre Company. After training as an actor, Saxon immediately began appearing on the stage and on television; he made his film debut as Dick Tipton in a BBC adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'' (1980). Initially known as a television actor, he appeared as attorney Hudson J. Talbot III in the ITV drama ''Capital City'' (1989–1990).'Second Quarter Figures', Director: Paul Seed ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tim Whitnall
Timothy Charles Whitnall (born 27 June 1961) is an English actor, playwright and screenwriter. He is known for playing Angelo in the long-running CITV series ''Mike and Angelo'' and narrating the BBC Children's Television programme ''Teletubbies'' from 1997 to 2001. As a writer, he has won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts, BAFTA and an Laurence Olivier Awards, Olivier Award for his work on television movie ''Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story'' and play ''Morecambe (play), Morecambe''. He is also a voice actor, providing voices on characters from television shows such as ''Fifi & the Flowertots'', ''Roary the Racing Car'', and ''Thomas & Friends''. Career Whitnall began his career in West End theatre, West End musical ''Elvis (musical), Elvis'' in 1977 after winning the role in an open call audition. He has starred in many West End musicals including ''Grease (musical), Grease'', ''The Rocky Horror Show'', and ''Good Rockin' Tonight''. After making TV ap ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rochelle Humes
Rochelle Eulah Eileen Humes (née Wiseman; born 21 March 1989) is an English singer and television presenter. Humes began her career in the pop groups S Club Juniors and The Saturdays, and has gone on to co-present the ITV (TV channel), ITV entertainment series ''Ninja Warrior UK''. Humes regularly guest-hosts ''This Morning (TV programme), This Morning'', and since 2019, she has co-presented the BBC One, BBC game show ''The Hit List (game show), The Hit List'' alongside husband Marvin Humes. Early life Rochelle Eulah Eileen Wiseman was born in Barking, London, on 21 March 1989. She attended Frances Bardsley Academy for Girls in Hornchurch, Havering, as well as Colin's Performing Arts School. Her parents divorced when she was three years old, and she was raised alongside her half-sister Emily by their mother Roz and, partially, by her uncle Paul Ince. Humes is of Jamaican descent on her father's side, and English on her mother's. She also has two half-sisters, Sophie and Lili, an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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David Walliams
David Edward Williams (born 20 August 1971), known professionally as David Walliams (), is an English actor, comedian, writer, and television personality. He is best known for his work with Matt Lucas on the BBC sketch comedy series '' Little Britain'' (2003–2006) and '' Come Fly With Me'' (2010–2011). He is also a writer of children's books, having sold more than 50 million copies worldwide. From 2013 to 2014, Walliams wrote and starred in the BBC One sitcom '' Big School.'' In 2015, he starred as Tommy Beresford in the BBC drama series ''Partners in Crime'', and wrote and starred in the sketch comedy series '' Walliams & Friend.'' From 2012 to 2022, Walliams was a judge on the television talent show competition '' Britain's Got Talent'', for which he won the award for Best TV Judge at the 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2020 National Television Awards. In 2022, he was a judge on the tenth season of '' Australia's Got Talent''. Walliams began writing children's novels in 2008 af ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rob Rackstraw
Robert Rackstraw (born 31 October 1965) is an English voice actor who has worked in various animated films, television shows and video games. Early life Rackstraw grew up in the Sunderland suburb of New Silksworth, and attended Southmoor Comprehensive. His voice acting career began with a chance meeting with a local radio presenter, when he began writing scripts for radio adverts, and later voicing them. He said in 2013: “I thought it was daft that these guys get paid a lot more FOR reading than I was FOR writing. So I started augmenting my income by writing ridiculous things and accents into my scripts that no one else could do but me. I eventually got a show reel together and I started sending it all over the country." Filmography Film Television Video games References External links * 1965 births Living people 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors English male television writers English male voice actors English televisio ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Teresa Gallagher
Teresa Gallagher is a U.S-born British actress. She is best known for her role as Nicole Watterson in the Cartoon Network animated sitcom ''The Amazing World of Gumball''. Career Gallagher is known for her role as Ellen Smith in ''The Bill'', for her appearances on radio in '' No Commitments'', '' Salem's Lot'', and '' Memorials to the Missing''. She played Sarah in '' Footballers' Wives'', and Alison Canning in '' Casualty''. She presented the Children's BBC show '' Playdays'', and has provided the voices for other children's series including '' The Mr. Men Show'', '' Alphablocks'', '' Numberblocks'', and '' Octonauts''. She has recorded redubs for several anime films such as '' Laughing Target'', '' X'', '' Bounty Dog'', '' Demon City Shinjuku,'' and '' Cyber City Oedo 808''. Gallagher later returned to do voice acting for anime with the English dubbed version of the TV series '' Ronja, the Robber's Daughter''. In 2003, she voiced Amalia, the female lead in Rita Dove' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Antonia Thomas
Antonia Laura Thomas (born 3 November 1986) is a British actress. She is best known for her roles as Alisha Daniels in the E4 comedy-drama series '' Misfits'', Evie Douglas in the Channel 4/Netflix comedy series '' Lovesick'' and Dr. Claire Browne in the ABC drama series '' The Good Doctor''. Early life Antonia Laura Thomas was born in London in 1986, the daughter of a Jamaican mother, Veronica Thomas, an NHS psychologist, and a British father. She has two older sisters, one of whom is Emma Jay Thomas, also an actress. At age 12, she joined the National Youth Music Theatre, and at age 13 she toured Japan in the musical Pendragon production, alongside Connie Fisher. She attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 2009 with a BA in acting, then joined the National Youth Theatre. Member and Alumni News- This week NYT Alumna Antonia Thomas performed ''Tipping Point'' on BBC Four as part of their ''Snatches: Moments From 100 Years Of Women's Lives'' series set i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fearne Cotton
Fearne Cotton (born 3 September 1981) is an English broadcaster and author. She began her career in the late 1990s as a children’s television presenter for GMTV, CITV and CBBC. She went on to present various television shows, including ''Top of the Pops'' (2004–2020), ''Love Island'' (2006), '' The Xtra Factor'' (2007), and '' Interior Design Masters'' (2019). Cotton was a regular co-presenter of the ''Children in Need'' annual telethons from 2005 to 2015, with the exception of 2009. From 2008 to 2018, she was a team captain on the ITV2 comedy panel show ''Celebrity Juice.'' In 2007, Cotton became the first regular female presenter of the Radio 1 Chart Show, which she co-presented with Reggie Yates for two years. She was later given her own Radio 1 show, airing every weekday morning from 2009 to 2015. She joined BBC Radio 2 in 2016. In 2018, Cotton began presenting ''Happy Place'', a podcast focusing on wellbeing and mental health. She has also released eight self-hel ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jim Broadbent
James Broadbent (born 24 May 1949) is an English actor. A graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in 1972, he came to prominence as a character actor for his many roles in film and television. He has received various accolades including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, an International Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards as well as nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award. Broadbent received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Academy Award for his supporting role as John Bayley (writer), John Bayley in the film ''Iris (2001 film), Iris'' (2001). Broadbent won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for ''Moulin Rouge!'' (2001). His early film roles include the Terry Gilliam films ''Time Bandits'' (1981) and ''Brazil (1985 film), Brazil'' (1985) before a breakthrough role in Mike Leigh's ''Life Is Sweet (film), Life Is Sweet'' (1990). Notable film roles include ''Bullets Over Broadway'' (1994), ''Topsy-Turvy'' (199 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |