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The Bill Series 25
The 25th series of ''The Bill'', a British television drama, was the penultimate series of the programme. On 30 April 2014, The Bill Series 25 Part 1-3 DVD set was released (in Australia). Overhaul The series began with several multi-part plots and hard-hitting storylines, as was done in the previous year, such as cot death and postpartum depression (Little Girl Lost Part 1 & 2), teenager on teenager murder (Teenage Kicks) and attacks on the police (Back to School). However, an ITV-mandated overhaul saw the series output halved to one episode a week, the show previously running two hour-long episodes at 8pm since 1998, the new format and theme tune to be launched that summer as one episode a week in a post-watershed slot of 9pm, starting from "Live By the Sword" to the final-ever episode of the 26th and final series "Respect: Part II" at the end of August 2010. ITV claimed the show was needing a change of direction and was intending to make the show "darker, and more gritty", b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Network)
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television network. It is branded as ITV1 in most of the UK except for central and northern Scotland, where it is branded as STV (TV channel), STV. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been Legal name, legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time: BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was, for decades, a network of separate companies that provided regional television services and also shared programmes among themselves to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs ITV1, the ITV1 cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Police Constable Millie Brown
''The Bill'' is a long-running British television police procedural television series which ran from 16 August 1983 to the show’s cancellation on 31 August 2010, named after a slang term for the police. The characters Character or Characters may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Literature * ''Character'' (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk * ''Characters'' (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to Theoph ... are all police officers or civilian staff at the fictional Sun Hill (The Bill), Sun Hill police station in London. Senior officers The following actors appeared as senior officers in ''The Bill''. Simon Rouse, as Jack Meadows, appeared in 884 episodes, including the series finale "Respect", aired on 31 August 2010. He is the longest serving actor to portray a character in a senior role. Andrew Lancel, as Neil Manson, and Alex Walkinshaw, as "Smithy", also appeared in the series finale. The character of D.I. Roy Gal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona Dolman
Fiona Dolman (born 30 January 1970) is a Scottish actress known for playing Miss Pamela Andrews in the ITV 2008 daytime drama series and spinoff to ''The Royal'', ''The Royal Today'', and Sarah Barnaby in ''Midsomer Murders''. In 1998, Dolman was featured in a supporting role in Channel 4's one year vampire series ''Ultraviolet''. From 1998 to 2001, Dolman played Jacqueline “Jackie” Lambert / Jacqueline “Jackie” Bradley in ''Heartbeat''. Dolman featured briefly in the BBC show ''Paradox''. She also appeared in the BBC series '' Waterloo Road'' in August 2010 as a Police sergeant. Since 2011 Dolman has appeared as Sarah Barnaby, wife of DCI John Barnaby and new head teacher at Causton Comprehensive School, in ''Midsomer Murders''. She has also appeared on ''Lily Savage's Blankety Blank ''Blankety Blank'' is a British comedy game show which first aired in 1979. The show is based on the American game show ''Match Game'', with contestants trying to match answers g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingrid Lacey
Ingrid Marcella Lacey (born 6 November 1958) is a British actress. She is known for her role as Julia in Series 2 of '' London's Burning'', Helen Cooper in the Channel 4 sitcom '' Drop the Dead Donkey'' (1993–98). Her film appearances include '' Funny Man'' (1994), '' In Love and War'' (1996) and '' The Cat's Meow'' (2001). Career Lacey is best known for her role as Helen Cooper in '' Drop the Dead Donkey''. She was born in Surrey and educated at Godalming College and trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 1981. She has acted in films, radio, TV series and theatre productions, such as Lolly Susi's ''Gone to LA'' at the Hampstead Theatre, London, where she had to shave her head for her role of a woman suffering from breast cancer and in ''The Knight of the Burning Pestle''. She has also appeared at the Royal Court Theatre in the productions ''Blood'' and ''Our Late Night''. In 2007, she was in the Bush Theatre's production of ''Elling'', which transferred t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Si Spencer
Si Spencer (1961 – 16 February 2021)Si Spencer, 1961-2021 at '' 2000AD''; published February 17, 2021; retrieved February 17, 2021 was a British comic book writer and TV dramatist and editor whose work appeared in British comics such as ''''. He often collaborated with Dean Ormston and later moved to the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicôle Lecky
Nicôle Lecky is a British actress, singer and writer. She is best known for her 2018 play '' Superhoe'' and its 2022 TV-series adaptation '' Mood''. Early life Lecky (born 1990) grew up in Stratford, East London. She is English-Jamaican and has siblings. Her father was an electrician and former DJ, and her mother a mental-health nurse. Lecky studied for a time at King's College London, but graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. At age 18, she was signed by a theatrical agent. Her mother died when Lecky was 19. Work Lecky has written for the soap opera '' EastEnders: E20'', and her acting roles include the TV-series ''Casualty'', '' Fresh Meat'', ''Sense8'' and ''Death in Paradise''. She directed ''The Moor Girl'', a short film. Her 2018 play ''Superhoe'' was a collaboration between the Talawa Theatre Company and the Royal Court Theatre, directed by Jade Lewis. Lecky wrote and performed the monodrama, and collaborated with British rapper The Last Skeptik on the play's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of The Bill Characters (Q-Z)
''The Bill'' is a long-running British television police procedural television series which ran from 16 August 1983 to the show’s cancellation on 31 August 2010, named after a slang term for the police. The characters are all police officers or civilian staff at the fictional Sun Hill police station in London. Senior officers The following actors appeared as senior officers in ''The Bill''. Simon Rouse, as Jack Meadows, appeared in 884 episodes, including the series finale "Respect", aired on 31 August 2010. He is the longest serving actor to portray a character in a senior role. Andrew Lancel, as Neil Manson, and Alex Walkinshaw, as "Smithy", also appeared in the series finale. The character of D.I. Roy Galloway appeared in the pilot episode, "Woodentop", aired on 16 August 1983, played by Robert Pugh. This character would go on to be portrayed by John Salthouse from 1984. Notable senior officers * Peter Ellis played Chief Superintendent Charles Brownlow from the start of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Whitlock
Lee Whitlock (17 April 1968 – 17 February 2023) was a British television and film actor. His roles in film and TV included '' Shine on Harvey Moon'' (1982), '' Two of Us'' (1987), ''Casualty'' (1991), ''Grange Hill'' (1993), '' Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'', '' London's Burning'', and ''The Bill'' (all 2007) and ''Ill Manors'' (2012). Career At age 12, Whitlock gave his debut in the British television series ''The Gentle Touch'' in 1980. In 1982 he starred in a main role as Stanley Moon, the son of Harvey Moon, for five seasons and 41 episodes of ITV's '' Shine on Harvey Moon''. In 1982, he appeared as Falstaff's page Robin in ''The Merry Wives of Windsor''. In 1987, he had a short appearance in the British film ''Wish You Were Here'' by David Leland, and he became further notable in the 1987 television drama '' Two of Us'', about a gay relationship between two schoolboys. The following year he starred alongside Chris Gascoyne in Central Television's seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cathy Murphy
Catherine McKevitt Murphy (born 7 August 1967) is a British actress. She is known for her television roles as Tilly Watkins in the BBC drama ''The House of Eliott'' (1991–1994), Cheryl Barker in the Channel 5 soap opera ''Family Affairs'' (2003–2004), and as Julie Perkins in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' (2010–2011). Career Born in Essex, England, Murphy studied at the Sylvia Young Theatre School. She played the role of Lorna in 1991, a love interest of Mark Fowler in soap opera ''EastEnders''. In 2005 she returned to the show to play the recurring role of Trisha Taylor. Murphy had earlier played the ongoing role of Cheryl Barker in serial ''Family Affairs'' for one year. Prior to that, she played Tilly Watkins (later Foss) in '' The House of Elliot''. It was announced on 23 September 2010 that Murphy was to return to ''EastEnders'' for a third time, this time playing Julie Perkins, an old friend of long-running character Billy Mitchell William Lendrum Mitch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gaddas
James Gaddas (born 9 June 1960) is an English actor best known for his roles in ''Coronation Street'', '' Bad Girls'', ''Doctors'', ''Emmerdale'' and ''Hollyoaks''. Career Gaddas played Eddie Ainsworth in the tenth episode of the seventh series of '' Heartbeat''. Since leaving ''Bad Girls'', Gaddas has appeared as Jackie Elliot in ''Billy Elliot the Musical'', productions of ''Peter Pan'' and ''Spamalot'' and Bill Anderson in '' Mamma Mia!'' in London. Gaddas has also made appearances on ''The Bill'', '' Between the Lines'', '' Tracy Beaker Returns'', '' Medics'', ''Dogtown'', ''Doctors'', '' Waterloo Road'' and in 2015, he acted in ''Emmerdale'', playing Ged, who is a prisoner awaiting trial for murder. In 2017 he played John in the musical '' The Girls'' at the Phoenix Theatre in the West End. In 2020, he joined the cast of the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' as Cormac Ranger. In September 2021, it was announced that Gaddas would write and star in a new version of Bram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Farleigh
Marilyn J. "Lynn" Farleigh (born 3 May 1942) is an English actress of stage and screen. Early life Farleigh was born in Bath, Somerset on 3 May 1942 to Joseph Sydney Farleigh and his wife Marjorie Norah (née Clark). She attended the Redland High School for Girls in Bristol, and trained for the stage at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Career She made her first professional appearance in May 1962 in a production of ''Under Milk Wood'' at the Salisbury Playhouse, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in October 1966, playing Castiza in ''The Revenger's Tragedy'' at Stratford upon Avon. She made her New York debut with the RSC in April 1967 at the Music Box Theatre, playing Ruth in a production of Harold Pinter's ''The Homecoming''. Her first London performance came in January 1968 as Helena in the RSC revival of ''All's Well That Ends Well''. In the same Aldwych Theatre season she also played Amanda in ''The Relapse'', August 1968, and Portia in ''Julius Caesar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennie Jacques
Jennie Jacques (born 28 February 1989) is an English actress. She is known for her roles in the BBC Two drama ''Desperate Romantics'' (2009), the police procedural ''WPC 56'' (2013–2014), and the History Channel series ''Vikings'' (2015–2019). Early life Jacques was born in Walsgrave Hospital and grew up in Coventry and Leamington Spa, West Midlands, and Warwick, Warwickshire. She is the eldest of seven children. Career Jacques made her television debut as Katie Fielding in an episode of the ITV police series ''The Bill''. Her first major was as artists' model Annie Miller in the six-part BBC Two period drama ''Desperate Romantics'' (2009) about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Jacques made her feature film debut as Beth in the urban thriller ''Cherry Tree Lane'' and Ree Ree in the futuristic thriller '' Shank''. Jacques has also appeared in ''Casualty'' on BBC One, where she played Lily Knowles, the carer of Megan Roach, in the episode "Nice and Easy Does It" broadcast on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
