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The Larkins (2021 TV Series)
''The Larkins'' is an English comedy drama television series, produced by Objective Fiction and Genial Productions. The series is the most recent adaptation of H. E. Bates novel '' The Darling Buds of May''. Both the novel and the series are set in rural 1950s Kent. The series stars Bradley Walsh as "Pop" Larkin and Joanna Scanlan as "Ma" Larkin. They have six children. The eldest daughter, Mariette, is played by Sabrina Bartlett (series 1) and Joelle Rae (series 2), while Tok Stephen plays accountant Cedric "Charley" Charlton. In February 2023 the British tabloid press speculated that the series had been cancelled due to poor ratings, although there was no official statement from ITV. In a television interview, Walsh suggested that, although there might be no new series in 2023 due to his own unavailability, the possibility of a feature-length special was being explored. Characters Episodes Series overview Series 1 (2021) Christmas Special (2021) Series 2 (20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bradley Walsh
Bradley John Walsh (born 4 June 1960) is an English actor, television presenter, comedian, singer, and former professional footballer. Walsh's acting roles on television include Danny Baldwin in the ITV soap opera ''Coronation Street'' (2004–2006), DS Ronnie Brooks in the procedural series '' Law & Order: UK'' (2009–2014), and Graham O'Brien in the BBC One sci-fi series ''Doctor Who'' (2018–2022). He has also presented various television game shows, including ''Wheel of Fortune'' (1997), '' The Chase'' (2009–present), '' Odd One In'' (2010–2011), ''Keep It in the Family'' (2014–2015), '' Cash Trapped'' (2016–2019), and '' Blankety Blank'' (2020–present). Walsh hosted the ITV variety show '' Tonight at the London Palladium'' (2016–2019) and was a team captain on the sports-themed panel show '' Play to the Whistle'' (2015–2017). He appeared as the coach in the 2001 comedy film '' Mike Bassett: England Manager.'' Since 2019, he has starred in '' Bradley Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Barney Walsh
Barney Walsh (born 2 December 1997) is an English actor and television presenter. He began his career in various acting roles including '' Law & Order: UK'' and ''Doctors'', before working alongside his father Bradley Walsh on several projects, including the ITV series '' Bradley Walsh & Son: Breaking Dad'' since 2019 and the BBC's revival of ''Gladiators'' in 2024. Since 2023, he has appeared in the BBC drama ''Casualty'' as Cameron Mickelthwaite. Early life Walsh was born on 2 December 1997 in Westminster, London. He is the son of comedian, actor and television presenter Bradley Walsh and his wife Donna. He has an older half sister (b. 1982) from his father’s previous relationship. Education Walsh was educated at Chigwell School, a private boarding and day school in the town of Chigwell, in Essex, and the East 15 Acting School, in Loughton (also in Essex), followed by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, in London. Career As an actor, Walsh has appeared in British tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Broadstairs
Broadstairs () is a coastal town on the Isle of Thanet in the Thanet district of east Kent, England, about east of London. It is part of the civil parish of Broadstairs and St Peter's, which includes St Peter's, and had a population in 2011 of about 25,000. Situated between Margate and Ramsgate, Broadstairs is one of Thanet's seaside resorts, known as the "jewel in Thanet's crown". The town's coat of arms' Latin motto is ''Stella Maris'' (" Star of the Sea"). The name derives from a former flight of steps in the chalk cliff, which led from the sands up to the 11th-century shrine of St Mary on the cliff's summit. The town spreads from Haine Road in the west to Kingsgate (named after the landing of King Charles II in 1683), a hamlet in St Peter parish in the north, and to Dumpton in the south (named after the yeoman Dudeman who farmed there in the 13th century). The hamlet of Reading (formerly ''Reden'' or ''Redyng'') Street was established by Flemish refugees in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Underriver
Underriver is a village about south-east of Sevenoaks, Kent. It is in the civil parish of Seal. The name "Underriver", standardised from ''Underevere'', is derived from the Old English ''Sub le Ryver'' which translates into modern English as "(Place) under the hill-brow". OE ''under + yfer - ''the edge or brow of a hill''. The village's church, St Margaret's, is a Grade II listed building. It was built in 1867 to the designs of George Gilbert Scott. Until the early 20th century, Underriver had its own school, forge, post office, pub and church. Today only the pub and the church remain. The other buildings have since been converted into housing. Underriver also has its own village hall and an active village association. Aircraft accident On 22 August 1927, a Fokker F.VIII of KLM KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, or simply KLM (an abbreviation for their official name Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. , ), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
West Peckham
West Peckham is a village and civil parish in the borough of Tonbridge and Malling in Kent, England. The River Bourne, Kent, River Bourne flows through the extreme west of the parish, and formerly powered a paper mill (River Bourne, Kent#Hamptons Paper Mill, West Peckham, Hamptons Mill) and corn mill (River Bourne, Kent#Oxonhoath Mill, West Peckham, Oxenhoath Mill). The Wateringbury Stream rises in the parish. Oxon Hoath is the former manor house of West Peckham. History At the time of the Domesday survey in 1096, about 29 households were in West Peckham, in the ancient Hundred_(county_division), hundred of List of hundreds of England, Littlefield, Aylesford#Lathe_of_Aylesford, Lathe of Aylesford, West Kent. The Domesday entry for East Peckham, East and West Peckham reads:- :''Lanfranc, The Archbishop himself holds Pecheham, In the time of King Edward the Confessor it was taxed at six sulungs, and now six sulungs and one yoke. The arable land is ten carucates. In demesne there a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Broadcasters' Audience Research Board
Barb Audiences Ltd (formerly Broadcasters Audience Research Board) is a British organisation that compiles audience measurement and television ratings in the United Kingdom. It was created in 1981 to replace two previous systems whereby ITV (TV network), ITV ratings were compiled by JICTAR (Joint Industry Committee for Television Audience Research), whilst the BBC did their own audience research. BARB is jointly owned by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 (British TV channel), Channel 5, Sky UK, Sky and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. Participating viewers have a box on top of their TV sets which tracks the programmes they watch. In February 2023, Barb changed its company name to Barb Audiences Ltd (formerly Broadcasters' Audience Research Board). Business BARB have approximately 5,100 homes (equating to approximately 12,000 individuals) participating in the panel. This means that with a total UK population of 65,648,100, according to the 2016 census, each v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Serena Cullen
Serena may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Serena (genre), a 13th-century Occitan poetic genre * ''Serena'' (1962 film), a British crime thriller * ''Serena'' (2014 film), an American drama film starring Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper * ''Serena: The Other Side of Greatness'', a TV documentary about the tennis player Serena Williams * ''Serena'' (novel), by Ron Rash * ''Serena'' (video game), a horror adventure game * Serena (Pokémon), fictional character in the ''Pokémon'' franchise Brands and enterprises * Nissan Serena, a minivan * Serena Hotels, which operates hotels and resorts in East and Southern Africa and South Asia * Serena Software, an American company People * Serena (given name) * Serena (surname) * Serena (actress), pornographic actress Places *Séréna, a town in Burkina Faso *Serena Township, LaSalle County, Illinois, United States *Serena, Illinois, an unincorporated community and census-designated place in LaSalle County *Serena Waterpark, in La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Samantha Spiro
Samantha Spiro (born 20 June 1968) is an English actress and singer. She played Barbara Windsor in the stage play '' Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick'' and the television films '' Cor, Blimey!'' and '' Babs'', D.I. Vivien Friend in '' M.I.T.: Murder Investigation Team'', Melessa Tarly in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'', and Maureen Groff in ''Sex Education''. She has won two Laurence Olivier Awards. Background Born in Mill Hill, London, England, Spiro grew up in Radlett, Hertfordshire. She is Jewish. Spiro decided to be an actress at the age of ten after seeing a production of '' Androcles and the Lion'' at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park. She joined the National Youth Theatre and later trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Spiro attended Bancroft's School from 1982 to 1985 and subsequently returned in 2016 for an Arts & Drama masterclass Spiro spoke about how her time at Bancroft's had fuelled her enthusiasm for a career in the Arts. Spiro marr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Victoria Wicks
Victoria Wicks (born Beverly Victoria Anne Wicks; 18 April 1959) is a British actress. She is known for her role as Sally Smedley in Channel 4's comedy series '' Drop the Dead Donkey'' (1990–1998), Mrs. Gideon in '' The Mighty Boosh'' (2004), and the College Director in '' Skins'' (2007–08). Her film appearances include ''The Imitation Game'' (2014) and '' High-Rise'' (2015). She is an associate of Howard Barker's theatre company, The Wrestling School. Biography Early life and education Wicks was born Beverley Victoria Anne Wicks in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, to Brian and Judith Wicks. Wicks's mother, Judith Bates, born 1933, was the second child of the writer H. E. Bates. Wicks is the niece of Jonathan Bates, a sound editor who died in 2008, and the television producer Richard Bates, who produced the television adaptation of '' The Darling Buds of May''. Wicks is a director of Evensford Productions Ltd, the company set up in 1955 to protect and promote H. E. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Nicholas Le Prevost
Nicholas Le Prevost (born 18 March 1947) is an English actor. Early life Le Prevost was born in Wiltshire. He was educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School, Shaftesbury, Dorset from 1957 to 1961 and at Kingswood School, Bath from 1961 to 1964. At school, he studied Ecclesiastical Architecture, and has said that, had he not become an actor, he would have liked to be an architect. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Acting career Le Prevost's TV and radio credits include ''Coronation Street'', ''The Imitation Game'', '' It Takes a Worried Man'', '' The Jewel in the Crown'', '' HR'', ''Brideshead Revisited'', '' The Camomile Lawn'', '' Harnessing Peacocks'', '' Babblewick Hall'', '' The Ghosts of Motley Hall'', '' Up the Garden Path'', ''The War of the Worlds'', ''Inspector Morse'', ''Midsomer Murders'', '' Foyle's War'', ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'', ''The Vicar of Dibley'' and '' A Man for All Seasons''. At the 2002 Laurence Olivier Awards, he was nominated for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Georgie Glen
Georgie Glen (born 20 April 1956) is a Scottish actress, best known for her roles as Miss Higgins in the BBC One period drama series ''Call The Midwife'' from 2018 onwards, and as history teacher Audrey McFall in the BBC One school-based drama series '' Waterloo Road'' from 2012 to 2015. Life and career Glen is from Helensburgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, and graduated from Glasgow School of Art with a degree in graphic design. She worked at Thames and Hudson publishers as an assistant book designer for five years before studying at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School for two years. After graduating she worked for a year at Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich, England. She has featured in the BBC One drama series ''Call the Midwife'', '' Waterloo Road'', and ''Les Misérables'' as Mother Abbess; in 2012, she appeared in the film ''Les Misérables'' as Madame Baptistine. Additional period performances include Hannah More in the 2006 film ''Amazing Grace'', John Ruskin's mother in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wil Johnson
Wilbert Charles Johnson (born 18 April 1965) is an English actor, who has had notable television roles in '' Waking the Dead'' and '' Babyfather'', and on stage in ''Othello''. He played Dom Andrews in ''Emmerdale'' from 2012 to 2014. Early life Johnson was born in Muswell Hill, London, and raised in Tottenham. His mother invested in stocks and his father worked for UPS.Staff (15 May 2009). "Since I started singing on YouTube I've thought of nothing else...". ''Evening Telegraph'' (Coventry Newspapers): pp. 30–31. Johnson had no interest in music while he was in primary school, but after he filled in a role for an absent drummer, he changed his mind. He went to Mountview Drama School in Crouch End, London. He also joined another drama group at the Haringey Theatre. He also went to a dance group and learned ballet, contemporary dancing, and break dancing, which he performed for about seven years. He also attended National Youth Theatre for three years. Career Johnso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
