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2007 British Academy Television Craft Awards
The British Academy Television Craft Awards of 2007 are presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and were held on 22 April 2007 at The Dorchester, Mayfair, the ceremony was hosted by Jon Snow. Winners and nominees Winners will be listed first and highlighted in boldface. Special awards * Sydney Lotterby See also * 2007 British Academy Television Awards The 2007 British Academy Television Awards were held on Sunday 20 May at the London Palladium Theatre in London. They were broadcast live on BBC One in the UK. The nominations were announced on 11 April 2007. Winners and nominees Winners in bold. ... References External linksBritish Academy Craft Awards official website {{DEFAULTSORT:British Academy Television Craft Awards 2007 2007 television awards 2007 in British television 2007 in London April 2007 events in the United Kingdom 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dorchester
The Dorchester is a five-star luxury hotel on Park Lane and Deanery Street in London, to the east of Hyde Park. It is one of the world's most prestigious and expensive hotels. The Dorchester opened on 18 April 1931, and it still retains its 1930s furnishings and ambiance despite being modernised. Throughout its history, the hotel has been closely associated with the rich and famous. During the 1930s, it became known as a haunt of numerous writers and artists such as poet Cecil Day-Lewis, novelist Somerset Maugham, and the painter Sir Alfred Munnings. It has held prestigious literary gatherings, such as the "Foyles Literary Luncheons", an event the hotel still hosts today. During the Second World War, the strength of its construction gave the hotel the reputation of being one of London's safest buildings, and notable members of political parties and the military chose it as their London residence. Queen Elizabeth II attended the Dorchester when she was a princess on the day p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Suspect
''Prime Suspect'' is a British police procedural television drama series devised by Lynda La Plante. It stars Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison, one of the first female Detective Chief Inspectors in Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service, who rises to the rank of Detective Superintendent while confronting institutionalised sexism within the police force. Plot ''Prime Suspect'' focuses on a no-nonsense female Detective Chief Inspector (DCI), Jane Tennison (played by Helen Mirren), who is an officer in the Metropolitan Police, initially at the fictional Southampton Row police station. The series follows her constant battles to prove herself within a male-dominated profession in which many of her colleagues are determined to see her fail, though she has the support of her boss, Detective Chief Superintendent Mike Kernan (John Benfield), and the loyalty of Detective Sergeant Richard Haskons (Richard Hawley). In later series, Tennison is reassigned to rotating duties, including a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Harlot's Progress (film)
''A Harlot's Progress'' is a 2006 British television film directed by Justin Hardy and starring Zoe Tapper, Toby Jones, Sophie Thompson and Richard Wilson. The story is based on the series of paintings entitled ''A Harlot's Progress'' by William Hogarth. Hogarth's work is inspired by his interactions with an eighteenth-century prostitute Mary Collins. It originally aired on Channel 4 on 2 November 2006. Main cast * Zoe Tapper - Mary Collins * Toby Jones - William Hogarth * Sophie Thompson - Jane Hogarth * Richard Wilson - Sir James Thornhill * Geraldine James Geraldine James, OBE (born 6 July 1950) is an English film and television actress. Biography Early life and family James was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, to a cardiologist father and an alcoholic mother, who had been a nurse. She failed her ... - Madame Needham References External links * 2006 television films 2006 films British television films Films set in the 1730s Films set in the 18th century Bio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Housewife, 49
''Housewife, 49'' is a 2006 television film based on the wartime diaries of Nella Last. Written by and starring English actress and comedian Victoria Wood, it follows the experiences of an ordinary housewife and mother in the Northern English town of Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, during the Second World War. It was first broadcast in the UK by ITV on 10 December 2006. Plot The Mass-Observation project was set up in 1937 by Charles Madge, a poet and journalist and Tom Harrisson, an anthropologist to 'record the voice of ordinary people'. They recruited volunteer 'observers' to report to them and in 1939 invited people to send them an account of their lives. Nella Last was one of 500 people who took up this offer. Her diaries sent weekly are headed "Housewife, 49", her age when she first began the correspondence. Her diaries sent to Mass-Observation, often written in pencil, provide the narrative of the play as it unfolds her life. Edited versions of her diary have been publi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Eyre (2006 TV Series)
''Jane Eyre'' is a 2006 television adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel of the same name. The story, which has been the subject of numerous television and film adaptations, is based on the life of the orphaned title character. This four-part BBC television drama serial adaptation was broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One. The drama is generally considered a successful adaptation, garnering critical acclaim and a number of nominations from various award bodies. Plot In this version of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Jane Eyre (Georgie Henley) is raised as a poor relation in the household of her aunt, Mrs. Reed (Tara Fitzgerald). As a young woman (Ruth Wilson), Jane is hired by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax, to be a governess for young Adèle (Cosima Littlewood). The owner of the estate is Mr. Rochester (Toby Stephens), who is courting the beautiful Blanche Ingram (Christina Cole). Episode One After the death of her maternal uncle, the orphaned chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Aftermath
Aftermath may refer to: Companies * Aftermath (comics), an imprint of Devil's Due Publishing * Aftermath Entertainment, an American record label founded by Dr. Dre * Aftermath Media, an American multimedia company * Aftermath Services, an American crime-scene cleanup company Film and television Films * ''Aftermath'' (1914 film), an American lost silent film * ''Aftermath'' (1927 film), a German silent film * ''Aftermath'' (1990 film) or ''Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501'', an American television film * ''Aftermath'' (1994 film), a Spanish short horror film by Nacho Cerdà * ''Aftermath'' (2001 film), a television movie starring Meredith Baxter * ''Aftermath'' (2002 film), a film starring Sean Young * ''Aftermath'' (2004 film), a Danish film * ''Aftermath'' (2012 film), a Polish thriller and drama * ''Aftermath'' (2013 film), a film starring Anthony Michael Hall * ''Aftermath'' (2014 film), an apocalyptic thriller by Peter Engert * ''Aftermath'' (2017 film), a film star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Fenton
George Richard Ian Howe (born 19 October 1949), known professionally as George Fenton, is an English composer. Best known for his work writing film scores and music for television, he has received five Academy Award nominations, several Ivor Novello, BAFTA, Golden Globe, Emmy and BMI Awards, and a Classic BRIT. He is one of 18 songwriters and composers to have been made a Fellow of the Ivors Academy (formally BASCA). He has frequently collaborated with the directors Richard Attenborough, Nora Ephron, Alastair Fothergill, Stephen Frears, Nicholas Hytner, Ken Loach, Andy Tennant, Neil Jordan and Terry Gilliam. Early life and career George Fenton was born in 1949 in Bromley, Kent, one of five siblings. He was educated at Carn Brea School and St Edward's School, Oxford. He began learning the guitar at the age of 8 and at St Edwards studied the organ with Peter Whitehouse. He did not attend music college but continued to study with Pete Whitehouse and subsequently with the ethn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Planet Earth (2006 TV Series)
''Planet Earth'' is a 2006 British television series produced by the BBC Natural History Unit. Five years in the making, it was the most expensive nature documentary series ever commissioned by the BBC and also the first to be filmed in high-definition video, high definition. The series received multiple awards, including four Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, and an award from the Royal Television Society. ''Planet Earth'' premiered on 5 March 2006 in the United Kingdom on BBC One, and by June 2007 had been shown in 130 countries. The original version was narrated by David Attenborough, whilst some international versions used alternative narrators. The series has eleven episodes, each of which features a global overview of a different biome or habitat on Earth. At the end of each fifty-minute episode, a ten-minute featurette takes a behind-the-scenes look at the challenges of filming the series. Ten years later, the BBC announced a six-part sequel had been commissioned, titled ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Hooper
Nicholas Hooper is a British film and television composer and guitarist. He has scored the award-winning BBC productions ''Land of the Tiger'' and ''Andes to Amazon'', as well as the TV movies ''The Girl in the Café'' and ''My Family and Other Animals'' among others. Hooper won a BAFTA Award and an Ivor Novello Award for Original Score in 2004 for ''The Young Visiters'' and a BAFTA for Best Original Television Music in 2007 for '' Prime Suspect: The Final Act''. His highest-profile scores were for ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix'' and ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'', for which he reunited with old friend director David Yates, with whom he had worked before on ''The Tichborne Claimant'', ''The Way We Live Now'', '' State of Play'', ''The Young Visiters'' and ''The Girl in the Café''. These were Hooper's most notable works on blockbuster films. For ''Half-Blood Prince'', he was nominated for a Grammy. However, he chose not to return for the final two instal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Biswas
Neil Biswas (born 1971) is a British screenwriter, playwright and director best known for his non-fictional TV drama ''Bradford Riots'', which he wrote and directed. ''Bradford Riots'', a film that tells the story of 2001 riots from the perspective of an Asian family, was broadcast on Channel 4 in 2006 to great acclaim, winning the Arts Council England Decibel Award. Career His stage-plays include ''Crash'' (Croydon Warehouse), Skirmishes (Etcetera), ''Overhear'' (National Tour – Leicester Haymarket, Bristol New Vic, Brixton Shaw) and ''Skin'' (Soho Theatre Company). He has also written for BBC Radio Four, The Royal Court YPT, English National Opera and Tara Arts. Biswas has co-written the Talkback Productions' ten-part adaptation of ''In a Land of Plenty'' (screened on BBC2 in 2000). He also wrote the TV serials ''Second Generation'' for Channel 4 and the mini-series, ''The Take'' which ran on Sky 1, and directed two episodes of ''Skins (UK TV series)''. He has written an episo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shoot The Messenger (film)
''Shoot the Messenger'' is a television play first broadcast on BBC Two on 30 August 2006. Synopsis After reading a report that black pupils from inner city schools are being failed by the education system, IT consultant Joe (David Oyelowo) decides to become a teacher. Having secured himself a job at a school in South London, Joe uses a series of discriminatory methods to ensure black students are given extra tuition over their white contemporaries (targeting them for detention being one such method). When he is falsely accused of assaulting one of the pupils in his care (Charles Mnene), Joe is suspended from work pending an investigation. He appears on local radio where he defends himself against black rights activist Councillor Watts (Brian Bovell) who denounces Joe as "the embodiment of 21st century Britain ..a Ku Klux Klanman with a black face". As a result of the broadcast, the community begins to turn against Joe and he loses his job. When he slips into a deep depression ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Graham
Matthew Graham is a British television writer, and the co-creator of the BBC/Kudos (production company), Kudos Film and Television science fiction series ''Life on Mars (UK TV series), Life on Mars'', which debuted in 2006 on BBC One and has received international critical acclaim. Career Graham began his career writing for the soap opera ''EastEnders'' and the children's drama ''Byker Grove'', both for BBC One. In the 1990s, he wrote for the popular BBC Two drama series ''This Life (1996 TV series), This Life'', and created and wrote the post-apocalyptic drama serial ''The Last Train (TV series), The Last Train'' for ITV Network, ITV. He has also written episodes for ''Spooks (TV series), Spooks'' and ''Hustle (TV series), Hustle'', and he wrote "Fear Her", an episode of the Doctor Who (series 2), 2006 series of ''Doctor Who''. ''Ashes to Ashes (British TV series), Ashes to Ashes'', a ''Life on Mars'' sequel which he co-created with ''Life on Mars'' writer/co-creator Ashley Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
