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Alexandra Moen
Alexandra Moen (born 1978) is an English actress, known for her roles as Emily James in the drama series '' Hotel Babylon'', Tamsin in the drama series ''Tripping Over'', and Lucy Saxon in the science fiction series ''Doctor Who''. Early life Moen was born in Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, the daughter of an oceanographer father and teacher mother. She lived briefly in Canada and Bermuda with her two younger brothers, until moving to Britain in 1991. She studied English at Leeds University , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ..., later going on to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). Filmography Film Television Stage References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Moen, Alexandra Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art 21s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pisa
Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the city contains more than twenty other historic churches, several medieval palaces, and bridges across the Arno. Much of the city's architecture was financed from its history as one of the Italian maritime republics. The city is also home to the University of Pisa, which has a history going back to the 12th century, the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, founded by Napoleon in 1810, and its offshoot, the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies.Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa Information statistics History ...
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Bert And Dickie
As part of the celebrations for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the BBC produced the film ''Bert and Dickie'' (also called ''Going For Gold: The '48 Games''), depicting Dickie Burnell and Bert Bushnell's achievement at the 1948 Games. Plot Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell and Dickie Burnell row to victory in the double sculls. Cast * Sam Hoare as Dickie Burnell * Matt Smith as Bert Bushnell * Geoffrey Palmer as Charles Burnell * James Frain as Jack Beresford * Douglas Hodge as John Bushnell * Anastasia Hille as Lena Bushnell * Alexandra Moen Alexandra Moen (born 1978) is an English actress, known for her roles as Emily James in the drama series '' Hotel Babylon'', Tamsin in the drama series ''Tripping Over'', and Lucy Saxon in the science fiction series ''Doctor Who''. Early life Moe ... as Rosalind Burnell Reception Paddy Shennan of the Liverpool Echo said Bert and Dickie is ''thoroughly absorbing and upliftin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dickensian (TV Series)
''Dickensian'' is a British drama television series that premiered on BBC One from 26 December 2015 to 21 February 2016. The 20-part series, created and co-written by Tony Jordan, brings characters from many Charles Dickens novels together in one Victorian London neighbourhood, as Inspector Bucket investigates the murder of Ebenezer Scrooge's partner Jacob Marley. Production ''Dickensian'' was commissioned by Danny Cohen and Ben Stephenson. The executive producers are Polly Hill and Tony Jordan, and the production company behind the series is Red Planet Pictures. Red Planet Pictures's Alex Jones vowed to lobby HM Revenue and Customs and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to relax the tax-relief rules for ''Dickensian''; tax relief is only given for dramas longer than 30 minutes and each episode of ''Dickensian'' lasts 30 minutes. In April 2016, the BBC confirmed that they had cancelled the show after one series. Cast The cast includes the following: Episodes Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death Comes To Pemberley (TV Series)
''Death Comes to Pemberley'' is a three-part British television drama based on the best-selling 2011 P.D. James novel of the same name. Her murder mystery was based on the style and characters of Jane Austen's 1813 novel ''Pride and Prejudice.'' The series was commissioned by Controller of BBC Drama Commissioning Ben Stephenson and then-Controller of BBC One Danny Cohen, and was first broadcast from 26 to 28 December 2013 on BBC One. Premise It is June 1803, six years after the marriage of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy and Miss Elizabeth Bennet, as recounted in ''Pride and Prejudice.'' One evening, George Wickham and his wife Lydia (Elizabeth's sister) are travelling by carriage to Pemberley for a ball with Captain Denny. Wickham and Denny have an argument, and leave the carriage in anger. The two men disappear into the woodland, where Lydia hears two gunshots. After being informed, Darcy sends out a search party, who find Wickham distraught and hysterical, holding Denny's body and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luther (TV Series)
''Luther'' is a British Psychological fiction, psychological crime thriller television series starring Idris Elba as DCI John Luther and Ruth Wilson as Alice Morgan, written by Neil Cross. The detective Luther must make cases against criminals while the murderer Morgan has a complicated relationship with him. The first series is composed of six episodes which ran in May and June 2010. A second series of four episodes aired on BBC One in June and July 2011, and a third was commissioned in 2012 composed of four episodes which aired in July 2013. A two-episode fourth series was broadcast in December 2015, and a fifth series of four episodes premiered on 1 January 2019. BBC Studios handles the distribution. Elba has been awarded a Critics' Choice Television Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for his performance as John Luther. The series has also received eleven Primetime Emmy Award nominations in various categories, including four nominations of Elba for Outst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strike Back (TV Series)
''Strike Back'' is a British/American action-adventure/spy-drama television series based on the 2007 novel of the same name by novelist and former Special Air Service soldier Chris Ryan. The series follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive branch of the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, aka MI6), who operate several high risk, priority missions around the world. The six-part first series began broadcasting on Sky One on 5 May 2010. After a second series was commissioned, it was announced that Cinemax would co-produce the franchise. The first episode of the ten-part second series, under the banner title '' Project Dawn'' in the United Kingdom, first aired on Cinemax on 12 August 2011. The ten-part third series, under the title '' Strike Back: Vengeance'', began airing on Cinemax on 17 August 2012. On 3 October 2012, Cinemax and Sky commissioned a fourth series, '' Strike Back: Shadow Warfare'', which was broadcast on Cinemax beginning 9 August 2013. A ten-episode, fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casualty (TV Series)
''Casualty'' (stylised as ''CASUAL+Y'') is a British medical drama series that airs weekly on BBC One. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 6 September 1986. The original producer was Geraint Morris. Having been broadcast weekly since 1986, ''Casualty'' is the longest-running primetime medical drama series in the world. The programme is set in the fictional Holby City Hospital and focuses on the staff and patients of the hospital's Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department. The show has strong ties to its sister programme '' Holby City'', which began as a spin-off series from ''Casualty'' in 1999, set in the same hospital. The final episode of ''Holby City'' was broadcast in March 2022. ''Casualty''s exterior shots were mainly filmed outside the Ashley Down Centre in Bristol from 1986 until 2002, when they moved to the centre of Bristol. In 2011, ''Casualty'' celebrated its 25th anniversary and moved production to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctors (2000 TV Series)
''Doctors'' is a British medical soap opera, first broadcast on BBC One on 26 March 2000. Set in the fictional West Midlands town of Letherbridge, the soap follows the lives of the staff of both an NHS doctor's surgery and a university campus surgery, as well as the lives of their families and friends. Initially, only 41 episodes of the programme were ordered, but due to the positive reception, the BBC ordered it as a continuing soap opera. ''Doctors'' was filmed at the Pebble Mill Studios until 2004; production then relocated to the BBC Drama Village. Episodes are filmed three months prior to transmission. The soap is typically broadcast on weekdays at 1:45 pm on BBC One and takes three annual transmission breaks across the year; at Easter, during the summer and at Christmas. Since its inception, ''Doctors'' has consistently won the share of viewers in its daytime time slot, and as of 2022, it averages at 1.6 million live viewers in its daytime broadcast. The program ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waking The Dead (TV Series)
''Waking the Dead'' is a British television police procedural crime drama series, produced by the BBC, that centres on a fictional London-based Cold Case unit composed of CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000, and a total of nine series followed. Each story is split into two hour-long episodes, shown on consecutive nights on BBC One. A third series episode won an International Emmy Award in 2004. The programme was also shown on BBC America in the United States, though these screenings are edited to allow for advertising breaks, as well as UKTV in Australia and New Zealand and ABC1 in Australia. A total of 46 stories aired across the nine series. The show aired its final episode on 11 April 2011. A spin-off from the series, titled '' The Body Farm'', revolving around forensic scientist Eve Lockhart (Tara Fitzgerald), was announced by the BBC in January 2011 and ran for just one series. In 2018, a five-par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The End Of Time (Doctor Who)
"The End of Time" is a two-part story of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', originally broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 25 December 2009 (Part 1) and 1 January 2010 (Part 2). It is the fifth ''Doctor Who'' Christmas special and the last entry in a series of specials aired from 2008 to 2010. It marks the final regular appearance of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor and introduces Matt Smith (Subscription only) as the Eleventh Doctor. At the time, it was the last ''Doctor Who'' story written and produced by Russell T Davies, who shepherded the series' return to British television in 2005 and served as the series's executive producer and chief writer. He returned to that role in 2022 in time for the 60th anniversary specials. Davies was succeeded as executive producer and showrunner by Steven Moffat. Bernard Cribbins, who appeared in the story "Voyage of the Damned" and throughout Series 4 as Wilfred Mott, grandfather of Donna Noble, acts a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Last Of The Time Lords
"Last of the Time Lords" is the thirteenth and final episode of the third series of the revived British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was broadcast on BBC One on 30 June 2007. It is the last of three episodes that form a linked narrative, following "Utopia" and "The Sound of Drums". The episode is set on Earth one year after the events of "The Sound of Drums". In the episode, the alien time traveller the Master (John Simm) has conquered the Earth and enslaved its population to prepare warships for him to conquer the rest of the universe. The medical student Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) has spent the previous year travelling the planet as part of a plan to stop the Master. Plot A year after the Toclafane attacked Earth and the Master took over the planet, humanity is on the verge of extinction. After her escape from the ''Valiant'', Martha has been travelling around the world and avoiding detection. She has been preparing the surviving humans to conc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sound Of Drums
"The Sound of Drums" is the twelfth episode of the third series of the revived British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. It was broadcast on BBC One on 23 June 2007. It is the second of three episodes that form a linked narrative, following "Utopia" and followed by "Last of the Time Lords". In the episode, set in the 21st century, the alien time traveller the Master (John Simm) uses a network of mobile phone satellites to hypnotise the world and influence the population of the United Kingdom into electing him Prime Minister. Following the election, he makes contact with an invading race he calls the Toclafane. Plot The Tenth Doctor, Jack, and Martha escape the Futurekind by using Jack's vortex manipulator to return to present-day London. They quickly learn that the Master has taken on the persona of Harold Saxon, and is the newly elected Prime Minister. The Master has created a phone network called Archangel which subliminally influenced the population to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
