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Diana Corkhill
Diana Corkhill (also Spence) is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera '' Brookside'', played by Paula Frances. The character debuted on-screen during the episode broadcast on 19 November 1990. Diana was introduced as a love interest of the established character, Rod Corkhill (Jason Hope) and it was Frances' first television role. Diana is characterised as a kindly soul who is desperate to overcome hardships. Diana works as a sales assistant at a chemist but is hiding a secret about her education. She is the daughter of Freddie Spence (Peter Corey), who disapproves of her relationship with Rod. Writers made their relationship fraught with arguments because of his police career. Diana does not believe Rod is safe working as an undercover police officer. In one storyline, Diana is jilted on her wedding day because Rod is beaten up and hospitalised by a criminal. Their second attempt at marriage is successful. Writers continued to create problems and Rod is at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mal Young
Mal Young (born 26 January 1957) is a British television producer, screenwriter and executive producer. Career Mersey TV Young began his career in graphic design. At age 27 he began working in television, on the Channel 4 soap opera ''Brookside (television programme), Brookside''. Over nearly a decade, he worked his way up from extra to become the show's producer in the early 1990s. His tenure was criticised for taking the show away from its social realist roots towards a more sensationalist, ratings-chasing format. He oversaw the iconic Jordache Body Under The Patio storyline, as well as conceiving the first lesbian kiss on pre-watershed British TV achieving record ratings for the series and for Channel 4. He also co-created and produced his own successful drama series for Channel 4, ''And The Beat Goes On''. Pearson TV He then moved on to become head of drama at the independent production company Pearson Television, where he oversaw work on ITV (TV network), ITV police d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Corkhill
Jimmy Corkhill is a fictional character from ''Brookside'', played by Dean Sullivan, who joined the series in 1986. Jimmy originally appeared on a recurring basis appearing alongside his brother, Billy (John McArdle), before becoming a regular character, featured in major storylines, and remained in the show until its end 17 years later. He is cited as one of the show's most popular characters, and was the longest-featured character. Jimmy has often been cited as a lovable rogue by television critics. Casting Jimmy is played by Dean Sullivan. He later became the longest-serving cast member in the serial's history. Sullivan was initially only contracted to appear in six episodes as a recurring character, but due to his popularity he was taken on full-time and remained for seventeen years. When the serial was cancelled, Sullivan said he felt bereaved and it was like losing an old friend. Jimmy is often described as a rogue. Storylines Jimmy first appears in Brookside when his br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazia Pelka
Kazia Pelka (born 1962) is a British actress who has worked primarily in UK television, appearing in the soap opera series Brookside in the early 1990s, the period police drama series ''Heartbeat'' in the late 1990s, the police procedural series ''The Bill'', and the BBC medical drama series ''Doctors'', and ''Casualty''. Early life Pelka was born in Dewsbury, West Riding of Yorkshire, in December 1962 to a Polish engineer father and Irish stage actress Alma Herley. She is the niece of actor Randal Herley, and her maternal grandmother was Irish opera singer Anne Herley. She spent her childhood in the Roundhay district of Leeds and received her formal education at Notre Dame High School. Before becoming an actress, she briefly worked as a make-up artist. She subsequently trained in acting at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, where she was awarded the Wilfred Foulis prize. Upon graduating from L.A.M.D.A., she briefly worked as a theatre actress. A Granada Television ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inside Soap
''Inside Soap'' is a weekly magazine published in the United Kingdom, released every Tuesday. It covers current and future storylines in soap operas in the United Kingdom, including '' Coronation Street'', ''Doctors'', ''EastEnders'', ''Emmerdale'' and ''Hollyoaks'' as well as dramas ''Casualty'' and '' Holby City'', and Australian soaps '' Home and Away'' and '' Neighbours'', which are broadcast in the United Kingdom. History and profile In 1996, ''Inside Soap'' changed from a monthly issue magazine to being released every two weeks. ''Inside Soap'' traditionally provides interviews from actors who play characters in the soap operas and outlines current storylines. As of 2022, soaps included in its content are '' Coronation Street'', ''Doctors'', ''EastEnders'', ''Emmerdale'', ''Hollyoaks'' and Australian soap opera '' Home and Away''. Readers are invited to email their questions to soap stars and entries are published in interview format. Soap stars' personal lives are also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guardian Media Group
Guardian Media Group plc (GMG) is a British-based mass media company owning various media operations including ''The Guardian'' and ''The Observer''. The group is wholly owned by the Scott Trust Limited, which exists to secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity. The Group's 2018 annual report (year ending 1 April 2018) indicated that the Scott Trust Endowment Fund was valued at £1.01 billion (2017: £1.03bn). History The company was founded as the Manchester Guardian Ltd. in 1907 when C.P. Scott bought ''The Manchester Guardian'' (founded in 1821) from the estate of his cousin Edward Taylor. It became the Manchester Guardian and Evening News Ltd when it bought out the ''Manchester Evening News'' in 1924, later becoming the Guardian and Manchester Evening News Ltd to reflect the change in the morning paper's title. It adopted its current name in 1993. In 1991, it had a 20% stake in a consortium which included London Weekend Television, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adult Learners' Week
Adult Learners' Week is an international festival of adult learning. It is a UNESCO initiative that was first celebrated in the United States in the late ’80s, where there was a move to create a broad celebration of adult learning by the American Association for the Advancement of Education (AAAE). In 1990, governments met in Jomtien for the Education for All World conference. The aim of this conference was to set goals for universal access to and completion of primary education and to reduce the adult illiteracy rate to one half its 1990 level by 2000. Today Adult Learners’ Week is celebrated in many countries across the globe. It is a grass roots campaign led by the community education sector. Adult Learners' Week in the UK In the United Kingdom, the National Institute of Adult and Continuing Education first coordinated Adult Learners’ Week in 1992. Today Adult Learners’ Week is the UK’s largest festival of learning, and the overall purpose of the initiative is to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lime Pictures
Lime Pictures, formerly known as Mersey Television, is a British television production company, founded by producer and writer Phil Redmond in the early 1980s. They produce award winning drama, and entertainment shows, for the international market including ''Hollyoaks'', ''The Only Way is Essex'', ''Geordie Shore'' and ''Free Rein''. Mersey Television productions Mersey Television's first major production was the soap opera ''Brookside'' for Channel 4, which ran from the channel's foundation in 1982 until 2003, when it was taken off air due to declining ratings. A 3-part spin-off ('soap bubble') of ''Brookside'' was produced in November 1987 called ''Damon and Debbie''. In 1995, the company began producing a second soap opera for Channel 4, ''Hollyoaks'', which still runs. Both ''Brookside'' and ''Hollyoaks'' were created by Redmond himself, and in 2003 the company took over production of another series he had created, the children's drama ''Grange Hill'', which had first be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IPC Media
TI Media (formerly International Publishing Company, IPC Magazines Ltd, IPC Media and Time Inc. UK) was a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year. Most of its titles now belong to Future plc. History Origins The British magazine publishing industry in the mid-1950s was dominated by a handful of companies, principally the Associated Newspapers (founded by Lord Harmsworth in 1890), Odhams Press Ltd, Newnes/Pearson, and the Hulton Press, which fought each other for market share in a highly competitive marketplace. Fleetway In 1958 Cecil Harmsworth King, chairman of the newspaper group, The Daily Mirror Newspapers Limited which included the ''Daily Mirror'' and the '' Sunday Pictorial'' (now the '' Sunday Mirror''), together with provincial chain West of England Newspapers, made an offer for Amalgamated Press. The offer was accepted, and in January 1959 he was appointed its chairman. Within a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVTimes
''TV Times'' is a British television listings magazine published by Future plc. It was originally published by Independent Television Publications, owned by the participating ITV companies. The magazine was acquired by IPC Media in 1989, which became Time Inc. UK in 2014. Prior to 28 February 1991, it was the only source of seven-day listings for ITV and later, Channel 4 (includes S4C in Wales). The magazine was first published in 1955, but did not circulate nationally until 1968 as some (usually smaller) regional stations opted to produce their own listings publications. Until the market was deregulated, its nearest rival was ''Radio Times'' – owned then by the BBC and at the time the only source of weekly BBC television and radio schedules. However the two magazines were very different in character, and viewers wanting the full listings for the coming week were required to purchase both publications. It also used the branding for several broadcast spin-offs on ITV, often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
