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Great Expectations (upcoming TV Series)
''Great Expectations'' is a historical fiction series developed by Steven Knight, based on the novel by Charles Dickens. It premiered on BBC One on 26 March 2023, followed by its USA premiere on FX on Hulu later the same day. Premise ''Great Expectations'' is the coming-of-age story of Pip, an orphan who yearns for a greater lot in life, until a twist of fate and the evil machinations of the mysterious and eccentric "Miss Havisham" shows him a dark world of possibilities. Under the great expectations placed upon him, Pip will have to work out the true cost of this new world and whether it will truly make him the man he wishes to be. A damning critique of the class system, Dickens' novel was published in 1861 after first release in weekly chapters in December 1860. Cast *Fionn Whitehead as Pip **Tom Sweet portrays young Pip * Johnny Harris as Magwitch *Trystan Gravelle as Compeyson * Owen McDonnell as Joe *Hayley Squires as Sara *Tim Key as Mr. Wopsle *Matt Berry as Mr. Pumb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Historical Fiction
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting related to the past events, but is fictional. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literature, it can also be applied to other types of narrative, including theatre, opera, cinema, and television, as well as video games and graphic novels. An essential element of historical fiction is that it is set in the past and pays attention to the manners, social conditions and other details of the depicted period. Authors also frequently choose to explore notable historical figures in these settings, allowing readers to better understand how these individuals might have responded to their environments. The historical romance usually seeks to romanticize eras of the past. Some subgenres such as alternate history and historical fantasy insert intentionally ahistorical or speculative elements into a novel. Works of historical fiction are sometimes criticized for lack of authe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pip (Great Expectations)
Philip Pirrip, called Pip, is the protagonist and narrator in Charles Dickens's novel ''Great Expectations'' (1861). He is amongst the most popular characters in English literature. Pip narrates his story many years after the events of the novel take place. The novel follows Pip's process from childhood innocence to adulthood. The financial and social rise of the protagonist is accompanied by an emotional and moral deterioration, which forces Pip to recognize his negative expectations in a new self-awareness. Characterization When the novel begins in the early 1800s, Philip is a seven-year-old orphan raised by his uncaring sister, "Mrs. Joe", who beats him regularly, and her husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith and Pip's best friend. He lives in the marsh area of Kent, England, twenty miles from the sea. Pip has no recollection of either of his parents; he is more than twenty years younger than his sister. Five brothers died in infancy between them: Alexander, Bartholomew, Abraham, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Wemmick
John Wemmick is a fictional character in Charles Dickens's novel '' Great Expectations''. He is Mr Jaggers's clerk and the protagonist Pip's friend. Some scholars consider him to be the "most modern man in the book".Pickrel, Paul. ''Great Expectations.'' Additionally, Wemmick is noted as one of Dickens's "most successful" split characters, insofar as Wemmick's character represents an exploration of the "relationship between public and private spheres in a divided existence".Lecker, Barbara. ''SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900.'' Rice University. Profession John Wemmick is a bill collector for the lawyer Mr. Jaggers. The job requires a demanding, uncaring attitude, a personality the working Wemmick takes on. To impress and stay in the favour of his boss, Mr. Jaggers, he berates Jaggers's clients with disdain. He is described as having "the same air of knowing something to everybody else's disadvantage, as his master had". His professional attitude contrasts with Wemmic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudi Dharmalingam
Rudi Dharmalingam (born ) is an English actor of stage and screen. Early life and education Dharmalingam was born in Maidstone, Kent. After joining the National Youth Theatre in 1998, he obtained a BA in performing arts at the University of Salford in 2002. Career His notable television portrayals include Tariq Mistry in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks'' (2010), James Cutler in the BBC One legal drama '' The Split'' (2018–2022), Nik Katira in the Australian psychological mystery ''Wakefield'' (2021). He has appeared in numerous theatre productions, including Broadway's ''The History Boys'' (2006) and West End's ''Hamlet'' (2015). Dharmalingam's minor TV roles include programmes such as ''The Bill'', ''New Tricks'', ''Coronation Street'', ''Casualty'', ''Doctor Who'', '' Rellik'', '' Electric Dreams'' and ''Our Girl ''Our Girl'' is a British television military drama series, written and created by Tony Grounds, first broadcast on BBC One on 24 March 2013. The series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estella (Great Expectations)
Estella Havisham (best known in literature simply as Estella) is a significant character in the Charles Dickens novel '' Great Expectations''. Like the protagonist, Pip, Estella is introduced as an orphan, but where Pip was raised by his sister and her husband to become a blacksmith, Estella was adopted and raised by the wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham to become a lady. Character history Estella and Pip's pre-adult life Pip and Estella meet when he is brought to Miss Havisham's ill-kept mansion, Satis House, ostensibly to satisfy Miss Havisham's "weird fetish" to be entertained by watching Pip and Estella play together. It is later revealed that she desires to have his heart broken by Estella. Estella's relationship with Pip Estella states throughout the text that she does not love Pip. However, she shows numerous times in the novel that she holds Pip in a much higher regard compared to other men, and does not want to break his heart as she does with the others that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bashy
Ashley Thomas (born 4 February 1985), also known by his stage name Bashy, is an English actor and rapper. Early life Thomas was born in Hammersmith, West London, the first born of a Jamaican mother and Dominican father. He attended St. Mary's of the Angels RC Primary School. Aged eleven, his family moved to Kensal Rise, northwest London and he attended Cardinal Hinsley High School. Thomas attended The BRIT School for Performing Arts as a theatre student. Before becoming an actor and musician, Thomas worked as a postman for the Royal Mail and later as a London Bus driver. Musical career Black Boys In 2007, Thomas released the song "Black Boys". With frequent reports of shootings and stabbings on news bulletins, and with the media continuously focusing on the lack of role models in black communities, he felt that the nation's inner-city youth needed a reminder that they had a number of positive role models they could look to for inspiration. His début single provoked co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Havisham
Miss Havisham is a character in the Charles Dickens novel ''Great Expectations'' (1861). She is a wealthy spinster, once jilted at the altar, who insists on wearing her wedding dress for the rest of her life. She lives in a ruined mansion with her adopted daughter, Estella. Dickens describes her as looking like "the witch of the place". Although she has often been portrayed in film versions as very elderly, Dickens's own notes indicate that she is only in her mid-thirties at the start of the novel. However, it is indicated in the novel that her long seclusion without sunlight has aged her. She is one of the most gothic characters in the work of Dickens. Character history Miss Havisham's father was a wealthy brewer and her mother died shortly after she was born. Her father remarried and had an illegitimate son, Arthur, with the household cook. Miss Havisham's relationship with her half-brother was a strained one. She inherited most of her father's fortune and fell in love w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Berry
Matthew Charles Berry (born 2 May 1974) is an English actor, comedian, musician, and writer. He is best known for his roles in comedy series such as '' The IT Crowd'', ''Garth Marenghi's Darkplace'', ''The Mighty Boosh'', ''Snuff Box'', ''What We Do in the Shadows'', and '' Toast of London'', the last of which he also co-created. The series earned him the 2015 BAFTA Award for Best Male Performance in a Comedy Programme. As a musician, he has released nine studio albums. Early life Matthew Charles Berry was born on 2 May 1974 in Bromham, Bedfordshire, the son of nurse Pauline (née Acreman) and taxi driver Charles Berry. He attended Nottingham Trent University, graduating in 1999 with a BA in contemporary arts. Career Film and television Berry began his career as a runner. Between 1998 and 1999, he appeared in the video game magazine show ''Game Over'' on BSkyB's computer and technology channel .tv. The episodes contained a large number of comedy sketches with Berry as the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Key
Timothy David Key (born September 1976) is an English poet, comedian, actor, screenwriter and radio personality. He is best known for playing Alan Partridge's sidekick Simon in '' Mid Morning Matters'', '' Alpha Papa'', and '' This Time'', as well as his work as a member of the comedy group Cowards and his extensive list of performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2009, he won the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality. Early life Timothy David Key was born in September 1976, in Cambridgeshire. He was educated in the intertwined villages of Histon and Impington before moving on to Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge and then the University of Sheffield, where he studied Russian. Following graduation, he returned to Cambridge and joined the Cambridge Footlights, despite not being a student of Cambridge University. There he met Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, and Lloyd Woolf, with whom he formed the sketch gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayley Squires
Hayley Squires (born 16 April 1988) is an English actress and playwright, best known for her work in the Ken Loach film ''I, Daniel Blake''. Squires has also appeared in ''Call the Midwife'' (2012), '' Southcliffe'' (2013), ''Complicit'' (2013), ''Blood Cells'' (2014), ''A Royal Night Out'' (2015) and '' Murder'' (2016). Her first play, ''Vera Vera Vera'', was produced by the Royal Court Theatre in 2012. ''I, Daniel Blake'' won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Best British Film at the 2017 BAFTAs, and was the Audience Award winner at the San Sebastián International Film Festival. Squires was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the BAFTAs. Early life Born in Forest Hill, South London, as Hayley McGinty in 1988, Squires grew up with her mother, father and older brother. The family moved to Kent when she was 14. Her mother was a cook at her school and her father managed a video shop. She trained at Rose Bruford College in Sidcup and graduated in 2010 with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen McDonnell
Owen McDonnell (born 1974) is an Irish actor best known for playing Garda Sergeant Jack Driscoll in RTÉ Television's '' Single-Handed'' and Niko Polastri in BBC's ''Killing Eve''. Early life McDonnell was born in Galway in Ireland. He attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, England, moving to the city in 1996. Before breaking into film and television, McDonnell did a lot of theatre in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Career McDonnell had a role in the 2003 feature film '' Conspiracy of Silence''. It was RTÉ Television's police drama ''Single-Handed'' that was McDonnell's television career break. He starred in all four series of the programme and was nominated for an IFTA Award for the role in 2011. McDonnell was given the lead role of Garda Sergeant Jack Driscoll after receiving a call from casting director Maureen Hughes. Appearing onstage in ''The Lieutenant of Inishmore'' in Galway Town Hall at the time, McDonnell, alongside two other cast members, left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compeyson
Compeyson is the main antagonist of Charles Dickens' novel ''Great Expectations'', a 'George Wickham'-esque man, whose criminal activities harmed two people, who in turn shaped much of protagonist Pip's life. Compeyson abandoned Miss Havisham at the altar, and later got Abel Magwitch arrested. After Magwitch returned to England, Compeyson died after drowning in the River Thames while fighting with Magwitch. Criminal career Compeyson had a good education when he was a child. His appearance was attractive and his manners gentlemanly and smooth. As an adult, he made his living through forgery and financial schemes. One of his fellows in crime was Miss Havisham's half brother, known in the novel only by his forename, Arthur. They conspired against her, as she had inherited the greater part of their father's estate. Compeyson seduced Miss Havisham and fooled her into thinking that he loved her and would marry her. Before the marriage, he got her to agree to buy the brewery Arthur inh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
