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Holby City (series 10)
The tenth series of the British medical drama television series ''Holby City'' commenced airing in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 16 October 2007, and concluded on 14 October 2008. Episodes Cast Main characters *Jane Asher as Anne-Marie, Lady Byrne (episodes 31–41) *Rakie Ayola as Kyla Tyson * Paul Bradley as Elliot Hope * Tom Chambers as Sam Strachan *Sharon D. Clarke as Lola Griffin (until episode 53) *Hari Dhillon as Michael Spence (from episode 6) * * Rebecca Grant as Daisha Anderson (from episode 24) *Tina Hobley as Chrissie Williams (until episode 26) *Jaye Jacobs as Donna Jackson *Patsy Kensit as Faye Byrne *Nadine Lewington as Maddy Young *Rosie Marcel as Jac Naylor *Amanda Mealing as Connie Beauchamp *Duncan Pow as Linden Cullen (from episode 14) *Robert Powell as Mark Williams *Hugh Quarshie as Ric Griffin *Luke Roberts as Joseph Byrne *Phoebe Thomas as Maria Kendall * Recurring and guest cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, primetime drama and entertainment, and live BBC Sport events. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution. It was renamed BBC TV in 1960 and used this name until the launch of the second BBC channel, BBC2, in 1964. The main channel then became known as BBC1. The channel adopted the current spelling of BBC One in 1997. The channel's annual budget for 2012–2013 was £1.14 billion. It is funded by the television licence fee together with the BBC's other domestic television stations and shows uninterrupted programming without commercial advertising. The television channel had the highest reach share of any broadcaster in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Bennett (director)
Edward Bennett (born 1950, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) is a British film and TV director. He was educated at Eton College. His most notable film is '' Ascendancy'' ( 1982), for which he won the Golden Bear at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. The following year he was a member of the jury at the 34th Berlin International Film Festival. He has also directed episodes of '' Bergerac'', '' C.A.T.S. Eyes'' and ''Inspector Morse Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse, GM, is the eponymous fictional character in the series of detective novels by British author Colin Dexter. On television, he appears in the 33-episode drama series '' Inspector Morse'' (1987–2000), ...''. References External links * 1950 births People educated at Eton College Living people People from Cambridge English film directors English television directors Directors of Golden Bear winners {{UK-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Chambers (actor)
Thomas Stuart Chambers (born 22 May 1977) is an English actor, known for his role as Sam Strachan in the BBC medical dramas ''Holby City'' and ''Casualty'', Max Tyler in BBC drama series '' Waterloo Road'' and Inspector Sullivan in ''Father Brown''. He also won the sixth series of ''Strictly Come Dancing'' with his partner Camilla Dallerup. Early life Chambers was born and raised in a small village called Darley Dale in Derbyshire and was educated at Repton School. Career Chambers attended the National Youth Music Theatre and Guildford School of Acting. He has starred opposite Matthew Rhys and Kate Ashfield in the British film ''Fakers''. Chambers' interest in dance led him to recreate the sequence from the 1937 RKO film'' A Damsel in Distress'' in which Fred Astaire tap dances with a drum kit. The video was sent to casting directors and led to Chambers gaining a part in ''Holby City'' as cardiothoracic registrar Sam Strachan. A video of the performance was posted on YouTube ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bradley (English Actor)
Paul Bradley (born 28 May 1955) is an English television actor. He is best known for playing Nigel Bates in the BBC1 soap opera ''EastEnders'' from 1992 to 1998, and also as Elliot Hope in the BBC medical drama series ''Holby City'', a role he played for ten years from 2005 to 2015 and again in 2019. Education Bradley was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, one of six siblings (five brothers and one sister) born to Irish parents. Bradley was educated at St Benedict's School and the University of Manchester before joining the Royal Exchange Manchester repertory theatre company in the early 1980s. Career Bradley has appeared in a number television series including the roles above, '' The Young Ones'', ''The Bill'', ''Red Dwarf'', '' Bottom'', ''My Family'' and '' Alas Smith and Jones''. He had a minor role in the multi-award-winning 2002 film '' The Pianist''. As a guitarist and vocalist, he co-leads the group The hKippers (the 'h' is silent) with Stephen Warbeck, Academy Award-win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rakie Ayola
Rakie Olufunmilayo Ayola (born May 1968) is a Welsh actress known for her work in theatre and television. Ayola has appeared in television shows including ''Black Mirror'', ''Noughts + Crosses'', ''Doctor Who'', ''Silent Witness'' and ''EastEnders,'' a number of Shakespearean theatrical performances and feature films such as '' Great Moments in Aviation,'' '' The i Inside'' and ''Sahara.'' She appeared as Kyla Tyson in the BBC medical drama ''Holby City'' from its eighth to eleventh series. In 2017, Ayola took over the role of Hermione Granger in the West End production of ''Harry Potter and the Cursed Child''. In 2020, she won the Best Female Actor in a Play award at the Black British Theatre Awards for her performance in ''On Bear Ridge'' for National Theatre Wales and the Royal Court. In 2021, she won a BAFTA for her role in the BBC One drama ''Anthony''. Ayola is an advocate of increased ethnic representation in the entertainment industry, and in 2001 founded her own pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne-Marie, Lady Byrne
Anne-Marie, Lady Byrne is a fictional character from the BBC medical drama ''Holby City'', portrayed by actress Jane Asher. The character first appeared on 10 May 2007 in episode "After the Fall" - series 9, episode 30 of the programme. After several guest appearances as the mother of established character Joseph Byrne throughout series 9 and 10, Asher signed a three-month contract to become a series regular from May 2008 onwards, for a period of 10 episodes. Her initial storyline saw her son's girlfriend, Jac Naylor, embark on an affair with Anne-Marie's husband and Joseph's father, Lord Byrne - eventually culminating in his death, and leaving the character a widow. Upon her return to the programme, she takes over Lord Byrne's position as Executive Chairman of the Byrne Foundation – a charity committed to research into Cardiac Valve Disease. Creation Series 8 of ''Holby City'' saw the introduction of regular character Joseph Byrne (Luke Roberts), a new Surgical Registra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Asher
Jane Asher (born 5 April 1946)The International Who's Who of Women, 3rd edition, ed. Elizabeth Sleeman, Europa Publications, 2002, p. 29 is an English actress and author. She achieved early fame as a child actress and has worked extensively in film and TV throughout her career. Asher has appeared in TV shows and films such as '' Deep End'' (1970), ''The Masque of the Red Death'' (1964), ''Alfie'' (1966), '' The Mistress'', ''Crossroads'', '' Death at a Funeral'' (2007), and ''The Old Guys''. She also appeared in two episodes of the 1950s TV series ''The Buccaneers'' alongside Robert Shaw. She was well known as the girlfriend of Paul McCartney from 1963 to 1968. Early life Asher was born in London, the middle of three children born to Richard and Margaret Asher, ''née'' Eliot. Her father was a consultant in blood and mental diseases at the Central Middlesex Hospital, as well as being a broadcaster and the author of notable medical articles. Asher's mother was a professor at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Harsent
David Harsent (born in Devon) is an English poet who for some time earned his living as a TV scriptwriter and crime novelist. Background During his early career he was part of a circle of poets centred on Ian Hamilton and forming something of a school, promoting conciseness and imagist-like clarity in verse, though his work has changed and developed a good deal since then. He has published twelve collections of poetry which have won several literary prizes and awards. ''Legion'' won the Forward Prize for best collection 2005 and was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot and Whitbread Awards. ''Night'' (2012) was triple short-listed for major awards in the UK and won the Griffin International Poetry Prize. ''Fire Songs'' won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2014. ''Sprinting from the Graveyard.'' his versions of poems written by the Bosnian poet Goran Simic while under siege in Sarajevo, appeared in 1997 and was adapted to opera, radio and television. ''In Secret'', his versions of Yanni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronica Henry
Veronica Henry (born 1963) is a British writer of Romance novels, TV script writer and journalist. In 2014, her novel ''A Night on the Orient Express'' won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Biography Veronica Henry was educated both in the UK and the US. She attended the Royal School for Daughters of Officers of the Army, moving eventually on to the University of Bristol to study Classics. Her first job in the media was with the BBC where she secured a job on ''The Archers''. Her duties ranged from organising Shula Archer's wedding photographs with Patrick Lichfield to acting the part of Peaches the barmaid in the Cat and Fiddle. She also wrote several episodes for this radio show. From there she went to Central Television to script-edit ''Crossroads'' and ''Boon''. She left to have her first child in 1990, and became a scriptwriter for UK television. Her UK script writing TV credits include ''Boon'', ''Heartbeat'', ''Doctors'', ''Fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HolbyBlue
''HolbyBlue'' (also known as ''Holby Blue'') was a British police procedural drama series. The show revolves around the daily lives of a number of police officers working at Holby South police station. The cast for series one included Jimmy Akingbola as PC Neil Parker, Joe Jacobs as PC William "Billy" Jackson, David Sterne as Sergeant Edward 'Mac' McFadden, Cal Macaninch as DI John Keenan, James Hillier as Sergeant Christian Young, Kacey Ainsworth as Inspector Jenny Black, Richard Harrington as DS Luke French, Zöe Lucker as Kate Keenan, Chloe Howman as PC Kelly Cooper, Kieran O'Brien as PC Robert Clifton, Tim Pigott-Smith as DCI Harry Hutchinson, Sara Powell as Rachel Barker and Elaine Glover as PC Lucy Slater. Velibor Topić and Julie Cox joined the cast in a recurring capacity as drug baron Neculai Stenga and Mandy French, Luke French's wife. By the end of series one, Pigott-Smith and Topic both departed the show. Series two saw the introductions of Oliver Milburn as DC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Ainsworth
Joe Ainsworth is an English screenwriter. He has written 150+ episodes of the British soap opera ''Brookside''. Career He has also written for '' The Lakes'', ''Mayo'', ''Merseybeat'' and ''Holby City''. His episode of ''Holby City'', titled "Past Imperfect" won a BAFTA award for best continuing drama. He was part of the regular writing team on ''Holby City'' from 2004 to 2022 and has contributed 75 scripts making him the serials most prolific writer. In 2020, Hurricane Films announced it was developing '' The Last Bus'' and ''The Last Date'', written by Ainsworth. Honours Ainsworth studied English at Edge Hill University Edge Hill University is a campus-based public university in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England, which opened in 1885 as Edge Hill College, the first non-denominational teacher training college for women in England, before admitting its first male st ... from 1986, graduating in 1989. There is a Halls of Residence called Ainsworth in his honour. References Exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linden Cullen
Linden Cullen is a fictional character from the BBC medical drama '' Holby City'', portrayed by actor Duncan Pow. He made his first appearance in the series ten episode "Stolen", broadcast on 15 January 2008. The character was the head of Holby City Hospital's surgical admissions ward. He was killed off at the end of the twelfth series on 12 October 2010. Creation It was first announced on 6 November 2007 that actor Duncan Pow had been cast in the role of Linden, when series producer Diana Kyle described the new character as "dishy...good-looking and sexy". In the context of the show, Linden was introduced as the new head of the hospital's Acute Assessment Unit, a position which had been filled on a temporary basis by Lola Griffin ( Sharon D. Clarke) since the departure of the department's former head, consultant Abra Durant ( Adrian Edmonson), at the end of the show's ninth series. Interviewed a year after his casting was announced, Pow commented on his time on ''Holby Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
