Hullraisers
''Hullraisers'' is a British sitcom written by Lucy Beaumont, Anne-Marie O'Connor and Caroline Moran, based in Kingston upon Hull, England. Beaumont wrote the pilot after being approached by Fable to create an adaptation of the Israeli show, ''Little Mom.'' O'Connor and Moran came on board when the series was commissioned for Channel 4. ''Hullraisers'' follows the lives of struggling actress and mother Toni, her older sister Paula, along with family friend and police officer Rana, a sexually confident woman who is the only member of the friendship group who is unmarried and childless. Beaumont felt that it was important to set the show in Hull, due to the city's lack of representation in UK media. Beaumont said of the show, ''"I'm really proud of it because I feel like everyone was on the same page with the class thing. There are a lot of production companies that are very London-centric. We see so few authentic working-class representations, especially in comedy, I've had so lit ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lucy Beaumont (comedian)
Lucy Ann Beaumont is a British actress, writer, and stand-up comedian from Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire. Her performance is based largely on anecdotes about Hull and the wider Northern England region.- She won the BBC Radio New Comedy Award in 2012 and was a finalist on ''So You Think You're Funny'' in 2011. Her 2014 debut show at the Edinburgh Festival, ''We Can Twerk it Out'', was nominated for that year's Best Newcomer Award. Early life Born prematurely while her parents were on holiday in Truro, Cornwall, Beaumont grew up with a single mother in the Spring Bank area of Hull and later lived in the town of Hessle, near Hull. Her mother is the playwright Gill Adams, who won the Fringe First Award for best new play in 1997 at the Edinburgh Festival. She attended Hessle High School, before going on to Wyke Sixth Form College. Beaumont worked at the meat counter of Asda on Hessle Road, West Hull, and later went on to the University of Hull, graduating with a degree in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Perry Fitzpatrick
Perry Fitzpatrick is an English actor. He is known for his roles as DS Chris Lomax in the BBC series '' Line of Duty'', Flip in '' This Is England '86'' and ''This Is England '90'', and Hot & Cold in '' Drifters''. Early life Fitzpatrick attended the Central Junior Television Workshop when he was 11. Whilst there, Fitzpatrick befriended Vicky McClure, with whom he later worked on ''This Is England '86'', ''This Is England '90'', ''I Am Nicola'' and the sixth series of ''Line of Duty''. Career In 2022, Fitzpatrick featured in crime drama ''Sherwood'', alongside Lesley Manville and David Morrissey David Mark Joseph Morrissey (born 21 June 1964) is an English actor and filmmaker. Described by the British Film Institute as "one of the most versatile English actors of his generation", he is noted for the meticulous preparation and research h ..., and '' Hullraisers''. In December 2022, Fitzpatrick once again starred alongside McClure, playing the latter's ex husband in the ITV ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sinead Matthews
Sinead Matthews (born ) is an English actress whose credits include film, television and stage. Her notable TV roles include Marcia Williams in ''The Crown''. She was born in Coventry, England, and attended Cardinal Wiseman Catholic School in that city. She studied A-level Drama at Stratford-upon-Avon College between 1996 and 1998. She graduated from RADA in 2003. Career She made her television debut in the 2004 costume drama '' He Knew He Was Right''. In 2009 she starred in ''Our Class'', a new play by Tadeusz Slobodzianek at the NT and in Penelope Skinner's 2010 play ''Eigengrau'' at the Bush Theatre. On 21 August 2016, Matthews played Hermia/Fairy/Mistress Quince in '' A Midsummer Night's Dream'', composed by Felix Mendelssohn, at The Proms The BBC Proms or Proms, formally named the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Presented by the BBC, is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Taj Atwal
Taj Atwal (born in December 1987) is a British actress from Norwich, who has appeared in '' Stella'', '' In the Club'', '' Line of Duty'', TV drama ''The Syndicate'' and comedy '' Hullraisers''. Biography Atwal was born in Norwich to an Indian family. After her mother lost her job at the Rowntree's factory in Norwich and was offered a job in York, Atwal moved there with her mother when aged about seven. Living in Haxby, Atwal participated in stage productions at Easingwold School. She had to leave her home aged 16, and lived with volunteers from the homeless charity SASH (Safe and Sound Homes) for two years, and attended York College from 2004 to 2007, obtaining distinctions in both a National Award in Dance and a National Diploma qualification in Performing Arts (Acting). For her graduate production, she played Anitra in Peer Gynt. Having gained funding through Dance and Drama Awards, she then became a student at Guildford School of Acting. In 2013 she played Amani Sarin, a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Felicity Montagu
Felicity Jane Montagu (born 12 September 1960) is an English actress. She is best known for playing Lynn Benfield, the long-suffering assistant of Alan Partridge. Early life Montagu was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, to Lieutenant-Colonel John Drogo Montagu (1916–2013), whose great-great-grandfather Admiral George Montagu was great-great-grandson of Hon. James Montagu (d. 1665), who, in his turn, was the third son of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester. She attended Loughborough University and the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Career Film Montagu's reputation in comedy character parts was enhanced by her performance in ''Bridget Jones's Diary'' as Perpetua, Bridget's unpleasant colleague. She also appeared in the 2006 film ''Confetti'' as highly strung magazine editor Vivien Kay-Wylie. She appeared in the film ''I Want Candy'' in which she plays the mother of an ambitious teenager. She appeared in '' How to Lose Friends & Alienate People'' (2008). In ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ian Fitzgibbon
Ian Fitzgibbon (born 1962 in Dublin) is an Irish film and television actor/director. He is perhaps best known for directing ''Spin the Bottle'', ''A Film with Me in It'' and the Comedy Central UK show Threesome, and for the role of Fr. Jessup in ''Father Ted''. In 2014, he won an IFTA for director television drama for the Sky sitcom Moone Boy. Filmography (partial) *'' Stuck'' (5-part series, television 2022) * '' Hullraisers'' (television, 2022) * '' Damned'' (television, 2016) * ''Nurse'' (television, 2015) * ''Trying Again'' (television, 2014) * ''Moone Boy'' (television, 2014) * ''Threesome'' (television, 2011–2012) * ''Death of a Superhero'' (2011) * ''Perrier's Bounty'' (2009) * ''A Film with Me in It'' (2008) * ''Spin the Bottle'' (2003) * ''Fergus's Wedding'' (television, 2002) * ''Paths to Freedom ''Paths to Freedom'' was a popular comedy on the Irish television network RTÉ Two. The shows stars two characters, Jeremy (Brendan Coyle) and Rats (Michael McElhatton) ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shobna Gulati
Shobna Gulati (born 7 August 1966)www.shobnagulati.co.uk Shobna Gulati official website is an English actress and presenter. Gulati is known for her roles as Anita in '' dinnerladies'', and Sunita Alahan in the '''' from 2001 to 2013. From 2013 to 2014, Gulati appeared as a panellist on the lunchtime talk show '' [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sitcom
A sitcom, a portmanteau of situation comedy, or situational comedy, is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode. Sitcoms can be contrasted with sketch comedy, where a troupe may use new characters in each sketch, and stand-up comedy, where a comedian tells jokes and stories to an audience. Sitcoms originated in radio, but today are found mostly on television as one of its dominant narrative forms. A situation comedy television program may be recorded in front of a studio audience, depending on the program's production format. The effect of a live studio audience can be imitated or enhanced by the use of a laugh track. Critics disagree over the utility of the term "sitcom" in classifying shows that have come into existence since the turn of the century. Many contemporary American sitcoms use the single-camera setup and do not feature a laugh track, thus often resembling the dramedy shows of the 1980s and 1990s rather t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Culture In Kingston Upon Hull
Culture () is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tylor, Edward. (1871). Primitive Culture. Vol 1. New York: J.P. Putnam's Son Culture is often originated from or attributed to a specific region or location. Humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies. A cultural norm codifies acceptable conduct in society; it serves as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in a situation, which serves as a template for expectations in a social group. Accepting only a monoculture in a social group can bear risks, just as a single species can wither in the face of environmental change, for lack of functional responses to the change. Thus in military culture, valor is counted a typical ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2020s British Sitcoms
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Channel 4 Sitcoms
Channel, channels, channeling, etc., may refer to: Geography * Channel (geography), in physical geography, a landform consisting of the outline (banks) of the path of a narrow body of water. Australia * Channel Country, region of outback Australia in Queensland and partly in South Australia, Northern Territory and New South Wales. * Channel Highway, a regional highway in Tasmania, Australia. Europe * Channel Islands, an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy * Channel Tunnel or Chunnel, a rail tunnel underneath the English Channel * English Channel, called simply "The Channel", the part of the Atlantic Ocean that separates Great Britain from northern France North America * Channel Islands of California, a chain of eight islands located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California, United States * Channel Lake, Illinois, a census-designated place in Lake County, Illinois, United States * Channels State Forest, a state forest in Virgini ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Television Shows Set In Yorkshire
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment, news, and sports. Television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s, but only after several years of further development was the new technology marketed to consumers. After World War II, an improved form of black-and-white television broadcasting became popular in the United Kingdom and the United States, and television sets became commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions. During the 1950s, television was the primary medium for influencing public opinion.Diggs-Brown, Barbara (2011''Strategic Public Relations: Audience Focused Practice''p. 48 In the mid-1960s, color broadcasting was introduced in the U.S. and most other developed countries. The availability of various types of archival storag ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |