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Lucinda Raikes
Lucinda Mary J Raikes (born 14 April 1971 in Cambridge) is an English actress, most noted for playing Karen Ball in the sitcom ''Green Wing'' and Angela Heaney in ''The Thick of It'' and its spin off film '' In the Loop''. She has also appeared in '' Sensitive Skin'', '' Extras'', ''Casanova Giacomo Girolamo Casanova (, ; 2 April 1725 – 4 June 1798) was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, (''Story of My Life''), is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of information about the c ...'' and '' 15 Storeys High''. Film Television Theatre References External links * 1971 births Living people English television actresses {{UK-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge became an important trading centre during the Roman and Viking ages, and there is archaeological evidence of settlement in the area as early as the Bronze Age. The first town charters were granted in the 12th century, although modern city status was not officially conferred until 1951. The city is most famous as the home of the University of Cambridge, which was founded in 1209 and consistently ranks among the best universities in the world. The buildings of the university include King's College Chapel, Cavendish Laboratory, and the Cambridge University Library, one of the largest legal deposit libraries in the world. The city's skyline is dominated by several college buildings, along with the spire of the Our Lady and the English Martyrs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parade's End (TV Series)
''Parade's End'' is a five-part BBC/HBO/ VRT television serial adapted from the eponymous tetralogy of novels (1924–1928) by Ford Madox Ford. It premiered on BBC Two on 24 August 2012 and on HBO on 26 February 2013. The series was also screened at the 39th Ghent Film Festival on 11 October 2012. The miniseries was directed by Susanna White and written by Tom Stoppard. The cast was led by Benedict Cumberbatch and Rebecca Hall as Christopher and Sylvia Tietjens, along with Adelaide Clemens, Rupert Everett, Miranda Richardson, Anne-Marie Duff, Roger Allam, Janet McTeer, Freddie Fox, Jack Huston, and Steven Robertson. The series received widespread critical acclaim and has sometimes been cited as "the highbrow ''Downton Abbey''". In its BBC Two premiere, the series attracted 3.5 million viewers, making it BBC Two's most watched drama since ''Rome'' aired in 2005. The miniseries received six BAFTA TV nominations, including Best Actress for Rebecca Hall, and five Primetime Emmy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People Like Us (mockumentary)
''People Like Us'' is a British radio and TV comedy programme, a spoof on-location documentary (or mockumentary) written by John Morton, and starring Chris Langham as Roy Mallard, an inept interviewer. Originally a radio show for BBC Radio 4 in three series from 1995 to 1997, it was made into two television series for BBC Two broadcast between September 1999 and June 2001. Radio version Each episode features the affable, bumbling BBC journalist Roy Mallard following a day in the lives of representatives of a particular career or lifestyle. A comedy of wordplay and misunderstanding, ''People Like Us'' builds on an inept protagonist helpless as forced to relate to the absurdity incarnated in the "professionals" he meets, where his relatively sensible inquiry fails in front of the disproportionate facts. A regularly recurring joke is that of the shocked reactions Mallard gets as he reveals he is married – ranging from disbelief to exaggerated congratulations, from invitations to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moral Improvements
A moral (from Latin ''morālis'') is a message that is conveyed or a lesson to be learned from a story or event. The moral may be left to the hearer, reader, or viewer to determine for themselves, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a maxim. A moral is a lesson in a story or in real life. Finding morals As an example of an explicit maxim, at the end of Aesop's fable of the Tortoise and the Hare, in which the plodding and determined tortoise won a race against the much-faster yet extremely arrogant hare, the stated moral is "slow and steady wins the race". However, other morals can often be taken from the story itself; for instance, that arrogance or overconfidence in one's abilities may lead to failure or the loss of an event, race, or contest. The use of stock characters is a means of conveying the moral of the story by eliminating complexity of personality and depicting the issues arising in the interplay between the characters, enabling the writer to generate a clear messa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tales Of Uplift
Tales may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Tales'' (album), a 1995 album by Marcus Miller * ''Tales'' (film), a 2014 Iranian film * ''Tales'' (TV series), an American television series * ''Tales'' (video game), a 2016 point-and-click adventure game * ''Tales'' (video game series), a series of role-playing games *"Tales", or "Tales from the Forest of Gnomes", a song by Wolfmother from ''Wolfmother'' *"Tales", a song by Schoolboy Q from ''Crash Talk'' Geography *Tales, Castellón, a municipality in Spain *Täles Railway (other), two railway lines in Baden-Württemberg in Germany People *Rémi Tales (born 1984), French rugby union player *Tales Schütz Tales Schütz (born 22 August 1981 in Porto Alegre, Brazil) is a Brazilian ex-footballer. He is also of German ancestry. Honours * Hong Kong First Division League :''Winner (4):'' 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10 * Hong Kong Se ..., Brazilian footballer See also * Tale (other) {{disambi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casanova (TV Series)
''Casanova'' is a 2005 British television comedy drama serial, written by television scriptwriter Russell T Davies and directed by Sheree Folkson. Produced by Red Production Company for BBC Wales in association with Granada Television, the 3-episode series was first screened on digital television station BBC Three from 13 March, with a repeat on mainstream analogue network BBC One commencing 4 April. Synopsis Telling the story of the life of 18th century Italian adventurer Giacomo Casanova, based on his own twelve-volume memoirs, the one-hour episodes star Peter O'Toole as the older Casanova looking back on his life and David Tennant as the younger version. Rose Byrne, Rupert Penry-Jones, Matt Lucas, Shaun Parkes, Nina Sosanya and Laura Fraser are also featured. Cast * David Tennant as Giacomo Casanova ** John Sandilands as 5-year-old Giacomo Casanova ** Zachary Fox as 11-year-old Giacomo Casanova * Peter O'Toole as Old Giacomo Casanova * Tom Burke as 20-year-old Giac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extras (TV Series)
''Extras'' is a British sitcom about extras working in television, film, and theatre. The series was co-produced by the BBC and HBO and was written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, both of whom starred in it. ''Extras'' follows the lives of Andy Millman (Gervais), his platonic friend Maggie Jacobs (Ashley Jensen) and Andy's substandard agent and part-time retail employee Darren Lamb (Merchant) as Millman muddles through life as an anonymous "background performer" who eventually finds success as a B-list sitcom star. ''Extras'' has two series of six episodes each as well as a Christmas Special. The first episode aired in the UK on 21 July 2005 on BBC Two and on 25 September 2005 on HBO in the US. The second series premiered in the UK on BBC Two on 14 September 2006 and began airing in the US on HBO and in Australia on ABC on 14 February 2007. The Christmas Special aired on 27 December 2007 on BBC One and on 16 December 2007 on HBO. Both series are available ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Old Guys
''The Old Guys'' is a British sitcom that revolves around two ageing housemates: Tom Finnan (Roger Lloyd-Pack) and Roy Bowden (Clive Swift). The pair live across the street from Sally (Jane Asher), whom they both find attractive. Tom moved in with Roy after Roy's wife Penny deserted him. Baby boomer Tom has little in life but his daughter Amber (Katherine Parkinson), who is dating Sally's son Steve (Justin Edwards). Roy is a suburban pensioner who believes that he is one of the country's leading intellectuals. It premiered on 31 January 2009 on BBC One, and aired on Saturday evenings. The show concluded its second series on 13 August 2010. The series has been repeated on Gold. Production The sitcom is produced by BBC Scotland, and is written by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell and Sam Bain. The show was commissioned by Lucy Lumsden, BBC Controller of Comedy Commissioning in 2008. It is recorded at BBC Pacific Quay in Glasgow. In 2005, while in the early stages of development, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freezing (TV Series)
Freezing is a BBC comedy series starring Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern about an otherwise successful couple in their forties who find themselves out of work. Synopsis Matt (Bonneville) is a publisher who has recently lost his job and Elizabeth (McGovern) is an Oscar-nominated American actress who is having a hard time getting work since moving to live with Matt in London. ''Freezing'' was originally a one-off comedy as part of BBC Four's Tight Spot season in February 2007, which then became the first episode of the series when it aired on BBC Two in February 2008. ''Freezing'' is written by James Wood and directed by Simon Curtis. Cast * Hugh Bonneville as Matt * Elizabeth McGovern as Elizabeth * Tom Hollander as Leon Blakely * Ben Miles as Stephen Marshall * Rebecca Gethings as Kim * Tim McInnerny as Bamber Jones * Ruth Wilson as Alison Fennel * Tom Riley as Dave Beethoven Trivia * Elizabeth McGovern is herself an Oscar-nominated actress who moved to Londo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raging (TV Series)
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Cinderella (TV Series)
is an Italian-Japanese 1996 anime television series based on the fairytale of the same name by Charles Perrault and The Brothers Grimm. It was produced by Tatsunoko Productions and Mondo TV. The series originally aired from April 4 to October 3, 1996, comprising 26 episodes. Summary The Story of Cinderella opens as Cinderella's life changes for the worse when her widower father leaves on a business trip. No sooner is he out of sight than Cinderella's stepmother has unceremoniously moved her two own daughters into Cinderella's room, thrown out her things, handed her a servant's dress and put her to brutal harsh menial labor. The series covers Cinderella's trials and tribulations as she tries to adapt to her new life while suffering the abuse of her stepmother and her two stepsisters. All the while, her fairy godmother, Paulette, subtly watches her and tries to influence events to fix Cinderella's life without her noticing. One of her first acts in this is to grant several of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Messiah (BBC Series)
''Messiah'' is a British television drama series, broadcast on the BBC One network and produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland, although the series itself is set in England. Made up of a series of occasional serials, the first, with two parts subtitled ''The First Killings'' & ''The Reckoning'', was broadcast in 2001. It has been followed by ''Messiah 2: Vengeance is Mine'' (2003), ''Messiah III: The Promise'' (2004), ''Messiah IV: The Harrowing'' (2005) and most recently ''Messiah V: The Rapture'' (2008). The original production was based on a novel by Boris Starling: the subsequent instalments have been written directly for television. Starling has a cameo as a murder victim's corpse in the first serial. A crime series, it follows the investigations of DCI Red Metcalfe, who often investigates particularly gruesome murders. Metcalfe is played by Scottish actor Ken Stott, and the other main regulars in the series are Kate Beauchamp ( Frances Grey), Duncan Warren (Neil Dudg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
