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Matthew Lewis (actor)
Matthew David Lewis (born 27 June 1989) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Neville Longbottom in the ''Harry Potter'' film series. Born in Leeds, Lewis made his acting debut in '' Some Kind of Life'' (1995), guest-starring on dramas for ITV and BBC One before appearing in ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'' (2001). Lewis played the role for ten years, concluding with the final film, ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2'' (2011), for which he received critical praise. Following the series, Lewis recurred in '' The Syndicate'' and performed his first theatre role in '' Our Boys'' at the Duchess Theatre in 2012. Lewis starred in '' The Rise'' (2012) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to positive reviews and made appearances on BBC dramas ''Bluestone 42'' and '' Death in Paradise'' in 2013 and 2015, respectively. Lewis had a supporting role in ''Me Before You'' (2016), which became a box office success. He was cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeds
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by population) in England, after London and Birmingham. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production centre, including of carbonated water where it was invented in the 1760s, and trading centre (mainly with wool) for the 17th and 18th centuries. It was a major mill town during the Industrial Revolution. It was also known for its flax industry, iron foundries, engineering and printing, as well as shopping, with several surviving Victorian era arcades, such as Kirkgate Market. City status was awarded in 1893, a populous urban centre formed in the following century which absorbed surrounding villages and overtook the nearby York population. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Death In Paradise (TV Series)
''Death in Paradise'' is a British–French crime comedy drama television series created by Robert Thorogood, starring Ben Miller (series 1–2, guest series 3 and 10), Kris Marshall (series 3–6), Ardal O'Hanlon (series 6–9) and Ralf Little (series 9–present). The programme is filmed on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe and is broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom, France 2 in France, PBS, Ovation and Britbox in the United States and Canada, Prime in New Zealand (with repeats on BBC UKTV), and ABC and 9Gem in Australia. ''Death in Paradise'' has enjoyed high viewing figures and a generally positive critical reception since its debut, leading to repeated renewals. The most recent series, Series 11, began broadcasting in the UK on 7 January 2022 and concluded on 25 February. The show is currently commissioned for at least one more series, ensuring the programme will air until at least 2023. Synopsis Detective Inspector Richard Poole (Ben Miller) is sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yorkshire Evening Post
The ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' is a daily evening publication (delivered to newsagents every morning) published by Yorkshire Post Newspapers in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. The paper provides a regional slant on the day's news, and traditionally provides close reporting on Leeds United and Leeds Rhinos as well as the Yorkshire County Cricket Club team. The newspaper generally takes a liberal/centre left position. Despite its title that implies the paper is Yorkshire wide it is a Leeds-based paper, still widely circulated in Bradford, Harrogate, Huddersfield and Wakefield as well. The City of Leeds has two further widely circulated local papers, being the ''Wetherby News'' and the '' Wharfedale and Airedale Observer''. For many years, the ''Evening Post'' produced a separate edition for South Yorkshire printed simultaneously in Doncaster. In 1970 that was converted into the now-closed ''Doncaster Evening Post''. Starting in 1926, the ''Yorkshire Evening Post'' sponsored ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horsforth
Horsforth is a town and civil parish within the City of Leeds, in West Yorkshire, England, lying about five miles north-west of Leeds city centre. Historically a village within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it had a population of 18,895 at the 2011 Census. It became part of the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in 1974. In 1999 a civil parish was created for the area, and the parish council voted to rename itself a town council. The area sits within the Horsforth ward of Leeds City Council, which also includes the southern part of Rawdon. History Horsforth was recorded in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086 as ''Horseford'', ''Horseforde'', ''Hoseforde''; but late-ninth-century coins with the legend ''ORSNA FORD'' and ''OHSNA FORD'' may have come from Horsforth. The name derives from Old English ''hors'' or, to judge from the coins, *''horsa'' ('horse') in the genitive plural form ''horsa''/''horsna'' + ''ford'' ' ford', thus meaning 'horses' ford'. This refers to a river crossi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Yorkshire Post
''The Yorkshire Post'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper, published in Leeds in Yorkshire, England. It primarily covers stories from Yorkshire although its masthead carries the slogan "Yorkshire's National Newspaper". It was previously owned by Johnston Press and is now owned by JPIMedia. Founded in 1754, it is one of the oldest newspapers in the country. Editions are available throughout the United Kingdom with offices across Yorkshire in Harrogate, Hull, Scarborough, Sheffield and York, as well as correspondents in Westminster and the City of London. The current editor is James Mitchinson. It considers itself "one of Britain's most trusted and historic newsbrands." History The paper was founded in 1754, as the ''Leeds Intelligencer'', making it one of Britain's first daily newspapers. The ''Leeds Intelligencer'' was a weekly newspaper until it was purchased by a group of Conservatives in 1865 who then published daily under the current name. The first issue of ''The Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Creatures Great And Small (2020 TV Series)
''All Creatures Great and Small'' is a television series, set in 1937, based upon a series of books about a Yorkshire veterinarian written by Alf Wight under the pen name of James Herriot. The series was produced by Playground Entertainment for Channel 5 in the United Kingdom, and PBS in the United States. The series is a new adaptation of Wight's books, following the previous BBC series of 90 episodes that ran from 1978 to 1990 and a number of other films and television series based on Herriot's novels. It is filmed in the Yorkshire Dales, and received some funding from Screen Yorkshire. The first series, which consists of six episodes and a special Christmas episode, was filmed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the publication of the first book in the James Herriot series. The series premiered in the UK on Channel 5 on 1 September 2020 and in the US on PBS as part of ''Masterpiece'' on 10 January 2021. Following a second series in late 2021, the show was rene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channel 5 (British TV Channel)
Channel 5 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel launched in 1997. It is the fifth national terrestrial channel in the United Kingdom and is owned by Channel 5 Broadcasting Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of American media conglomerate Paramount Global, which is grouped under Paramount Networks UK & Australia division. During ownership by the RTL Group, it was branded as Five between 16 September 2002 and 13 February 2011. Richard Desmond purchased the channel from RTL on 23 July 2010, announcing plans to invest more money in programming and return to the name Channel 5 with immediate effect, and it was relaunched on 14 February 2011. On 1 May 2014 the channel was acquired by Viacom (now Paramount Global) for £450 million (US$759 million). Channel 5 is a general entertainment channel that shows both internally commissioned programmes such as '' Our Yorkshire Farm'', ''The Gadget Show'', '' The Hotel Inspector'', and '' Can't Pay? We'll Take I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baby Done
''Baby Done'' is a 2020 New Zealand comedy film. Directed by Curtis Vowell and executively produced by Taika Waititi, written by Sophie Henderson, and starring Rose Matafeo. Plot Zoe is a young woman who discovers she's pregnant. But, acting in denial, she tries to live a wild single life before the baby arrives. Her boyfriend, Tim, has the opposite reaction to the baby news and goes into nesting mode. Cast *Zoe - Rose Matafeo *Tim - Matthew Lewis *Brian - Nic Sampson *Molly - Emily Barclay *Antenatal teacher - Alice Snedden Production Married couple Henderson and Vowell made the semi-autobiographical film out of their own fear of growing old and settling down. Release The film premiered in Australia and New Zealand on 22 October 2020. It was later released in the UK and Ireland on 22 January 2021. Reception The Guardian praised "Matafeo’s wonderful, compulsively affable performance is core to the film’s irresistible good naturedness: its spirit, pluck, bounce." On rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edinburgh International Film Festival
The Edinburgh International Film Festival (EIFF) is a film festival that runs for two weeks in June each year. Established in 1947, it is the world's oldest continually running film festival. EIFF presents both UK and international films (all titles are World, International, European, UK or Scottish Premieres), in all genres and lengths. It also presents themed retrospectives and other specialized programming strands. The festival is run by the Centre for the Moving Image. History The International Festival of Documentary Films, a programme of documentaries, was presented by the Edinburgh Film Guild alongside the 1947 Edinburgh International Festival. At the time, Cannes and Venice were the most significant annual film festivals. Over the subsequent years, the programme expanded to include fiction films and experimental work in addition to documentaries. Linda Myles was director of the Festival from 1973-80, initiating a number of reappraisals and new viewpoints, notably "The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terminal (2018 Film)
''Terminal'' is a 2018 neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Vaughn Stein. The film stars Margot Robbie alongside an ensemble cast, featuring Simon Pegg, Dexter Fletcher, Max Irons, and Mike Myers. The plot follows the intertwining lives of two assassins, a fatally ill teacher, a custodian, and a waitress, all of whom become part of a murderous plan. The film is an international co-production between Ireland, the United Kingdom, Hungary, Hong Kong, and the United States. Principal photography took place in Budapest, Hungary during May 2016. ''Terminal'' was released in North America on 11 May 2018, by RLJE Films. The film premiered in the United Kingdom on 26 June 2018 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival as part of the American Dreams Strand. It was released theatrically in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 6 July 2018 by Arrow Films. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, who criticized the plot, narrative, pacing, and direction, tho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Girlfriends (2018 TV Series)
''Girlfriends'' is a British comedy-drama television series, first broadcast on ITV on 3 January 2018. It follows the lives of three middle-aged women who have been friends since their teenage years. The series was written, created and directed by Kay Mellor. The drama was not renewed for a second series. Cast Main * Phyllis Logan as Linda Hutchinson * Miranda Richardson as Sue Thackery * Zoë Wanamaker as Gail Stanley * Philip Cumbus as Andrew Thackery, Sue's son * Daisy Head as Ruby Hutchinson, Linda's daughter * Matthew Lewis as Tom Drayton, Gail's son Recurring * Emmett J. Scanlan as DI Chris Donoghue * Rochenda Sandall as DS Anne Thurston * Kobe Jerome as Ben, Tom and Corinne's son * Steve Evets as Micky Hutchinson * Chris Fountain as Ryan Hutchinson, Linda's son * Paula Wilcox as Carole Hardcastle * Valerie Lilley as Edna, Gail's mother * Adrian Rawlins as Dave, Gail's ex-husband * Anthony Head as John, Sue's married lover and Andrew's father * Wendy Craig as Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Network)
ITV is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time, BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was for four decades a network of separate companies which provided regional television services and also shared programmes between each other to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs the ITV1 channel, and STV Group, which runs the STV channel. The ITV network is a separate entity from ITV plc, the company that resulted from the merger of Granada plc and Carlton Communications in 2004. ITV plc holds the Channel 3 bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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