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Mark Donovan (actor)
Mark Donovan (born 12 October 1968) is a Welsh character actor best known for his roles in productions such as ''Shaun of the Dead'', ''Black Books'', ''In Bruges'', and '' Murder Investigation Team''. He also played a brief scene of Hamlet in an episode of the David Renwick comedy-drama, ''Love Soup''. His stage roles include Gozark in '' Singin' in the Rain'' and Inspector Clay in '' Plan 9 from Outer Space''. Donovan is also a voice actor, providing voiceovers on the long-running BBC news programme ''Newsnight'' and extensively with Big Finish Productions on their range of audio dramas. He has appeared in ''The Tomorrow People'', '' Dalek Empire'', '' 2000 AD'', ''Sarah Jane Smith'', ''Bernice Summerfield'' and ''Luther Arkwright'' plays, but is best known for his various appearances in the '' Doctor Who'' range, most notably as the companion Shayde in the Fifth Doctor play '' No Place Like Home''. In October 2004 Donovan appeared on the cover of international magazine '' ...
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Aberdare
Aberdare ( ; cy, Aberdâr) is a town in the Cynon Valley area of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Dare (Dâr) and Cynon. Aberdare has a population of 39,550 (mid-2017 estimate). Aberdare is south-west of Merthyr Tydfil, north-west of Cardiff and east-north-east of Swansea. During the 19th century it became a thriving industrial settlement, which was also notable for the vitality of its cultural life and as an important publishing centre. Etymology The name ''Aberdare'' means "mouth/confluence of the river dare", as the town is located where the Dare river ( cy, Afon Dâr) meets the Cynon ( cy, afon Cynon). While the town's Welsh spelling uses formal conventions, the English spelling of the name reflects the town's pronunciation in the local Gwenhwyseg dialect of South East Wales. ''Dâr'' is an archaic Welsh word for oaks (the plural of ''derwen''), and the valley was noted for its large and fine oaks as late as the nineteenth century. In ancien ...
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2000 AD (comic)
''2000 AD'' is a weekly British science fiction-oriented comic magazine. As a comics anthology it serialises stories in each issue (known as "progs") and was first published by IPC Magazines in 1977, the first issue dated 26 February. Since 2000 it has been published by Rebellion Developments. ''2000 AD'' is most noted for its ''Judge Dredd'' stories, and has been contributed to by a number of artists and writers who became renowned in the field internationally, such as Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, Grant Morrison, Brian Bolland, Mike McMahon, John Wagner, Alan Grant and Garth Ennis. Other series in ''2000 AD'' include ''Rogue Trooper'', '' Sláine'', ''Strontium Dog'', ''ABC Warriors'', ''Nemesis the Warlock'' and ''Nikolai Dante''. History ''2000 AD'' was initially published by IPC Magazines. IPC then shifted the title to its Fleetway comics subsidiary, which was sold to Robert Maxwell in 1987 and then to Egmont UK in 1991. Fleetway continued to produce the title until ...
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The World's End (film)
''The World's End'' is a 2013 science fiction comedy film directed by Edgar Wright from a screenplay by Wright and Simon Pegg. It is the third and final installment in the ''Three Flavours Cornetto'' trilogy, after ''Shaun of the Dead'' (2004) and ''Hot Fuzz'' (2007). It stars Pegg, Nick Frost, Paddy Considine, Martin Freeman, Eddie Marsan, Rosamund Pike, and Pierce Brosnan. In the film, five friends return to their hometown to reattempt a pub crawl they failed twenty-three years earlier, only to discover the town is in the midst of an alien invasion. The film entered initial development in 1995 after Wright wrote a screenplay titled ''Crawl'' about teenagers on a pub crawl; after deciding it was better suited as a comedic exploration of young adulthood and aging, he reworked the screenplay with Pegg in the early 2010s. The film was produced by Relativity Media, Big Talk Productions, and Working Title Films. Principal photography began on 28 September 2012 and lasted until that ...
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Les Misérables (2012 Film)
''Les Misérables'' is a 2012 epic period musical film directed by Tom Hooper from a screenplay by William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, who wrote the original French lyrics, Claude-Michel Schönberg, who wrote the music, and Herbert Kretzmer, who wrote the English lyrics. The film is based on the 1985 West End English translation of the 1980 French musical by Boublil and Schönberg, which itself is adapted from the 1862 French novel of the same name by Victor Hugo. The film is a British-American venture distributed by Universal Pictures. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried, Helena Bonham Carter, and Sacha Baron Cohen. Set in France during the early nineteenth century, the film tells the story of Jean Valjean who, while being hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The story reaches resolution against the background of t ...
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The Dark Is Rising
''The Dark Is Rising'' is a 1973 children's fantasy novel by Susan Cooper. The second in '' The Dark Is Rising Sequence'', the book won a Newbery Honor. It has been described as a "folkloric tale of an English boy caught in a battle between light and dark". Plot Will Stanton begins to have strange and magical experiences on his 11th birthday, which is at the winter solstice – a few days before Christmas. He discovers he is one of a group of an ancient magical people called the Old Ones, who are guardians and warriors for "the Light" (i.e. good), who are waging a centuries-long battle against the forces of "the Dark" (i.e. evil), whose evil power is rising. To fight back the Dark, the Old Ones need to find and reclaim four magical talismans (called "Things of Power") for the Light. The first of these is the "Circle of Signs" (a set of magical objects in the form of circles divided into four sections by a cross). Will is quested to collect all the Signs, so that the completed ...
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The Millennium
A millennium is 1000 years. Millennium may also refer to: Religion * Millennialism, describing the 1000-year reign of Christ * Millenarianism, the belief by a group in a coming major transformation of society after which all things will be changed * ''Tertio millennio adveniente'', an apostolic letter in preparation for the Roman Catholic Church's Great Jubilee Transportation * Edel Millennium, a South Korean paraglider design * ''Millennium'' (ship), a cruise ship * Millennium train, an electric train run by Sydney Trains in Sydney Software * Millennium bug, aka Y2K or Year 2000 problem, a data storage problem from the practice of abbreviating a four-digit year to two digits * Windows ME, Windows Millennium Edition, an operating system * Millennium, an integrated library system software package published by Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Books Comics * Millennium (comics), a series produced by DC Comics * Millennium Publications, a defunct comic book publisher * Mill ...
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