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Peter Souter
Peter Souter (born 1962) is a British writer. He is the chairman and chief creative officer of TBWA London as well as the former executive creative director of Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO. He wrote the screenplay for the 2010 ITV six-episode comedy-drama television miniseries ''Married Single Other'' and also wrote the screenplay for the 2024 Netflix and Locksmith Animation film '' That Christmas''. Advertising career Souter began his career in advertising as a copywriter at Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO in 1991, where he worked alongside Paul Brazier for 4 years. He then moved on to become deputy creative director in 1995, then executive creative director in 1997, taking over for David Abbott. In 2005 he worked on the 'Make Poverty History' campaign, which he said was the work of which he is most proud. Writing career Souter has written plays for radio, theatre and television. His radio plays for BBC Radio 4 include ''Puddle'', ''Goldfish Girl'', ''Stream River Sea'', ''That's Mine, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 BFI London Film Festival
The 68th BFI London Film Festival was a film festival that took place from 9–20 October 2024. The competition films were announced on 29 August 2024 while the films for the galas and the strands were revealed on 4 September 2024. Steve McQueen (director), Steve McQueen's historical drama ''Blitz (2024 film), Blitz'' opened the festival on 9 October 2024, being the third film by McQueen to do so after ''Widows (2018 film), Widows'' in 2018 and ''Mangrove (film), Mangrove'' in 2020. Morgan Neville's animated documentary film ''Piece by Piece (2024 film), Piece by Piece'' closed the festival on 20 October 2024. Juries The jury members were as follows: Main Competition * Alexandre O. Philippe, Swiss film director – Jury president * Manori Ravindran, English trade journalist * Reinaldo Marcus Green, American filmmaker First Feature Competition (Sutherland Award) * Dionne Edwards, British filmmaker – Jury president * Julia Weigl, artistic co-director of the Munich Film Fest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That Christmas
''That Christmas'' is a 2024 animated Christmas fantasy comedy film directed by Simon Otto (in his directorial debut) and written by Richard Curtis and Peter Souter. Produced by Locksmith Animation, it follows entwined storylines based on short stories from ''That Christmas and Other Stories'' by Curtis and illustrator Rebecca Cobb. The voice cast features Brian Cox, Fiona Shaw, Jodie Whittaker and Bill Nighy. ''That Christmas'' premiered at the BFI London Film Festival on 19 October 2024, and was released on Netflix on 4 December. It received mixed reviews from critics. Plot In the seaside Suffolk town of Wellington-on-Sea, the townsfolk are preparing to celebrate Christmas, with the activities being organised by Bill, the lighthouse keeper. The story follows three groups: Danny Williams, a shy new boy in town who tries to adjust to his parents' divorce, Sam and Charlie Beccles, identical twin sisters who are respectively anxious and mischievous, and Bernadette McNutt, a sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TBWA
TBWA Worldwide is an international advertising agency whose main headquarters are in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States. Since 1993, the agency has been a unit of Omnicom Group, the world's second largest advertising agency holding company. History TBWA was founded in 1970 in Paris, France, by William G. Tragos (Greek-American, Management), Claude Bonnange (French, Marketing), Uli Wiesendanger (Swiss, Creation), and Paolo Ajroldi (Italian, Client Services). The first letter of each founder's name provided the initials for the new organization. They were purchased by the Omnicom Group in 1993. In the mid-1990s TBWA began expanding globally spreading rapidly. It began acquiring global accounts such as Master Foods that helped strengthen the breadth and depth of its offering, so much so that in 2004 it was named by Advertising Age as Global Agency Network of the Year. In 2010, it was named by Advertising Agency as one of the top ten agencies of the Decade. TBWA\Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO
AMV BBDO is an advertising agency that works with over 85 brands, including BT, Diageo, Walkers, and Mars. AMV campaigns may incorporate digital, social, experiential, print or broadcast media. AMV is part of the BBDO network, the third-largest agency network in the world and part of the Omnicom Group. Company Overview AMV's in-house capability includes: community management, data analysis, video content production, live event management and brand partnerships. AMV has produced several award-winning campaigns, including Guinness’s ‘ Surfer’ and more recent work: * Walkers Sandwich * Snickers 'You're Not You When You're Hungry' * The National Lottery '#' In August 2016, the agency lost the Sainsbury's account, that it had held for 35 years, to Wieden+Kennedy. Team Alex Grieve is Executive Creative Director and Sarah Douglas is CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Network)
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television network. It is branded as ITV1 in most of the UK except for central and northern Scotland, where it is branded as STV (TV channel), STV. 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 Legal name, legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time: BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was, for decades, a network of separate companies that provided regional television services and also shared programmes among themselves 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 ITV1, the ITV1 cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Married Single Other
''Married Single Other'' is a British six-episode comedy-drama television miniseries created and written by Peter Souter. The series is based on the lives of group of people who are either married, single or "other", other being defined as in a relationship. It began airing on Monday 22 February 2010 on ITV (TV network), ITV (except STV (TV channel), STV in central and northern Scotland). The drama series was later screened on STV from February 2012. The series was filmed on location in various areas of Leeds, while Left Bank Pictures television studios annexed to The Leeds Studios were used for interior shooting. Premise The series revolves around three lower middle class couples living in suburban Leeds. Two of the couples have adolescent children, although there is less focus on them than on their parents. While all three couples appear throughout, episodes generally centre mostly on one of the couples. The series has been compared to an earlier ITV comedy drama, ''Cold Feet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Netflix
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service. The service primarily distributes original and acquired films and television shows from various genres, and it is available internationally in multiple languages. Launched in 2007, nearly a decade after Netflix, Inc. began its pioneering DVD-by-mail movie rental service, Netflix is the most-subscribed video on demand streaming media service, with 301.6 million paid memberships in more than 190 countries as of 2025. By 2022, "Netflix Original" productions accounted for half of its library in the United States and the namesake company had ventured into other categories, such as video game publishing of mobile games through its flagship service. As of 2025, Netflix is the 18th most-visited website in the world, with 21.18% of its traffic coming from the United States, followed by the United Kingdom at 6.01%, Canada at 4.94%, and Brazil at 4.24%. History Launch as a mail-based renta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Locksmith Animation
Locksmith Animation is a British-American independent computer animation feature film studio owned by Sister Group. Headquartered in London, England with an office in Los Angeles, California, Locksmith is best known for producing and developing independent computer-animated feature films. Locksmith Animation's first film, ''Ron's Gone Wrong,'' was released on 22 October 2021, distributed by 20th Century Studios (which had recently been acquired by Disney two years prior) with positive reviews. ''That Christmas'', a holiday film based on the children's Christmas book trilogy ''That Christmas and Other Stories'' by British filmmaker Richard Curtis, was released by Netflix on 4 December 2024. The studio's next films are, ''Bad Fairies'', a subversive original musical-comedy film set in contemporary London, to be released by Warner Bros. Pictures on 23 July 2027, ''The Lunar Chronicles#Animated feature film adaptation, The Lunar Chronicles'', based on the author Marissa Meyer's four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Abbott (advertising)
David John Abbott (11 October 1938 – 17 May 2014) was a British advertising executive who founded Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO. He was one of the most celebrated advertising executives in the world, and regarded as the greatest copywriter of his generation. Highlights of his career include the creation of the J.R. Hartley television commercial for Yellow Pages as well as work for Volkswagen, Volvo, The Economist, the RSPCA, Sainsbury's Supermarkets and Chivas Regal. Career History Born in Hammersmith, West London, David Abbott won a scholarship to read History at Merton College, Oxford but left before graduating to nurse his father who was ill with cancer and who later died. Abbott began as a copywriter working in-house at Kodak after discovering a book at a market stall about advertising on Madison Avenue. In 1963 he started work at the Mather & Crowther agency before moving to the Manhattan-based Doyle Dane Bernbach in 1965. At Doyle Dane Bernbach, Abbott was taken under the win ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
