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Police 2020
''Police 2020'' is a one-off television pilot, first broadcast in 1997, that was set to be the first episode of an ongoing British crime drama series. Set in the near future, the pilot starred Liam Cunningham as DCI Billy O'Connell, the head of a police nightshift force, who is tasked with tackling an armed suspect, Eddie Longshaw (Keith Barron), who takes a group of Russian immigrants hostage in an elevator after blaming the immigrant population for an outbreak of tuberculosis that took the lives of most of his family. However, whilst conducting his investigation, O'Connell and a close colleague, Marsha Beagley (Rachel Davies), are both in the process of competing for a promotion, and are being monitored throughout the crisis to see who performs better, unaware that their superiors are taking advantage of the situation to pit them against each other. Although the feature-length pilot gained much press attention, a full series was not commissioned. Cast * Liam Cunningham as DCI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Drama
Crime films, in the broadest sense, is a film genre inspired by and analogous to the crime fiction literary genre. Films of this genre generally involve various aspects of crime and its detection. Stylistically, the genre may overlap and combine with many other genres, such as Drama (film and television), drama or gangster film, but also include Comedy film, comedy, and, in turn, is divided into many sub-genres, such as Mystery film, mystery, suspense or Film noir, noir. Screenwriter and scholar Eric R. Williams identified crime film as one of eleven super-genres in his Screenwriters Taxonomy, claiming that all feature-length Narrative film, narrative films can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, fantasy, horror, romance, science fiction, slice of life, sports, thriller, war and western. Williams identifies drama in a broader category called "film type", mystery and suspense as "macro-genres", and film noir as a "screenwriter's pathway" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Slavin
Jane Slavin (born 11 March 1970) is an English actress and novelist. Slavin was the winner of the 1989 BBC Radio Drama Carleton Hobbs Award. She has appeared on television in ''Lewis'', '' Doctors'' as Gayle Buckley, ''Peak Practice'', ''Always and Everyone'', '' Coronation Street'' and the '' Doctor Who'' full-cast radio drama ''The Paradise of Death''. Slavin has also been a series regular in ''The Bill'', '' Wycliffe'', ''Maigret'', ''Clocking Off'', ''Casualty'' and '' Heartbeat''. She has also recorded several Big Finish productions of ''Doctor Who'' with the fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, playing the role of companion Ann Kelso. The stories were released in January 2019. Her theatre roles include Poopay in Alan Ayckbourn's ''Communicating Doors'' at the Savoy Theatre (in London's West End), and ''All Things Considered'' (Hampstead Theatre). She was Juliet in '' Romeo and Juliet'' in a world tour for the English Shakespeare Company directed by Michael Bogdanov Michael Bog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television Pilots Not Picked Up As A Series
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 stora ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Drama Films
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1997 Films
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1997 Television Films
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David Prosho
Dave Prosho (born 1965, Leicestershire) is an English actor. He studied drama at University of Winchester (then known as King Alfred's College) on the Drama, Theatre and Television Studies course, from 1983 to 1986. Prosho is best known for his role as DC Ian Mitchell in ''Scott & Bailey''. He has also appeared as Jimmy in ''The Syndicate'', and in a number of other dramas, including '' Queer as Folk'', ''Phoenix Nights'', '' The Cops'', '' The Second Coming'', and '' The Vice''. He has also appeared in three Peter Kosminsky dramas: ''Walking on the Moon'', ''Britz'', and the BAFTA-winning ''The Government Inspector ''The Government Inspector'', also known as ''The Inspector General'' ( rus, links=no, Ревизор, Revizor, literally: "Inspector"), is a satirical play by Russian dramatist and novelist, Nikolai Gogol. Originally published in 1836, the pl ...''. Prosho has balanced his acting career with a career in education, between acting jobs, and is currently headtea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Knott
Andrew Knott (born 22 November 1979) is a British actor. He played Dirtbox in ''Gavin & Stacey'', and Dickon Sowerby in the 1993 film ''The Secret Garden''. Life and career Knott was born in Salford. His first acting was done in British television and radio programmes. He was trained in the Oldham Theatre Workshop. Knott's first major film was Warner Brothers' ''The Secret Garden'' in 1993, in which he played Dickon Sowerby. He went on to play Joe Green in ''Black Beauty''. In the late 1990s, he played Darren Featherstone and Liam Shepherd in '' Coronation Street''. In 2004, he returned to theatre to act in Alan Bennett's ''The History Boys''. The National Theatre production later toured the world, affording Knott his Broadway debut. He reprised his role on BBC radio, and in Bennett's film adaptation which was directed by the National's Nicholas Hytner. In 2011, he appeared in " The National Anthem", an episode of the anthology series ''Black Mirror''. Knott most recently ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Velibor Topic
Velibor ( sr, Велибор) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin. It may refer to: *Velibor Đurić (born 1982), Bosnian football player *Velibor Jonić (died 1946), Serbian fascist politician and government minister in World War II *Velibor Kopunović (born 1975), football player *Velibor Milutinović (born 1944), Serbian-Mexican football coach and former player *Velibor Pudar (born 1964), football manager and former goalkeeper *Velibor Radović (born 1972), Montenegrin-Israeli professional basketball player *Velibor Topić (born 1970), actor *Velibor Vasilić (born 1980), Bosnian football player *Velibor Vasović Velibor Vasović (Serbian Cyrillic: Велибор Васовић; 3 October 1939 – 4 March 2002) was a Serbian footballer and manager, also one of the legendary players of Partizan Belgrade and Ajax and one of greatest defenders of his gener ... (1939–2002), Serbian football player {{given name Slavic masculine given names Serbian masculine given nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Hall
Esther Jane Hall (born 28 August 1970) is an English actress who has appeared in a number of television dramas. Early life Born in Manchester in 1970 and brought up in Cheshire, she took A levels in Manchester before training in theatre arts for three years at the University of Leeds's Bretton Hall College, where she gained a Bachelor of Arts. Career Hall's first high-profile role was as Romey Sullivan in the television drama '' Queer as Folk'' (1999–2000), in which she played one half of a lesbian couple who conceive a baby with the help of their gay best friend. In 2001 she appeared in the award-winning TV drama ''Men Only'' as Katie, the wife of Mac (Marc Warren). Roles in ''Always and Everyone'' (2000–01), ''Serious and Organised'' (2003) and an adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's ''Sons and Lovers'' (2003) followed. Hall played Ellie Simm, the girlfriend of main character Tom Quinn in '' Spooks'' from 2002 to 2003. In 2004 Hall starred in the second episode of the sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Bones
Ken Bones (born 11 June 1947) is an English actor. He is a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Career Theatre Bones trained at RADA between 1971 and 1973, where he won the Honours Diploma, the Ronson Prize, the Kendal Award, the Poel Prize and John Barton Prize. His first professional stage appearance was as Roy in ''The Odd Couple'' at Crewe in January 1974. His other appearances in that season included Wick in '' Little Malcolm'', Vincent Crummles in ''Nicholas Nickleby'' and Dr Hennessey in ''Count Dracula''. During 1974 and 1975 Bones was a member of the Prospect Theatre Company, taking part in the company's national tour in such venues as the Edinburgh Festival and London's Roundhouse, playing Gower in '' Henry IV'' and ''Henry V'' with Timothy Dalton, and the Narrator in the rock musical ''Pilgrim'' with Paul Jones and Peter Straker. Bones joined the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury in 1976, and with whom he played Ernst Ludwig in ''Cabaret'', Mr Shanks in ''Hab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Dantay
Tim Dantay (born 1963) is a British actor who was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and ...) and brought up in the Lake District. Filmography Theatre work * '' Four Nights in Knaresborough'' (UK tour, 2001) External links * Living people Male actors from Manchester English male stage actors English male television actors 1963 births {{UK-tv-actor-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
