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Sleeping Dogs (TV Series)
''Sleeping Dogs'' is a late night programme aired on BBC Choice Wales that ran for two series from 2000 until 2001. The show consisted of an entertaining yet peculiar mix of short, quirky factual films featuring people from all walks of life from around Wales coupled with darkly surreal comic shorts. Trivia *It was presented by actress Jenny Evans, who had also played Bonny Cartwright in 1997 film Twin Town. *Author David Llewellyn wrote and acted in the sketch ''The Technostics Church of Great Britain'' for the series. *Sean Carlsen is a regular in Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who audio adventures and played a policeman in the 2005 Doctor Who Christmas special The Christmas Invasion. He was also butchered by an alien in Torchwood episode "Sleepers". Staff * Simon Adams *Sara Allen * Colin Bowen *Stephen Bush *Sean Carlsen * Jon Chapple – Shooting at Unarmed Men/Mclusky *Sally Collins *Jenny Evans * Rob Finighan * Steve Floyd * Matt Hurley *Steve Jenkins *Tom Law * Kyle Lega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Choice Wales
BBC Choice was a British digital television channel which was owned by the BBC and was launched on 23 September 1998. It was the first British TV channel to broadcast exclusively in digital format, as well as the BBC's second non-analogue-terrestrial channel launch (following on from the BBC News channel in 1997). At launch, BBC Choice mainly existed to supplement existing programming on BBC One and Two, with some low-profile original programming of its own. However, faced with low ratings for both Choice and BBC Knowledge, in 2000 the BBC's digital strategy changed. Under new controller Stuart Murphy, the channel began to aim specifically at a young adult audience. The BBC ultimately planned to replace the channel with the higher-profile BBC Three, which, after some delay, began broadcasting in February 2003. History Launch When BBC Choice launched, no digital TV receivers were available to the general public as Sky Digital and ONdigital had not yet launched. Instead, the laun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |