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Shobu Kapoor
Shobu Kapoor (born 28 May 1961) is a British actress of Indian descent. Life and career She is most notable for playing the role of Gita Kapoor, the long-suffering wife of market trader Sanjay ( Deepak Verma), in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' from 1993 to 1998. After leaving ''Eastenders'', Kapoor appeared in the 2002 film '' Bend It Like Beckham'' and the TV series ''The Bill'' (2004). She has also been in ''Chicken Tikka Masala'' (2005), '' Casualty'' (2005) and '' Doctors'', where she appeared as five characters between 2000 and 2556. In 2006, she appeared in the BBC drama '' Banglatown Banquet'' and the Irish RTÉ soap ''Fair City'' (as Talayeh Kirmani). In 2007, she played the minor role of Umi in the Channel 4 drama '' Shameless''. In 2008, she appeared in " Journey's End", the series four finale of ''Doctor Who'', where her character perished at the hands of the Daleks. Other film roles include Taj's mother in '' Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj'' (2006) and Mrs Kh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British People
British people or Britons, also known colloquially as Brits, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.: British nationality law governs modern British citizenship and nationality, which can be acquired, for instance, by descent from British nationals. When used in a historical context, "British" or "Britons" can refer to the Ancient Britons, the indigenous inhabitants of Great Britain and Brittany, whose surviving members are the modern Welsh people, Cornish people, and Bretons. It also refers to citizens of the former British Empire, who settled in the country prior to 1973, and hold neither UK citizenship nor nationality. Though early assertions of being British date from the Late Middle Ages, the Union of the Crowns in 1603 and the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 triggered a sense of British national identity.. The notion of Britishness and a shared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who (series 4)
The fourth series of British science fiction television programme ''Doctor Who'' was preceded by the 2007 Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned". Following the special, a regular series of thirteen episodes aired, starting with " Partners in Crime" on 5 April 2008 and ending with " Journey's End" three months later on 5 July 2008. "Partners in Crime" marked the debut of Donna Noble, as played by Catherine Tate, as a full-time companion to the Tenth Doctor, after she first appeared in the 2006 Christmas special, " The Runaway Bride". Freema Agyeman also returns as the Doctor's companion Martha Jones from the previous series. John Barrowman, Elisabeth Sladen, Noel Clarke and Camille Coduri also returned to appear in the series finale, as well as Billie Piper, who appeared as Rose Tyler in the three final episodes of the series. The series started production on 8 August 2007 and concluded on 29 March 2008. A short Children in Need special titled " Time Crash" was also produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Births
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other One (2020 TV Series)
''The Other One'' is a British television comedy series broadcast on BBC One, written and directed by Holly Walsh and starring Ellie White, Lauren Socha, Rebecca Front and Siobhan Finneran. Plot The sitcom follows young Catherine "Cathy" Walcott (Ellie White) & her half sister, Catherine "Cat" Walcott ( Lauren Socha), who had no idea of each other's existence until their father's untimely death at a birthday party. Production Walsh was inspired to write the sitcom after hearing a true story about a man with two families who gave his kids the same name to avoid confusion or being sprung. Cast *Ellie White as Catherine "Cathy" Walcott, a woman who finds out she has a half-sister with the same name after her father's death * Lauren Socha as Catherine "Cat" Walcott, Cathy's younger half-sister, who is introduced to her at her father's funeral *Rebecca Front as Tess Walcott, Cathy's mother and the widow of Colin *Siobhan Finneran as Marilyn, Colin's eccentric mistress and the moth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Horowitz
Anthony John Horowitz, (born 5 April 1955) is an English novelist and screenwriter specialising in mystery and suspense. His works for children and young adult readers include ''The Diamond Brothers'' series, the '' Alex Rider'' series, and '' The Power of Five'' series (known in the U.S. as ''The Gatekeepers''). His work for adults includes the play '' Mindgame'' (2001); two Sherlock Holmes novels, ''The House of Silk'' (2011) and '' Moriarty'' (2014); two novels featuring his own detective Atticus Pünd, ''Magpie Murders'' (2016) and ''Moonflower Murders'' (2020); and four novels featuring a fictionalised-version of himself as a companion and chronicler to private investigator Daniel Hawthorne, ''The Word Is Murder'' (2017), ''The Sentence Is Death'' (2018), ''A Line to Kill'' (2021), and ''The Twist of a Knife'' (2022). The Estate of James Bond creator Ian Fleming also chose Horowitz to write Bond novels utilizing unpublished material by Fleming, starting with ''Trigger Morti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hank Zipzer (TV Series)
''Hank Zipzer'' is a British children's television series, based on the ''Hank Zipzer'' book series by Henry Winkler and Lin Oliver. It stars Nick James as the 12-year-old dyslexic schoolboy, Hank Zipzer. Winkler also portrays Mr. Rock, Hank's music teacher. Unlike the books that took place in Winkler's native United States, the series takes place in London, in the United Kingdom. It also included a 2016 Christmas special, '' Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe''. HBO Max began streaming all three seasons on May 13, 2022, and will begin streaming ''Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe'' on December 2, 2022. Plot The series focuses on the misadventures of Hank Zipzer, a 12-year-old schoolboy in London who is dyslexic. Hank's friends are named Frankie and Ashley, and Nick McKelty is his worst enemy. Cast Episodes The first season premiered in January 2014 on CBBC. Unlike the books that took place in America, the series takes place in Britain. The second season began a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBBC Channel
CBBC (initialised as Children's BBC and also known as the CBBC Channel) is a British free-to-air public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the brand used for all BBC content for children aged 7–16. Its sister channel CBeebies broadcasts programming and content for children aged under 7. It broadcasts every day from 7am to 7pm (7am to 9pm from 11 April 2016 to 4 January 2022), timesharing with BBC Three. History Launched on 11 February 2002 alongside its sister channel, CBeebies, which serves the under 6 audience, the name was previously used to brand all BBC Children's content carried on BBC One and BBC Two. CBBC was named Channel of the Year at the Children's BAFTA awards in November 2008, 2012 and 2015. The channel averages 300,000 viewers daily. The channel originally shared bandwidth on the digital terrestrial television platform with BBC Choice, and later BBC Three, needing that CBBC sign off at 7pm daily. On 22 August 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Street
''Silver Street'' is a radio soap opera broadcast on the BBC Asian Network from 24 May 2004 to 26 March 2010. It was the first soap to be aimed at the British South Asian community, Broadcast history It was introduced in 2004 as part of the Sonia Deol show, which was replaced from 24 April 2006 by the Anita Rani show, and until 12 May 2006 each episode had an early evening repeat at 19.20–19.30 in the ''Drive'' Programme. Since 15 May 2006 the serial had been broadcast from 13.30 to 13.40 each weekday during the Nikki Bedi show. The Omnibus edition of the show was broadcast every Sunday between 16.30 and 17.00. In 2007 it became one of the first BBC Asian Network programmes to be available as a podcast and was the most downloaded show on the network. On 21 April 2008 BBC Radio Leicester began to broadcast current episodes of the show after a few weeks of highlights and compilations to introduce the stories. Synopsis Storylines focused on the lives of a primarily British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Asian Network
BBC Asian Network is a British Asian radio station owned and operated by the BBC. The station's target audience is people "with an interest in British Asian lifestyles", especially British Asians between the ages of 18 and 34. The station has production centres at Broadcasting House in London and The Mailbox in Birmingham. The station broadcasts mainly in English, but has retained Sunday evening shows in South Asian languages. The Asian Network covers only the Indian subcontinent, with the rest of the continent – such as Japan and China – not covered by the station. The station's output consists largely of music and talk programmes. On Fridays at 4:00 p.m., the station broadcasts ''The Official Asian Music Chart'', compiled by the Official Charts Company and based on sales and streams across a seven-day period. According to RAJAR, the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 476,000 with a listening share of 0.3% as of September 2022. History Origins as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder On Trial In Italy
''Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy'' (also known as ''The Amanda Knox Story'') is a 2011 American true crime television film. It stars Hayden Panettiere as Amanda Knox, Paolo Romio as Raffaele Sollecito, Djibril Kébé as Rudy Guede and Amanda Fernando Stevens as Meredith Kercher, and first aired on the Lifetime network on February 21, 2011. Set between 2007 and 2009, ''Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy'' is based on the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, and the subsequent trials of the suspects, Guede, Knox and Sollecito. It was written by Wendy Battles, who has worked on scripts for the American television series ''CSI: NY'' and '' Law & Order'', and filmed in Rome, after officials refused to grant the production team permission to shoot in Perugia. The film contains a re-enactment of the murder. In Italy, the television film has been transmitted on Canale 5, on December 3, 2012, after Amanda Knox sent a team of lawyers to Mediaset, to prevent the airin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meredith Kercher
Meredith Susanna Cara Kercher (28 December 1985 – 1 November 2007) was a British student on exchange from the University of Leeds who was murdered at the age of 21 in Perugia, Italy. Kercher was found dead on the floor of her bedroom. By the time the bloodstained fingerprints at the scene were identified as belonging to Rudy Guede, an African migrant, police had charged Kercher's American roommate, Amanda Knox, and Knox's Italian boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito. The subsequent prosecutions of Knox and Sollecito received international publicity, with forensic experts and jurists taking a critical view of the evidence supporting the initial guilty verdicts. Guede was tried separately in a fast-track procedure, and in October 2008, was found guilty of the sexual assault and murder of Kercher. He subsequently exhausted the appeals process and began serving a 16-year sentence. On 4 December 2020, an Italian court ruled that Guede could complete his term doing community service. Gue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mischief Night (2006 Film)
''Mischief Night'' is a 2006 British comedy-drama film. It is the third installment of the Tina Trilogy following on from ''Tina Goes Shopping'' (1999) and ''Tina Takes a Break ''(2001). However, unlike the previous two Channel 4 films ''Mischief Night'' broadens its scope to consider the wider community that Tina lives in and address issues of racial segregation. Tina is played by Kelli Hollis in all three films. Synopsis The film is set on a deprived Leeds estate where Asian and white residents have segregated. Tensions between the two communities come to a head on the unruly Mischief Night. The film shows several people's involvement in this. Characters *Asif – A young Asian boy of about ten or eleven. Although to his parents he is an innocent young Asian lad, Asif is a tearaway when he is away from home. Asif's involvement begins when he steals a car and crashes into Qassim. Qassim is a thug and drug dealer in the Asian community and after beating him demands that Asif pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
