The Duchess (TV Series)
''The Duchess'' is a British comedy-drama television series created by and starring Katherine Ryan. It premiered on Netflix on 11 September 2020. On 29 April 2021, the series was cancelled after one season. Cast and characters Main * Katherine Ryan as Katherine, a ceramics artist and Olive's mother * Rory Keenan as Shep, Katherine's ex-partner, Olive's father and a former boy band member * Katy Byrne as Olive, Katherine and Shep's nine-year-old daughter * Steen Raskopoulos as Evan, Katherine's boyfriend and an orthodontist * Michelle de Swarte as Bev, Katherine's best friend and business partner * Sophie Fletcher as Jane, Millie's mother * Doon Mackichan as Cheryl, Shep's fiancée Recurring * Beau Gadsdon as Millie, Olive's friend * Tony Jayawardena as Mr. Michaels, Olive and Millie's headmaster * Anwar Lynch as Tom, Bev's husband and Shep's former Tru-Se bandmate * Ash Rizi as Gareth, Shep’s former Tru-Se bandmate * Ciaran Dowd as Dave, Shep’s former Tru-Se bandmate * Geo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Comedy Drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical hour-long legal or medical drama, but exhibit far fewer jokes-per-minute as in a typical half-hour sitcom. In the United States Examples from United States television include: ''M*A*S*H (TV series), M*A*S*H'', ''Moonlighting (TV series), Moonlighting'', ''The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd'', ''Northern Exposure'', ''Ally McBeal'', ''Sex and the City'', ''Desperate Housewives'' and ''Scrubs (TV series), Scrubs''. The term "dramedy" was coined to describe the late 1980s wave of shows, including ''The Wonder Years'', ''Hooperman'', ''Doogie Howser, M.D.'' and ''Frank's Place''. See also *List of comedy drama television series *Black comedy *Dramatic structure *Melodrama *Seriousness *Tragicomedy *Psychological ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Maya Jama
Maya Indea Jama (, ; born 14 August 1994) is an English television, radio presenter, and DJ. She co-presented BBC One's '' Peter Crouch: Save Our Summer'' alongside Peter Crouch and Alex Horne and is presenter of the BBC Three competition '' Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star'' from the third series (2021) onwards. Jama co-presented ''Trending Live!'' on 4Music from 2015 until 2017, ''Cannonball'' on ITV in 2017, the MTV show ''True Love or True Lies'' in 2018, and the first series of '' The Circle'' with Alice Levine on Channel 4. In radio, Jama hosted ''#DriveWithMaya'' on Rinse FM from 2014 to 2017, and co-presented ''Radio 1's Greatest Hits'' and presented her eponymous show, ''Maya Jama'' on BBC Radio 1 from 2018 to 2020. In 2022 she was announced as the new host of the ITV2 dating reality series '' Love Island''. Early life Jama was born and raised in Bristol, where she attended Cotham School. She is of Somali descent on her father's side and Swedish descent on her mot ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Television Series By 3 Arts Entertainment
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 storag ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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English-language Netflix Original Programming
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2020s British Comedy-drama Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Metacritic
Metacritic is a website that review aggregator, aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted arithmetic mean, weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It is regarded as the foremost online review aggregation site for the video game industry. Metacritic's scoring converts each review into a percentage, either mathematically from the mark given, or what the site decides subjectively from a qualitative review. Before being averaged, the scores are weighted according to a critic's popularity, stature, and volume of reviews. The website won two Webby Awards for excellence as an aggregation website. Criticism of the site has focused on the assessment system, the ass ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by three undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley: Senh Duong, Patrick Y. Lee, and Stephen Wang. Although the name "Rotten Tomatoes" connects to the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes in disapproval of a poor stage performance, the original inspiration comes from a scene featuring tomatoes in the Canadian film ''Léolo'' (1992). Since January 2010, Rotten Tomatoes has been owned by Flixster, which was in turn acquired by Warner Bros in 2011. In February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcast's Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, including Fandango. History Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12, 1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His objective in creating Rotten Tomatoes was "to create a site where people can get access to reviews from ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Thanyia Moore
Thanyia Moore (born 20 December 1982) is an English stand-up comedian and actress. Early life Moore grew up in South London to Jamaican parents. Career Moore began performing comedy in 2012. In 2013 she was named Best Female Newcomer at the (UK) Black Comedy Awards. In 2018 she won the Funny Women contest. She has appeared on ''Mock the Week''. As an actress, Moore had a supporting role on the children's TV series '' Jamie Johnson'' and also appeared in ''Pure'' and '' The Duchess''. Moore also gives workshops at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic she, like many other comedians, did not make her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as The Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe, or Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest arts and media festival, which in 2019 spanned 25 days and featured more than 59,600 performances of 3,841 dif ... until August 2022. References External links * * Black British women ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Natasha Radski
Natasha Radski is a British actress. Career Radski has played lead roles in theatre productions including Antigone in the tragedy ''Antigone'' by Jean Anouilh, Yvonne in ''My Wife's Dead Mother'' by Georges Feydeau, Lucile in ''Love and the Piano'' by Georges Feydeau, Lidia Astafieva in ''The House with a View in the Field''. by Alexander Vampilov. Natasha Radski got her first TV role in David Croft's sitcom '' Here Comes the Queen'', 2007. She has played Mrs. Kominski, a guest appearance in ''Citizen Khan'' BBC series, 2016, and has worked in a guest role of the Eastern-European character Daga opposite British comedian Jo Brand in ''Damned'' Channel 4 series, 2018, produced by Lionsgate and What Larks! Productions. She has appeared in a tragic role in Dracula (2020 TV series) for BBC/Netflix. She has played the role of Russian News Reader in HBO / Sky Atlantic ''Chernobyl''. Natasha has played a distressed immigrant Irina in "Café Mirage", 2020, directed by Neilson Black ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lorna Gayle
Lorna Gayle is a British actress and singer, known for appearing in the films ''Run Fatboy Run'' (2007), ''The Dark Knight'' (2008) and '' One Day'' (2011). In 2015, she played Shontal in the BBC Three sitcom '' Fried''. As Lorna Gee, she won awards as a lovers rock reggae singer. Career Gayle appeared in films, on television and on stage. Gayle's first audition was for the tap-dancing play '' Stepping Out''.John Byrne"My First Audition: Lorna Gayle" ''The Stage ''The Stage'' is a British weekly newspaper and website covering the entertainment industry and particularly theatre. It was founded in 1880. It contains news, reviews, opinion, features, and recruitment advertising, mainly directed at those wh ...'', 30 August 2016. She has also appeared in the West End musical '' Tina''. Cast and Creative, ''Tina''. Film ...
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