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The Hello Girls
''The Hello Girls'' is a British comedy-drama that originally aired on BBC One for two series from 5 September 1996 to 13 August 1998. It was inspired by the novel ''Switchboard Operators'' written by Carol Lake. The series is set in and around the Derby telephone exchange during 1959 and 1961 respectively. ''The Hello Girls'' was launched with much promotion aimed around former ''EastEnders'' actress Letitia Dean, who played Chris Cross, one of the 'girls' who worked at the telephone exchange. It performed very well in the ratings for both series. The theme tune ''Busy Line'' is performed by the main cast (known as 'The Teletones' in the programme). Each episode is 30 minutes in duration. Main cast *Letitia Dean – Chris Cross *Amy Marston – Sylvia Sands *Helen Sheals – Ronnie Ferrari * Stephanie Turner – Miss Armitage *Maggie McCarthy – Miss Marriott *Samantha Seager - Val Pepper (Latimer in Series 2) *Kate Lonergan – Pam Heath *Beverley Klein – Fanny Fanshaw *Ma ...
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Television In The United Kingdom
Regular television broadcasts in the United Kingdom started in 1936 as a public service which was free of advertising, which followed the Mechanical television#Television demonstrations, first demonstration of a transmitted moving image in 1926. Currently, the United Kingdom has a collection of free-to-air, free-to-view and Pay television, subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are over 480 channelsTaking the base Sky Electronic program guide, EPG TV Channels. A breakdown is impossible due to a) the number of platforms, b) duplication of services, c) regional services, d) part time operations, and e) audio. For the Sky platform alone, there are basically 485 TV channels, additionally 57 "timeshifted versions", 36 HDTV versions, 42 regional TV options, 81 audio channels, and 5 promotion channels as of mid-2010 for consumers as well as on-demand content. There are six main channel owners who are responsible for most material viewed. There a ...
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Dermot Boyd
Dermot Boyd is a Northern Irish-born television director. Programmes he has directed include: ''The Return'', ''Four Fathers'', ''Feather Boy'', ''Johnny and the Bomb'', '' Drop Dead Gorgeous'', ''Rough Diamond'', ''Whistleblower'', ''Casualty'', and ''Holby City''. He is husband of the writer Janet Behan. A further list of production credits can be found at the IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, .... References External links * For article about ''Whistleblower'', se Television directors from Northern Ireland Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{tv-director-stub ...
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Television Series Set In The 1960s
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 ...
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Television Series Set In The 1950s
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 ...
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BBC Television Shows
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1998 British Television Series Endings
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently shadowed craters near the Moon's poles. * January 11 – Over 100 people are killed in the Sidi-Hamed massacre in Algeria. * January 12 – Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. * January 17 – The ''Drudge Report'' breaks the story about U.S. President Bill Clinton's alleged affair with Monica Lewinsky, which will lead to the United States House of Representatives, House of Representatives' impeachment of him. February * February 3 – Cavalese cable car disaster (1998), Cavalese cable car disaster: A United States military pilot causes the deaths of 20 people near Trento, Italy, when his low-flying EA-6B Prowler severs the cable of a cable-car. * February 4 – The 5.9 February 1998 Afghanistan earthquake, Afghanistan ...
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1996 British Television Series Debuts
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people die in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell; The Port Arthur Massacre occurs on Tasmania, and leads to major changes in Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands after the plane was hijacked; the 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Games., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Centennial Olympic Park bombing rect 200 0 400 200 TWA FLight 800 rect 400 0 600 200 1996 Mount Everest disaster rect 0 200 300 400 ...
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1990s British Comedy-drama Television Series
Year 199 ( CXCIX) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was sometimes known as year 952 ''Ab urbe condita''. The denomination 199 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Mesopotamia is partitioned into two Roman provinces divided by the Euphrates, Mesopotamia and Osroene. * Emperor Septimius Severus lays siege to the city-state Hatra in Central-Mesopotamia, but fails to capture the city despite breaching the walls. * Two new legions, I Parthica and III Parthica, are formed as a permanent garrison. China * Battle of Yijing: Chinese warlord Yuan Shao defeats Gongsun Zan. Korea * Geodeung succeeds Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, as king of the Korean kingdom of Gaya (traditional date). By topic Religion * Pope Zephyrinus succeeds Pope Victor I, as the ...
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Richard Laxton
Richard Laxton (born 5 July 1967 in London) is a British film director Career Richard Laxton started his career with the short film '' I Bet It Will Rain'' in 1992. Initially he mainly worked for TV production, and was nominated for British Academy Film Awards for several of his TV episodes. In 2006 he made his first feature film ''Life and Lyrics''. His next feature films were '' Grow Your Own'' in 2007, ''An Englishman in New York'' in 2009 and ''Effie Gray'' in 2012. His last production for TV were the twelve episodes of the series ''Him & Her'' in 2011. In 2013 he realised a biographical film entitled ''Effie Gray''. Filmography * 1992: '' I Bet It Will Rain'' (short) * 1993: '' EastEnders'' (TV series), 1 episode: Episode dated 1 April 1993 (1993) * 1994: '' Lovejoy'' (TV series), 1 episode: Fair Exchange (1994) * 1995: '' Band of Gold'' (TV series), 3 episodes: Sold (1995); Damaged (1995); Revenge (1995) * 1995: '' Out of the Blue'' (TV series), 2 episodes: Episod ...
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Colin Wells (actor)
Colin Wells is an English actor best known for his roles of Johnno Dean in the long-running television drama series ''Hollyoaks'', Jake Booth in the revival of Crossroads and Sam Curtis in '' CI5: The New Professionals''. Selected filmography *'' CI5: The New Professionals'' - Sam Curtis, 1999 *''Titus'' - Martius, 1999 *''Crossroads'' - Jake Booth, c.2001-2003 *''Hollyoaks'' - Johnno Dean, 2003–2005, 2017 *'' Mr Bean'' - Guest, 2006 (filmed in 1995) *''Casualty Casualty may refer to: *Casualty (person), a person who is killed or rendered unfit for service in a war or natural disaster **Civilian casualty, a non-combatant killed or injured in warfare * The emergency department of a hospital, also known as ...'' - DI Moreland, 2005–2009 External links * Living people English male television actors 1963 births 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors People from Greenwich Male actors from London {{UK-tv-actor-1960s-stub ...
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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. 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'', ''Moonlighting'', ''The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd'', '' Northern Exposure'', '' Ally McBeal'', ''Sex and the City'', '' Desperate Housewives'' and '' 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 drama References Comedy drama Drama Drama is the specific mode of fiction ...
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Mark Aiken
Mark Aiken is a Northern Irish actor. Biography Aiken was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and attended The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He has appeared in numerous UK and US TV drama series including ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'', ''The Sarah Jane Adventures'', '' Spooks'', '' Waking the Dead'', ''Jonathan Creek'' and ''Soldier Soldier''. He also appeared in the second series of the famous Gold Blend couple advertisements for Nescafé. Selected filmography * '' The Return of Shelley'' (1990, TV Series) - Constable Myers * '' Birds of a Feather'' (1991, TV Series) - Tom * ''A Small Dance'' (1991) - Rob * '' The Nicholas Craig Masterclass'' (1992, TV Series) - Bill * '' Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After'' (1992) – Nick * ''Casualty'' (1993, TV Series) - Michael Volare * ''Chiller'' (1995, TV Series) - Declan O'Hare * '' Game On'' (1995, TV Series) - Male Assistant * ''Nelson's Column'' (1995, TV Series) - Tony * ''Thief Takers'' (1996, TV Series) - Fra ...
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