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The Smoke (TV Series)
''The Smoke'' is a British drama that debuted on Sky1 on 20 February 2014. The show is written by Lucy Kirkwood and stars Jamie Bamber, Taron Egerton, Jodie Whittaker and Rhashan Stone. The show was cancelled after one season. Plot The series describes the high-adrenaline adventures of White Watch, a team of London firefighters. Leading the crew is Kev, a good man injured and betrayed during the worst fire of his career. Standing by Kev's side as he returns to work is his gutsy girlfriend Trish and his cocksure friend and fellow firefighter Mal. Other members of the crew include the fearless Ziggy and the mysterious new boy Dennis. Cast Main *Jamie Bamber as Kev Allison, the leader of White Watch. *Jodie Whittaker as Trish Tooley, Kev's supportive girlfriend. *Rhashan Stone as Mal Milligan, a member of White Watch and Kev's best friend. * Taron Egerton as Dennis "Asbo" Severs, the rookie of White Watch with a troubled past. *Pippa Bennett-Warner as Ziggy Brown, a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the epic and the lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's '' Poetics'' (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Greek word meaning "deed" or " act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional generic division between comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word ''play'' or ''game'' (translating the Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''ludus'') was the standard term for dramas until William Shakespeare's time—just as its creator was a ''play-maker'' rather than a ''dramatist'' and the building was a ''play-house'' r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadcasters' Audience Research Board
The Broadcasters Audience Research Board (BARB) is a British organisation that compiles audience measurement and television ratings in the United Kingdom. It was created in 1981 to replace two previous systems whereby ITV ratings were compiled by JICTAR (Joint Industry Committee for Television Audience Research), whilst the BBC did their own audience research. BARB is jointly owned by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky and the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising. Participating viewers have a box on top of their TV sets which tracks the programmes they watch. Business Currently, BARB have approximately 5,100 homes (equating to approximately 12,000 individuals) participating in the panel. This means that with a total UK population of 65,648,100, according to the 2016 census, each viewer with a BARB reporting box represents over 5,000 people. The box records exactly what programmes they watch, and the panelists indicate who is in the room watching by pressing a butt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London's Burning (TV Series)
''London's Burning'' is a British television drama programme, produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network. It was based on the 1986 TV movie of the same name, and focused on the lives of members of the London Fire Brigade, principally those of the Blue Watch, at the fictional Blackwall fire station. It began with the movie (pilot), broadcast on 7 December 1986. This was then followed by a total of 14 series, which ran from 20 February 1988 to 25 August 2002. Movie Jack Rosenthal's original two-hour TV movie, directed by Les Blair, was broadcast on ITV on 7 December 1986. The Broadwater Farm riot, in north London, was one inspiration for the screenplay. Unlike the final years of the ''London's Burning'' TV series, the movie (along with the following early TV series), was a black comedy that also examined serious issues, primarily that while female and Black, Asian and minority ethnic firefighters had to deal with prejudice on the job, the prejudices in their ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone McAullay
Simone McAullay (born 14 April 1976) is an Australian actress. Study and early career Born in Perth, Western Australia, McAullay moved to the East Coast as a late teenager, living in Byron Bay, and in the late 1990s, she auditioned to study aThe Actors Centrein Sydney. After several years of study there, she graduated in 2000. In 2001, she was selected for the role of Angie McIntyre in the series '' Crash Palace''. Also in 2001, she played the role of Mrs Harrison in the feature film, ''Invincible.'' ''Blue Heelers'' In a breakthrough role, from 2003 until 2006, she played the role of Senior Constable Susie Raynor on popular Australian drama series ''Blue Heelers''. ''Home and Away, The Strip'' In 2007, McAullay appeared in a recurring role as Vivian Anderson on '' Home and Away'' for 15 episodes. She returned to ''Home and Away'' in April 2008 for five episodes. In 2008, she portrayed forensic policewoman Jessica Mackay in the TV drama series, '' The Strip'', a pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Lewis (actor)
Gary Stevenson (born 30 November 1957), better known as Gary Lewis, is a Scottish actor. He has had roles in films such as ''Billy Elliot'', ''Joyeux Noël'', ''Gangs of New York'', ''Eragon'', and ''Three and Out'', as well as major roles in the television docudrama '' Supervolcano'' and the Starz series '' Outlander''. Early life Gary Lewis was born Gary Stevenson on 30 November 1957 in Easterhouse, Glasgow. The middle of three children, his father was a coppersmith whilst his mother worked in a local biscuit factory. After leaving school, he worked a series of jobs including as a street sweeper and in a library. He completed a social science degree at Glasgow College of Technology (now Glasgow Caledonian University), graduating with honours in 1983. Encouraged by his high school English teacher, Lewis read voraciously and eventually decided to pursue a career as an actor. Career Theatre In 1979, Lewis starred in writer Freddy Anderson's Fringe First Award-winning play ''K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lolita Chakrabarti
Lolita Chakrabarti (born 1 June 1969) is a British actress and writer. Early life Chakrabarti was born in Kingston upon Hull, England, to Bengali Hindu parents from India on 1 June 1969. She grew up in Birmingham, where her father worked as an orthopaedic surgeon at Selly Oak Hospital. Career Acting Chakrabarti graduated from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in 1990. From 1993 to 1996, she presented the BBC children's educational programme ''Numbertime.'' Her screen credits include ''Vigil'', ''Showtrial'', ''The Wheel of Time'', '' Criminal: UK'', ''Riviera'', '' Delicious'', ''Defending the Guilty'', '' All Is True'', '' Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands'', ''The Casual Vacancy'', ''My Mad Fat Diary'', ''Jekyll and Hyde'', '' Intruders'', ''Bodies'', '' Vera'', '' Outnumbered'', '' Hustle'', ''Born to Kill'', '' Forgiven'', '' Extras Christmas Special'', ''William and Mary'', '' Fortysomething'', ''Holby City'', ''Silent Witness'', and as WPC Jamila Blake in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daragh Carville
Daragh Carville (born in Armagh in 1969) is an Irish playwright, screenwriter and educator. He is best known for co-creating and writing the ITV crime drama '' The Bay'', first broadcast on ITV in 2019, attracting an average audience of over seven million viewers. Career Stage Theatre credits include ''Language Roulette'' ( Bush Theatre, London and Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), ''Observatory'' (Peacock Theatre, Dublin) and ''This Other City'' (Grand Opera House, Belfast). Carville has won the Stewart Parker and the Meyer-Whitworth awards. His new play ''The Life and Times of Mitchell & Kenyon'' opened at the Dukes Theatre, Lancaster in April 2014. His radio credits include '' Regenerations'' (BBC Radio 3), which features on the BBC Audio release '' Doctor Who at the BBC: The Plays'', and ''Dracula'' (BBC Radio 4) starring Michael Fassbender. Screen Carville's first feature film, ''Middletown'', premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York in 2006. The film, which stars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dog Pound
An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals – mostly dogs and cats – are housed. The word "pound" has its origins in the animal pounds of agricultural communities, where stray livestock would be penned or impounded until they were claimed by their owners. While no-kill shelters exist, it is sometimes policy to euthanize animals that are not claimed quickly enough by a previous or new owner. In Europe, of the 30 countries included in a survey, all but six (Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy and Poland) permitted euthanizing non-adopted animals. Terminology The shelter industry has terminology for their unique field of work, and though there are no exact standards for consistent definitions, many words have meanings based on their usage. '' Animal control'' has the municipal function of picking up stray dogs and cats, and investigating reports of animal abuse, dog bites or animal attacks. It may also be cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pit Bull
Pit bull is a term used in the United States for a type of dog descended from bulldogs and terriers, while in other countries such as the United Kingdom the term is used as an abbreviation of the American Pit Bull Terrier breed. The term was first used in 1927. Within the United States the pit bull is usually considered a heterogeneous grouping that includes the breeds American Pit Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, American Bully, Staffordshire Bull Terrier and occasionally the American Bulldog, along with any crossbred dog that shares certain physical characteristics with these breeds. In other countries including Britain, the Staffordshire Bull Terrier is not considered a pit bull. Most pit bull-type dogs descend from the British Bull and terrier, a 19th-century dog-fighting type developed from crosses between the Old English Bulldog and the Old English Terrier. Pit bull-type dogs have a controversial reputation as pets both in the United States and internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Price (writer)
Tim Price is a Welsh screenwriter and playwright. He created the Welsh crime drama ''Y Pris'', which ran for two series on S4C, and the fantasy series ''Switch''. Career Price worked as a journalist and designer on weekly newspapers, like the ''Pontypridd Observer''. Price's stage plays include ''Salt, Root and Roe'' (nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an affiliate theatre), about two sisters who make a suicide pact, ''I'm With the Band'', about an indie band, and his commission for the second season of the National Theatre Wales tour, ''The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning'' (winner of the James Tait Black Award best play). He also wrote the biographical play ''Praxis Makes Perfect'', about Italian communist Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. He has had work performed at the Barbican, Traverse Theatre, Pentabus Theatre and the Royal Court. Price has written extensively for television, including popular series such as ''River City'', ''Casualty'', ''Secret Dia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chloe Moss
Chloë Moss (born 1976 in Liverpool) is an English playwright and screenwriter. Early life Moss grew up in Liverpool and attended Manchester Metropolitan University, where she studied film. She joined the Royal Court's Young Writers programme and wrote her first professional play, '' A Day In Dull Armour''. Career She soon became a writer-in-residence at the Bush and is under commission to the Manchester Royal Exchange, the Royal Court, Paines Plough, Liverpool Everyman, and Clean Break (theatre company). Other work includes ''How Love is Spelt'', which opened at the Bush Theatre London in November 2004 and Off-Broadway in August 2005; '' Christmas Is Miles Away'' (Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester, November 2005, transferring to the Bush in February 2006); and '' The Way Home'' (Liverpool Everyman, November 2006). '' Catch''—a collaborative piece written with four other playwrights (April De Angelis, Laura Wade, Stella Feehily, and Tanika Gupta)—premièred at The Royal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Bell (actor)
Geoff Bell (born 8th January, 1963) is an English actor. He is most notable for his performances in '' Green Street'', '' The Business'', '' Kingsman: The Secret Service'', ''Suffragette'', ''War Horse ''and ''King Arthur''. Geoff has won awards for his own directorial debut with his short film, "Bacon" which he also wrote and produced. Career He has appeared in many films, mostly as a cameo appearance or as a supporting role. Among them are '' Girl with a Pearl Earring'', '' Stardust'', ''The Long Firm'', '' Making Waves'', '' The Business'' and ''RocknRolla''. He played the captain of England's football team, Gary Wackett, known as Wacko, an extremely violent centre back, a parody of Stuart Pearce, in the film '' Mike Bassett: England Manager''. In ''War Horse'' he had a cameo role as Sgt. Sam Perkins in the British Army, who briefly looks after the horses Joey and Topthorn at the start of the film. One of his best known films is '' Green Street'', where he appeared as To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
