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Timewasters
''Timewasters'' is a British science-fiction comedy television programme, first broadcast on ITV2 in 2017 with a second series broadcast in 2019. It was created by Daniel Lawrence Taylor and written by Taylor and Barunka O'Shaughnessy. It was produced for ITV Studios by Kenton Allen and Matthew Justice of Big Talk Productions. Episodes were directed by George Kane. The programme stars Taylor, Adelayo Adedayo, Samson Kayo and Kadiff Kirwan as the members of an unsuccessful all-black South London jazz quartet who time-travel to the 1920s, and later the 1950s, visiting the Jazz Age and post-war cool jazz period while experiencing culture clashes as they manoeuvre in the unfamiliar eras. Critical response to the programme was generally favourable, with praise for its originality in addressing racism through the comedic insertion of modernity into a period setting. It is also known for satirizing historical dramas and their lack of diversity. There was critical praise for the writi ...
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Adelayo Adedayo
Adelayo Adedayo (; born 18 December 1988) is from Dagenham, Essex. She is a British actress. Her first television appearance was in ''The Bill'', and she made her film debut in ''Sket''. She later starred as the main character, Viva Bennett, in ''Some Girls'' on BBC Three. Education Adelayo attended drama school in Hackney while studying law at university.Katie Rosseinsky, ''Stop, police! Meet our new cop drama crush''. Evening Standard, London, 14 January 2022, page 15. Filmography Film Television References External links Adelayo Adedayoon 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, ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Adedayo, Adelayo British actresses 21st-century British actresses Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Actresses from Manchester Black Briti ...
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Daniel Taylor (actor)
Daniel Lawrence Taylor is a British actor and comedy writer. He appeared in several sitcoms including ''Uncle'', ''How Not to Live Your Life'', and ''Hunderby''. He starred in ITV2's 2015 comedy ''Cockroaches'' and had a small role in ''The Inbetweeners''. He is one half of the comedy duo Ginger & Black (with Eri Jackson). Taylor created, wrote and starred in the ITV2 ITV2 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998. For a number of years, it had the largest audience share after the five analogue terrestrial stations, a ... sitcom ''Timewasters''. The first series of ''Timewasters'' aired in 2017 and the second series aired in spring 2019. Series 1 was nominated for a BAFTA in 2018 for Best Scripted Comedy. In 2018, Taylor was named as a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit. References Also Radio 4 comedy 'Lobby Land' Political sitcom. External links * * Living people British male actors Ye ...
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Samson Kayo
Samson Kayo (born 1991 or 1992) is a British actor, comedian, producer and writer. He was nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance in 2018 for the BBC sketch show '' Famalam'' and in 2022 for the Sky One sitcom ''Bloods'', which he created and wrote. He also created and stars in ''Sliced'', and his other credits include ''Youngers'', ''Timewasters'', and ''Our Flag Means Death''. Biography Kayo is of Nigerian descent. He said that growing up in Peckham, he only wanted to be a footballer, but developed an interest in comedy through Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, and British comedian Jocelyn Jee Esien, who inspired him as a black person to enter comedy. He was a childhood friend of John Boyega, with whom he attended church. When he went out to pick up an iron for his mother, he found an open audition for the Channel 4 comedy ''Youngers'', and was cast. Kayo was nominated for Best Male Comedy Performance at the 2018 British Academy T ...
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Kadiff Kirwan
Kadiff Kirwan (born 3 February 1989) is a British-Montserratian actor. He is known for his roles in several British television series, particularly ''Timewasters'', ''Chewing Gum'', ''Fleabag'', and '' The Stranger''. Early life and education Born and raised in Plymouth, Montserrat, Kirwan moved with his family to Antigua after the 1995 Soufrière Hills volcanic eruption destroyed the family home, and thereafter to Preston, England. There he developed a love of drama; he first acted in school, in a production of Bugsy Malone, when he was 14."BBC Queers stars reveal the moments that changed their lives: Kadiff Kirwan"
''Radio Times''. BBC, undated.
On his desire to act, Kirwan said "I was bad at school
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Daniel Rigby
Daniel Rigby (born 6 December 1982) is an English actor and comedian. He received a BAFTA TV Award for his leading role as Eric Morecambe in the 2011 television film ''Eric and Ernie''. Early life Rigby was born in Stockport, Greater Manchester. He attended Cheadle Hulme School and then studied performing arts at Stockport College. He then enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Career Rigby has worked as a stand-up comedian, having appeared at the Latitude Festival, won the 2007 ''Laughing Horse New Act of the Year'', and been a nominee for winner of the 2007 ''So You Think You're Funny'' competition. In 2007, he moved to television roles with the BBC period drama ''Lilies''. In 2011, Rigby won the BAFTA for Best Actor for his performance as late comedian Eric Morecambe in ''Eric and Ernie'', beating both Matt Smith and Benedict Cumberbatch for their roles as the Doctor and Sherlock Holmes. From 2011 until 2014 Rigby voiced Copenhagen in three Series of the BBC Radi ...
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Nigel Havers
Nigel Allan Havers (born 6 November 1951) is an English actor. His film roles include Lord Andrew Lindsay in the 1981 British film ''Chariots of Fire'', which earned him a BAFTA nomination; as Dr. Rawlins in the 1987 Steven Spielberg war drama, ''Empire of the Sun''; and as Ronny in the 1984 David Lean epic ''A Passage to India''. Television roles include Tom Latimer in the British TV comedy series '' Don't Wait Up'' and Lewis Archer in ''Coronation Street'', between 2009 and 2019. Early life and family Havers was born in Edmonton, London, Edmonton, Middlesex, and is the younger of two boys (with an older brother, Philip), born of Michael Havers, Baron Havers, Sir Michael Havers (later Lord Havers), who was a barrister who became a controversial Attorney General for England and Wales and, briefly, Lord Chancellor in the Conservative Government in the 1980s. His paternal aunt, Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, Baroness Butler-Sloss, Lady Butler-Sloss, his grandfather Cecil Havers, Sir Ce ...
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2018 British Academy Television Awards
The 2018 British Academy Television Awards took place on 13 May 2018 at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The nominations were announced on 4 April, with '' Line of Duty'' leading with four awards. ''Black Mirror'', ''The Crown'' and '' Three Girls'' followed with three nominations. The 2018 British Academy Television Craft Awards were held on 22 April 2018. Winners and nominees Programmes with multiple nominations Most major wins In Memoriam *Ken Dodd *Rosemary Leach * Peter Hall *Elizabeth Dawn *Jim Bowen *Robert Hardy *Brian Cant *Liz MacKean *Barry Norman *Mark Milsome * Anthony Booth *Keith Chegwin *Rodney Bewes * William G. Stewart *Peter Sallis *Katie Boyle *Roy Barraclough * Sean Hughes *Patricia Llewellyn *Dale Winton *Emma Chambers *Peter Wyngarde *Emma Tennant *John Noakes *Benjamin Whitrow *Doreen Keogh *Bruce Forsyth Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson (22 February 1928 – 18 August 2017) was a British entertainer and presenter whose ...
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Ellie White
Ellie White (born 1989) is an English comedy actress. She is best known for playing Princess Beatrice of York in the British royal family parody, ''The Windsors'' (2016–2020), and Katia in the sitcom, '' Stath Lets Flats'' (2018–2021). In 2022, Ellie co-wrote and starred in the BBC sketch show, ''Ellie & Natasia'', alongside her comedy partner Natasia Demetriou. Early life and career Ellie White is from Oxford, England. Her father is journalist Jim White. She attended the University of Bristol, and was a member of the Bristol Revunions, graduating in 2010. White's career started in comedy stand-up, appearing in the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where the comedy line up also included Aisling Bea and Romesh Ranganathan. After the festival, White landed her first TV appearance on the Channel 4 TV series Jamie Demetriou's Comedy Blaps and on BBC Three's ''Live at the Electric'' as well as BBC Radio 4's ''Fresh From the Fringe''. In 2015, White landed a regular role in ...
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Daniel Simonsen
Daniel Simonsen is a Norwegian comedian and actor. Career Simonsen has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 2009. As well as his Newcomer Award, his show "Champions" received positive reviews, he supported Simon Amstell on his UK tour in 2012 and 2015 and appeared on ''Russell Howard's Good News'' in 2012. In 2019 he performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Simonsen has won and been nominated for awards both in Norway and the UK including Chortle Best Newcomer, Best Comedian at Comedy Fight Club and the ''So You Think You're Funny'' competition. Since 2014, he has had a recurring role in Vic and Bob Vic (; es, Vic or Pancracio Celdrán (2004). Diccionario de topónimos españoles y sus gentilicios (5ª edición). Madrid: Espasa Calpe. p. 843. ISBN 978-84-670-3054-9. «Vic o Vich (viquense, vigitano, vigatán, ausense, ausetano, ausonense) ...'s BBC sitcom '' House of Fools'' as Erik. Filmography Film Television References External links * ...
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ITV2
ITV2 is a British free-to-air television channel owned by ITV Digital Channels, a division of ITV plc. It was launched on 7 December 1998. For a number of years, it had the largest audience share after the five analogue terrestrial stations, a claim now held by its sister service ITV3 both of which are freely available to a majority of households. The channel is primarily aimed at the 16/18–34 age group, just like BBC Three, E4 and Sky Max and is known for American programming such as adult animations '' Family Guy,'' '' American Dad!'' and ''Bob's Burgers'', repeats of recently aired episodes of soap operas and other entertainment programming from ITV such as '' Coronation Street'' and ''Emmerdale''; 60-second entertainment news bulletin ''FYI Daily'', which airs in-between films; and original programming such as '' Celebrity Juice'' and '' Love Island''. In November 2021, the channel moved into the true-crime genre with ''Social Media Murders'' a three-part documentary s ...
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Anna Chancellor
Anna Theodora Chancellor (born 27 April 1965) is a British actress who has received nominations for BAFTA and Olivier Awards. Background and early life Chancellor was born in Richmond, England to barrister John Paget Chancellor, eldest son of Sir Christopher Chancellor, and Mary Jolliffe, a daughter of Lord Hylton. The Chancellor family were Scottish gentry who had owned land at Quothquan since 1432. Chancellor was brought up in Somerset and educated at St Mary's School, Shaftesbury, which was a Roman Catholic boarding school for girls in Dorset, but left at sixteen to live in London, later describing her early years there as "quite wild".Tim LewisAnna Chancellor: 'My life was chaotic. But it's turned out OK'dated 21 August 2011 at theguardian.com. Retrieved 23 October 2016 In her early twenties she married the poet Jock Scot (1952–2016), with whom she had a daughter in 1988 while still studying at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She separated from Scot a fe ...
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