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The First Team (TV Series)
''The First Team'' (stylised as ''The F1rst Team'') is a British comedy television series, created by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris, both well known for their work on ''The Inbetweeners''. The series follows the lives of Mattie Sullivan (Jake Short), Benji Achebe (Shaquille Ali-Yebuah) and Jack Turner (Jack McMullen), who are young players of a fictional Premier League football team. Produced by BBC Studios and the creators' production company Fudge Park Productions, the sole series began broadcasting on BBC Two on 28 May 2020, consisting of six episodes, concluding on 2 July the same year. The series received underwhelming reviews by critics. Plot Focusing on the lives of young players Mattie, Jack and Benji, the show follows the trio as they contend with the manifold issues on and off the field that are associated with modern-day football. One of the overriding themes of the show, according to Beesley, is the "fault lines, where masculinity and insecurity collide". Cast and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Television
Television comedy is a category of broadcasting that has been present since the early days of entertainment media. While there are several genres of comedy, some of the first ones aired were variety shows. One of the first United States television programs was the comedy-variety show ''Texaco Star Theater'', which was most prominent in the years that it featured Milton Berle - from 1948 to 1956. The range of television comedy has become broader, with the addition of sitcoms, improvisational comedy, and stand-up comedy, while also adding comedic aspects into other television genres, including drama and news. Television comedy provides opportunities for viewers to relate the content in these shows to society. Some audience members may have similar views about certain comedic aspects of shows, while others will take different perspectives. This also relates to developing new social norms, sometimes acting as the medium that introduces these transitions. Genres Sitcom The ''situ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Television Series
A list of comedy television series by country of origin. Australia Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina * ''Viza za budućnost'' Brazil Canada China *'' Number One Surprise'' Croatia *'' Odmori se, zaslužio si'' *'' Zauvijek susjedi'' Egypt *''The Family of Mr Shalash'' *'' Miss Farah'' (2019–present) France *''Monster Buster Club'' Greece India Jamaica * ''Hello World Jamaica'' (2004–2006) Japan New Zealand Singapore * ''All in All Alamelu'' (2012) * ''Alli Rajam'' * ''Chinna Papa Periya Papa'' (2003–2005, 2015–2016) * ''Costly Mapillai'' (2000) * '' Cuba and friends'' * '' Dhinam Dhinam Deepavali'' (2007–2008) * ''Galatta Kudumbam 1 & 2'' (1999) * '' House of media'' * ''Khirushna Lattu Thinna Asaiya'' (2013–2014) * ''Krishna Cottage'' * ''Madipakkam Madhavan'' (2013–2015) * ''Mama Mapillai'' * ''Masala Kudumbam'' * ''Maya Basar'' * ''My Name Is Mangamma'' (2012–2013) * ''Naan Aval Illai'' * ''Naduvulai Konsham Pakkathai Kanom'' * ''Phua C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Wright
Ian Edward Wright (born 3 November 1963) is an English television and radio personality and former professional footballer. He works as a pundit for BBC Sport and ITV Sport. Wright enjoyed success with London clubs Crystal Palace and Arsenal as a forward, spending six years with the former and seven years with the latter. With Arsenal he lifted the Premier League title, both the major domestic cup competitions, and the European Cup Winners Cup. Known for his speed, agility, finishing and aggression, he played 581 league games, scoring 287 goals for seven clubs in Scotland and England, while also earning 33 caps for the England national team, and scoring nine international goals. Wright also played in the Premier League for West Ham United, the Scottish Premier League for Celtic and the Football League for Burnley and Nottingham Forest. , he is Arsenal's second-highest scorer of all time and Crystal Palace's third-highest. After retiring, he has been active in the media, usu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Shearer
Alan Shearer CBE DL (born 13 August 1970) is an English football pundit and retired football player and manager who played as a striker. Widely regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation and one of the greatest players in Premier League history, he is the Premier League's record goalscorer with 260 goals.Whilst Shearer holds the record for goals scored in the Premier League, formed in 1992, the record for goals scored in the top flight in English football is 357, held by Jimmy Greaves. Shearer has scored 283 top flight goals, including 23 in the Football League First Division. - He was named Football Writers' Association Player of the Year in 1994 and won the PFA Player of the Year award in 1995. In 1996, he came third in both Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards. In 2004, he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players. Shearer was one of the first two players inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Lineker
Gary Winston Lineker (; born 30 November 1960) is an English former professional footballer and current sports broadcaster. He is regarded as having been one of the greatest English strikers. His media career began with the BBC, where he has presented the flagship football programme ''Match of the Day'' since the late 1990s, the longest tenure of any MOTD presenter. Lineker is also the BBC's lead presenter for live football matches, including coverage of international tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup. He has also worked for Al Jazeera Sports, Eredivisie Live, NBC Sports Network, and BT Sport's coverage of the UEFA Champions League. Lineker began his football career at Leicester City FC in 1978, and finished as the First Division's joint top goalscorer in 1984–85. He then moved to league champions Everton where he won both the PFA Players' Player of the Year and FWA Footballer of the Year awards in his debut season, before moving to Spanish giants Barcelona. With Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvin Brown
Marvin Robert Brown (born 6 July 1983) is an English football forward who plays for Southern Football League Premier Division side Chippenham Town F.C. He has formerly played League football. He is the owner of elite sports coaching company Total Pro Soccer. Brown began his career as a trainee with Bristol City. On his City debut, as a second-half substitute for Alex Meechan in the League Cup defeat away to Nottingham Forest on 15 September 1999 he became their youngest ever player, aged 16 years and 71 days. Brown's league debut came a month later, on 17 October 1999 when he came on as a late substitute for Tony Thorpe in a goalless draw at home to local rivals Bristol Rovers. He made one further league appearance and two in the Football League Trophy, all as substitute, that season. Unable to establish himself in the first team, Brown joined Torquay United on loan on 27 September 2002, playing three times before returning to Ashton Gate. In January 2003, Brown joined Chel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Fitzmaurice
Neil Simon Fitzmaurice (born 20 August 1969) is an English actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for his role as Jeff, the love rival of protagonist Mark Corrigan, in the Channel 4 sitcom ''Peep Show''. He has written for a number of other shows, including ''Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights'' (in which he also starred) and ''Benidorm''. Career Writing Fitzmaurice's writing projects include ''That Peter Kay Thing'', for which he received a British Comedy Award, and the critically acclaimed ''Phoenix Nights'', in which he also appeared as "Ray-Von". He has also written two feature films: ''Going Off Big Time'', in 1999, which was nominated for four BIFA awards and is part of Film Four's Best of British, and more recently ''Charlie Noades R.I.P''. Acting As an actor, Fitzmaurice has appeared in ''Going off Big Time'' (which he also wrote), played Jeff in the Channel 4 comedy series ''Peep Show'', and starred in the prison drama series '' Buried''. He appeared on the first episod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Sims (actor)
Joe Sims (born 1980) is a British actor known primarily for his role in ITV's drama ''Broadchurch'' where he played plumber Nige Carter. Early life Sims was born in Southmead Hospital, Bristol in 1980, and raised in Kingswood. He attended Sir Bernard Lovell School, where he was inspired to act by a drama teacher who introduced him to the Bristol Old Vic company. Sims later attended Filton College before studying at Middlesex University and under scholarship at the University of San Francisco. Career In 2012, Sims he won an Offie award for "People's Favourite Male Performance" for his role as alleged Texan killer Lee Fenton in ''As We Forgive Them'' at the Arcola Theatre in London. Sims has appeared extensively on television and stage and has a real ear for voices and accents performing over 100 different characters for radio including radio drama ''The Archers'', whilst his varied TV appearances include Endeavour, Father Brown, Ultimate Force, Uncle, The Basil Brush S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marek Larwood
Marek Ryan Larwood (born 2 June 1976) is an English comedian and actor. He is best known for the BBC Three sketch show ''Rush Hour'' and for being one third of the comedy trio ''We Are Klang''. Early life Born in Norwich, Norfolk, Larwood lived in Wales before moving to the Isle of Wight. His forename is of Polish origin, as his mother had seen a 1975 documentary about a Polish schoolboy with a heart defect, who was looking forward to an operation. The operation was unsuccessful, and Marek's mother thought to name her son after the Polish schoolboy. Career Stand-up comedy Larwood won the Laughing Horse New Act of The Year competition in 2003. He is part of the comic trio We Are Klang, along with Steve Hall and Greg Davies. They took their show ''Klangbang'' to the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe festival and were nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.Bunbury, Stephanie (2007)Insults in flight as Klang mixes it, ''The Age'', 4 April 2007, retrieved 2010-11-22 Television Larwood has app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Wang
Philip Nathaniel Wang Sin Goi (born 22 January 1990) is a British-Malaysian stand-up comedian and comedy writer who is a member of the sketch comedy group Daphne, and co-creator of their BBC Radio 4 series, '' Daphne Sounds Expensive''. He currently hosts the comedy podcast ‘BudPod’ with fellow comedian and Footlights alumnus Pierre Novellie. Early life Wang was born in Stoke-on-Trent to an English mother from Stoke and a Chinese-Malaysian father. One week after his birth, his family returned to his father's home town of Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia, where his parents had first met in 1982. His mother, a trained archaeologist, had moved to Malaysia as a volunteer with the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO). Wang's maternal grandfather was from Derbyshire and became the manager of a tea estate in Assam, India, where his mother spent part of her childhood.Wang P (2019Phil Wang: Wangsplaining BBC Studios. Wang grew up in Malaysia, where he was taught in Malay, Mandarin and Englis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vadhir Derbez
Vadhir Derbez Alejandro González Torres Prince (born 18 February 1991), better known as Vadhir Derbez, is a Mexican actor and singer who has worked for Televisa, Univision, Warner Brothers, Netflix, TV Azteca and Telemundo. Personal life Derbez was born in Mexico City. His father is comic actor Eugenio Derbez. He studied at military school Culver Academies for four years, where he practiced equestrianism. He rode in Barack Obama's Inaugural parade in Washington D.C. in 2009. Career Television Vadhir began his acting career in 1997 at age six on the program "Derbez en Cuando", where he participated in the sketches "Tatiana y En Familia con Chabelo" (2000), and "Diseñador do ambos sexos" (2001). He earned his first featured part in the novela (soap opera) "Cómplices Al Rescate" (2002).Cómplices al rescate (2002– ) Full Cast & Crew' on IMDb "La familia P. Luche" (2002) was his next involved work, followed by "De pocas, pocas pulgas" (2003), "Par de ases" (2004), " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleaford Mods
Sleaford Mods are an English post-punk music duo, formed in 2007 in Nottingham. The band features vocalist Jason Williamson and, since 2012, musician Andrew Fearn. They are known for their abrasive, minimalist musical style and embittered explorations of austerity-era Britain, culture, and working class life, delivered in Williamson's East Midlands accent. The duo have released several albums to critical praise. History Williamson was born 10 November 1970, and raised in Grantham, Lincolnshire. Inspired by the mod subculture and musical sources like the Wu-Tang Clan, he spent several years pursuing music unsuccessfully, both with various groups and as a solo singer-songwriter. He had also worked as a session musician with local artists as well as Spiritualized and Bent. Fearn (born 1971 in Burton upon Trent) grew up on a farm in Saxilby, Lincolnshire. Williamson first met Fearn in 2009 after hearing him DJ at a small Nottingham club called the Chameleon, where he was playing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
