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The Midwich Cuckoos (TV Series)
''The Midwich Cuckoos'' is a British science fiction television series on Sky Max, created by David Farr. It is based on the 1957 book of the same name by John Wyndham. It stars Keeley Hawes and Max Beesley. It began airing on 2 June 2022, and all episodes became available on Sky On Demand. In Australia, the entire series is available on Stan. Synopsis ''The Midwich Cuckoos'' is a sci-fi drama in which all of the titular town's child-bearing aged women inexplicably fall pregnant. As these women give birth, Midwich begins to realise these children are unlike any other. Each child resembles their mother (unlike the book where they all have golden eyes, dark blonde hair, and pale, silvery skin). They have their mother's DNA, but with alien additions. And some male, implying a Y chromosome. The government takes an immediate interest and imposes secrecy, paying the parents for their cooperation. Cast * Keeley Hawes as Dr. Susannah Zellaby * Max Beesley as DCI Paul Haynes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Brock
Alex Brock (born Alexander von Brockdorff), is a British actor, film-maker and former British Army Officer. He has appeared in a number of high-profile TV dramas, including The Midwich Cuckoos'', '' FBI: International and the final season of Homeland''. Career Brock was an officer in the Queen's Royal Hussars, a cavalry regiment of the British Army. He commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 2008. Having served in combat operations both in Iraq and Afghanistan, he left the Armed Forces in 2014 to start his career as an actor. He shortened his name to Alex Brock around this time. In 2015, he joined with former military colleagues in creating Bare Arms, a company providing military support to the film and television industry. To date, he has appeared mostly in TV drama - including BBC One's '' Requiem'', Channel 4's '' Baghdad Central'' and the 8th and final season of ''Homeland A homeland is a place where a cultural, national, or racial identity has formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Drama
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, teen drama, and comedy-drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter, or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis) characters. In this broader sense, dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lara Rossi
Lara Rossi is a British actress. She is known for her role as Arabela Seeger in the German-French-Italian-American television series ''Crossing Lines'' as well as the Finnish sci-fi movie '' Iron Sky: The Coming Race''. She also played the part of Lady Sybil Ramkin in '' The Watch'', a 2021 fantasy police procedural series for BBC America based on the ''Discworld'' novels by Terry Pratchett. Filmography Film * ''Esio Trot'' (2015) * ''Anchor and Hope'' (2017) * ''Robin Hood'' (2018) * '' Iron Sky: The Coming Race'' (2019) * ''Military Wives'' (2019) TV * ''Agatha Raisin'' * ''Crossing Lines'' * '' Life of Crime'' * ''Murder'' * ''The Shadow Line'' * ''Cheat'' * ''Flesh and Blood'' * ''I May Destroy You'' * '' The Watch'' * '' Angela Black'' * ''The Midwich Cuckoos'' (2022) Selected theatre * Anne Elliot in ''Persuasion'' at the Royal Exchange, Manchester (2017) * "Woman" in ''The Writer'' by Ella Hickson at the Almeida Theatre The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Review Aggregator
A review aggregator is a system that collects reviews of products and services (such as films, books, video games, software, hardware, and cars). This system stores the reviews and uses them for purposes such as supporting a website where users can view the reviews, selling information to third parties about consumer tendencies, and creating databases for companies to learn about their actual and potential customers. The system enables users to easily compare many different reviews of the same work. Many of these systems calculate an approximate average assessment, usually based on assigning a numeric value to each review related to its degree of positive rating of the work. Review aggregation sites have begun to have economic effects on the companies that create or manufacture items under review, especially in certain categories such as electronic games, which are expensive to purchase. Some companies have tied royalty payment rates and employee bonuses to aggregate scores, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as ''The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Kermode
Mark James Patrick Kermode (, ; ; born 2 July 1963) is an English film critic, musician, radio presenter, television presenter and podcaster. He is the chief film critic for ''The Observer'', contributes to the magazine ''Sight & Sound'', presents a weekly Scala Radio film music show and the BBC Four documentary series ''Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema'', and is a co-presenter of the film-review podcast ''Kermode & Mayo's Take'' alongside long-time collaborator Simon Mayo. Kermode previously co-presented the BBC Radio 5 Live show ''Kermode and Mayo's Film Review'', and previously co-presented the BBC Two arts programme ''The Culture Show''. He is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and a founding member of the skiffle band the Dodge Brothers, for which he plays double bass. Early life Kermode was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire. He was educated at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, a private boys' school in Elstree, Hertfordshire, the same year as ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was published on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only the online edition. The newspaper was controlled by Tony O'Reilly's Irish Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to the Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer Alexander Lebedev in 2010. In 2017, Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel bought a 30% stake in it. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. The website and mobile app had a combined monthly reach of 19,826,000 in 2021. History 1986 to 1990 Launched in 1986, the first issue of ''The Independent'' was published on 7 October in broadsheet format.Dennis Griffiths (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 330 It was produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Mangan
Lucy Katherine Mangan''England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916–2007'' (born 1974) is a British journalist and author. She is a columnist, features writer and TV critic for ''The Guardian''. A major part of her writing is related to feminism. Biography Mangan grew up in Catford, southeast London, to parents originally from Lancashire. Her father worked in theatre, and her mother was a doctor. She read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, qualified as a solicitor, but worked in a bookshop until she found a work experience placement at ''The Guardian'' in 2003.Feminist education has been the making of me Interview with ''The Daily Telegraph'', 6 May 2013 Mangan writes a regular column, TV reviews and oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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