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1997 In British Television
This is a list of British television related events from 1997. Events January *1 January – **New Year's Day highlights on BBC1 include a TV film adaptation of ''The Mill on the Floss'' and ''Global Sunrise'', an 80-minute film presented by Julian Pettifer. It also includes the culmination of a project that saw camera crews at twenty locations around the world on 1 January 1996, recording the rising sun through six continents and all time zones. **ITV introduces a third weekly episode of ''Emmerdale''. *2 January – Test transmissions begin for Channel 5 in some areas. Details of them are made available on Ceefax page 698 for a few weeks. *3 January **The final episode in the second run of the game show ''Celebrity Squares'', presented by Bob Monkhouse, is broadcast on ITV, although it will be revived briefly in 2014. **The first episode of the ninth series of ''Wheel of Fortune (British game show), Wheel of Fortune'' is broadcast on ITV, with Bradley Walsh taking over as hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Cook (journalist)
Roger Cook (born 6 April 1943) is a New Zealand-born British investigative journalist and television broadcaster. In 1997, he won a British Academy of Film & Television Arts special award "for 25 years of outstanding quality investigative reporting", for his show ''The Cook Report''. Early life Cook's parents were New Zealanders, but he was brought up in Australia, and began his career with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as a reporter and newsreader on both radio and television. In 1968, Cook moved to the United Kingdom where he joined BBC Radio 4's ''The World at One'' programme and subsequently worked on several other BBC radio and television programmes, including ''PM (Radio 4), PM'', ''Nationwide (TV series), Nationwide'', and ''Newsnight''. ''Checkpoint'' In 1973, Cook created and presented the Radio 4 programme ''Checkpoint'', which specialised in investigating and exposing criminals, con-men, injustice and official incompetence, often confronting the subjects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trouble (TV Channel)
Trouble was a subscription television channel operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland that was owned and operated by Virgin Media Television. Trouble had a key demographic of young adults and teenagers, aged between 15 and 24. The channel aired primarily American and Australian imports, with only a small margin of programmes being British. History In 1992, now-defunct television channel The Children's Channel restructured its late-afternoon programming to focus on a teenage audience, by launching a block called "TCC". TCC ran initially from 5:00pm-7:00pm but beginning on 1 September 1993 to coincide with the launch of The Family Channel and Sky Multichannels, the channel's space was changed to end at 5:00pm, including the TCC block, which now started at 3:00pm. Beginning on 3 February 1997, the TCC block was spun-off by Flextech into its own channel - Trouble, running from 12:00pm-8:00pm, timesharing with Bravo, which had removed its daytime broadcast hours in order to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaylen Ross
Gaylen Ross (born August 15, 1950) is an American director, writer, producer and actress, best known for playing Francine Parker in the 1978 horror film '' Dawn of the Dead'' and also noted for directing the 2008 documentary '' Killing Kasztner''. Background Ross was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, where she graduated from Broad Ripple High School in 1967. She studied at Monterey Peninsula College in California, and later received her BA from The New School for Social Research in Literature. She was managing editor of the literary journal ''Antaeus'' and Ecco Press from 1975 to 1977. Ross holds citizenship in the United States and Israel. In 2015, she was named to the Indianapolis Public School Education Foundation’s Hall of Fame. Career Ross's documentary films include 2008's '' Killing Kasztner'' and ''Dealers Among Dealers'', a documentary of New York’s 47th Street diamond trade. Ross's company, GR Films, has produced ''Listen To Her Heart: The Life and Musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Reiniger
Scott Hale Reiniger, ''Harlan Sahib Bahadur'', Prince of Ghor (born September 5, 1948) is an American actor. He is a professor at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, California. He is best known as one of the stars of the 1978 classic horror film '' Dawn of the Dead''. Biography Scott Hale Reiniger, Jr. was born in White Plains, New York. He is a graduate of Rollins College in Theater Arts. Following his appearance as Roger in George A. Romero's original ''Dawn of the Dead'' in 1978, Reiniger played Marhalt in Romero's 1981 film '' Knightriders''. He also made a cameo appearance in the 2004 remake of'' Dawn of the Dead'' directed by Zack Snyder. He currently teaches at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood.Academy Faculty Mr. Reiniger continues to attend horror conventions around the world. Af ...
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Ken Foree
Ken Foree (born February 29, 1948) is an American actor, best known as the protagonist Peter from the horror film '' Dawn of the Dead'' (1978) and as Roger Rockmore on the Nickelodeon television sitcom '' Kenan & Kel'' (1996–2000). Early life Foree was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the oldest of four boys. Career Foree began acting in the 1970s, appearing in films such as '' The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings'', '' The Wanderers'', '' Dawn of the Dead'', and '' Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III''. He also had roles in the films '' Knightriders'', '' From Beyond'', and '' The Dentist''. In 1995, he starred in an episode of ''The X-Files'' as well as the ''GROPOS'' episode of ''Babylon 5''. Foree also played Roger Rockmore, Kenan and Kyra's father on the Nickelodeon sitcom '' Kenan & Kel''. In 2005, he played Charlie Altamont in the film '' The Devil's Rejects'', starring opposite Sid Haig and Bill Moseley as the adopted brother of Haig's character. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Emge
David Michael Emge (September 9, 1946 – January 20, 2024) was an American actor. He was best known for playing Stephen "Flyboy" Andrews in George A. Romero's horror film '' Dawn of the Dead''. Life and career Emge was born in Evansville, Indiana on September 9, 1946. One of his classmates and acting partners while in college was Ron Glass, who later became famous as a starring member of the situation comedy ''Barney Miller''. While working as a chef in a New York City restaurant, Emge met George A. Romero, who cast him in the role for which he would be most remembered, as Stephen in Romero's zombie A zombie (Haitian French: ; ; Kikongo: ''zumbi'') is a mythological undead corporeal revenant created through the reanimation of a corpse. In modern popular culture, zombies appear in horror genre works. The term comes from Haitian folkl ... epic, '' Dawn of the Dead''. As of 2007, Emge still participated in occasional acting and film conventions. He died in Evansvill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dawn Of The Dead (1978 Film)
''Dawn of the Dead'' is a 1978 zombie film, zombie horror film written, directed, and edited by George A. Romero, and produced by Richard P. Rubinstein. An American-Italian international co-production, it is the second film in Romero's Night of the Living Dead (film series), series of zombie films, and though it contains no characters or settings from the preceding film ''Night of the Living Dead'' (1968), it shows the larger-scale effects of a zombie apocalypse on society. In the film, a phenomenon of unidentified origin has caused the reanimation of the dead, who prey on human flesh. David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross star as survivors of the outbreak who barricade themselves inside a suburban shopping mall during mass hysteria. Romero waited to make another zombie film after ''Night of the Living Dead'' for several years to avoid being stereotyped as a horror director. Upon visiting Monroeville Mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania with a friend whose company m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George A
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leonard Hamblin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brass Eye
''Brass Eye'' (stylised as brassEYE) is a British satirical television series parodying current affairs news programming. A series of six episodes aired on Channel 4 in 1997, and a further episode in 2001. The series was created and presented by Chris Morris, written by Morris, David Quantick, Peter Baynham, Jane Bussmann, Arthur Mathews, Graham Linehan and Charlie Brooker and directed by Michael Cumming. Overview Originally planned as a spin-off from '' The Day Today'' (1994), the pilot (then called ''Torque tv™'') was passed on by the BBC. Channel 4 commissioned a new pilot, which would be called ''Brass Eye''. The name mixes together the titles of two popular current affairs shows, ('' Brass Tacks'' and ''Public Eye''), while the term "brass eye" is also British slang for the anus. The series satirised media portrayal of social ills, in particular sensationalism, unsubstantiated establishmentarian theory masquerading as fact, and creation of moral panics, and is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladiators (1992 British TV Series)
''Gladiators'' is a British sports entertainment game show, produced by London Weekend Television, presented by Ulrika Jonsson and narrated by John Sachs, and originally broadcast on ITV. Based upon the American television programme '' American Gladiators'', the show sees four contestants, split into pairs by gender, compete in a series of physically challenging events against the show's resident "Gladiators", before competing against their respective contestant in one final event. Each series functions like a tournament, with the winner of that year's competition being crowned champion for their respective gender. During its original run, between 10 October 1992 and 1 January 2000, Jonsson presented the programme alongside two different co-presenters, John Fashanu and Jeremy Guscott, with Sachs providing commentary on each event, and John Anderson serving as referee for each event. The show proved popular for ITV, spawning a media franchise with other countries, a chi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fashanu
John Winton Fashanu (born 18 September 1962) is an English television presenter and former professional footballer. As a footballer he was a centre-forward from 1978 until 1995, most notably in an eight-year spell at Wimbledon in which he won the FA Cup in 1988 and scored over 100 goals in all competitions. He also played in the earlier years of the Premier League for both the Dons and Aston Villa. He also featured in the Football League for Norwich City, Lincoln City, Crystal Palace and Millwall, as well as a brief loan spell in New Zealand with Miramar Rangers. He was capped twice at senior level by England. He scored 134 league goals in a career lasting 17 years, retiring at the end of the 1994–95 season. Following his football career, he moved into television presenting and went on to co-host British television show '' Gladiators'' in the 1990s, and between 2003 and 2004 he managed his own Sunday league football side '' Fash FC'' which featured on Bravo. He has also pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
