Mount Pleasant is returning to Sky Living for a fourth series, it has been confirmed.
The comedy drama, which stars Sally Lindsay and Daniel Ryan, will return later this year.
Sky Living's director Antonia Hurford-Jones said that the show had been "a big hit with viewers".
Nigel Harman, Bobby Ball, George Sampson and Samantha Womack will return for the fourth series, alongside Neil Fitzmaurice, Nicola Millbank and Ainsley Howard.
New cast members include Daniel Ings (Psychoville) and Naomi Bentley (Primeval).
Sky's head of comedy Lucy Lumsden said: "We're very pleased that the much-loved Mount Pleasant will be back for a fourth series later in the year on Sky Living.
"It's been a joy seeing the cast reunited and welcoming some new faces. Fans of the show have a treat in store."...
The comedy drama, which stars Sally Lindsay and Daniel Ryan, will return later this year.
Sky Living's director Antonia Hurford-Jones said that the show had been "a big hit with viewers".
Nigel Harman, Bobby Ball, George Sampson and Samantha Womack will return for the fourth series, alongside Neil Fitzmaurice, Nicola Millbank and Ainsley Howard.
New cast members include Daniel Ings (Psychoville) and Naomi Bentley (Primeval).
Sky's head of comedy Lucy Lumsden said: "We're very pleased that the much-loved Mount Pleasant will be back for a fourth series later in the year on Sky Living.
"It's been a joy seeing the cast reunited and welcoming some new faces. Fans of the show have a treat in store."...
- 3/6/2014
- Digital Spy
The UK Frightfest is at it again, this time they've scored your first look at stills from Mum & Dad, a film we first told you about here. Inside you'll find a much longer synopsis, along with the stills from the Steven Sheil directed UK horror pic starring Dido Miles, Perry Benson, Olga Fedori, Ainsley Howard and Toby Alexander. You dont have to go to Texas for a deranged cannibal family. Try Heathrow Airport closer to home. Thats where Terminal cleaner Lena is stranded after night shift and accepts help from perky colleague Birdie who lives nearby with her parents. But her home turns out to be the worst House of Horrors.
- 7/8/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
Edinburgh Film Festival
EDINBURGH — The family that slays together stays together in “Mum & Dad, ” a nightmarish little Brit-horror that makes a virtue of micro-budget limitations. The screenplay takes the harrowing, still fresh-in-the-memory case of suburban serial-killers Fred and Rosemary West as loose basis for a nailbiting shocker — a controversy-courting move that may translate into limited UK theatrical play and healthy DVD action elsewhere. The many festivals hungry for unpleasant, well-made midnight-movie fare should investigate.
First product of London’s Microwave initiative — funding 10 movies costing under £100,000 (about $200,000) apiece — it’s a confident, full-blooded debut from horror-aficionado writer/director Steven Sheil. Focus is on pretty Lena (Olga Fedori), a Polish immigrant working as a cleaner at Heathrow airport. After missing her bus home one night, she accompanies chirpy colleague Birdy (Ainsley Howard) to the latter’s nearby house where she’s promptly knocked unconscious. Lena wakes in a squalid bedroom, helpless prisoner of Birdy’s sadistic “parents, ” known only as Mum (Dido Miles) and Dad (Perry Benson).
Ensuing episodes follow the established pattern seen in many similar claustrophobic-ordeal tales. Various attempts at escape lead to escalating punishments, then a final-reel bloodbath and desperate dash for freedom. In contrast to his resourceful heroine, self-confessed horror-nut Sheil makes little attempt to get away from his chosen genre’s established conventions. That said, the acidic caricature of “family” life within his house of horrors carries satirical bite, while the juxtaposition of kitchen-sink banalities alongside unspeakable nastiness is disturbingly convincing — and sometimes jaggedly, unexpectedly comic.
EDINBURGH — The family that slays together stays together in “Mum & Dad, ” a nightmarish little Brit-horror that makes a virtue of micro-budget limitations. The screenplay takes the harrowing, still fresh-in-the-memory case of suburban serial-killers Fred and Rosemary West as loose basis for a nailbiting shocker — a controversy-courting move that may translate into limited UK theatrical play and healthy DVD action elsewhere. The many festivals hungry for unpleasant, well-made midnight-movie fare should investigate.
First product of London’s Microwave initiative — funding 10 movies costing under £100,000 (about $200,000) apiece — it’s a confident, full-blooded debut from horror-aficionado writer/director Steven Sheil. Focus is on pretty Lena (Olga Fedori), a Polish immigrant working as a cleaner at Heathrow airport. After missing her bus home one night, she accompanies chirpy colleague Birdy (Ainsley Howard) to the latter’s nearby house where she’s promptly knocked unconscious. Lena wakes in a squalid bedroom, helpless prisoner of Birdy’s sadistic “parents, ” known only as Mum (Dido Miles) and Dad (Perry Benson).
Ensuing episodes follow the established pattern seen in many similar claustrophobic-ordeal tales. Various attempts at escape lead to escalating punishments, then a final-reel bloodbath and desperate dash for freedom. In contrast to his resourceful heroine, self-confessed horror-nut Sheil makes little attempt to get away from his chosen genre’s established conventions. That said, the acidic caricature of “family” life within his house of horrors carries satirical bite, while the juxtaposition of kitchen-sink banalities alongside unspeakable nastiness is disturbingly convincing — and sometimes jaggedly, unexpectedly comic.
- 6/24/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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