Pub- based comedy drama Mother’s Pride will be in cinemas next year, and the cast has now been confirmed.
The British film industry has been releasing a steady stream of comedy dramas over the last few years, full of homegrown talent both in front of and behind the camera.
In 2018, Stephen Graham and comedian Dave Johns led the cast of wrestling comedy Walk Like A Panther, although perhaps the most notable example is the Fisherman’s Friends series, which chronicled the unlikely story of a group of fisherman who form a band and release an album of sea shanties to critical and commercial acclaim.
This led to life imitating art, as the actual band the film was based on saw a huge surge in popularity, with albums climbing up the charts and multiple sell out national tours.
According to the British Comedy Guide, the team behind Fisherman’s Friends is now producing...
The British film industry has been releasing a steady stream of comedy dramas over the last few years, full of homegrown talent both in front of and behind the camera.
In 2018, Stephen Graham and comedian Dave Johns led the cast of wrestling comedy Walk Like A Panther, although perhaps the most notable example is the Fisherman’s Friends series, which chronicled the unlikely story of a group of fisherman who form a band and release an album of sea shanties to critical and commercial acclaim.
This led to life imitating art, as the actual band the film was based on saw a huge surge in popularity, with albums climbing up the charts and multiple sell out national tours.
According to the British Comedy Guide, the team behind Fisherman’s Friends is now producing...
- 10/11/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
The bar where everybody knows your name (as long as you’re a functional alcoholic who spends 90 percent of your waking hours in a below ground watering hole) was the subject of one of the greatest TV comedies of all time: Cheers. From the Sam and Diane romance, to Norm’s witticisms, to Cliff Clavin’s unhinged theories, there was so much to love about Cheers. It’s still only the second-best show to feature Frasier Crane, though.
Surely remaking Cheers, an iconic series that very much succeeded on the charms of its unique cast during a very specific moment in time, is a horrible, horrible idea — but someone’s going ahead and doing it anyway.
As reported by Deadline, it was recently announced that U.K. studio Big Talk is currently pitching a brand new version of Cheers, which would shift the action from a Boston Bar to an English pub.
Surely remaking Cheers, an iconic series that very much succeeded on the charms of its unique cast during a very specific moment in time, is a horrible, horrible idea — but someone’s going ahead and doing it anyway.
As reported by Deadline, it was recently announced that U.K. studio Big Talk is currently pitching a brand new version of Cheers, which would shift the action from a Boston Bar to an English pub.
- 10/2/2024
- Cracked
Iconic American sitcom Cheers is being remade in the UK, with Men Behaving Badly writer Simon Nye working on the scripts.
Well here’s a bit of TV news nobody saw coming. Iconic American sitcom Cheers is gearing up for a British remake.
According to Deadline, production company Big Talk is in the early stages of development on a UK version of Cheers, which will be set in a pub instead of a bar. The remake is being pitched to broadcasters but has not yet been picked up.
Men Behaving Badly writer Simon Nye has been enlisted to write the scripts. A prolific writer, Nye’s other work includes Martin Freeman vehicle Hardware, Is It Legal?, the terrific How Do You Want Me?, which starred Dylan Moran and Charlotte Coleman, and the star studded ITV Pantomimes, which were broadcast in the early 2000s. Nye is no stranger to American remakes,...
Well here’s a bit of TV news nobody saw coming. Iconic American sitcom Cheers is gearing up for a British remake.
According to Deadline, production company Big Talk is in the early stages of development on a UK version of Cheers, which will be set in a pub instead of a bar. The remake is being pitched to broadcasters but has not yet been picked up.
Men Behaving Badly writer Simon Nye has been enlisted to write the scripts. A prolific writer, Nye’s other work includes Martin Freeman vehicle Hardware, Is It Legal?, the terrific How Do You Want Me?, which starred Dylan Moran and Charlotte Coleman, and the star studded ITV Pantomimes, which were broadcast in the early 2000s. Nye is no stranger to American remakes,...
- 10/2/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
Exclusive: It was the place where American viewers were always glad they came — and now the Cheers bar is hoping to open its doors to Brits.
Deadline can reveal that Big Talk Studios, the producer behind Stephen Merchant’s BBC/Amazon series The Outlaws, is pitching a UK version of NBC’s iconic comedy. Thirty years after Cheers’ last orders, Big Talk has enlisted Simon Nye, the British writer known for Men Behaving Badly and The Durrells, to adapt the series for a UK audience. Nye will be showrunner if Cheers is greenlit.
Cheers ran for 11 seasons and 275 episodes on NBC, depicting life in a titular Boston bar run by Sam Malone (Ted Danson). Regulars included Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) and Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley), and the show is consistently ranked among the best comedies ever made.
Big Talk is in the early stages of pitching Cheers to British broadcasters...
Deadline can reveal that Big Talk Studios, the producer behind Stephen Merchant’s BBC/Amazon series The Outlaws, is pitching a UK version of NBC’s iconic comedy. Thirty years after Cheers’ last orders, Big Talk has enlisted Simon Nye, the British writer known for Men Behaving Badly and The Durrells, to adapt the series for a UK audience. Nye will be showrunner if Cheers is greenlit.
Cheers ran for 11 seasons and 275 episodes on NBC, depicting life in a titular Boston bar run by Sam Malone (Ted Danson). Regulars included Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) and Rebecca Howe (Kirstie Alley), and the show is consistently ranked among the best comedies ever made.
Big Talk is in the early stages of pitching Cheers to British broadcasters...
- 10/1/2024
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
ITV Studios hat die Mehrheit an Hartswood Films, u.a. Produktionsfirma der Emmy-prämierten BBC-Serie „Sherlock“ mit Benedict Cumberbatch in der Hauptrolle übernommen.
Benedict Cumberbatch als Sherlock in der BBC-Serie „Sherlock“ (Credit: Ard Degeto/Hartswood Films 2016/BBC)
ITV Studios hat die Mehrheit an Hartswood Films übernommen und wird künftig den internationalen Vertrieb der Produktionen der 1979 gegründeten Produktionsfirma verantworten.
Die von CEO Sue Vertue geleitete Hartswood Films hat u.a. die Emmy-prämierte BBC-Serie „Sherlock“ mit Benedict Cumberbatch in der Hauptrolle, die im Juli 2011 im Ersten ihre deutsche Free-tv-Premiere gefeiert hatte, produziert.
Zu weiteren Produktionen des Unternehmens gehören die Miniserien „Dracula“ mit Claas Bang in der Hauptrolle und „Inside Man“ für die BBC und Netflix sowie die Miniserien „Wolf“ und „The Control Room“ für die BBC.
Julian Bellamy, Geschäftsführer der ITV Studios, zur Übernahme von Hartswood Films: „Von ‚Men Behaving Badly‘ bis ‚Sherlock‘, von ‚The Devil’s Hour‘ bis ‚Douglas is Cancelled‘ – Hartswood...
Benedict Cumberbatch als Sherlock in der BBC-Serie „Sherlock“ (Credit: Ard Degeto/Hartswood Films 2016/BBC)
ITV Studios hat die Mehrheit an Hartswood Films übernommen und wird künftig den internationalen Vertrieb der Produktionen der 1979 gegründeten Produktionsfirma verantworten.
Die von CEO Sue Vertue geleitete Hartswood Films hat u.a. die Emmy-prämierte BBC-Serie „Sherlock“ mit Benedict Cumberbatch in der Hauptrolle, die im Juli 2011 im Ersten ihre deutsche Free-tv-Premiere gefeiert hatte, produziert.
Zu weiteren Produktionen des Unternehmens gehören die Miniserien „Dracula“ mit Claas Bang in der Hauptrolle und „Inside Man“ für die BBC und Netflix sowie die Miniserien „Wolf“ und „The Control Room“ für die BBC.
Julian Bellamy, Geschäftsführer der ITV Studios, zur Übernahme von Hartswood Films: „Von ‚Men Behaving Badly‘ bis ‚Sherlock‘, von ‚The Devil’s Hour‘ bis ‚Douglas is Cancelled‘ – Hartswood...
- 7/25/2024
- by Jochen Müller
- Spot - Media & Film
ITV Studios has acquired a majority stake in Hartswood Films, the award-winning production company behind such hit scripted series as the recent Itvx and ITV1 drama Douglas Is Cancelled, Prime Video’s psychological thriller The Devil’s Hour, and the BBC’s Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.
The news was unveiled on Thursday as ITV, led by CEO Carolyn McCall, provided a mid-year financial and operational update.
Based in London and Cardiff, Hartswood Films was founded in 1979 by Beryl Vertue. That makes it the longest-established scripted producer in the U.K., the companies said.
Led by CEO and executive producer Sue Vertue, alongside director of operations Debbie Vertue, managing director Dan Cheesbrough, and creative director and executive producer Steven Moffat, Hartswood Films has a broad slate of drama and comedy series that it has produced for global broadcasters and streamers, including Netflix.
Recent series also include Dracula and the mini-series thriller Inside Man,...
The news was unveiled on Thursday as ITV, led by CEO Carolyn McCall, provided a mid-year financial and operational update.
Based in London and Cardiff, Hartswood Films was founded in 1979 by Beryl Vertue. That makes it the longest-established scripted producer in the U.K., the companies said.
Led by CEO and executive producer Sue Vertue, alongside director of operations Debbie Vertue, managing director Dan Cheesbrough, and creative director and executive producer Steven Moffat, Hartswood Films has a broad slate of drama and comedy series that it has produced for global broadcasters and streamers, including Netflix.
Recent series also include Dracula and the mini-series thriller Inside Man,...
- 7/25/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
ITV Studios has bought storied British drama label Hartswood Films.
The company described Hartswood as the “longest established scripted producer in the UK.”
Deadline had revealed several months ago that ITV was leading the race to buy Sue Vertue’s outfit, which has made the likes of Sherlock, Dracula and The Devil’s Hour. More recently, it produced Hugh Bonneville-starrer Douglas is Cancelled for ITV. Hartwood was founded in 1979 by Beryl Vertue and is based in London and Cardiff. It was previously majority-owned by her two daughters: Debbie and Sue.
The move is ITV Studios’ first acquisition for several years. The company also owns the likes of Nicola Shindler’s Quay Street Productions, Happy Prince, led by Dominic Treadwell-Collins, Ben Stephenson’s Poison Pen Studios and Tiny World producer Plimsoll Productions.
ITV Studios will handle international distribution of Hartswood’s shows.
Julian Bellamy, Managing Director ITV Studios, said: “From Men Behaving Badly to Sherlock,...
The company described Hartswood as the “longest established scripted producer in the UK.”
Deadline had revealed several months ago that ITV was leading the race to buy Sue Vertue’s outfit, which has made the likes of Sherlock, Dracula and The Devil’s Hour. More recently, it produced Hugh Bonneville-starrer Douglas is Cancelled for ITV. Hartwood was founded in 1979 by Beryl Vertue and is based in London and Cardiff. It was previously majority-owned by her two daughters: Debbie and Sue.
The move is ITV Studios’ first acquisition for several years. The company also owns the likes of Nicola Shindler’s Quay Street Productions, Happy Prince, led by Dominic Treadwell-Collins, Ben Stephenson’s Poison Pen Studios and Tiny World producer Plimsoll Productions.
ITV Studios will handle international distribution of Hartswood’s shows.
Julian Bellamy, Managing Director ITV Studios, said: “From Men Behaving Badly to Sherlock,...
- 7/25/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: ITV Studios is leading the race to invest in Hartswood Films, the storied British scripted producer behind hits including Sherlock and The Devil’s Hour.
Hartswood put itself up for sale last year and industry sources said ITV Studios is the favorite to complete a deal, bolstering a scripted roster that includes World Productions and Big Talk Studios.
Deadline understands that Jonathan Norman, Managing Director of technology at investment bank Houlihan Lokey, has been advising Hartswood. The company explored partial investment and a full sale.
Hartswood was founded in 1979 by Beryl Vertue, the legendary British TV producer who died aged 90 in 2022. The company is now majority-owned by her two daughters: Debbie and Sue.
Hartswood made British television shows including Men Behaving Badly, while more recent success stories include Inside Man for the BBC/Netflix and Amazon Prime Video’s The Devil’s Hour.
Hartswood is perhaps best associated with Sherlock, the...
Hartswood put itself up for sale last year and industry sources said ITV Studios is the favorite to complete a deal, bolstering a scripted roster that includes World Productions and Big Talk Studios.
Deadline understands that Jonathan Norman, Managing Director of technology at investment bank Houlihan Lokey, has been advising Hartswood. The company explored partial investment and a full sale.
Hartswood was founded in 1979 by Beryl Vertue, the legendary British TV producer who died aged 90 in 2022. The company is now majority-owned by her two daughters: Debbie and Sue.
Hartswood made British television shows including Men Behaving Badly, while more recent success stories include Inside Man for the BBC/Netflix and Amazon Prime Video’s The Devil’s Hour.
Hartswood is perhaps best associated with Sherlock, the...
- 4/17/2024
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Thank goodness for no-shows. Had the controller of what was then BBC Choice turned up to the ‘rehearsed read’ for a potential studio sitcom in the very late 1990s and liked what they’d seen, we wouldn’t have Peep Show. As it reportedly went: BBC Two passed on it. BBC Choice didn’t see it. And everything ended happily ever after.
Peep Show creators Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain first met the show’s stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb on a BBC comedy writing project in 1998. That went nowhere, but sparked a partnership that led to the acclaimed nine-series sitcom on Channel 4. Before it led there, it almost led to “All Day Breakfast”, the rejected comedy out of which Peep Show grew.
As Robert Webb describes it in the introduction to 2008’s Peep Show: The Scripts and More, “All Day Breakfast” was about “two men in their mid-twenties,...
Peep Show creators Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain first met the show’s stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb on a BBC comedy writing project in 1998. That went nowhere, but sparked a partnership that led to the acclaimed nine-series sitcom on Channel 4. Before it led there, it almost led to “All Day Breakfast”, the rejected comedy out of which Peep Show grew.
As Robert Webb describes it in the introduction to 2008’s Peep Show: The Scripts and More, “All Day Breakfast” was about “two men in their mid-twenties,...
- 2/14/2024
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Jennifer Lopez is bringing Bob the Builder to the big screen.The singer and actress, 54, has been producing a film adaptation of the British animated construction worker with toymaker Mattel, which owns the brand, seeking to capitalise on the box office success of the ‘Barbie’ film by putting more of its mascots into cinemas.Bob – whose catchphrase is “Can we fix it?” – will be seen in the movie going to Puerto Rico for a huge construction job, according to producers, and will be voiced by the ‘In the Heights’ star Anthony Ramos, 32.The American actor of Puerto Rican descent told The Times the adaptation would carry an “important message” and that aspects of the film were inspired by his own life.He added: “For years, Bob the Builder’s characters have inspired young people around the world.“A movie about friends working together, a celebration of a beautiful home they share,...
- 1/26/2024
- by BANG Showbiz Reporter
- Bang Showbiz
Exclusive: Veteran producers William Shockley and Tom Brady have partnered with Allen Gilmer and Riki Rushing to launch Thunderbird Pictures, a new production company to have a presence in both Los Angeles and Austin, TX.
Thunderbird’s launch was teased last month at SXSW, where the company served as the official awards sponsor of the inaugural Thunderbird Rising Award, presenting prizes to first-time directors Paris Zarcilla (Raging Grace) and Brittany Snow (Parachute). The quartet will be joined at the banner by Head of Casting, Tiiu Loigu; Head of Business Development, Jason Chilton; production exec Robert Abdou; and Chief Financial Officer Aldo Waker.
Thunderbird’s initial slate of films includes the Miguel Bardem-directed drama Castro’s Daughter (fka Alina of Cuba), starring James Franco and Ana Villafane, which was produced in partnership with Mankind Entertainment, and is now in post-production; the follow-up documentary Revolution’s Daughter, directed by Thaddeus Matula,...
Thunderbird’s launch was teased last month at SXSW, where the company served as the official awards sponsor of the inaugural Thunderbird Rising Award, presenting prizes to first-time directors Paris Zarcilla (Raging Grace) and Brittany Snow (Parachute). The quartet will be joined at the banner by Head of Casting, Tiiu Loigu; Head of Business Development, Jason Chilton; production exec Robert Abdou; and Chief Financial Officer Aldo Waker.
Thunderbird’s initial slate of films includes the Miguel Bardem-directed drama Castro’s Daughter (fka Alina of Cuba), starring James Franco and Ana Villafane, which was produced in partnership with Mankind Entertainment, and is now in post-production; the follow-up documentary Revolution’s Daughter, directed by Thaddeus Matula,...
- 4/24/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
The TV show Family Ties aired on NBC from 1982 to 1989. The show focused on a liberal couple who often clashed with their conservative son. Which cast members have the highest net worth today? Here’s what we know.
Brian Bonsall Family Ties | NBC Television/Fotos International/Courtesy of Getty Images
Net worth: $5,000
Brian Bonsall played Andrew Keaton. As of this writing, Bonsall has an estimated net worth of $5,000, according to Celebrity Net Worth. After Family Ties, he appeared in Do You Know the Muffin Man? (1989), Father Hood (1993), and Blank Check (1994).
Tina Yothers
Net worth: $2 million
Tina Yothers played Jennifer Keaton. As of this writing, Yothers has an estimated net worth of $2 million. After Family Ties, she appeared in Laker Girls (1990), Spunk: The Tanya Harding Story (1994), and Married… with Children (1996).
Marc Price
Net worth: $3 million
Marc Price played Irwin “Skippy” Handelman. As of this writing, Price has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
Brian Bonsall Family Ties | NBC Television/Fotos International/Courtesy of Getty Images
Net worth: $5,000
Brian Bonsall played Andrew Keaton. As of this writing, Bonsall has an estimated net worth of $5,000, according to Celebrity Net Worth. After Family Ties, he appeared in Do You Know the Muffin Man? (1989), Father Hood (1993), and Blank Check (1994).
Tina Yothers
Net worth: $2 million
Tina Yothers played Jennifer Keaton. As of this writing, Yothers has an estimated net worth of $2 million. After Family Ties, she appeared in Laker Girls (1990), Spunk: The Tanya Harding Story (1994), and Married… with Children (1996).
Marc Price
Net worth: $3 million
Marc Price played Irwin “Skippy” Handelman. As of this writing, Price has an estimated net worth of $3 million.
- 4/5/2023
- by Sheiresa Ngo
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
(Warning: This post contains spoilers for Wednesday’s episode of “The Blacklist.”)
“The Blacklist” returned with a new episode this week, an hour that revealed almost the entire backstory of Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader) and Elizabeth Keene’s (Megan Boone) relationship. We say almost, because the installment, titled “Nachalo,” ends before Liz can get the answer to exactly who Red is — though it’s pretty much guaranteed that reveal will come on next week’s Season 8 finale.
The big truths we do have by the end of the hour are that Liz’s mother, Katarina Rostova, is still alive — because the now-dead woman Liz thought was Katarina Rostova (played by Laila Robins) is not Katarina Rostova. And we’re left with some big clues as to who Red really is, though not an outright answer.
During Wednesday’s “The Blacklist,” Red, who revealed to Liz in the previous episode...
“The Blacklist” returned with a new episode this week, an hour that revealed almost the entire backstory of Raymond “Red” Reddington (James Spader) and Elizabeth Keene’s (Megan Boone) relationship. We say almost, because the installment, titled “Nachalo,” ends before Liz can get the answer to exactly who Red is — though it’s pretty much guaranteed that reveal will come on next week’s Season 8 finale.
The big truths we do have by the end of the hour are that Liz’s mother, Katarina Rostova, is still alive — because the now-dead woman Liz thought was Katarina Rostova (played by Laila Robins) is not Katarina Rostova. And we’re left with some big clues as to who Red really is, though not an outright answer.
During Wednesday’s “The Blacklist,” Red, who revealed to Liz in the previous episode...
- 6/17/2021
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
Writer-director Zubie Saurabh Sengupta, who started his career in advertising and created press and film campaigns for leading brands, has recently directed a film titled ‘In The Month of July’ that stars veteran actor Kanwaljit Singh, Shadab Khan, Shamim Akbarali, Aditya Ranvijay Siddhu, Donal Bist, Ranjeet Jha, Richard Joel, Rhea and Sana.
The film is a feel-good film, placed in a small hill-station in Himachal Pradesh and is about a lonely aged man and a much younger forlorn woman locked together in a redundant and loveless marriage, until an outsider, a young man, enters their lives and turns the pages. With its different approach, the film intends to bring in a completely new and fresh experience for its viewers.
‘In The Month of July’ is produced under the banner of Teg Enterprises Inc. by Mr. Gurpal Sandhu, a venture capitalist-industrialist with his based in India and U.S. As he...
The film is a feel-good film, placed in a small hill-station in Himachal Pradesh and is about a lonely aged man and a much younger forlorn woman locked together in a redundant and loveless marriage, until an outsider, a young man, enters their lives and turns the pages. With its different approach, the film intends to bring in a completely new and fresh experience for its viewers.
‘In The Month of July’ is produced under the banner of Teg Enterprises Inc. by Mr. Gurpal Sandhu, a venture capitalist-industrialist with his based in India and U.S. As he...
- 5/29/2021
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
“Little Women” director Greta Gerwig was left out of the 2020 Oscar nominations on Monday. In fact, not one woman was nominated in the Director category this year, despite there being a record number of female directors behind the top-grossing films of 2019.
Florence Pugh, who was nominated for her role as Amy March in “Little Women,” weighed in on the snub, saying that we live in a man’s world, just like the women in Gerwig’s film.
“I haven’t spoken to her yet, but it is sad that we had three months of conversations to maybe change and they didn’t,” Pugh told TheWrap shortly after the nominations were announced. “I’ve been saying this all along: Greta made a film about women and relationships with money and working in a man’s world, and this highlights it. I don’t know what the solution is, I don’t know how to solve it.
Florence Pugh, who was nominated for her role as Amy March in “Little Women,” weighed in on the snub, saying that we live in a man’s world, just like the women in Gerwig’s film.
“I haven’t spoken to her yet, but it is sad that we had three months of conversations to maybe change and they didn’t,” Pugh told TheWrap shortly after the nominations were announced. “I’ve been saying this all along: Greta made a film about women and relationships with money and working in a man’s world, and this highlights it. I don’t know what the solution is, I don’t know how to solve it.
- 1/13/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Dawn French is to star in Doc Martin-style drama Glass Houses for ITV.
The British commercial broadcaster has ordered the six-part series from Genial Productions, the nascent ITV-backed producer formed by The Durrells and Men Behaving Badly writer Simon Nye and ex-Tiger Aspect boss Sophie Clarke-Jervoise.
Created and written by Shameless and Cold Feet writer Mark Brotherhood, Glass Houses is set in a picturesque small coastal town with a close-knit community. It follows the stories and fall out for Maggie Connors, played by French, who doesn’t pay attention to the cautionary adage that ‘those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones’.
Connors is a central character in town who makes it her business to know a bit about everyone’s lives. When a radio journalist interviews her for a small reportage piece about local life she gives him far more detail (and embellishment) about the locals and their...
The British commercial broadcaster has ordered the six-part series from Genial Productions, the nascent ITV-backed producer formed by The Durrells and Men Behaving Badly writer Simon Nye and ex-Tiger Aspect boss Sophie Clarke-Jervoise.
Created and written by Shameless and Cold Feet writer Mark Brotherhood, Glass Houses is set in a picturesque small coastal town with a close-knit community. It follows the stories and fall out for Maggie Connors, played by French, who doesn’t pay attention to the cautionary adage that ‘those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones’.
Connors is a central character in town who makes it her business to know a bit about everyone’s lives. When a radio journalist interviews her for a small reportage piece about local life she gives him far more detail (and embellishment) about the locals and their...
- 3/1/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Lionsgate has partnered with Big Talk Productions and Mischief Screen to bring a comedy stage play to BBC One.
The British public broadcaster has commissioned The Goes Wrong Show, which is based on Mischief Theatre’s eponymous play from the team behind Peter Pan Goes Wrong and A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, which were previously adapted for television.
The six-part series follows the Cornley Drama Society undertaking another overly ambitious endeavour, held back by prolific over-actor Robert Grove, the screen-hogging Sandra Wilkinson and the artistically mistrusted Dennis Tyde. The half-hour episodes are described as “theatrical catastrophe”.
The Goes Wrong Show will be written by and star the original founding Mischief Theatre members including Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields alongside Nancy Zamit, Charlie Russell, Bryony Corrigan, Greg Tannahill, Dave Hearn and Chris Leask. It will be filmed in front of a live studio audience.
The Goes Wrong Show is...
The British public broadcaster has commissioned The Goes Wrong Show, which is based on Mischief Theatre’s eponymous play from the team behind Peter Pan Goes Wrong and A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong, which were previously adapted for television.
The six-part series follows the Cornley Drama Society undertaking another overly ambitious endeavour, held back by prolific over-actor Robert Grove, the screen-hogging Sandra Wilkinson and the artistically mistrusted Dennis Tyde. The half-hour episodes are described as “theatrical catastrophe”.
The Goes Wrong Show will be written by and star the original founding Mischief Theatre members including Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields alongside Nancy Zamit, Charlie Russell, Bryony Corrigan, Greg Tannahill, Dave Hearn and Chris Leask. It will be filmed in front of a live studio audience.
The Goes Wrong Show is...
- 2/22/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Making its World Premiere at Cannes Film Festival and garnering rave reviews at other major festivals and even right here on Nerdly, Iain Ross-McNamee’s gothic chiller Crucible of the Vampire comes to UK cinemas today, 1 February 2019, followed by its home entertainment release on 4 February 2019 in dual format DVD and Blu-ray and on digital platforms courtesy of Screenbound Entertainment.
Starring British acting favourite Neil Morrissey, alongside rising stars Katie Goldfinch and Florence Cady, this brooding vampire tale gives a strong nod to classic British horror greats and the genre defining Hammer Horror films.
A young museum curator Isabelle (Katie Goldfinch) is sent to look at an ancient artefact, discovered in the basement of a stately home in Shropshire, to verify its authenticity. If it is, what she hopes it is, it would be a major discovery. Isabelle finds herself welcomed into the sprawling manor house by a seemingly hospitable family...
Starring British acting favourite Neil Morrissey, alongside rising stars Katie Goldfinch and Florence Cady, this brooding vampire tale gives a strong nod to classic British horror greats and the genre defining Hammer Horror films.
A young museum curator Isabelle (Katie Goldfinch) is sent to look at an ancient artefact, discovered in the basement of a stately home in Shropshire, to verify its authenticity. If it is, what she hopes it is, it would be a major discovery. Isabelle finds herself welcomed into the sprawling manor house by a seemingly hospitable family...
- 2/1/2019
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Welcome to the latest installment of Trailer Park, our semi-regular look at the latest trailers to hit the interwebs. This edition features a gaggle of trailers for both forthcoming movies And video games… including: Kingdom Hearts 3, Glass, Nippon Marathon, Crucible of the Vampire, Netflix’s Kingdom, Doom Room and more!
Kingdom Hearts III
As unexpected events began to unfold in the Disney worlds at the hands of the enemy’s dark ambitions, the heroic trio of Sora, Donald, and Goofy find adventures ahead, from aquatic battles in the world of Pirates of the Caribbean to dances with the townspeople in the Kingdom of Corona from Tangled. The new footage also showcases Stitch from Lilo and Stitch as a special “link” (summon), as well as cooking-themed Ratatouille Keyblade attacks. Footage of Kairi wielding a Keyblade, as well as heartfelt conversations between members of Organization Xiii, and glimpses of Sora’s Nobody...
Kingdom Hearts III
As unexpected events began to unfold in the Disney worlds at the hands of the enemy’s dark ambitions, the heroic trio of Sora, Donald, and Goofy find adventures ahead, from aquatic battles in the world of Pirates of the Caribbean to dances with the townspeople in the Kingdom of Corona from Tangled. The new footage also showcases Stitch from Lilo and Stitch as a special “link” (summon), as well as cooking-themed Ratatouille Keyblade attacks. Footage of Kairi wielding a Keyblade, as well as heartfelt conversations between members of Organization Xiii, and glimpses of Sora’s Nobody...
- 12/20/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Screenbound International Pictures have announce that they have made an exclusive representation agreement for world sales of the latest movie from Ghost Dog Films, the British vampire film Crucible of the Vampire This Hammer-esque new movie comes from director Iain Ross-McNamee (The Singing Bird Will Come), who continues his passion for strong female leads in a psychological horror setting which helps give the gothic vampire story a thoroughly modern twist as love and sexual repression are compellingly intertwined throughout the film.
Crucible of the Vampire see Isabelle (Katie Goldfinch) as a naive, university researcher who is sent to a foreboding, gothic manor house in rural Shropshire to verify that an ancient crucible is that of a Sorcerer from the 17th Century who was executed for bringing the dead back to life. As Katie delves further into the crucible’s history, it soon becomes apparent that the house holds more than one dark secret…...
Crucible of the Vampire see Isabelle (Katie Goldfinch) as a naive, university researcher who is sent to a foreboding, gothic manor house in rural Shropshire to verify that an ancient crucible is that of a Sorcerer from the 17th Century who was executed for bringing the dead back to life. As Katie delves further into the crucible’s history, it soon becomes apparent that the house holds more than one dark secret…...
- 1/18/2018
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Juliette Harrisson Sep 8, 2016
Toast fifty years of Star Trek with these 25 episodes, drawn from across its TV universe, each celebrating an aspect of the franchise...
It seems unlikely that readers of Den of Geek need to be introduced to Star Trek. Five live-action TV series (soon to be six), one animated series, 13 movies and countless other books, computer games, board games, comic books and other forms of media, all adding up to fifty years of one of the biggest franchises in science fiction history.
Here we’ve collected 25 episodes from across the various Star Trek TV shows that might help you to celebrate Star Trek’s fiftieth birthday. A combination of all-time classics, episodes that sum up the ethos of the series, episodes that celebrate Star Trek itself and episodes that are just plain fun, this selection should have you happily toasting to the next fifty years of this venerable sci-fi institution.
Toast fifty years of Star Trek with these 25 episodes, drawn from across its TV universe, each celebrating an aspect of the franchise...
It seems unlikely that readers of Den of Geek need to be introduced to Star Trek. Five live-action TV series (soon to be six), one animated series, 13 movies and countless other books, computer games, board games, comic books and other forms of media, all adding up to fifty years of one of the biggest franchises in science fiction history.
Here we’ve collected 25 episodes from across the various Star Trek TV shows that might help you to celebrate Star Trek’s fiftieth birthday. A combination of all-time classics, episodes that sum up the ethos of the series, episodes that celebrate Star Trek itself and episodes that are just plain fun, this selection should have you happily toasting to the next fifty years of this venerable sci-fi institution.
- 8/8/2016
- Den of Geek
Focus Features has picked up an untitled feature spec by Amy Welsh, who most recently was supervising producer on the ABC Family series Bunheads, and who has written on sitcoms from Roseanne to It’s Like You Know and Men Behaving Badly. They are keeping the logline under wraps. Jc Spink, Jake Weiner, and Chris Bender are producing for Benderspink, which recently exec produced Ride Along and Hangover 3, and produced We’re The Millers and the just-wrapped Horrible Bosses 2. Welsh is repped by ICM Partners.
- 6/5/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Writer Don Payne, who began his writing career on TV in the mid-nineties with episodes of Hope and Gloria, Can’t Hurry Love, Men Behaving Badly, Veronica’s Closet and The Brian Benben Show before becoming writer, producer, supervising producer, co-executive producer and consulting producer of The Simpsons, has passed at 48, losing his long battle with bone cancer. The Simpsons’ showrunner Al Jean stated: “Don was a wonderful writer and an even more wonderful man. He was beloved in the ‘Simpsons’ community and his untimely passing is terrible news to us all.” Payne either wrote or co-wrote 18 episodes of the long-running Fox series beginning in 2000. He segued into screenwriting in 2006 with My Super Ex-Girlfriend, followed by Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Thor, Maximum Ride and this fall’s Thor: The Dark World. In 2006, he told the website Cinematical that “I’ve always wanted to write features. That’s...
- 3/29/2013
- by spaced-odyssey
- doorQ.com
Screenwriter Don Payne has died, it has been announced.
Payne is best known for writing several episodes of The Simpsons and co-writing the screenplay to Thor and its upcoming sequel Thor: The Dark World.
Details of his death have yet to be released.
Thor stars Kat Dennings and Jaimie Alexander tweeted about Payne's death today (March 27).
Don Payne won four Emmy Awards for his work on The Simpsons. He wrote 16 episodes of the Fox animation, serving as a consulting producer for 100 episodes.
He also wrote the screenplays for Uma Thurman comedy My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and the upcoming Maximum Ride.
Payne had worked on several TV sitcoms in the 1990s, including Hope & Gloria, Pride & Joy, Can't Hurry Love, Men Behaving Badly, Veronica's Closet and The Brian Benben Show.
For many years, he worked with fellow screenwriter John Frink.
Dennings described Payne as "a wonderful,...
Payne is best known for writing several episodes of The Simpsons and co-writing the screenplay to Thor and its upcoming sequel Thor: The Dark World.
Details of his death have yet to be released.
Thor stars Kat Dennings and Jaimie Alexander tweeted about Payne's death today (March 27).
Don Payne won four Emmy Awards for his work on The Simpsons. He wrote 16 episodes of the Fox animation, serving as a consulting producer for 100 episodes.
He also wrote the screenplays for Uma Thurman comedy My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer and the upcoming Maximum Ride.
Payne had worked on several TV sitcoms in the 1990s, including Hope & Gloria, Pride & Joy, Can't Hurry Love, Men Behaving Badly, Veronica's Closet and The Brian Benben Show.
For many years, he worked with fellow screenwriter John Frink.
Dennings described Payne as "a wonderful,...
- 3/27/2013
- Digital Spy
Don Payne, a writer who penned both Thor movies, as well as many episodes of The Simpsons, has died. His longtime Simpsons associate Mike Scully broke the news on Twitter. After working for many years on sitcoms such as Veronica's Closet and Men Behaving Badly, Payne, a longtime comics fan, co-wrote the screenplays for three comic-book movies—Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer, Thor, and the upcoming Thor: The Dark World—as well as the superhero comedy, My Super Ex-Girlfriend. He also penned 16 episodes of The Simpsons, including “Thursdays With Abie,” “Love, Springfieldian Style,” and “Simpsons Christmas ...
- 3/27/2013
- avclub.com
Exclusive: NBC has put in development The Swamp, a single-camera musical comedy from writer-director Tom Brady, Werner Entertainment and Warner Bros. TV. Set in musically rich New Orleans, The Swamp follows the misadventures of a scramble-style college marching band and its unlikeliest of mentors. Named after the name of the off-campus house where the band members reside, the show is described as a contemporary character comedy with social commentary and musical performances. Brady executive produces with Werner’s Tom Werner and Mike Clements. The Swamp reunites Brady with Werner Entertainment after Brady executive produced the company’s MTV animated series Good Vibes. His other series credits include The Simpsons, Sports Night and Men Behaving Badly. This is Warner Bros.-based Werner Entertainment’s second sale this season. The company also has a comedy produced by Chelsea Handler and starring comedian Heather McDonald at Fox.
- 9/28/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Kathryn Joosten (2nd from l.) with (l. to r.) Teri Hatcher, Marcia Cross, Dana Delany and Eva Longoria in Desperate Housewives.
After saving the day in the finale episodes of TV’s Desperate Housewives as Karen McCluskey this past season, actress Kathryn Joosten died Saturday, June 2, 2012, of lung cancer. She was 72.
McCluskey won Joosten two Emmy Awards, for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2005 and 2008, but she was also well known by fans of TV’s The West Wing as the President’s executive secretary Dolores Landingham, who convinced the Chief to run for a second term.
Joosten, who made the move to Hollywood to be an actress later in life, was celebrated by Cracked.com as one of “5 Famous People Who Succeeded Long After They Should’ve Quit.” After a career as a nurse, Joosten pursued acting when she was a single mother of two in her forties.
After saving the day in the finale episodes of TV’s Desperate Housewives as Karen McCluskey this past season, actress Kathryn Joosten died Saturday, June 2, 2012, of lung cancer. She was 72.
McCluskey won Joosten two Emmy Awards, for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series in 2005 and 2008, but she was also well known by fans of TV’s The West Wing as the President’s executive secretary Dolores Landingham, who convinced the Chief to run for a second term.
Joosten, who made the move to Hollywood to be an actress later in life, was celebrated by Cracked.com as one of “5 Famous People Who Succeeded Long After They Should’ve Quit.” After a career as a nurse, Joosten pursued acting when she was a single mother of two in her forties.
- 6/3/2012
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Chicago – After an absolute train wreck like ABC’s “Work It” and something that comes close to disaster in NBC’s “Are You There, Chelsea,” there’s something nearly-satisfying about a mediocre sitcom like “Rob!” The latest effort to find a hit in the coveted post-“Big Bang Theory” slot is certainly better than the last two (“S**t My Dad Says,” “How to Be a Gentleman”) but that is the definition of faint praise. This is still mediocre comedy, the kind of show that you might enjoy if you stumble upon it but that you don’t need to set a Season Pass for any time soon.
Television Rating: 3.0/5.0
Rob Schneider has always looked uncomfortable on film in comedies like “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo” and “Grown Ups,” but he was often very funny in his time on “Saturday Night Live” and even delivered on the short-lived “Men Behaving Badly.
Television Rating: 3.0/5.0
Rob Schneider has always looked uncomfortable on film in comedies like “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo” and “Grown Ups,” but he was often very funny in his time on “Saturday Night Live” and even delivered on the short-lived “Men Behaving Badly.
- 1/12/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
CBS has added a comedy starring "Saturday Night Live" alum and frequent Adam Sandler co-star Rob Schneider to its midseason slate.
The show, which Schneider also co-created, is about a guy who's been on his own for most of his adult life and marries into a close-knit Mexican-American family. It's loosely based on his own life.
Spanish actress Claudia Bassols will play his new wife in the series. Cheech Marin, Diana Maria Riva, Eugenio Derbez and Lupe Ontiveros are also in the cast. Schneider, Lew Morton ("SNL," "NewsRadio") and Eric and Kim Tannenbaum ("Two and a Half Men") will serve as executive producers.
The untitled show was in the mix for a pickup in May at CBS' upfronts. The network didn't commit right away but ordered a new pilot with several roles recast. That one passed muster and will join the rookie-cops drama "The 2-2" as the network's midseason entrants.
The show, which Schneider also co-created, is about a guy who's been on his own for most of his adult life and marries into a close-knit Mexican-American family. It's loosely based on his own life.
Spanish actress Claudia Bassols will play his new wife in the series. Cheech Marin, Diana Maria Riva, Eugenio Derbez and Lupe Ontiveros are also in the cast. Schneider, Lew Morton ("SNL," "NewsRadio") and Eric and Kim Tannenbaum ("Two and a Half Men") will serve as executive producers.
The untitled show was in the mix for a pickup in May at CBS' upfronts. The network didn't commit right away but ordered a new pilot with several roles recast. That one passed muster and will join the rookie-cops drama "The 2-2" as the network's midseason entrants.
- 9/27/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Rob Schneider is officially returning to primetime. CBS has handed a midseason series order to Schneider’s untitled family comedy. I hear the pickup is for eight episodes. While it was tracking well, the pilot didn’t make the cut for a fall series order at the upfronts, but CBS liked it enough to order a revamped second pilot that included major casting changes as well as several backup scripts. The multi-camera comedy, which Schneider co-wrote with Lew Morton based on the actor’s real-life experiences, stars Schneider as Rob, a confirmed bachelor who has just married into a tight-knit Mexican-American family. Spanish actress Claudia Bassols plays his wife, Maggie. Diana Maria Riva plays his mother-in-law, Rosa. Both roles were recast from the pilot, as was the role of Schneider’s father-in-law, now played by Cheech Marin. Remaining from the original cast are Schneider, Eugenio Derbez as the wife’s...
- 9/26/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
CBS has picked up two new comedy pilots, the first being based on the life of, and starring, Rob Schneider, tvguide.com is reporting. The former ‘Saturday Night Live’ performer will also produce and co-write the series, which focuses on a lonely bachelor who marries a Mexican woman from a large, tight-knit family. Another former ‘SNL’ performer, Lew Morton, helped write the script. Schneider and Morton will executive-produce the series, alongside ‘Two and a Half Men’ producers Eric and Kim Tannenbaum. The series will mark Schneider’s return to television after his 1996 NBC comedy ‘Men Behaving Badly.’ The second comedy CBS has picked up is ‘Home Grown,’ from ‘That ’70s Show’ writers Jeff [...]...
- 2/6/2011
- by karen
- ShockYa
CBS has given the green light to two family comedy pilots, an untitled project starring Rob Schneider and Home Grown, from That '70s Show alums Jeff and Jackie Filgo. This marks the second pilot for the Filgos, who have also come on board Marisa Coughlan's multicamera comedy pilot for ABC Lost and Found as executive producers/showrunners. Both pilots are from Warner Bros. TV. The untitled Rob Schneider project, from CBS TV Studios and the Tannenbaum Co., was written by Schneider and fellow Saturday Night Live alum Lew Morton. It is based on Schneider's life and centers on a solitary guy who marries into a huge Mexican-American family. The project originally landed at CBS in October with a script commitment. Morton, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum (Two and a Half Men) are executive producing, with Schneider and his brother John Schneider producing through their From Out of Nowhere Prods. This...
- 2/5/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: Eric and Kim Tannenbaum are fashionably late to the marketplace in their first development season at their new home, CBS TV Studios. But their last-minute comedy sale to CBS is a big one: a half-hour starring Rob Schneider in his first TV series gig in 13 years. The untitled project, to be written by Lew Morton (Saturday Night Live, Big Lake) and Schneider, is based on Schneider's life and centers on a solitary guy who marries into a huge Mexican-American family. Morton, Eric and Kim Tannenbaum are executive producing, with Schneider and his brother John Schneider producing through their From Out of Nowhere Prods. CBS TV Studios and the Tannenbaum Co. are producing the comedy, which has received a script order. SNL alum Schneider's last major TV gig was as a star of the comedy Men Behaving Badly, which ran on NBC from 1996-97. He has since been focused on films,...
- 10/29/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Steve Levitan, 47, is known for creating the TV series Just Shoot Me! Stark Raving Mad, Stacked, Back to You, with varying degrees of success. He's also known for being highly vocal in his displeasure with the networks (like NBC and Fox) at times. And, in the words of one producer, "for being the only Jew in Hollywood who wears a 44 long". But the veteran writer/producer -- who won an Emmy Award as executive producer of Frasier and has written for the Larry Sanders Show, Men Behaving Badly, The Wonder Years and other comedy shows -- is now a happy guy at the helm ABC’s Wednesday night sitcom hit Modern Family, which he co-runs with Chris Lloyd. While he has some strong feelings about the state of the TV industry, he admits in this Showrunner Q&A with Deadline contributor Diane Haithman -- done before Modern Family was nominated...
- 8/1/2010
- by Nikki Finke
- Deadline Hollywood
Mandabach inks comedy deal with BBC
BBC has signed a first-look development deal with Caryn Mandabach, veteran producer of comedy hits like The Cosby Show and Roseanne. Mandabach, who left independent production outfit Carsey-Werner-Mandabach in August, will set up a United Kingdom-based company as part of the deal, which calls for her to develop five comedy scripts for BBC. One is already in development with writer Simon Nye, whose comedy Men Behaving Badly was adapted by CWM -- now known as Carsey-Werner -- as an NBC sitcom in 1996. "I have loved British comedy for as long as I can remember," Mandabach said. "I dare say that the deal is spectacular because it shows such a faith in me. I'm truly humbled."...
- 4/8/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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