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Ben Wheatley's Sightseers brings English tourist trail to Cannes
17 May 2012 4:08 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
What will Cannes 2012 make of Sightseers – a British black comedy that melds The League of Gentlemen with Nuts in May?
British hopes at this year's Cannes film festival split between the old and new guard of domestic cinema. Representing the first camp is Ken Loach, nominated for the Palme d'Or for a record-breaking 11th time and ensconsed in the splendour of the main competition with his hard-scrabble comedy The Angel's Share. Embodying the second is 39-year-old Ben Wheatley, camped out in the rowdier, less salubrious setting of the directors' fortnight section, far up the Croisette. He's like the barbarian at the gates.
Basildon-born and Brighton-based, Wheatley cut his teeth on internet virals and TV commercials before making an acclaimed feature debut with the criminal sitcom Down Terrace. But it was last year's Kill List that truly snared the attention. Wheatley's wonky account of contract killing and pagan curses looked like »
- Xan Brooks
Horrible Histories is one of the smartest comedies on TV
12 April 2012 3:38 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Often described as being 'funny ... for a kids' show', few comedies can touch Horrible Histories for original ideas
Cbbc's Horrible Histories is a wonderfully curious thing: wildly praised, yet woefully undersold as really funny … for a kids' show. But Horrible Histories isn't just the best show on children's television – it's one of the smartest comedies on TV.
That's a bold claim, admittedly. But with the fourth series – broadcasting every afternoon this week – it's time to stop patting Horrible Histories on the head for not being rubbish, and accept that it's a genuinely brilliant comedy in its own right. There are few British comedies that can touch it for ideas, writing and performance – especially with shows such as Shooting Stars and Harry Hill's TV Burp leaving a huge hole where the silly and surreal should be.
Horrible Histories real talent, though, is just how good it is at lampooning popular culture. »
- Stephen Kelly
'League of Gentlemen' stars want reunion: 'Like Abba, we never split'
10 April 2012 3:41 AM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
The League of Gentlemen performers Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith have said that they expect the group to "reconvene" in the near future. The comedians clarified that they never "split up" after their BBC comedy series came to an end in 2002 (followed by a film of the show in 2005), adding that they would happily join with fourth member Jeremy Dyson for a new project. "We're all friends of course," Pemberton told Radio Times. "But The League of Gentlemen does seem a long time ago now." Gatiss added: "Just as Abba never split up, we just stopped doing it. We've always talked about doing something else. "I genuinely think the time will come, and not years and years away, when we will (more) »
- By Daniel Sperling
Simon Cowell congratulates The Voice
10 April 2012 2:00 AM, PDT | Virgin Media - TV | See recent Virgin Media - TV news »
Steve Pemberton says filming 'Benidorm' has changed his opinion of the Spanish resort. The 44-year-old actor - who plays Mick Garvey in the ITV1 comedy, which is set primarily in the all-inclusive Solona hotel complex - enjoys the relaxed nature of filming the programme in the coastal town, but he used to think it was full of ''leery Brits abroad''. He said: ''It's a tremendous show to film - everyone has a ball and the people are so nice. What could be better than turning up to work and sitting by a pool in the sunshine? ''People have great affection for »
'Benidorm' 2012 ends with 5.9 million for ITV
7 April 2012 9:34 AM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Benidorm closed its doors for 2012 with 5.9m viewers last night (Friday), overnight data reveals. Derren Litten's series five conclusion, which featured Doctor Who legend Kate O'Mara, attracted 5.57m (24.4%) for ITV1 at 9pm and 349k (1.9%) on timeshift. The Steve Pemberton sitcom's last episode is up on the 2011 finale, but overall this series is 440k down on last year. A Lionel Ritchie special at 10pm, replacing News at Ten, fetched 2.52m (13.8%) and 151k (1.4%) on timeshift. BBC One had an extremely disappointing night, logging only 2.44m (10.2%) for Len Goodman's Titanic documentary at 8.30pm, and 2.7m (11.8%) for Land of the Lost Wolves at 10pm. Over on BBC Two, Hugh Bonneville's Twenty Twelve held all of last week's audience, amusing 972k (4.9%) at 10pm. Mastermind (more) »
- By Paul Millar
TV highlights 23/03/2012
22 March 2012 5:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Sport Relief 2012 | Come Dine With Me | Benidorm | Modern Family | Classic Albums | The Walking Dead
Sport Relief 2012
7pm, BBC1
On your marks … yep, it's time once again for the sports charity bonanza where sporting personalities come together with the people you see all over TV all the time, doing something silly and/or exhausting. Gary Lineker, Davina McCall, Dermot O'Leary, Claudia Winkleman and Fearne Cotton present, while David Walliams, Helen Skelton and John Bishop talk about their sporting challenges. There are riffs on Outnumbered, Strictly, and Britain's Got Talent, while the stars of Qi and Mock The Week all play a part. Martin Skegg
8pm, Channel 4
As with all Come Dine With Me premises, it sounds like the start of a joke: a tattoo enthusiast, a community worker, a traditionalist and an Italian host a dinner party … In other words, four more amateur chefs (tonight, from Wolverhampton) compete for the £1,000 prize, »
- Martin Skegg, Ali Catterall, David Stubbs, Phelim O'Neill, John Robinson
Have you been watching … Whitechapel?
21 February 2012 3:39 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Can you leave your brain on standby for the third series of ITV1's stupidly enjoyable neo-Victorian crime fest or are you appalled by the gaping plot holes?
"What if we could use the past as a map to guide us through difficult investigations?" mused Di Chandler over a quiet pint with DS Miles in The Dog and Exposition. "I'm not talking about copycats. I'm talking about knowing the history of crime – pause, close-up of raised eyebrows – and using it to our advantage!"
It was a fitting opening for the third series of Whitechapel – the primetime penny dreadful that views London as a sort of neo-Victorian dismemberment theme park in which stupefied dibbles stagger through a succession of investigational peasoupers with the grace of pantomime cows.
The first series of Whitechapel was about a man in a cape re-enacting the murders of Jack the Ripper. The second featured a plot »
- Sarah Dempster
Katherine Kelly: from Rada to the Rovers – and back to the stage
17 February 2012 8:58 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
After five years as Coronation Street's feisty barmaid Becky, the actor has made an effortless leap to the National as star of an acclaimed new production of She Stoops to Conquer. But there's much more to her act than northern grit…
When Katherine Kelly arrives for our lunch, vibrant, friendly, in a sweet colourful dress, the first thing you notice is the hair. Gone are the bleached blond tresses, sometimes with tatty hair extensions, of her fabled Coronation Street character, Becky, to be replaced with a shiny, brunette, tied-back bob. It's transforming – from streetwise Weatherfield, to Parisian chic, via one bottle of hair dye. "I think this is my natural colour," grins Kelly wryly. "I can't quite remember – it's been years!"
We haven't much time, and order food quickly. But then, Kelly appears to have natural brio, which doubtless served her well playing the irrepressible Becky –one of the »
- Barbara Ellen
'Whitechapel' premieres on BBC America Wednesday, March 28
8 February 2012 9:53 AM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
One of the better UK dramas,"Whitechapel," is back on BBC America. The files of America.s first serial killer H.H. Holmes and other historic cases from Britain.s past help solve modern-day murders in London.s East End From BBC America The critically acclaimed drama, Whitechapel, returns with three distinctive, dark and chilling crime stories. From the producers of "Downton Abbey", the new season will find Detective Inspector Joseph Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones), Detective Sergeant Miles (Phil Davis) and Edward Buchan (Steve Pemberton) spreading their investigations beyond the boundaries of East London.s Whitechapel, as they peel back layers of the East End.s most gruesome history. Whitechapel premieres Wednesday, March 28, 10:00pm Et/Pt as part of BBC America.s Dramaville. In season one, »
- April MacIntyre
TV review: Whitechapel; Protecting Our Children; Spartacus: Vengeance
30 January 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Whitechapel isn't quite bad enough to switch off – but best not watch too closely
About 45 minutes into Whitechapel (ITV1), the first and so far only suspect appeared, screaming that he was photophobic. It was sod's law, I suppose, that he turned up in the only scene shot in something approaching normal daylight. Someone on the set was taking noir rather too literally. The darkness was probably intended to be gothic, but it was annoying, as for long periods I struggled to work out what was going on. Even the police station seemed to be lit by a single five-watt bulb. Great for energy saving, but not for the viewer.
After a rocky second series in which the Kray twins were cloned, Whitechapel has gone back to its 19th-century roots with a recreation of the Ratcliff Highway mUurders. (No, me neither, but apparently a draper and his family were murdered in »
- John Crace
Will Whitechapel's revamp murder the show?
30 January 2012 7:12 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
No more copycat crimes and now one main story every two episodes – will this ITV series remain gripping and atmospheric?
It started with a three-part drama serial called Whitechapel that told the story of a modern-day murderer modelling his crimes on those of Jack the Ripper in the 1880s. Viewers loved this gripping, quirky ITV1 tale – enjoying some good old-fashioned hokum and gloriously overblown acting from Rupert Penry-Jones as posh boy Chandler, and Phil Davis as tough-but-fair old timer Sgt Ray Miles. ITV then reprised the idea – second time round Whitechapel featured a modern pair of nasties seeking to recreate the crimes of the Kray twins in 1960's east London – and the bumper ratings to go with it.
These first two runs of Whitechapel were fabulously original. Like all the best ideas – the updated Sherlocks are the most obvious other example – it seemed so delightfully simple. A modern retelling of »
- Ben Dowell
TV highlights: 30/01/12
29 January 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Protecting our Children | Whitechapel | Royal Marines: Mission Afghanistan | Britain's Gay Footballers | Death Valley | Spartacus: Vengeance
Protecting Our Children
9pm, BBC2
"You're not very liked," says Suzanne, a newly qualified social worker, adding that it's the "most hated profession in the nation". This new three-part series follows different social workers for a year in Bristol. Suzanne's first-ever case involves a toddler whom she fears is being neglected. The father is hostile and resents the interference, while the mother recognises how her upbringing affects her parenting skills; she's the one who makes a heartbreaking, selfless decision. Martin Skegg
9pm, ITV1
DS Miles and Di Chandler return for this third series, with cases now unfolding over two episodes. The premise is familiar: that the grisly horrors of Whitechapel's rich legacy of murder cases can help unlock present-day cases. Steve Pemberton again steals the show as the archivist and Ripperologist Edward Buchan, »
- Martin Skegg, David Stubbs, Andrew Mueller, Ben Arnold, Clare Considine, Phelim O'Neill
'Whitechapel' Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis, Steve Pemberton Q&A
28 January 2012 1:00 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Fancy a few Monday night scares? You're in luck! Whitechapel's back for a new six-part series (three two-part stories), so it's the perfect chance to do some hiding behind the sofa. Instead of focusing on copycat killers, this series sees Chandler, Miles and Buchan trying to solve crimes by using historical misdeeds to give them some clues. After watching the creepy first episode, Rupert Penry-Jones, Phil Davis and Steve Pemberton (along with executive producer Sally Woodward Gentle and director Richard Clark) came to chat to reporters about what we can expect from the show, what made Rupert feel sick during filming, and whether they're up for more series... Do you think this series has upped the fear factor?
Sally: "We have a little bit. I think the first Ripper story was pretty scary, I think the Krays was slightly (more) »
- By Catriona Wightman
Whitechapel: David Stubbs's TV Od
27 January 2012 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
After Jack The Ripper and the Kray Twins, if you thought ITV might have run out of East End villains, think again
Following its first appearance on our screens back in 2009 and later in 2010, it is fair to say that Whitechapel (Mon, 9pm, ITV1) was not universally well received by the critics, whose notices were dotted with charming, period insults like "imbecilic" and "dung". However, it proved popular with audiences, gathering in figures of up to 8.1 million viewers. For it's an Orwellian quirk of this country that we are extremely fond of our heritage of bloody murder, the gore of yore, the poisonings, bodysnatchings and slit throats of a reassuringly long time ago.
The first series saw our three heroes, DS Miles (Phil Davis), Di Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones) and historical researcher Edward Buchan (Steve Pemberton) on the trail of a murderer who was re-enacting the crimes of Jack the Ripper »
- David Stubbs
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