BAFTA gave out their Craft Awards on Sunday, 23 April. As with the Primetime Emmys, the British academy also devotes a weekend to celebrating the creative arts. The BAFTA TV Craft Awards are split into 20 categories, with six devoted to fictional programming, six to factual programming, and a further four in combined fields.
The BBC medical drama “This is Going to Hurt” won three awards — Editing (Fiction), Scripted Casting, and Writer (Drama) for show creator Adam Kay. Kay adapted his best-selling memoir, which chronciled his experiences as a doctor in the NHS. Kay won in a stacked category that included Pete Jackson (“Somewhere Boy”), Alice Oseman (“Heartstopper) and Tony Schumacher (“The Responder”). “This is Going to Hurt” will contend at the Emmys in the limited series categories.
Meanwhile, Writer (Comedy) went to Lisa McGee for her work on “Derry Girls,” which follows a teenage girl and family in friends in 1990s Northern Ireland.
The BBC medical drama “This is Going to Hurt” won three awards — Editing (Fiction), Scripted Casting, and Writer (Drama) for show creator Adam Kay. Kay adapted his best-selling memoir, which chronciled his experiences as a doctor in the NHS. Kay won in a stacked category that included Pete Jackson (“Somewhere Boy”), Alice Oseman (“Heartstopper) and Tony Schumacher (“The Responder”). “This is Going to Hurt” will contend at the Emmys in the limited series categories.
Meanwhile, Writer (Comedy) went to Lisa McGee for her work on “Derry Girls,” which follows a teenage girl and family in friends in 1990s Northern Ireland.
- 4/23/2023
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: IMDb TV has picked up Timewasters, the British comedy about a jazz band who time travel via a urine-soaked elevator in a dilapidated block of flats.
Amazon’s free streaming service will carry the first two seasons of the now-canceled ITV2 show, which is produced by ITV Studios-backed Big Talk Productions. Endeavor Content distributes the BAFTA-nominated series.
Starring Daniel Lawrence Taylor (Cockroaches) as Nick, Kadiff Kirwan (Chewing Gum) as Jason, Adelayo Adedayo (Skins) as Lauren, and Samson Kayo (Truth Seekers) as Horace, the first season sees the band transported back to 1920s high-society London.
In the second season, the time-traveling quartet are transported to London in the 1950s. Met with strange stares and genuine curiosity in both eras, the group navigates the clash of cultures and social conventions all while exploring worlds that are, at once, both incredibly familiar and painfully foreign.
Timewasters was created and written by...
Amazon’s free streaming service will carry the first two seasons of the now-canceled ITV2 show, which is produced by ITV Studios-backed Big Talk Productions. Endeavor Content distributes the BAFTA-nominated series.
Starring Daniel Lawrence Taylor (Cockroaches) as Nick, Kadiff Kirwan (Chewing Gum) as Jason, Adelayo Adedayo (Skins) as Lauren, and Samson Kayo (Truth Seekers) as Horace, the first season sees the band transported back to 1920s high-society London.
In the second season, the time-traveling quartet are transported to London in the 1950s. Met with strange stares and genuine curiosity in both eras, the group navigates the clash of cultures and social conventions all while exploring worlds that are, at once, both incredibly familiar and painfully foreign.
Timewasters was created and written by...
- 5/24/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Absolutely Fabulous and Paddington actress Joanna Lumley is to feature in a truncated third season of Motherland, the BBC comedy co-created by Emmy-nominated Catastrophe star Sharon Horgan.
Lumley’s role is being kept under wraps, but she is likely to be a popular addition to the Merman and Twofour, which returns later this spring and centers on a hapless group of parents as they juggle their careers with life at the school gates.
Deadline hears that Season 3 will be an episode shorter than the usual run of six installments. One source suggested that this is due to filming changes relating to the coronavirus pandemic, though it is understood that Merman counts last December’s Christmas special as being part of the new season.
Motherland’s cast includes Anna Maxwell Martin, Diane Morgan, Lucy Punch, Paul Ready, Philippa Dunne, and Tanya Moodie. It is written by Horgan, Holly Walsh, Helen Serafinowicz,...
Lumley’s role is being kept under wraps, but she is likely to be a popular addition to the Merman and Twofour, which returns later this spring and centers on a hapless group of parents as they juggle their careers with life at the school gates.
Deadline hears that Season 3 will be an episode shorter than the usual run of six installments. One source suggested that this is due to filming changes relating to the coronavirus pandemic, though it is understood that Merman counts last December’s Christmas special as being part of the new season.
Motherland’s cast includes Anna Maxwell Martin, Diane Morgan, Lucy Punch, Paul Ready, Philippa Dunne, and Tanya Moodie. It is written by Horgan, Holly Walsh, Helen Serafinowicz,...
- 3/31/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Sharon Horgan’s Merman Teams With Paul Feig, Lionsgate To Remake BBC Comedy ‘Motherland’ In The U.S.
Sharon Horgan and Clelia Mountford’s British production company Merman is teaming with Paul Feig and Lionsgate to remake the popular BBC Two comedy Motherland for an American audience.
The project is in the early stages of development and has attached Grace and Frankie and United We Fall writer Julieanne Smolinski. Bridesmaids director Feig, who has a first-look deal with Lionsgate, is involved through his Feigco Entertainment outfit.
Motherland has run for two seasons on the BBC, with a third on the way. It follows a group of London parents navigating the trials and traumas of juggling careers and childcare. The cast includes Anna Maxwell Martin, Diane Morgan, Lucy Punch, Paul Ready, Philippa Dunne, and Tanya Moodie.
It hails from Merman and Delightful Industries. The series is written by Horgan (Catastrophe), Holly Walsh (Dead Boss), Helen Linehan, and Barunka O’Shaughnessy (Lethal). Executive Producers for Merman are Mountford and Horgan, with...
The project is in the early stages of development and has attached Grace and Frankie and United We Fall writer Julieanne Smolinski. Bridesmaids director Feig, who has a first-look deal with Lionsgate, is involved through his Feigco Entertainment outfit.
Motherland has run for two seasons on the BBC, with a third on the way. It follows a group of London parents navigating the trials and traumas of juggling careers and childcare. The cast includes Anna Maxwell Martin, Diane Morgan, Lucy Punch, Paul Ready, Philippa Dunne, and Tanya Moodie.
It hails from Merman and Delightful Industries. The series is written by Horgan (Catastrophe), Holly Walsh (Dead Boss), Helen Linehan, and Barunka O’Shaughnessy (Lethal). Executive Producers for Merman are Mountford and Horgan, with...
- 3/25/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
In today’s Global Bulletin, WarnerMedia appoints Vanessa Brookman as head of kids for Emea, Discovery commissions two new unscripted series while Channel 5 gets a pair of dramas and the Göteborg Film Festival selects “Tove” as its opening film.
Appointment
WarnerMedia has announced that Vanessa Brookman will be promoted to the newly created position of head of kids for Emea, effective immediately.
The move brings, for the first time, all WarnerMedia’s operational, editorial and creative responsibilities for kids’ content and channel brands in the region under a single remit. The consolidated portfolio includes Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Boing and Cartoonito as well as digital properties on third-party and WarnerMedia streaming platforms.
Brookman will collaborate closely with Johannes Larcher and Christina Sulebakk at HBO Max to improve the platform’s offerings for kids before it launches across Emea markets.
A near-six-year vet at WarnerMedia, Brookman has worked in senior content,...
Appointment
WarnerMedia has announced that Vanessa Brookman will be promoted to the newly created position of head of kids for Emea, effective immediately.
The move brings, for the first time, all WarnerMedia’s operational, editorial and creative responsibilities for kids’ content and channel brands in the region under a single remit. The consolidated portfolio includes Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Boing and Cartoonito as well as digital properties on third-party and WarnerMedia streaming platforms.
Brookman will collaborate closely with Johannes Larcher and Christina Sulebakk at HBO Max to improve the platform’s offerings for kids before it launches across Emea markets.
A near-six-year vet at WarnerMedia, Brookman has worked in senior content,...
- 12/11/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
UK Indie Pic Sets Cast
Exclusive: Crissy Rock, Paul Barber and Kayleigh-Paige Rees will lead the cast of UK indie movie Kate & Jake. The pic is being helmed by Jack McLoughlin, his feature debut, and is based on the filmmaker’s own experiences of love and loss. It is privately funded and will shoot in the UK from January. Rees, known for her role in ITV drama Sanditon, is producing the project through her banner Raspberry Films alongside Thomas Griffiths, with Debbie Honeywood as executive producer. Rock is most recognized for her role as Maggie Conlan in the 1994 film Ladybird and is also a stand-up comedian and author. Barber is known for playing Denzil in Only Fools And Horses as well as his role as Horse in The Full Monty.
WarnerMedia Appoints Head Of Kids Emea
WarnerMedia has appointed Vanessa Brookman to the new role of Head of Kids Emea.
Exclusive: Crissy Rock, Paul Barber and Kayleigh-Paige Rees will lead the cast of UK indie movie Kate & Jake. The pic is being helmed by Jack McLoughlin, his feature debut, and is based on the filmmaker’s own experiences of love and loss. It is privately funded and will shoot in the UK from January. Rees, known for her role in ITV drama Sanditon, is producing the project through her banner Raspberry Films alongside Thomas Griffiths, with Debbie Honeywood as executive producer. Rock is most recognized for her role as Maggie Conlan in the 1994 film Ladybird and is also a stand-up comedian and author. Barber is known for playing Denzil in Only Fools And Horses as well as his role as Horse in The Full Monty.
WarnerMedia Appoints Head Of Kids Emea
WarnerMedia has appointed Vanessa Brookman to the new role of Head of Kids Emea.
- 12/11/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Jessica Hynes comedy Up the Women will not return for a third series.
The BBC has confirmed that it has called time on the suffragette sitcom in order to work on new comedy projects, the Radio Times reports.
A BBC spokesperson commented: "After two great series, sadly there won't be any more Up the Women on BBC Two as the channel looks to bring new comedy shows through.
"Huge thanks to the incredibly talented Jessica Hynes, and all involved in the making of the show."
Vicki Pepperdine, Adrian Scarborough and Judy Parfitt also starred in the series, which was co-written by Hynes, Morwenna Banks and Barunka O'Shaughnessy.
Up the Women - which focused on activist Margaret (Hynes) - originally launched on BBC Four, before transferring to BBC Two for its second run.
The BBC has confirmed that it has called time on the suffragette sitcom in order to work on new comedy projects, the Radio Times reports.
A BBC spokesperson commented: "After two great series, sadly there won't be any more Up the Women on BBC Two as the channel looks to bring new comedy shows through.
"Huge thanks to the incredibly talented Jessica Hynes, and all involved in the making of the show."
Vicki Pepperdine, Adrian Scarborough and Judy Parfitt also starred in the series, which was co-written by Hynes, Morwenna Banks and Barunka O'Shaughnessy.
Up the Women - which focused on activist Margaret (Hynes) - originally launched on BBC Four, before transferring to BBC Two for its second run.
- 3/31/2015
- Digital Spy
Julia Davis is famous for creating some of the most uncomfortably bleak comedies of recent times. Now the star of Nighty Night is turning her dark powers to period drama in her new series Hunderby
The writer and performer Julia Davis is too good-natured to show it much, but she's plainly exasperated by descriptions of her work as "bleak" or "dark". They make it sound as if she's deliberately trying to be edgy, and this doesn't chime with her sense of herself. She enjoys watching old episodes of Friends, she insists; she's partial to 1980s movies and upbeat self-help books, and when she writes, she just writes what comes naturally. "I would never say, ooh, let's do something really dark," she says. Yet she is responsible for what are, without doubt, some of the most unsettling characters in contemporary comedy: smiling suburban sociopaths; meddlesome cold-eyed narcissists; horrifyingly mistreated spouses whose...
The writer and performer Julia Davis is too good-natured to show it much, but she's plainly exasperated by descriptions of her work as "bleak" or "dark". They make it sound as if she's deliberately trying to be edgy, and this doesn't chime with her sense of herself. She enjoys watching old episodes of Friends, she insists; she's partial to 1980s movies and upbeat self-help books, and when she writes, she just writes what comes naturally. "I would never say, ooh, let's do something really dark," she says. Yet she is responsible for what are, without doubt, some of the most unsettling characters in contemporary comedy: smiling suburban sociopaths; meddlesome cold-eyed narcissists; horrifyingly mistreated spouses whose...
- 8/10/2012
- by Oliver Burkeman
- The Guardian - Film News
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