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Trailer For Richard Curtis’ About Time Will Have You Trying To Buy Tickets
15 May 2013 3:06 PM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »
Some films come with their audiences already owning tickets, and Richard Curtis’ upcoming About Time is one of them. Just connecting Love Actually to the film is all you need, but then throw in Bill Nighy being endearing, and add the charm of Domhnall Gleeson, who seems to have been born from Curtis’ imagination, and this film is an absolute lock. At least, it looks that way from the trailer.
You think you can keep yourself from falling for this one, especially because “time travel” is featured prominently, but just give in now.
At the age of 21, Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) discovers he can travel in time…
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim’s father (Bill Nighy) tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can’t change history, but he can change what happens and »
- Marc Eastman
TV BAFTAs 2013 preview: The shows and stars that should win on Sunday
10 May 2013 5:26 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - TV news news »
The TV BAFTAs are back this Sunday (May 12) and we're jolly excited. The BAFTAs are the closest that Britain has to its own Emmys, allowing our TV talent to put on their best suits and glad rags and slap each other on the back for a couple of hours.
Graham Norton blends a sharp wit with professionalism as the host, the nominations shortlist pulls off the tricky balance of populist choices with critics' favourites and, most importantly of all, Ant & Dec don't win every single year.
The TV BAFTAs may not always get it right (Towie? Really!), but they take TV seriously and even if they are occasionally a bit stuffy or they get it wrong with a winner, it still gives us a chance to all have a right good row ("So and so was robbed!" "How did that win?!") while sat on our sofas at home.
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U.K. Regulator Probing Rowan Atkinson Sketch on BBC
23 April 2013 2:02 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
London - U.K. broadcast regulator Ofcom is investigating a Rowan Atkinson sketch aired on the BBC after more than 2,200 viewer complaints. Video: 'Mr Bean' Star Rowan Atkinson Wrecks Million Dollar McLaren F1 Supercar, Walks Away The sketch was part of last month's annual Comic Relief special that raises money for poor and disadvantaged people across the U.K. and Africa. Atkinson, best known for his "Mr. Bean" character, portrayed a fictional version of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the sketch. He compared boy band One Direction to Jesus' disciples and said praying "doesn't work." The character
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- Georg Szalai
Jim Carrey takes aim at NRA – and Rowan Atkinson's brother isn't amused
26 March 2013 10:06 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Elsewhere in comedy this week: John Cleese targets BBC comedy chiefs, Tina Fey resurrects her Sarah Palin impression and Peter Kay's new sitcom gears up for an iPlayer premiere
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Comedians are picking fights this week. Here's Jim Carrey versus the National Rifle Association, in the form of a Funny or Die? video that's got danders up in the Us. It sees Carrey team up with the band Eels on a comic country-and-western number, Cold Dead Hand, mocking Charlton Heston and Us gun-lovers. Backed by a band including John Lennon, Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln (all killed by guns), Carrey's alter ego Lonesome Earl accuses gun enthusiasts of having small penises, and sings: "On the ones who sell the guns/ [God would] set the vultures and coyotes/ Only the devil's true devotees/ Could profiteer from pain and fear." Carrey announced »
- Brian Logan
Jim Carrey takes aim at NRA – and Rowan Atkinson's brother isn't amused
26 March 2013 10:06 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
Elsewhere in comedy this week: John Cleese targets BBC comedy chiefs, Tina Fey resurrects her Sarah Palin impression and Peter Kay's new sitcom gears up for an iPlayer premiere
Reading this on mobile? Click here to watch video
This week's comedy news
Comedians are picking fights this week. Here's Jim Carrey versus the National Rifle Association, in the form of a Funny or Die? video that's got danders up in the Us. It sees Carrey team up with the band Eels on a comic country-and-western number, Cold Dead Hand, mocking Charlton Heston and Us gun-lovers. Backed by a band including John Lennon, Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln (all killed by guns), Carrey's alter ego Lonesome Earl accuses gun enthusiasts of having small penises, and sings: "On the ones who sell the guns/ [God would] set the vultures and coyotes/ Only the devil's true devotees/ Could profiteer from pain and fear." Carrey announced »
- Brian Logan
Rowan Atkinson Comic Relief sketch gets over 2,200 complaints to BBC
20 March 2013 2:09 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - TV news news »
A Comic Relief sketch featuring Rowan Atkinson impersonating the Archbishop of Canterbury has attracted more than 2,000 complaints.
Before the 9pm watershed on March 15, the Mr Bean star posed as a fictional version of the religious leader during a three-minute skit on BBC One.
He made a number of jokes, including comparing One Direction to Jesus's disciples, saying prayer "doesn't work" and advising viewers that Jesus said "love your neighbours", but not "shag your neighbours".
The BBC received over 2,200 complaints about the routine, with a quarter objecting to the religious context. The corporation has already removed the skit from catch up service iPlayer.
In total, the BBC got more than 3,000 complaints about the Comic Relief charity fundraising night of programming, which drew a peak audience of 12.2m people and raised over £75 million for good causes.
Red Nose Day 2013 - photo gallery:Other complaints related to a sketch involving the popular BBC One series Call the Midwife, »
Comedy gold – Rowan Atkinson Live
28 February 2013 8:26 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
These early sketches may feel outdated but their irresistible skill and silliness will have you sniggering like a schoolchild
Title: Live
Year: 1991
The set-up: I doubt that Rowan Atkinson has ever called himself a standup comic. When he started out in comedy in the 70s, although he toured for a time (with Angus Deayton as his straight man), what he was practising was revue – that daft sketch tradition, very Oxbridge in origin and style, which gave us Beyond the Fringe, Monty Python, Not the Nine O'Clock News and The Day Today. Revue is now basically a corpse outside universities, though it still twitches entertainingly in troupes such as Pappy's.
And when you watch this 1991 re-recording of some of Atkinson's early sketches, co-written with Ben Elton and Richard Curtis and performed with Deayton, they do look old-fashioned. We've lost the habit of watching comics acting playlets – as the waiter in a Tandoori restaurant, »
- Leo Benedictus
Waiting in the wings: when off-stage characters take over
28 January 2013 9:06 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From Simon Gray to Alan Ayckbourn, many playwrights have kept their most interesting roles out of sight – but very much in mind
Rowan Atkinson dominates the posters for a West End production opening this week – a wise calculation that the chance to see on stage the comedian internationally famous as Mr Bean is a major selling point. But another attraction of Quartermaine's Terms, in which Atkinson plays the title role of a baffled bachelor teacher, is the fact that other parts in the play require no actors at all.
The 1981 drama by the late Simon Gray is one of the strongest examples in modern theatre of the use of off-stage characters. Set in an English-language school for foreign students in Cambridge in the 1960s, the script calls for seven members of staff – including, in addition to Quartermaine, fussy principal Eddie Loomis, bluff senior tutor Henry Windscape and elementary conversation teacher Anita Manchip. »
- Mark Lawson
Jodie Foster speech: Cydney Bernard is her former romantic partner
14 January 2013 5:22 AM, PST | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
Actress and director Jodie Foster was awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at Sunday's (Jan. 13) Golden Globes ceremony. In her emotional speech, Foster basically came out of the closet for the first time publicly and also thanked her partner and mother to her two sons Charlie and Kit, Cydney Bernard.
Related: Best & Worst of the Golden Globes
Cydney Bernard is a producer whom Foster met on the set of "Sommersby" in 1993, where Bernard was working as a production coordinator. Other credits to her name include "L.A. Story," "The Client," "Bean" and episodes of "The L Word" and "Off the Map."
Related: Celebrities who are out of the closet
While Foster announced in the speech that she is single, which we take to mean that she and Bernard are no longer together romantically, they are sure to still be in other's lives, as they have always been the co-parents of their two sons, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
50 Greatest British TV Comedy Characters Of All Time
7 January 2013 3:18 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
British comedy may not be in quite as healthy a position as it used to be, but for good reason classic shows like Fawlty Towers, Only Fools & Horses and Rising Damp are still counted as among the best British TV products of all time, while relatively newer shows like The Inbetweeners, The Office and Shameless have inspired Us spin-offs. The success of the shows relies on the strength of their writing and even more so the appeal of their characters – they are the charismatic anchors who inspire audiences to return, with eminently quotable catch-phrases and immediately recognisable quirks.
As a lifelong lover of British comedy, I’ve created a list of 50 characters (no more than one per show) representing what I feel to be the best of the genre. So without further ado, I present in alphabetical order The 50 Greatest Fictional UK TV Comedy Characters of All Time.
1. Sir Humphrey Appleby – Yes, »
- Laurence Gardner
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