The sun is shining, the stars have made their way down the red carpet and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ (BAFTA) Television Awards is underway at the Royal Festival Hall in London, U.K.
The event – the first time it has taken place in person in three years due to the Covid pandemic – is being hosted by comedian and director Richard Ayoade (“The It Crowd”).
Among those nominated for a gong tonight are songstress “An Audience With Adele,” for best entertainment program, Rose Matafeo is nominated for best female performance in a comedy for “Starstruck” while Olly Alexander is nominated for leading actor for “It’s A Sin.”
Meanwhile the contenders for best international series will be one of the most fraught with some of the past year’s most talked-about series – including “Call My Agent,” “Mare of Easttown,” “Squid Games” and “Succession – up for an award.
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The event – the first time it has taken place in person in three years due to the Covid pandemic – is being hosted by comedian and director Richard Ayoade (“The It Crowd”).
Among those nominated for a gong tonight are songstress “An Audience With Adele,” for best entertainment program, Rose Matafeo is nominated for best female performance in a comedy for “Starstruck” while Olly Alexander is nominated for leading actor for “It’s A Sin.”
Meanwhile the contenders for best international series will be one of the most fraught with some of the past year’s most talked-about series – including “Call My Agent,” “Mare of Easttown,” “Squid Games” and “Succession – up for an award.
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- 5/8/2022
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
‘Landscapers’ earned seven nominations, whilst Help and ’Time’ received six.
Russel T Davies’ It’s A Sin leads the nominations for this year’s Bafta Television and Bafta Craft awards.
The drama, produced by Red Production Company for UK broadcaster Channel 4, earned 11 nominations, including mini-series, leading actor for Olly Alexander, actress for Lydia West, director: fiction for Peter Hoar, writer: drama for Davies and three supporting actor nods for Callum Scott Howells, David Carlyle and Omari Douglas.
Drama Landscapers, produced by Sister for Sky Atlantic, earned seven nominations including mini-series and leading actor for David Thewlis.
Jack Thorne’s...
Russel T Davies’ It’s A Sin leads the nominations for this year’s Bafta Television and Bafta Craft awards.
The drama, produced by Red Production Company for UK broadcaster Channel 4, earned 11 nominations, including mini-series, leading actor for Olly Alexander, actress for Lydia West, director: fiction for Peter Hoar, writer: drama for Davies and three supporting actor nods for Callum Scott Howells, David Carlyle and Omari Douglas.
Drama Landscapers, produced by Sister for Sky Atlantic, earned seven nominations including mini-series and leading actor for David Thewlis.
Jack Thorne’s...
- 3/30/2022
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
‘Landscapers’ earned seven nominations, whilst Help and ’Time’ received six.
Russel T Davies’ It’s A Sin leads the nominations for this year’s Bafta Television and Bafta Craft awards.
The drama, produced by Red Production Company for UK broadcaster Channel 4, earned 11 nominations, including mini-series, leading actor for Olly Alexander, actress for Lydia West, director: fiction for Peter Hoar, writer: drama for Davies and three supporting actor nods for Callum Scott Howells, David Carlyle and Omari Douglas.
Drama Landscapers, produced by Sister for Sky Atlantic, earned seven nominations including mini-series and leading actor for David Thewlis.
Jack Thorne’s...
Russel T Davies’ It’s A Sin leads the nominations for this year’s Bafta Television and Bafta Craft awards.
The drama, produced by Red Production Company for UK broadcaster Channel 4, earned 11 nominations, including mini-series, leading actor for Olly Alexander, actress for Lydia West, director: fiction for Peter Hoar, writer: drama for Davies and three supporting actor nods for Callum Scott Howells, David Carlyle and Omari Douglas.
Drama Landscapers, produced by Sister for Sky Atlantic, earned seven nominations including mini-series and leading actor for David Thewlis.
Jack Thorne’s...
- 3/30/2022
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
The production will be filmed at the Lyttelton Theatre building on London’s South Bank.
The UK’s National Theatre (Nt) is to make its first original film with a screen production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet starring Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley.
The production was first announced last year, intended for stage at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton theatre in London this summer.
That theatrical run was withdrawn due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, the Nt has reimagined it as a 90-minute filmed version, directed by Nt associate Simon Godwin, and adapted for screen by Emily Burns.
The UK’s National Theatre (Nt) is to make its first original film with a screen production of William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet starring Josh O’Connor and Jessie Buckley.
The production was first announced last year, intended for stage at the National Theatre’s Lyttelton theatre in London this summer.
That theatrical run was withdrawn due to the coronavirus pandemic. However, the Nt has reimagined it as a 90-minute filmed version, directed by Nt associate Simon Godwin, and adapted for screen by Emily Burns.
- 10/27/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Josh O’Connor, who plays Prince Charles in season 4 of Netflix’s “The Crown,” and BAFTA winner Jessie Buckley are set to star as Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers in “Romeo & Juliet,” a made-for-television production by the U.K.’s National Theatre.
“Romeo & Juliet” was originally scheduled to play this summer to theater audiences, but was called off due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now re-conceived for the screen, this new 90-minute version will be shot over three weeks in the National Theatre’s Lyttelton theater, which will be temporarily transformed into a studio.
Rehearsals will begin in November and filming in December. The production will bow on PBS in the U.S. and on Sky Arts in the U.K. in 2021.
While the National Theatre has broadcast stage productions to cinemas for over a decade through its popular National Theatre Live program, this will be the first time an original...
“Romeo & Juliet” was originally scheduled to play this summer to theater audiences, but was called off due to the coronavirus pandemic. Now re-conceived for the screen, this new 90-minute version will be shot over three weeks in the National Theatre’s Lyttelton theater, which will be temporarily transformed into a studio.
Rehearsals will begin in November and filming in December. The production will bow on PBS in the U.S. and on Sky Arts in the U.K. in 2021.
While the National Theatre has broadcast stage productions to cinemas for over a decade through its popular National Theatre Live program, this will be the first time an original...
- 10/27/2020
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
An interview with The Handmaid’s Tale author Margaret Atwood will be broadcast globally to more than 1,000 cinemas to mark the Sept. 10 publication of the novel’s long-awaited sequel, The Testaments.
Presented as a live-stream in some venues and tape-delayed in others, Margaret Atwood: Live in Cinemas will originate from London’s National Theatre, where BBC journalist Samira Ahmed will interview the author about her career and her reasons for returning to the Handmaid story after 34 years.
In a statement about the unusual book promotion event, Atwood said, “I am delighted that the launch of The Testaments will take place not only in London on September 10th, but also by live-streaming to over 1,000 cinemas around the world. I can’t be in all the places at once in my analogue body, but I look forward to being with so many readers via the big screen.”
The Handmaid’s Tale was...
Presented as a live-stream in some venues and tape-delayed in others, Margaret Atwood: Live in Cinemas will originate from London’s National Theatre, where BBC journalist Samira Ahmed will interview the author about her career and her reasons for returning to the Handmaid story after 34 years.
In a statement about the unusual book promotion event, Atwood said, “I am delighted that the launch of The Testaments will take place not only in London on September 10th, but also by live-streaming to over 1,000 cinemas around the world. I can’t be in all the places at once in my analogue body, but I look forward to being with so many readers via the big screen.”
The Handmaid’s Tale was...
- 3/7/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The National Theatre’s live cinema screening programme, Nt Live, has no negative impact on England theatres, according to new research.
Innovation foundation Nesta, in partnership with the Audience Agency’s Audience Finder programme, found that theatre attendance was not affected by cinema broadcasts of National Theatre shows. In fact, London theatres saw an increase of 6.4% in attendance in areas near Nt Live screenings.
“Cinema-goers at Nt Live productions are a captive audience for theatres,” said Hasan Bakhshi, director of creative economy at Nesta.
David Sabel, director of broadcast and digital at the National Theatre, said Nt Live, along with the expansion of the theatre’s live touring, are beneficial and have enabled hundreds of thousands of people to experience the theatre’s work.
“We believe that the more great drama people are able to see, the more they are likely to want to go to the theatre,” he said.
These findings...
Innovation foundation Nesta, in partnership with the Audience Agency’s Audience Finder programme, found that theatre attendance was not affected by cinema broadcasts of National Theatre shows. In fact, London theatres saw an increase of 6.4% in attendance in areas near Nt Live screenings.
“Cinema-goers at Nt Live productions are a captive audience for theatres,” said Hasan Bakhshi, director of creative economy at Nesta.
David Sabel, director of broadcast and digital at the National Theatre, said Nt Live, along with the expansion of the theatre’s live touring, are beneficial and have enabled hundreds of thousands of people to experience the theatre’s work.
“We believe that the more great drama people are able to see, the more they are likely to want to go to the theatre,” he said.
These findings...
- 6/25/2014
- ScreenDaily
Theatre’s first film investment is controversial musical about Ipswich murders starring Tom Hardy and Olivia Colman.
The National Theatre has acquired rights to Rufus Norris’ controversial musical London Road, the feature adaptation of its own hit stage play also directed by Norris.
The acquisition marks the first time the theatre has picked up rights to a feature film. The film was also the first invested in at production level by the theatre.
The distribution deal was in place from the early stages of production and agreed between the Nt, BBC Films and producers Cuba Pictures.
The film, written by Alecky Blythe, documents the events of 2006, when the town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Colman and Tom Hardy. Release is due in 2015.
A Cuba Pictures/National Theatre production, London Road is produced by Dixie Linder, and executive produced by Nick Marston, Tally Garner and [link...
The National Theatre has acquired rights to Rufus Norris’ controversial musical London Road, the feature adaptation of its own hit stage play also directed by Norris.
The acquisition marks the first time the theatre has picked up rights to a feature film. The film was also the first invested in at production level by the theatre.
The distribution deal was in place from the early stages of production and agreed between the Nt, BBC Films and producers Cuba Pictures.
The film, written by Alecky Blythe, documents the events of 2006, when the town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Colman and Tom Hardy. Release is due in 2015.
A Cuba Pictures/National Theatre production, London Road is produced by Dixie Linder, and executive produced by Nick Marston, Tally Garner and [link...
- 5/9/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Theatre’s first film investment is controversial musical about Ipswich murders starring Tom Hardy and Olivia Colman.
The National Theatre has acquired rights to Rufus Norris’ controversial musical London Road, the feature adaptation of its own hit stage play also directed by Norris.
The acquisition marks the first time the theatre has picked up rights to a feature film. The film was also the first invested in at production level by the theatre.
The distribution deal was in place from the early stages of production and agreed between the Nt, BBC Films and producers Cuba Pictures.
The film, written by Alecky Blythe, documents the events of 2006, when the town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Colman and Tom Hardy. Release is due in 2015.
A Cuba Pictures/National Theatre production, London Road is produced by Dixie Linder, and executive produced by Nick Marston, Tally Garner and [link...
The National Theatre has acquired rights to Rufus Norris’ controversial musical London Road, the feature adaptation of its own hit stage play also directed by Norris.
The acquisition marks the first time the theatre has picked up rights to a feature film. The film was also the first invested in at production level by the theatre.
The distribution deal was in place from the early stages of production and agreed between the Nt, BBC Films and producers Cuba Pictures.
The film, written by Alecky Blythe, documents the events of 2006, when the town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
The ensemble cast includes Olivia Colman and Tom Hardy. Release is due in 2015.
A Cuba Pictures/National Theatre production, London Road is produced by Dixie Linder, and executive produced by Nick Marston, Tally Garner and [link...
- 5/9/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
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