Eve Best and Stockard Channing are adding more star quality to the cast of Suranne Jones’ upcoming three-part Itvx drama Maryland.
Created by Jones and Trollied creator Anne-Marie O’Connor, Maryland focuses on the relationship between two sisters, down-to-earth mother of two Becca (Jones) and disciplined high-flyer Rosaline (Best) who have been driven apart by complex family dynamics.
They travel to the Isle of Man to repatriate the body of their mother, Mary, leaving their father Richard at home in Manchester. Confined on the island, they discover shocking information about their mother and find it impossible to escape the ripple effect of her secrets and lies.
Best is currently enjoying strong reviews for her role as dragon rider Rhaenys Targaryen in HBO’s House of the Dragon.
Becca...
Created by Jones and Trollied creator Anne-Marie O’Connor, Maryland focuses on the relationship between two sisters, down-to-earth mother of two Becca (Jones) and disciplined high-flyer Rosaline (Best) who have been driven apart by complex family dynamics.
They travel to the Isle of Man to repatriate the body of their mother, Mary, leaving their father Richard at home in Manchester. Confined on the island, they discover shocking information about their mother and find it impossible to escape the ripple effect of her secrets and lies.
Best is currently enjoying strong reviews for her role as dragon rider Rhaenys Targaryen in HBO’s House of the Dragon.
Becca...
- 10/18/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Comcast-owned Sky is working on its first series with Shameless creator Paul Abbott — a crime drama titled Wolfe, which will feature Guerrilla and Rogue One actor Babou Ceesay as a brilliant but flawed forensic pathologist.
The six-part AbbottVision series, which will be officially announced on Monday as part of a slate of Sky originals, is written by a team led by Abbott and will co-star Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Natalia Tena (Harry Potter), Naomi Yang (Poisonings), Adam Long (Vera), and Shaniqua Okwok (Small Axe).
Ceesay leads the crime-of-the-week series as Professor Wolfe Kinteh, the finest crime scene investigator in the north of England. He is a mercurial genius when it comes to piecing together evidence, but is prone to being a liability and has been kicked out of his family home by his wife, Val (Tena).
Wolfe is propped up by a team that includes child prodigy Maggy (Yang...
The six-part AbbottVision series, which will be officially announced on Monday as part of a slate of Sky originals, is written by a team led by Abbott and will co-star Amanda Abbington (Sherlock), Natalia Tena (Harry Potter), Naomi Yang (Poisonings), Adam Long (Vera), and Shaniqua Okwok (Small Axe).
Ceesay leads the crime-of-the-week series as Professor Wolfe Kinteh, the finest crime scene investigator in the north of England. He is a mercurial genius when it comes to piecing together evidence, but is prone to being a liability and has been kicked out of his family home by his wife, Val (Tena).
Wolfe is propped up by a team that includes child prodigy Maggy (Yang...
- 1/24/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Game of Thrones star Will Tudor is to star in a one-off drama about British skating legends Torvill and Dean.
The actor, who starred as Olyvar in the HBO series between seasons three and five, will play Christopher Dean, alongside Ackley Bridge and Eve star Poppy Lee Friar as Jayne Torvill in the two-hour single film.
Torvill and Dean is written by Made In Dagenham and Burton and Taylor writer William Ivory and it will tell the story of the skating partnership from personal and professional angles. Ivory has spent hours interviewing the pair ahead of the series, which is produced by Endemol Shine-owned indie Darlow Smithson.
Jaime Winstone (Donkey Punch) also stars alongside Anita Dobson (Call The Midwife), Stephen Tompkinson (The Split), Jo Hartley (This Is England ’90), Dean Andrews (Last Tango in Halifax), Christine Bottomley (Cucumber) and Susan Earl (So Awkward).
It is produced by Emma Burge (Shameless...
The actor, who starred as Olyvar in the HBO series between seasons three and five, will play Christopher Dean, alongside Ackley Bridge and Eve star Poppy Lee Friar as Jayne Torvill in the two-hour single film.
Torvill and Dean is written by Made In Dagenham and Burton and Taylor writer William Ivory and it will tell the story of the skating partnership from personal and professional angles. Ivory has spent hours interviewing the pair ahead of the series, which is produced by Endemol Shine-owned indie Darlow Smithson.
Jaime Winstone (Donkey Punch) also stars alongside Anita Dobson (Call The Midwife), Stephen Tompkinson (The Split), Jo Hartley (This Is England ’90), Dean Andrews (Last Tango in Halifax), Christine Bottomley (Cucumber) and Susan Earl (So Awkward).
It is produced by Emma Burge (Shameless...
- 7/24/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Comedian and actor best known for the satirical television show Bremner, Bird and Fortune
John Fortune, who has died aged 74 after a long illness, was a distinguished member of the Oxbridge generation of brainy comedians who turned British entertainment inside out in the early 1960s, along with his friend, college contemporary and writing partner, John Bird, as well as Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett, David Frost, Eleanor Bron and John Wells.
From his earliest days on Ned Sherrin's Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, the successor in 1964-65 to the satirical television magazine That Was the Week That Was, through to the comedy shows with Rory Bremner in the 1990s and beyond, he was a fixture of barely surprised indifference, with a wonderful line in deflationary, logical understatement. Tall and gangly, with a warm and ready smile but a performance default mode of aghast,...
John Fortune, who has died aged 74 after a long illness, was a distinguished member of the Oxbridge generation of brainy comedians who turned British entertainment inside out in the early 1960s, along with his friend, college contemporary and writing partner, John Bird, as well as Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett, David Frost, Eleanor Bron and John Wells.
From his earliest days on Ned Sherrin's Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, the successor in 1964-65 to the satirical television magazine That Was the Week That Was, through to the comedy shows with Rory Bremner in the 1990s and beyond, he was a fixture of barely surprised indifference, with a wonderful line in deflationary, logical understatement. Tall and gangly, with a warm and ready smile but a performance default mode of aghast,...
- 1/2/2014
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
James McAvoy and Anne-Marie Duff are Britain's new golden acting couple, tackling everything from classical theatres to action movies. But they are reluctant stars who are happy to live out of the limelight
Standards have been set when it comes to golden couples of stage and screen. Half a century ago, when Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton met on the set of Cleopatra, then the most expensive movie ever made, the powerful personal chemistry was immediately clear. In consequence, the love of the two British-born stars is now almost as fabled as the story of Antony and Cleopatra itself.
Since the 1960s there have been occasional challenges, one from Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, perhaps, for the title of Britain's premiere theatrical partners. But quietly, even reluctantly, since they do not desire it, a talented new pairing has staked a claim: Anne-Marie Duff and her husband James McAvoy.
Their screen...
Standards have been set when it comes to golden couples of stage and screen. Half a century ago, when Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton met on the set of Cleopatra, then the most expensive movie ever made, the powerful personal chemistry was immediately clear. In consequence, the love of the two British-born stars is now almost as fabled as the story of Antony and Cleopatra itself.
Since the 1960s there have been occasional challenges, one from Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, perhaps, for the title of Britain's premiere theatrical partners. But quietly, even reluctantly, since they do not desire it, a talented new pairing has staked a claim: Anne-Marie Duff and her husband James McAvoy.
Their screen...
- 3/17/2013
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
It's a daunting challenge for an actor to play a character who is considered to be a consummate salesman, the kind of guy who can sell you the shirt on your back and make you smile while he's doing it.
Stephen Rea, playing the title role of a small-time huckster, has that assignment in the new film by Irish director Gillies Mackinnon ("The Playboys", "Small Faces"), and he lives up to it beautifully. As his employer and ultimate nemesis, Richard Harris uses his distinctive voice and authority to equally good effect. Would that the film itself were so compelling.
Trojan Eddie (Rea) makes his living working for John Power (Harris), the leader of local travelers -- con men -- (their American cousins were recently depicted in the Bill Paxton starrer "Traveller"), and in his spare time he sells assorted goods, whatever he can get his hands on, from the back of his van. A lifelong loser, Eddie has been in jail for a botched robbery attempt, and his marriage is on the rocks -- although his ex-wife does show up periodically to crash on his couch. Struggling to raise his two young daughters alone, he takes his relationship with the loving Betty (Brid Brennan) for granted.
Eddie's real troubles begin when Power becomes obsessed with Kathleen (Aislin McGuckin), a much younger traveler, and asks her to marry him. She accepts, even though she is also secretly seeing Power's young nephew, Dermot (Stuart Townsend). Immediately after the wedding, the duplicitous pair skip out with the large cash dowry, and Power dispatches his thugs to track them down. Eddie becomes caught in the middle, torn between his fear of Power and his desire to partake in some of that dowry money.
There are inevitably violent and tragic results, but Eddie manages to have one last laugh at his former employer.
The very Irish-flavored screenplay by Billy Roche contains two memorable lead characters, but it is also diffuse and meandering, and the scenes never quite carry either the comic or dramatic intensity they should. The film seems to shift uncomfortably between violent melodrama and gentle humor, and the exceedingly mild results don't bode well for U.S. boxoffice, despite the presence of the two stars. Rea is at his charming, hangdog best here, though, and Harris, who has been on a cinematic roll in recent years, is equally fine.
TROJAN EDDIE
Castle Hill Prods.
Director Gillies Mackinnon
Producer Emma Burge
Co-producer Seamus Byrne
Screenplay Billy Roche
Executive producers Rod Stoneman,
Alan J. Wands, Kevin Menton, Nigel Warren Green
Director of photography John deBorman
Editor Scott Thomas
Music John Keane
Color/stereo
Cast:
Trojan Eddie Stephen Rea
John Power Richard Harris
Dermot Stuart Townsend
Kathleen Aislin McGuckin
Ginger Brendan Gleeson
Betty Brid Brennan
Raymie Sean McGinley
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Stephen Rea, playing the title role of a small-time huckster, has that assignment in the new film by Irish director Gillies Mackinnon ("The Playboys", "Small Faces"), and he lives up to it beautifully. As his employer and ultimate nemesis, Richard Harris uses his distinctive voice and authority to equally good effect. Would that the film itself were so compelling.
Trojan Eddie (Rea) makes his living working for John Power (Harris), the leader of local travelers -- con men -- (their American cousins were recently depicted in the Bill Paxton starrer "Traveller"), and in his spare time he sells assorted goods, whatever he can get his hands on, from the back of his van. A lifelong loser, Eddie has been in jail for a botched robbery attempt, and his marriage is on the rocks -- although his ex-wife does show up periodically to crash on his couch. Struggling to raise his two young daughters alone, he takes his relationship with the loving Betty (Brid Brennan) for granted.
Eddie's real troubles begin when Power becomes obsessed with Kathleen (Aislin McGuckin), a much younger traveler, and asks her to marry him. She accepts, even though she is also secretly seeing Power's young nephew, Dermot (Stuart Townsend). Immediately after the wedding, the duplicitous pair skip out with the large cash dowry, and Power dispatches his thugs to track them down. Eddie becomes caught in the middle, torn between his fear of Power and his desire to partake in some of that dowry money.
There are inevitably violent and tragic results, but Eddie manages to have one last laugh at his former employer.
The very Irish-flavored screenplay by Billy Roche contains two memorable lead characters, but it is also diffuse and meandering, and the scenes never quite carry either the comic or dramatic intensity they should. The film seems to shift uncomfortably between violent melodrama and gentle humor, and the exceedingly mild results don't bode well for U.S. boxoffice, despite the presence of the two stars. Rea is at his charming, hangdog best here, though, and Harris, who has been on a cinematic roll in recent years, is equally fine.
TROJAN EDDIE
Castle Hill Prods.
Director Gillies Mackinnon
Producer Emma Burge
Co-producer Seamus Byrne
Screenplay Billy Roche
Executive producers Rod Stoneman,
Alan J. Wands, Kevin Menton, Nigel Warren Green
Director of photography John deBorman
Editor Scott Thomas
Music John Keane
Color/stereo
Cast:
Trojan Eddie Stephen Rea
John Power Richard Harris
Dermot Stuart Townsend
Kathleen Aislin McGuckin
Ginger Brendan Gleeson
Betty Brid Brennan
Raymie Sean McGinley
Running time -- 105 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 8/28/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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