Nine year old identical twins, Nelly and Gwen Currant, from Hertfordshire have been chosen to play the roles of twin characters Toni and Billie in the new series of the popular children’s drama The Dumping Ground, which starts filming this week.
Nelly and Gwen applied via an open casting process which ran earlier this year. The twins applied via the Cbbc website and sent in an audition film before coming to BBC MediaCity for a live audition. They impressed the casting team with their natural acting style, energy and the clear bond that they had with each other.
Lis Steele, Executive Producer on The Dumping Ground, says: "Casting nine year old identical twins was set to be an incredible challenge but we were bowled over by the range and quality of auditions. Despite being newcomers to acting, Nelly and Gwen showed naturalness, a sense of fun and a terrific understanding of the show's storytelling.
Nelly and Gwen applied via an open casting process which ran earlier this year. The twins applied via the Cbbc website and sent in an audition film before coming to BBC MediaCity for a live audition. They impressed the casting team with their natural acting style, energy and the clear bond that they had with each other.
Lis Steele, Executive Producer on The Dumping Ground, says: "Casting nine year old identical twins was set to be an incredible challenge but we were bowled over by the range and quality of auditions. Despite being newcomers to acting, Nelly and Gwen showed naturalness, a sense of fun and a terrific understanding of the show's storytelling.
- 6/18/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Two new faces join Cbbc's The Dumping Ground, the sequel to the multi-award-winning Cbbc dramas The Story Of Tracy Beaker and Tracy Beaker Returns, as it returns for a second series this January.
16 year old Kasey McKellar (represented by D&B Management) plays newcomer Bailey. Kasey recently appeared in Top Boy 2 playing R'Marni. And Stacy Liu joins the cast as new carer May Li.
The new series will consist of 13 new 30-minute episodes plus 10 exclusive three-minute webisodes which will run parallel to the stories broadcast on the channel.
The webisodes will feature an exclusive storyline which will run online for 10 weeks, culminating in a cliff-hanger which will be resolved in the last episode of the TV broadcast as both the online and TV stories merge for the series finale.
The new series follows more of the dilemmas, dramas, friendships and challenges faced by young people in care, and stars Connor Byrne...
16 year old Kasey McKellar (represented by D&B Management) plays newcomer Bailey. Kasey recently appeared in Top Boy 2 playing R'Marni. And Stacy Liu joins the cast as new carer May Li.
The new series will consist of 13 new 30-minute episodes plus 10 exclusive three-minute webisodes which will run parallel to the stories broadcast on the channel.
The webisodes will feature an exclusive storyline which will run online for 10 weeks, culminating in a cliff-hanger which will be resolved in the last episode of the TV broadcast as both the online and TV stories merge for the series finale.
The new series follows more of the dilemmas, dramas, friendships and challenges faced by young people in care, and stars Connor Byrne...
- 11/18/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Last night I suffered through Miranda, starring Miranda Hart. The laugh-a-minute fun-extravaganza is Miranda’s second series on BBC1 and follows the trials and tribulations of her extremely odd everyday life. Last night’s episode, entitled New Low, saw Miranda trying to compete with her friend Stevie (Sarah Hadland) in keeping up with their new ’20 something’ friend Tamara (Stacy Liu), who is young and trendy. Cue a lot of jokes about being mid 30s and going clubbing/staying awake/wanting to go to bed early. None of which made me laugh, but most made me cringe. One or two made me want to weep openly.
The episode also had Miranda’s Mother (Patricia Hodge), who is obviously knocking around the 60 mark, deciding she needs a mobile phone so she can receive saucy texts from Miranda’s Father. Cue a boatload of jokes about old people not getting technology, which quite...
The episode also had Miranda’s Mother (Patricia Hodge), who is obviously knocking around the 60 mark, deciding she needs a mobile phone so she can receive saucy texts from Miranda’s Father. Cue a boatload of jokes about old people not getting technology, which quite...
- 8/27/2011
- by D.J. Haza
- Obsessed with Film
After an unreasonable two-year absence, only alleviated by last year’s Halloween special, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s Psychoville finally returns for a second series of black comedy japes and spooky mystery. As a spiritual follow-up to The League Of Gentlemen‘s small-town horror, Psychoville may lack that show’s insidious edge and pervasive atmosphere, but a more ambitious format (fully serialized plotting, wider scope) has helped carve it a complimentary identity. However, it’s still less menacing and moody than The League ever was — being more of a warped carnival of oddities — perhaps signifying that Shearsmith and Pemberton are mellowing in middle-age, or that colleagues Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson were the more macabre half of their comedy troupe.
I found series 1′s finale of Psychoville unsatisfying, primarily because the story deserved a conclusion, but instead creaked as it tardily introduced a supernatural curveball (a magical locket owned...
I found series 1′s finale of Psychoville unsatisfying, primarily because the story deserved a conclusion, but instead creaked as it tardily introduced a supernatural curveball (a magical locket owned...
- 5/5/2011
- by Dan Owen
- Obsessed with Film
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