Cast your minds back to 2002 - a time when Pop Idols didn't need to have The X Factor, Fifty Shades of Grey were just colours on a paint sampler chart and David Beckham was a mere international superstar rather than global megastar.
Bend It Like Beckham, with a modest estimated budget of £3.7 million, opened that same year and became a critical and commercial success - breaking box office records and scoring BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations, as well as making household names of many of its stars.
As the cast continues preparing for the West End stage adaptation of Gurinder Chadha's screen hit ahead of previews on May 15, find out what the movie's ensemble cast went on to achieve - including who is coming back for the musical...
Parminder Nagra (Jess Bhamra)
Nominated for Best Newcomer at the Empire Awards on the back of the movie's success, Parminder went...
Bend It Like Beckham, with a modest estimated budget of £3.7 million, opened that same year and became a critical and commercial success - breaking box office records and scoring BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations, as well as making household names of many of its stars.
As the cast continues preparing for the West End stage adaptation of Gurinder Chadha's screen hit ahead of previews on May 15, find out what the movie's ensemble cast went on to achieve - including who is coming back for the musical...
Parminder Nagra (Jess Bhamra)
Nominated for Best Newcomer at the Empire Awards on the back of the movie's success, Parminder went...
- 3/22/2015
- Digital Spy
As a genre in television, the sitcom is in a nice little rut: it’s main concern is families with bumbling dads and mouthy teenage kids, or wacky antics in an office somewhere. But some sitcoms are altogether more bizarre. On the one hand we’ve got sitcoms that deliberately try to break away from sitcom conventions with different settings and characters like Red Dwarf. On the other hand, there are some sitcoms that miss the target of being unconventional by a wide margin and just end up looking… stupid. Here are 10 ridiculous sitcoms you won’t believe ever got made.
10. All About Me (BBC One, 2002 – 2004)
What’s It About?
The domestic lives of Colin Craddock (Jasper Carrott) and his second wife Rupinder (Meera Syal in Series One and Nina Wadia in Series Two and Three).
Why Is It So Ridiculous?
I know I’m running the risk of being...
10. All About Me (BBC One, 2002 – 2004)
What’s It About?
The domestic lives of Colin Craddock (Jasper Carrott) and his second wife Rupinder (Meera Syal in Series One and Nina Wadia in Series Two and Three).
Why Is It So Ridiculous?
I know I’m running the risk of being...
- 1/9/2013
- by James T. Cornish
- Obsessed with Film
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