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
A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending in Newham the set of a new and exciting British production, Twenty8k (2012). Co-directed by David Kew and Neil Thompson, produced by Martin Carr and starring Parminder Nagra, Stephen Dillane, Jonas Armstrong and Kierson Wareing; in a script written by Paul Abbott. It tells the story of a young woman who returns home to East London to defend the name of her brother who has been branded a murderer, but as she seeks to uncover the truth, lies and conspiracy come to the fore with twists aplenty.
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- 6/8/2011
- by Daniel Gumble
- CineVue
BBC's "Robin Hood" star Jonas Armstrong, British acting veteran Stephen Dillane and "Bend it Like Beckham" co-lead Parminder Nagra are teaming for the fast-paced London-set thriller "Twenty8k" for Formosa Films says The Hollywood Reporter.
Nagra plays a fashion executive who returns to London from Paris after her brother lands up in jail after a fatal gang shooting. She then tries to unravel what happened to her brother and becomes immersed in police corruption and gangland danger.
The original "State of Play" writer/creator Paul Abbott co-wrote the script with Jimmy Dowdall. Martin Carr and Neil Thompson are producing.
Nagra plays a fashion executive who returns to London from Paris after her brother lands up in jail after a fatal gang shooting. She then tries to unravel what happened to her brother and becomes immersed in police corruption and gangland danger.
The original "State of Play" writer/creator Paul Abbott co-wrote the script with Jimmy Dowdall. Martin Carr and Neil Thompson are producing.
- 4/21/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
After a walkabout with studio films, Danny Boyle, England's punk cinematic poet from the Midlands, returns to what his producer Martin Carr calls "quick and dirty filmmaking" with two short feature projects commissioned for BBC Two. "Strumpet" and "Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise," made in collaboration with playwright Jim Cartwright, possess the dark humor of "Shallow Grave" and the anarchic energy and surreal spirit of "Trainspotting".
The Toronto festival played the films together in a double bill. Arguably, the pieces are somewhat linked stylistically, yet the pairing makes for a long sit. It also proves damaging to the second feature where the manic energy in Timothy Spall's dazzling, kamikaze performance in "Vacuuming" wears a viewer down after the two-hour mark. In subsequent theatrical venues, each deserves its own separate viewing. The two do make terrific cable and video offerings.
Shooting on digital video, Boyle has freedom of movement and the ability to experiment with grain and colors. From this emerges a bold urban landscape of eccentric personalities romping in post-Thatcher England.
In the fairy tale "Strumpet", Christopher Eccleston plays Strayman, a defiant, reclusive wordsmith who bellows poetry in pubs and collects stray dogs. He comes to the rescue of a shy homeless girl who calls herself Strumpet (Jenna G, a vocalist/MC in Manchester's underground music scene). Together, with her music and his words, they create a strange, raw, compelling music that a neighbor, Knockoff (Stephen Walters) -- a would-be manager with toilet-paper business cards -- believes can take them to the top of the pops. So they head for London and a culture clash with the corporate music world.
"Vacuuming" is "Death of a Salesman 2001". Spall plays Tommy, a foul-mouthed, high-octane and obsessive vacuum salesman totally driven by "the sale." He practically lives in his car, jams "puffa puffa rice" and scotch in his mouth for breakfast and drives like a madman. But he too is a wordsmith, as language emanates from him in torrents of stream-of-conscious prose that floods the ear with strangely rhythmic sounds. He is in a race to collect a salesman-of-the-year award but gets saddled with a meek, bug-eyed trainee (Michael Begley) who would rather be a DJ.
These two films from Boyle and Cartwright act like Dogme films on acid. Each has a freewheeling, spontaneous quality that feeds into the surrealistic events, and each contains moments and lines that lodge in the memory: Strayman's pack of dogs following him on his shopping rounds, a mound of gravel dumped mischievously outside Strayman's door and Tommy barreling through traffic as his own motivational tape on his car stereo screams, "Sell, sell, fuckin' sell".
Most importantly, these two works confirm that Boyle has lost none of his instincts for visual provocation and madcap drama.
STRUMPET/
VACUUMING COMPLETELY NUDE
IN PARADISE
A BBC Films and Destiny Films co-production
Producer:Martin Carr
Director:Danny Boyle
Screenwriter:Jim Cartwright
Executive producers:Hilary Salmon, David M. Thompson
Director of photography:Anthony Dod Mantle
Production designer:John Coleman
Music:John Murphy
Costume designer:Susannah Buxton
Editor:Chris Gill
Color/stereo
Casts:
"Strumpet"
Strayman:Christopher Eccleston
Strumpet:Jenna G.
Knockoff:Stephen Walters
Curdy:David Crellin
Running time -- 72 minutes
"Vacuuming Complete Nude in Paradise"
Tommy Rag:Timothy Spall
Pete:Michael Begley
Mr. Ron:David Crellin
Sheila:Katy Cavanagh
Running time -- 76 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The Toronto festival played the films together in a double bill. Arguably, the pieces are somewhat linked stylistically, yet the pairing makes for a long sit. It also proves damaging to the second feature where the manic energy in Timothy Spall's dazzling, kamikaze performance in "Vacuuming" wears a viewer down after the two-hour mark. In subsequent theatrical venues, each deserves its own separate viewing. The two do make terrific cable and video offerings.
Shooting on digital video, Boyle has freedom of movement and the ability to experiment with grain and colors. From this emerges a bold urban landscape of eccentric personalities romping in post-Thatcher England.
In the fairy tale "Strumpet", Christopher Eccleston plays Strayman, a defiant, reclusive wordsmith who bellows poetry in pubs and collects stray dogs. He comes to the rescue of a shy homeless girl who calls herself Strumpet (Jenna G, a vocalist/MC in Manchester's underground music scene). Together, with her music and his words, they create a strange, raw, compelling music that a neighbor, Knockoff (Stephen Walters) -- a would-be manager with toilet-paper business cards -- believes can take them to the top of the pops. So they head for London and a culture clash with the corporate music world.
"Vacuuming" is "Death of a Salesman 2001". Spall plays Tommy, a foul-mouthed, high-octane and obsessive vacuum salesman totally driven by "the sale." He practically lives in his car, jams "puffa puffa rice" and scotch in his mouth for breakfast and drives like a madman. But he too is a wordsmith, as language emanates from him in torrents of stream-of-conscious prose that floods the ear with strangely rhythmic sounds. He is in a race to collect a salesman-of-the-year award but gets saddled with a meek, bug-eyed trainee (Michael Begley) who would rather be a DJ.
These two films from Boyle and Cartwright act like Dogme films on acid. Each has a freewheeling, spontaneous quality that feeds into the surrealistic events, and each contains moments and lines that lodge in the memory: Strayman's pack of dogs following him on his shopping rounds, a mound of gravel dumped mischievously outside Strayman's door and Tommy barreling through traffic as his own motivational tape on his car stereo screams, "Sell, sell, fuckin' sell".
Most importantly, these two works confirm that Boyle has lost none of his instincts for visual provocation and madcap drama.
STRUMPET/
VACUUMING COMPLETELY NUDE
IN PARADISE
A BBC Films and Destiny Films co-production
Producer:Martin Carr
Director:Danny Boyle
Screenwriter:Jim Cartwright
Executive producers:Hilary Salmon, David M. Thompson
Director of photography:Anthony Dod Mantle
Production designer:John Coleman
Music:John Murphy
Costume designer:Susannah Buxton
Editor:Chris Gill
Color/stereo
Casts:
"Strumpet"
Strayman:Christopher Eccleston
Strumpet:Jenna G.
Knockoff:Stephen Walters
Curdy:David Crellin
Running time -- 72 minutes
"Vacuuming Complete Nude in Paradise"
Tommy Rag:Timothy Spall
Pete:Michael Begley
Mr. Ron:David Crellin
Sheila:Katy Cavanagh
Running time -- 76 minutes
No MPAA rating...
After a walkabout with studio films, Danny Boyle, England's punk cinematic poet from the Midlands, returns to what his producer Martin Carr calls "quick and dirty filmmaking" with two short feature projects commissioned for BBC Two. "Strumpet" and "Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise," made in collaboration with playwright Jim Cartwright, possess the dark humor of "Shallow Grave" and the anarchic energy and surreal spirit of "Trainspotting".
The Toronto festival played the films together in a double bill. Arguably, the pieces are somewhat linked stylistically, yet the pairing makes for a long sit. It also proves damaging to the second feature where the manic energy in Timothy Spall's dazzling, kamikaze performance in "Vacuuming" wears a viewer down after the two-hour mark. In subsequent theatrical venues, each deserves its own separate viewing. The two do make terrific cable and video offerings.
Shooting on digital video, Boyle has freedom of movement and the ability to experiment with grain and colors. From this emerges a bold urban landscape of eccentric personalities romping in post-Thatcher England.
In the fairy tale "Strumpet", Christopher Eccleston plays Strayman, a defiant, reclusive wordsmith who bellows poetry in pubs and collects stray dogs. He comes to the rescue of a shy homeless girl who calls herself Strumpet (Jenna G, a vocalist/MC in Manchester's underground music scene). Together, with her music and his words, they create a strange, raw, compelling music that a neighbor, Knockoff (Stephen Walters) -- a would-be manager with toilet-paper business cards -- believes can take them to the top of the pops. So they head for London and a culture clash with the corporate music world.
"Vacuuming" is "Death of a Salesman 2001". Spall plays Tommy, a foul-mouthed, high-octane and obsessive vacuum salesman totally driven by "the sale." He practically lives in his car, jams "puffa puffa rice" and scotch in his mouth for breakfast and drives like a madman. But he too is a wordsmith, as language emanates from him in torrents of stream-of-conscious prose that floods the ear with strangely rhythmic sounds. He is in a race to collect a salesman-of-the-year award but gets saddled with a meek, bug-eyed trainee (Michael Begley) who would rather be a DJ.
These two films from Boyle and Cartwright act like Dogme films on acid. Each has a freewheeling, spontaneous quality that feeds into the surrealistic events, and each contains moments and lines that lodge in the memory: Strayman's pack of dogs following him on his shopping rounds, a mound of gravel dumped mischievously outside Strayman's door and Tommy barreling through traffic as his own motivational tape on his car stereo screams, "Sell, sell, fuckin' sell".
Most importantly, these two works confirm that Boyle has lost none of his instincts for visual provocation and madcap drama.
STRUMPET/
VACUUMING COMPLETELY NUDE
IN PARADISE
A BBC Films and Destiny Films co-production
Producer:Martin Carr
Director:Danny Boyle
Screenwriter:Jim Cartwright
Executive producers:Hilary Salmon, David M. Thompson
Director of photography:Anthony Dod Mantle
Production designer:John Coleman
Music:John Murphy
Costume designer:Susannah Buxton
Editor:Chris Gill
Color/stereo
Casts:
"Strumpet"
Strayman:Christopher Eccleston
Strumpet:Jenna G.
Knockoff:Stephen Walters
Curdy:David Crellin
Running time -- 72 minutes
"Vacuuming Complete Nude in Paradise"
Tommy Rag:Timothy Spall
Pete:Michael Begley
Mr. Ron:David Crellin
Sheila:Katy Cavanagh
Running time -- 76 minutes
No MPAA rating...
The Toronto festival played the films together in a double bill. Arguably, the pieces are somewhat linked stylistically, yet the pairing makes for a long sit. It also proves damaging to the second feature where the manic energy in Timothy Spall's dazzling, kamikaze performance in "Vacuuming" wears a viewer down after the two-hour mark. In subsequent theatrical venues, each deserves its own separate viewing. The two do make terrific cable and video offerings.
Shooting on digital video, Boyle has freedom of movement and the ability to experiment with grain and colors. From this emerges a bold urban landscape of eccentric personalities romping in post-Thatcher England.
In the fairy tale "Strumpet", Christopher Eccleston plays Strayman, a defiant, reclusive wordsmith who bellows poetry in pubs and collects stray dogs. He comes to the rescue of a shy homeless girl who calls herself Strumpet (Jenna G, a vocalist/MC in Manchester's underground music scene). Together, with her music and his words, they create a strange, raw, compelling music that a neighbor, Knockoff (Stephen Walters) -- a would-be manager with toilet-paper business cards -- believes can take them to the top of the pops. So they head for London and a culture clash with the corporate music world.
"Vacuuming" is "Death of a Salesman 2001". Spall plays Tommy, a foul-mouthed, high-octane and obsessive vacuum salesman totally driven by "the sale." He practically lives in his car, jams "puffa puffa rice" and scotch in his mouth for breakfast and drives like a madman. But he too is a wordsmith, as language emanates from him in torrents of stream-of-conscious prose that floods the ear with strangely rhythmic sounds. He is in a race to collect a salesman-of-the-year award but gets saddled with a meek, bug-eyed trainee (Michael Begley) who would rather be a DJ.
These two films from Boyle and Cartwright act like Dogme films on acid. Each has a freewheeling, spontaneous quality that feeds into the surrealistic events, and each contains moments and lines that lodge in the memory: Strayman's pack of dogs following him on his shopping rounds, a mound of gravel dumped mischievously outside Strayman's door and Tommy barreling through traffic as his own motivational tape on his car stereo screams, "Sell, sell, fuckin' sell".
Most importantly, these two works confirm that Boyle has lost none of his instincts for visual provocation and madcap drama.
STRUMPET/
VACUUMING COMPLETELY NUDE
IN PARADISE
A BBC Films and Destiny Films co-production
Producer:Martin Carr
Director:Danny Boyle
Screenwriter:Jim Cartwright
Executive producers:Hilary Salmon, David M. Thompson
Director of photography:Anthony Dod Mantle
Production designer:John Coleman
Music:John Murphy
Costume designer:Susannah Buxton
Editor:Chris Gill
Color/stereo
Casts:
"Strumpet"
Strayman:Christopher Eccleston
Strumpet:Jenna G.
Knockoff:Stephen Walters
Curdy:David Crellin
Running time -- 72 minutes
"Vacuuming Complete Nude in Paradise"
Tommy Rag:Timothy Spall
Pete:Michael Begley
Mr. Ron:David Crellin
Sheila:Katy Cavanagh
Running time -- 76 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 9/17/2001
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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