Exclusive: Here’s a positive news story in challenging times. Filming is underway on a charitable, filmed-from-home pilot starring Brian Cox (Succession), Claes Bang (The Square) and journalist-presenter Mariella Frostrup, among others.
UK producer Maggie Monteith (Swimming With Men) has enlisted an all-female, transatlantic team of writer-directors for whodunnit The Agoraphobics Detective Society, whose proceeds will go to UK and U.S. film and TV freelancers impacted by coronavirus.
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The pilot for the eight-episode show will see a distraught group of patients band together to find a renowned expert psychiatrist who disappears without explanation.
Also among actors filming their parts digitally from home during the lockdown are Ian Harvie...
UK producer Maggie Monteith (Swimming With Men) has enlisted an all-female, transatlantic team of writer-directors for whodunnit The Agoraphobics Detective Society, whose proceeds will go to UK and U.S. film and TV freelancers impacted by coronavirus.
More from DeadlineAmazing Stories, Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet Give Apple TV+ A Boost - StudyIHeartMedia Targets $250M In 2020 Cost Savings With Furloughs, Pay CutsRita Wilson Talks About Her Coronavirus Experience, 'Hip Hop Hooray' Remix In 'CBS This Morning' Interview
The pilot for the eight-episode show will see a distraught group of patients band together to find a renowned expert psychiatrist who disappears without explanation.
Also among actors filming their parts digitally from home during the lockdown are Ian Harvie...
- 4/14/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Jo Woodcock, James Cosmo, Cosmo Jarvis, Amy Ambrose, Suzy Bastone, Donna Berlin, Lee Boardman, Liz May Brice, Amelda Brown, Josephine Butler, Renée Castle, Darren Clarke, Richard Cordery | Written and Directed by Thomas Lawes
Emma Rose (Jo Woodcock) has just had her life turned upside down when here boyfriend has been arrested for some sort of Pyramid scheme that is not really important to the plot so we will keep it generic. Fearing that she may somehow be involved and the next suspect she obviously goes on the run.
In a bid to hide out undetected she finds herself in a quaint little town and offers herself to a wealthy land owner (James Cosmo) and prolific painter, the deal is he gives her somewhere to stay she works for free. However this movie is billed as a Dark British Thriller so get ready for the turn. The painter discovers her...
Emma Rose (Jo Woodcock) has just had her life turned upside down when here boyfriend has been arrested for some sort of Pyramid scheme that is not really important to the plot so we will keep it generic. Fearing that she may somehow be involved and the next suspect she obviously goes on the run.
In a bid to hide out undetected she finds herself in a quaint little town and offers herself to a wealthy land owner (James Cosmo) and prolific painter, the deal is he gives her somewhere to stay she works for free. However this movie is billed as a Dark British Thriller so get ready for the turn. The painter discovers her...
- 6/7/2018
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
The Victorians really did invent the first vibrator to cure women of various 'afflictions', but the reality probably wasn't anything like as much fun as is depicted here
Hysteria (2011)
Director: Tanya Wexler
Entertainment grade: C
History grade: C+
The first mechanical vibrator designed for the massage of men and women was invented in the early 18th century. As the industrial revolution progressed, it was succeeded by devices powered by water, steam and electricity.
Medicine
Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) is an idealistic doctor in Victorian London, trying to convince his sceptical colleagues of germ theory and the importance of hygiene. This annoys them so much that he keeps getting sacked, and he finally ends up at the upmarket practice of Robert Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce), treating ladies suffering from hysteria. According to Dr Rachel P Maines of the Cornell University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, whose enthralling book The Technology of...
Hysteria (2011)
Director: Tanya Wexler
Entertainment grade: C
History grade: C+
The first mechanical vibrator designed for the massage of men and women was invented in the early 18th century. As the industrial revolution progressed, it was succeeded by devices powered by water, steam and electricity.
Medicine
Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) is an idealistic doctor in Victorian London, trying to convince his sceptical colleagues of germ theory and the importance of hygiene. This annoys them so much that he keeps getting sacked, and he finally ends up at the upmarket practice of Robert Dalrymple (Jonathan Pryce), treating ladies suffering from hysteria. According to Dr Rachel P Maines of the Cornell University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, whose enthralling book The Technology of...
- 10/31/2013
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Jj Bird bet John James Parton that he would wear a ridiculous costume if there was no double eviction on last night’s Big Brother and this morning he was seen parading around in these.
After just Jo Butler was evicted, the sexy boxer realised the error of his ways and conceded to John James that he must now carry out his forfeit. He spent this morning wearing just a skimpy pair of pants, made from garden foliage, though they look far from ridiculous to us.
We don’t imagine these pictures will do his fanbase any harm either…..can you imagine him Not being in the final while looking at them?
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After just Jo Butler was evicted, the sexy boxer realised the error of his ways and conceded to John James that he must now carry out his forfeit. He spent this morning wearing just a skimpy pair of pants, made from garden foliage, though they look far from ridiculous to us.
We don’t imagine these pictures will do his fanbase any harm either…..can you imagine him Not being in the final while looking at them?
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- 8/14/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Jo Butler was evicted from the Big Brother house last night and in her exit interview with Davina, she admitted that she hadn’t been fully prepared for the reality of the Bb house.
In her pre-show vt, Jo had promised to be the cougar of the house and ensured viewers that she would be preying on all the young hot men on the show. In reality, the 41 year old was less risqué and more chaste that Christian monk Dave Vaughan.
On why she was so reserved, Jo told Davina:
“I wasn’t prepared for what it could be like in there.
“I didn’t really feel like I was getting close to anyone. I struggled with that.
“I’m used to being the outgoing one and being popular, and I struggled in there.”
She added that she didn’t fancy any of the boys in the house, saying she...
In her pre-show vt, Jo had promised to be the cougar of the house and ensured viewers that she would be preying on all the young hot men on the show. In reality, the 41 year old was less risqué and more chaste that Christian monk Dave Vaughan.
On why she was so reserved, Jo told Davina:
“I wasn’t prepared for what it could be like in there.
“I didn’t really feel like I was getting close to anyone. I struggled with that.
“I’m used to being the outgoing one and being popular, and I struggled in there.”
She added that she didn’t fancy any of the boys in the house, saying she...
- 8/14/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Outfest
Things and people aren't always as they seem in "Lawless Heart", a poignant, intriguingly constructed film about love and loss set in Great Britain's scenic Essex countryside.
Using a funeral as a jump-off point, writer-directors Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger ("Boyfriends") follow the emotional journeys of a trio of male protagonists through three very different perspectives.
First, there's Dan (Bill Nighy), a devoted husband and father whose fidelity is put to the test when he meets an engaging French woman (Clementine Celarie) while attending the funeral of his wife's (Ellie Haddington) gay brother.
Then, there's Nick (Tom Hollander), the grieving boyfriend of Dan's restaurateur brother-in-law who finds himself increasingly attracted to the colorful Charlie (a terrific Sukie Smith), a supermarket checkout girl whom he first met when she passed out on his bed during a party at his house.
Finally, there's Tim (Douglas Henshall), Dan's cousin who has returned home after traveling the world for eight years. Temporarily bunking at Nick Place,'s the ne'er-do-well Tim becomes smitten with Leah (Josephine Butler), a dress shop proprietor who still has feelings for Tim's adopted brother, David, with whom she had an affair.
While it might all sound a trifle soapy on paper, Hunter and Hunsinger, not to mention their uniformly skilled cast, keep the various relationships grounded and tangle-free while fleshing them out with some gentle humor and incisive observations.
The result is a lyrical, affecting survey of modern romance with a decidedly English accent.
Things and people aren't always as they seem in "Lawless Heart", a poignant, intriguingly constructed film about love and loss set in Great Britain's scenic Essex countryside.
Using a funeral as a jump-off point, writer-directors Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger ("Boyfriends") follow the emotional journeys of a trio of male protagonists through three very different perspectives.
First, there's Dan (Bill Nighy), a devoted husband and father whose fidelity is put to the test when he meets an engaging French woman (Clementine Celarie) while attending the funeral of his wife's (Ellie Haddington) gay brother.
Then, there's Nick (Tom Hollander), the grieving boyfriend of Dan's restaurateur brother-in-law who finds himself increasingly attracted to the colorful Charlie (a terrific Sukie Smith), a supermarket checkout girl whom he first met when she passed out on his bed during a party at his house.
Finally, there's Tim (Douglas Henshall), Dan's cousin who has returned home after traveling the world for eight years. Temporarily bunking at Nick Place,'s the ne'er-do-well Tim becomes smitten with Leah (Josephine Butler), a dress shop proprietor who still has feelings for Tim's adopted brother, David, with whom she had an affair.
While it might all sound a trifle soapy on paper, Hunter and Hunsinger, not to mention their uniformly skilled cast, keep the various relationships grounded and tangle-free while fleshing them out with some gentle humor and incisive observations.
The result is a lyrical, affecting survey of modern romance with a decidedly English accent.
- 7/24/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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