‘Coronation Street’ actress Helen Flanagan has delighted fans as she returns to her acting career with a new theatre role.
The actress will join the 2024 UK tour of ‘Cluedo 2 – The Next Chapter’ as she takes up the role of interior designer Annabel Scarlett, reports Mirror.co.uk.
The role marks a West End debut for the star, as she picks up her first acting role since leaving ‘Coronation Street’ in 2018.
Taking up her part in the classic ‘whodunnit’ plot, Helen will play the iconic character of Miss Scarlet with her trademark red dress as she joins her fellow cast.
As per Mirror.co.uk, the mum-of-three couldn’t be more excited as she announced her return to acting to fans – admitting she’d been waiting for the “right role” for quite a while.
Speaking about her new role, Helen said: “I’ve long been looking for the right theatre role...
The actress will join the 2024 UK tour of ‘Cluedo 2 – The Next Chapter’ as she takes up the role of interior designer Annabel Scarlett, reports Mirror.co.uk.
The role marks a West End debut for the star, as she picks up her first acting role since leaving ‘Coronation Street’ in 2018.
Taking up her part in the classic ‘whodunnit’ plot, Helen will play the iconic character of Miss Scarlet with her trademark red dress as she joins her fellow cast.
As per Mirror.co.uk, the mum-of-three couldn’t be more excited as she announced her return to acting to fans – admitting she’d been waiting for the “right role” for quite a while.
Speaking about her new role, Helen said: “I’ve long been looking for the right theatre role...
- 11/28/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
‘Coronation Street’ actress Helen Flanagan has delighted fans as she returns to her acting career with a new theatre role.
The actress will join the 2024 UK tour of ‘Cluedo 2 – The Next Chapter’ as she takes up the role of interior designer Annabel Scarlett, reports Mirror.co.uk.
The role marks a West End debut for the star, as she picks up her first acting role since leaving ‘Coronation Street’ in 2018.
Taking up her part in the classic ‘whodunnit’ plot, Helen will play the iconic character of Miss Scarlet with her trademark red dress as she joins her fellow cast.
As per Mirror.co.uk, the mum-of-three couldn’t be more excited as she announced her return to acting to fans – admitting she’d been waiting for the “right role” for quite a while.
Speaking about her new role, Helen said: “I’ve long been looking for the right theatre role...
The actress will join the 2024 UK tour of ‘Cluedo 2 – The Next Chapter’ as she takes up the role of interior designer Annabel Scarlett, reports Mirror.co.uk.
The role marks a West End debut for the star, as she picks up her first acting role since leaving ‘Coronation Street’ in 2018.
Taking up her part in the classic ‘whodunnit’ plot, Helen will play the iconic character of Miss Scarlet with her trademark red dress as she joins her fellow cast.
As per Mirror.co.uk, the mum-of-three couldn’t be more excited as she announced her return to acting to fans – admitting she’d been waiting for the “right role” for quite a while.
Speaking about her new role, Helen said: “I’ve long been looking for the right theatre role...
- 11/28/2023
- by Agency News Desk
(Welcome to Movies Are Gay, a Pride Month series where we explore the intentional [or accidental] ways Lgbtqia+ themes, characters, and creatives have shaped cinema.)
Isaac Julien might not be a household name to even the most vocally self-professed cinephiles, but he certainly should be. As an installation artist and one of the founders of the Sankofa Film and Video Collective, Julien is a pillar of Black cinema history. His breakthrough feature is the docu-drama "Looking for Langston," which focused on Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. But it was in 1991 that Julien debuted the masterful, Semaine de la Critique prize for Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival-winning "Young Soul Rebels" which helped bring him to a wider audience.
Set during the 1977's Silver Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth, "Young Soul Rebels" is a beautiful, poetic, at times devastating coming-of-age romantic dramedy, and also a thriller about a horrific homophobic hate crime.
Isaac Julien might not be a household name to even the most vocally self-professed cinephiles, but he certainly should be. As an installation artist and one of the founders of the Sankofa Film and Video Collective, Julien is a pillar of Black cinema history. His breakthrough feature is the docu-drama "Looking for Langston," which focused on Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. But it was in 1991 that Julien debuted the masterful, Semaine de la Critique prize for Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival-winning "Young Soul Rebels" which helped bring him to a wider audience.
Set during the 1977's Silver Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth, "Young Soul Rebels" is a beautiful, poetic, at times devastating coming-of-age romantic dramedy, and also a thriller about a horrific homophobic hate crime.
- 6/2/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Part thriller, part drama, part comedy, Isaac Julien’s urban pastoral set in the aftermath of a homophobic murder still feels fresh, buoyant and likable
Isaac Julien’s feature from 1991 is rereleased after more than 30 years and it still feels fresh, buoyant, likable and emotionally open. It is a paean to diversity and intersectionality set in east London during the 1977 Queen’s silver jubilee, with some cheeky jibes about middle-class outlaws and “St Martins” art-school types (St Martins being Julien’s own alma mater). Young Soul Rebels takes the form of an urban pastoral, but is also a kind of romantic comedy, a coming-of-age drama about friendship and a thriller about a brutal homophobic murder – and there’s actually a clever plot twist about the victim’s tape-deck which another type of film might have made much more of, maybe in the manner of Francis Ford Coppola.
A young black...
Isaac Julien’s feature from 1991 is rereleased after more than 30 years and it still feels fresh, buoyant, likable and emotionally open. It is a paean to diversity and intersectionality set in east London during the 1977 Queen’s silver jubilee, with some cheeky jibes about middle-class outlaws and “St Martins” art-school types (St Martins being Julien’s own alma mater). Young Soul Rebels takes the form of an urban pastoral, but is also a kind of romantic comedy, a coming-of-age drama about friendship and a thriller about a brutal homophobic murder – and there’s actually a clever plot twist about the victim’s tape-deck which another type of film might have made much more of, maybe in the manner of Francis Ford Coppola.
A young black...
- 4/26/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Heartbeat actor Peter Benson died on September 6 after a short illness. He was 75.
He was known for playing the North Yorkshire-based drama's funeral director in all of the show's 18 series during its run from 1992 to 2010.
His character also ran a garage in the fictional town of Aidensfield and often got involved in disastrous money-making schemes with Claude Greengrass (Bill Maynard) and half-brother Vernon Scripps (Geoffrey Hughes).
Benson also made appearances in BBC comedy Blackadder as Henry VII, ITV 1980s soap opera Albion Market and more recently in two episodes of hospital drama Casualty.
Benson was a highly-skilled singer and dancer and an accomplished theatre actor. He and Maynard starred on stage together in a production of "Trinity Tales" in 1977.
He portrayed the title role in Shakespeare's "Henry VI" in a BBC television adaption of the play in 1983.
One of Benson's former Heartbeat co-stars Steven Blakeley, who played Pc Geoff Younger in the show,...
He was known for playing the North Yorkshire-based drama's funeral director in all of the show's 18 series during its run from 1992 to 2010.
His character also ran a garage in the fictional town of Aidensfield and often got involved in disastrous money-making schemes with Claude Greengrass (Bill Maynard) and half-brother Vernon Scripps (Geoffrey Hughes).
Benson also made appearances in BBC comedy Blackadder as Henry VII, ITV 1980s soap opera Albion Market and more recently in two episodes of hospital drama Casualty.
Benson was a highly-skilled singer and dancer and an accomplished theatre actor. He and Maynard starred on stage together in a production of "Trinity Tales" in 1977.
He portrayed the title role in Shakespeare's "Henry VI" in a BBC television adaption of the play in 1983.
One of Benson's former Heartbeat co-stars Steven Blakeley, who played Pc Geoff Younger in the show,...
- 9/9/2018
- by Roger Newcomb
- We Love Soaps
David Suchet retired his walking stick and moustache when he left the role of iconic detective Hercule Poirot almost two years ago.
However, he has now revealed he wouldn't turn down a return as Agatha Christie's famed Belgian sleuth - although only in a film.
Suchet thinks he would be passed over for a big-name Hollywood star though, to bring in a larger audience to the movie.
Speaking to The Stage, he said: "I've said I'll only return if anyone makes a movie and they want me - which they won't because it will be Hollywood and they'll want one of the new A-listers."
Suchet played Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot for 25 years, with a final appearance in ITV's November 2013 Poirot episode 'Curtain'.
Heartbeat star Jason Durr was cast as the detective last year in a touring stage play.
However, he has now revealed he wouldn't turn down a return as Agatha Christie's famed Belgian sleuth - although only in a film.
Suchet thinks he would be passed over for a big-name Hollywood star though, to bring in a larger audience to the movie.
Speaking to The Stage, he said: "I've said I'll only return if anyone makes a movie and they want me - which they won't because it will be Hollywood and they'll want one of the new A-listers."
Suchet played Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot for 25 years, with a final appearance in ITV's November 2013 Poirot episode 'Curtain'.
Heartbeat star Jason Durr was cast as the detective last year in a touring stage play.
- 7/10/2015
- Digital Spy
David Suchet retired his walking stick and moustache when he left the role of iconic detective Hercule Poirot almost two years ago.
However, he has now revealed he wouldn't turn down a return as Agatha Christie's famed Belgian sleuth - although only in a film.
Suchet thinks he would be passed over for a big-name Hollywood star though, to bring in a larger audience to the movie.
Speaking to The Stage, he said: "I've said I'll only return if anyone makes a movie and they want me - which they won't because it will be Hollywood and they'll want one of the new A-listers."
Suchet played Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot for 25 years, with a final appearance in ITV's November 2013 Poirot episode 'Curtain'.
Heartbeat star Jason Durr was cast as the detective last year in a touring stage play.
However, he has now revealed he wouldn't turn down a return as Agatha Christie's famed Belgian sleuth - although only in a film.
Suchet thinks he would be passed over for a big-name Hollywood star though, to bring in a larger audience to the movie.
Speaking to The Stage, he said: "I've said I'll only return if anyone makes a movie and they want me - which they won't because it will be Hollywood and they'll want one of the new A-listers."
Suchet played Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot for 25 years, with a final appearance in ITV's November 2013 Poirot episode 'Curtain'.
Heartbeat star Jason Durr was cast as the detective last year in a touring stage play.
- 7/10/2015
- Digital Spy
Jason Durr’s sex-toy selling exec is given months to live and change his ways in this raggedy mess
One of the three credited writers for Down Dog is Men Behaving Badly creator Simon Nye, and there’s an obvious overlap between that show and this only mildly amusing feature about a hard-partying sex-toy executive (Jason Durr) who changes his ways when he’s tricked into thinking he has a terminal disease. It may be an “original” plot, but it feels like a remake, perhaps of some lost German or Dutch comedy that was a lot funnier, dirtier and crueller than this raggedy, eventually soppy mess. There is one energetic, well-timed comic highlight, when our hero and his slimy boss (Nick Moran) chuck vibrators and dildos at each other in anger, and it’s sort of a cute idea that all the major women in the lead’s life are...
One of the three credited writers for Down Dog is Men Behaving Badly creator Simon Nye, and there’s an obvious overlap between that show and this only mildly amusing feature about a hard-partying sex-toy executive (Jason Durr) who changes his ways when he’s tricked into thinking he has a terminal disease. It may be an “original” plot, but it feels like a remake, perhaps of some lost German or Dutch comedy that was a lot funnier, dirtier and crueller than this raggedy, eventually soppy mess. There is one energetic, well-timed comic highlight, when our hero and his slimy boss (Nick Moran) chuck vibrators and dildos at each other in anger, and it’s sort of a cute idea that all the major women in the lead’s life are...
- 2/12/2015
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Stars: Jason Durr, Nick Moran, Orla O’Rourke, Tom Goodman-Hill, Dylan Llewellyn, Naomi Battrick, Poppy Drayton, Chetna Pandya, Neil Toon | Written by Andres Dussan, Simon Nye, Lawrence Tallis | Directed by Andres Dussan
Frank Clayton, a high flying business man in the sex toy industry, a ladies man and a sex addict neglects his family to party all night and live a life of luxury. That is until he receives the worst news possible, he is dying and only has one year left to live. As he faces his inevitable demise, he decides to right the wrongs he has made and turn his life around. But as he tries to connect with his son, he soon learns that in his life, nothing is what it seems.
Down Dog is a film which could have gone in many directions. Starting with so much crude, sexual humour, I saw it turning into a light hearted,...
Frank Clayton, a high flying business man in the sex toy industry, a ladies man and a sex addict neglects his family to party all night and live a life of luxury. That is until he receives the worst news possible, he is dying and only has one year left to live. As he faces his inevitable demise, he decides to right the wrongs he has made and turn his life around. But as he tries to connect with his son, he soon learns that in his life, nothing is what it seems.
Down Dog is a film which could have gone in many directions. Starting with so much crude, sexual humour, I saw it turning into a light hearted,...
- 1/17/2015
- by Richard Axtell
- Nerdly
Details of John Nettles's final episode of ITV1 detective series Midsomer Murders have been revealed. Nettles's character Dci Tom Barnaby will make his final appearance in 'Fit For Murder', which will air on Wednesday, February 2 at 8pm. Nettles has played the role for over 14 years and 80 episodes. Co-stars Jane Waymark and Laura Howard, who have played Barnaby's wife and daughter, will also bid farewell to the show next month. Guest stars in 'Fit For Murder' will include Geraldine James, Lesley Manville, Jason Durr, Ronni Ancona and Shaun Dingwall. It will also feature the first appearance from Neil Dudgeon, who will take over as the lead in the show, playing Dci John Barnaby, Tom's cousin. Jason Hughes will continue as sidekick Di Ben Jones. Speaking about his departure, Nettles said: "I wanted to die in noble fashion (more)...
- 1/18/2011
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
A British charity that works with vulnerable children and their families is to launch a celebrity charity auction this month featuring “love tokens” from some big stars.
Over 50 celebrities have donated items to the auction, including Annie Lennox, The Who, Lulu, Joanna Lumley, Jeremy Irons, Ian Rankin, Jason Donovan, Jacqueline Wilson, Blur's Damon Albarn, Jo Whiley, Jason Durr, Sebastian Faulks, Gordon Brown and Stephen Fry.
The auction has been organized by charity Coram, which has been working with disadvantaged children since 1739 when Thomas Coram established the Foundling Hospital, to care for abandoned babies dying on the streets of London.
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Over 50 celebrities have donated items to the auction, including Annie Lennox, The Who, Lulu, Joanna Lumley, Jeremy Irons, Ian Rankin, Jason Donovan, Jacqueline Wilson, Blur's Damon Albarn, Jo Whiley, Jason Durr, Sebastian Faulks, Gordon Brown and Stephen Fry.
The auction has been organized by charity Coram, which has been working with disadvantaged children since 1739 when Thomas Coram established the Foundling Hospital, to care for abandoned babies dying on the streets of London.
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- 3/10/2010
- Look to the Stars
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