Exclusive: Neil Forsyth, the writer of BBC drama Guilt, has launched a production label that will sit alongside Objective Fiction, the producer behind Netflix and Channel 4 co-production Feel Good.
Forsyth has founded Tannadice Pictures, which will house all of his new projects and will establish relationships with other writers to develop new scripted shows.
His existing projects will be unaffected, including a second season of Guilt, starring Catastrophe actor Mark Bonnar, and an adaptation of British drugs baron Howard Marks’ autobiography, Mr Nice, with Sky-backed The Lighthouse.
Objective Fiction and Tannadice Pictures are part of Objective Media Group, which is ultimately owned by All3Media, the Discovery and Liberty Global-backed production group.
Forsyth and Objective Fiction previously worked together on Rts Award-nominated BBC drama Eric, Ernie and Me, about the iconic British comedians Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.
Forsyth said: “I’ve always enjoyed working with Objective, who have...
Forsyth has founded Tannadice Pictures, which will house all of his new projects and will establish relationships with other writers to develop new scripted shows.
His existing projects will be unaffected, including a second season of Guilt, starring Catastrophe actor Mark Bonnar, and an adaptation of British drugs baron Howard Marks’ autobiography, Mr Nice, with Sky-backed The Lighthouse.
Objective Fiction and Tannadice Pictures are part of Objective Media Group, which is ultimately owned by All3Media, the Discovery and Liberty Global-backed production group.
Forsyth and Objective Fiction previously worked together on Rts Award-nominated BBC drama Eric, Ernie and Me, about the iconic British comedians Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.
Forsyth said: “I’ve always enjoyed working with Objective, who have...
- 6/9/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Jenny Morrill Dec 20, 2016
Russ Abbot, Bullseye, Noel Edmonds and a film we all watched in the same room. Christmas TV was more exciting in the 80s...
Cast your mind back to when Christmas Day wasn't about Doctor Who followed by sticking something on Netflix until it was time to go watch the annual fist fight outside the pub.
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In the 80s, Christmas was about seeing which fantastic fare the TV had decided to bless us with. Of course, the more prepared among us knew this well in advance, having eagerly pored over the Radio Times/TV Times to check that Jimmy Cricket's Family Laugh 'n' Waz would be shown. There it was – right after Reflections On The Eucharist With The Reverend Paul Leyland.
Russ Abbot, Bullseye, Noel Edmonds and a film we all watched in the same room. Christmas TV was more exciting in the 80s...
Cast your mind back to when Christmas Day wasn't about Doctor Who followed by sticking something on Netflix until it was time to go watch the annual fist fight outside the pub.
See related Looking back at Martin Scorsese's The King Of Comedy The Wolf Of Wall Street review The Wolf Of Wall Street & Scorsese's confrontational films
In the 80s, Christmas was about seeing which fantastic fare the TV had decided to bless us with. Of course, the more prepared among us knew this well in advance, having eagerly pored over the Radio Times/TV Times to check that Jimmy Cricket's Family Laugh 'n' Waz would be shown. There it was – right after Reflections On The Eucharist With The Reverend Paul Leyland.
- 12/8/2016
- Den of Geek
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You can enter the sweepstakes right now, so be sure to bookmark that page and play often.
But wait, that's not all. We're traveling across America to bring unforgettable outdoor movie screenings to your city; there will be food, music, raffles, and free swag, served up alongside nostalgic classics and modern hits. Best of all, you can immortalize the family fun night with a special photo booth opportunity in the driver's seat of a choice new Ford ride.
- 7/16/2014
- by Moviefone Staff
- Moviefone
Feature Alex Westthorp 9 Apr 2014 - 07:00
In the next part of his series, Alex talks us through the film careers of the second and fourth Doctors, Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker...
Read Alex's retrospective on the film careers of William Hartnell and Jon Pertwee, here.
Like their fellow Time Lord actors, William Hartnell and Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker also shared certain genres of film. Both appeared, before and after their time as the Doctor, in horror movies and both worked on Ray Harryhausen Sinbad films.
Patrick George Troughton was born in Mill Hill, London on March 25th 1920. He made his film debut aged 28 in the 1948 B-Movie The Escape. Troughton's was a very minor role. Among the better known cast was William Hartnell, though even Hartnell's role was small and the two didn't share any scenes together. From the late Forties, Troughton found more success on the small screen,...
In the next part of his series, Alex talks us through the film careers of the second and fourth Doctors, Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker...
Read Alex's retrospective on the film careers of William Hartnell and Jon Pertwee, here.
Like their fellow Time Lord actors, William Hartnell and Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker also shared certain genres of film. Both appeared, before and after their time as the Doctor, in horror movies and both worked on Ray Harryhausen Sinbad films.
Patrick George Troughton was born in Mill Hill, London on March 25th 1920. He made his film debut aged 28 in the 1948 B-Movie The Escape. Troughton's was a very minor role. Among the better known cast was William Hartnell, though even Hartnell's role was small and the two didn't share any scenes together. From the late Forties, Troughton found more success on the small screen,...
- 4/8/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Prolific comedy actor who worked with Peter Sellers, Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan and Hattie Jacques
The stony-faced, beaky comedy actor Graham Stark, who has died aged 91, is best remembered for his appearances alongside Peter Sellers, notably in the Pink Panther movies. His familiar face and voice, on television and radio, were part of the essential furniture in the sitting room of our popular culture for more than half a century. A stalwart in the national postwar comedy boom led by Sellers, Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Dick Emery, Eric Sykes and Benny Hill, he worked with them all in a sort of unofficial supporting repertory company that also included Hattie Jacques, Deryck Guyler, Patricia Hayes and Arthur Mullard. He was also a man of surprising and various parts: child actor, trained dancer, film-maker, occasional writer, and dedicated and critically acclaimed photographer.
Like Gypsy Rose Lee, he had a resourceful and determined...
The stony-faced, beaky comedy actor Graham Stark, who has died aged 91, is best remembered for his appearances alongside Peter Sellers, notably in the Pink Panther movies. His familiar face and voice, on television and radio, were part of the essential furniture in the sitting room of our popular culture for more than half a century. A stalwart in the national postwar comedy boom led by Sellers, Tony Hancock, Spike Milligan, Dick Emery, Eric Sykes and Benny Hill, he worked with them all in a sort of unofficial supporting repertory company that also included Hattie Jacques, Deryck Guyler, Patricia Hayes and Arthur Mullard. He was also a man of surprising and various parts: child actor, trained dancer, film-maker, occasional writer, and dedicated and critically acclaimed photographer.
Like Gypsy Rose Lee, he had a resourceful and determined...
- 11/1/2013
- by Michael Coveney
- The Guardian - Film News
Mark Tonderai's Horror Thriller House At The End Of The Street starring Jennifer Lawrence and Elisabeth Shue opens today in theaters. Tonderai was born in London but raised in Zimbabwe, Africa. Taking a non-traditional route to filmmaking, Tonderai graduated with a degree in architecture from Kingston University and Unc Charlotte. He started his career in radio as the writer/producer/presenter of the “Mark Tonderai Show”, on BBC Radio 1, the first national radio show that broke hip-hop and R&B to the British public. In addition to his own show he was involved in other radio shows such as BBC Radio 4's; Orldly Wise, Rainbow Nation and...
- 9/21/2012
- by Natasha Greeves
- ShadowAndAct
As much as the underground film and art worlds mourned the passing of iconic British avant-garde media artist Jeff Keen back on June 21, his passing was, of course, felt more deeply by his surviving family members. At Keen’s funeral, his daughter Stella Keen — aka Stella Starr — delivered an incredibly moving and inspirational eulogy for father, which is reprinted in full below. Bad Lit: The Journal of Underground Film is honored that Stella has granted us permission to publish it:
They say a person’s life should be measured by their deeds not words.
My dad’s life can be measured by both — and what words! What actions! An amazing legacy of life’s work by a wonderful man who was an original, a genius — true to himself and who just got on with it.
He worked every day and always said an artist shouldn’t have to explain what...
They say a person’s life should be measured by their deeds not words.
My dad’s life can be measured by both — and what words! What actions! An amazing legacy of life’s work by a wonderful man who was an original, a genius — true to himself and who just got on with it.
He worked every day and always said an artist shouldn’t have to explain what...
- 8/14/2012
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
London Olympics curtain-raiser becomes one of the top 20 most-watched programmes in history with peak of 26.9m viewers
Danny Boyles's acclaimed Olympics opening ceremony was watched by a peak of nearly 27 million viewers on BBC1.
The ceremony, which lasted more than three hours and featured stars such as Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Kenneth Branagh and about 7,500 volunteers, averaged 22.4 million viewers, an 82.5% share of the audience, from 9pm on BBC1 on Friday.
At its peak at 9.50pm, a huge 26.9 million viewers were watching.
The average audience of 22.4 million was the highest for any TV programme since England's defeat by Argentina in the 1998 World Cup on ITV, watched by 23.8 million people.
It was the biggest audience on BBC1 since a Christmas edition of Only Fools and Horses in 1996, watched by 24.35 million.
BBC1 controller Danny Cohen said: "BBC1 is all about bringing the nation together for its biggest moments and I'm thrilled by...
Danny Boyles's acclaimed Olympics opening ceremony was watched by a peak of nearly 27 million viewers on BBC1.
The ceremony, which lasted more than three hours and featured stars such as Sir Paul McCartney and Sir Kenneth Branagh and about 7,500 volunteers, averaged 22.4 million viewers, an 82.5% share of the audience, from 9pm on BBC1 on Friday.
At its peak at 9.50pm, a huge 26.9 million viewers were watching.
The average audience of 22.4 million was the highest for any TV programme since England's defeat by Argentina in the 1998 World Cup on ITV, watched by 23.8 million people.
It was the biggest audience on BBC1 since a Christmas edition of Only Fools and Horses in 1996, watched by 24.35 million.
BBC1 controller Danny Cohen said: "BBC1 is all about bringing the nation together for its biggest moments and I'm thrilled by...
- 7/28/2012
- by John Plunkett
- The Guardian - Film News
BAFTA Fellowship: Few Women, Few Outside UK/Hollywood, Steven Spielberg Before Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Billy Wilder [Photo: Laurence Olivier] 1971 Alfred Hitchcock 1972 Freddie Young 1973 Grace Wyndham Goldie 1974 David Lean 1975 Jacques Cousteau 1976 Charles Chaplin, Laurence Olivier 1977 Denis Forman 1978 Fred Zinnemann 1979 Lew Grade, Huw Wheldon 1980 David Attenborough, John Huston 1981 Abel Gance, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1982 Andrzej Wajda 1983 Richard Attenborough 1984 Hugh Greene, Sam Spiegel 1985 Jeremy Isaacs 1986 Steven Spielberg 1987 Federico Fellini 1988 Ingmar Bergman 1989 Alec Guinness 1990 Paul Fox 1991 Louis Malle 1992 John Gielgud, David Plowright 1993 Sydney Samuelson, Colin Young 1994 Michael Grade 1995 Billy Wilder 1996 Jeanne Moreau, Ronald Neame, John Schlesinger, Maggie Smith 1997 Woody Allen, Steven Bochco, Julie Christie, Oswald Morris, Harold Pinter, David Rose 1998 Sean Connery, Bill Cotton 1999 Eric Morecambe & Ernie Wise, Elizabeth Taylor 2000 Michael Caine, Stanley Kubrick, Peter Bazalgette 2001 Albert Finney, John Thaw, Judi Dench 2002 Warren Beatty, Merchant Ivory Productions (James Ivory, Ismail Merchant) 2002 Andrew Davies, John Mills 2003 Saul Zaentz, David Jason 2004 John Boorman, Roger Graef 2005 John Barry, David Frost 2006 David Puttnam,...
- 1/4/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho set The first recipient of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts' Fellowship, "awarded in recognition of outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image," was director Alfred Hitchcock in 1971. Dozens of film, television, and assorted media personalities have become BAFTA Fellows since then, though the pattern here — as most elsewhere — is that achievements by men are deemed much more important than those by women. [Full list of BAFTA Fellowship recipients.] The only woman to become a BAFTA Fellow in the Fellowship's first 25 years was television producer Grace Wyndham Goldie, a pioneer of Current Affairs programs on the BBC. Since then, that quite short list has gone on to include actresses Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Christie, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth Taylor, and Judi Dench; actress and sometime director Jeanne Moreau; editor Anne V. Coates; and actresses/writers Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders (whose latest Absolutely Fabulous episodes can be found online). Also...
- 1/4/2012
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Truthfully, I’ve always found John Waters to be more interesting as a personality and social critic than as a filmmaker. And even if his filmmaking output has slowed (if not stopped altogether), the man is still at the peak of his observational powers in Role Models (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $15), a book of his essays just out in paperback.
The gimmick of the book is that Waters is writing about his “role models” – the people who have impressed or influenced him in some way. Some of them are people you might expect – the playwright Tennessee Williams, a porn filmmaker who shoots straight Marines getting blowjobs, one of the women involved with the Manson Family. Others are more unusual, like pop crooner Johnny Mathis and Saint Catherine of Siena.
But the subject of each essay is really just an opportunity for Water’s hilarious and alarmingly well-written flights of rhetorical fancy.
The gimmick of the book is that Waters is writing about his “role models” – the people who have impressed or influenced him in some way. Some of them are people you might expect – the playwright Tennessee Williams, a porn filmmaker who shoots straight Marines getting blowjobs, one of the women involved with the Manson Family. Others are more unusual, like pop crooner Johnny Mathis and Saint Catherine of Siena.
But the subject of each essay is really just an opportunity for Water’s hilarious and alarmingly well-written flights of rhetorical fancy.
- 4/25/2011
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
In a matter of a few short weeks (April 22nd in fact), Warner Bros’ remake of a classic 1980s comedy arrives to British cinemas, with Us audiences being able to go and see it from today. That comedy is Arthur, a film which is very dear to my heart and which was rather criminally one of only relatively few cinematic releases that Dudley Moore made, which is why I was initially somewhat frustrated that the unstoppable Hollywood remake machine had turned its attention to it.
I do like Russell Brand- and I’m sure I’m probably in a dwindling minority here- and value his sense of humour above a number of less barbed and colourful (and thus far safer in my eyes), but in accepting the role of Arthur, he is filling some mighty big shoes. Dudley Moore, the original playboy character from the 1981 version of the film,...
I do like Russell Brand- and I’m sure I’m probably in a dwindling minority here- and value his sense of humour above a number of less barbed and colourful (and thus far safer in my eyes), but in accepting the role of Arthur, he is filling some mighty big shoes. Dudley Moore, the original playboy character from the 1981 version of the film,...
- 4/8/2011
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
Seventy-one-year-old provocateur Bertrand Blier is still going strong – and ushering in cancer as a character in his latest film
At the start of Bertrand Blier's new film, The Clink of Ice, a sinister-eyed man walks up to the security gates of an alcoholic writer's high-end country house. "I'm your cancer!" he says by way of introduction. "I thought it would be a good idea if we got to know each other." Like a malevolent version of a daemon from a Philip Pullman novel or like Eric Morecambe two steps behind Ernie Wise, Cancer becomes the writer's shadow. There's a scene in which the two lie in bed together like a bad taste Laurel and Hardy.
I know what you're thinking: sounds like an ideal date movie. So how on earth did Blier get anyone to bankroll this film? "With great difficulty," giggles the 71-year-old. "The original funders abandoned me...
At the start of Bertrand Blier's new film, The Clink of Ice, a sinister-eyed man walks up to the security gates of an alcoholic writer's high-end country house. "I'm your cancer!" he says by way of introduction. "I thought it would be a good idea if we got to know each other." Like a malevolent version of a daemon from a Philip Pullman novel or like Eric Morecambe two steps behind Ernie Wise, Cancer becomes the writer's shadow. There's a scene in which the two lie in bed together like a bad taste Laurel and Hardy.
I know what you're thinking: sounds like an ideal date movie. So how on earth did Blier get anyone to bankroll this film? "With great difficulty," giggles the 71-year-old. "The original funders abandoned me...
- 2/4/2011
- by Stuart Jeffries
- The Guardian - Film News
Synopsis: Drama telling the story of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise.s formative years, as reluctant performer Eric Bartholomew becomes the funny man to precocious Ernie Wiseman. This drama aired at 9Pm on News Year's Day, and was part of an evening's programming on BBC 2 paying tribute to one of Britons most loved comedy double acts. For those in the USA who may not be familiar with Morecambe and Wise, they were perhaps one of the first highly successful television double acts, who more often than not in the 1970's had Christmas Specials that would pull in viewing figures of up to 30 Million people, which is like half of England. The duo came from the...
- 1/3/2011
- by Ian Cullen
- Monsters and Critics
Victoria Wood has praised the stars of new BBC Two drama Eric and Ernie. The one-off special will focus on the early friendship between famous comedy double-act Eric Morecambe (played by Daniel Rigby) and Ernie Wise (Bryan Dick). "I helped with the casting of this drama," Wood told What's On TV. "Daniel and Bryan are amazingly good. Looks-wise, we've tried to match three boys for each characters. But we did it on ability too. Bryan's a brilliant dancer and Daniel has Eric to a tee." Wood, who both plays Morecambe's mother Sadie and serves as an executive producer, revealed that (more)...
- 12/30/2010
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
This country has produced plenty of great double acts down the years - Morecambe & Wise, Little & Large, Ant & Dec, The Chuckle Brothers - but why do we always stop at the number two? If two heads are better than one, then surely three are wiser than two. If any proof was needed, look no further than legendary pop songwriters and children's entertainers Rod, Jane & Freddy. They made their name on the camp and surreal ITV hit Rainbow before going it alone with their own self-titled series and stage show that toured the UK to much acclaim. Of course, what truly makes Rod, Jane & Freddy special is not just their TV talents, but also the mystery that remains around their unusual triangular relationship. Rod & Jane were at one time (more)...
- 11/19/2010
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Screenterrier reported on the BBC casting call back in July, to find young and teenage Eric and Ernies for Victoria Wood's BBC 2 film When Eric met Ernie.
19 year old Harry McEntire (represented by Curtis Brown) who starred in Spring Awakening at the Lyric Hammersmith, plays the teenage Ernie. He also played Davie in the BBC's successful drama adaption of David Almond's novel Clay.
14 year old Jonah Lees (Sylvia Young Theatre School) plays young Eric, Jonas has been steadily building up an impressive list of film and TV credits from a young age, as well as playing Michael Banks in the West End production of Mary Poppins. Jonah's twin Christian Lees is also an actor.
Victoria Wood herself plays Eric's pushy mother Sadie:
'We may think of Morecambe and Wise as that brilliant and much-loved double act but I've always thought that a film about their days as child...
19 year old Harry McEntire (represented by Curtis Brown) who starred in Spring Awakening at the Lyric Hammersmith, plays the teenage Ernie. He also played Davie in the BBC's successful drama adaption of David Almond's novel Clay.
14 year old Jonah Lees (Sylvia Young Theatre School) plays young Eric, Jonas has been steadily building up an impressive list of film and TV credits from a young age, as well as playing Michael Banks in the West End production of Mary Poppins. Jonah's twin Christian Lees is also an actor.
Victoria Wood herself plays Eric's pushy mother Sadie:
'We may think of Morecambe and Wise as that brilliant and much-loved double act but I've always thought that a film about their days as child...
- 11/2/2010
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Like his characters, Robert Harris has often found himself close to news in the making. As his 'Tony Blair' novel hits the cinema, he reveals why his friendship with Roman Polanski has lasted, but his affair with New Labour has not
Tony Blair is not on record as having read Robert Harris's 2007 novel The Ghost, a rip-snorting thriller about an ostentatiously groovy ex-prime minister accused of war crimes after secretly approving the transfer of British al-Qaida suspects to Guantánamo Bay, and the ghostwriter hired to write his memoirs. Perhaps Blair got the book out on John Prescott's library card, or happened upon a copy in Silvio Berlusconi's downstairs loo. All that really matters is that he knows of the novel's existence. It was in regard to The Ghost, after all, that he described its author as "a cheeky fuck". The 53-year-old Harris chuckles so warmly...
Tony Blair is not on record as having read Robert Harris's 2007 novel The Ghost, a rip-snorting thriller about an ostentatiously groovy ex-prime minister accused of war crimes after secretly approving the transfer of British al-Qaida suspects to Guantánamo Bay, and the ghostwriter hired to write his memoirs. Perhaps Blair got the book out on John Prescott's library card, or happened upon a copy in Silvio Berlusconi's downstairs loo. All that really matters is that he knows of the novel's existence. It was in regard to The Ghost, after all, that he described its author as "a cheeky fuck". The 53-year-old Harris chuckles so warmly...
- 4/4/2010
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise almost split up before they became famous, it has emerged. According to Morecambe's son Gary, Wise wrote his father a note in the 1950s detailing how he wanted to "break up the act" because of pressure at home. The note reads: "Thanks for your letter. Well Eric I want to get straight to the point. I want us to break up the act. I'm afraid it won't work. I have such a terrific amount of animosity to put up with at home. I feel it would be better if we parted. "I know this will be quite a shock to you but I (more)...
- 10/12/2009
- by By Dan French
- Digital Spy
Nicole Kidman, Sir Elton John and The Beatles are among 100 legendary British and Commonwealth stars to be honored when London launches its own Hollywood-style walk of fame next month. The Avenue Of The Stars will see silver plaques embedded into the streets of the capital's bustling Covent Garden - providing a permanent free tourist attraction. Lord Olivier, Dame Edna Everage, Rex Harrison, Ernie Wise and Eric Morecambe are also rumored to be taking prime spots on the ceremony on September 18. More names will be added each year until the avenue begins to rival the tribute to 2,000 stars which runs along Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles.
- 8/17/2005
- WENN
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