A replacement will be named on Tuesday [Jan 9].
Source: BAFTA
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry is to step down as host of the Bafta Film Awards.
Fry, who has fronted the ceremony 12 times, said it was “only right to stand down and let others take the Baftas on to new heights and greater glories”.
A replacement will be named on Tuesday [Jan 9], when this year’s nominees are revealed.
Fry first hosted the awards in 2001. He had a break from hosting duties between 2007-11, when Jonathan Ross took over.
The 2018 awards will be held at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 18 February 2018 and broadcast on BBC One. For the second year, dance troupe Cirque de Soleil will perform a piece during the ceremony.
Fry said: “Every one of the twelve Bafta film award ceremonies that I had the privilege of hosting has a place in my memory. The mixture of glamour, glory, drama and - occasionally...
Source: BAFTA
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry is to step down as host of the Bafta Film Awards.
Fry, who has fronted the ceremony 12 times, said it was “only right to stand down and let others take the Baftas on to new heights and greater glories”.
A replacement will be named on Tuesday [Jan 9], when this year’s nominees are revealed.
Fry first hosted the awards in 2001. He had a break from hosting duties between 2007-11, when Jonathan Ross took over.
The 2018 awards will be held at London’s Royal Albert Hall on Sunday 18 February 2018 and broadcast on BBC One. For the second year, dance troupe Cirque de Soleil will perform a piece during the ceremony.
Fry said: “Every one of the twelve Bafta film award ceremonies that I had the privilege of hosting has a place in my memory. The mixture of glamour, glory, drama and - occasionally...
- 1/5/2018
- by Andreas Wiseman
- ScreenDaily
Ahead of tonight's groundbreaking Live from Space: Lap of the Planet on Channel 4, we sent a series of questions over to Nasa's base in Houston for the show's host Dermot O'Leary.
Does he believe in aliens? Who would he pack off in a spaceship? And what would he miss the most if he was an astronaut?
Favourite song about space?
'Space Oddity'/'Life on Mars' super segue.
Favourite space movie?
Empire Strikes Back, but Deep Impact is my favourite matinée movie.
If you were locked on a spaceship with someone, who would you want it to be?
My good friend Ivor Baddiel who's typing this answer right now... but give me a box set of Game of Thrones and I'm anyone's.
Do you believe in aliens?
I believe in something - washing machines...
Have you ever seen a UFO?
No, but I've seen rock group UFO... I haven't really.
Does he believe in aliens? Who would he pack off in a spaceship? And what would he miss the most if he was an astronaut?
Favourite song about space?
'Space Oddity'/'Life on Mars' super segue.
Favourite space movie?
Empire Strikes Back, but Deep Impact is my favourite matinée movie.
If you were locked on a spaceship with someone, who would you want it to be?
My good friend Ivor Baddiel who's typing this answer right now... but give me a box set of Game of Thrones and I'm anyone's.
Do you believe in aliens?
I believe in something - washing machines...
Have you ever seen a UFO?
No, but I've seen rock group UFO... I haven't really.
- 3/16/2014
- Digital Spy
This month Jason is joined by writer and comedian David Baddiel and the literary editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Gerald Jacobs.
Baddiel discusses why he and his brother Ivor decided to make a star-studded film, The Y-Word to kick antisemitism out of football once and for all. But Jacobs, a lifelong Spurs fan, argues that the y-word is a badge of honour and shouldn't be taken too seriously.
Baddiel also reads from his widely acclaimed new novel, The Death of Eli Gold, and explains why the great American Jewish writers from Philip Roth to Saul Bellow loom so large.
What about Roth's recent win of the International Man Booker? It prompted one of the three judges, Carmen Callil, to resign, accusing Roth of writing about the same subject over and over again, branding his work suffocating and likening it to "someone sitting on your face". Some wonder if what Callil...
Baddiel discusses why he and his brother Ivor decided to make a star-studded film, The Y-Word to kick antisemitism out of football once and for all. But Jacobs, a lifelong Spurs fan, argues that the y-word is a badge of honour and shouldn't be taken too seriously.
Baddiel also reads from his widely acclaimed new novel, The Death of Eli Gold, and explains why the great American Jewish writers from Philip Roth to Saul Bellow loom so large.
What about Roth's recent win of the International Man Booker? It prompted one of the three judges, Carmen Callil, to resign, accusing Roth of writing about the same subject over and over again, branding his work suffocating and likening it to "someone sitting on your face". Some wonder if what Callil...
- 6/1/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
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