Jenny Morrill Sep 1, 2016
Fancy watching people try to get off with each other via average cooking, awkward chat and terrible puns? Step this way...
Do you like food? Do you also like watching people failing to bond over food? Then Dinner Date is the show is for you.
I started watching Dinner Date when I was ill, and could do nothing but lie on the settee watching ITV Ovaries. Dinner Date came on and, as a regular watcher of Come Dine With Me, this got my attention. Dinner Date is Come Dine With Me if all the contestants were expected to have sex at the end. Also, Dinner Date has its own Come Dine With Me-style piss-taking narrator, in the form of ITV's Dave-Lamb-with-a-fanny Natalie Casey. What's not to love?
Here's how the show works: a man or woman, usually called Gaz or Kelli, goes to three people's houses...
Fancy watching people try to get off with each other via average cooking, awkward chat and terrible puns? Step this way...
Do you like food? Do you also like watching people failing to bond over food? Then Dinner Date is the show is for you.
I started watching Dinner Date when I was ill, and could do nothing but lie on the settee watching ITV Ovaries. Dinner Date came on and, as a regular watcher of Come Dine With Me, this got my attention. Dinner Date is Come Dine With Me if all the contestants were expected to have sex at the end. Also, Dinner Date has its own Come Dine With Me-style piss-taking narrator, in the form of ITV's Dave-Lamb-with-a-fanny Natalie Casey. What's not to love?
Here's how the show works: a man or woman, usually called Gaz or Kelli, goes to three people's houses...
- 8/1/2016
- Den of Geek
Sondheim production wins five gongs at awards voted for by public, while Tim Minchin, Danny Boyle and Mel C also triumph
If Sweeney Todd reckons his razors are his only friends, Fleet Street's most famous coiffeur should think again after Chichester Festival theatre's production won every prize it was up for at last night's Whatsonstage Theatregoers' Choice awards.
Following a six-month West End run, Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical took five awards, including best musical revival. Stars Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton took home the gongs for leading musical performances, while director Jonathan Kent and lighting designer Mark Henderson also garnered the most votes in their respective categories.
As is traditional with these awards, which are voted for by the public, it was a good night for the crowd-friendly musical theatre. Tim Minchin and Melanie Chisholm won the supporting musical actor awards for their performances in the arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar...
If Sweeney Todd reckons his razors are his only friends, Fleet Street's most famous coiffeur should think again after Chichester Festival theatre's production won every prize it was up for at last night's Whatsonstage Theatregoers' Choice awards.
Following a six-month West End run, Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical took five awards, including best musical revival. Stars Michael Ball and Imelda Staunton took home the gongs for leading musical performances, while director Jonathan Kent and lighting designer Mark Henderson also garnered the most votes in their respective categories.
As is traditional with these awards, which are voted for by the public, it was a good night for the crowd-friendly musical theatre. Tim Minchin and Melanie Chisholm won the supporting musical actor awards for their performances in the arena tour of Jesus Christ Superstar...
- 2/18/2013
- by Matt Trueman
- The Guardian - Film News
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
The 1977 Play for Today recording of Abigail’s Party has become such a cemented part of British contemporary drama, that when going into Lindsay Posner’s revival currently playing at the Wyndnam’s Theatre just off Leicester Square I felt that I already knew the plays lead Beverly better than some of my own friends. It was very pleasing then to see that Jill Halfpenny more than measures up against Alison Steadman’s performance, and that Abigail’s Party is a fine revival.
Mike Leigh’s comedy of social manners and class aspiration has lost none of its potency or bite since its premier over 30 years ago, and director Lindsay Posner perfectly pitches his revival between excruciating embarrassment and all out comedy. It’s 1977 and un-happily married couple Beverly and Laurence invite the new couple that have just moved in across the street (Tony and Angela...
The 1977 Play for Today recording of Abigail’s Party has become such a cemented part of British contemporary drama, that when going into Lindsay Posner’s revival currently playing at the Wyndnam’s Theatre just off Leicester Square I felt that I already knew the plays lead Beverly better than some of my own friends. It was very pleasing then to see that Jill Halfpenny more than measures up against Alison Steadman’s performance, and that Abigail’s Party is a fine revival.
Mike Leigh’s comedy of social manners and class aspiration has lost none of its potency or bite since its premier over 30 years ago, and director Lindsay Posner perfectly pitches his revival between excruciating embarrassment and all out comedy. It’s 1977 and un-happily married couple Beverly and Laurence invite the new couple that have just moved in across the street (Tony and Angela...
- 5/31/2012
- by Will Pond
- Obsessed with Film
Menier Chocolate Factory, London
The fun starts, in Lindsay Posner's triumphant production of Mike Leigh's best-known play, before Beverly has even sorted out the nibbles, as we inspect Mike Britton's 70s masterpiece of a set (burnt orange colour-coordination, faux sheepskin carpet, cheeseplant, hideous "fibrelight" – the works). Jill Halfpenny's Beverly is fantastic (to use one of her favourite words) throughout. She is a brilliant dancer and as she gets going in her over-the-top green ballgown to Demis Roussos's "Forever and Ever", the rest of the cast look ever more passive, woebegone and excruciated. Halfpenny perfectly catches Bev's dark side – her selfishness, sexual frustration and dangerous stupidity. Catatonic "Tone" is excellently played, with aggressive edge, by Joe Absolom, and Andy Nyman is spot-on as Bev's almost sympathetic husband Laurence. Natalie Casey's priceless Angela, a nurse, dresses like a shepherdess doll and asks for gin as if it were Ovaltine,...
The fun starts, in Lindsay Posner's triumphant production of Mike Leigh's best-known play, before Beverly has even sorted out the nibbles, as we inspect Mike Britton's 70s masterpiece of a set (burnt orange colour-coordination, faux sheepskin carpet, cheeseplant, hideous "fibrelight" – the works). Jill Halfpenny's Beverly is fantastic (to use one of her favourite words) throughout. She is a brilliant dancer and as she gets going in her over-the-top green ballgown to Demis Roussos's "Forever and Ever", the rest of the cast look ever more passive, woebegone and excruciated. Halfpenny perfectly catches Bev's dark side – her selfishness, sexual frustration and dangerous stupidity. Catatonic "Tone" is excellently played, with aggressive edge, by Joe Absolom, and Andy Nyman is spot-on as Bev's almost sympathetic husband Laurence. Natalie Casey's priceless Angela, a nurse, dresses like a shepherdess doll and asks for gin as if it were Ovaltine,...
- 3/11/2012
- by Kate Kellaway
- The Guardian - Film News
Menier Chocolate Factory, London
Mike Leigh has often been accused of condescension towards his characters. Lindsay Posner's perceptive revival of this 1977 landmark reminds us that we are not being invited, unless we so choose, to mock the social aspirations of Leigh's Essex quintet: in reality, the play is a Strindbergian study of marital hell and of a joyless materialism that has since become the defining characteristic of British life.
There are no grotesques in Posner's production: simply a group of people whose lives are steeped in rancour and sadness. Beverly taunts and sexually humiliates her estate-agent husband, Laurence, while he patronises her for her impracticality and presumed lack of taste in liking Demis Roussos. Meanwhile Tony, the surly ex-footballer whom Beverly sets out to seduce, behaves with thuggish violence towards a wife whose mouth he threatens to seal with Sellotape. And Susan, the middle-class divorcee fleeing her punkish daughter's rumbustious party,...
Mike Leigh has often been accused of condescension towards his characters. Lindsay Posner's perceptive revival of this 1977 landmark reminds us that we are not being invited, unless we so choose, to mock the social aspirations of Leigh's Essex quintet: in reality, the play is a Strindbergian study of marital hell and of a joyless materialism that has since become the defining characteristic of British life.
There are no grotesques in Posner's production: simply a group of people whose lives are steeped in rancour and sadness. Beverly taunts and sexually humiliates her estate-agent husband, Laurence, while he patronises her for her impracticality and presumed lack of taste in liking Demis Roussos. Meanwhile Tony, the surly ex-footballer whom Beverly sets out to seduce, behaves with thuggish violence towards a wife whose mouth he threatens to seal with Sellotape. And Susan, the middle-class divorcee fleeing her punkish daughter's rumbustious party,...
- 3/10/2012
- by Michael Billington
- The Guardian - Film News
There are new faces in Runcorn as Susan Nickson's popular sitcom returns to BBC Three for a ninth series this spring.
18 year old Georgia Henshaw (who starred in Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging and played Jj's girlfriend in Skins) plays Cassie, a feisty young girl who has just been released from a juvenile detention centre, she's also Tim's sister, and although he'd rather like it if she left The Archer, her old school crush, Billy, is a regular, so there's no way she's going anywhere. Georgia (represented by Mark Jermin Management) will also be seen this year in two low-budget feature films - In the Dark Half and Seamonsters.
24 year old Freddie Hogan (represented by Mondi Associates) joins the cast as Billy. Wannabe footballer and metrosexual Billy works as a carer for Gaz, who has been left paralysed following his accident at the end of the last series.
Gaz is played by Will Mellor,...
18 year old Georgia Henshaw (who starred in Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging and played Jj's girlfriend in Skins) plays Cassie, a feisty young girl who has just been released from a juvenile detention centre, she's also Tim's sister, and although he'd rather like it if she left The Archer, her old school crush, Billy, is a regular, so there's no way she's going anywhere. Georgia (represented by Mark Jermin Management) will also be seen this year in two low-budget feature films - In the Dark Half and Seamonsters.
24 year old Freddie Hogan (represented by Mondi Associates) joins the cast as Billy. Wannabe footballer and metrosexual Billy works as a carer for Gaz, who has been left paralysed following his accident at the end of the last series.
Gaz is played by Will Mellor,...
- 4/22/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.