Exclusive: Pair will star in road comedy from UK production outfit Scoop Films.
Greg Wise (Sense And Sensibility) and Alice Sykes (Cradle To Grave) will lead After Louise, a road comedy from UK production company Scoop Films.
The film follows Kath (Sykes), a shy young woman who runs out on her wedding to go in search of her mother whom she has been separated from since childhood. In the process, she accidentally kidnaps Bob (Wise), a reclusive gardener with a sinister secret.
David Scheinmann (Believe) will co-direct with his brother Danny Scheinmann from a script by Michael Mueller (The Beat Beneath My Feet).
Mueller will produce alongside Fiona Gillies and Raj Sharma for Scoop.
The company’s previous feature The Beat Beneath My Feet starred Screen star of tomorrow Nicholas Galitzine and was nominated for a Crystal Bear at the 2015 Berlinale’s Generation 14Plus strand, as well as a Raindance prize at the 2014 British Independent Film Awards...
Greg Wise (Sense And Sensibility) and Alice Sykes (Cradle To Grave) will lead After Louise, a road comedy from UK production company Scoop Films.
The film follows Kath (Sykes), a shy young woman who runs out on her wedding to go in search of her mother whom she has been separated from since childhood. In the process, she accidentally kidnaps Bob (Wise), a reclusive gardener with a sinister secret.
David Scheinmann (Believe) will co-direct with his brother Danny Scheinmann from a script by Michael Mueller (The Beat Beneath My Feet).
Mueller will produce alongside Fiona Gillies and Raj Sharma for Scoop.
The company’s previous feature The Beat Beneath My Feet starred Screen star of tomorrow Nicholas Galitzine and was nominated for a Crystal Bear at the 2015 Berlinale’s Generation 14Plus strand, as well as a Raindance prize at the 2014 British Independent Film Awards...
- 3/18/2016
- ScreenDaily
Laurie Kynaston stars as a young Danny Baker in new BBC comedy Cradle to Grave, an adaptation of Danny Baker’s autobiography which has just begun filming in Manchester.
He will star alongside Peter Kay as Danny’s father, Fred ‘Spud’ Baker, and Lucy Speed as long-suffering wife Bet Baker.
Alice Sykes (represented by Troika) and Frankie Wilson (represented by Middleweek Newton) play Danny’s siblings Sharon and Michael.
This is 21 year old Laurie's (represented by Felix De Wolfe) first lead role, after guest roles in BBC Doctors and Casualty.
Set in 1974, the eight-part series follows the real life events of Danny and his family, with the 15 year-old Danny Baker as the guide through the ups and downs of life with the family. Fred ‘Spud’ Baker (Peter Kay) is a proud south London docker with a penchant for cheeky scheming. Wife Bet (Lucy Speed) loves him deeply but longs for...
He will star alongside Peter Kay as Danny’s father, Fred ‘Spud’ Baker, and Lucy Speed as long-suffering wife Bet Baker.
Alice Sykes (represented by Troika) and Frankie Wilson (represented by Middleweek Newton) play Danny’s siblings Sharon and Michael.
This is 21 year old Laurie's (represented by Felix De Wolfe) first lead role, after guest roles in BBC Doctors and Casualty.
Set in 1974, the eight-part series follows the real life events of Danny and his family, with the 15 year-old Danny Baker as the guide through the ups and downs of life with the family. Fred ‘Spud’ Baker (Peter Kay) is a proud south London docker with a penchant for cheeky scheming. Wife Bet (Lucy Speed) loves him deeply but longs for...
- 3/7/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Peter Kay is to star in a new BBC Two comedy based on Danny Baker's autobiography, Going to Sea in a Sieve.
Set in 1974, Cradle to Grave will follow the real-life events of Baker and his family across eight 30-minute episodes.
Co-written by Jeff Pope and Baker, the series is due to be broadcast on BBC Two later this year.
Kay will play Danny's father, south London docker Fred 'Spud' Baker, alongside Lucy Speed as his long-suffering wife Bet Baker.
Laurie Kynaston will star as a young Danny and Alice Sykes and Frankie Wilson as Danny's siblings, the soon-to-be-married Sharon and her brother Michael.
"I am thrilled and honoured to be involved in a project of this scale," said Kay.
"I've never known anything like it before - eight period half-hour episodes, shot as feature films and written to an extremely high standard by Danny Baker and Jeff Pope.
Set in 1974, Cradle to Grave will follow the real-life events of Baker and his family across eight 30-minute episodes.
Co-written by Jeff Pope and Baker, the series is due to be broadcast on BBC Two later this year.
Kay will play Danny's father, south London docker Fred 'Spud' Baker, alongside Lucy Speed as his long-suffering wife Bet Baker.
Laurie Kynaston will star as a young Danny and Alice Sykes and Frankie Wilson as Danny's siblings, the soon-to-be-married Sharon and her brother Michael.
"I am thrilled and honoured to be involved in a project of this scale," said Kay.
"I've never known anything like it before - eight period half-hour episodes, shot as feature films and written to an extremely high standard by Danny Baker and Jeff Pope.
- 3/7/2015
- Digital Spy
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