British Comedy Legend Billy Connolly To Be Given BAFTA Fellowship
Pioneering Scottish comedian Billy Connolly is to be given the BAFTA Fellowship at this year’s Virgin Media BAFTA TV Awards. Connolly, who has been active on the British TV and standup circuit for almost 50 years, will be handed the highest achievement bestowed by BAFTA at Sunday’s ceremony, an award that has previously been given to the likes of Judi Dench, David Attenborough and Joanna Lumley. The award comes almost 30 years after Connolly won his first BAFTA in the BAFTA Scotland Entertainment category. Having left school at 15 to become a Welder, he was catapulted to fame in 1975 after a particularly outrageous appearance on BBC chatshow Parkinson and went on to make a variety of comedy shows, films and docs including the likes of the legendary An Audience with Billy Connolly standup, and he is still active today. Connolly said: “I am deeply honoured.
Pioneering Scottish comedian Billy Connolly is to be given the BAFTA Fellowship at this year’s Virgin Media BAFTA TV Awards. Connolly, who has been active on the British TV and standup circuit for almost 50 years, will be handed the highest achievement bestowed by BAFTA at Sunday’s ceremony, an award that has previously been given to the likes of Judi Dench, David Attenborough and Joanna Lumley. The award comes almost 30 years after Connolly won his first BAFTA in the BAFTA Scotland Entertainment category. Having left school at 15 to become a Welder, he was catapulted to fame in 1975 after a particularly outrageous appearance on BBC chatshow Parkinson and went on to make a variety of comedy shows, films and docs including the likes of the legendary An Audience with Billy Connolly standup, and he is still active today. Connolly said: “I am deeply honoured.
- 5/3/2022
- by Max Goldbart, Jesse Whittock and Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
Even when Dolly Parton wasn’t onstage performing or co-hosting the 2022 ACM Awards, she still had an outsized presence. The Country Music Hall of Fame member received a one-of-a-kind tribute during Monday’s streaming show when pop star (and talk-show host) Kelly Clarkson sang “I Will Always Love You.”
It was a typically majestic performance for Clarkson, who wowed not only with huge notes and vocal runs, but with the restraint she showed in the performance.
One of Parton’s best-known songs, “I Will Always Love You” has been through several iterations.
It was a typically majestic performance for Clarkson, who wowed not only with huge notes and vocal runs, but with the restraint she showed in the performance.
One of Parton’s best-known songs, “I Will Always Love You” has been through several iterations.
- 3/8/2022
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
Ahead of the big-screen CBeebies Christmas panto – and a new Shaun the Sheep TV special – we need your questions for the kingpin of British children’s TV
Take your finger and touch your keyboard, think three times and off you go … We need your questions for the UK supremo of children’s television, Justin Fletcher.
Fletcher, 51, generally has at least three different shows on each day as linchpins of the CBeebies schedule: Justin’s House, which has lately returned for a new series in the breakfast spot, and Something Special, now on its 12th series (and nearly 20th year).
Take your finger and touch your keyboard, think three times and off you go … We need your questions for the UK supremo of children’s television, Justin Fletcher.
Fletcher, 51, generally has at least three different shows on each day as linchpins of the CBeebies schedule: Justin’s House, which has lately returned for a new series in the breakfast spot, and Something Special, now on its 12th series (and nearly 20th year).
- 12/1/2021
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
ViacomCBS Networks International is deepening its ties in Asia through a new deal signed with South Korean company Something Special to co-develop TV formats.
Inked by ViacomCBS division Vis, the deal gives the U.S. company exclusive first-look rights to globally represent and co-develop up to ten of Something Special’s top unscripted and factual entertainment formats. The categories of programming will span music competition, food and cuisine, game shows and reality, targeting all demographics.
Something Special was launched in late 2019 by Korean TV veterans Hwang Jin Woo (former format head at Cj E&m) and Kim In-soo (previously head ...
Inked by ViacomCBS division Vis, the deal gives the U.S. company exclusive first-look rights to globally represent and co-develop up to ten of Something Special’s top unscripted and factual entertainment formats. The categories of programming will span music competition, food and cuisine, game shows and reality, targeting all demographics.
Something Special was launched in late 2019 by Korean TV veterans Hwang Jin Woo (former format head at Cj E&m) and Kim In-soo (previously head ...
ViacomCBS Networks International is deepening its ties in Asia through a new deal signed with South Korean company Something Special to co-develop TV formats.
Inked by ViacomCBS division Vis, the deal gives the U.S. company exclusive first-look rights to globally represent and co-develop up to ten of Something Special’s top unscripted and factual entertainment formats. The categories of programming will span music competition, food and cuisine, game shows and reality, targeting all demographics.
Something Special was launched in late 2019 by Korean TV veterans Hwang Jin Woo (former format head at Cj E&m) and Kim In-soo (previously head ...
Inked by ViacomCBS division Vis, the deal gives the U.S. company exclusive first-look rights to globally represent and co-develop up to ten of Something Special’s top unscripted and factual entertainment formats. The categories of programming will span music competition, food and cuisine, game shows and reality, targeting all demographics.
Something Special was launched in late 2019 by Korean TV veterans Hwang Jin Woo (former format head at Cj E&m) and Kim In-soo (previously head ...
Viacom International Studios has inked a first-look deal with South Korean production studio Something Special.
Under the deal, Vis will have exclusive first-look rights to globally represent and co-develop up to 10 of Something Special’s top unscripted and factual entertainment formats.
Founded by Jin Woo Hwang, the company acts as a bridge between content creators and those wanting to tap into Korean talent following the international success of shows including The Masked Singer and I Can See Your Voice.
Something Special’s stable of talent includes those who have worked on shows including Korea’s Got Talent, 1vs100 Korea, Society Game, The Code, I Can See Your Voice, The Voice Korea, Running Man, and Crime Scene.
ITV Studios signed a co-development deal with South Korea’s Something Special last year.
Under the deal, Vis will have exclusive first-look rights to globally represent and co-develop up to 10 of Something Special’s top unscripted and factual entertainment formats.
Founded by Jin Woo Hwang, the company acts as a bridge between content creators and those wanting to tap into Korean talent following the international success of shows including The Masked Singer and I Can See Your Voice.
Something Special’s stable of talent includes those who have worked on shows including Korea’s Got Talent, 1vs100 Korea, Society Game, The Code, I Can See Your Voice, The Voice Korea, Running Man, and Crime Scene.
ITV Studios signed a co-development deal with South Korea’s Something Special last year.
- 3/9/2021
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
TelevisionThe latest season has well-known faces from cinema, TV and the internet.Tnm StaffTwitter/Nagarjuna Akkineni The fourth season of the popular reality show Bigg Boss Telugu, being filmed in the middle of the pandemic, has begun. The first episode aired on Sunday evening at 6 pm. Tollywood actor Nagarjuna has returned to host the show for a second consecutive season, and the 16 contestants who are part of the new season were finally introduced to the audience. Reports had suggested that all the contestants had been placed under quarantine and medical supervision, as a precaution against Covid-19. While some of the contestants’ names had been doing the rounds from weeks before the show finally aired, many names also caught audiences by surprise. Here’s the full list of the 16 contestants who will be seen in Bigg Boss Telugu Season 4. Monal Gajjar (Actor) Monal is an actor who has appeared in Telugu...
- 9/7/2020
- by Jahnavi
- The News Minute
Last summer, you couldn’t walk a block in Brooklyn without hearing Pop Smoke’s “Welcome to the Party” or “Dior” blasting out of an apartment or passing car. Now, five months after the 20-year-old phenom was shot and killed during a home invasion—an incalculable loss for New York rap—he remains the toast of the city. Since late May, his songs have been repurposed as rallying cries at Black Lives Matter demonstrations, for reasons that have to do with both his story and his sound. He grew up...
- 7/6/2020
- by Danny Schwartz
- Rollingstone.com
Fans loved The X-Files for a lot of reasons. The creatures were creepy. The stories were spooky. The conspiracy was intriguing. And the production values made each episode look like an hour-long movie. However, if you ask the show’s die-hard fans — the X-Philes — about the one thing they loved most about the show, [...]
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- 6/17/2020
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
A review of tonight's "Louie" coming up just as soon as my mascara is running... What a tumultuous relationship "Louie" — both character and show — can have with women. There are times when Louie is the biggest clod in the world and deserving of every last bit of grief he gets from perfectly nice and sane women, and then there are other times where he winds up suffering abundant humiliation — or worse — simply because he crossed paths with the wrong pile of crazy at the wrong moment. "Bobby's Place" is all about the latter encounter, combining a bunch of past Louie mortifications into one sharknado-sized nightmare whose only benefit is providing a reason for Louie's brother to feel better about his life at the episode's end than he did at its beginning. We've seen a woman (no less than Oscar Winner Melissa Leo) force herself sexually on Louie. We've seen a woman (Rip,...
- 5/1/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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