Simon Carlyle, the co-creator of hit BBC sitcom Two Doors Down, has died aged 48.
Carlyle’s manager Amanda Davis confirmed the news in a statement to Pa Media.
“I am immensely sorry to confirm that Simon Carlyle has died at the age of 48,” Davis said.
“Simon was a wonderful person and a major comedic talent. He was much respected across the industry both for the quality of his writing and for being a kind, funny, supportive and nurturing collaborator. Our thoughts and deepest sympathies go to his family, friends and colleagues.”
With Gregor Sharp, Carlyle was the co-creator of Scottish BBC sitcom Two Doors Down, which stars the likes of Arabella Weir and Alex Norton as neighbours in a suburban street in Scotland, who are “all a bit nuts,” according to an interview with Carlyle several years ago.
The show has been hugely popular, running for six seasons on BBC Two...
Carlyle’s manager Amanda Davis confirmed the news in a statement to Pa Media.
“I am immensely sorry to confirm that Simon Carlyle has died at the age of 48,” Davis said.
“Simon was a wonderful person and a major comedic talent. He was much respected across the industry both for the quality of his writing and for being a kind, funny, supportive and nurturing collaborator. Our thoughts and deepest sympathies go to his family, friends and colleagues.”
With Gregor Sharp, Carlyle was the co-creator of Scottish BBC sitcom Two Doors Down, which stars the likes of Arabella Weir and Alex Norton as neighbours in a suburban street in Scotland, who are “all a bit nuts,” according to an interview with Carlyle several years ago.
The show has been hugely popular, running for six seasons on BBC Two...
- 8/10/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Hulu has acquired Daisy May Cooper’s hit BBC comedy-thriller Am I Being Unreasonable?
The streamer has taken U.S. rights to all six episodes of the genre-bending comedy, which was written by the This Country creator and Selin Hizli (Mum), and exec produced by Jack Thorne. Show will debut as a Hulu original on April 11. BBC Studios struck the deal, having shopped the show at Mipcom Cannes.
Am I Being Unreasonable?, which has been recommissioned for a second season, aired to critical acclaim on the BBC last September and is considered a frontrunner for the upcoming UK TV awards season.
The six-parter from Boffola Pictures and Happy Valley producer Lookout Point follows Nic (Cooper), a mother grieving a loss that she can’t share with anyone whilst stuck in a depressing marriage. Only her son, Ollie, keeps her going. But when Jen (Hizli) arrives in town,...
The streamer has taken U.S. rights to all six episodes of the genre-bending comedy, which was written by the This Country creator and Selin Hizli (Mum), and exec produced by Jack Thorne. Show will debut as a Hulu original on April 11. BBC Studios struck the deal, having shopped the show at Mipcom Cannes.
Am I Being Unreasonable?, which has been recommissioned for a second season, aired to critical acclaim on the BBC last September and is considered a frontrunner for the upcoming UK TV awards season.
The six-parter from Boffola Pictures and Happy Valley producer Lookout Point follows Nic (Cooper), a mother grieving a loss that she can’t share with anyone whilst stuck in a depressing marriage. Only her son, Ollie, keeps her going. But when Jen (Hizli) arrives in town,...
- 2/21/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
All change! No sooner had Mike Wozniak charmed the nation by undermining a vole, and put us all off our tea with his downstairs casserole, than it was all over. The current cohort of Taskmaster contestants have finished their last task, and it’s time for a new set of contenders. Please give a warm welcome to series 12 contestants: Desiree Burch, Victoria Coren-Mitchell, Alan Davies, Guz Khan and Morgana Robinson.
Series 12 is set to air at an unconfirmed date later this year on Taskmaster’s still-relatively new home of Channel 4. It’s “Coming Soon” according to the post-finale teaser.
Also arriving in 2021 is the show’s second Champion of Champions special miniseries. That one is set to welcome back the overall winners from series six to ten: Ed Gamble, Lou Sanders, Kerry Godliman, Liza Tarbuck and Richard Herring. If Taskmaster keeps going until series 25 then presumably they’ll be...
Series 12 is set to air at an unconfirmed date later this year on Taskmaster’s still-relatively new home of Channel 4. It’s “Coming Soon” according to the post-finale teaser.
Also arriving in 2021 is the show’s second Champion of Champions special miniseries. That one is set to welcome back the overall winners from series six to ten: Ed Gamble, Lou Sanders, Kerry Godliman, Liza Tarbuck and Richard Herring. If Taskmaster keeps going until series 25 then presumably they’ll be...
- 5/20/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Doom Patrol has found its Madame Rouge in The Flight Attendant‘s Michelle Gomez.
Gomez, who also appeared as Madam Satan in Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, will join as a series regular and act alongside Diane Guerrero, April Bowlby and Matt Bomer in Doom Patrol season 3. She will appear as the DC Universe’s complicated and electrifying eccentric, who arrives at Doom Manor with a very specific mission… if only she could remember it.
In Doom Patrol, the ragtag group consists of superhero outcasts Cliff Steele aka Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Larry Trainor aka Negative Man (Bomer), Jane aka Crazy Jane (Guerrero), Rita Farr aka Elasti-Woman (Bowlby), and Victor Stone aka Cyborg (Joivan Wade). All of them have experienced trauma that gave them their special abilities, but with the guidance of The Chief (Timothy Dalton), they come together to help investigate phenomena as unique as them. When The Chief disappears,...
Gomez, who also appeared as Madam Satan in Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, will join as a series regular and act alongside Diane Guerrero, April Bowlby and Matt Bomer in Doom Patrol season 3. She will appear as the DC Universe’s complicated and electrifying eccentric, who arrives at Doom Manor with a very specific mission… if only she could remember it.
In Doom Patrol, the ragtag group consists of superhero outcasts Cliff Steele aka Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Larry Trainor aka Negative Man (Bomer), Jane aka Crazy Jane (Guerrero), Rita Farr aka Elasti-Woman (Bowlby), and Victor Stone aka Cyborg (Joivan Wade). All of them have experienced trauma that gave them their special abilities, but with the guidance of The Chief (Timothy Dalton), they come together to help investigate phenomena as unique as them. When The Chief disappears,...
- 3/10/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
2020 in British TV comedy brought us Maisie Williams as a kickass survivalist in a pickle, and a new parenting comedy from the hugely talented Simon Blackwell and Chris Addison starring Martin Freeman.
To add to that, there was also a fresh batch of comedians playing exaggerated versions of themselves in self-penned sitcoms, including Katherine Ryan, Mae Martin, Sara Pascoe, Kayleigh Llewellyn, Lucy Beaumont and Jon Richardson.
Here’s the skinny on all those new shows and more. Here’s what arrived in 2019, and here are the new British TV dramas that arrived in 2020.
Breeders
After their excellent 2014 relationship comedy Trying Again, Chris Addison and Simon Blackwell teamed up on a new series, this time about the trials of parenthood. Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard played parents in this ten-part half-hour comedy, a co-production between Sky in the UK and FX in the US. Watch the first trailer here.
Bumps
Available...
To add to that, there was also a fresh batch of comedians playing exaggerated versions of themselves in self-penned sitcoms, including Katherine Ryan, Mae Martin, Sara Pascoe, Kayleigh Llewellyn, Lucy Beaumont and Jon Richardson.
Here’s the skinny on all those new shows and more. Here’s what arrived in 2019, and here are the new British TV dramas that arrived in 2020.
Breeders
After their excellent 2014 relationship comedy Trying Again, Chris Addison and Simon Blackwell teamed up on a new series, this time about the trials of parenthood. Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard played parents in this ten-part half-hour comedy, a co-production between Sky in the UK and FX in the US. Watch the first trailer here.
Bumps
Available...
- 1/12/2021
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Emma Thompson is set to star in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, a comedy about sex, desire and fulfillment from Sophie Hyde, director of 2019 Sundance hit drama Animals.
Based on the original screenplay by British Comedy award-winner Katy Brand (Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show, Rose D’Or winner Psychobitches), the film will center on Nancy Stokes (Thompson), a 55-year-old widow who is yearning for some adventure, some human connection, and some sex. Good sex. For the first time in her life.
Whilst her husband Robert provided a home, a family, something resembling a life, that was never on offer. But he’s gone ...
Based on the original screenplay by British Comedy award-winner Katy Brand (Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show, Rose D’Or winner Psychobitches), the film will center on Nancy Stokes (Thompson), a 55-year-old widow who is yearning for some adventure, some human connection, and some sex. Good sex. For the first time in her life.
Whilst her husband Robert provided a home, a family, something resembling a life, that was never on offer. But he’s gone ...
- 10/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Emma Thompson is set to star in Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, a comedy about sex, desire and fulfillment from Sophie Hyde, director of 2019 Sundance hit drama Animals.
Based on the original screenplay by British Comedy award-winner Katy Brand (Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show, Rose D’Or winner Psychobitches), the film will center on Nancy Stokes (Thompson), a 55-year-old widow who is yearning for some adventure, some human connection, and some sex. Good sex. For the first time in her life.
Whilst her husband Robert provided a home, a family, something resembling a life, that was never on offer. But he’s gone ...
Based on the original screenplay by British Comedy award-winner Katy Brand (Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show, Rose D’Or winner Psychobitches), the film will center on Nancy Stokes (Thompson), a 55-year-old widow who is yearning for some adventure, some human connection, and some sex. Good sex. For the first time in her life.
Whilst her husband Robert provided a home, a family, something resembling a life, that was never on offer. But he’s gone ...
- 10/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Carnival Films, the NBCUniversal-owned production company behind “Downton Abbey,” has set up the Collective, an initiative that will see it work with up-and-coming writers and create a new drama development slate.
The first writers in the program are Grace Ofori-Attah (“In the Long Run”), Ben Lewis (“Psychobitches”), Roanne Bardsley (“Hollyoaks”), James Fritz (“Parliament Square”), and comedy and drama duo Matilda Wnek and Ryan O’Sullivan (“Other People”).
Carnival’s head of development, Jo Strevens will oversee the initiative with development producer, Tara Cook, and development executive, Claire Daxter. The London-based production company will train and guide the writers to work up new projects in response to briefs from broadcasters. “Carnival aims to create a fresh development slate with the Collective talent, in direct response to broadcaster needs,” the company said.
Carnival, which makes “The Last Kingdom” and “Stan Lee’s Lucky Man,” has employed breakout talent on several of its shows including “Jamestown.
The first writers in the program are Grace Ofori-Attah (“In the Long Run”), Ben Lewis (“Psychobitches”), Roanne Bardsley (“Hollyoaks”), James Fritz (“Parliament Square”), and comedy and drama duo Matilda Wnek and Ryan O’Sullivan (“Other People”).
Carnival’s head of development, Jo Strevens will oversee the initiative with development producer, Tara Cook, and development executive, Claire Daxter. The London-based production company will train and guide the writers to work up new projects in response to briefs from broadcasters. “Carnival aims to create a fresh development slate with the Collective talent, in direct response to broadcaster needs,” the company said.
Carnival, which makes “The Last Kingdom” and “Stan Lee’s Lucky Man,” has employed breakout talent on several of its shows including “Jamestown.
- 7/9/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix’s Sabrina the Teenage Witch series has conjured some more casting.
Doctor Who alum Michelle Gomez has joined the as-yet-untitled project in the series regular role of Mary Wardell, a Baxter High teacher who, once possessed by Madam Satan, turns into a sultry manipulator that tries to lure Sabrina down the Path of Night.
The Scotswoman’s previous TV credits also include Gotham, Sky Arts’ Psychobitches and BBC Three’s Bad Education.
Our sister site Deadline also reports that newcomer Chance Perdomo (right) has been cast as Ambrose Spellman, Sabrina’s puckish, pansexual warlock cousin from England.
Mad Men...
Doctor Who alum Michelle Gomez has joined the as-yet-untitled project in the series regular role of Mary Wardell, a Baxter High teacher who, once possessed by Madam Satan, turns into a sultry manipulator that tries to lure Sabrina down the Path of Night.
The Scotswoman’s previous TV credits also include Gotham, Sky Arts’ Psychobitches and BBC Three’s Bad Education.
Our sister site Deadline also reports that newcomer Chance Perdomo (right) has been cast as Ambrose Spellman, Sabrina’s puckish, pansexual warlock cousin from England.
Mad Men...
- 2/15/2018
- TVLine.com
Exclusive: Warp Films and Altitude Film Sales team on Jeremy Dyson-Andy Nyman thriller.
Sherlock co-star Martin Freeman (The Hobbit franchise), George MacKay (Pride) and Andy Nyman (Death At A Funeral) are to star in a feature version of well-received supernatural stage production Ghost Stories, co-written and directed by Jeremy Dyson (The League of Gentlemen) and Nyman, who will reprise his role as professor Goodman.
Principal photography is due to get underway in September with Claire Jones (Sightseers) producing alongside Warp Films’ Robin Gutch (’71). Altitude Films has boarded sales on the thriller and will introduce buyers to the project at the Efm.
In Ghost Stories, Phillip Goodman, professor of psychology and arch-skeptic has his rationality tested to the hilt when he receives a letter apparently from beyond the grave.
His mentor Charles Cameron, the ‘original’ TV parapsychologist went missing fifteen years before, presumed dead and yet now he writes to Goodman saying that the pair must...
Sherlock co-star Martin Freeman (The Hobbit franchise), George MacKay (Pride) and Andy Nyman (Death At A Funeral) are to star in a feature version of well-received supernatural stage production Ghost Stories, co-written and directed by Jeremy Dyson (The League of Gentlemen) and Nyman, who will reprise his role as professor Goodman.
Principal photography is due to get underway in September with Claire Jones (Sightseers) producing alongside Warp Films’ Robin Gutch (’71). Altitude Films has boarded sales on the thriller and will introduce buyers to the project at the Efm.
In Ghost Stories, Phillip Goodman, professor of psychology and arch-skeptic has his rationality tested to the hilt when he receives a letter apparently from beyond the grave.
His mentor Charles Cameron, the ‘original’ TV parapsychologist went missing fifteen years before, presumed dead and yet now he writes to Goodman saying that the pair must...
- 2/1/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Remember Kinvig, Clone, Not With A Bang? These are the UK sci-fi sitcoms you’re unlikely to see on comedy best-of lists…
With E4 sci-fi comedy commissions, Tripped and Aliens, and in-development Channel 4 projects, Space Ark and Graham Linehan/Adam Buxton collaboration The Cloud, in the works, a new crop of sci-fi sitcom could be making its way to UK TV.
Making funny sci-fi on a small-screen budget is tough enough without the additional pressure of having to attract viewers more traditionally down-to-earth in their sitcom tastes. Sci-fi sets and effects can be seen as prohibitively expensive by comedy commissioners (which is perhaps why the best UK sci-fi sitcoms of recent years has been on BBC Radio), and the genre’s niche status doesn’t scream mainstream hit. Over the years, one or two stand-outs have managed to straddle the sci-fi and comedy TV worlds, but plenty more have stumbled in the attempt.
With E4 sci-fi comedy commissions, Tripped and Aliens, and in-development Channel 4 projects, Space Ark and Graham Linehan/Adam Buxton collaboration The Cloud, in the works, a new crop of sci-fi sitcom could be making its way to UK TV.
Making funny sci-fi on a small-screen budget is tough enough without the additional pressure of having to attract viewers more traditionally down-to-earth in their sitcom tastes. Sci-fi sets and effects can be seen as prohibitively expensive by comedy commissioners (which is perhaps why the best UK sci-fi sitcoms of recent years has been on BBC Radio), and the genre’s niche status doesn’t scream mainstream hit. Over the years, one or two stand-outs have managed to straddle the sci-fi and comedy TV worlds, but plenty more have stumbled in the attempt.
- 7/23/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
We interview Michelle Gomez about slapstick, stand-up, Steven Moffat, playing Doctor Who's Missy, and her new web series...
Michelle Gomez, seen last year as Doctor Who’s havoc-causing, murderous Missy, has a memorable history of bananas TV roles behind her. There’s been Green Wing’s Sue White, Bad Education’s Pickwell, and more recently Psychobitches’ meth-head Mary Queen Of Scots and projectile-vomiting Margaret Thatcher.
If you were to make a Venn diagram depicting the crossover between deeply funny and fundamentally unhinged TV characters, you'd likely end up with just a .gif of Gomez, gnashing her teeth and riding a camel.
In new web series Heather’s American Medicine, she takes on another comic persona, that of a straight-talking online agony aunt doling out highly questionable advice to America’s troubled citizens.
We caught up with Gomez, whose take on The Master is confirmed to be returning to Doctor Who this year,...
Michelle Gomez, seen last year as Doctor Who’s havoc-causing, murderous Missy, has a memorable history of bananas TV roles behind her. There’s been Green Wing’s Sue White, Bad Education’s Pickwell, and more recently Psychobitches’ meth-head Mary Queen Of Scots and projectile-vomiting Margaret Thatcher.
If you were to make a Venn diagram depicting the crossover between deeply funny and fundamentally unhinged TV characters, you'd likely end up with just a .gif of Gomez, gnashing her teeth and riding a camel.
In new web series Heather’s American Medicine, she takes on another comic persona, that of a straight-talking online agony aunt doling out highly questionable advice to America’s troubled citizens.
We caught up with Gomez, whose take on The Master is confirmed to be returning to Doctor Who this year,...
- 6/4/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
The Flash: Sky1, 8pm
In episode five, 'Plastique', Barry (Grant Gustin) and his allies at Star Labs encounter a meta-human girl with explosive abilities.
Meanwhile, Iris's obsession with 'The Streak' grows, concerning Joe (Jesse L Martin), who orders Barry to discourage his daughter from looking into the superhero any further.
The Missing: BBC One, 9pm
The slow-burn drama starring James Nesbitt continues, as - back in 2006 - Tony (Nesbitt) takes matters into his own hands, with violent consequences.
In the present day, Tony and Julien (Tcheky Karyo) retrace their steps in Paris in hopes of finding a lead on Oliver's disappearance.
Psychobitches: Sky Arts 1, 9pm
The Playhouse Presents... series returns for a second run, airing the first of two double-bills tonight.
Kathy Burke, Sharon Horgan and Doctor Who's Michelle Gomez feature in the first instalment, while Jack Whitehall and Sheridan Smith pop up in part two.
In episode five, 'Plastique', Barry (Grant Gustin) and his allies at Star Labs encounter a meta-human girl with explosive abilities.
Meanwhile, Iris's obsession with 'The Streak' grows, concerning Joe (Jesse L Martin), who orders Barry to discourage his daughter from looking into the superhero any further.
The Missing: BBC One, 9pm
The slow-burn drama starring James Nesbitt continues, as - back in 2006 - Tony (Nesbitt) takes matters into his own hands, with violent consequences.
In the present day, Tony and Julien (Tcheky Karyo) retrace their steps in Paris in hopes of finding a lead on Oliver's disappearance.
Psychobitches: Sky Arts 1, 9pm
The Playhouse Presents... series returns for a second run, airing the first of two double-bills tonight.
Kathy Burke, Sharon Horgan and Doctor Who's Michelle Gomez feature in the first instalment, while Jack Whitehall and Sheridan Smith pop up in part two.
- 11/25/2014
- Digital Spy
Who is Missy? That is the question which has been troubling, perplexing, and generally bedeviling Doctor Who fans this entire season of the long-running British time travel show. As played by Scottish actress Michelle Gomez, the character of Missy has periodically popped up to welcome recently deceased characters to what seemed to be some version of the after-life. Her precise identity has remained oblique, and Gomez's recurring role has prompted a clutch of theories. Is she some different iteration of Jenna Coleman's character, Clara? Is she a Satanic riff on the similarly-attired Mary Poppins? Is she a female incarnation...
- 11/2/2014
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside TV
Mark Gatiss and Reece Shearsmith have discussed the possibility of a League Of Gentlemen reunion...
Of busy men in the world of TV, Mark Gatiss is one of the busiest. As well as regularly chipping in with Doctor Who episodes, he is also a co-star and co-showrunner for Sherlock and presumably set to have an expanded role in the next season of Game Of Thrones.
However, former collaborator Reece Shearsmith (who has also been doing fine on his own with roles in The World’s End, A Field In England and the upcoming High Rise), has hinted that there may be one more project on Gatiss’ plate – a reunion with his former co-star and writing partner.
Shearsmith has confirmed recently that he, Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Jeremy Dyson have met to discuss a reunion. Whether or not said meeting of minds will result in more League Of Gentlemen episodes, or something else altogether,...
Of busy men in the world of TV, Mark Gatiss is one of the busiest. As well as regularly chipping in with Doctor Who episodes, he is also a co-star and co-showrunner for Sherlock and presumably set to have an expanded role in the next season of Game Of Thrones.
However, former collaborator Reece Shearsmith (who has also been doing fine on his own with roles in The World’s End, A Field In England and the upcoming High Rise), has hinted that there may be one more project on Gatiss’ plate – a reunion with his former co-star and writing partner.
Shearsmith has confirmed recently that he, Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Jeremy Dyson have met to discuss a reunion. Whether or not said meeting of minds will result in more League Of Gentlemen episodes, or something else altogether,...
- 8/28/2014
- by rleane
- Den of Geek
Psychobitches is returning to Sky Arts for a second series.
The six-part run will begin in the autumn, with Rebecca Front starring as a psychiatrist who takes therapy sessions with history's most iconic women.
The women will be played by some big comedy names including Jack Whitehall, Katy Brand and Meera Syal.
Also featuring in the episodes will be Sam Spiro, Sharon Horgan, Morgana Robinson, Michelle Gomez, Doon MacKichan, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Cardinal Burns, Sheila Reid, Selina Griffiths, Zawe Ashton and Frances Barber.
The League of Gentlemen's Jeremy Dyson has co-written and directed the new series.
Ben Cavey, executive producer, commented: "It's fantastic to bring the team back together for series two of Psychobitches.
"We have a whole new lineup of women from history getting a dose of modern-day therapy and the results promise to be just as clever, insightful and downright silly."
Saskia Schuster, commissioning editor for Sky Comedy,...
The six-part run will begin in the autumn, with Rebecca Front starring as a psychiatrist who takes therapy sessions with history's most iconic women.
The women will be played by some big comedy names including Jack Whitehall, Katy Brand and Meera Syal.
Also featuring in the episodes will be Sam Spiro, Sharon Horgan, Morgana Robinson, Michelle Gomez, Doon MacKichan, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Cardinal Burns, Sheila Reid, Selina Griffiths, Zawe Ashton and Frances Barber.
The League of Gentlemen's Jeremy Dyson has co-written and directed the new series.
Ben Cavey, executive producer, commented: "It's fantastic to bring the team back together for series two of Psychobitches.
"We have a whole new lineup of women from history getting a dose of modern-day therapy and the results promise to be just as clever, insightful and downright silly."
Saskia Schuster, commissioning editor for Sky Comedy,...
- 3/29/2014
- Digital Spy
Coronation Street, Broadchurch's Olivia Colman and Luther actor Idris Elba were the big winners at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards on Tuesday (March 18) at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.
Broadchurch won the award for Drama Serial, with Colman picking up the Female Actor prize. Educating Yorkshire won Best Documentary Series as star Michael Steer hit out at Education Secretary Michael Gove in his acceptance speech.
Corrie, which was nominated alongside Casualty and Emmerdale, followed its previous Best Soap wins this year at the NTAs, Broadcast and Tric Awards with the Soap and Continuing Drama gong.
Other winners on the night included Elba taking the Male Actor award for his role in Luther, Brendan O'Carroll for Comedy Performance for Mrs Brown's Boys and Plebs for Scripted Comedy.
Game of Thrones claimed the International Award, Alan Carr won the prize for Entertainment Performance for Chatty Man and Stephen Fry...
Broadchurch won the award for Drama Serial, with Colman picking up the Female Actor prize. Educating Yorkshire won Best Documentary Series as star Michael Steer hit out at Education Secretary Michael Gove in his acceptance speech.
Corrie, which was nominated alongside Casualty and Emmerdale, followed its previous Best Soap wins this year at the NTAs, Broadcast and Tric Awards with the Soap and Continuing Drama gong.
Other winners on the night included Elba taking the Male Actor award for his role in Luther, Brendan O'Carroll for Comedy Performance for Mrs Brown's Boys and Plebs for Scripted Comedy.
Game of Thrones claimed the International Award, Alan Carr won the prize for Entertainment Performance for Chatty Man and Stephen Fry...
- 3/19/2014
- Digital Spy
ITV thriller Broadchurch leads the nominations for this year's Royal Television Society Programme Awards.
The ceremony, hosted by Tim Vine, will be held on March 18 at Grosvenor House and honours excellence across all genres of television programming.
Broadchurch is up for four awards including Drama Serial, while Chris Chinball - who penned the murder mystery series - is nominated for Drama Writer.
The show's stars Olivia Coleman and Jodie Whittaker have both been recognised in the Female Actor category, alongside My Mad Fat Diary actress Sharon Rooney.
BBC dramas Top of the Lake and In the Flesh will go up against Broadchurch for Drama Serial, while My Mad Fat Diary, Peaky Blinders and Utopia have received nods for Drama Series.
HBO's Game of Thrones has been nominated in the International category, alongside Storyville - Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer and Channel 4's The Returned.
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway is up for Entertainment,...
The ceremony, hosted by Tim Vine, will be held on March 18 at Grosvenor House and honours excellence across all genres of television programming.
Broadchurch is up for four awards including Drama Serial, while Chris Chinball - who penned the murder mystery series - is nominated for Drama Writer.
The show's stars Olivia Coleman and Jodie Whittaker have both been recognised in the Female Actor category, alongside My Mad Fat Diary actress Sharon Rooney.
BBC dramas Top of the Lake and In the Flesh will go up against Broadchurch for Drama Serial, while My Mad Fat Diary, Peaky Blinders and Utopia have received nods for Drama Series.
HBO's Game of Thrones has been nominated in the International category, alongside Storyville - Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer and Channel 4's The Returned.
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway is up for Entertainment,...
- 3/4/2014
- Digital Spy
Mark Gatiss is not only one of Britain's most talented writers, comics and TV actors of his generation, he's also a bloody lovely bloke. It makes you sick, doesn't it? If he wasn't so darn nice, we'd hate him.
The Sherlock co-creator, Doctor Who fanatic and 1/4 of the League of Gentlemen celebrates his 47th birthday today. Why not celebrate it with him by looking back at 5 of his very best TV roles?
1. Iris in The League of Gentlemen
2. Professor Lazarus in Doctor Who
3. Glenn Bulb in Nighty Night
4. Mycroft Holmes in Sherlock
5. Joan Crawford in Psychobitches...
The Sherlock co-creator, Doctor Who fanatic and 1/4 of the League of Gentlemen celebrates his 47th birthday today. Why not celebrate it with him by looking back at 5 of his very best TV roles?
1. Iris in The League of Gentlemen
2. Professor Lazarus in Doctor Who
3. Glenn Bulb in Nighty Night
4. Mycroft Holmes in Sherlock
5. Joan Crawford in Psychobitches...
- 10/17/2013
- Digital Spy
ITV2 has ordered a new pilot from the co-creator of Bad Education.
Freddy Syborn - who devised the hit BBC Three show with Jack Whitehall - is penning the sitcom, says Broadcast.
Cockroaches is set in a post-apocalyptic world, though further details of characters and setting are yet to be confirmed.
In addition to his work on Bad Education, Syborn has written for Sky Arts comedy series Psychobitches.
ITV2 will also air new episodes of The Job Lot - previously on ITV - and has ordered a second series of its Ancient Rome sitcom Plebs.
In Us acquisitions, the channel has picked up new sitcom Mom from The Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre.
> Bad Education: First look at Jack Whitehall in series two
Watch a clip from series two of Bad Education below:...
Freddy Syborn - who devised the hit BBC Three show with Jack Whitehall - is penning the sitcom, says Broadcast.
Cockroaches is set in a post-apocalyptic world, though further details of characters and setting are yet to be confirmed.
In addition to his work on Bad Education, Syborn has written for Sky Arts comedy series Psychobitches.
ITV2 will also air new episodes of The Job Lot - previously on ITV - and has ordered a second series of its Ancient Rome sitcom Plebs.
In Us acquisitions, the channel has picked up new sitcom Mom from The Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre.
> Bad Education: First look at Jack Whitehall in series two
Watch a clip from series two of Bad Education below:...
- 8/29/2013
- Digital Spy
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