Sky Living has announced a roster of stars for its new 'Drama Matters' pilot season.
Suranne Jones, Anna Friel, Russell Tovey, Sophie Rundle and Freema Agyeman are among the names confirmed for five new hour-long drama pilots.
Jones will play a new judge battling to keep her head above the water in the murky depths of the justice system in Lawless, from Torchwood writer Jacquetta May. Chris Coghill (EastEnders), Jonathan Cake (Desperate Housewives) and Lindsay Duncan (Rome) will also star.
The Psychopath Next Door - from Julie Rutterford (Shameless) will star Friel in the lead role and is billed as a "creepy and intriguing drama" about "what happens when real evil moves in next door".
Katherine Kelly (Coronation Street) and Anne Reid (Last Tango in Halifax will lead the cast of supernatural tale The Last Witch - a story of two feuding sisters from Scott & Bailey writer Sally Wainwright and...
Suranne Jones, Anna Friel, Russell Tovey, Sophie Rundle and Freema Agyeman are among the names confirmed for five new hour-long drama pilots.
Jones will play a new judge battling to keep her head above the water in the murky depths of the justice system in Lawless, from Torchwood writer Jacquetta May. Chris Coghill (EastEnders), Jonathan Cake (Desperate Housewives) and Lindsay Duncan (Rome) will also star.
The Psychopath Next Door - from Julie Rutterford (Shameless) will star Friel in the lead role and is billed as a "creepy and intriguing drama" about "what happens when real evil moves in next door".
Katherine Kelly (Coronation Street) and Anne Reid (Last Tango in Halifax will lead the cast of supernatural tale The Last Witch - a story of two feuding sisters from Scott & Bailey writer Sally Wainwright and...
- 6/28/2013
- Digital Spy
ITV Studios will produce one-off TV movie The Psychopath Next Door for the UK’s Sky Living. Anna Friel (The Vatican, The Look Of Love) will play the glamorous titular character who moves into a suburban community where her magnetic personality hides her true nature. Described as darkly comic, the film is written by BAFTA winner Julie Rutterford. It will air in the fall as part of Sky’s Drama Matters block. Kate Bartlett exec produces for ITV Studios in the company’s first commission from Sky Living. Myar Craig-Brown is producer, Kieron J. Walsh directs. Drama Matters has also added Lawless to the lineup. Written by Torchwood‘s Jacquetta May, the series hails from Warner Bros.-owned Shed Media’s Twenty Twenty. Scott & Bailey‘s Suranne Jones plays a new judge struggling to navigate the justice system. Jonathan Cake (Desperate Housewives), Chris Coghill and Lindsay Duncan also star. Other...
- 6/28/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
“How do you keep law in a lawless town,” the question is asked. The 1889 H division of East London is the answer we are given; the antidote to the chaos of Whitechapel.
On Sunday the 30th January, BBC1′s Ripper Streets burst onto our screens; the first episode of an eight-part series of a Victorian age, police procedural set in London’s East End. Created by the writers Richard Warlow (Mistresses, Waking the Dead), Julie Rutterford (Life on Mars, Shameless), Declan Croghan (Waking the Dead, The Body Farm) and Toby Finlay who have sculpted the story in the aftermath of the Whitechapel murders, six months following Jack the Ripper’s last murder. The main cast is headed by Matthew Macfadyen (Spooks, Pride & Prejudice, Anna Karenina), a talented stage and screen actor who fills the boots of Detective Inspector Edmund Reid; based on his real life namesake, head of H Division...
On Sunday the 30th January, BBC1′s Ripper Streets burst onto our screens; the first episode of an eight-part series of a Victorian age, police procedural set in London’s East End. Created by the writers Richard Warlow (Mistresses, Waking the Dead), Julie Rutterford (Life on Mars, Shameless), Declan Croghan (Waking the Dead, The Body Farm) and Toby Finlay who have sculpted the story in the aftermath of the Whitechapel murders, six months following Jack the Ripper’s last murder. The main cast is headed by Matthew Macfadyen (Spooks, Pride & Prejudice, Anna Karenina), a talented stage and screen actor who fills the boots of Detective Inspector Edmund Reid; based on his real life namesake, head of H Division...
- 1/9/2013
- by Stu Whittaker
- Obsessed with Film
Ian Hart is outstanding in A Boy Called Dad, but the darkly comic Perrier's Bounty is hamstrung by its awful title, writes Mark Kermode
Nine years ago, writer Julie Rutterford and director Brian Percival made the affecting short film About a Girl (think Fish Tank meets The Fast Show with a tragic sting in the tale), which went on to win several prestigious awards including a best short Bafta. Having featured on the excellent Cinema 16 collection, About a Girl now resurfaces as one of the DVD extras accompanying Percival and Rutterford's long-awaited first feature, A Boy Called Dad (2009, Kaleidoscope, 15). Talented and confident newcomer Kyle Ward stars as the eponymous baby-father Robbie, an untrammelled 14-year-old whose own errant father Joe has yet to learn the true responsibilities of adulthood. As Joe, Ian Hart brings an effortless sense of conviction to the screen; few actors can convey such conflicted character traits (strength and weakness,...
Nine years ago, writer Julie Rutterford and director Brian Percival made the affecting short film About a Girl (think Fish Tank meets The Fast Show with a tragic sting in the tale), which went on to win several prestigious awards including a best short Bafta. Having featured on the excellent Cinema 16 collection, About a Girl now resurfaces as one of the DVD extras accompanying Percival and Rutterford's long-awaited first feature, A Boy Called Dad (2009, Kaleidoscope, 15). Talented and confident newcomer Kyle Ward stars as the eponymous baby-father Robbie, an untrammelled 14-year-old whose own errant father Joe has yet to learn the true responsibilities of adulthood. As Joe, Ian Hart brings an effortless sense of conviction to the screen; few actors can convey such conflicted character traits (strength and weakness,...
- 8/14/2010
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
A teenage father and his own dad bond in this well-meaning but not entirely successful British drama, writes Peter Bradshaw
Writer Julie Rutterford and director Brian Percival are Bafta winners for their 2001 short film About a Girl; their feature debut is a well-intentioned look at masculinity and fatherhood. Ian Hart plays Joe, who walked out on his family when his son Robbie was just four. Ten years later he shows up in Robbie's life, ironically just as 14-year-old Robbie has become a father himself. Newcomer Kyle Ward gives a good performance as Robbie, and Hart is typically excellent. Their dialogue scenes together at first are gentle, humorous and touching. The problem is that the movie quickly takes a wild, forced lurch into high drama, and Robbie goes on the run, a development which damagingly deprives the film of Hart's presence. I wish they had stuck with the charmingly low-key relationship between Robbie and Joe.
Writer Julie Rutterford and director Brian Percival are Bafta winners for their 2001 short film About a Girl; their feature debut is a well-intentioned look at masculinity and fatherhood. Ian Hart plays Joe, who walked out on his family when his son Robbie was just four. Ten years later he shows up in Robbie's life, ironically just as 14-year-old Robbie has become a father himself. Newcomer Kyle Ward gives a good performance as Robbie, and Hart is typically excellent. Their dialogue scenes together at first are gentle, humorous and touching. The problem is that the movie quickly takes a wild, forced lurch into high drama, and Robbie goes on the run, a development which damagingly deprives the film of Hart's presence. I wish they had stuck with the charmingly low-key relationship between Robbie and Joe.
- 4/29/2010
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Looks like Ray finally got his heart. In the shared stories of Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, Di Ray Carling (Dean Andrews) has been a stalwart member of Gene Hunt's team but never the focus of any particular storyline. That decision has granted Ray the illusion of being what he appears on the surface: a misogynistic lackey who is all too willing to follow Gene's instructions and make trouble for Sam Tyler or Alex Drake. But this week's fantastic episode of BBC One's Ashes to Ashes, written by Julie Rutterford and directed by Alrick Riley, shaded in Ray's backstory, rendering a tragic air to his character that was both emotionally wrenching and wholly unexpected. Thoughout the five seasons that comprise Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes, Ray hasn't been the type of character who openly discusses his feelings or his past, yet this week's installment featured a...
- 4/19/2010
- by Jace
- Televisionary
Expect the UK as producer of quality films - and in the genre 'coming-of-age', there is no competition. I'll get to some of the year's best - featuring Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (Katie Jarvis), plus mentions including last year's Dummy (Aaron Johnson and Thomas Grant) and the thriller The Disappeared (with Harry Treadaway), but our featured trailer comes from a film which received both glowing reviews and some disappointments - A Boy Called Dad.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
- 8/21/2009
- The Movie Fanatic
Expect the UK as producer of quality films - and in the genre 'coming-of-age', there is no competition. I'll get to some of the year's best - featuring Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (Katie Jarvis), plus mentions including last year's Dummy (Aaron Johnson and Thomas Grant) and the thriller The Disappeared (with Harry Treadaway), but our featured trailer comes from a film which received both glowing reviews and some disappointments - A Boy Called Dad.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
- 8/21/2009
- The Movie Fanatic
Expect the UK as producer of quality films - and in the genre 'coming-of-age', there is no competition. I'll get to some of the year's best - featuring Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (Katie Jarvis), plus mentions including last year's Dummy (Aaron Johnson and Thomas Grant) and the thriller The Disappeared (with Harry Treadaway), but our featured trailer comes from a film which received both glowing reviews and some disappointments - A Boy Called Dad.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
- 8/21/2009
- The Movie Fanatic
Expect the UK as producer of quality films - and in the genre 'coming-of-age', there is no competition. I'll get to some of the year's best - featuring Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank (Katie Jarvis), plus mentions including last year's Dummy (Aaron Johnson and Thomas Grant) and the thriller The Disappeared (with Harry Treadaway), but our featured trailer comes from a film which received both glowing reviews and some disappointments - A Boy Called Dad.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
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As usual, we focus on the acting, and one can't help it but be impressed with Kyle Ward, the young actor who plays the lead.
After their remarkable BAFTA award-winning short About a Girl (Best British Short Film, Eiff 2001) and successful careers working in television, director Brian Percival and writer Julie Rutterford's latest feature is a sympathetic study of a young boy's unexpected and accelerated ascent into adulthood.
- 8/21/2009
- The Movie Fanatic
Year: 2009
Directors: Brian Percival
Writers: Julie Rutterford
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 4 out of 10
Fourteen-year-old Robbie impregnates classmate Leanne, and becomes a father. His own dad is aloof, irresponsible, immature and gambles away his cash down Ladbrokes. Although he does love Robbie, he's incapable of showing the sustained affection and respect the boy needs so badly, instead he buys him chips and tells jokes, not much of a substitute.
Robbie is denied access to the child, who's living with Leanne and her tough boyfriend, so he steals the kid and drives to Wales, where he meets a young girl called Nia (Charlene McKenna), who's been unable to talk since a serious trauma. The tabloids have a field day over the kidnapping and the police start to close-in on Robbie, who's hiding in a barn with baby Elliot. Hot on his heels as well is his dad, Joe...
Directors: Brian Percival
Writers: Julie Rutterford
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: projectcyclops
Rating: 4 out of 10
Fourteen-year-old Robbie impregnates classmate Leanne, and becomes a father. His own dad is aloof, irresponsible, immature and gambles away his cash down Ladbrokes. Although he does love Robbie, he's incapable of showing the sustained affection and respect the boy needs so badly, instead he buys him chips and tells jokes, not much of a substitute.
Robbie is denied access to the child, who's living with Leanne and her tough boyfriend, so he steals the kid and drives to Wales, where he meets a young girl called Nia (Charlene McKenna), who's been unable to talk since a serious trauma. The tabloids have a field day over the kidnapping and the police start to close-in on Robbie, who's hiding in a barn with baby Elliot. Hot on his heels as well is his dad, Joe...
- 6/28/2009
- QuietEarth.us
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