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Sunday, April 19, 2015
Four More Join Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie in The Night Manager
COMINGSOON.NET
BY MAX EVRY ON APRIL 16, 2015
British actors David Harewood (“Homeland”), Neil Morrissey (“Line of Duty”), Katherine Kelly (“Mr Selfridge”) and Tobias Menzies (“The Honorable Woman”) have been announced to join the star-studded cast of the television adaptation of John le Carré’s novel “The Night Manager,” which started filming last month.
Co-produced by AMC with BBC One and The Ink Factory, the latest names to feature in the international production join previously-announced stars Hugh Laurie (“House”), Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers), Olivia Colman (“Broadchurch”), Tom Hollander (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest), Elizabeth Debicki (The Great Gatsby) and Academy Award-winning director Susanne Bier (In a Better World).
Harewood is most well-known for his role in Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning drama “Homeland,” whilst Morrissey was recently featured in BAFTA-nominated drama “Line of Duty.” Kelly starred in two series of Emmy-nominated British drama “Mr Selfridge,” and Menzies has made a name for himself in Golden Globe-winning drama “The Honorable Woman” and Emmy Award-winning series “Game of Thrones.”
Other names announced to appear in the espionage drama include BAFTA nominees Adeel Akhtar (“Utopia”) and Natasha Little (“Wolf Hall”), as well as Jonathan Aris (“Sherlock”) and Hannah Steele (“Wolf Hall”).
A contemporary interpretation of le Carré’s 1993 novel – and the first television adaptation of a le Carré novel in more than 20 years – “The Night Manager” mini-series will bring together love, loss and revenge in a complex story of modern criminality. The series follows former British soldier Jonathan Pine (Hiddleston) who is recruited by an intelligence operative named Burr (Colman) to navigate the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper (Laurie), which includes girlfriend Jed (Debicki) and an associate named Corcoran (Hollander), Pine must himself become a criminal.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/430643-four-more-join-tom-hiddleston-and-hugh-laurie-in-the-night-manager
BY MAX EVRY ON APRIL 16, 2015
British actors David Harewood (“Homeland”), Neil Morrissey (“Line of Duty”), Katherine Kelly (“Mr Selfridge”) and Tobias Menzies (“The Honorable Woman”) have been announced to join the star-studded cast of the television adaptation of John le Carré’s novel “The Night Manager,” which started filming last month.
Co-produced by AMC with BBC One and The Ink Factory, the latest names to feature in the international production join previously-announced stars Hugh Laurie (“House”), Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers), Olivia Colman (“Broadchurch”), Tom Hollander (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest), Elizabeth Debicki (The Great Gatsby) and Academy Award-winning director Susanne Bier (In a Better World).
Harewood is most well-known for his role in Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning drama “Homeland,” whilst Morrissey was recently featured in BAFTA-nominated drama “Line of Duty.” Kelly starred in two series of Emmy-nominated British drama “Mr Selfridge,” and Menzies has made a name for himself in Golden Globe-winning drama “The Honorable Woman” and Emmy Award-winning series “Game of Thrones.”
Other names announced to appear in the espionage drama include BAFTA nominees Adeel Akhtar (“Utopia”) and Natasha Little (“Wolf Hall”), as well as Jonathan Aris (“Sherlock”) and Hannah Steele (“Wolf Hall”).
A contemporary interpretation of le Carré’s 1993 novel – and the first television adaptation of a le Carré novel in more than 20 years – “The Night Manager” mini-series will bring together love, loss and revenge in a complex story of modern criminality. The series follows former British soldier Jonathan Pine (Hiddleston) who is recruited by an intelligence operative named Burr (Colman) to navigate the shadowy recesses of Whitehall and Washington where an unholy alliance operates between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. To infiltrate the inner circle of lethal arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper (Laurie), which includes girlfriend Jed (Debicki) and an associate named Corcoran (Hollander), Pine must himself become a criminal.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/430643-four-more-join-tom-hiddleston-and-hugh-laurie-in-the-night-manager
Monday, March 23, 2015
Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie scale the Matterhorn for The Night Manager
RADIO TIMES
By James Gill
Monday 23 March 2015 at 02:10PM
Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie have begun their ascent of John le Carré's The Night Manager in the Swiss Alps – with the dramatic peak of the Matterhorn as picturesque backdrop.
The BBC drama of the same name is a six-part adaptation of the espionage novel. Along with Hiddleston and Laurie, Rev stars Olivia Colman and Tom Hollander will reunite for the BBC/AMC co-production.
The Night Manager tells the story of British soldier Jonathan Price (Hiddleston) who is on a mission to infiltrate the inner circle of arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper (Laurie). The series was announced last October, with stars Hiddleston and Laurie confirmed in January 2015.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-03-23/tom-hiddleston-and-hugh-laurie-scale-the-matterhorn-for-the-night-manager
By James Gill
Monday 23 March 2015 at 02:10PM
Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie have begun their ascent of John le Carré's The Night Manager in the Swiss Alps – with the dramatic peak of the Matterhorn as picturesque backdrop.
The BBC drama of the same name is a six-part adaptation of the espionage novel. Along with Hiddleston and Laurie, Rev stars Olivia Colman and Tom Hollander will reunite for the BBC/AMC co-production.
The Night Manager tells the story of British soldier Jonathan Price (Hiddleston) who is on a mission to infiltrate the inner circle of arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper (Laurie). The series was announced last October, with stars Hiddleston and Laurie confirmed in January 2015.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-03-23/tom-hiddleston-and-hugh-laurie-scale-the-matterhorn-for-the-night-manager
Friday, March 6, 2015
Olivia Colman joins Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie in AMC's The Night Manager
ENTERTAINMENT
BY KEISHA HATCHETT
Posted March 5 2015 — 1:54 PM EST
AMC, BBC One and The Ink Factory announced Thursday that she, Elizabeth Debicki and Tom Hollander are joining the cast of the espionage drama starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie.
This is the first adaption of the novel by John le Carré in more than 20 years. The story follows a former soldier and night manager of a European hotel (Hiddleston) called upon by an intelligence operative (Colman) to infiltrate the network of an international arms dealer (Laurie).
READ MORE HERE: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/05/Broadchurch-Olivia-Colman-joins-the-night-manager
BY KEISHA HATCHETT
Posted March 5 2015 — 1:54 PM EST
AMC, BBC One and The Ink Factory announced Thursday that she, Elizabeth Debicki and Tom Hollander are joining the cast of the espionage drama starring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie.
This is the first adaption of the novel by John le Carré in more than 20 years. The story follows a former soldier and night manager of a European hotel (Hiddleston) called upon by an intelligence operative (Colman) to infiltrate the network of an international arms dealer (Laurie).
READ MORE HERE: http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/05/Broadchurch-Olivia-Colman-joins-the-night-manager
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Bonneville, James McAvoy, Tom Hollander, Ricky Gervais more: Exclusive: Stars shine in 'Muppets' cameos
USA TODAY
Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY 2:02 p.m. EDT March 28, 2014
Tom Hiddleston, Celine Dion, Sean Combs, Lady Gaga, Zach Galifianakis — it seems everyone wanted to be in Muppets Most Wanted.
The film, which opened March 21, continued the Muppet tradition of great celebrity cameos. Who could forget Steve Martin as a surly waiter in 1979's The Muppet Movie?
"It's the blink-and-you'll-miss-it ones that are really fun," says writer-director James Bobin.
Some of appearances, such as getting Usher to play a wedding usher, are written into the script, says Bobin, while others just seem to happen spontaneously. For example, Bobin knew he needed Sean Combs for a Muppets celebration scene.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/03/28/tom-hiddleston-muppets-most-wanted-cameo-lady-gaga/7007819/
Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY 2:02 p.m. EDT March 28, 2014
Tom Hollander and Hugh Bonneville played shady fixers in "Muppets Most Wanted."
The film, which opened March 21, continued the Muppet tradition of great celebrity cameos. Who could forget Steve Martin as a surly waiter in 1979's The Muppet Movie?
"It's the blink-and-you'll-miss-it ones that are really fun," says writer-director James Bobin.
Some of appearances, such as getting Usher to play a wedding usher, are written into the script, says Bobin, while others just seem to happen spontaneously. For example, Bobin knew he needed Sean Combs for a Muppets celebration scene.
READ MORE HERE: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2014/03/28/tom-hiddleston-muppets-most-wanted-cameo-lady-gaga/7007819/
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Martin Freeman, Tom Hollander: 2 Oscar-nominated live shorts that stand out
PHILLY.COM
By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic
POSTED: January 31, 2014
Two great reasons to see The Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Live Action - one dark and funny and wickedly existential, the other a nail-biter of a domestic drama, filled with dread.
The former stars Martin Freeman, alias Bilbo Baggins, alias Dr. John Watson (opposite that Caldecott Bumbershoot fellow in PBS's Sherlock). In the British short "The Voorman Problem," Freeman plays a psychologist dispatched to interview a prisoner who claims he is God. The warden needs certification to put him away. Problem? His fellow inmates have come to believe that the straitjacketed Voorman (Tom Hollander) is indeed who he claims to be.
READ MORE HERE: http://articles.philly.com/2014-01-31/entertainment/46874145_1_oscar-nominated-short-films-sherlock-young-son
By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic
POSTED: January 31, 2014
In "The Voorman Problem," Martin Freeman (right) is a psychologist sent to interview an inmate (played by Tom Hollander) who says he is God.
Two great reasons to see The Oscar-Nominated Short Films 2014: Live Action - one dark and funny and wickedly existential, the other a nail-biter of a domestic drama, filled with dread.
The former stars Martin Freeman, alias Bilbo Baggins, alias Dr. John Watson (opposite that Caldecott Bumbershoot fellow in PBS's Sherlock). In the British short "The Voorman Problem," Freeman plays a psychologist dispatched to interview a prisoner who claims he is God. The warden needs certification to put him away. Problem? His fellow inmates have come to believe that the straitjacketed Voorman (Tom Hollander) is indeed who he claims to be.
READ MORE HERE: http://articles.philly.com/2014-01-31/entertainment/46874145_1_oscar-nominated-short-films-sherlock-young-son
Friday, August 9, 2013
Domhnall Gleeson climbs his way to the Hollywood A-list
THE INDEPENDENT
CAITLIN MCBRIDE – 09 AUGUST 2013
THE son of legendary actor Brendan Gleeson, Domhnall, joined Rachel McAdams for his latest film premiere.
Irish actor Domhnall is celebrating his first major Hollywood role, alongside actress Rachel McAdams. The pair star in the romantic comedy About Time, and stepped out to promote the film together at the world premiere in London.
The acting duo were the star attractions at last night's red carpet event, held at Somerset House. Domhnall opted for classic elegance in a grey suit and navy tie, while his co-star wore Roksanda Ilincic top, skirt, and belt, Casadei shoes, and Norman Silverman earrings.
The young actor is earning rave reviews for his role in About Time, in which he plays the geeky Londoner who learns he can travel back in time. However, with the world at his fingertips, he his only goal is to find a girlfriend (played by McAdams).
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Tom Hollander disputes Benedict Cumberbatch's theory on British baddies in Hollywood (RADIO TIMES)
Susanna Lazarus
12:28 PM, 30 May 2013
Benedict Cumberbatch's recent portrayal of villain John Harrison in Star Trek is just one in a long line of British baddies in Hollywood and the Sherlock star recently explained his theory as to why the Americans seem to enjoy casting us as villains.
“We sound our consonants a lot more which usually means intelligence and thoughts and manipulation – the colder edge of reason – rather than emotion which is all vowels, which is American,” he told Absolute Radio.
But Cumberbatch's compatriot and fellow actor Tom Hollander disagrees, believing instead that America’s stereotyping of British actors boils down to the history of our conflict with the United States which ended with US independence in 1776:
“With respect to Ben, it’s because we are seen in America as baddies as a nation,” Hollander told The Telegraph. “It’s because we were their oppressors once, and they had to fight us off, so the sound of our voices brings all that back and they hear evil.”
READ MORE: http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2013-05-30/tom-hollander-disputes-benedict-cumberbatchs-theory-on-british-baddies-in-hollywood
Monday, April 15, 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Tom Hollander: I was badly paid in Pirates of the Caribbean (TELEGRAPH)
Tom Hollander , the star of 'Rev', says he was paid 'badly' for his role as Lord Cutler Beckett in 'Pirates of the Caribbean'.
Tim Walker7:30AM GMT 29 Mar 2013
Most British actors may hanker after parts in Hollywood blockbusters, but Tom Hollander, who is best known for playing the priest in Rev, says the experience left him feeling neither very satisfied, nor very rich.
Of his role as Lord Cutler Beckett, the “heavy” in Pirates of the Caribbean, he recalls that, while the production was “staggeringly expensive”, he was “badly” paid
Speaking at the Names Not Numbers Festival at Aldeburgh in Suffolk, the 45-year-old actor said that whenever he was allowed time off, he got as far away from the set as possible.
“It was a way of getting my own back. When they changed the schedule at the last minute, I would say, 'That’s fine, but I’m in Calcutta’, and they would say 'No problem’, and I would be airlifted out of the Third World in Lufthansa first class.”
He felt that there was a camaraderie among the character actors involved in the project and they all tended to compare notes in the smoking room of Miami airport.
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Emily Blunt, Eddie Redmayne, Tom Felton - Stars Back Charity Campaign To Wipe Out Tropical Disease 15 March 2013 (CONTACT MUSIC)
Stars including Emily Blunt, Eddie Redmayne and Tom Felton are calling on fans to support a campaign to wipe out seven diseases that affect millions of families worldwide.
In the video, Redmayne, Blunt and Felton watch clips of victims of the gruesome diseases and their reactions are filmed. Blunt and Redmayne struggle to control their emotions while Harry Potter star Felton walks away in distress.
READ MORE: http://www.contactmusic.com/news/stars-back-charity-campaign-to-wipe-out-tropical-disease_3556858
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Pride and Prejudice in TWO MINUTES!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkm5XsUPbvg&feature=player_embedded
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
My First Job: Tom Hollander May 23, 2012, 9:00 AM ETBy Alexandra Cheney (WALL STREET JOURNAL)
Technically, Tom Hollander’s very first paid job was a one-off acting gig in a Victorian BBC drama when he was only 14 years old.
While it was good costume practice for his later roles as Cutler Beckett in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise and a hefty sum for a teenager (he was paid 600 British pounds, with which he bought a stereo system), he next acting job wouldn’t come for another 12 years.
In the meantime, Hollander passed the time and paid the bills as a toy demonstrator, touring London stores like Harrods and Hamley’s Top Shop selling the Magic Rainbow Drawing Board.
“It was a job that young out of work actors did,” said Hollander, much like bartending or waiting tables, as many American hopefuls often do. In fact, Hollander worked alongside Lloyd Owen, otherwise known as the man who played the young Indiana Jones.
The job was simple, the manufacturers even taught Hollander and his colleagues to draw stock images — a fish, a desert island and a boat.
“You had to have a very even temperament. That I didn’t really have. I often got frustrated,” Hollander remembered.
READ MORE: http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/05/23/my-first-job-tom-hollander/?mod=google_news_blog
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Rev writer admits show won't return this year James Wood says BBC2 sitcom's cast are 'too bloody successful' but hopes to make a third series in 2013 Share 32 Email Ben Dowell guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 9 May 2012 06.35 EDT (THE GUARDIAN)
The writer of Rev has admitted there will not be a third series of the award-winning BBC2 sitcom this year because the cast, including Tom Hollander and Olivia Colman, are "too bloody successful".
So far the BBC has made two series and a Christmas special, and has attracted a range of impressive guest stars including Ralph Fiennes, Richard E Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Geoffrey Palmer, James Purefoy and the veteran actor Sylvia Syms.
James Wood, the co-creator with Hollander of the comedy about a London inner-city vicar, told MediaGuardian: "The cast are too bloody successful."
Wood said he was "cautiously optimistic" about getting the cast together in 2013 but this could not be guaranteed.
READ MORE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/may/09/rev-writer-wont-return?newsfeed=true
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith: Bafta TV awards 2012: full nominations
The 2011 British Academy Television awards will be held on 27 May at London's Royal Festival Hall. Here is a full list of this year's nominees:
Best leading actor
Benedict Cumberbatch - Sherlock
Dominic West - Appropriate Adult
John Simm - Exile
Joseph Gilgun - This is England '88
Best leading actress
Emily Watson - Appropriate Adult
Nadine Marshall - Random
Romola Garai - The Crimson Petal and the White
Vicky McClure - This is England '88
Best supporting actor
Andrew Scott - Sherlock
Joseph Mawle - Birdsong
Martin Freeman - Sherlock
Stephen Rea - The Shadowline
Best supporting actress
Anna Chancellor - The Hour
Maggie Smith - Downton Abbey
Miranda Hart - Call the Midwife
Monica Dolan - Appropriate Adult
Best entertainment performance
Alan Carr- Alan Carr Chatty Man
Dara O'Briain - Mock The Week
Graham Norton - The Graham Norton Show
Harry Hill - Harry Hill's TV Burp
Best female performance in a comedy programme
Jennifer Saunders - Absolutely Fabulous
Olivia Colman - Twenty Twelve
Ruth Jones - Stella
Tamsin Greig - Friday Night Dinner
Best male performance in a comedy programme
Brendan O'Carroll - Mrs Brown's Boys
Darren Boyd - Spy
Hugh Bonneville - Twenty Twelve
Tom Hollander - Rev
Best single drama
Holy Flying Circus
Page Eight
Random
Stolen
Best mini-series
Appropriate Adult
The Crimson Petal and the White
This is England '88
Top Boy
Best drama series
The Fades
Misfits
Scott and Bailey
Spooks
Best soap & continuing drama
Coronation Street
EastEnders
Holby City
Shameless
Best international
Borgen
The Killing
Modern Family
The Slap
Best factual series
The Choir: Military Wives
Educating Essex
Our War
Protecting Our Children: Damned If We Do Damned If We Don't
Best specialist factual
British Masters
Frozen Planet
Mummifying Alan: Egypt's Last Secret
Wonders of the Universe
Best single documentary
9/11: The Day That Changed the World
The Fight of Their Lives
Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die
We Need To Talk About Dad (Cutting Edge)
Best features
DIY SOS: The Big Build
Hairy Bikers' Meals on Wheels
The Great British Bake Off
Timothy Spall: Somewhere at Sea
Best reality & constructed factual
An Idiot Abroad
Don't Tell The Bride
Made in Chelsea
The Young Apprentice
Best current affairs
Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark
Sri Lanka's Killing Fields
The Truth About Adoption (Panorama)
Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed (Panorama)
Best news coverage
BBC News at Ten: Siege of Homs
Channel 4 News: Japan Earthquake
ITV News at Ten: Battle of Misrata
Sky News: Libya Rebel Convoy - Live
Best sport & live event
Frankenstein's Wedding: Live in Leeds
The Royal Wedding (BBC)
Rugby World Cup Final
Tour De France 2011
Best new media
Autumn Watch
The Bank Job
Misfits
Psychoville
Best entertainment programme
Celebrity Juice
Derren Brown: The Experiments
Harry Hill's TV Burp
Michael McIntyre's Christmas Comedy Roadshow
Best comedy programme
Charlie Brooker's 2011 Wipe
Comic Strip: The Hunt for Tony Blair
The Cricklewood Greats
Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
Best situation comedy
Fresh Meat
Mrs Brown's Boy's
Friday Night Dinner
Rev
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17824893
Friday, December 30, 2011
Sunday, December 11, 2011
This TV vicar does more good than 26 relationships - Tom Hollander in 'Rev'
By Suzanne Moore
Mail Online
Last updated at 10:22 PM on 10th December 2011So much time has been taken up lately with the unfunny, the outright offensive and debates about the pushing of comedic boundaries that we have overlooked the gem in our midst.
Rev, a show that has crept up on me.
A gentle comedy about a vicar hardly sounded up my street. Isn’t ‘gentle comedy’ a euphemism for not funny? Which explains why sitcoms have been replaced by endless panel shows.
Superb: Actor Tom Hollander as Reverend Adam. What would Jesus do if only a couple of dozen people showed up at his sermons?
Rev stars the superb Tom Hollander, whose Reverend Adam Smallbone has moved from just such a parish to a multi-ethnic inner-city church.
He is surrounded by those who need him, not out of faith but out of desperation. Adam is a good man trying to do the right thing.
There is a Peter Mandelson-type Archdeacon out to undermine him.
There is Colin the local drunk shooting squirrels, which he believes eat ecstasy in the trees. Mick the crackhead is a fantastic scammer – his mother has died three times recently.
These people are struggling and so is Adam.
The church is struggling. What would Jesus do if only a couple of dozen people showed up at his sermons? For this is the reality.
Rev stars the superb Tom Hollander, whose Reverend Adam Smallbone has moved from just such a parish to a multi-ethnic inner-city church
The real vicar of the location where Rev is shot says the cost of keeping the church going is a constant worry. He recently had to go to B&Q to replace the door handles that had been on the building since 1740.
The church has to be locked at night or the fire extinguishers will be stolen.
Adam deals with the complications of those without hope or faith. Addiction is presented as the part of inner-city life, which it is.
Sex is something that vicars also do. This is adult humour, but it is full of humanity.
After all the discussions about Ricky Gervais and Frankie Boyle and what is and isn’t acceptable, we tend to overvalue the comedic impact of shock and undervalue lightness of touch.
I remember first seeing Eddie Izzard 20 years ago and being so relieved that not all stand-up was about politics. He could ask: ‘Why, if bees make honey, don’t wasps make marmalade?’
Rev is not surreal but it beautifully plays with the imagination – for faith is imagination.
The Church at the moment needs all the imagination and PR it can get after the dithering over the St Paul’s Occupation.
I say – yes, of course, from the outside – if the Church cannot talk about the morality of widening inequality, what is it for?
When times are harsh and the comedy of cruelty is everywhere, to see something with this much heart is a joy
The peer I was with wants to see the Lords reformed and sees the bishops as a block to reform.
They clearly do not want their numbers cut from 26 to 12, which is what is proposed, but who do they represent in an increasingly secular society?
Rev, then, actually works as a fantastic advert for what a modern church can do. Adam has to deal with the ‘on your knees, avoid the fees’ pushy parents who just want to get their kids into a faith school.
He tries to take disadvantaged kids on a day to the country. ‘Who’s ever seen a cow?’ he asks naively.
All raise their hands. He is short on the petty cash and his wife wants more sex as they are trying to conceive.
Hollander hovers between faith and doubt in a perfect performance. And last week we even had a bravura onslaught by Richard E. Grant reprising his role in Withnail And I.
From ‘Bring me the finest wines known to humanity’, he has morphed into a totally amoral coke-addled merchant banker.
No great commentary on the system was involved. It doesn’t need to be: everything in Rev is lovely and understated.
Adam’s essential goodness is an uplifting, incredibly clever and beautiful thing. When times are harsh and the comedy of cruelty is everywhere, to see something with this much heart is a joy.
Rev is a revelation.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2072534/SUZANNE-MOORE-This-TV-vicar-does-good-26-relationships.html#ixzz1gElHxOQf
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Benedict Cumberbatch, Jonny lee Miller - Frankensteins Share Best Actor in Standard Awards, Smith Wins with Flare
Date: 20 November 2011
Having shared the roles of the scientist and his creature in Frankenstein, Jonny Lee Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch now share the accolade of Best Actor for their performances in this year’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards, announced tonight (20 November 2011) in a black-tie ceremony held at London’s Savoy Hotel.
Miller and Cumberbatch, who’d been shortlisted separately, beat off competition from Charles Edwards for the Globe’s Much Ado About Nothing and Bertie Carvel for his musical role in the RSC’s Matilda, just transferred to the West End this month.
Best Actor was one of two joint awards presented tonight. Playwright Richard Bean shared the Best Play prize with himself – being recognised for both his climate change piece The Heretic at the Royal Court, and his 1960s-set adaptation of Goldoni farce One Man, Two Guvnors, which premiered at the National and opens this week at the West End’s Adelphi Theatre ahead of a Broadway transfer next year.
Meanwhile, Sheridan Smith, who was nominated for Best Actress last year for Legally Blonde, which won her Best Actress in a Musical honours at both the Whatsonstage.com and Olivier Awards, this year scooped the same prize for her performance as a nearly-widowed countess in Trevor Nunn’s revival of Rattigan’s Flare Path at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Last week she was given Equity’s Clarence Derwent Award, designed to honour supporting roles, for the same performance.
Smith triumphed over competitors including Kristin Scott Thomas, who returned to the West End this year’s in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal. But the judges wouldn’t let Scott Thomas go home empty-handed either, presenting her with the non-shortlisted Lebedev Special Award.
Other big winners tonight included: Mike Leigh, named Best Director for helming the world premiere of his new play Grief at the National; Tim Minchin and Dennis Kelly’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Matilda for the RSC, named Best Musical; and actor Kyle Soller, named Outstanding Newcomer for his performances in The Glass Menagerie and Government Inspector at the Young Vic and The Faith Machine at the Royal Court.
The Court’s third award of the night was for Most Promising Playwright, which went to Penelope Skinner for The Village Bike, premiered in the Royal Court Upstairs. The Most Promising Playwright prize, named in memory of former Standard editor Charles Wintour, carries a £3,000 cheque for the winner, and £1,000 cheques for the other shortlisted authors.
The Evening Standard this year presented three special, non-shortlisted prizes: to outgoing Donmar Warehouse artistic director Michael Grandage, playwright Tom Stoppard and, in a new “Beyond Theatre” field, the Pet Shop Boys ballet The Most Incredible Thing.
The 57th annual Evening Standard Theatre Awards ceremony was a black-tie dinner held at the Savoy Hotel, hosted by Dame Edna Everage (aka Australian comedian Barry Humphries, with presenters including Miranda Hart, Karen Gillan, Anna Chancellor, Dan Stevens, Gemma Arterton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Stephen Fry, Sam Taylor Wood and Romola Garai, and other celebrity guests such as Tom Hollander, Ruby Wax, Erin O’Connor and Alexandra Shulman, editor ofVogue, which sponsored this year’s awards.
The Evening Standard Awards are the first in the annual awards season. They’re followed by our own Whatsonstage.com Awards, the “theatregoers’ choice”, for which shortlists are announced at our launch party next Friday 2 December 2011 following theatregoer nominations throughout November, the Critics’ Circle and the Laurence Olivier Awards
- by Terri Paddock
WhatsOnStage
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