Laura Aikman has joined the cast of Bluestone 42 series three.
The Waterloo Road actress will appear in the latter half of the BBC Three comedy series, which follows the lives of a bomb disposal team in Afghanistan.
Aikman will play a high-threat-bomb disposal expert called Ellen Best, who finds it hard to fit in with the rest of the group.
The actress said: "It's been awesome to join the cast of Bluestone 42, especially as I was already a fan of the show.
"It's also given me an amazing opportunity to learn so much about the army and make some amazing new friends, who I may never otherwise have met."
Returning cast members include Matthew Lewis (Harry Potter), Oliver Chris (Breathless), Katie Lyons (The Crimson Petal And The White) and Tony Gardner (Last Tango in Halifax).
Bluestone 42 will return to BBC Three later in 2015.
The Waterloo Road actress will appear in the latter half of the BBC Three comedy series, which follows the lives of a bomb disposal team in Afghanistan.
Aikman will play a high-threat-bomb disposal expert called Ellen Best, who finds it hard to fit in with the rest of the group.
The actress said: "It's been awesome to join the cast of Bluestone 42, especially as I was already a fan of the show.
"It's also given me an amazing opportunity to learn so much about the army and make some amazing new friends, who I may never otherwise have met."
Returning cast members include Matthew Lewis (Harry Potter), Oliver Chris (Breathless), Katie Lyons (The Crimson Petal And The White) and Tony Gardner (Last Tango in Halifax).
Bluestone 42 will return to BBC Three later in 2015.
- 1/28/2015
- Digital Spy
Who are the stars of tomorrow in TV, film and theatre?
Digital Spy presents its predictions for 2015 - in no particular order, here are seven young actors, writers, comedians and musicians who look destined to make an impression on the world of entertainment this year.
1. Billy Howle
After graduating from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2013, Billy Howle quickly landed television work in Channel 4's New Worlds and on ITV's Vera.
But the young actor first came to our attention last year with his powerful performance as the troubled James in sorely underrated countryside thriller Glue.
Next up for the talented Howle is a plum role in BBC One's adaptation of Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie, which is due to be broadcast later in 2015.
2. Hannah Britland
A graduate from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Hannah Britland launched her television acting career with early roles in Misfits and Skins.
Digital Spy presents its predictions for 2015 - in no particular order, here are seven young actors, writers, comedians and musicians who look destined to make an impression on the world of entertainment this year.
1. Billy Howle
After graduating from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2013, Billy Howle quickly landed television work in Channel 4's New Worlds and on ITV's Vera.
But the young actor first came to our attention last year with his powerful performance as the troubled James in sorely underrated countryside thriller Glue.
Next up for the talented Howle is a plum role in BBC One's adaptation of Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie, which is due to be broadcast later in 2015.
2. Hannah Britland
A graduate from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Hannah Britland launched her television acting career with early roles in Misfits and Skins.
- 1/9/2015
- Digital Spy
Ricky Gervais has confirmed that The Office's David Brent will be heading to the big screen with his own movie, Life on the Road.
So as we anticipate what Brent has been up to since the end of the BBC hit comedy, here's what the cast have done since:
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais played the lead role as David Brent - the embarrassing, toe-curling and cringeworthy boss of company Wernham Hogg, devoid of self-awareness but poised with an unwavering love for the paper merchants he manages.
Gervais went on to create comedy Extras with Stephen Merchant, which was co-produced by the BBC and HBO and aired between 2005 and 2007. Gervais played ambitious actor Andy Millman, afflicted with a useless agent played by Merchant. Guest stars have included Patrick Stewart, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Stiller and Kate Winslet.
In 2009, Gervais starred in, wrote and directed his feature comedy debut The Invention of Lying.
So as we anticipate what Brent has been up to since the end of the BBC hit comedy, here's what the cast have done since:
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Gervais played the lead role as David Brent - the embarrassing, toe-curling and cringeworthy boss of company Wernham Hogg, devoid of self-awareness but poised with an unwavering love for the paper merchants he manages.
Gervais went on to create comedy Extras with Stephen Merchant, which was co-produced by the BBC and HBO and aired between 2005 and 2007. Gervais played ambitious actor Andy Millman, afflicted with a useless agent played by Merchant. Guest stars have included Patrick Stewart, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Stiller and Kate Winslet.
In 2009, Gervais starred in, wrote and directed his feature comedy debut The Invention of Lying.
- 8/6/2014
- Digital Spy
PBS Masterpiece Breathless
On 24 August PBS Masterpiece will debut a new British TV show — Breathless. The 60s era medical drama has been variously described as Britain’s answer to Mad Men or ITV’s response to The Hour. Based purely on ratings, the comparisons were off the mark as the show was cancelled after it’s first season in the UK. Nevertheless, PBS hope the show’s all-star cast will entice a healthy audience. Leading the way is Jack Davenport (Swingtown) who plays Otto Powell, a high flying surgeon who performs illegal abortions when he’s off-the-clock. Shaun Dingwall (Doctor Who) is his work place frenemy Dr Charlie Enderbury. Joanna Page (The Syndicate) plays Dingwall’s love interest. The series has been formatted into three, two-hour long episodes that will wrap up on Sunday 7 September.
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On 24 August PBS Masterpiece will debut a new British TV show — Breathless. The 60s era medical drama has been variously described as Britain’s answer to Mad Men or ITV’s response to The Hour. Based purely on ratings, the comparisons were off the mark as the show was cancelled after it’s first season in the UK. Nevertheless, PBS hope the show’s all-star cast will entice a healthy audience. Leading the way is Jack Davenport (Swingtown) who plays Otto Powell, a high flying surgeon who performs illegal abortions when he’s off-the-clock. Shaun Dingwall (Doctor Who) is his work place frenemy Dr Charlie Enderbury. Joanna Page (The Syndicate) plays Dingwall’s love interest. The series has been formatted into three, two-hour long episodes that will wrap up on Sunday 7 September.
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- 8/3/2014
- by Edited by K Kinsella
Zoe Boyle (Breathless, Downton Abbey) is set as a female lead in ABC’s summer drama series Astronaut Wives Club. The project, from Fake Empire, Groundswell Productions and ABC Studios, tells the real story of the women who stood beside some of the biggest heroes in American history during the height of the space race. Boyle, repped by ICM Partners, Seven Summits and Independent in the UK, will play Jo Schirra, wife of Wally Schirra, who flew missions for the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. Related: 2014 ABC Pilots Morgan Taylor Campbell (The Killing) has been cast in ABC’s drama pilot Sea Of Fire, which chronicles the fallout from three teenage girls starring in a pornographic film, which tears their families apart and leads to a disappearance and a murder. Campbell will play Jane McAllister, the pretty, preppy and seemingly straight-laced daughter of Reverend Bobby and Adine McAllister, who goes...
- 3/12/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Puberty Blues star Isabelle Cornish has landed a role in Sea of Fire, a Us drama pilot which traces the fall-out after three teenage girls appear in a porn film.
Cornish, 19, recorded an audition in Sydney and sent it to the producers in Los Angeles, her first try-out for a Us pilot. Subsequently she met with the producers in La and was offered the role of Merel, a straight-a student and cheer-leader daughter of the local Sheriff.
The pilot commissioned by the Us ABC network will start shooting in Vancouver in early March. Jack Davenport (Breathless, Smash) has been cast as Merel.s father, who is called in to investigate the disappearance of her close friend Jane (not yet cast). Dexter.s Jennifer Carpenter will play an FBI agent who joins the chase.
The pilot was scripted by Jenna Bans, adapted from a Dutch series, according to Deadline.com. The producers are Sony TV,...
Cornish, 19, recorded an audition in Sydney and sent it to the producers in Los Angeles, her first try-out for a Us pilot. Subsequently she met with the producers in La and was offered the role of Merel, a straight-a student and cheer-leader daughter of the local Sheriff.
The pilot commissioned by the Us ABC network will start shooting in Vancouver in early March. Jack Davenport (Breathless, Smash) has been cast as Merel.s father, who is called in to investigate the disappearance of her close friend Jane (not yet cast). Dexter.s Jennifer Carpenter will play an FBI agent who joins the chase.
The pilot was scripted by Jenna Bans, adapted from a Dutch series, according to Deadline.com. The producers are Sony TV,...
- 2/4/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Jack Davenport is set as the lead in ABC‘s drama pilot Sea Of Fire. The Smash alum, who fielded multiple pilot offers, joins recently cast female lead Jennifer Carpenter in the project based on a Dutch format. Young Australian actress Isabelle Cornish (Home & Away) also has been cast in the pilot, which chronicles the fallout from three teenage girls starring in a pornographic film, which tears their families apart and leads to a disappearance, a murder and host of other secrets boiling under the surface in a small town. Davenport stars as easy-going local Sheriff Marty Kesowich. Already deeply concerned over his suicidal and befuddled wife, Marty counts himself lucky to have a seemingly perfect daughter, cheerleader and straight-a student Merel (Cornish). But he’s shocked to learn that Merel is not at all the paragon he imagined. After Merel’s close friend Jane goes missing, Marty fears that his daughter had some involvement,...
- 2/3/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Breathless has been dropped after a single series.
The period medical drama will not return for a second run, broadcaster ITV has confirmed.
Series star Zoe Boyle -- who played Jean Truscott - told Radio Times that Breathless would "unfortunately" not be returning but described working on the show as "a really fun experience".
"I loved the part and I loved the script and I loved the show as a whole," she said.
Breathless launched with 3.4m viewers in October, with an overnight audience of 2.11m tuning in for the final episode the following month.
Jack Davenport, Joanna Page, Sarah Parish and Iain Glen appeared alongside Boyle on the show.
ITV also axed crime drama Whitechapel in November, but has commissioned new original drama including John Simm thriller Prey and mystery series Grantchester.
ITV announces new drama pay channel Encore for Sky...
The period medical drama will not return for a second run, broadcaster ITV has confirmed.
Series star Zoe Boyle -- who played Jean Truscott - told Radio Times that Breathless would "unfortunately" not be returning but described working on the show as "a really fun experience".
"I loved the part and I loved the script and I loved the show as a whole," she said.
Breathless launched with 3.4m viewers in October, with an overnight audience of 2.11m tuning in for the final episode the following month.
Jack Davenport, Joanna Page, Sarah Parish and Iain Glen appeared alongside Boyle on the show.
ITV also axed crime drama Whitechapel in November, but has commissioned new original drama including John Simm thriller Prey and mystery series Grantchester.
ITV announces new drama pay channel Encore for Sky...
- 1/29/2014
- Digital Spy
The Driver, about an ordinary man who makes a terrible decision, is a three-part thriller from BAFTA Award-winning screenwriter Danny Brocklehurst (Shameless UK). The Walking Dead‘s David Morrissey will play taxi driver Vince McKee, who blames himself for a family mystery and accepts an offer to start driving for a criminal gang. But, says the BBC, it’s ultimately a redemptive story about getting a second chance under incredible circumstances. Jim Poyser co-created the drama which is co-produced by Morrissey’s Highfield Pictures and Red Production Company for BBC One. Jamie Payne (Doctor Who, The White Queen, The Hour) is director. Ian Hart, Colm Meaney, Shaun Dingwall, Claudie Blakeley, Sacha Parkinson and Lee Ross also star. Morrissey, who is also toplining AMC pilot Line Of Sight, is executive producing The Driver for Highfield with Nicola Shindler for Red and Polly Hill for BBC One. Producer is Jolyon Symonds (Breathless...
- 1/10/2014
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
A Smash bad boy will put on a white hat for The Good Wife.
Jack Davenport — last seen playing Derek Wills on the NBC drama — will play an upstanding assistant U.S. attorney in the CBS drama.
His episode will air next year.
Davenport also starred in the ITV drama Breathless this year. Set in Britain in 1951, the drama is similar to Showtime’s Master of Sex in that it focuses on the world of reproductive medicine.
Jack Davenport — last seen playing Derek Wills on the NBC drama — will play an upstanding assistant U.S. attorney in the CBS drama.
His episode will air next year.
Davenport also starred in the ITV drama Breathless this year. Set in Britain in 1951, the drama is similar to Showtime’s Master of Sex in that it focuses on the world of reproductive medicine.
- 11/22/2013
- by Lynette Rice
- EW - Inside TV
Curtain Poirot’s Last Case
All good things must come to an end, even Poirot – well the David Suchet version anyway. Rather fittingly, ITV rolled out the big guns for Suchet’s last dance and the cast were a veritable Who’s Who of British TV. Anne Reid (Last Tango in Halifax), Philip Glenister (Life on Mars), Helen Baxendale (Friends) and Shaun Dingwall (Breathless) were just some of the A-listers who came to pay homage to Britain’s favorite Belgian. Also on hand was Poirot’s old chum, Hastings (Hugh Fraser). The duo have been through plenty of trials and tribulations over the years but as the end drew near for the frail looking Poirot, Hastings was asked to be his “eye and ears” on one last detective quest.
The setting for Poirot’s Last Case was a familiar one, Styles House where the duo first met no less than 30 years ago.
All good things must come to an end, even Poirot – well the David Suchet version anyway. Rather fittingly, ITV rolled out the big guns for Suchet’s last dance and the cast were a veritable Who’s Who of British TV. Anne Reid (Last Tango in Halifax), Philip Glenister (Life on Mars), Helen Baxendale (Friends) and Shaun Dingwall (Breathless) were just some of the A-listers who came to pay homage to Britain’s favorite Belgian. Also on hand was Poirot’s old chum, Hastings (Hugh Fraser). The duo have been through plenty of trials and tribulations over the years but as the end drew near for the frail looking Poirot, Hastings was asked to be his “eye and ears” on one last detective quest.
The setting for Poirot’s Last Case was a familiar one, Styles House where the duo first met no less than 30 years ago.
- 11/14/2013
- by Edited by K Kinsella
ITV Breathless Episode One
B Van Heusen
AMC and the BBC have enjoyed huge success with Mad Men and The Hour so it wasn’t hugely surprising when ITV decided to jump on the 60s bandwagon with Breathless. The slick looking, smooth talking professionals in Breathless are doctors rather than TV presenters or Ad men but the characters are vaguely familiar. The script is interesting and somewhat controversial with overlapping storylines involving sexual antics and backstreet abortions. The ingredients including the cast were good but somehow the end product was sub-par.
Jack Davenport (Swingtown) is the Don Draper of Breathless and like his American counterpart, he he likes to gawp at people from a distance with an ever-so smug look on his face. Sadly, Davenport doesn’t have the screen presence of Jon Hamm and his redheaded side kick isn’t as colorful as Draper’s.
Cast apart, the whole...
B Van Heusen
AMC and the BBC have enjoyed huge success with Mad Men and The Hour so it wasn’t hugely surprising when ITV decided to jump on the 60s bandwagon with Breathless. The slick looking, smooth talking professionals in Breathless are doctors rather than TV presenters or Ad men but the characters are vaguely familiar. The script is interesting and somewhat controversial with overlapping storylines involving sexual antics and backstreet abortions. The ingredients including the cast were good but somehow the end product was sub-par.
Jack Davenport (Swingtown) is the Don Draper of Breathless and like his American counterpart, he he likes to gawp at people from a distance with an ever-so smug look on his face. Sadly, Davenport doesn’t have the screen presence of Jon Hamm and his redheaded side kick isn’t as colorful as Draper’s.
Cast apart, the whole...
- 10/15/2013
- by Edited by K Kinsella
Sixties-set medical drama Breathless premiered on ITV1 in the UK on Thursday night with 3.7M viewers (including +1s) for a 17.5% share in the overnights. That was consistent with the slot average and was enough for the show to top other entries at 9 Pm. Co-produced by ITV Studios and Masterpiece, the six-part drama about a group of doctors and nurses working in a London hospital draws inevitable comparisons to Mad Men given the stylish period look – not to mention the tag line, “Perfect lives built on lies.” It kicks off in 1961 and focuses on the changing roles of women at a time when abortion was still illegal, the contraceptive pill was only just available to married women and moral codes were shifting. Breathless is co-created, written and exec produced by Paul Unwin who was in Cannes at the Mipcom TV market earlier this week to talk up the series along with...
- 10/11/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
ITV's new series Breathless topped Thursday's ratings outside of soaps, overnight data reveals.
Jack Davenport's hospital drama gathered 3.44 million (16.4%) at 9pm, with an added 283,000 (1.8%) on +1. Earlier, Pat and Cabbage amused 2.30m (10.5%) at 8.30pm.
On BBC One, new haulage drama Truckers interested 2.88m (13.5%) at 9pm.
BBC Two's Trust Me, I'm a Doctor appealed to 3.18m (14.5%) at 8pm, followed by the latest Peaky Blinders with 1.47m (6.9%) at 9pm. Mock the Week quizzed 1.52m (8.6%) at 10pm.
Channel 4's Location, Location, Location was seen by 1.84m (8.4%) at 8pm (185k/0.9%). Educating Yorkshire climbed to 2.54m (12.0%) at 9pm (393k/2.5%), while My Tattoo Addiction brought in 1.13m (7.0%) at 10pm (171k/2.0%).
On Channel 5, The Railway attracted 737k (3.4%) at 8pm (101k/0.5%), followed by Countdown To Murder with 982k (4.6%) at 9pm (127k/0.8%).
ITV2's Celebrity Juice entertained 824k (5.0%) at 10pm (124k/1.4%).
Jack Davenport's hospital drama gathered 3.44 million (16.4%) at 9pm, with an added 283,000 (1.8%) on +1. Earlier, Pat and Cabbage amused 2.30m (10.5%) at 8.30pm.
On BBC One, new haulage drama Truckers interested 2.88m (13.5%) at 9pm.
BBC Two's Trust Me, I'm a Doctor appealed to 3.18m (14.5%) at 8pm, followed by the latest Peaky Blinders with 1.47m (6.9%) at 9pm. Mock the Week quizzed 1.52m (8.6%) at 10pm.
Channel 4's Location, Location, Location was seen by 1.84m (8.4%) at 8pm (185k/0.9%). Educating Yorkshire climbed to 2.54m (12.0%) at 9pm (393k/2.5%), while My Tattoo Addiction brought in 1.13m (7.0%) at 10pm (171k/2.0%).
On Channel 5, The Railway attracted 737k (3.4%) at 8pm (101k/0.5%), followed by Countdown To Murder with 982k (4.6%) at 9pm (127k/0.8%).
ITV2's Celebrity Juice entertained 824k (5.0%) at 10pm (124k/1.4%).
- 10/11/2013
- Digital Spy
Sex, time travel and Nicole Scherzinger - have you ever heard of such a glorious combination? Compose yourself people, because that's what's coming your way on the telly this week, as we reveal in our shortlist of Must-See TV.
Make sure you check out Digital Spy's new daily rundowns too for a quick guide on what to watch in the next 24 hours...
Masters of Sex: Tuesday (October 8) at 9pm on Channel 4
Channel 4 have gone sex mad this week, the saucy devils, as not only are they having Mariella Frostrup urge couples to have sex in a box for...erm...Sex Box (Monday, October 7 at 10pm), but they've also unleashed this fun drama with an 'Ooh, er' premise.
Masters of Sex stars Michael Sheen as Dr William Masters, a curious fellow who along with his loyal and lovely assistant Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) sets out to revolutionise the...
Make sure you check out Digital Spy's new daily rundowns too for a quick guide on what to watch in the next 24 hours...
Masters of Sex: Tuesday (October 8) at 9pm on Channel 4
Channel 4 have gone sex mad this week, the saucy devils, as not only are they having Mariella Frostrup urge couples to have sex in a box for...erm...Sex Box (Monday, October 7 at 10pm), but they've also unleashed this fun drama with an 'Ooh, er' premise.
Masters of Sex stars Michael Sheen as Dr William Masters, a curious fellow who along with his loyal and lovely assistant Virginia Johnson (Lizzy Caplan) sets out to revolutionise the...
- 10/6/2013
- Digital Spy
The actor talks about his 'Good Life' early years in Ibiza and Suffolk, being the child of actors and his much missed grandmother
My early childhood was idyllic. We shuttled between a rather ramshackle electricity- and mains water-free farmhouse in Ibiza and this place in Suffolk where my parents [actors Nigel Davenport and Maria Aitken] were trying to live the Good Life, God love them. I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
I was never lonely. There were always lots of other actors and kids around. In Ibiza there was Terry-Thomas, John Hurt and Denholm Elliott, among others. Actors are brilliant to hang out with because their job is to play. I wanted to be in their group – that's why I decided to become an actor.
My parents divorced when I was seven.
My early childhood was idyllic. We shuttled between a rather ramshackle electricity- and mains water-free farmhouse in Ibiza and this place in Suffolk where my parents [actors Nigel Davenport and Maria Aitken] were trying to live the Good Life, God love them. I was a confident, outgoing little boy. If you're an only child, you're living in a very linguistically adult world and you've got to keep up. So I did. Maybe I was slightly annoying.
I was never lonely. There were always lots of other actors and kids around. In Ibiza there was Terry-Thomas, John Hurt and Denholm Elliott, among others. Actors are brilliant to hang out with because their job is to play. I wanted to be in their group – that's why I decided to become an actor.
My parents divorced when I was seven.
- 10/4/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
It looks as though Don Draper might have a doctor cousin across the pond.
In the first U.K. trailer for "Breathless," coming to PBS' "Masterpiece" in 2014, Jack Davenport ("Smash") arrives as a brilliant surgeon in early '60s London, caught up in a cauldron of lies and guilty secrets, driven by love, ambition and sex. Sound like someone we know?
"Television dramas that tell good stories about women's lives in the 20th century are endlessly interesting to me ... and apparently to lots of other people -- look at the appeal of 'Call the Midwife' and 'Mad Men,'" "Masterpiece" executive producer Rebecca Eaton says. "We're all fascinated by the enormous changes that happened just a short time ago. 'Breathless' is a sharp, visually rich portrait of a group of people on the cusp of change."
Davenport is joined in the cast by "Downton Abbey" alumni...
In the first U.K. trailer for "Breathless," coming to PBS' "Masterpiece" in 2014, Jack Davenport ("Smash") arrives as a brilliant surgeon in early '60s London, caught up in a cauldron of lies and guilty secrets, driven by love, ambition and sex. Sound like someone we know?
"Television dramas that tell good stories about women's lives in the 20th century are endlessly interesting to me ... and apparently to lots of other people -- look at the appeal of 'Call the Midwife' and 'Mad Men,'" "Masterpiece" executive producer Rebecca Eaton says. "We're all fascinated by the enormous changes that happened just a short time ago. 'Breathless' is a sharp, visually rich portrait of a group of people on the cusp of change."
Davenport is joined in the cast by "Downton Abbey" alumni...
- 10/2/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
ITV Breathless
B Van Heusen
It's 1961 and the characters at the center of the drama are career high flyers whose personal lives are full of sexual antics and dark secrets. No it's not AMC's Mad Men, it's ITV's new drama Breathless. Instead of advertising executives, the high flyers in Breathless are Doctors -- gynaecologists to be precise and they're working in an era when birth control was barely used and abortions were illegal.
At the heart of the action is Otto Powell (Jack Davenport)-- a surgeon who performs backstreet abortions. He is assisted by Dr Charlie Enderbury (Shaun Dingwall) an anaesthetist who is happily married to nurse Lily (Joanna Page). Another nurse -- Angela (Catherine Steadman) is shocked to learn about Otto's after-hours procedures but she isn't his only problem. Chief Inspector Mulligan (Iain Glen) is a character from Otto's past and he is determined to dredge up dark...
B Van Heusen
It's 1961 and the characters at the center of the drama are career high flyers whose personal lives are full of sexual antics and dark secrets. No it's not AMC's Mad Men, it's ITV's new drama Breathless. Instead of advertising executives, the high flyers in Breathless are Doctors -- gynaecologists to be precise and they're working in an era when birth control was barely used and abortions were illegal.
At the heart of the action is Otto Powell (Jack Davenport)-- a surgeon who performs backstreet abortions. He is assisted by Dr Charlie Enderbury (Shaun Dingwall) an anaesthetist who is happily married to nurse Lily (Joanna Page). Another nurse -- Angela (Catherine Steadman) is shocked to learn about Otto's after-hours procedures but she isn't his only problem. Chief Inspector Mulligan (Iain Glen) is a character from Otto's past and he is determined to dredge up dark...
- 10/2/2013
- by Edited by K Kinsella
ITV has revealed the trailer for new drama Breathless, starring Jack Davenport and Joanna Page.
The period drama opens in 1961, and follows the lives of a group of doctors and nurses working in a London hospital.
The six-part drama, which also stars Sarah Parish, Catherine Steadman and Iain Glen, is billed as being set in a world of "lies, deception and guilty secrets, driven by love, ambition and sex".
The action takes place in a Gynaecology unit, on the cusp of Britain's '60s revolution where abortion is illegal and the contraceptive pill is only just becoming available to married women.
The drama was co-created by Casualty's Paul Unwin, who collaborated with Peter Grimsdale and Simon Tyrrell to write the series.
Kate Bartlett, executive producer for ITV Studios, said: "Breathless is an exhilarating and charismatic character drama, set against a glamorous London backdrop.
"The medical stories and events are...
The period drama opens in 1961, and follows the lives of a group of doctors and nurses working in a London hospital.
The six-part drama, which also stars Sarah Parish, Catherine Steadman and Iain Glen, is billed as being set in a world of "lies, deception and guilty secrets, driven by love, ambition and sex".
The action takes place in a Gynaecology unit, on the cusp of Britain's '60s revolution where abortion is illegal and the contraceptive pill is only just becoming available to married women.
The drama was co-created by Casualty's Paul Unwin, who collaborated with Peter Grimsdale and Simon Tyrrell to write the series.
Kate Bartlett, executive producer for ITV Studios, said: "Breathless is an exhilarating and charismatic character drama, set against a glamorous London backdrop.
"The medical stories and events are...
- 10/1/2013
- Digital Spy
ITV Studios and Masterpiece teamed to co-produce Breathless, the upcoming six-part drama about a group of doctors and nurses working in a London hospital in the 1960s. Jack Davenport leads an ensemble cast that includes Game Of Thrones‘ Iain Glen, Downton Abbey‘s Zoe Boyle and Natasha Little (Kidnap And Ransom). The series is set in a busy gynecology unit in 1961, a time when abortion was still illegal, the contraceptive pill only just available to married women and moral codes were shifting. Breathless was co-created and written by Paul Unwin (Shameless). Unwin, Rebecca Eaton and Kate Bartlett are exec producers. ITV starts airing it on October 10 and will trot out some of the key players at next week’s Mipcom; no U.S. airdate has been set:...
- 10/1/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Put away your barbecue, pack away your shorts and slot that Ibiza Summer Anthems 4 CD back on the shelf. Autumn has arrived and that means only one thing - loads and loads of great telly.
Digital Spy has picked out 13 Must-See TV highlights for the rest of 2013, which mean that shouldn't need to leave your sofa until Christmas.
13. Peaky Blinders
Billed as the British Boardwalk Empire, Cillian Murphy's period drama looks a lot more promising than its dodgy title suggests.
Based in the lawless streets of post-war Birmingham, we're promised crime, gang and Sam Neill playing a bad-ass police chief. What's not to love?
Starts: Thursday, September 12 at 9pm on BBC Two.
12. Breathless
A 1960s medical drama starring Natasha Little, Jack Davenport and Gavin and Stacey's Joanna Page. We're promised it will delve deep into hospital life in swinging London, which apparently was a "cauldron of lies, deception and guilty secrets,...
Digital Spy has picked out 13 Must-See TV highlights for the rest of 2013, which mean that shouldn't need to leave your sofa until Christmas.
13. Peaky Blinders
Billed as the British Boardwalk Empire, Cillian Murphy's period drama looks a lot more promising than its dodgy title suggests.
Based in the lawless streets of post-war Birmingham, we're promised crime, gang and Sam Neill playing a bad-ass police chief. What's not to love?
Starts: Thursday, September 12 at 9pm on BBC Two.
12. Breathless
A 1960s medical drama starring Natasha Little, Jack Davenport and Gavin and Stacey's Joanna Page. We're promised it will delve deep into hospital life in swinging London, which apparently was a "cauldron of lies, deception and guilty secrets,...
- 9/9/2013
- Digital Spy
Jack Davenport was given the thankless job in NBC’s canceled Smash of portraying a hotshot choreographer-director who thought Katharine McPhee was the perfect Marilyn Monroe for his Broadway production. Now he will get a much happier role playing an Obgyn in London in the 1960s-set Breathless for PBS. Masterpiece exec producer Rebecca Eaton confirmed his casting tonight at Summer TV Press Tour 2013. ITV Studios is co-producing. Eaton also confirmed Deadline’s May report that Matthew Rhys will play Mr. Darcy in PBS’s 3-part adaptation of Death Comes to Pemberley, based on the novel by P.D. James that imagines Jane Austen’s Darcy and Elizabeth six years after they marry and a body turns up at Pemberley as they’re preparing for their annual ball. Anna Maxwell Martin plays Elizabeth in the drama, timed to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Origin...
- 8/7/2013
- by LISA DE MORAES, TV Columnist
- Deadline TV
Black Sails
Starz has revealed that it will hold a fan-only sneak peek screening of the first episode of its Michael Bay-produced new pirate drama series "Black Sails" at Comic-Con on Thursday, July 18th.
The story follows the tales of Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his men and takes place twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic "Treasure Island." The series itself goes to air January 2014.
ABC
ABC will hold presentations for their "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" and "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland" series during next month's Comic-Con.
Hemlock Grove
Netflix has ordered a second season of its original mystery series "Hemlock Grove". Charles H. Eglee ("The Walking Dead," "Dexter," "The Shield") is also coming onboard as an executive producer.
The second season will consist of ten episodes that will go into production later this year ahead of a 2014 debut. [Source: TVByTheNumbers]
Breathless...
Starz has revealed that it will hold a fan-only sneak peek screening of the first episode of its Michael Bay-produced new pirate drama series "Black Sails" at Comic-Con on Thursday, July 18th.
The story follows the tales of Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his men and takes place twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic "Treasure Island." The series itself goes to air January 2014.
ABC
ABC will hold presentations for their "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" and "Once Upon a Time in Wonderland" series during next month's Comic-Con.
Hemlock Grove
Netflix has ordered a second season of its original mystery series "Hemlock Grove". Charles H. Eglee ("The Walking Dead," "Dexter," "The Shield") is also coming onboard as an executive producer.
The second season will consist of ten episodes that will go into production later this year ahead of a 2014 debut. [Source: TVByTheNumbers]
Breathless...
- 6/21/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
"Masterpiece" on PBS has picked up its next period piece from across the pond -- a medical drama set in the 1960s called "Breathless."
The six-hour drama is set in a London hospital in 1961. It stars Jack Davenport, late of "Smash," as the head of the hospital's gynecology unit at a time when the birth-control pill had just become available and abortion was still illegal. The cast also includes "Downton Abbey" alumni Iain Glen (also of "Game of Thrones") and Zoe Boyle and Natasha Little ("Case Histories," the U.K. "Mistresses").
"Television dramas that tell good stories about women's lives in the 20th century are endlessly interesting to me ... and apparently to lots of other people -- look at the appeal of 'Call the Midwife' and 'Mad Men,'" "Masterpiece" executive producer Rebecca Eaton says. "We're all fascinated by the enormous changes that happened just a short time ago.
The six-hour drama is set in a London hospital in 1961. It stars Jack Davenport, late of "Smash," as the head of the hospital's gynecology unit at a time when the birth-control pill had just become available and abortion was still illegal. The cast also includes "Downton Abbey" alumni Iain Glen (also of "Game of Thrones") and Zoe Boyle and Natasha Little ("Case Histories," the U.K. "Mistresses").
"Television dramas that tell good stories about women's lives in the 20th century are endlessly interesting to me ... and apparently to lots of other people -- look at the appeal of 'Call the Midwife' and 'Mad Men,'" "Masterpiece" executive producer Rebecca Eaton says. "We're all fascinated by the enormous changes that happened just a short time ago.
- 6/20/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
New York — "Masterpiece" is prescribing a new drama set in a London hospital in the early 1960s.
The series, "Breathless," will put medical practice at the brink of the tumultuous `60s. Set in a busy gynecology unit, it inhabits a world where abortion is illegal and the new contraceptive pill is only available to married women.
Premiering on "Masterpiece" in 2014, "Breathless" was announced Thursday by co-producers PBS/Wgbh and ITV Studios.
The series will star Jack Davenport, most recently seen on the NBC series "Smash." Other cast members include Zoe Boyle and Iain Glen from "Downton Abbey."
"Masterpiece" executive producer Rebecca Eaton called "Breathless" a "sharp, visually rich" portrait of characters "on the cusp of change."
"Breathless" is co-created and written by Paul Unwin ("Shameless," "Agatha Christie's Miss Marple" and "Poirot").
The series, "Breathless," will put medical practice at the brink of the tumultuous `60s. Set in a busy gynecology unit, it inhabits a world where abortion is illegal and the new contraceptive pill is only available to married women.
Premiering on "Masterpiece" in 2014, "Breathless" was announced Thursday by co-producers PBS/Wgbh and ITV Studios.
The series will star Jack Davenport, most recently seen on the NBC series "Smash." Other cast members include Zoe Boyle and Iain Glen from "Downton Abbey."
"Masterpiece" executive producer Rebecca Eaton called "Breathless" a "sharp, visually rich" portrait of characters "on the cusp of change."
"Breathless" is co-created and written by Paul Unwin ("Shameless," "Agatha Christie's Miss Marple" and "Poirot").
- 6/20/2013
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Masterpiece is re-teaming with ITV Studios to co-produce Breathless, the upcoming six-part drama about a group of doctors and nurses working in a London hospital in the 1960s. Jack Davenport leads an ensemble cast that includes Game Of Thrones‘ Iain Glen, Downton Abbey‘s Zoe Boyle and Natasha Little (Kidnap And Ransom). The series is set in a busy gynecology unit in 1961, a time when abortion was still illegal, the contraceptive pill only just available to married women and moral codes were shifting. Shooting started in April. No U.S. or UK air date has been set. Masterpiece is already partnered with ITV Studios on Jeremy Piven-starrer Mr. Selfridge, about to enter its second season. It also co-produces Endeavour and airs Downton Abbey, which ITV commissions in the UK from Carnival Films. Masterpiece exec producer Rebecca Eaton said of Breathless, “Television dramas that tell good stories about women’s...
- 6/19/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
ITV’s ‘Breathless’ Rounds Out Cast Six-part ITV drama Breathless has added cast to join the previously announced Jack Davenport-starrer. Natasha Little (Vanity Fair), Oliver Chris (One Man Two Guvnors), Zoe Boyle (Downton Abbey, Sons Of Anarchy), Joanna Page (Gavin & Stacey), Shaun Dingwall (Above Suspicion) Catherine Steadman (The Tudors, Salmon Fishing In The Yemen), Sarah Parish (Hatfields & McCoys), Pippa Haywood (Mr Selfridge) and Iain Glen (Game Of Thrones) have all boarded the ITV Studios drama about a group of doctors and nurses working in a London hospital in the 60s. Shooting is underway this month on Breathless which is produced by Jolyon Symonds with Kate Bartlett and director Paul Unwin exec producing. K5 Adds Rodolphe Sanze To Sales, Ups Sara Boss K5 International is expanding its sales team to handle its full Cannes slate. Rodolphe Sanze has joined the company, reporting to Partner, Sales and Marketing, Carl Clifton, and...
- 4/18/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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