Malcolm Hebden accepts Corrie’s ‘Best British Soap’ award!
The event which was held at MediaCityUK on Saturday evening, hosted by Phillip Schofield, saw an average of 5.42 million (23.6%) viewers on ITV.
A further 295,000 (1.5%) tuned in on ITV +1.
The awards were dominated by Coronation Street, which came away with a whopping 8 awards, including the coveted ‘Best British Soap’ award!
After a hugely successful London event in February Surviving Actors is back with its BIGGEST Manchester event yet!
The UK’s most popular actors’ exhibition will take place at the Kings House Conference Centre on the 18th May 2013!
The Act On This team will be there facilitating networking opportunities throughout the day, as well as hosting a dedicated ‘speed networking’ session from 12:45pm – 1:45pm!
Paul Abbott
Well Channel 4 have now unveiled some of the finer details on the 8-part, Manchester-based drama, that Abbott claims will mix “cop drama, family saga and social mayhem”.
Here’s some of those details from Channel 4′s press release:
Set in a crumbling cop shop on the wrong side of Manchester, No Offence follows a group of bobbies on the front line, wondering what they did to end up here, in this force, on this side of town.
Carla Chrome in Murder
The show produced by Zodiak’s Touchpaper won best ‘Single Drama’ at Sunday night’s BAFTAs.
Broadcast report that the BBC want at least 3 x 60-minute episodes for the series, with negotiations currently underway for a longer run.
Production is expected to start next year, aiming to have the series on-air by the end of 2014.
Use your favourite services with Act On This!
Ways to enable our members to share their acting careers has been top of our agenda for a while and we’ve just pushed some BIG updates out to the site that are going to make the community a much more colourful place to spend time!
Multimedia is a huge part of any actors’ career and with 75%+ of society now owning a smartphone and integrating their lives with the many apps available on their device – we thought it was about time we reached out too!
Olivia accepts her awards!
Sheridan Smith won her first ever ‘Leading Actress’ BAFTA for her role as Charmian Biggs in ITV’s Mrs Biggs, whilst Ben Whishaw took the ‘Leading Actor’ crown for his performance as Richard II, and Simon Russell Beale lead the ‘Supporting Actor’ category for playing Falstaff in Henry IV Part 2.
Another 6 series of Downton could be on the cards!
Speaking to NY Daily News Neame said:
“I think it is going to go on for a while.
“Right now the show is still growing in the U.S. and it would be awful to think of the show ending.
“I would rather let the show run between four and ten years, I imagine.”
Strange Hill High for CBBC!
Josh Weinstein – former showrunner on The Simpsons – is developing an animated adult comedy series with Factory Transmedia!
Factory Transmedia managing director and producer Phil Chalk described the idea as “top secret”, but admitted that creating an animated show for adults was his “holy grail.”
Josh recently collaborated with the Altrincham-based producer and VFX studio for his brand new children’s animation Strange Hill High.
Friday Night Dinner will return for series 3!
Channel 4 has ordered six brand new episodes of the comedy, which stars Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal as the Goodman family, along with Mark Heap as their strange neighbour Jim.
In the new series, Adam gains a new female admirer – an 11-year old girl, Jonny gets the world’s worst tattoo, Dad gives the boys a graphic lecture on sex education, Mum practices being a counsellor on her horrified family, Grandma goes back out with the terrifying Mr Morris, Jim accidentally swallows his dog’s sleeping pills, and… there’s a wedding.
The original cast of Everybody Loves Raymond!
The pilot episode, which has been commissioned by Sony Pictures Television-owned indie Silver River Productions will star Lee Mack and Catherine Tate – and has been dubbed The Smiths.
It will be filmed at Elstree Studios on Tuesday 28th May.
The comedy will be based in Cheshire and centre on Lee, a sports writer with a seemingly idyllic life, apart from the fact that his overbearing parents live over the road with his broodingly envious brother.
