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Digital Spy presents a list of winners and nominees at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards 2013, hosted by Stephen Mangan from The Brewery in London on Sunday, April 28, 2013:

Breakthrough Talent

Mike Bartlett - The Town

Julie Gearey - Prisoners' Wives

Rhys Thomas - Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender (Director's Cut)

Tim Whitnall - Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story - Winner

Costume Design

Amy Roberts - Mrs Biggs

Sheena Napier - Parade's End - Winner

Odile Dicks-Mireaux - Richard II (The Hollow Crown)

Lorna Marie Mugan - Ripper Street

Digital Creativity

Steve Boulton, James Rutherford - Channel 4 Paralympics - Winner

Production Team - Embarrassing Bodies: Live from the Clinic

Production Team - Foxes Live: Wild in the City

Production Team - The Great British Property Scandal

Director (Factual)

Katharine English - Our War

Ben Chanan - The Plot to Bring Down Britain's Planes - Winner

John Dower...

Digital Spy presents a list of nominees for the BAFTA TV Craft Awards 2013, to be hosted by Stephen Mangan from The Brewery in London on Sunday, April 28, 2012:

Breakthrough Talent

Mike Bartlett - The Town

Julie Gearey - Prisoners' Wives

Rhys Thomas - Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender (Director's Cut)

Tim Whitnall - Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story

Costume Design

Amy Roberts - Mrs Biggs

Sheena Napier - Parade's End

Odile Dicks-Mireaux - Richard II (The Hollow Crown)

Lorna Marie Mugan - Ripper Street

Digital Creativity

Steve Boulton, James Rutherford - Channel 4 Paralympics

Production Team - Embarrassing Bodies: Live from the Clinic

Production Team - Foxes Live: Wild in the City

Production Team - The Great British Property Scandal

Director (Factual)

Katharine English - Our War

Ben Chanan - The Plot to Bring Down Britain's Planes

John Dower - Bradley Wiggins: A Year in Yellow

Ben Anthony...

BBC Two‘s five-part period drama Parade’s End leads the nominees for BAFTA‘s television craft awards with five. The adaptation of Ford Madox Ford’s novels started airing on HBO on February 26, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Anne-Marie Duff, Rupert Everett and Miranda Richardson. It took mentions for production design and Tom Stoppard’s writing, among others. Also figuring heavily among the nominees are BBC Two and HBO’s Hitchcock drama The Girl, BBC One and BBC America‘s Ripper Street and BBC Two and BBC America’s cancelled The Hour. Other shows known to U.S. audiences, Doctor Who, Call The Midwife, Downton Abbey, Top Gear and The Thick Of It also scored nods. Olympics programming, inlcuding Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony and Stephen Daldry’s closing ceremony are nommed as is the fictional comedy series about the Games, Twenty Twelve. Awards will be handed out on April 28 in London.

There was more to Kenny Everett than his sexuality, but we didn't see it

Throughout his radio and TV career, Kenny Everett always gave the impression he was acting the part of Kenny Everett. The feature length, 90-minute biopic, Best Possible Taste – The Kenny Everett Story (BBC4), suggested he was also giving a performance in his private life, as he struggled to accept what to everyone who knew him – not least his wife, Lee – was blindingly obvious; that he was gay.

Only his close friends will know just how true this was. Tim Whitnall's script certainly never felt awkward, but viewing Everett's entire life and career almost exclusively through the prism of his sexuality began to feel limiting after an hour, as I felt that other interesting aspects of his character had gone awol. Everett was clearly a troubled, self-destructive personality regardless of his sexuality. Plenty of other entertainers...

Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story has been given an official airdate. The one-off biopic of the late broadcaster and comedian Kenny Everett will air on Wednesday, October 3 at 9pm on BBC Four. Oliver Lansley and ex-Coronation Street star Katherine Kelly play Everett and his wife Lee Middleton in the 90-minute drama. Tim Whitnall's drama follows the "unconventional love story" of DJ Everett and his (more)...

Originally aired in 2007, Roary the Racing Car has been one of the most successful stop-motion animated shows in the UK from Chapman Entertainment, the same studio behind Fifi and the Flowertots, Raa Raa the Noisy Lion and Little Charley Bear.

2entertain has distributed this latest DVD that features a great number of episodes for a very low and affordable price that will please both grown-ups and children, considering that the series’ popularity has got it aired on both Nick Jr. and Channel Five’s Milkshake slot.

Roary the Racing Car follows the adventures of the little red racing car that lives with his friends at Silver Hatch racetrack, which is under the kind and watchful eye of mechanic Big Chris (voiced by Peter Kay).

Among the cast of characters include Mr. Carburettor the Italian owner of Silver Hatch, Maxi the competitive yellow car, Marsha the tidy race marshal, Cici the...

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One of British TV’s most loved comics is set to be resurrected in BBC Four’s one-off drama The Best Possible Taste. Tim Whitnall’s script focuses on the professional and personal life of the late Kenny Everett during the early 80s in Thatcher’s Britain. TV newcomer Oliver Lansley plays the funny man while Coronation Street actress Katherine Kelly plays his wife Lee Middleton. Filming is underway and the show is set to air late in 2012 or early 2013. Fans of Everett will be pleased to know that many of his favorite characters will be featured in the show.

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The first picture of Oliver Lansley and ex-Coronation Street star Katherine Kelly in Kenny Everett biopic The Best Possible Taste has been released. BBC Four's Tim Whitnall-penned drama will follow the "unconventional love story" of late maverick comic and DJ Everett (Oliver Lansley), and his wife Lee Middleton (Kelly), who were married for 13 years between 1966 and 1979. The 90-minute biopic will celebrate Everett's life and career and will feature his famous comic creations Sid Snot and Cupid Stunt. "Kenny Everett was a genuine original: wild and unfocused maybe, but also deliciously anarchic and always entertaining. In many ways Kenny was a very modern celebrity, wearing his heart (more)...

*full disclosure: a screener of this film was provided by Breaking Glass Pictures.

Director: Marek Losey.

Writer: Tim Whitnall.

The Hide is one of these films where this reviewer would love to jump right into the spoilers. However, this would ruin the film for others. As background, The Hide was produced in 2008 on the Isle of Sheppey. Then, this title was released in the United Kingdom in 2009. Initially The Hide was a stageplay titled "The Sociable Plover" and now this material will find itself on DVD September 6th in North America, through Breaking Glass Pictures. This is a tense thriller. Starring Alex MacQueen as Roy and Phil Campbell as Dave, The Hide utilized the three unities of Aristotle, while providing some mysterious interplay between the two characters. There are only a very few film details that hamper the enjoyment of this film.

Roy is an ornithologist (bird watcher), who is...

Breaking Glass Pictures will distribute Marek Losey's thriller, The Hide on DVD September 6th. This is a film from across the shores and this English film puts one loner and a mysterious man together and on the run from the police. Tragedy is the end result.

The film poster for the release is almost colourless, while the tagline suggests "no crime stays hidden forever." Receiving good reviews thus far, The Hide is for film fans with a desire for mystery. Check this one out in a fews days, through Breaking Glass Picture's sister company, Vicious Circle Films. More release details are below.

The synopsis for The Hide is here:

"Roy Tunt is a quirky loner who spends his days in a 'hide' – a secluded seaside shelter where he watches and documents the many species of birds that pass over the shoreline. One gloomy day, his meticulous routine is interrupted by the arrival of David,...

Kim Cattrall has been nominated for a coveted theater award. The "Sex and the City" star's turn as Amanda in "Private Lives" sees her considered for the Best Actress in a Play prize at the 11th Whatsonstage.com Awards.

She will face competition from "End of the Rainbow" star Tracie Bennett, Helen McCrory for her role in "The Late Middle Classes", "Ruined" star Jenny Jules, Nancy Carroll from "After the Dance" and "All My Sons" actress Zoe Wanamaker.

The Best Actor in a Play award will be contested by Benedict Cumberbatch from "After the Dance", Kim's "Private Lives" co-star Matthew Mcfadyen, "Hamlet" and "Measure For Measure" star Rory Kinnear, "Deathtrap" and "London Assurance" actor Simon Russell Beale, "The Real Thing"'s Toby Stephens and "All My Sons" star David Suchet.

"All My Sons" received more nominations than any other production, being considered for accolades in six different categories. The most...

London -- Rachel Weisz was named best actress in a play as Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire" and Mark Rylance best actor for "Jerusalem" at the 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards, hosted by Anthony Head and presented Sunday evening.

"The Mountaintop" saw American Katori Hall become the first black female playwright to win the Olivier for best new play while Broadway transfer "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" was named best revival.

In musical honors, Broadway hit but London flop "Spring Awakening" was named best new show with the production's Aneurin Barnard winning as best actor and Iwan Rheon for best supporting performance.

"Hello Dolly!" won as best musical revival with Samantha Spiro named best actress in the title role and Stephen Mear best choreographer. "Wicked" picked up the audience award for most popular show while Michael Wynne's "The Priory" won the best new comedy award and Tim Whitnall's "Morecambe" won as best entertainment.

BBC Four has announced a drama biopic about the late comedian Kenny Everett. The 90-minute film, titled Number One in Heaven, is to focus on the life of the star, who died of an AIDS-related death in 1995 aged 50. Tim Whitnall, playwright of the upcoming programme, told The Guardian: "He was so small it is hard to think of finding an actor who can play him. It is possible he could be (more)...