Television
Supersize v Superskinny: Series II (2010)
Endemol Productions For Channel 4
British television programme on C4 that features information about dieting and extreme eating lifestyles. One of the main show features is a weekly comparison between an overweight person, and an underweight person. The two are brought to a feeding clinic, and live together for five days, swapping diets all supervised by Dr Christian Jessen.
The show also features Anna Richardson, who examines new methods to lose weight by trying diets she finds on the Internet, some of which have shocking side effects. For example, Anna attempted Laser lipolysis, which went drastically wrong and resulted in severe bruising.
Gaffer: Steve Hudson
Enid (2009)
Enid is a British television film directed by James Hawes for BBC Four. The film is centered on the life of famous children's author Enid Blyton, the ambitious, committed, but initially unknown writer. The story explores the misfortunes of her childhood, her two marriages & how the clear, soothing words in the stories she created often clashed with the complications of her own life.
The film also uncovers a strong and resourceful woman; a woman who never really grew up; a woman who rewrote the endings of many chapters of her real life, sometimes with cruel and hurtful results; and a woman whose legacy has often been criticised but whose success cannot be argued with, who gave children the stories they wanted
The shooting took place early in 2009 in London and Surrey.
Starring: Helena Bonham-Carter, Matthew MacFadyen, Laurence Richardson, Denis Lawson
Director: James Hawes
DOP: Matt Gray
Gaffer: Paul Jarvis
The Inbetweeners: Season 2 (2009)
Marooned in suburbia, BAFTA award winning The Inbetweeners follows four friends as they navigate the minefield of the Comprehensive education with their hormones at full blast. There's vomit, offensive language, and a trip to Thorpe Park.
All they care about is sex, cheap booze, kid brothers and the sexual persuasion of Neil’s dad. None of our heroes are exceptional, all are distinctly average. And trying to convince the world they are sophisticated, sexy human beings usually ends in wretched disaster.
Starring: Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley, Blake Harrison, Emily Head, Belinda Stewart-Wilson, Robin Weaver.
Director: Gordon Anderson
DOP: Rob Kitzmann
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The Thick of It: Series 3
BAFTA Award winning British comedy television that satirises the inner workings of modern British Government. There's an election looming, and amongst the familiar faces there's a new minister to deal with.
Starring: Peter Capaldi, Chris Langham, Chris Addison, James Smith, Joanna Scanlan, John Biggins.
Director: Armando Iannucci
DOP: Jamie Cairney
Gaffer: Colin Thwaites
Mark of Cain (2007)
The Mark of Cain is a BAFTA Award-winning British television film first broadcast in 2007 following three young men as they experience the extremity of war for the first time, and the permanent effects of what they have seen and done as they return from their tour of duty. Rather than heroic stories, all they bring home are tawdry trophy photos, as well as the secrets of what they really did, until the consequences of their actions surface to confront them.
Starring: Barry Sloane, Matthew McNulty, Gerard Kearns, Leo Gregory, Shaun Dooley, Naomi Bentley, Alistair Petrie.
Director: Marc Munden
DOP: Matt Gray
Messiah 3: The Promise
The Promise is the third in a series of BBC/Paramount co-productions adaptation of the novel by Boris Starling which introduced the character of Red Metcalfe. Metcalfe's renowned ability to get under the skin and into the minds of deranged killers is put to the ultimate test when he is forced to confront an old adversary, Pace Tierney, an enemy Red thought he had put inside forever.
Starring: :Ken Stott returns, Neil Dudgeon, Frances Grey, Michelle Forbes, Liam Cunningham, Michael Maloney, Catherine Russell, Tom Ellis, Sam Troughton and Claire Holman
Director: David Drury
DOP: Dominic Clemence
Gaffer: Eddy White
Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness
BAFTA and Emmy nominated ITV drama focusing on a no-nonsense female British Detective Chief Inspector (DCI), Jane Tennison who under pressure to retire, investigates the murder of a Bosnian refugee and ends up digging into the past war crimes of recent immigrants. The series returns after a seven-year hiatus. It also relocates the story back to London, after being set in Manchester in series 5.
Starring: Helen Mirren, Ben Miles, Clare Holman, Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham, Frank Finlay, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Phoebe Nicholls and Oleg Menshikov. Directed by Tom Hooper
Director: Tom Hooper
DOP: Larry Smith BSC
Gaffer: John Campbell
Love in a Cold Climate (2001)
A sumptuous BBC costume drama about three upper-class young women and their quest for romance just before World War II. Based on Love in a Cold Climate and The Pursuit of Love, two novels by aristocratic writer Nancy Mitford, it features a host of British acting stars.
Starring: Celia Imrie, Alan Bates, Sheila Gish, Anthony Andrews and Frances Barber
Director: Tom Hooper
DOP: Larry Smith BSC
Gaffer: John Campbell
The Family (2003)
Granada Drama The Family revolves around the Cutlers, a family of gangsters from the mythical old school.
Starring: Martin Kemp, Jamie Foreman, David Calder.
Director: David Drury
DOP Dominic Clemence
Gaffer: Eddy White
A Midsummer Nights Dream
A modern BBC Drama rewriting the classic Shakespeare comedy. During an engagement party thrown by Theo and Polly for their daughter Hermia & James, Hermia's true love Xander shows up. After Hermia declares her engagement to James is off, it becomes clear that her best friend Helena has been in love with James all along. When the King and Queen of the Fairies (themselves feuding) decide to straighten things out with a love potion, their meddling goes terribly wrong and the relationships between all those involved become even murkier than they were previously.
Starring: Bill Paterson, Imelda Staunton, Lennie James, Sharon Small
Director: Ed Fraiman
DOP: Tony Miller
Gaffer: Steve Blake
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Auf Wiedersehen Pet: Series 4 & Christmas Special
Britain's most popular gang of brickies embark on new adventures, taking them from North-East England all the way to Arizona, Cuba and Thailand.
In the fourth series, and Christmas special, our heroes work for the Overseas Estates Development. Their travels take them to Cuba and Thailand, where Oz finds and loses love, Neville does a spot of moonlighting for MI6 and Barry gets kidnapped. But the show's concluding episodes are tinged with sadness off-screen, due to the death of Pat Roach.
Starring: Tim Healy, Jimmy Nail, Timothy Spall, Kevin Whately, Christopher Fairbank, Pat Roach, Noel Clarke
Director:
DOP Tony Miller & Tim Palmer
Gaffer: Steve Blake
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps
Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps is a BBC sitcom created and written by Susan Nickson. It is set in the town of Runcorn in Cheshire, England, and revolves around the lives of five twenty-somethings.
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Starring: Sheridan Smith, Natalie Casey, Kathryn Drysdale, Will Mellor, Ralf Little, Luke Gell, Lee Oakes, Thomas Nelstrop,
DOP Jamie Cairney
Gaffer: Colin Thwaites