Remember "The Full Monty," friends? The British comedy from director Peter Cattaneo and "Slumdog Millionaire" writer Simon Beaufoy earned critical acclaim across the board for its funny and charming story about six unemployed men, including four former steel workers, who decide to form a male striptease act in order to get through some tough times. The film went on to land Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Original Musical or Comedy Score, even though it only won the latter.
Now, "The Full Monty" will have a chance at winning a whole new slate of awards because it's getting a sequel TV series at FX (on Hulu) with original cast members Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Lesley Sharp, Hugo Speer, Paul Barber, Steve Huison, Wim Snape, and Tom Wilkinson all reprising their roles from the movie. It's been 25 years since they bared it all, so...
Now, "The Full Monty" will have a chance at winning a whole new slate of awards because it's getting a sequel TV series at FX (on Hulu) with original cast members Robert Carlyle, Mark Addy, Lesley Sharp, Hugo Speer, Paul Barber, Steve Huison, Wim Snape, and Tom Wilkinson all reprising their roles from the movie. It's been 25 years since they bared it all, so...
- 5/12/2023
- by Ethan Anderton
- Slash Film
The Prime Minister “ought to” give up their involvement with the hiring of the BBC Chairman in the future following the Richard Sharp scandal, according to former Director General Tony Hall.
Hall urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to “say something interesting” about the government’s involvement with the process, which, in Sharp’s case, led to a chain of events surrounding the Boris Johnson loan scandal that has forced the former Goldman Sachs banker and Conservative Party donor to resign.
Hall, who was BBC Dg between 2013 and 2020, told the Voice of the Listener & Viewer (Vlv) Conference that the Prime Minister of the day “ought to” give up their involvement in the Chair appointment, which is currently decided by a government committee.
“When you say the Prime Minister appoints the Chairman people tend to respond with a wry grin and question whether that is really independent,” he said.
Hall forecasted that...
Hall urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to “say something interesting” about the government’s involvement with the process, which, in Sharp’s case, led to a chain of events surrounding the Boris Johnson loan scandal that has forced the former Goldman Sachs banker and Conservative Party donor to resign.
Hall, who was BBC Dg between 2013 and 2020, told the Voice of the Listener & Viewer (Vlv) Conference that the Prime Minister of the day “ought to” give up their involvement in the Chair appointment, which is currently decided by a government committee.
“When you say the Prime Minister appoints the Chairman people tend to respond with a wry grin and question whether that is really independent,” he said.
Hall forecasted that...
- 5/11/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
The BBC has unveiled its findings following a review into the conduct of recently-ousted chair Richard Sharp. The corporation said Sharp’s conduct did not give rise to any conflicts of interest.
Sharp resigned two weeks ago after it was revealed he had been involved in former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s attempt to secure a loan in 2020 just weeks before Johnson recommended him for the role of BBC chair. Sharp was then formally appointed in Jan. 2021.
Sharp, a banker and former chair of the Royal Academy of Arts, did not disclose the episode during his application for the role, an omission that constituted a “significant error of judgement” a parliamentary inquiry said. An official report by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport concluded that Sharp had breached the rules for public appointments, prompting him to step down.
The BBC also conducted its own review, headed by three non-executive...
Sharp resigned two weeks ago after it was revealed he had been involved in former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s attempt to secure a loan in 2020 just weeks before Johnson recommended him for the role of BBC chair. Sharp was then formally appointed in Jan. 2021.
Sharp, a banker and former chair of the Royal Academy of Arts, did not disclose the episode during his application for the role, an omission that constituted a “significant error of judgement” a parliamentary inquiry said. An official report by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport concluded that Sharp had breached the rules for public appointments, prompting him to step down.
The BBC also conducted its own review, headed by three non-executive...
- 5/11/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
The BBC has cleared the resigning Richard Sharp of any potential conflict of interest issues arising during his time as Chairman but has said he should have made “relevant declarations at the outset of his tenure.”
Sharp was found to have broken the BBC Board’s Code of Practice due to this failure to declare that he had attempted to introduce a Canadian businessman, Sam Blyth, to the UK’s Cabinet Secretary, and the businessman went on to guarantee an £800,000 ($1B) loan to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Sharp is resigning from his post due to a separate damning report from the UK’s Public Appointments Committee, which found he breached appointment rules.
Today’s BBC Nominations Committee report didn’t examine Sharp’s controversial hire but only potential conflict of interest issues arising since he started in early 2021. The review was conducted by three non-executive members of the Board’s Nominations Committee,...
Sharp was found to have broken the BBC Board’s Code of Practice due to this failure to declare that he had attempted to introduce a Canadian businessman, Sam Blyth, to the UK’s Cabinet Secretary, and the businessman went on to guarantee an £800,000 ($1B) loan to former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Sharp is resigning from his post due to a separate damning report from the UK’s Public Appointments Committee, which found he breached appointment rules.
Today’s BBC Nominations Committee report didn’t examine Sharp’s controversial hire but only potential conflict of interest issues arising since he started in early 2021. The review was conducted by three non-executive members of the Board’s Nominations Committee,...
- 5/11/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Agnes Albright (True Detective) and Andrew Bailes star.
Ahead of the Cannes market, Toronto-based Raven Banner has acquired worldwide sales on John Pata’s hallucinogenic horror Black Mold.
Agnes Albright (True Detective) and Andrew Bailes play friends who sneak into off-limits buildings for art and an adrenaline rush.
When they break into Franklin Hill, a large facility with history, they encounter a volatile threat that holds them captive. The longer the friends are held at the facility the more they realise something is very wrong with the place.
Sarah Sharp and Jennifer Shelby served as producers. Albright was named best...
Ahead of the Cannes market, Toronto-based Raven Banner has acquired worldwide sales on John Pata’s hallucinogenic horror Black Mold.
Agnes Albright (True Detective) and Andrew Bailes play friends who sneak into off-limits buildings for art and an adrenaline rush.
When they break into Franklin Hill, a large facility with history, they encounter a volatile threat that holds them captive. The longer the friends are held at the facility the more they realise something is very wrong with the place.
Sarah Sharp and Jennifer Shelby served as producers. Albright was named best...
- 5/8/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
BBC chairman Richard Sharp has resigned over his role in a 2020 loan to then U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Sharp has been under pressure to step down ever since a damning report in the U.K.’s Sunday Times in January alleged that Johnson recommended Sharp as chairman just weeks after the latter was involved in Johnson’s attempt to arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000 [$990,000].
A parliamentary inquiry into the matter in February — by the same Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms) committee that interviewed Sharp for the job — found that he had made “significant errors of judgement” when he didn’t declare his role in the facilitation of a loan to Johnson.
Sharp resigned after a report that set out the findings of an inquiry by Adam Heppinstall into the 2020/21 competition to appoint a new chair of the BBC board, was published on Friday.
Sharp has been under pressure to step down ever since a damning report in the U.K.’s Sunday Times in January alleged that Johnson recommended Sharp as chairman just weeks after the latter was involved in Johnson’s attempt to arrange a guarantee on a loan of up to £800,000 [$990,000].
A parliamentary inquiry into the matter in February — by the same Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms) committee that interviewed Sharp for the job — found that he had made “significant errors of judgement” when he didn’t declare his role in the facilitation of a loan to Johnson.
Sharp resigned after a report that set out the findings of an inquiry by Adam Heppinstall into the 2020/21 competition to appoint a new chair of the BBC board, was published on Friday.
- 4/28/2023
- by Naman Ramachandran and Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The BBC raised concerns about the way the government was going about appointing its new Chairman before the controversial hire of Richard Sharp.
Sir David Clementi, the BBC’s former Chairman, wrote to the government in October 2020 to complain about the recruitment process for his successor.
The UK government is responsible for appointing the BBC’s Chairman, while ministers also play a role in hiring four other board members.
The procedure has become increasingly divisive, with concerns about ministers installing political candidates, leaving the BBC open to the accusation that its non-executive directors are too close to the government.
Clementi’s letter to Oliver Dowden, the former Culture Secretary, could fuel suspicions that the government played politics with the BBC’s board amid a wider agenda against the broadcaster.
In the letter, disclosed by the BBC under a Freedom of Information request, Clementi raised questions about the Chairman recruitment...
Sir David Clementi, the BBC’s former Chairman, wrote to the government in October 2020 to complain about the recruitment process for his successor.
The UK government is responsible for appointing the BBC’s Chairman, while ministers also play a role in hiring four other board members.
The procedure has become increasingly divisive, with concerns about ministers installing political candidates, leaving the BBC open to the accusation that its non-executive directors are too close to the government.
Clementi’s letter to Oliver Dowden, the former Culture Secretary, could fuel suspicions that the government played politics with the BBC’s board amid a wider agenda against the broadcaster.
In the letter, disclosed by the BBC under a Freedom of Information request, Clementi raised questions about the Chairman recruitment...
- 3/24/2023
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
If it’s become easy to forget the extent of Lena Dunham’s talent it is, maybe, in direct proportion to how purely inescapable she was not even ten years ago. “She” encompassing both the work—Tiny Furniture as tempest in a teapot, then Girls as full-blown lightning rod—and person, which most struggled to separate; the writer-director-star-subject combo had a way of blurring distinction. Sharp Stick arrives, then, as it should: not as declaration of intent or screed against those who obsessed over her every step, but far more simply an expression of talent that’s lain dormant. It’s also plainly funny, much in that microscopic, oddball-observational way a character on Girls calling Norman Reedus their favorite actor was funny.
Whether or not it helps that I liked Sharp Stick a good deal, Dunham is an immensely generous interview subject. Our conversation below spans particulars of Sharp Stick‘s production,...
Whether or not it helps that I liked Sharp Stick a good deal, Dunham is an immensely generous interview subject. Our conversation below spans particulars of Sharp Stick‘s production,...
- 7/28/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Fans of “Felicity,” or at least those who watched or rewatched the beloved and very ’90s WB series during the pandemic, might be surprised to find Scott Speedman in not one, but two places on the big screen this summer.
First, while Neon’s marketing didn’t even suggest a cameo from the actor, Speedman really should have had top-adjacent billing in David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” as leader of a cell of evolutionists repurposing plastic as food for humans and evolving organs to be able to consume such plastics. Meanwhile, in Lena Dunham’s new feature “Sharp Stick,” out July 29, Speedman plays Vance Leroy, the object of the sexually precocious Sarah Jo’s (Kristine Froseth) coming-of-age obsession.
Call it a Speedman-aissance? The British-born, Silverlake-residing actor doesn’t mind the term, especially since in the last year the actor formerly known as mercurial lothario Ben on J.J. Abrams...
First, while Neon’s marketing didn’t even suggest a cameo from the actor, Speedman really should have had top-adjacent billing in David Cronenberg’s “Crimes of the Future” as leader of a cell of evolutionists repurposing plastic as food for humans and evolving organs to be able to consume such plastics. Meanwhile, in Lena Dunham’s new feature “Sharp Stick,” out July 29, Speedman plays Vance Leroy, the object of the sexually precocious Sarah Jo’s (Kristine Froseth) coming-of-age obsession.
Call it a Speedman-aissance? The British-born, Silverlake-residing actor doesn’t mind the term, especially since in the last year the actor formerly known as mercurial lothario Ben on J.J. Abrams...
- 7/27/2022
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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