James Corden and Ruth Jones have written a final episode for Gavin And Stacey – a special Christmas edition.
A report earlier this year suggested that a Gavin And Stacey Christmas special was in the works, which Ruth Jones later denied. However, the BBC has now confirmed that Corden and Jones have written a Christmas special, which will also be the final episode.
No details about plot or cast have been revealed, but the series regulars, including Corden as Smithy, Jones as Nessa, Steadman as Pam, Brydon as Uncle Bryn, Davis as Dawn, Mathew Horne as Gavin, Joanna Page as Stacey, Melanie Walters as Gwen, Larry Lamb as Mick and Adrian Scarborough as Pete, are expected to return.
When Ruth Jones and James Corden brought Gavin And Stacey back for a Christmas special five years ago, around 18 million people tuned in. In modern TV terms, that’s an astonishing achievement.
It...
A report earlier this year suggested that a Gavin And Stacey Christmas special was in the works, which Ruth Jones later denied. However, the BBC has now confirmed that Corden and Jones have written a Christmas special, which will also be the final episode.
No details about plot or cast have been revealed, but the series regulars, including Corden as Smithy, Jones as Nessa, Steadman as Pam, Brydon as Uncle Bryn, Davis as Dawn, Mathew Horne as Gavin, Joanna Page as Stacey, Melanie Walters as Gwen, Larry Lamb as Mick and Adrian Scarborough as Pete, are expected to return.
When Ruth Jones and James Corden brought Gavin And Stacey back for a Christmas special five years ago, around 18 million people tuned in. In modern TV terms, that’s an astonishing achievement.
It...
- 5/3/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
Production is reportedly about to begin on a Christmas special of Gavin And Stacey, with Ruth Jones and James Corden said to be making a return.
When Ruth Jones and James Corden brought Gavin and Stacey back for a Christmas special five years ago, around 18 million people tuned in. In modern TV terms, that’s an astonishing achievement.
According to Deadline, pre-production work is now underway on a new Christmas special, once again written by co-writers and stars James Corden and Ruth Jones. The majority of the main cast, which includes Corden as Smithy, Jones as Nessa, Alison Steadman as Pam, Rob Brydon as Uncle Bryn, Davis as Dawn, Mathew Horne as Gavin, Joanna Page as Stacey, Melanie Walters as Gwen, Larry Lamb as Mick and Adrian Scarborough as Pete, are expected to return.
It’s an auspicious place to be for a sitcom that started with little fanfare on...
When Ruth Jones and James Corden brought Gavin and Stacey back for a Christmas special five years ago, around 18 million people tuned in. In modern TV terms, that’s an astonishing achievement.
According to Deadline, pre-production work is now underway on a new Christmas special, once again written by co-writers and stars James Corden and Ruth Jones. The majority of the main cast, which includes Corden as Smithy, Jones as Nessa, Alison Steadman as Pam, Rob Brydon as Uncle Bryn, Davis as Dawn, Mathew Horne as Gavin, Joanna Page as Stacey, Melanie Walters as Gwen, Larry Lamb as Mick and Adrian Scarborough as Pete, are expected to return.
It’s an auspicious place to be for a sitcom that started with little fanfare on...
- 2/13/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
British actor Rob Brydon has revealed he finds it hurtful when Barbie fans question why he was cast in the record-breaking movie.
Brydon appears as Sugar Daddy Ken in the movie, which has this week passed $1billion at the box office, becoming the highest-grossing ever film made by a woman as a sole director.
He told The Times newspaper:
“It does slightly sting that some people are saying, ‘What’s he doing in such a big Hollywood movie?’
“I am resigned to the fact that it’s the price I pay for not taking the big acting roles in America and doing quiz shows and voiceovers here [in the UK] instead.
The Welsh actor has shared that he got his role in the blockbuster, due to having a famous fan. It transpired that Margot Robbie, who lived in London at the beginning of her film career, was a big follower of British comedy Gavin & Stacey,...
Brydon appears as Sugar Daddy Ken in the movie, which has this week passed $1billion at the box office, becoming the highest-grossing ever film made by a woman as a sole director.
He told The Times newspaper:
“It does slightly sting that some people are saying, ‘What’s he doing in such a big Hollywood movie?’
“I am resigned to the fact that it’s the price I pay for not taking the big acting roles in America and doing quiz shows and voiceovers here [in the UK] instead.
The Welsh actor has shared that he got his role in the blockbuster, due to having a famous fan. It transpired that Margot Robbie, who lived in London at the beginning of her film career, was a big follower of British comedy Gavin & Stacey,...
- 8/12/2023
- by Caroline Frost
- Deadline Film + TV
HBO Documentary Films has acquired worldwide and television streaming rights to the Academy Award®-nominated documentary short, How Do You Measure A Year?, from longtime HBO collaborator Jay Rosenblatt. Coinciding with Father’s Day, the documentary will debut in June 2023 on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max.
Synopsis: For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday, asking her the same questions. In just 29 minutes, we watch her grow from a toddler to a young woman with all the beautiful and awkward stages in between. Each phase is captured fleetingly but makes an indelible mark. Her responses to her father’s questions are just a backdrop for a deeper story of parental love, acceptance, and ultimately, independence.
Director Jay Rosenblatt quote: “I am thrilled HBO has acquired How Do You Measure A Year?. Given that HBO has debuted two previous films I made with my daughter,...
Synopsis: For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday, asking her the same questions. In just 29 minutes, we watch her grow from a toddler to a young woman with all the beautiful and awkward stages in between. Each phase is captured fleetingly but makes an indelible mark. Her responses to her father’s questions are just a backdrop for a deeper story of parental love, acceptance, and ultimately, independence.
Director Jay Rosenblatt quote: “I am thrilled HBO has acquired How Do You Measure A Year?. Given that HBO has debuted two previous films I made with my daughter,...
- 2/28/2023
- by TV Shows Martin Cid Magazine
- Martin Cid - TV
Julia Davis and Rob Brydon's no-holds-barred comedy series Human Remains brilliantly eviscerates dysfunctional marriages to find humor in depression, death, and other dark topics.
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- 9/28/2017
- Screen Anarchy
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon have confirmed that they will return in a second series of Michael Winterbottom's The Trip.
The BAFTA-winning six-episode first series in 2010 featured both stars playing versions of themselves on a restaurant road trip.
> Rob Brydon on 'The Trip', 'Human Remains' and his comedy struggle
Coogan told Empire: "We are going to Italy. I went there three weeks ago to meet Rob and Michael to go for dinner and talk about what we were going to do."
He added: "We're supposed to be retracing the footsteps of the Romantics, of Shelley and Byron and Keats, and I don't know enough about it.
"I'm damned if Rob's going to come across as an authority on it. It'll be a great motivation for me to read up on it so that when we improvise, I can drop some information on him."
Brydon had...
The BAFTA-winning six-episode first series in 2010 featured both stars playing versions of themselves on a restaurant road trip.
> Rob Brydon on 'The Trip', 'Human Remains' and his comedy struggle
Coogan told Empire: "We are going to Italy. I went there three weeks ago to meet Rob and Michael to go for dinner and talk about what we were going to do."
He added: "We're supposed to be retracing the footsteps of the Romantics, of Shelley and Byron and Keats, and I don't know enough about it.
"I'm damned if Rob's going to come across as an authority on it. It'll be a great motivation for me to read up on it so that when we improvise, I can drop some information on him."
Brydon had...
- 4/26/2013
- Digital Spy
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon have confirmed that they will return in a second series of Michael Winterbottom's The Trip.
The BAFTA-winning six-episode first series in 2010 featured both stars playing versions of themselves on a restaurant road trip.
> Rob Brydon on 'The Trip', 'Human Remains' and his comedy struggle
Coogan told Empire: "We are going to Italy. I went there three weeks ago to meet Rob and Michael to go for dinner and talk about what we were going to do."
He added: "We're supposed to be retracing the footsteps of the Romantics, of Shelley and Byron and Keats, and I don't know enough about it.
"I'm damned if Rob's going to come across as an authority on it. It'll be a great motivation for me to read up on it so that when we improvise, I can drop some information on him."
Brydon had...
The BAFTA-winning six-episode first series in 2010 featured both stars playing versions of themselves on a restaurant road trip.
> Rob Brydon on 'The Trip', 'Human Remains' and his comedy struggle
Coogan told Empire: "We are going to Italy. I went there three weeks ago to meet Rob and Michael to go for dinner and talk about what we were going to do."
He added: "We're supposed to be retracing the footsteps of the Romantics, of Shelley and Byron and Keats, and I don't know enough about it.
"I'm damned if Rob's going to come across as an authority on it. It'll be a great motivation for me to read up on it so that when we improvise, I can drop some information on him."
Brydon had...
- 4/26/2013
- Digital Spy
Julia Davis is famous for creating some of the most uncomfortably bleak comedies of recent times. Now the star of Nighty Night is turning her dark powers to period drama in her new series Hunderby
The writer and performer Julia Davis is too good-natured to show it much, but she's plainly exasperated by descriptions of her work as "bleak" or "dark". They make it sound as if she's deliberately trying to be edgy, and this doesn't chime with her sense of herself. She enjoys watching old episodes of Friends, she insists; she's partial to 1980s movies and upbeat self-help books, and when she writes, she just writes what comes naturally. "I would never say, ooh, let's do something really dark," she says. Yet she is responsible for what are, without doubt, some of the most unsettling characters in contemporary comedy: smiling suburban sociopaths; meddlesome cold-eyed narcissists; horrifyingly mistreated spouses whose...
The writer and performer Julia Davis is too good-natured to show it much, but she's plainly exasperated by descriptions of her work as "bleak" or "dark". They make it sound as if she's deliberately trying to be edgy, and this doesn't chime with her sense of herself. She enjoys watching old episodes of Friends, she insists; she's partial to 1980s movies and upbeat self-help books, and when she writes, she just writes what comes naturally. "I would never say, ooh, let's do something really dark," she says. Yet she is responsible for what are, without doubt, some of the most unsettling characters in contemporary comedy: smiling suburban sociopaths; meddlesome cold-eyed narcissists; horrifyingly mistreated spouses whose...
- 8/10/2012
- by Oliver Burkeman
- The Guardian - Film News
Rob Brydon has told Digital Spy that he is intrigued by the prospect of reviving his popular TV series Human Remains. The cult black comedy, which he co-wrote and starred in with Julia Davis, ran for only one series in 2000. Brydon and Davis have since worked on numerous hit TV series seperately including The Trip, Gavin & Stacey and Nighty, Night, but the Welsh comic claimed that they are both keen to team up again in the future. "With Human Remains, me and Julia are always talking about [doing more]," he said. "I'm sure we'll do something else one day. But Human Remains was such a labour of love. The writing period was very intensive and we had a lot of time then. But we do keep talking about (more)...
- 11/1/2011
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Calling Steve Coogan 'a bit of a turnip' is about as nasty as he can get
Small Man In A Book, Rob Brydon's memoir, stops rather abruptly the moment he becomes successful, which is just one of a number of endearing things about it. It was the end of the 90s and Brydon was making a living in radio, but not what you'd call a handsome one. He'd written Marion And Geoff, and he knew it would succeed; he'd also started collaborating with Julia Davis on Human Remains, and felt certain that would work as well. "But I remember saying to someone, 'I'm writing this thing with Julia Davis' and she said, 'Has it been commissioned?' I said, 'No, but it will be.' And she looked at me like I was simple. Like, 'Ah, bless him, he's got his hopes up.' But I knew by then I was on a wave.
Small Man In A Book, Rob Brydon's memoir, stops rather abruptly the moment he becomes successful, which is just one of a number of endearing things about it. It was the end of the 90s and Brydon was making a living in radio, but not what you'd call a handsome one. He'd written Marion And Geoff, and he knew it would succeed; he'd also started collaborating with Julia Davis on Human Remains, and felt certain that would work as well. "But I remember saying to someone, 'I'm writing this thing with Julia Davis' and she said, 'Has it been commissioned?' I said, 'No, but it will be.' And she looked at me like I was simple. Like, 'Ah, bless him, he's got his hopes up.' But I knew by then I was on a wave.
- 10/7/2011
- by Zoe Williams
- The Guardian - Film News
… but the Shallow Grave actor is considering a move into comedy after primal scream soul-baring of Lennon Naked
Back in 1994, when Christopher Eccleston was playing a psychotic chartered accountant in Shallow Grave, he spent the best part of a day in a working mortuary pretending to be dead. There wasn't enough money to recreate the mortuary in a studio and, anyway, director Danny Boyle wanted to keep it real. So Eccleston, then 30 and best known for playing Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It three years earlier, was put in a drawer with a Glaswegian member of the crew.
"I was stark bollock naked and the Glaswegian, who was dressed in a parka, Doc Martens and jeans, kept saying, 'Are we finished? 'Cos I'm fucking freezing, by the way.' And all this time, I'm lying not only naked but next to a head that had recently been fished out of the River Clyde.
Back in 1994, when Christopher Eccleston was playing a psychotic chartered accountant in Shallow Grave, he spent the best part of a day in a working mortuary pretending to be dead. There wasn't enough money to recreate the mortuary in a studio and, anyway, director Danny Boyle wanted to keep it real. So Eccleston, then 30 and best known for playing Derek Bentley in Let Him Have It three years earlier, was put in a drawer with a Glaswegian member of the crew.
"I was stark bollock naked and the Glaswegian, who was dressed in a parka, Doc Martens and jeans, kept saying, 'Are we finished? 'Cos I'm fucking freezing, by the way.' And all this time, I'm lying not only naked but next to a head that had recently been fished out of the River Clyde.
- 6/18/2010
- by Amy Raphael
- The Guardian - Film News
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