"The Hello Girls The Hello Girls was a British comedy-drama (not to be mistaken for a sitcom) which originally aired on BBC One for two series from 5 September 1996 to 13 August 1998. It was inspired by the novel ""Switchboard Operators"" written by Carol Lake. The series was set in and around the Derby telephone exchange during 1959 and 1961 respectively. ""The Hello Girls"" was launched with much promotion aimed around former ""EastEnders"" actress Letitia Dean, who played Chris Cross, one of the 'girls' who worked at the telephone exchange. It performed very well in the ratings for both"
"The Swap (TV series) The Swap is a British television crime drama series first broadcast on ITV1 in February 2002. The two-part serial stars Jemma Redgrave and Michael Maloney as a husband and wife who engage in a house swap with an Australian family for the Christmas holidays. However, the swap goes badly wrong and results in tragedy for both families involved. The serial achieved good viewing figures, upward of 8m. The serial was released on DVD on 4 April 2005. Critical reception of the series was mostly positive. Peter Paterson of the ""Daily Mail"" said; ""As the Forresters, Maloney"
"filmed in the historic market town of Wirksworth. Other Derbyshire locations in which British TV scenes have been filmed include: Derbyshire Derbyshire () is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire, containing the southern extremity of the Pennine range of hills which extend into the north of the county. The county contains part of the National Forest, and borders on Greater Manchester to the northwest, West Yorkshire to the north, South Yorkshire to the northeast, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the southeast, Staffordshire to the west"
"series. The theme tune ""Busy Line"" is performed by the main cast (known as 'The Teletones' in the programme). Each episode is 30 minutes in duration. Series One Series Two The show was directed by both Dermot Boyd and Richard Laxton The Hello Girls The Hello Girls was a British comedy-drama (not to be mistaken for a sitcom) which originally aired on BBC One for two series from 5 September 1996 to 13 August 1998. It was inspired by the novel ""Switchboard Operators"" written by Carol Lake. The series was set in and around the Derby telephone exchange during 1959"
"remaining original cast members, along with Adam Woodyatt and Gillian Taylforth. Away from ""EastEnders"" Dean has had various theatre and television roles. She starred in two series of the BBC drama ""The Hello Girls"", set in a Derby telephone exchange in the 1960s; medical dramas ""Casualty"" and ""Doctors""; the ITV police drama ""The Bill""; romantic comedy ""Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married"", and the Channel 4 sitcom ""Drop the Dead Donkey"" as a weathergirl. She also starred in the 1995 film ""England, My England"", which told the story of the musician and court composer Henry Purcell. On stage she starred as"
"with Cyril Abraham in which he recalled how he came up with the very unusual family name Onedin. He wanted something unique. He had decided to call the leading male character James but still had not found a surname when the BBC agreed to film the story. Then some inspiration - he said: The programme was recorded in Dartmouth, Devon, as well as certain scenes in Exeter, Falmouth and Gloucester (many of the dock scenes). The last series was filmed in Pembroke Dock, Wales, where the 18th-century naval dockyard and surrounding streets became Liverpool, and various coastal locations in the"
"the Derbyshire town of Glossop, Bolton town centre and Manchester. St John's Church in Farnworth doubles for St Cecelia's, the main location of the series. The local Sixth Form College (Glossopdale Community College) participated in the filming of the show, and several of the children from its lower school appear in two episodes where a school choir features. Creator and writer Debbie Horsfield worked closely with the head of music at Glossopdale, Chris O'Hara, and its head of music technology, Colin Hanson-Orr. Local Glossop based band My First Hello provided two songs for the series - ""I'm Not Your Hero"""
"London suburbia, while at the same time seeing Russell's relationship as the one perfect marriage she knows. The adaptation for television allowed more to be seen of some of the more minor characters in the radio series, with appearances by some who had appeared only by reputation on the radio. These included Eleanor's best friend and rival Vera Poling, and Valerie Brown on the pension counter's sister Mary. In the television adaptation, Sarah also gained an on-off partner in Sam Greenland. Many of the exterior locations for the TV series were shot in the village of Thames Ditton in Surrey"
"Shoestring (TV series) Shoestring is a British detective fiction drama series, set in an unnamed city in the west of England and filmed in Bristol, featuring the down-at-heel private detective Eddie Shoestring (Trevor Eve), who presents his own show on Radio West, a local radio station. Broadcast on BBC1 between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, the programme lasted for two series featuring a total of 21 episodes. After the second series was broadcast, Eve decided not to return to the role, as he ""wanted to diversify into theatre roles"". Subsequently, the production team began taking popular elements of"
"US broadcast and release of the series, via Acorn Media, separates the series into four episodes of 50 minutes each, with the additional fourth episode being entitled ""The Showdown"".http://buddyvalue.com/?cashid=20655 The series is set in Liverpool and Manchester, and the main action takes place in the present day, with a backstory of events surrounding the 2003 Iraq War. Alongside Liverpool and Manchester, the series was filmed in Wirksworth, Derbyshire, on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway. Each of the three episodes focuses on a different individual caught up in the overall story. In episode one, Neil Fitzmaurice stars as Eddie Doig, a man"
"moves into Tracey's expensive house in Chigwell, Essex. Their next-door neighbour, and later friend, Dorien Green (Lesley Joseph), is a middle-aged married Jewish woman who is constantly having affairs with younger men. In the last two BBC series, the location is changed to nearby Hainault, Essex before returning to Chigwell in series 10 (the first aired on ITV). The series ended its original BBC One run on Christmas Eve 1998 after nine years, but returned just over 15 years later, on 2 January 2014, on ITV, for its tenth series overall, running for eight episodes. The opening episode of the"
"in Leeds, in West Yorkshire. Jill is a keen conservationist, interested in the environment as well as social issues. Trevor on the other hand is interested in jazz, football and snooker and has little interest in conservation. Jill being the more headstrong of the pair, often coaxes Trevor into involvement in her political activities. In each of the three serials – ""The Beiderbecke Affair"", ""The Beiderbecke Tapes"" and ""The Beiderbecke Connection"" – Jill and Trevor inadvertently become embroiled in a series of unlikely adventures involving such things as political corruption, nuclear waste dumping and serious fraud. In each serial, the"
"Radio 4 series, ""The Archers"", (1950–present day). Or the ITV1 soap opera ""Coronation Street"" (1960–present day) featuring a cornershop; it was owned previously by Alf Roberts the grocer, and after his death in the late 1990s was bought by Dev Alahan, reflecting this common change in British culture. The dying days and changing culture of the traditional British grocer were explored to great effect in the BBC TV comedy series ""Open All Hours"" (1976–1985), set in the real suburb of Balby in Doncaster; the shop front used for the street scenes in the series does actually exist in the area"
"met with a poor critical and popular response, but a second series was commissioned and both series have received retrospective praise. Most of the sitcom was filmed in the village of Portloe in Cornwall. The action centre's around Angela (Tate) and Mary (French), a lesbian couple who run the local town store and post office. Though self-avowed lesbians, halfway through the first series Mary comments that the only reason they are a couple is because they were the only two people in town who weren't already in a relationship when they met. Some plots of first series episodes revolve around"
"there. The main setting is fictional Ashley Court in the Malvern Hills in England. Detailed description is given of the houses and outdoor space that make up the Ashley estate. Bryony Ashley has the gift of telepathy and is able to communicate subliminally with a man she regards as her lover, but whose identity she is unsure of. She knows that he is a blood relative, and assumes him to be one of her three male second cousins, twins Emory and James, and the younger Francis. Bryony returns to the UK having received a telepathic message and discovers that her"
"Television in 1960. Otherwise the play remained unknown until it was ""discovered"" in the British Library by Chris Honer, artistic director of the Library Theatre, Manchester. It was decided to produce the play at the Library Theatre in 2008 to celebrate the centenary of the Gaiety Theatre. The play is set in the fictional town of Salchester (an amalgam of Salford and Manchester) in the 1900s. John and Sidney Forsyth have returned early from their honeymoon to John’s home where his parents, Edgar and Mrs Forsyth are surprised to see them. Jane the maid prepares a room for them, and"
"Emmerdale Emmerdale (known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989) is a British soap opera set in Emmerdale (known as Beckindale until 1994), a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, ""Emmerdale Farm"" was first broadcast on 16 October 1972. Produced by ITV Yorkshire, it has been filmed at their Leeds studio since its inception. The programme is broadcast in every ITV region. The series originally aired during the afternoon until 1978, when it was moved to an early-evening prime time slot in most regions; London and Anglia followed during the mid-1980s. Until December 1988, ""Emmerdale"" took seasonal breaks;"
"Brown. Brown played the part of the town's mayor in a cameo appearance. Filming of the television series took place in the Derbyshire village of Hadfield, located in a Pennines valley. The ""Local Shop"" is a purpose-built building on nearby Marsden Moor. The League considered a number of filming locations before settling on Hadfield. Another town to feature prominently in the series was Bacup in Rossendale, and the West Yorkshire town of Todmorden was used for some later scenes. The town as it appears in the TV show has a sign which ominously declares ""Welcome to Royston Vasey. You'll never"
"Daley, a socially ambitious, but highly unscrupulous importer-exporter, wholesaler, used-car salesman and purveyor of anything else from which there was money to be made, whether within the law or not. The series is principally set in inner West London (Shepherd's Bush/Ladbroke Grove/Fulham/Acton), and was largely responsible for putting the word , meaning personal bodyguard, into the UK popular lexicon. The characters often drank at the local members-only Winchester Club, where owner and barman Dave (Glynn Edwards) acted, often unwillingly, as a message service for Arthur, and turned a blind eye to his shady deals. Although initially developed to focus on"
"first marriage to move to Devon to take over the farm. Two years later the Brewer family moved back to the city and were replaced by Jackie (Denise Welch), Tony Murphy (Ricky Tomlinson), and their wayward daughter Emma (Zara Dawson), who owned the local pub. The final series was broadcast in 2005. The show was broadcast in an hour format, with each show averaging 48 minutes. The first series featured 6 episodes, the 2nd, 3rd & 4th had 8 episodes, and the final season 10. So far only series 1 has been released on DVD, by Acorn Media UK. Down"
"in supporting roles, among others. The six hour-long episodes in the series were set in coastal Wales, in a town devastated by the closure of the local carriage works though filmed in Druridge Bay, Northumberland. According to the sign on the local chocolate bonbon factory appearing in Episode 1 where George, Barney, Diane et al. work, the exact location where the set is (fictional) Tonglas, in Newport. Rocket Man (TV series) Rocket Man is a BBC television drama series produced in 2005 by Philip Leach, about a recently widowed Welsh man who is struggling to build a rocket in which"
"Yesterday and Forces TV on Sky Digital. For his starring role, Lyndhurst won the Most Popular Comedy Performer at the National Television Awards twice in 1998 and 1999. The original entrance to Duckett's Passage, leading to the Royal Oak, is located at Ezra Street, London, E2 7RH. The Royal Oak is near Ezra Street, at 73 Columbia Road, E2 7RG. Gary Sparrow is a somewhat disillusioned TV repairman, in a drab marriage with his ambitious wife Yvonne, and best friends with Ron, a printer whose marriage is on the brink of breakdown. While on a TV repair call-out in London's"
"in December 2017 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the group's first appearance on BBC Radio 4. The series was filmed mainly in Hadfield, Derbyshire; other locations include Glossop, Gamesley, and Hope Valley in Derbyshire; Marsden and Todmorden in West Yorkshire; and Mottram in Greater Manchester. The series ended in 2002, and was followed by a film ""The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse"" and a stage production ""The League of Gentlemen Are Behind You!"" in 2005. Shearsmith and Pemberton later collaborated to create another dark comedy series, ""Psychoville"" (2009); Mark Gatiss appeared in one episode. The three also performed together in"
"earlier episodes, the M4 and A417 were often seen, and the map of Swindon was seen in the control room, although a map of Reading was used occasionally. Paperwork given to Frost and other characters refers to Denton station as being part of the Thames Valley Police. The programme was produced by ITV in Leeds, and most of the outdoor locations were shot in West Yorkshire. Several scenes were filmed in and around the city and district of Wakefield and neighbouring small towns of Pontefract and Castleford, West Yorkshire. The role of Frost was notable in changing the public perception"
"Mary Of Bethlehem hospital, the Windermere B&B, and the local Job Centre. Royston Vasey Royston Vasey is a fictional town in the BBC television comedy series ""The League of Gentlemen"". It was filmed in Hadfield, Derbyshire in England and is based on Alston, Cumbria. The preceding radio series ""On the Town with the League of Gentlemen"" was set in the equally fictional and almost identical town of Spent. Royston Vasey draws on the upbringing of all the League's members - Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Jeremy Dyson - all of whom were raised in the north of England."
"for filming, a notable example of Brutalist architecture. Other places which play a role in ""The Game"" include Birmingham Moor Street railway station, Warstone Lane Cemetery, Cannon Hill Park, the Old Rep, Grand Hotel, Moseley Road Baths, Methodist Central Hall, Merevale Hall, Lickey Hills, the canals in Smethwick, Newhall Street, and the Birmingham old Central Fire Station. The interior railway scenes were shot on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway in Derbyshire. The series consists of six episodes, with each episode lasting for sixty minutes. The executive producers for the series were Faith Penhale, head of drama at BBC Cymru Wales; Hilary"
"first series of the show, comprising seven episodes, premiered in the UK on Channel 4 24 September 1999, and the second and final series, also consisting of seven episodes, premiered on 23 February 2001 before concluding on 13 April, with the final episode of the second series also serving as the series finale. Both series were nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Situation Comedy. Daisy Steiner (Jessica Stevenson) and Tim Bisley (Simon Pegg) are two London based twenty-somethings who meet by chance in a café while both are flat-hunting. Despite barely knowing each other, they conspire to pose"
"capacity for fewer than 10 million telephone numbers. In May 1990, the 01 code was abandoned and the area divided between 071which covered exchanges in the Central sectorand 081, which covered all other sectors. Exceptionally, two exchanges in the East sector covering the London Docklands redevelopment area were assigned the 071 code. The anticipation that the code associated with central districts would be more prestigious than the other associated with the outer suburbs was used as a plot device in the Essex-based TV comedy series ""Birds of a Feather"". At the time of the split, there were five local exchange"
"in UK. After working for the Australian embassy Neville accompanies Barry and Tatiana for a journey upon the Eastern and Oriental Express in which they meet, by coincidence, Tarquin Pearce. During a stopover on this trip, Barry is kidnapped and held by guerrillas in a village in the jungle. When the others find out and follow they are also captured. They end up being imprisoned in a bamboo hut but are treated kindly by the local villagers. Eventually, Dennis has an idea (inspired by the film ""The Bridge on the River Kwai"") to build a washhouse for the villagers to"
"off his mobile phone use as checking for testicular cancer. Passmores Academy in Essex was chosen as the series' setting after the production team approached around 20 schools with good or outstanding Ofsted reports. This was eventually narrowed down to three after many denied or governors blocked the proposals. One of the schools that denied was Houghton Kepier School in Durham which had been given bad press in years previous after misconduct from staff member Adam Walker. David Clews stated that, ""Passmores was always my favourite"" as he hoped for ""stories unfolding within the school"". Regarding his decision to allow"
"dispatch carrier Douglas Lawrey falls in with telephone repairman Len Tanner and irascible coal mine switchboard operator Ellie Anderson. Due to their limited people skills, the technologically stranded pair have been unable to convince anyone to develop telecommunications abilities beyond Grantville. After Ellie reveals the old-tech phone she has been prototyping, Douglas talks them into forming a corporation. While stringing the first phone line to nearby Saalfeld, Len and a downtime assistant are captured by a group planning to hijack a Grantville gun shipment. In the struggle, the prototype phone is damaged, but the trussed up Len finds the battery"
"digital channel E4 before the pilot was broadcast. ""PhoneShop"" is set in a mobile phone shop in Sutton, London and follows a graduate named Christopher (played by Tom Bennett) who goes through a one-day trial and subsequent employment. His fellow employees are Jerwayne (played by Javone Prince), Ashley (played by Andrew Brooke), Janine (played by Emma Fryer) and store manager Lance (played by Martin Trenaman). Tom Bennett A university graduate who joins the PhoneShop team at the start of the series on a one day trial as the replacement for ""Little"" Gary Patel. Christopher is a gentle natured and naïve"
"serial set in Yorkshire, the Netherlands and Athens. As well as Trevor and Jill, returning characters would include Big Al, Little Norm, Hobson (now an officer in British Intelligence), Mr Carter and the Headmaster. When financial problems at YTV delayed production, Plater reworked his scripts as a novel, also titled ""The Beiderbecke Tapes"". YTV later decided that they would film the novel as a two-part serial, each episode of ninety minutes duration. To fit the shorter length, Big Al, Little Norm and Hobson were dropped from the script. Financial constraints meant that the action originally intended for Athens had to"