David Walliams is to appear in a TV adaptation of which of his books, playing the Prime Minister?
"""Mr Stink"", again illustrated by Quentin Blake, about a 12-year-old girl who meets a tramp and helps look after him. She keeps him hidden from her family. The book consists of 26 illustrated chapters full of jokes. It is aimed at teenagers and children over 9. It was the last of Walliams books to be illustrated by Quentin Blake. The book was awarded the Children's Award in the inaugural People's Book Prize in 2010, and was made into a 60-minute film, which premiered on BBC One on 23 December 2012. On 28 October 2010 Walliams published his third book ""Billionaire"
"British Prime Minister claims to have secured a compensation package from them, but on his return from PetroFex HQ, his plane crashes in the Atlantic under mysterious circumstances. Deputy Prime Minister Tom Dawkins (Gabriel Byrne) takes command, and during his quest to find the truth and justice for the victims, he uncovers a conspiracy at the heart of the political system. Chris Mullin, the author of ""A Very British Coup"", which served as inspiration for ""Secret State"", appears as a vicar in a cameo role. A DVD was released in the UK on 3 December 2012. The series is available"
"thus, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Michael Dobbs did not envision writing the second and third books, as Urquhart dies at the end of the first novel. The screenplay of the BBC's dramatisation of ""House of Cards"" differs from the book, and hence allows future series. Dobbs wrote two following books, ""To Play the King"" and ""The Final Cut"", which were televised in 1993 and 1995, respectively. ""House of Cards"" was said to draw from Shakespeare's plays ""Macbeth"" and ""Richard III"", both of which feature main characters who are corrupted by power and ambition. Richardson has a Shakespearean background"
"British subsidiary of Warner Brothers. The company had previously made a successful biopic of the Prime Minister as ""Disraeli"" in 1929. The film's sets were designed by the art director Norman G. Arnold. In 1837, London novelist Benjamin Disraeli (John Gielgud) crashes his bicycle and is given a ride to a garden party by Mary Ann Wyndham-Lewis (Diana Wynyard). She has read his novels and says he should be in Parliament. Disraeli asks Mary Ann to help him, so she goes to the Conservative party leaders and gets their support for Disraeli. ""The Prime Minister"" opened in the United States"
"the Prime Minister (book author David Walliams) to withdraw her campaign. While Chloe's father admits losing his job to Caroline. Mr. Stink and Chloe meet the Prime Minister, who is mean to Mr. Stink. Chloe tells him ""to stick his job offer up his fat bum."" Mr. Stink then tells Chloe his story, telling her that he was once a rich man named Lord Darlington. He had a wife called Agatha. She became pregnant, but when she was eight months pregnant, Mr. Stink went to a party, leaving his wife at home and when he got back, the house was"
"Prime Minister"" is also referenced in the 1923 short story ""The Submarine Plans"", which was published in book form in the 1974 collection ""Poirot's Early Cases"". It is possible that his name, ""David MacAdam"", is a Celtic wordplay on the name of the real Prime Minister during the latter days of the First World War, David Lloyd George. In ""The Adventure of the Western Star"", Lady Yardly was advised to visit Poirot by her friend Mary Cavendish, a long time friend of Hastings. Cavendish appears in ""The Mysterious Affair at Styles"", Christie's first mystery novel, and the one which introduced"
"More on the Showtime series, ""The Tudors"". He played John Brodie Innes in the 2009 film ""Creation"", based on the life of Charles Darwin. He played British Prime Minister Anthony Eden in the 2016 Netflix drama series ""The Crown"". His audiobook work includes ""The Silver Chair"" by C.S. Lewis for Harper Audio and ""A Death Divided"" by Clare Francis for Macmillan. For SilkSoundBooks, he recorded ""The Real Thing and Other Short Stories"" and ""The Aspern Papers"", both written by Henry James. In 2007 he recorded Gerard Manley Hopkins poems for ""The Great Poets"" edition for Naxos Audiobooks. In 2009, he"
"from the TV series, but does share certain commonalities. British Prime Minister Sir Mortimer Chris (Peter Cook), a conservative politician who goes insane, is a fusion of US President Johnny Cyclops and UK Prime Minister Kevin Pork. Whoops Apocalypse Whoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 television sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 film of the same name from ITC Entertainment, with almost completely different characters and plot, although one or two of the original actors returned in different roles. The British budget"
"The Prime Minister (novel) The Prime Minister is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in 1876. It is the fifth of the ""Palliser"" series of novels. When neither the Whigs nor the Tories are able to form a government on their own, a fragile compromise coalition government is formed, with Plantagenet Palliser, the wealthy and hard-working Duke of Omnium, installed as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The Duchess, formerly Lady Glencora Palliser, attempts to support her husband by hosting lavish parties at Gatherum Castle in Barsetshire, the family's largest country house, barely used until now. Palliser, initially unsure"
"to preserve his reputation (and the retirement fund). Urquhart dies in her arms, while Corder offers his services to Makepeace, the apparent successor. In the novel, but not in the television series: The Final Cut (TV serial) The Final Cut is a 1995 BBC television serial, the third part of the ""House of Cards"" trilogy. Directed by Mike Vardy, the serial, based on Michael Dobbs's 1995 novel of the same name, was adapted for television by Andrew Davies. It details the conclusion of Francis Urquhart's reign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The serial opens with Prime Minister Francis"
"""David Walliams: The Genius of Dahl"". Also in 2012, he narrated ""Are You Having a Laugh? TV and Disability"" on BBC Two, and the ITV2 series ""Top Dog Model"". In 2013, Walliams appeared in two episodes of the comedy series Blandings as Rupert Baxter, an efficiency expert hired to serve as Lord Emsworth's secretary. Also that year, and in 2014, Walliams starred as chemistry teacher Keith Church in the BBC One sitcom ""Big School"", which he created and co-wrote. The series also starred Catherine Tate, Frances de la Tour and Philip Glenister. In June 2015, it was announced that ""Big"
"David Walliams David Edward Williams, (born 20 August 1971), known professionally as David Walliams, is a British actor, comedian, author, talent show judge and presenter known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the BBC One sketch show ""Little Britain"". Since 2012, Walliams has been a judge on the ITV talent show ""Britain's Got Talent"". He wrote and starred in two series of the BBC One sitcom ""Big School"", playing the role of chemistry teacher Keith Church. In 2015, he starred as Tommy Beresford in the BBC series ""Partners in Crime"" based on the ""Tommy and Tuppence"" novels by Agatha"
"David Walliams David Edward Williams, (born 20 August 1971), known professionally as David Walliams, is a British actor, comedian, author, talent show judge and presenter known for his partnership with Matt Lucas on the BBC One sketch show ""Little Britain"". Since 2012, Walliams has been a judge on the ITV talent show ""Britain's Got Talent"". He wrote and starred in two series of the BBC One sitcom ""Big School"", playing the role of chemistry teacher Keith Church. In 2015, he starred as Tommy Beresford in the BBC series ""Partners in Crime"" based on the ""Tommy and Tuppence"" novels by Agatha"
"Minister, dovetailing into the sequel, ""Yes, Prime Minister"". This ran originally for two series, each of eight episodes, from 1986 to 1988. There was a further six-part series, with a new cast, in 2013. In January 2013, a new series of ""Yes, Prime Minister"" was launched on the Gold television channel. Jim Hacker is now portrayed as heading a coalition government, while dealing with an economic downturn, his coalition partner having a leadership crisis, and Scottish independence. Like the stage play, on which it was broadly based, it is set at Chequers. Filming took place in September 2012. Both David"
"and Chris Lowe, who are tied up and appear to be hostages. The pair are best known for ""Little Britain"", which ran from 2003 to 2009 on the BBC in the UK and from 2008 onwards on HBO in the USA. Among the characters Walliams played were Emily Howard, a deluded ""transvestite""; Ray McCooney, an insane Scottish hotel owner; and Sebastian Love, an ""aide de camp"" to the Prime Minister (portrayed by Anthony Head) on whom Love has a huge crush. The characters from ""Little Britain"", played by Walliams and Lucas, appeared in a 2010 UK television advertising campaign for"
"based loosely around the early life of William Shakespeare and involves the same starring troupe. Filming took place in 2014, and the film had a nationwide UK release in September 2015. As a performer he has also appeared in the Channel Four Comedy Lab 'Private Lives' as well as the TV series ""Balls of Steel"". He is also a writer and performer on ""Tracey Ullman's Show"" and ""Tracey Breaks the News"". While he has played numerous roles on the shows, his most recent recurring role is that of Philip May, the husband of Prime Minister Theresa May. Laurence Rickard Laurence"
"too much difficulty, to marry Arthur Fletcher. Eventually the coalition government breaks apart and the Duke resigns, with both regret and relief, and withdraws into private life, hoping to be of use to his party again one day. The Prime Minister (novel) The Prime Minister is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in 1876. It is the fifth of the ""Palliser"" series of novels. When neither the Whigs nor the Tories are able to form a government on their own, a fragile compromise coalition government is formed, with Plantagenet Palliser, the wealthy and hard-working Duke of Omnium, installed as"
"My Dad's the Prime Minister My Dad's the Prime Minister is a British sitcom written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. It centres on the life of the Prime Minister, his family and his spin doctor. Its main cast include Robert Bathurst, Joe Prospero, Carla Mendonça, Brian Bovell and Emma Sackville. It was filmed at Bushey in Watford, and extras included students of the nearby Bushey Hall School and Bushey Meads School. Series 1 was shown on BBC One as part of its CBBC strand, in April and May 2003. Season 2 was promoted to a primetime slot on BBC"
"produced by the BBC was aired in 1990. In 2013, the television series and the novel were the basis for a US television adaptation set in Washington, D.C., commissioned and released by Netflix. In 2018 was announced an Argentinian adaptation produced by Pol-Ka and Cablevision Flow. House of Cards (novel) House of Cards is a political thriller novel by British author Michael Dobbs. Published in 1989, it tells the story of Francis Urquhart, a fictional Chief Whip of the Conservative Party, and his amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and, thus, Prime Minister of the"
"The Prime Minister (film) The Prime Minister is a British 1941 British historical drama film directed by Thorold Dickinson and starring John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Fay Compton and Stephen Murray. It details the life and times of Benjamin Disraeli, who became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. It depicts his long marriage to Mary Disraeli and his relationship with various other public figures of the era including William Gladstone, Lord Melbourne and Queen Victoria. Gielgud would later reprise his role as Disraeli in the ITV television drama ""Edward the Seventh"" (1975). The film was shot at Teddington Studios by the"
"gave ""Grandpa's Great Escape"" a 4 and a half star review saying ""Utterly silly from start to finish and yet it leaves the reader with a warm, cosy feeling. Forget about whether anything in the plot makes the slightest sense – just sit back and enjoy the ride"" and ""Tony Ross's superb illustrations add immeasurably to the carefree, slightly manic tone of the text."" On 22 September 2017, it was announced that the book would be adapted for BBC One and air at Christmas 2017. The film was written by Walliams and Kevin Cecil and starred Tom Courtenay as Grandpa,"
"from the TV version of the first part of the trilogy. ""To Play the King"" (and the final part ""The Final Cut"") reflect upon the end of the first series, which differed somewhat from the plot of the original novel. The newly crowned King (Michael Kitchen) is displeased with the Conservative government led by Prime Minister Francis Urquhart (Ian Richardson) and becomes involved in politics in a way that Urquhart finds unacceptable for a constitutional monarch. At their first meeting, the King expresses concern about Urquhart's social policies, which he argues have led to greater problems for urban areas. Tensions"
"in the Prime Minister's bedroom at Chequers. As Ali was wearing items of the Prime Minister's clothing at the time, the media believe the video details the Prime Minister with a prostitute, forcing his resignation. This results in Carlton being made Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Carlton orders the destruction of the leisure centre. He has bought all available real estate in Staines knowing that the town will be destroyed to make way for the construction of a new terminal for Heathrow Airport, which will make him wealthy. The West Staines Massiv race to find the master copy of"
"House of Cards (novel) House of Cards is a political thriller novel by British author Michael Dobbs. Published in 1989, it tells the story of Francis Urquhart, a fictional Chief Whip of the Conservative Party, and his amoral and manipulative scheme to become leader of the governing party and, thus, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. A television adaptation, written by Andrew Davies and produced by the BBC was aired in 1990. In 2013, the serial and the Dobbs novel were the basis for a US television adaptation set in Washington, D.C., commissioned and released by Netflix. The novel was"
"Lord Lezham; and ""Ladies in Lavender"" (2004), as BBC Announcer. He played W. S. Gilbert in the 1983 film ""The Best of Gilbert and Sullivan"", in which Gilbert and Sullivan reunite to watch a performance of their greatest songs at the Royal Albert Hall. Peter Cellier Peter Cellier (born 12 July 1928) is an English actor who has appeared in film, stage and television. He is known for his role as Sir Frank Gordon in ""Yes Minister"" and then ""Yes, Prime Minister"" in the 1980s. Cellier was born in Hendon, Middlesex into a family of actors including his father Frank"
"the Middle East. In the Ian Curteis television play ""Suez 1956"" (1979), Michael Gough portrayed Eden. Film Eden is portrayed by Samuel West in ""Darkest Hour"" (2017). Television Film Other Cultural depictions of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom Cultural depictions of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom have become commonplace since the term's first use in 1905. However, they have been applied to prime ministers who were in office before the first use of the term. They are listed here chronologically from the date of first appointment as prime minister. Melbourne has been portrayed in the following film and"
"in the story as a Prime Minister reminiscent of Tony Blair. Other targets of satire in his ""Doctor Who"" scripts include Fox News, News Corporation, and the 24-hour news cycle in ""The Long Game"", plastic surgery and consumer culture in ""The End of the World"", obesity and alternative medicine in ""Partners in Crime"", and racism and paranoia in ""Midnight"". Davies has received recognition for his work since his career as a children's television writer. Davies' first BAFTA award nominations came in 1993 when he was nominated for the ""Best Children's Programme (Fiction)"" Television Award for his work on ""Children's Ward""."
"Mr Stink Mr. Stink is a book published in October 2009 and written by David Walliams and illustrated by Quentin Blake. The book has been adapted as a stage musical and has been made into a television film of the same name by the BBC shown during Christmas 2012 on BBC1. Chloe, a 12-year-old girl, wants to help her friend, Mr. Stink, but she does not know how. She wrote a story that her mother tore up because she wants Chloe to work at school. Chloe thinks that her mother does not love her as she loves her little sister."
"classic 1980s comedy series ""Yes Prime Minister"", broadcast on Gold TV in the United Kingdom. In 2012 a new sitcom pilot, starring Haig and written by Ben Elton, was filmed for the BBC. Filming for a full six-part series of the sitcom, ""The Wright Way"" (formerly known as ""Slings and Arrows"") was completed in March 2013, and began airing on BBC One on 23 April. An August 2018 announcement indicated that Haig would be among the new cast to join the original actors in the ""Downton Abbey"" film which started principal photography at about the same time. In September 2018"
"Prince of Wales), multiple cable and satellite television channels, and other similar details. The 1991 and 1992 dates can be clearly seen on several newspapers and car tax discs shown on screen. The endings of the novel and the television version are significantly different. In the novel, the Prime Minister is forced from office following a catastrophic nuclear accident at an experimental nuclear plant that he had pushed for while Secretary of State for Energy in a previous government. This is the most explicit parallel between Harry Perkins and Tony Benn. In the TV version, the Prime Minister is presented"
"one produced for television for an energy company, E.ON, for their eonenergyfit.com website campaign. He also starred as the older Logan Mountstuart in the TV adaptation of William Boyd's novel ""Any Human Heart"". He had a lead role in ""Exile"", a BBC One drama, starring John Simm and written by Danny Brocklehurst. In 2012, he played Denis Thatcher opposite Oscar-winner Meryl Streep as the former Prime Minister in ""The Iron Lady"". He also had several minor and major roles in Cloud Atlas (film), the primary role being that of ageing publisher Timothy Cavendish. In 2016, he was cast in the"
"which hired Lacrobat to start the war in the first place. The film also features Peter Cook playing Sir Mortimer, an insane conservative British prime minister (an insane PM being one of the few similarities between the film and the series), who claims that unemployment is caused by evil invisible pixies. Later, he hands out Union Flag umbrellas to Conservative voters to protect them from nuclear bombs, and plans to reduce unemployment by pushing employed people off of cliffs, creating new jobs. Despite the fact he is clearly insane, the public adore him and follow him blindly. The rest of"
"writer leaves the party he attempts to take a taxi, without success. As he crosses the street off-camera, a car accelerates in his direction to an impending collision. As witnesses react in horror, the pages containing McAra's manuscript are blowing in the wind, leaving the writer's fate unconfirmed. Pierce Brosnan plays the character of Adam Lang, who has echoes of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The character is linked to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the war on terror and the special relationship with the United States. The author of the book on which the film is based has"