What is the title of the BBC drama series starring Dominic West which centres on a current-affairs TV show in the 1950s?
"The Golden Hour (TV series) The Golden Hour is a four-part British television medical drama series, written and created by Andrew Rattenbury, first broadcast on 14 September 2005 on ITV. The series, which stars Richard Armitage, Navin Chowdhry, Zoe Telford and Ciarán McMenamin, centres on the activities of a specialist medical unit, the HEMS — or Helicopter Emergency Medical Service — which is based in London and operated by the London Ambulance Service. The title of the series refers to the hour which is deemed the most critical for patients with extensive injuries or severe medical conditions. Notably, promotional trailers"
"in September's referendum on that issue. Dominic West Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West (born 15 October 1969) is an English actor, director and musician. He is best known for playing Jimmy McNulty in ""The Wire"" (2002–2008) and for playing Noah Solloway in"" The Affair"" (2014–present), the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. He has won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor at the 2012 British Academy Television Awards for portraying serial killer Fred West (no relation) in ""Appropriate Adult"" (2011). His film credits include ""Chicago"" (2002), ""300"" (2007), """" (2008), ""John Carter"" (2012), and ""The"
"enacted by Dominic West and Monica Dolan of Rosemary West are hauntingly accurate"". In response to Bennett's statement, ITV's Janice Troup issued the following response: Appropriate Adult Appropriate Adult is a British crime drama television film shown in two parts on ITV, on 4 and 11 September 2011. It is based on the true story of Gloucester serial killer Fred West and his wife Rosemary West. It dealt with the events between the Wests' arrests in 1994 and Fred's suicide in Birmingham's Winson Green Prison on New Year's Day 1995. The series stars Dominic West, Monica Dolan and Emily Watson"
"Civilization: Is the West History? Civilization: Is the West History? is a 2011 British TV documentary that tells how Western civilisation, in five centuries, transformed into the dominating civilisation in the world. Presented by Niall Ferguson, the show reveals the 'killer apps' of the West's success – competition, science, the property owning democracy, modern medicine, the consumer society and the Protestant work ethic – the real explanation of how, for five centuries, a clear minority of mankind managed to secure the majority of the earth's resources. According to the historian, Western civilisation's rise to global dominance is the single most"
"Appropriate Adult Appropriate Adult is a British crime drama television film shown in two parts on ITV, on 4 and 11 September 2011. It is based on the true story of Gloucester serial killer Fred West and his wife Rosemary West. It dealt with the events between the Wests' arrests in 1994 and Fred's suicide in Birmingham's Winson Green Prison on New Year's Day 1995. The series stars Dominic West, Monica Dolan and Emily Watson as the protagonists of the story, Fred and Rose West, and Janet Leach, respectively. The series was named after the role of Janet Leach as"
"more aggressive policing culture. It retained a faithful following throughout its run and was voted second most popular programme on British TV in 1961. The actor Jack Warner was already well known to the public. Born Horace John Waters in London in 1895, he had been a comedian in radio and in his early film career. Starting in the early 1940s, he broadened his range to include dramatic roles, becoming a warmly human character actor in the process. But as well as playing in films with dramatic themes (such as ""The Blue Lamp"" (1950), in which the character George Dixon"
"Jimmy McNulty James McNulty is a fictional character on the HBO drama ""The Wire"", played by Dominic West. McNulty is a detective in the Baltimore Police Department of Irish heritage. While talented in his profession, McNulty's conceited belief that he is more intelligent than his peers, and his willingness to ignore the chain of command in pursuit of his own investigative projects, means that he regularly incurs the wrath of his superiors. When off the job, he has frequent problems involving alimony, alcoholism, child support, and unstable relationships. He is central to many of the successful high-end drug investigations that"
"West"" but he is better known for his acting and presenting work for the BBC that includes his work for CBBC in its earlier years, his self-produced entertainment programme ""Tonight's the Night"", and his BAFTA Cymru-nominated role of Captain Jack Harkness in the science fiction series ""Doctor Who"" and ""Torchwood"". Barrowman has also had a number of guest roles in television programmes both in the US and the UK. He appeared as a contestant on the first series of celebrity ice skating show ""Dancing on Ice"" while his theatrical background allowed him to become a judge on Andrew Lloyd Webber's"
"for his narration. Timothy West Timothy Lancaster West, CBE (born 20 October 1934) is an English film, stage and television actor, with more than fifty years of varied work in the business. As well as many classical theatre performances, he has appeared frequently on television, including spells in both ""Coronation Street"" as Eric Babbage and Stan Carter in ""EastEnders"", and also in "" Not Going Out"", as the original Geoffrey Adams. He is married to the actress Prunella Scales; since 2014 they have been seen travelling together on British and overseas canals in the Channel 4 series ""Great Canal Journeys""."
"– it's a rollicking roller-coaster ride through time, so much fun it doesn't even feel like school."" Chris Harvey of ""The Daily Telegraph"" wrote, ""His developing thesis was an enjoyable one, driven forward with the certainty that is Ferguson's style."" Civilization: Is the West History? Civilization: Is the West History? is a 2011 British TV documentary that tells how Western civilisation, in five centuries, transformed into the dominating civilisation in the world. Presented by Niall Ferguson, the show reveals the 'killer apps' of the West's success – competition, science, the property owning democracy, modern medicine, the consumer society and the"
"season. The focus of the fourth season shifted between a local school, the mayoral election, police department politics and action on the street corners. The returning starring cast consisted of Dominic West as Officer Jimmy McNulty, the formerly insubordinate detective who attempts to shed his ability and his problems in favor of a better life. West was at the time homesick and wanting to spend time with his young daughter in England; he also felt the character's plot arc had reached a reasonable end point in season 3, so West arranged with the writers for McNulty's role to be greatly"
"at 21:30 on Wednesdays. The series has yet to be released on DVD. The series was notable for featuring Dominic West's first television role, having only previously acted in film. West revealed in 2016 during a webchat for ""The Guardian"" that for his role as Dr. Paul Featherstone, he was asked to speak in his natural accent after being told that his Birmingham accent was too ""comedic"". In a retrospective interview in 1999, Lindsey Coulson said that she liked the concept of the series, which to her was different. She went on to say how the cast (whom she praised)"
"He is a keen birdwatcher. In 2007, West moved in with playwright Laura Wade, but in 2011 the couple temporarily split up. In 2013, West was cast in a minor role in ""The Riot Club"", the film version of Wade’s successful play, ""Posh"" and in 2014 the couple had a daughter. In August 2017, the couple had a second daughter. He also narrated five BBC documentary series for producer Laurence Rees centered on the Second World War: In addition, he narrated the Yorkshire Television documentary ""The SS in Britain"" for director Julian Hendy in 1999, and considering his role in"
"Dominic West Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton West (born 15 October 1969) is an English actor, director and musician. He is best known for playing Jimmy McNulty in ""The Wire"" (2002–2008) and for playing Noah Solloway in"" The Affair"" (2014–present), the latter of which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. He has won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor at the 2012 British Academy Television Awards for portraying serial killer Fred West (no relation) in ""Appropriate Adult"" (2011). His film credits include ""Chicago"" (2002), ""300"" (2007), """" (2008), ""John Carter"" (2012), and ""The Square"" (2017). Dominic Gerard Francis Eagleton"
"on the ""Lady Chatterley's Lover"" obscenity trial of 1960, ""The Chatterley Affair"". This one-off drama for digital television channel BBC Four features ""Doctor Who"" star David Tennant as Richard Hoggart. It was one of the first of what would become an extremely successful run for single dramas on British television, often bringing big screen stars to individual and authored projects. ""The Chatterley Affair"" also won Best Single Drama in the same BAFTA awards as the Doctor Who success. Hawes was also announced in late 2005 as the producer and lead director of the forthcoming ""Doctor Who"" spin-off series ""Torchwood"" —"
"produced later, broadcast between December 2012 and April 2014. The Cazalets The Cazalets is a 2001 six-episode television drama series (5 episodes when broadcast in the US) about the life of a large privileged family in the years 1937 to 1947. Most of the action takes place in London, and at the family's large estate in Sussex. The drama was based on the novels of Elizabeth Jane Howard, and adapted by the screenwriter Douglas Livingstone and directed by Suri Krishnamma. The series was originally produced by Cinema Verity for BBC One and is available on DVD. A BBC Radio 4"
"Wild West (TV series) Wild West is a situation comedy screened from October 2002 until 2004 (12 episodes) starring Dawn French and Catherine Tate. It was described as a dark comedy from the pen of Simon Nye and was filmed on location in Cornwall. Set in the hamlet of St Gweep, ""Wild West"" observes the strange goings-on in the local Cornish community. Shop owners Mary Trewednack and her life-partner Angela Phillips are the main focus but there are many other characters in this sitcom. The first series of the sitcom was scheduled to appear on prime-time BBC1 where its eccentricities"
"and ""Darkest Hour"" (2017). Examples of television series include ""Robin Hood"" (1953), ""Middlemarch"" (1994), ""Pride and Prejudice"" (1995), ""The Tudors"", ""Mad Men"", ""Boardwalk Empire"", ""Call the Midwife"", ""Downton Abbey"", ""Deadwood"", ""Halt and Catch Fire"", ""Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman"", ""Father Brown"", ""Stranger Things"", ""The Americans"", ""Little House on the Prairie"", ""That '70s Show"", ""The Get Down"", ""Another Period"", ""Better Call Saul"" and ""The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"". Historical period drama The term historical period drama (also historical drama, period drama, costume drama, and period piece) refers to a work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film"
"current affairs programme on British television, with audiences peaking at more than 12 million. It was credited with helping to achieve numerous criminal convictions and a number of changes in the law. Amongst the many subjects tackled, the programme has exposed Northern Ireland protection rackets, baby trading in Brazil and Guatemala, canned hunting in South Africa, loan sharks, the ivory trade, people smuggling, drug dealing, mock auctions, counterfeit consumer goods, manipulation of the UK Singles Chart, war criminals in Bosnia, the Russian black market in weapons-grade plutonium and Satanic Ritual Abuse. In July 1990 the show investigated the Tainted Blood"
"The Cazalets The Cazalets is a 2001 six-episode television drama series (5 episodes when broadcast in the US) about the life of a large privileged family in the years 1937 to 1947. Most of the action takes place in London, and at the family's large estate in Sussex. The drama was based on the novels of Elizabeth Jane Howard, and adapted by the screenwriter Douglas Livingstone and directed by Suri Krishnamma. The series was originally produced by Cinema Verity for BBC One and is available on DVD. A BBC Radio 4 version in 45 episodes, in 5 series, was also"
"Timothy West Timothy Lancaster West, CBE (born 20 October 1934) is an English film, stage and television actor, with more than fifty years of varied work in the business. As well as many classical theatre performances, he has appeared frequently on television, including spells in both ""Coronation Street"" as Eric Babbage and Stan Carter in ""EastEnders"", and also in "" Not Going Out"", as the original Geoffrey Adams. He is married to the actress Prunella Scales; since 2014 they have been seen travelling together on British and overseas canals in the Channel 4 series ""Great Canal Journeys"". West was born"
"The Mayfair Set The Mayfair Set, subtitled Four Stories about the Rise of Business and the Decline of Political Power, is a BBC television documentary series by filmmaker Adam Curtis. It looks at Britain's decline as a world power, the invention of asset stripping in the 1970s, and how buccaneer capitalists shaped the climate of the Thatcher years, focusing on the rise of Colonel David Stirling, Jim Slater, Sir James Goldsmith and Tiny Rowland—members of London's elite Clermont Club in the 1960s. It won a BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series or Strand in 2000. The opening episode focuses on"
"another theme to bring abjection to the forefront. Having differing bodies or abilities outside of the realm of possibility (including a bearded woman, a , several dwarves, a and conjoined twins to name a few) for the season’s 1950s time setting is projected as unsettling and grotesque to not only regular society within the show but also the intended audience. Another depiction of abjection in modernity is within television series ""Orange is the New Black"". The fictional television show, which centralises around the women within a low security prison, uses its scope of women as criminals to fight alongside movements"
"the BBC in late 2009, following a move away from ""bonnet dramas"". ITV was looking to recreate its period drama success with ""Downton Abbey"" with a new series ""Mr Selfridge"", written by Davies and starring Jeremy Piven. An initial ten-part series first aired on 6 January 2013 and it has run for 4 series by 2016. Davies' six-part adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's ""War & Peace"" was broadcast on BBC One in January and February 2016. Following its success, the BBC announced in July 2016 that it would be followed up with a six-part adaptation of Victor Hugo's ""Les Misérables"" to"
"prestige productions such as the adaptation of ""Kidnapped"" (April 2005). As of July 2005, the Head of Children's Drama is Jon East. Books: Newspaper articles: Websites: BBC television drama BBC television dramas have been produced and broadcast since even before the public service company had an officially established television broadcasting network in the United Kingdom. As with any major broadcast network, drama forms an important part of its schedule, with many of the BBC's top-rated programmes being from this genre. From the 1950s through to the 1980s the BBC received much acclaim for the range and scope of its drama"
"the Old Vic; and in 2016 at the Bristol Old Vic. Having spent years as a familiar face who never quite became a household name, West's big break came with the major television series, ""Edward the Seventh"" (1975), in which he played the title role from the age of twenty-three until the King's death; his real-life sons, Samuel and Joseph, played the sons of King Edward VII as children. Other screen roles have included ""Nicholas and Alexandra"" (1971), ""The Day of the Jackal"" (1973), ""The Thirty Nine Steps"" (1978), ""Masada"" (1981), ""Cry Freedom"" (1987) and Luc Besson's """" (1999). In"
"help to increase their ""...problem-solving and observational"" skills. In the UK, television plays from the 1950s and 1960s tackled a range of controversial subjects, yet still managed to garner large audiences. These televised plays were regarded as a benchmark of high-quality British television drama, part of what some television historians refer to as the ""golden age"" of British television. British television drama writer John Hopkins has been noted for “...successful[ly] pioneering...the short series for serious drama,” which “...established an important precedent in Britain” and served as a model for subsequent television writers such as Dennis Potter and Alan Bleasdale. The"
"in 1977 He regularly appeared on BBC TV's The Good Old Days recreating songs made famous by the great stars of Music Hall. Among his later TV appearances are ""Dalziel and Pascoe"" (1999), ""Last of the Summer Wine"" (2003), ""Coronation Street"" (2003, as Wally Bannister) and ""Down to Earth"" (2005). Cribbins currently stars as Jack in the series ""Old Jack's Boat"", set in Staithes, and broadcast on the CBeebies channel starting in 2013. This has featured Helen Lederer, Janine Duvitski and former ""Doctor Who"" companion Freema Agyeman in supporting roles. Although Agyeman and Cribbins both played companions and supporting characters"
"running television series ""Dixon of Dock Green"". Other TV credits include: ""The Professionals"", ""Enemy at the Door"", ""Minder"", ""Bergerac"", ""The New Statesman"", ""Between the Lines"", ""Bramwell"", ""Cracker"", ""Dalziel and Pascoe"", ""Heartbeat"", ""Sleepers"", ""Spooks"", ""Midsomer Murders"", ""Hustle"", ""Waking the Dead"", ""Wallis & Edward"", ""A Touch of Frost"", ""Cold Blood"", ""Burn Up"" and ""Houdini"". He also appeared as Harold Hardman, the Manchester United chairman at the time of the Munich air disaster in 1958, in the TV drama ""United"", aired by the BBC in April 2011. In 2013, he played Mr Reid in ""The Wrong Mans"". Calder appeared as Sir Robert King"
"actual London serial murder cases: the Christie murders in the early 1950s, and the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888. Barry Foster has said that, in order to prepare for his role, he was asked by Hitchcock to study two books about Neville Heath, an English serial killer who would often pass himself off as an officer in the RAF. ""Frenzy"" was the third and final film that Hitchcock made in Britain after he moved to Hollywood in 1939. The other two were ""Under Capricorn"" in 1949 and ""Stage Fright"" in 1950 (although there were some interior and exterior scenes"
"did not reach the heights of its popularity until the 1980s. Notable dramas included ""Play for Today"" and ""Pennies from Heaven"". In police dramas, there was a move towards increasing realism; popular shows included ""Dixon of Dock Green"", ""Z-Cars"", ""Softly, Softly"", and ""The Sweeney"". The science fiction show ""Doctor Who"" reached its peak. 1970s UK television featured a mix of traditional and more modern comedy. ""Morecambe and Wise"", ""The Benny Hill Show"", ""Are You Being Served?"" and ""Dad's Army"" had their origins in the variety show and radio comedy of the first half of the century. Many popular British situation"
"West was attached as director, with Patrick McGoohan on board as an executive producer, script consultant, and possible cameo appearance. Christopher Nolan has also been reported to be considering a big-screen version. As of 2015 no remake has been announced since the 2009 AMC miniseries. LBC used various concepts from The Prisoner, in an advertising campaign in the mid 1980s reflecting London's role as a 'village' for its residents and commuters. On 5 January 2015, Big Finish Productions, best known for its long-running series of BBC-licensed audio dramas based upon ""Doctor Who"", announced that it will be producing licensed audio"
"his wife. More recently, a series of undercover investigations into west Wales puppy farms have led to several pressure groups to call for a change in legislation by the Welsh Government to protect animals. Senior producer Eifion Glyn travelled undercover to Zimbabwe in 2008 to show the horrors of life there under Robert Mugabe's rule and also journeyed to Afghanistan for the second time in 2013 to produce a series of programmes documenting the lives of Welsh troops fighting the Taliban. At home, a raw portrayal of the lives of two heroin addicts in Cardiff won the Best Current Affairs"