Staged has reached the finals of the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2020, with the second round of voting now open on the British Comedy Guide website. The hugely acclaimed lockdown comedy Staged, starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen as exaggerated versions of themselves, launched in June last year, with a second series starting on BBC One last week. The series follows David and Michael as they navigate the boredom and stresses of lockdown while supposedly rehearsing a play via Zoom. The series also stars Georgia Tennant, Anna Lundberg, Lucy Eaton, Nina Sosanya and series writer and creator Simon Evans. Staged is nominated in the Best New TV Sitcom category and can also be named as Comedy Of The Year. The annual Comedy.co.uk Awards, now in their 15th year, are 100% determined by a public vote, with tens of thousands of comedy fans voting for their favourites from among the hundreds of different comedies were broadcast on TV and radio in the UK each year. Voting in the finals closes at the end
More details have been released about the upcoming DVD released of Staged, including a first look at its cover art. The hit lockdown comedy show was written and directed by Simon Evans and stars David Tennant and Michael Sheen as exaggerated versions of themselves. The double-disc release will include extended episodes of both series of Staged along with exclusive outtakes. It also comes with a reversible sleeve so you can decide yourself which star gets top billing on your copy. Staged Series 1 and 2 is released on Monday 15th February. You can pre-order the DVD at this link . Staged Michael Sheen and David Tennant (playing themselves) were due to star in a production of Six Characters In Search Of An Author in the West End. The pandemic has put paid to that, but their director (Simon Evans - also playing himself) is determined not to let the opportunity pass him by. He knows how big a chance this is for him and turns his attention to cajoling his stars into rehearsing over the in
David Tennant has been announced as one of the cast for a new animated film, The Loud House Movie produced by Nickelodeon for Netflix. The Loud House is an American animated television series created by Chris Savino for Nickelodeon . The series revolves around the chaotic everyday life of a boy named Lincoln Loud, who is the middle child and only son in a large family of 11 children. The Loud House Movie sees the biggest family on television go on the biggest Loud family vacation ever! The adventure follows the Loud family to Scotland where they discover that they are descendants of Scottish royalty. The family quickly indulges in the most wish-fulfilling high-life ever when they discover their ancestral home is a castle. Directed by Dave Needham and written by Kevin Sullivan and Chris Viscardi, the voice cast also includes Asher Bishop, Michelle Gomez, Grey Griffin, Jill Talley, Brian Stepanek, Jessica DiCicco, Liliana Mumy, Cristina Pucelli, Nika Futterman, Lara Jill Mill
The real-crime drama Des, starring David Tennant as UK serial killer Dennis Nilsen, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray in the USA on Tuesday 16th March. Co-starring Daniel Mays and Jason Watkins, Des focuses on one of the most infamous criminal cases in UK history. The three-part series is based on the book Killing For Company by Brian Masters and premiered on ITV in the UK last year. Known as the ‘kindly killer’, Nilsen (David Tennant) was a local civil servant who spent five years murdering vulnerable and often homeless boys and young men he met on the streets of Soho from 1978 to 1983. He would meet and befriend these men before offering them food or lodgings for the evening back at his North London flat. When he was finally caught on 9 February 1983, Nilsen had murdered a total of fifteen men over a period of five years, making him Britain’s most prolific serial killer of the time. The story is told through the prism of three isolated men - Detective Peter Jay (Daniel Mays), who
The new series of Staged continues on BBC One tonight at 9.45pm. The full series is also available to stream on BBC iPlayer. This series sees David Tennant and Michael Sheen attempt to navigate their ‘new normal’ at home with their increasingly exasperated families whilst simultaneously trying to tackle the world of ‘virtual Hollywood’ and their ever more fragile egos. Also returning for the new series are Georgia Tennant, Anna Lundberg and Lucy Eaton alongside Nina Sosanya and Simon Evans with new addition to the regular cast Primetime Emmy-winner Ben Schwartz, playing the assistant to Michael and David’s American agent. Following on from the surprise appearances in series one of Judi Dench and Samuel L Jackson this series sees the regulars joined in their virtual hell by a whole host of unexpected guests. The series hopes to capture our shared feelings of frustration and confusion at a world not quite ready to re-open. Moments that promise normality dashed before they can take hold
David Tennant's lockdown comedy Staged was the surprise hit of the year. The series stars David Tennant and Michael Sheen as fictionalised versions of themselves and was created by Simon Evans and Phin Glynn. It was filmed during lockdown using self-tape and video conferencing techniques. The show was written by Evans, who also co-starred along with Georgia Tennant and Anna Lundberg as the director of a play starring Michael and David. With the play on hold due to the coronavirus epidemic, Simon tries to convince his cast to carry on rehearsals over the internet, but is hampered by ego clashes, boredom, home-schooling and fall-outs with neighbours. Fans in the UK can watch the original series over on BBC iPlayer or an extended version with previously unseen footage is also available on Netflix. In the USA the series is now available to stream via Hulu. In Australia the series will start airing on ABC COMEDY on Monday nights at 8.30pm from Monday 21st September. The ser
The new series of Staged continues on BBC One tonight at 9.45pm. The full series is also available to stream on BBC iPlayer. This series sees David Tennant and Michael Sheen attempt to navigate their ‘new normal’ at home with their increasingly exasperated families whilst simultaneously trying to tackle the world of ‘virtual Hollywood’ and their ever more fragile egos. Also returning for the new series are Georgia Tennant, Anna Lundberg and Lucy Eaton alongside Nina Sosanya and Simon Evans with new addition to the regular cast Primetime Emmy-winner Ben Schwartz, playing the assistant to Michael and David’s American agent. Following on from the surprise appearances in series one of Judi Dench and Samuel L Jackson this series sees the regulars joined in their virtual hell by a whole host of unexpected guests. The series hopes to capture our shared feelings of frustration and confusion at a world not quite ready to re-open. Moments that promise normality dashed before they can take hold
David Tennant And Michael Sheen have been chatting to The Times about their new lockdown comedy, Staged. Read their interview below: Michael Sheen and David Tennant talk to Dominic Maxwell about Staged, a TV satire of Zoom, filmed from their homes Well, this is unsettling. I’ve just watched the first episode of Staged, an enjoyable new BBC comedy series in which the actors David Tennant and Michael Sheen spend lockdown staring into their laptops as they talk to each other on Zoom. And now, minutes later, here I am on a Zoom call with David Tennant and Michael Sheen. More than that, Sheen, 51, is sitting in the same position in his kitchen in south Wales as he does throughout the series. Behind him is a stone fireplace and a sign with the full name and birthdate of his new baby daughter, Lyra, written on it. His beard is as generous as his manner. Meanwhile, Tennant, 49, is unshaven, lank-haired, looming over his laptop. He apologises for his “ludicrous” hair: blame his
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