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This Is England 88 at BAFTA
This Is England 88 at BAFTA

Engrossing, humorous and darkly disturbing, Shane Meadow’s This Is England has been one of the best British TV Series for many a year. In it he created a group of characters who the British public instantly related to. These were not the typical two dimensional superficial character’s which usually grace our screens, but protagonists which [...]
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Bafta: Upcoming Events in October 2011

Life In Pictures: Will Ferrell Tuesday 04 October, 19.00pm Vue Cinema, Leicester Square, London Followed by an exclusive screening of his new film Everything Must Go Starting like many great comedians before him, on the US’s Saturday Night Live, Will Ferrell has over the last decade cemented his status as one of America’s funniest men! [...]
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Errol Morris to deliver the 2011 BAFTA David Lean Lecture

London, Sunday 6 November 6.30pm The British Academy of Film and Television Arts will welcome multi award-winning documentary filmmaker Errol Morris to BAFTA HQ to deliver BAFTA’s annual film lecture in the year BAFTA reinstate a Documentary category at the Film Awards. Errol Morris is one of the world’s great documentary filmmakers with a dozen [...]
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BAFTA finds British comedy writing stars of the future

The Big Apple Beckons: BAFTA finds British comedy writing stars of the future Top writers will participate in a BAFTA Rocliffe New Writing Forum at the 7th annual New York Television Festival London, Thursday 11 August 2011: Following a nationwide competition three of the UK’s most promising comedy television writers have been chosen by the [...]
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Bafta: Upcoming Events in September 2011

Monday 05 September, 08.30am: Breakfast with…TV’s Controllers: Peter Fincham David Lean Room, BAFTA 8.30am – Breakfast available 9am – 10am Interview BAFTA continues its series of ‘Breakfasts with’ the major channel controllers with ITV’s Peter Fincham. What every TV ideas person wants to know is how to get their programme commissioned. Come along to this [...]
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Bafta finds British comedy writing stars of the future

Back in June we wrote about Bafta’s search for the Comedy Writing stars of the future, the search is now officially over. In London, on Thursday 11 August 2011, following a nationwide competition three of the UK’s most promising comedy television writers were chosen by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to [...]
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