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South Park Extended
South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker have agreed to
extend the hit animation for another three series.
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US cable network Comedy Central had originally contracted the
pair to write, direct and edit the show until 2013, but it will now run
until 2016.
In a statement, Stone and Parker said: "South Park is a blast and we can't
wait to make more."
There had been some doubt as to whether the pair would extend
their contract after their success, earlier this year, with their hit
Broadway musical The Book of Mormon.
Michele Ganeless, president of Comedy Central, said: "The collective genius
of Matt and Trey knows no bounds.
"Week after week and season after season they continue to
surprise and delight South Park fans. We're thrilled that the adventures of
Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman will continue through 2016."
The show - recently voted the greatest animated TV series by Entertainment
Weekly - first aired in the US in August 1997.
November
17
2011 - waveguide.co.uk
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Dickens On The BBC
From November 28 to February 2012, the BBC will celebrate the
work of one of Britain’s greatest writers with Dickens on the BBC, a season
of documentary, drama and discussion programmes across television and radio.
Culminating Books on the BBC 2011, a year-long focus of books
related programming across BBC platforms, Dickens on the BBC heralds the
2012 international celebrations of the bicentenary of the writer’s birth.
From a new three-part adaptation of Great Expectations for BBC One to the
completion of Dickens’ unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood by
writer Gwyneth Hughes on BBC Two and Life-long Dickens fan Armando Iannucci
reviewing the development of a revolutionary master story-teller.
The season begins on Monday November 28 with BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week,
in which Claire Tomalin's acclaimed new biography Charles Dickens: A life is
read by Penelope Wilton. Other highlights from Radio 4 include award-winning
writer Ayeesha Menon’s reworking of Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit, set and
recorded on location in Mumbai, India and Dickens in London, five short
plays based on Charles Dickens' journalism about walking in London, adapted
by Michael Eaton to tell the story of the writer’s life.
Commissioning Arts Editor Mark Bell said: "What better to conclude the BBC's
year-long celebration of books, than a season marking the life and work of
one of Britain's most significant writers, Charles Dickens, in the run-up to
his 200th birthday. Dickens on the BBC examines the many aspects of the
author as performer, social commentator, observational journalist, husband,
story-teller , Christmas cheerleader and contradictory family man, and the
new adaptations of his novels show his work to be as vital as it ever was."
Dickens on the BBC sheds light on all aspects of this complex man. Sue
Perkins exposes the real Dickens’ family Christmas and, from the perspective
of his wife Catherine, looks at their troubled relationship for BBC Two and
on BBC Four the prestigious arts documentary strand, Arena revisits films
and interviews from the archive to answer the question, why have Dickens’s
novels inspired so many hundreds of adaptations on screen?
BBC Radio 3’s regular strands The Verb, The Essay and Nightwaves devote
programmes to Dickens and BBC One’s Songs Of Praise follows presenter Aled
Jones as he visits Rochester Cathedral in Kent, for a seasonal Dickens
themed performance by members of the Rochester Cathedral Choir.
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17
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Accused - Second
Series
The second series of Accused, Jimmy McGovern’s drama for BBC
One, starts filming with Anne-Marie Duff, Olivia Colman, John Bishop, Robert
Sheehan, Sheridan Smith and Thomas Brodie-Sangster in leading roles.
Accused focuses on a different crime and punishment story each week, and
starts filming this month in and around Manchester.
The first episode to film stars Anne-Marie Duff and Olivia Colman. They are
mothers trying to do right by their sons and their community in a battle
against guns and crime. Their sons are played by Thomas Brodie-Sangster and
Oliver Lee.
The next episode to shoot stars Robert Sheehan as a teenager called Stephen.
He is convinced that the palliative care nurse Charlotte, played by Sheridan
Smith, who is assigned to look after his mother, has a very different
agenda.
The first two episodes of this new four-part series will film before
Christmas. The second two episodes complete filming in February 2012.
Further details and casting to come.
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