The Unbound campaign offers some nice rewards to the supporters of Completely Staged. The book unseen inages and Simon Evans’ notes. Read more below:
Ler maisA book featuring the scripts of Staged, the comedy series starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen, is set to be published.
Simon Evans and Phin Glynn, the creators of the format, have compiled Completely Staged, described as “the complete illustrated scripts of the lockdown hit TV show.”
It is set to be released via Unbound, the book-based crowdfunding platform. When 100% of the funding has been achieved, copies will be printed for those who backed the project.
The nominations for the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2021 have been announced this morning. Quiz recieved three nods: Best Drama 1-4 Episodes, Best Actor (Matthew Macfadyen), and Best Writer (James Grahan), while the first season of Staged was nominated for Best Comedy and Best Actor (David Tennant). See the nominees below:
Best Comedy
Friday Night Dinner, Series 6 (Big Talk Productions for Channel 4)
Inside No. 9, Series 5 (BBC Studios for BBC Two)
Staged, Series 1 (Infinity Hill/ GCB Films for BBC One)
This Country, Series 3 (BBC Studios for BBC Three)
The Trip, Series 4 (Greece) (Revolution Films for Sky One)Best Actor
Shaun Parkes (Mangrove, Small Axe)
Matthew Macfadyen (Quiz)
Paul Mescal (Normal People)
David Tennant (Des/ Staged)Best Writer
James Graham (Quiz)
Michaela Coel (I May Destroy You)
Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton (Inside No. 9)
Steve McQueen, Courttia Newland, Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Alastair Siddons (Small Axe)Best Drama Series 1-4 episodes
Des (New Pictures for ITV)
Quiz (Left Bank Pictures for ITV and AMC)
Roald and Beatrix: The Tail of the Curious Mouse (Hartswood Films for Sky One)
The Salisbury Poisonings (Dancing Ledge Productions for BBC One)
This year the award ceremony will be online and will take place on Friday March 12. The winners will be announced and will accept their awards via Twitter.
Congratulations to everyone involved in both productions!
Michael Sheen make an appearance at the virtual edition of WJEC Eduqas Moving Images Awards from the set of Prodigal Son in New York, in which he presented the Best Short Movie award. Watch his segment here (courtesy of The Sheendex):
The full ceremony is available here:
Check out some screencaptures from his presentation:
Michael Sheen has been announced as one of the presenters of this year’s Moving Image Awards, which will take place online on Monday February 15. He joins other names like Edgard Wright, Jo Whiley and Anna Smith:
Hollywood star, and award-winning actor Michael Sheen has been added to the line-up of guest presenters at this year’s Moving Image Awards.
Joining him will be a stellar cast including Peter Lord (Aardman Animations), TV comedian Sarah Pascoe, and broadcasting legend Jo Whiley – so make sure you have your calendars marked (Monday 15th February, 2021) and popcorn at the ready!
Commenting on the event , Rebecca Ellis, WJEC’s Film Studies Subject Officer, said: “This year, we have the privilege of welcoming some very special guest presenters alongside our fabulous event host Anna Smith (BBC, SKY, Girls on Films Podcast). We are thrilled that Michael Sheen and Peter Lord CBE are amongst our fantastic guests awarding student work this year.’
The ceremony has gained recognition from teachers and lecturers of film and media courses at institutions across the UK, as well as leading figures in the film industry.
About the awards:
The Moving Image Awards, designed in partnership with the British Film Institute, recognises and rewards the UK’s most talented young film-makers. Every year, students undertaking WJEC qualifications in Film and Media are invited to submit their work for consideration by our panel of judges.
In a new interview, Michael spoke about episode 4 “Take Your Father to Work Day”, getting to act with more actors of the main cast and Catherine Zeta-Jones joining the show. Spoiler alert to those who haven’t seen the aforementioned episode!
Ler maisMichael Sheen discusses the events of the latest episode of Prodigal Son “Take Your Father to Work Day”, and he also teases Catherine Zeta-Jones’ role:
Ler mais(Warning: This post contains spoilers for Tuesday’s episode of “Prodigal Son.”)
Two seasons into “Prodigal Son,” Martin Whitly (Michael Sheen) finally got to join the team for a murder-solving case rather than just consult from within the walls of his prison — because the murder in question occurred within the walls of his prison.
In the interview below, Michael also talked about meeting fellow Welsh Catherine Zeta-Jones, with whom he’s never worked before:
Ler maisMichael Sheen’s Martin Whitly unleashes a killer performance in Tuesday night’s episode of “Prodigal Son.”
In “Take Your Father to Work Day,” there’s a murder in Martin’s asylum — which means that his son, former FBI profiler Malcolm (Tom Payne) ,must come investigate — much to Martin’s delight.
Tensions soon arise as they’re forced to confront their complex mixture of love for each other versus their long-simmering resentment (Malcolm of serial killer Martin’s dark legacy; Martin of Malcolm’s turning him in years ago).
“I am drawn to characters that have something different going on underneath rather than what’s on the surface,” Sheen, 51 tells The Post. “I think that’s true of people generally — we’re always aware of the version of ourselves that we want people to see, and then there’s that version that we feel like we’re covering up.
It has been announced that the Staged duo Michael Sheen and David Tennant will be doing a cameo appearance for this year’s Red Nose Day on Friday March 19, according to Chortle:
The day will again feature a live telethon on BBC One, including a contribution from Dawn French as the Vicar of Dible and a special edition of David Tennant and Michael Sheen’s lockdown comedy series, Staged.
Comedians Joe Lycett, Mo Gilligan, Shappi Khorsandi and Sir Lenny Henry and actors Benedict Cumberbatch and Dame Judi Dench have contributed to a new video to launch the charity event, which you can watch below:
Learn more about Red Nose Day here.
In a recent interview for Collider, Tom Payne, who plays Malcolm Bright in Prodigal Son, has spoken about working with Michael Sheen (Dr. Martin Whitly) in the show:
What’s it like to explore that [family] dynamic with Michael Sheen and have a relationship that is always so intense when they’re together? How does he most challenge you, as a scene partner?
PAYNE: When I got the part, I knew Michael was going to be playing the father and I was incredibly excited about that because I know Michael’s career and I admire him, as an actor. Now having personally worked with him, everything I’d heard to be true was true. He’s completely present, and completely in the character and in the scene. It’s all there, which is just such a gift for another actor to be in a scene with a person like that, especially if you’re of the same type. All you do is you do your preparation, and then you walk in the room and see how the scene goes, which is just so fun. Those scenes that I have with Michael are mostly just me and him in that room, and there’s already electricity in the air. As soon as Mr. David closes that door, we’re left in there on our own, which is actually torturous and exhausting, but it’s so fun because you know that it works and that it’s all there, and you just have to let it happen. After I’d been on The Walking Dead, there are some wonderful actors on that show, but I never really felt that I stretched myself and had an opportunity to really get involved in some storylines that pushed me as an actor. And then, I got this job and it was like, “Okay, have all of it at once, and have it with one of the best actors alive.” So, it’s been a real pleasure and a real gift.
This month Staged has come back even funnier than ever and has brought us excellent cameos from Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to Whoopi Goldberg, Cate Blanchett and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. But, as it happens with all good things, it has come to an end.
Check out some screencaptures fom the hilarious second season:
