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) – WINNER
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) – WINNERBest Writer
James Graham (Quiz)
Michaela Coel (I May Destroy You) – WINNER
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) – WINNER
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 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.
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.
According to Headline Planet, Michael Sheen will be guest on the January 7 edition of the CBS talk show, presumably to talk about the second season of Prodigal Son:
Like other major US late-night shows, “The Late Late Show With James Corden” will return to production during the week of January 4, 2021.
One episode will feature an appearance by “Dickinson” star Hailee Steinfeld.
The singer and actress will appear on the January 6 edition of the CBS talk show. According to the network, the episode will also feature a performance by SEVENTEEN.
Complete “Corden” listings follow:
January 4 – Rosario Dawson, musical guest Ingrid Andress
January 5 – James Marsden, musical guest Tim Minchin
January 6 – Hailee Steinfeld, musical guest SEVENTEEN
January 7 – Michael Sheen, Jo Ellen Pellman
Below are some links to watch the talk show at 12:37 AM ET/11:37 PM CT on CBS. Click here to find out when the talk show begins in your timezone.
Great way to start 2021! BBC has announced that the second season of Staged will premiere on January 4 at 9.45 PM. Michael Sheen and David Tennant return to their exaggerated versions of themselves for a new set of episodes. Anna Lundberg, Georgia Tennant, Lucy Eaton, Nina Sosanya and Simon Evans will be back too, and Ben Schwartz joins the cast to play the assistant to Michael and David’s American agent.
Watch a teaser below:
Earlier today Michael Sheen appeared on BBC Breakfast to talk about #ChristmasTogether, the campaign organized by the Jo Cox Foundation as part of the Great Winter Get Together initiative.
The #ChristmasTogether tries to reach out for people who might spend Christmar alone or shielding. You can learn more about the campaign here and here.
Watch below a couple of excerpts from the show:
According to Digital Spy, the duo will be discussing the second season of ‘Staged’:
Good Omens duo David Tennant and Michael Sheen will grace The Graham Norton Show with their presence next month.
In the episode airing Friday, December 18, the two popular actors join Hollywood icon George Clooney, Oscar-winner Viola Davis and Vanessa Kirby to promote their latest joint endeavour: Staged series two.
Michael Ball and Alfie Boe have been given the musical spot, where they’ll get us in the festive spirit with a performance of ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’.
The Graham Norton Show airs on Fridays at 10:45 PM.
Progidies have a date! The second season of Prodigal Son, which is currenty being filmed, is set to premiere on Fox on January 12, 2021. The show will now be aired on Tuesdays at 9-10 PM, instead of Mondays.
Michael Sheen returns as “The Surgeon” Martin Whitly.
Today the nominees of the 6th edition of I Talk Telly Awards were announced. Lockdown series Staged got two nods: Best New Comedy and Best Comedy Partnership for Michael Sheen and David Tennant. See the nominees below:
Best New Comedy
Breeders
Code 404
The Duchess
Feel Good
King Gary
Mandy
Staged – WINNER
Trying
Best Comedy Partnership
Adrian Scarborough & Julia Davis for Gavin & Stacey
Charlie Cooper & Daisy May Cooper for This Country
Charlotte Richie & Kiell Smith Bynoe for Ghosts
Daisy Haggard & Martin Freeman for Breeders
David Tennant & Michael Sheen for Staged – WINNERS
Johnny Vegas & Sian Gibson for Dial M For Middlesbrough
Jon Richardson & Lucy Beaumont for Meet the Richardsons
Reece Shearsmith & Steve Pemberton for Inside No. 9
You can vote here until November 21 at 11:59 PM GMT. The winners will be announced on December 6.
UPDATE: Click here to watch Michael Sheen and David and Georgia Tennant talk about Staged victory in the I Talk Telly Awards.
In this ITV special, Michael will be interviewed by Jennifer as they drive around Wales. Read more:
Ler maisJennifer Saunders is to present a talkshow based in a 1960s E-Type Jaguar for ITV.
So TV and Illuminated Manuscript are to produce one-off special Jennifer Saunders’ Memory Lane, in which the Absolutely Fabulous star will conduct an interview with Michael Sheen as she drives him around locations from his youth in Wales.
Expected to air in a 9pm slot later this year, the biographical road-trip will feature revelations and surprises from Sheen’s past as he reminisces about growing up in and around Port Talbot.
So TV’s Graham Stuart and Illuminated Manuscript’s Andrew Higgie have jointly developed the show and will exec produce, with series producer Andy Rowe.