Stephen Tompkinson

This brilliantly witty new play starring Stephen Tompkinson as Samuel Beckett and Andrew Lancel as Harold Pinter, gives a wonderful insight into what the friendship between these two great men may have looked like. As well as being a beautiful tribute to their writing, the theatre of the absurd, and of course their love for the game of cricket.

Biopic of the British ice dancers and British, European, Olympic and World champions, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.

A group of 1980s wrestlers are forced to don the lycra once last time when their beloved local pub is threatened with closure.

For over a decade, an ex-market stall trader from Liverpool called Eddie Braben wrote the scripts that made the nation take Morecambe and Wise to their hearts. But for Braben, it wasn't all sunshine. Beginning in 1969 with the birth of the 'golden triangle' of Eric, Ernie and Eddie, this film chronicles the grind that pushed the perfectionist Braben to the brink of exhaustion, culminating in the triumphant Christmas Day show of 1977.

Hector has been living on the motorways for years. His once comfortable family life has been replaced by a never-ending tour of service stations that offer him shelter, anonymity, washing facilities and food. The story follows his journey south from Scotland on his annual pilgrimage to a temporary Christmas shelter in London where he finds comfort, friendship and warmth. Over the course of his Homeric journey, Hector decides to reconnect with his long estranged past. As his previous life catches up with him, the story of how he came to be leading a marginal life begins to emerge.

세계적으로 유명한 저널리스트 ‘헬렌'은 중동에서 취재 중 끔찍한 일을 겪고 그로 인해 트라우마가 생긴 그녀는 자신의 커리어를 포기하고 작은 규모의 신문사에 취직한다. 그러던 중, 항공관제탑에서 일하는 연인 ‘조’가 기내 안전사고에 연루되어 정직 당하자 사건에 의문을 품기 시작한다. 기자의 촉으로 헬렌은 동료 기자 '나타샤'의 도움을 받아 사건을 본격적으로 캐기 시작하고, 진실에 가까워질수록 자신들을 위협하고 있는 세력이 있음을 알게 되는데...

Amongst the desperation and fear growing in a crime ridden estate in northern England, one man becomes embroiled into saving what community life exists.

A young harridan MP marries a title in order to advance towards her goal of becoming party leader.

School teacher Chris Bevan is a dutiful husband to his dull wife, Josie, and ingrate daughters. His best friend knows Chris' heart always belonged to Marian, his vibrant, flippant fiancée, who mysteriously disappeared years ago. Suddenly he sees her in a shop and can't help following her. He gives up as she has a new identity, as wife of plumber Bernie Sullivan. Bernie's real passion is Houdini-era 'real' magic, while in fact she's his terrified captive, forced to replace his late assistant. Furthermore one of Bevan's daughters has a phone-relationship he forbids, deeming it dangerous on principle, ignoring this is real and ties in to Marian's plight.

Dramatisation of the Stephen Downing case which involved the conviction and imprisonment in 1974 of a 17-year-old council worker, Stephen Downing, for the murder of a 32 year old legal secretary, Wendy Sewell, in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District in central England. Following a campaign by a local newspaper, his conviction was overturned in 2002, after Downing had served 27 years in prison. The case is thought to be the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history, and attracted worldwide media attention.

A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British university, trying to make a splash with his pompous boss, Professor Neddy Welch (Robert Hardy). Jim is also trying to make it with the woman of his dreams, Christine Callaghan (Keeley Hawes, Othello and Wives and Daughters), while simultaneously being pursued by the woman of his nightmares, fellow lecturer Margaret Peel (Helen McCrory, Anna Karenina). One (of many) complications is that Christine is the girlfriend of Professor Welch's egotistical artist son, Bertrand. Another is that Margaret keeps attempting suicide to get Jim's attention. But despite his misadventures, Jim keeps his eyes on the prize: a leg up on the ladder to a professorship in medieval history.

Set in 1990 on an Air Force base in the mid-Atlantic. Billy is desperate to listen to his team Middlesborough, play Newcastle United. But Billy's quest for diversion masks an unspoken trauma in his past which he is forced to confront.

Taking a look back at the golden era of snooker in the 1970s and 80s.

The film tells the story of the Blanche family who run a dark and dismal health resort on a remote island which is only accessible by ferry. The spa program consists of feeding the guests seaweed and eel-based meals, then administering liberal colonic irrigation. The spa is run by the family matriarch Dame Blanche until her death. Things continue on with her children running the resort until Kath, the resort's former sous chef and love interest of one of the sons, comes back to the island unannounced. Stranded between monthly ferries, she is a catalyst for a series of events that turns life as it is known at Hotel Splendide on its ear.

With angels crying in the toilets all because of a jealous Angel Gabriel, it could only be the eagerly awaited performance of the Primary school nativity play - this time with a twist! The UK's finest comedy actors take the leading roles as the eight year old performers. Through the inevitable mishaps, misunderstandings, young egos, fears of failure and fallings out, the children's characters evolve into mirror images of thier parents, the nativity play's audience. You'll be drawn into the amusing and enchanting worlds and minds of young children and reminisce about your own childhood performances!

1992년 북부 요크셔의 작은 탄광촌, 보수당 정부가 전격적인 폐광 정책을 준비하고 있을 때, 그 지방의 탄광 밴드는 다가오는 전국 대회를 위해 연습하고 있다. 마을 사람들의 마음 깊은 곳엔 언제나 밴드가 있고, 특히 밴드 리더인 대니의 밴드에 대한 애정은 각별하다. 대니에게 있어 음악이란 탄광이 정신을 구현해 주는 것이며 그 마을 사람들의 생명력을 대변하는 것이다. 그러나 폐광으로 인해 실업이 널리 확산됨에 따라 그의 동료들은 밴드에 대한 열정을 잃게 된다. 그러던 중 금발의 글로리아가 탄광촌에 도착, 밴드에 가담하자 그들은 다시 활기를 찾게 된다. 사실 그녀는 그 밴드의 전설적인 지휘자였던 아더 멀린즈의 손녀이자 밴드 멤버 앤디의 어린 시절 연인으로, 밴드가 아니라 직업 때문에 10년 만에 고향을 찾은 것이다. 글로리아의 재능과 아름다움에 압도되어 순회 경연대회가 시작될 무렵 밴드에는 새로운 열정이 물결치게 된다. 그러나 그러한 열기는 글로리아가 영국 광산 협회가 경제성 조사를 위해 파견한 감정사였다는 사실이 드러나면서 급격히 식어버리고, 앤디와 글로리아의 관계 역시 위태로와 진다. 이런 긴장 속에서도 그림리 브라스 밴드는 전국 준결승전에서 우승을 하고 마을로 돌아온다. 그러나 그들 앞에 펼쳐진 것은 폐광이 결정된 충격으로 열패감에 쌀에 움츠러든 마을 사람들의 모습이었으며, 그러한 상황에서 평생을 탄광에서 일한 대니는 진폐증으로 쓰러져 건강이 위대롭게 되고, 1984년 광부들의 파업으로 수감됐던 그의 아들 필은 가족, 가정, 일, 살아겠다는 의지 등 거의 모든 것을 잃게 된다. 그러나 진폐증으로 급격히 무너져 가는 대니를 바라보는 단원들은 그로인해 음악을 계속할 자극을 받게되고 반항정신을 회복한다. 게다가 뜻밖의 후원자의 도움을 얻게 된 광부들은 대니의 꿈을 실현시키기 위해 런던에서 열리는 전국대회에 참가하가로 하고 다시 모인다. 마침내 그들은 마을을 대표하는 대서로서 자신들의 사정을 대외에 알릴 승리의 대장정을 시작한다.

The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped murderers! The fore runner of Crossing The Floor

Hester Collyer is rescued by a neighbor after attempting suicide in the flat she shares with her young lover, ex-RAF pilot Freddie Page. The neighbors alert her husband, who arrives at the flat only to find her fully recovered...

In the tradition of the acclaimed series of British concerts known as The Secret Policemen's Ball, Amnesty International celebrates its 50th Anniversary live at Radio City Music Hall.

Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.

Old Blackpool comedian Alfie Duffell allegedly wrote a song called 'Put a Bit of Treacle on my Pudding Mary-Ann', which might have made him famous, had he not sold it years ago, for five pounds. Now it is up to his grandson Stephen to take the song into the eighties.