Hywel Bennett – MRQE

Deadline

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An American journalist is set up and fed false information after the Lebanon war.

Artemis 81 (TV)

Thu, 18 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith’s evil brother Asrael. Ranging from Oxford to Denmark, a North Sea ferry to an alien planet, Harlax unwittingly becomes part of an ancient plot that may result in the destruction of Earth…

Mary, Mother of Jesus (TV)

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother.

“Karaoke”

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Daniel Feeld, writer of the film Karaoke, starts to believe that his characters are coming alive.

“Shelley”

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Shelley is a British sitcom made by Thames Television and originally broadcast on ITV from 12 July 1979 to 12 January 1984 and from 11 October 1988 to 1 September 1992. Starred Hywel Bennett as James Shelley, originally 28 years old and a sardonic, perpetually unemployed anti-establishment ‘freelance layabout’ with a doctoral degree. In the original run, Belinda Sinclair played Shelley’s girlfriend Fran, and Josephine Tewson appeared regularly as his Landlady, Edna Hawkins. The series was created by Peter Tilbury who also wrote the first three series. The scripts for subsequent episodes were by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin, Colin Bostock-Smith, David Frith, Bernard McKenna and Barry Pilton. All 71 episodes were produced and directed by Anthony Parker.

Series seven was titled on screen The return of Shelley, and was broadcast in 1988. This time round, Shelley is separated from Fran, and lives on his own, doing his best to avoid obtaining gainful employment. The series begins with Shelley returning to the UK from Saudi Arabia, where he had taught English for a few years, only to find that his calls to his old friends are now screened by answer phones and that yuppieness has taken root in his old neighbourhood. The final three series returned to the on-screen title of Shelley.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of bizarre characters.

Loot

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they stash the cash in Hal’s recently-deceased mother’s coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal’s father and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott.

One for the Road

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

One for the Road follows Jimmy, Paul, Richard and Mark who meet on a rehabilitation course for drink drivers. Jimmy is young, ambitious and desperate to sell his late father’s business; Paul has been salesman of the year three times running, however, that was five years ago; Richard is a retired millionaire property developer and Mark is a taxi driver with a weakness for weed and philosophy.

“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla ‘The Sandman’ of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.

Percy

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ’s origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer’s wife – and also to his many, many girlfriends…