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Adrian Shergold (born 24 March 1948 in Croydon, Surrey) is a British film and television director. [1] Selected filmography. Pierrepoint (2005) [2] Funny Cow (2017) [3] Cordelia (2019) [4] Denmark (2019) [5] [6] Selected television. Christabel (1988) [2] Devil's Advocate (1995) [2] Holding On (1997) [2] Eureka Street (1999) [2]
Actor. Writer. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Adrian Shergold was born on 24 March 1948 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK. He is a director and actor, known for Mad Dogs (2011), Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005) and Goodbye Cruel World (1992). More at IMDbPro.
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Dirty Filthy Love is a British single television drama starring Michael Sheen as an architect living with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) and Tourette syndrome . Directed by Adrian Shergold, the film was first broadcast by ITV on 26 September 2004. It was written by Jeff Pope and Ian Puleston-Davies, who suffers from OCD himself.
- 26 September 2004
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The Elliot family face financial difficulties from the imprudent spending of baronet Sir Walter Elliot and his eldest daughter, Elizabeth. His lawyer proposes that the family estate, Kellynch Hall, be leased to Admiral Croft as a source of income, but middle daughter Anne Elliotis distraught at the prospect of having to abandon her childhood home. ...
Conception and adaptation
On 10 November 2005, The Guardian's Julia Day reported ITV controller of drama, Nick Elliott, had ordered three new adaptations of Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Elliot commented that the adaptations would be "important remakes for the new generation". He explained "About every 10 years, all the great stories need retelling. These films will be very much 2007 films... we've asked and pushed the production team to make them young." Screenwriter Simon Burke created the convent...
Casting
Karen Price from the Western Mail reported ITV had promised the "cream of British acting talent", while they were casting the three adaptations. Actress Sally Hawkins was asked to play Persuasion's protagonist Anne Elliot. Hawkins was familiar with Austen from school, and though flattered to be asked to play the role, she was initially hesitant about returning to Austen. "I re-read the books and fell in love with Jane Austen completely... I had been slightly dismissive, and the fact that I wa...
Costumes
The costume designer for Persuasion was Andrea Galer. Galer made Anne's outfits simple and basic because she does not join in Bath society. The designer explained "I wanted her to look in tune with nature. Because we were shooting in winter, I could go for faded autumnal colours for her. She gets Wentworth back just by her stillness and I wanted to reflect that in her wardrobe." Galer designed a jacket for Hawkins to wear as Anne using a 19th-century shawl, which she mounted and patched toget...
ITV launched a nationwide campaign to promote its Jane Austen Season. The campaign included three television adverts and cinema, outdoor and press adverts. ITV Creative made the 20, 30 and 60 second promotional trailers, which began airing on ITV channels from 25 February 2007. The following day, adverts began appearing in selected national press p...
Persuasion was well received by audiences, attracting 6.2 million viewers and a 26.1% audience share upon its initial broadcast in the United Kingdom. 939,000 Australian viewers watched the drama when it aired on ABC1 in June 2008. Four newspaper publications selected the drama as their "Pick of the Day." The period drama has an 80% approval rating...
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Oct 21, 2020 · It’s a claustrophobic chamber drama about emotional breakdown co-written for the screen by Campbell-Hughes with the film’s director Adrian Shergold. In some ways, it’s a riff on Polanski’s...
Oct 25, 2020 · Sun 25 Oct 2020 07.00 EDT. I n Adrian Shergold’s uneven thriller, actor Cordelia (Antonia Campbell-Hughes) continues to suffer the aftershocks of trauma from an event that took place 12 years...
Director: Mad Dogs. Adrian Shergold was born on 24 March 1948 in Croydon, Surrey, England, UK. He is a director and actor, known for Mad Dogs (2011), Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2005) and Goodbye Cruel World (1992).
