What television series is based on a film starring an actor who appeared in Mickey Blue Eyes and Notting Hill?
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Pilot (About a Boy) "Pilot" is the pilot and first episode of the American television comedy series "About a Boy", which premiered on February 22, 2014 on NBC in the United States. The series is based on the 1998 novel of the same name by British writer Nick Hornby and the 2002 film starring Hugh Grant. The episode is written by series developer Jason Katims and is directed by Jon Favreau. In the episode, a young boy named Marcus (Benjamin Stockham) and his single mother Fiona (Minnie Driver) move in next door to Will (David Walton), an unemployed bachelor living in San Francisco. Will woos a woman by pretending Marcus is his son.
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Hugh Grant Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor and film producer. Grant has received a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César for his work. His films have earned more than US$2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant first received attention after earning the Volpi Cup for his performance in James Ivory's "Maurice" (1987) but achieved international success after appearing in the Richard Curtis-scripted "Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994). Grant used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s, delivering comic performances in films such as "Mickey Blue Eyes" (1999) and "Notting Hill" (1999). One of the best known figures in 1990s British popular culture, Grant was in a high-profile relationship with Elizabeth Hurley, which was the focus of much attention in the British and international media.
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Michael Loney Michael Loney is an Australian actor, best known for his roles on British television.
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Ian Hendry Ian Mackendrick Hendry (13 January 1931 – 24 December 1984) was an English film, television and stage actor. He was best known for his work on several British TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, including the lead in the first series of "The Avengers" and "The Lotus Eaters", as well as for his roles in films such as "The Hill" (1965), "Repulsion" (1965), "Get Carter" (1971), and "Theatre of Blood" (1973).
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Nickolas Grace Nickolas Grace (born 21 November 1947) is an English actor known for his roles on television, including Anthony Blanche in the acclaimed ITV adaptation of "Brideshead Revisited", and the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1980s series "Robin of Sherwood". Grace also played Dorien Green's husband Marcus Green in the 1990s British comedy series "Birds of a Feather".
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Call Red Call Red is a British television action drama series created by J. C. Wilsher that premiered on January 8, 1996 on ITV. The series follows the adventures of an Air Ambulance squad, captained by Phillip Tulloch (Michael Carter). The series draws upon a documentary-style feel, including hand-held camera work for helicopter-based scenes, and detailed outlines of the procedures carried out by the medics themselves. Just a single series of seven episodes was produced. The complete series has been earmarked for release on DVD by Network Distributing, although no set date has been given for the release.
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John Warnaby John Warnaby is a British actor who has appeared extensively in film and television.
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Privates (TV series) Privates is a 2013 BBC One drama television series set in 1960 which follows the stories of eight privates who are part of the last intake of National Service, and their relationships with their officers and non-commissioned officers, civilian staff and families. The series was written by Damian Wayling, directed by Bryn Higgins and produced by Nick Pitt.
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Dallas Adams Dallas Roland Adams (17 February 1947 – 29 August 1991) was an English actor noted for his television performances.
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Dennis Miller (Australian actor) Dennis Miller (born 1937, Hobart, Tasmania) is an Australian film and television actor. Miller started in the industry in 1959 and has acted in television shows including a recurring role on "Blue Heelers" as Ex-Sergeant Pat Doyle (1994–2000). Other television roles include: "Bellbird" (which also starred his then wife Elspeth Ballantyne), "Homicide", "Matlock Police", "The Flying Doctors", "G.P.", "Stingers", "A Country Practice" and "Water Rats". He has appeared in numerous films, especially made for television movies and miniseries, including "A Cry in the Dark", "Hoodwink", "Scales of Justice", "Kangaroo Palace", "Stir" and "Starstruck", "Colour in the Creek".
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Marcus Graham Marcus Graham (born 11 October 1963) is an Australian television and stage actor who has also starred in several films, including "Mulholland Drive" and "Josh Jarman". He was known as a teenage heartthrob in the early 1990s while starring in the Australian TV soap "E Street" as the character "Wheels". His father Ron Graham is also a well known character actor of numerous TV series.
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List of Happy Valley characters "Happy Valley" is a British (BBC) crime drama television series that is filmed and set in The Calder Valley. The series, starring Sarah Lancashire and Siobhan Finneran, features an extensive main and recurring cast.
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John Challis John Challis (born 16 August 1942) is an English actor best known for portraying Aubrey "Boycie" Boyce in the long-running BBC television comedy series "Only Fools and Horses" and its sequel/spin-off "The Green Green Grass". Since 2015, he has made guest appearances as "Monty Staines" from the seventh series onwards in the hit ITV comedy "Benidorm", later becoming a regular from series 10 in 2018.
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Milton Johns Milton Johns (born 13 May 1938) is an English actor whose thin features and talent for obsequious or oily characters has often influenced the many television parts he has received. He trained at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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Thief Takers Thief Takers is a British television crime drama series, created by Roy Mitchell, and produced by Central Independent Television for the ITV network. The series depicts the work of a team of officers based in the Metropolitan Police Service's Flying Squad, which Reece Dinsdale, Brendan Coyle, Grant Masters and Nicholas Ball appearing in the principal roles. The series was Carlton's attempt to rival Thames Television's "The Bill", after the producer unexpectedly retained the series despite a major take-over by Carlton. A total of three series were broadcast between 1 February 1995 and 18 December 1997, with a total of twenty-five episodes broadcast. Each episode features a stand-alone case, with the exception of a small number of two-part episodes. However, the personal lives of each of the officers in the team provide the backdrop for a continuing story arc throughout all three series.
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Metrosexuality (TV series) Metrosexuality is a British television comedy-drama series, which aired on Channel 4 in 2001 as a short-run series of six episodes. It was later re-edited into a single feature for DVD release. It depicts the interactions of a racially and sexually diverse group of friends and family living in Notting Hill.
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Laurence Harrington Laurence Harrington (born 30 September 1938) is a British actor who has played DS Probert in "Z-Cars", Lunar Guard in "Doctor Who", George Latimer in "Softly, Softly", the Lawyer in "The Sweeney", Jackson in "", Gary in "Agony", Jeff Sadler in "Boon", Cyril Harrington-Morse in "Lovejoy", Vic Lawson in "Love Hurts" and James Palfrey in "Dalziel and Pascoe". He has also guest-starred in "Agatha Christie's Poirot", "The Bill", "Casualty", "Holby City" and "Doctors", and appeared in films such as "The Boys in Blue" (1982), "Don't Open till Christmas" (1984), "Car Trouble" (1986), "Out of Order" (1987) and "Afraid of the Dark" (1991). Harrington also appeared in the British band Naked Eyes' 1984 music Video "(What) In the Name of Love".
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Grass (TV series) Grass is a sitcom starring Simon Day which originally aired in 2003 on BBC Three. Day plays Billy Bleach, a Londoner and pub know-it-all who is relocated to Norfolk in rural England under a witness protection programme after he witnesses a gangland killing. The series was a spin-off from "The Fast Show".
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Graham McGrath Graham McGrath (born 29 July 1971) is an English actor with film, television, radio and theatre credits. He currently also works for Merlin Entertainments based near London in Surrey, England. He had tuition at the Junior Academy of the Royal Academy of Music in London when he was only 4 years old. He also studied music and drama at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). He spent 9 years at the academies, refining his acting and musical talents. McGrath's first appearance in front of a camera was in a TV commercial for Colgate toothpaste as a 6-year-old. Among his first major film roles were as the loyal Titch in the 1983 fantasy adventure film "Krull" directed by Peter Yates and as the ten-year-old Peter the Great in a 1986 mini-series. He also played Luca Di Marco in the popular BBC soap opera "EastEnders". Since then, he has been continually active in the entertainment industry and primarily made the transition from child to adult star in his native England.
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Benny Hill Alfred Hawthorne "Benny" Hill (21 January 1924 – 20 April 1992) was an English comedian and actor, best remembered for his television programme "The Benny Hill Show", an amalgam of slapstick, burlesque and double entendres in a format that included live comedy and filmed segments, with him at the focus of almost every segment.
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Little Boy Blue (TV series) Little Boy Blue is an ITV drama series, shown over four sixty-minute episodes from 24 April to 15 May 2017. The series focuses on the murder of Rhys Jones in Croxteth, Liverpool in 2007.
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Saxondale Saxondale is an English television situation comedy programme, starring Steve Coogan and co-written by Steve Coogan and Neil Maclennan. The series is directed by Matt Lipsey and produced by Ted Dowd. Coogan and Henry Normal served as executive producers. The show is set in Stevenage, showing middle-class suburbia.