March 19, 2008
Nominations for Programme of the Year title were selected by a panel of television experts and the public can now choose their favourite and vote online.
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March 17, 2008
The first series of the comedy sitcom Gavin And Stacey (BBC3) has been nominated for the Programme of the Year title at the British Academy Television Awards.
It faces tough competition from Britain’s Got Talent, Strictly Come Dancing, The Apprentice, Andrew Marr’s History Of Modern Britain and drama adaptation Cranford.
Update: More details
Comedy Performance
Peter Capaldi – The Thick of It
James Corden – Gavin and Stacey
Stephen Merchant – Extras Christmas Special
David Mitchell – Peep Show
Sky+ Audience Award for the Programme of the Year
The Apprentice
Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain
Britain’s Got Talent
Cranford
Gavin & Stacey
Strictly Come Dancing
March 17, 2008
I hour of Gaving and Stacey bliss later and I think we all agree that this second series looks even better than the first, and the reviews agree;
The Times “This comedy is less mild than it looks and even funnier than I remembered”
The Guardian”The two episodes were the fifth- and sixth-best rated shows on BBC3 since it launched five years ago”
TV Scoop”if the performances stay this strong … their show can only go from strength to strength“
March 8, 2008
The award-winning BBC sitcom Gavin and Stacey is about to return. Its creators tell Jasper Rees what inspired it
‘When we met those girls on the train the other day they went, ‘Oh yeah, what’s that thing you did? Kevin and Tracey or something?’”
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Ruth Jones is sanguine about the impact of Gavin and Stacey. The comedy series, which Jones co-wrote and appeared in, about a whirlwind romance between a sweet Welsh girl from Barry and a nice Essex boy from Billericay, may recently have won two British Comedy awards and a South Bank Show award.
But the fact that it was shown on BBC3 meant that, after its first outing, most people didn’t know Gavin and Stacey from Adam and Eve.
“I kind of feel that the show doesn’t exclude anyone,” says Jones’s co-writer James Corden, “and that people up and down the country could watch it.”
But then, as he ruefully admits: “A lot of them haven’t.” However, a week ago, Corden’s dream of mass exposure came true.
March 6, 2008
According to British Sitcom Guide
The hit BBC Three sitcom Gavin and Stacey has become the most recent British sitcom to be given the go ahead to be adapted for an American audience.
The series will be remade by NBC, the same channel behind the American version of The Office. Steve Coogan, the head of Baby Cow Productions which makes Gavin and Stacey, will oversee the production of the remake, alongside James Corden and Ruth Jones, the show’s creators (pictured).
Corden told The Times: “It’s really exciting. The idea is that Gavin will come from New Jersey, which has the same relation to New York as Essex does to London. Stacey will be from South Carolina. They meet in Times Square. I hope they keep the British names but they may have to change them.”
The second series of the British version is due to start on BBC Three on Sunday 16th March with a double-bill. Corden said that he expects the British version to finish with a Christmas special, whereas the American version will go on, similar to the current adaptation of The Office. The BBC has also asked Corden and Jones to make their own sketch show, as well as writing film scripts.
March 5, 2008
Radio 1′s Newsbeat has been given an early preview of series two of BBC 3′s award-winning comedy show Gavin And Stacey.
Mathew, James, Ruth and Joanne from Gavin and Stacey
Although the second series doesn’t air until 16 March, Newsbeat joined the cast to see the first two new episodes of the hit show in London.
March 1, 2008