British screenwriter Ray Jenkins, who wrote on some of the UK’s biggest TV hits across several decades, has died aged 87. Jenkins died last month and leaves behind his two children, Pascale and Ceri.
Across a successful and lengthy career, Jenkins wrote for numerous highly acclaimed British police and justice-related drama series including Z Cars, The Outsiders, The Brothers, This Man Craig, Callan, The Sweeney, Special Branch, Juliet Bravo, Gentle Touch, The Chief and The Brief. This is to name but a few.
Jenkins also adapted Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White starring Ian Richardson and Jenny Seagrove for the BBC, along with Tom Hart’s novel The Aura and The Kingfisher as The Innocent for the silver screen, starring Liam Neeson and Miranda Richardson, with cinematography by Roger Deakins.
His most recent project was TV movie Circles of Deceit: Kalon, which he wrote in the mid-1990s, and he...
Across a successful and lengthy career, Jenkins wrote for numerous highly acclaimed British police and justice-related drama series including Z Cars, The Outsiders, The Brothers, This Man Craig, Callan, The Sweeney, Special Branch, Juliet Bravo, Gentle Touch, The Chief and The Brief. This is to name but a few.
Jenkins also adapted Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White starring Ian Richardson and Jenny Seagrove for the BBC, along with Tom Hart’s novel The Aura and The Kingfisher as The Innocent for the silver screen, starring Liam Neeson and Miranda Richardson, with cinematography by Roger Deakins.
His most recent project was TV movie Circles of Deceit: Kalon, which he wrote in the mid-1990s, and he...
- 2/27/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Ray Jenkins, the British screenwriter behind shows including “The Woman in White” and “The Sweeney,” has died. He was 87.
Jenkins died on Jan. 16, his agent confirmed to Variety. No cause of death was given.
Jenkins was an accomplished dramatist who wrote for TV, radio and film. He was known especially for his work on British police and justice-related series throughout the 1960s and 80s, including “The Sweeney,” which starred John Thaw and Dennis Waterman, and “Juliet Bravo” in which Stephanie Turner played Inspector Jean Darblay.
Other shows Jenkins worked on included “Z Cars,” “The Brothers,” “This Man Craig,” “Callan,” “Special Branch” and “The Gentle Touch.”
He was also known for his 1980s adaptations of Wilkie Collins’ mystery novel “The Woman in White,” which aired on the BBC and starred Ian Richardson, Diana Quick and Jenny Seagrove, and Tom Hart’s novel “The Aura and The Kingfisher,” which was adapted as feature film “The Innocent,...
Jenkins died on Jan. 16, his agent confirmed to Variety. No cause of death was given.
Jenkins was an accomplished dramatist who wrote for TV, radio and film. He was known especially for his work on British police and justice-related series throughout the 1960s and 80s, including “The Sweeney,” which starred John Thaw and Dennis Waterman, and “Juliet Bravo” in which Stephanie Turner played Inspector Jean Darblay.
Other shows Jenkins worked on included “Z Cars,” “The Brothers,” “This Man Craig,” “Callan,” “Special Branch” and “The Gentle Touch.”
He was also known for his 1980s adaptations of Wilkie Collins’ mystery novel “The Woman in White,” which aired on the BBC and starred Ian Richardson, Diana Quick and Jenny Seagrove, and Tom Hart’s novel “The Aura and The Kingfisher,” which was adapted as feature film “The Innocent,...
- 2/27/2023
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Graphic novelist Tom Hart and his wife, Leela, lived through a horror story. Their baby girl, Rosalie, beautiful and vibrant, like all little children, died unexpectedly — and without explanation — in 2011, three weeks before her second birthday. It’s the kind of thing often too painful to consider, let alone experience. But Hart, the acclaimed author of the Hutch Owen series of graphic novels, wasn't given a choice, nor did he have any option but to try to arrive at some sort of understanding — tenuous as it may be — by turning what happened into art. “There was a part of me,” says the soft-spoken, Gainesville-based Hart, “that realized I need to give my feelings some sort of form.” The form of which Hart spoke became, ultimately, his new work, Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir. The book recounts Rosalie's life and death, and their immediate aftermath. I know it’s...
- 1/6/2016
- by David Marchese
- Vulture
The Ignatz Awards for excellence in independent comics has announced its nominees for 2013. Among those honored are veterans like Peter Bagge, Charles Burns, Tom Hart, and Johnny Ryan, alongside younger creators such as Lilli Carré, Michael DeForge, Ulli Lust, and Charles Forsman. Winners will be announced September 14 at this year's Small Press Expo in North Bethesda, Maryland. Outstanding Artist Lilli Carré for Heads Or Tails Michael DeForge for Lose #4 Miriam Katin for Letting It Go Ulli Lust for Today Is The Last Day Of The Rest Of Your Life Patrick McEown for Hair Shirt Outstanding Anthology ...
- 8/16/2013
- avclub.com
Espn’s coverage of the Ncaa Division I Baseball Championship continues with the Super Regionals June 7-10, with every game of the eight best-of-three-game series on Espn, ESPN2 and Espnu. The eight Super Regional winners advance to the College World Series. Super Regionals TV schedule from Espn: Espn Super Regionals Schedule (Schedule subject to change) Date Time (Et) Matchup / Commentators Game Networks Fri, June 7 1 p.m. South Carolina vs. North Carolina (Chapel Hill)Dari Nowkhah, Danny Graves & Danny Kanell 1 ESPN2 4 p.m. Rice vs. Nc State (Raleigh)Tom Hart & Paul Lo Duca 1 ESPN2 7 p.m. Oklahoma vs. [...]
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- 6/7/2013
- by Ryan Berenz
- ChannelGuideMag
James Hart Dyke has depicted secret service agents on covert missions. Now he has commemorated the most famous spy of all
When James Hart Dyke was asked by the head of MI6 to paint a series of studies of the real work of foreign secret service officers last year, he was keen to show just how hard and low-key their lives were. "It's not James Bond," he said.
Well, now it is. Hart Dyke has since been recruited to chronicle the long life of 007. The producers of the James Bond films, Barbara Broccoli and Eon Productions, commissioned Hart Dyke to paint each of the six Bond actors in the role as part of the celebration of 50 years of the dynamic franchise.
His portraits of Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig show them all in tuxedo and bow tie and have already been used...
When James Hart Dyke was asked by the head of MI6 to paint a series of studies of the real work of foreign secret service officers last year, he was keen to show just how hard and low-key their lives were. "It's not James Bond," he said.
Well, now it is. Hart Dyke has since been recruited to chronicle the long life of 007. The producers of the James Bond films, Barbara Broccoli and Eon Productions, commissioned Hart Dyke to paint each of the six Bond actors in the role as part of the celebration of 50 years of the dynamic franchise.
His portraits of Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig show them all in tuxedo and bow tie and have already been used...
- 10/22/2012
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Two British hikers admitted later that they were stupid for being in the area as they attempted to cross from Panama to Colombia. The story of Paul Winder and Tom Hart Dyke was chronicled with re-enactments on National Geographic's "Locked Up Abroad" (Mon., 10 p.m. Et).
The men were searching for rare orchids when they were taken by guerillas, who told them their freedom would cost them $10 million. All in all, though, they weren't treated all that terribly, according to the BBC. Also, no one seems to have been able to understand why they were captured in the first place.
Then, just as mysteriously, after nine months of captivity, they were set free. Their captors told them if they saw them again, they'd be killed. It took eight days of hiking through the jungle before the men were rescued and able to go home.
Catch new episodes of "Locked Up Abroad...
The men were searching for rare orchids when they were taken by guerillas, who told them their freedom would cost them $10 million. All in all, though, they weren't treated all that terribly, according to the BBC. Also, no one seems to have been able to understand why they were captured in the first place.
Then, just as mysteriously, after nine months of captivity, they were set free. Their captors told them if they saw them again, they'd be killed. It took eight days of hiking through the jungle before the men were rescued and able to go home.
Catch new episodes of "Locked Up Abroad...
- 8/7/2012
- by Jason Hughes
- Huffington Post
One of Pixar's upcoming short efforts is a film called La Luna, about a young boy coming of age in peculiar circumstances. The short is soon to premiere at the Annecy International Animation Festival, which runs June 6-11 in France. Enrico Casarosa [1] directs and is Head of Story; he's been with Pixar since 2002, starting on Cars, with credits following on Ratatouille and Up. That link points to his own site with sketches and other work, some of which is really great. I see a mixture of Tom Hart and Miyazaki in his book The Venice Chronicles [2], for example. That's the first still from the short above; more info on La Luna is after the break. This is the official synopsis: La Luna is the timeless fable of a young boy who is coming of age in the most peculiar of circumstances. Tonight is the very first time his Papa and...
- 5/5/2011
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
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