Acting News

The New Statesman

Anno di produzione: 1987-1993

Stato del film: Catalogo

Paese d'origine: UK
Genere: Comedy
Lingue: English
Plot: Tells the adventures of Conservative MP Alan B'Stard, a man who doesn't have any morals at all. He stops at nothing to make himself richer and more powerful in the party and is involved in drugs, adult films, fraud (making up charities with the initials C.A.S.H when writing on cheques) and even murder but believes that he will never be caught as he is a Conservative MP and therefore all powerful. He has almost complete power over another MP - Piers Fletcher-Dervish who is nearly completely brainless. His wife Sarah B'Stard has very loose morals (both of them have affairs mostly every day) and has hated her husband from five minutes after they got married and tries to use Alan to get anything she wants. Each episode contains recent news items and Alan moves with the times with things like the end of the cold war, the Nazi hunt in the late 80's as well as the Animal Freedom Party. Keeping up with the huge amount of cash, Alan moves (in the 4th season) to the European Union to continue to make herself richer and to climb to the most powerful position he can reach...
Date di uscita internazionali:
UK:13 September 1987
Cast & Credits
produzione cinematografica: yorkshire television (ytv) 
produttore cinematografico: charles tony (i)  andrews david (iii)  mckenna bernard (i) 
regista: harper graeme  sax geoffrey 
attore: mayall rik  troughton michael  fitzalan marsha  mcnally kevin  keaveney anna  atkins dave  imrie celia  phillips neville  fry stephen  serkis andy  calder david  whitrow benjamin  gibbs matyelok  tobias heather  laurie hugh  macinnes angus  ford alan  phillips dorothea  barrie chris  tummings chris  warnaby john  watson moray  webster ron (i)  whitmore richard  willis jerome  woodvine john  wyatt colin (i)  bakewell joan  banks elizabeth (i)  benson kim  brownjohn penny  bruce brenda  cooper rowena  gordon serena  gray natasha  heilbron vivien  heywood joanne  hibbert judith  kahn brigitte  kanska joanna  killingback debbie  lederer helen  llewellyn suzette  may charmian  mellinger leonie  miller cheryl (iv)  moran tara  neville sarah  pitt steffanie  walker amanda (i)  weston diana  alexander terence (i)  bamber david  blake peter (i)  blythe benedick  bowe john  butterworth paul (i)  cardy david  carlin john (i)  chadbon tom  coleman noel  colicos nicholas  cox arthur (i)  daglish neil  downer alan  doyle david (iii)  evans erick ray  friend martin  fry nicholas  godfrey patrick (i)  golland stuart  gray charles (i)  hancock lewis  herley randal  hirsch lou  hootkins william  ireson richard  jezek robert  kaler berwick  kingston mark  kitter roger  laird trevor  lee howard (i)  lloyd david (ii)  lucas victor (i)  martin peter (iii)  mcdonald mac (i)  mcgivern geoffrey  merrow william  morand timothy  nallon steve  nettleton john  newman mark (iv)  nithsdale donald  parsons nicholas  phillips george (i)  preston duncan  rees hubert  rigby graham  ringham john  robbins michael (i)  roëves maurice  ryan christopher (i)  sallis peter  saxon james  schaeffer anthony  schofield robert (i)  segal john (i)  sessions john  shend  simeon david  simons william  sleigh william  starkey alan  stern tim  stoll david  stringer nick  tipping tip 
scenografia: andrews roger 
montaggio: cooke phil 
compositori: hawkshaw alan