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Starter for 10 is a 2006 British comedy-drama film directed by Tom Vaughan from a screenplay by David Nicholls, adapted from his 2003 novel Starter for Ten. The film stars James McAvoy as a university student who wins a place on a University Challenge quiz team. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2006, and was ...
The Understudy. Starter for Ten by David Nicholls is a novel first published in 2003 about the character Brian Jackson and his first year of university (1985–86), his attempts to get on the Granada Television quiz show University Challenge, and his tentative attempts at romance with Alice Harbinson, another member of the University Challenge ...
Starter for Ten may refer to: A catchphrase from the Granada TV series University Challenge. Starter for Ten (novel), a 2003 novel by David Nicholls. Starter for 10 (film), the 2006 film adaptation of the above book. Starter for Ten (musical), a 2024 stage musical adaptation of the novel and film. Category: Disambiguation pages.
by David Nicholls. Starter for 10 (film) Premiere. February 29, 2024 (2024-02-29): Bristol Old Vic. Productions. 2024 Bristol. Starter for Ten is a British stage musical based on the 2003 novel of the same name by David Nicholls, and its 2006 film adaptation. It has music and lyrics by Hatty Carman and Tom Rasmussen, and book and lyrics by Emma ...
Patrick Melrose. Sweet Sorrow. David Alan Nicholls (born 30 November 1966 [1]) is a British novelist and screenwriter. Initially an actor after graduating college, he became a screenwriter, notably creating Rescue Me and adaptations of novels, plays, and memoirs, many of them classics. He is writer of six novels.
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Rebecca Maria Hall (born 3 May 1982) is an English actress and director. She made her first onscreen appearance at the age of 10 in the 1992 television adaptation of The Camomile Lawn, directed by her father, Sir Peter Hall. Her professional stage debut came in her father's 2002 production of Mrs. Warren's Profession, which earned her the Ian ...
University Challenge is a British television quiz programme which first aired in 1962. University Challenge aired for 913 episodes on ITV from 21 September 1962 to 31 December 1987, presented by quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne. The BBC revived the programme on 21 September 1994, the programme's 32nd anniversary, with Jeremy Paxman as the quizmaster.