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The book was awarded the Children's Award in the inaugural People's Book Prize in 2010, [38] and was made into a 60-minute film, which premiered on BBC One on 23 December 2012. On 28 October 2010 Walliams published his third book Billionaire Boy , illustrated by Tony Ross , [ 39 ] [ 40 ] telling the story of Joe Spud, the richest 12-year-old in ...
The Interrupters is a 2011 documentary film, produced by Kartemquin Films, that tells the story of three violence interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed. It examines a year in which Chicago drew national headlines for violence and murder that plagued the city.
Mr Stink was Walliams' second children's book, after The Boy in the Dress, also illustrated by Quentin Blake. [1] [4] It was a best-seller [4] and generally well received; the reviewer in The Daily Express called it "a gentle book with plenty of jokes about bottoms ... and a message about the put upon coming out on top", [1] and in The Guardian a review of the stage musical called the book "a ...
2012 is a 2009 American epic science fiction disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Emmerich and Harald Kloser, and stars John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Oliver Platt, Thandiwe Newton, [a] Danny Glover and Woody Harrelson.
It aired on 23 December 2012 on BBC One after it was originally scheduled for Boxing Day. [1] The film was the most watched in its 6:30-7:30pm timeslot with 6.34 million viewers tuning in. It was also broadcast and was the BBC's first ever narrative program to be filmed in 3D.
Alasdair Wilkins of The A.V. Club awarded the episode a grade of "A", crediting Dollard's writing as "brilliant" and being "a story and script worthy" for the Doctor and Bill, and noting that "there's much to celebrate about this episode". Wilkins also praised the episode's direction, despite it echoing previous stories from the show.
The Body in the Thames (German: Die Tote aus der Themse) is a 1971 West German thriller film directed by Harald Philipp and starring Uschi Glas, Hansjörg Felmy and Werner Peters. [1] It is part of the series of Edgar Wallace adaptations made by Rialto Film. It was the last shot in Germany, with two Italian films following before the end of the ...
The Two-Character Play (also known as Out Cry in one of its alternate versions) is an American play by Tennessee Williams that premiered in London at the Hampstead Theatre in December 1967. [1] [2] [3] Williams himself had great affection for the play, and described it as follows: "My most beautiful play since Streetcar, the very heart of my ...