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William Miller stars as Oliver Twist in the sixth adaptation for television. Photo: Supplied December 17, 2009 The retelling of a Dickens classic returns to the essence of the original, writes Michael Idato.

Actor Timothy Spall revealed he actually lost weight while playing a 50-stone man.

Or for short, Pot III . It has a new director -- Alfonso CuarA3n, of A Little Princess and, less pertinently, Y Tu MamA TambiA©n -- and a new Dumbledore -- Michael Gambon, in place of the late Richard Harris -- in addition to new roles for the likes of Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Timothy Spall, Emma Thompson, and Julie Christie, thus closing ...

The Street was flippin' brill. There's undoubtedly a far more elegant way of putting that, but sometimes it's best to let admiration run free.

IT'S A standing joke that no-one in real life would want to move to Albert Square or Coronation Street, where within weeks you are virtually certain to become involved in murder, adultery or kidnapping.

When Timothy Spall and I meet, neither of us is in terrific shape: I've just that second finished watching Gunrush , his new TV drama, and feel drained, my heart still beating wildly after its terrifying denouement.

WHO ate all the pies? Harry Potter actor Timothy Spall by the look of him. The 52-year-old Londoner was spotted filming the ITV comedy drama The Fattest Man in Britain yesterday in Manchester.

WHO ate all the pies? Harry Potter actor Timothy Spall by the look of him. The 52-year-old Londoner was spotted filming the ITV comedy drama The Fattest Man in Britain yesterday in Manchester.

ICONIC 1979 film Quadrophenia featured a host of actors who made the big time - " Leslie Ash, Ray Winstone, Timothy Spall, Toyah Willcox, Michael Elphick and a young Sting, with Phil Daniels in the lead role as disillusioned teen mod Jimmy.

OH, what's occurring? Here's Gavin and Stacey's Nessa as you have never seen her before.

HIGHLY regarded screenwriter Jimmy McGovern should be hoisted aloft and paraded around the taverns of Britain for sneakily reintroducing the long-lost tradition of weekly plays to our screens.

Jimmy McGovern shows why he's the top choice for actors. Dawn Collinson finds stars eager to appear in his latest drama IF Jimmy McGovern is ever in need of a little reassurance that he is among the best, if not the best, TV writer in Britain today, he won't have far to look.

By all accounts, he was extremely precise and methodical, a true professional who dispatched his a oeclientsa with as little ado as possible.

Jimmy McGovern's The Street is returning for a third series, the BBC has announced.

Anna Friel has told how she met up with a prostitute while researching her new role for drama The Street and said that as a mother she can empathise with the desperate measures her character takes.

CAROLINE Aherne has signalled she's ready to make her big TV comeback with a new comedy drama.