Central Junior Television Workshop

Last updated

The Television Workshop, formerly known as the Central Junior Television Workshop is a British organisation that offers training for young people in performance skills for television, film, radio and theatre. Open to anybody between the ages of seven and 21, entry is by an annual audition process which is held each spring.

Contents

History

The Central Junior Television Workshop was originally set up by Central Independent Television in 1983 to act as a casting pool for young talent in their broadcasting region in the English Midlands. [1] The Workshop has two branches, the original one based in Nottingham and another based in Birmingham, which opened a year later in 1984.

The Workshop has been known as several different names over the past including the Central Junior TV Workshop, Carlton Junior TV Workshop, ITV Junior TV Workshop and most recently simply The Television Workshop.

Birmingham Workshop

In late 2008, the Birmingham workshop run by their director Colin Edwards and his assistant Ross Berkeley Simpson, lost funding from ITV due to the recession and so the Birmingham branch went 'dark'. At the same time Edwards retired. In 2009, Ross Berkeley Simpson started a new, separate group called First Act Workshops to ensure that the work continued in Birmingham. Colin Edwards helped on a consultant level. First Act Workshops trains young actors in weekly sessions from Moseley Dance Centre.

The Nottingham branch of the Central Television Workshop still continues under the name The Television Workshop under the helm of Nic Harvey.

Notable people

Nottingham

Birmingham

Unspecified

Awards

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ITV Central</span> Independent Television franchisee for the Midlands

ITV Central, previously known as Central Independent Television, Carlton Central, ITV1 for Central England and commonly referred to as simply Central, is the Independent Television franchisee for the Midlands. It was created following the restructuring of ATV and began broadcasting on 1 January 1982. The service is owned and operated by ITV plc under the licensee of ITV Broadcasting Limited. Historically Central made a major contribution to the ITV network schedule – especially in entertainment and drama – but today its main responsibility is the regional news service.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cat Deeley</span> English television presenter (born 1976)

Catherine Elizabeth Deeley is an English television presenter and actress. She began her career as a co-presenter of the ITV children's show SMTV Live (1998–2002), for which she won a BAFTA Children's Award, and its spin-off chart show CD:UK (1998–2005). In 2003, Deeley co-presented the talent competition show Fame Academy on BBC One, and became the presenter of the ITV talent show Stars in Their Eyes.

Peter Frederick George Corey was a British writer, actor and comedian. Corey was the author of the Coping With children's book series. He also wrote scripts for television programmes and acted in dramas and soap operas.

Pui Fan Lee is an English actress and television presenter. She is known for portraying Po in the original run of the children's television series Teletubbies between 1997 and 2001, and for presenting the CBeebies preschool education series Show Me Show Me.

Your Mother Wouldn't Like It was a children's sketch show broadcast on ITV between 1985 and 1988. A unique aspect of the show was that the performing cast were almost entirely children.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Janice Connolly</span> English actress and comedian

Janice Connolly is an English actress, comedian and artistic director. She runs the Birmingham-based group Women and Theatre and performs stand-up comedy as her character Mrs Barbara Nice. Connolly has also appeared in Coronation Street, That Peter Kay Thing, Phoenix Nights, Max and Paddy's Road To Nowhere, Thin Ice and Dead Man Weds. In 2017, Connolly was awarded a British Empire Medal in the New Years Honours list for services to community arts in the West Midlands. In 2022, she began appearing in the BBC soap opera Doctors as Rosie Colton.

Ryan Cartwright is an English-American actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Donnaleigh Bailey</span> English actress

Donnaleigh Bailey is an English actress, known for portraying the role of Michelle Corrigan in the BBC soap opera Doctors. For her role as Michelle, she received two nominations for the British Soap Award for Best Actress. Since 2015, she has played the part of Jess Heywood in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tim Whitnall</span> English actor, playwright and screenwriter

Timothy Charles Whitnall is an English actor, playwright and screenwriter. He is known for playing Angelo in the long-running CITV series Mike and Angelo and narrating the BBC children's TV programme Teletubbies from 1997 to 2001. As a writer, he has won a BAFTA and an Olivier Award for his work on TV movie Best Possible Taste: The Kenny Everett Story and play Morecambe. He is also a voice actor, providing voices on characters from television shows such as Fifi and the Flowertots, Roary the Racing Car, and Thomas & Friends.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Karl Collins</span> English actor

Karl Collins is a British actor. He is known for his television roles as Danny Glaze in The Bill, Louis Loveday in Hollyoaks, and Shaun Temple in Doctor Who. He played Noah in the Apple TV series Trying, and Lennox in the BBC Series Champion, and also Jack Whiteley in Magpie Murders.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vicky McClure</span> English actress (born 1983)

Vicky Lee McClure is an English actress, model and presenter. She is known for her roles as Detective Inspector Kate Fleming in the BBC series Line of Duty (2012–2021) and Lol Jenkins in Shane Meadows' film This Is England (2006) and its Channel 4 sequel mini-series This Is England '86 (2010), This Is England '88 (2011), and This Is England '90 (2015). Before This is England, she appeared in another of Meadows' films, A Room for Romeo Brass (1999), where she played Ladine. She won the RTS Award and British Academy Television Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Lol in This is England '86 in 2011.

Andrew Shim is an American-born British actor best known for his appearances in the films and TV shows of Shane Meadows, especially This Is England (2006–2015). Although a United States citizen, he has lived most of his life in Britain since 1989.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kenton Allen</span> British television producer and executive

Kenton Allen is a British television producer and executive. He became Chief Executive of Big Talk Studios in September 2008. He is a multi-award–winning programme-maker with credits including the BAFTA Award-winning sitcoms The Royle Family and Rev. and the Oscar-winning film Six Shooter. He was the Advisory Chair of the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 2012.

Eliot Otis Brown Walters is a British actor, known for his role as Ryan in the BBC television drama Summerhill about the school by the same name.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Molly Windsor</span> British actress

Molly Windsor is an English actress. Her breakthrough role was in the 2009 Channel 4 television film The Unloved, and she has appeared in Oranges and Sunshine (2010) and The Runaways (2019). She is best known for her performance in the 2017 BBC miniseries Three Girls, for which she won the 2018 BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress; in 2017, she was also named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit.

Finn Rosanna Atkins is a British film, television and stage actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kia Pegg</span> English actress and presenter

Kia May Pegg is an English actress and television presenter. She portrayed Jody Jackson in the British children's drama show Tracy Beaker Returns (2012), as well as the spin-off series The Dumping Ground (2013–2022). Then in 2022, Pegg began appearing in the BBC soap opera Doctors as receptionist Scarlett Kiernan. She also began occasionally presenting episodes of Saturday Mash-Up! for CBBC in 2022, having previously appeared on their live links.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Antonio Aakeel</span> English actor

Antonio Aakeel is an English actor, known for his leading role in the 2018 comedy film Eaten by Lions, for which he was named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow by Screen Daily. He also appeared in Tomb Raider and the BAFTA award-winning series Three Girls.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Erin Kellyman</span> British actress (born 1998)

Erin Mae Kellyman is a British actress. On television, she gained prominence through the Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves (2015–2016) and the BBC series Les Misérables (2018), Don't Forget the Driver (2019), and Life (2020). She has since starred in the Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) and Willow (2022).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tom Blyth</span> English actor (born 1995)

Tom Keir Blyth is an English actor. He took an interest in drama from a young age, studying acting at the Television Workshop in Nottingham and at the Juilliard School in New York City.

References

  1. ↑ Bhagat, Adrian; "Adrian Bhagat put some questions to Ian Smith" LeftLion.co.uk (Retrieved: 13 August 2009)
  2. ↑ Wilson, Jared (16 March 2020). "Theatre Review: Emilia". Left Lion. Retrieved 14 November 2022.
  3. ↑ "Nottingham-Born Actor Tom Blyth on His Journey from the TV Workshop to HBO's The Gilded Age". Left Lion. 23 February 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  4. 1 2 Fox, Zachary (3 April 2013). "Interview: Harriet Cains". LeftLion. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Our success". The Television Workshop. Retrieved 30 August 2023.
  6. 1 2 3 4 White, George (9 September 2023). "40 Stars of Television Workshop To Celebrate Its 40th Birthday". Left Lion. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  7. ↑ Harkin, Phoebe (22 July 2014). "Nottingham's Television Workshop presents "life-changing" play at Nottingham Contemporary". Archived from the original on 5 October 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  8. ↑ "Who's Burning Up Lady Whistledown's Papers? Meet the 'Bridgerton' Season 1 Cast". Netflix. 2 November 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
  9. ↑ "Stars of Tomorrow 2018: Erin Kellyman (actor)". Screen. 4 October 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  10. ↑ "Oscar Kennedy". tresamagazine.com. October 25, 2021.
  11. ↑ "Far Away up close". The Irish World. 6 February 2020. Archived from the original on 6 February 2020.
  12. ↑ "Cast". 31 May 2015.
  13. ↑ "James Pulford went to see the Central Drama Workshop perform Scary Play by Judith Johnson" . Retrieved 11 December 2009.
  14. ↑ "The Derbs: Television Workshop Launch Their First Online Play". Leftlion.co.uk.
  15. ↑ Carter, Claire (2008-12-10). "Youngsters dedicates Bafta to family and acting workshop". Nottingham Evening Post. Archived from the original on 2013-05-05. Retrieved 2009-04-17.
  16. ↑ "Talent 1st" . Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  17. ↑ Young, Graham (24 April 2018). "A star is born - girl's brilliant way of landing film role". Birmingham Live. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
  18. ↑ Laws, Roz (22 July 2011). "Doctors star Donnaleigh Bailey sets up drama workshops for kids". Archived from the original on 24 August 2022. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
  19. ↑ "Big time after Big Brother". BBC Birmingham. November 2004. Retrieved 28 September 2020.
  20. ↑ Laws, Roz (15 March 2015). "Channel 4's Raised By Wolves: Meet the Birmingham actress playing Caitlin Moran". Birmingham Mail. Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  21. ↑ "October Spotlight -Arian Nik". Karolina Heller. 14 October 2016. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  22. ↑ "Eve Austin". British Independent Film Awards. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.