S4C programming has been made available on YouView.
All of the Welsh-language TV channel's content will be available from today (January 30) on YouView's catch-up service, allowing customers across the UK to watch S4C programmes on demand for the first time.
YouView customers in Wales had already been able to watch S4C shows such as Pobol y Cwm and Jonathan through the service before the expansion.
S4C Chief Executive Ian Jones said: "Launching S4C on the YouView platform is a significant step which will place S4C shoulder to shoulder with the UK's other main channels. Our aim is to expand the methods of watching S4C making it easier than ever for people to watch our excellent programming.
"We know that viewing habits have changed and are continuing to evolve, and the challenge for us is to respond and remain at the forefront of these changes,...
All of the Welsh-language TV channel's content will be available from today (January 30) on YouView's catch-up service, allowing customers across the UK to watch S4C programmes on demand for the first time.
YouView customers in Wales had already been able to watch S4C shows such as Pobol y Cwm and Jonathan through the service before the expansion.
S4C Chief Executive Ian Jones said: "Launching S4C on the YouView platform is a significant step which will place S4C shoulder to shoulder with the UK's other main channels. Our aim is to expand the methods of watching S4C making it easier than ever for people to watch our excellent programming.
"We know that viewing habits have changed and are continuing to evolve, and the challenge for us is to respond and remain at the forefront of these changes,...
- 1/30/2014
- Digital Spy
The Welsh government has demanded that the BBC and S4C pull a planned repeat of the soap Pobol y Cwm. The BBC produces the long-running Welsh-language soap set in the Gwendraeth Valley - an area lying between Carmarthen and Llanelli in south-west Wales. The show is broadcast every weeknight on S4C. The contentious content occurred in a storyline where characters are protesting the lack of a badger cull to curb TB in cattle, with one character claiming the Welsh government "doesn't have the backbone" to carry out the cull. The character, Cathryn Richards, also says in the episode that farmers are not afraid to break the law, and that the government doesn't care about the countryside as there "aren't enough votes here". The Welsh government cancelled the controversial badger cull in March when it was decided to vaccinate the animals instead. The (more)...
- 11/29/2012
- by By Paul Martinovic
- Digital Spy
John Hefin, one of the creators of the Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm, has died at the age of 71. The TV director and former head of drama at BBC Wales, from Borth, near Aberystwyth, lost his battle with cancer earlier today (November 19). "Throughout his life, John had so much pleasure working in the world of television, film and the media," his family said in a statement to BBC News. "As a producer and director, he was proud of the chance to work alongside so much talent in Wales - both on and off screen. "He spent a large part of his life educating and inspiring (more)...
- 11/19/2012
- by By Colin Daniels
- Digital Spy
EastEnders, Emmerdale, Waterloo Road and Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm have today (September 12) all received Mind Media Award nominations. The Mind Media Awards are an annual event held towards the end of each year, celebrating the best portrayals of mental health in the media over the past 12 months. This year's 'Soaps' category features EastEnders for Ian Beale's mental health crisis, Emmerdale for Zak Dingle's breakdown and Pobol y Cwm for the struggle faced by Macs White after he was raped. Waterloo Road, meanwhile, has been recognised (more)...
- 9/12/2012
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
Actor and lead singer with the Flying Pickets during the early 1980s, he went on to take roles in several popular TV series, including Coronation Street, EastEnders and Emmerdale
Brian Hibbard, who has died of prostate cancer aged 65, first found fame as a member of the Flying Pickets, a group of actors who left the socialist playwright John McGrath's 7:84 theatre group to woo audiences through their a cappella singing. They topped the pop charts in 1983 with a cover version of Only You, trumping Yazoo, the duo of Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke, who had reached No 2 with their original recording. This Christmas No 1 single and the group's flamboyant look – gaudy suits, large hats and Hibbard's massive sideburns – led to brief stardom for the Flying Pickets, a name coined because some of them had supported the miners during their strikes of 1972 and 1974. They hit the Top 10 again with another cover,...
Brian Hibbard, who has died of prostate cancer aged 65, first found fame as a member of the Flying Pickets, a group of actors who left the socialist playwright John McGrath's 7:84 theatre group to woo audiences through their a cappella singing. They topped the pop charts in 1983 with a cover version of Only You, trumping Yazoo, the duo of Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke, who had reached No 2 with their original recording. This Christmas No 1 single and the group's flamboyant look – gaudy suits, large hats and Hibbard's massive sideburns – led to brief stardom for the Flying Pickets, a name coined because some of them had supported the miners during their strikes of 1972 and 1974. They hit the Top 10 again with another cover,...
- 6/19/2012
- by Anthony Hayward
- The Guardian - Film News
Returning Pobol Y Cwm star Alex Harries has claimed that his character Scott wants to be punished for raping Macs. Scott, now engaged to girlfriend Izzy, brutally attacked Macs last year and is looking for forgiveness as he revisits Cwmderi. Harries commented on the upcoming plot: "I think Scott wants to do penance. He says he has been through hell over the past year and wants to be punished for what he did, but on his own terms. "He thinks that in some confused way if he does his penance then he can carry on with his life and live happily with Izzy. "I think that he is clutching at straws to think that coming home would give him closure. He's pretty desperate I would say." Rhys Bidder, who plays Macs, said of his character "For a year, Macs has (more)...
- 6/15/2012
- by By Paul Millar
- Digital Spy
Pobol y Cwm star Gwyn Elfyn has announced that he is leaving the soap. The actor has played Denzil Rees on the Welsh-language show for nearly 28 years, but viewers will now see the character bow out in a dramatic storyline. Elfyn, reflecting on his time with the programme, told BBC News: "Denzil has two memories that stay in my mind - marrying Eileen and working with Dic Deryn on the skips. "And as far as my personal memories, the story of losing John, one of Denzil's twins, is the best story I've ever had. It was traumatic and the biggest challenge I've had working (more)...
- 1/5/2012
- by By Daniel Kilkelly
- Digital Spy
24 year Welsh actress Alexandra Roach will be joining Dakota Fanning in Girl's Night Out.
She is to play a young Princess Elizabeth in Michael Hoffman's planned film about the future queen and her sister, Princess Margaret, being allowed out of Buckingham Palace to celebrate the end of the second world war in 1945.
Dakota Fanning became attached to the project to play a young Princess Margaret back in February as reported on Screenterrier.
Alexandra (represented by Troika) has been cast in five leading productions just a year after leaving drama school (Rada). We first saw her in Being Human, and she has since filmed The Iron Lady, Trap for Cinderella, Private Peaceful and is currently filming the role Countess Nordston opposite Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Aaron Johnson in Joe Wright's Anna Karenina.
In her first newspaper interview, she told the Observer that she was pinching herself in disbelief: "I know it sounds corny,...
She is to play a young Princess Elizabeth in Michael Hoffman's planned film about the future queen and her sister, Princess Margaret, being allowed out of Buckingham Palace to celebrate the end of the second world war in 1945.
Dakota Fanning became attached to the project to play a young Princess Margaret back in February as reported on Screenterrier.
Alexandra (represented by Troika) has been cast in five leading productions just a year after leaving drama school (Rada). We first saw her in Being Human, and she has since filmed The Iron Lady, Trap for Cinderella, Private Peaceful and is currently filming the role Countess Nordston opposite Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Aaron Johnson in Joe Wright's Anna Karenina.
In her first newspaper interview, she told the Observer that she was pinching herself in disbelief: "I know it sounds corny,...
- 11/9/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Alexandra Roach left Rada only last year but the young Welsh actress has had five big parts opposite Hollywood names
Being chosen to appear in a film months after leaving drama college is the dream of every aspiring actor. For Welsh actress Alexandra Roach it is a reality. She is on the brink of international stardom, having been cast in five leading productions just a year after leaving the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada).
Aged 24, Roach's potential has been recognised by some of the industry's foremost directors and producers. She has lead roles in four forthcoming films, and a supporting role in another.
Her break came after she was spotted by Nina Gold, a casting director, in a Rada production, leading to an invitation to audition for one of the most sought-after roles for a young actress – playing the young Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, the much anticipated...
Being chosen to appear in a film months after leaving drama college is the dream of every aspiring actor. For Welsh actress Alexandra Roach it is a reality. She is on the brink of international stardom, having been cast in five leading productions just a year after leaving the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Rada).
Aged 24, Roach's potential has been recognised by some of the industry's foremost directors and producers. She has lead roles in four forthcoming films, and a supporting role in another.
Her break came after she was spotted by Nina Gold, a casting director, in a Rada production, leading to an invitation to audition for one of the most sought-after roles for a young actress – playing the young Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, the much anticipated...
- 11/6/2011
- by Dalya Alberge
- The Guardian - Film News
Filming on the Doctor Who Christmas special has reportedly been disrupted by strike action. The 24-hour protest was called in response to compulsory redundancies at BBC Wales. Four editor posts are planned to be cut, with the dispute revolving around the BBC's failure to reassign the individuals involved. Production on the likes of Casualty and Welsh soap opera Pobol y Cwm has also been suspended. Meanwhile, Radio Wales programme Good Morning Wales was replaced by arts programming. The Doctor Who Christmas special - starring Matt Smith (more)...
- 9/30/2011
- by By Morgan Jeffery
- Digital Spy
Welsh actor known for playing Reg Harries in TV soap Pobol y Cwm
Twenty-nine years of playing the political activist turned pub landlord Reg Harries in the Welsh-language serial Pobol y Cwm made Huw Ceredig, who has died aged 69 after suffering from diabetes and pneumonia, one of Britain's longest-running soap actors and a familiar face to television viewers across Wales.
He joined the BBC Wales programme (whose title translates as People of the Valley) from its second episode in 1974. Set in the fictional village of Cwmderi, it began as a weekly programme, switched to the Welsh fourth channel, S4C, on the station's launch in 1982, and six years later went up to five episodes a week. Reg, a union official and former miner, was originally seen as a socialist councillor fighting for local causes – partly reflecting Ceredig's own political activism of the time as secretary of the Welsh Language Society,...
Twenty-nine years of playing the political activist turned pub landlord Reg Harries in the Welsh-language serial Pobol y Cwm made Huw Ceredig, who has died aged 69 after suffering from diabetes and pneumonia, one of Britain's longest-running soap actors and a familiar face to television viewers across Wales.
He joined the BBC Wales programme (whose title translates as People of the Valley) from its second episode in 1974. Set in the fictional village of Cwmderi, it began as a weekly programme, switched to the Welsh fourth channel, S4C, on the station's launch in 1982, and six years later went up to five episodes a week. Reg, a union official and former miner, was originally seen as a socialist councillor fighting for local causes – partly reflecting Ceredig's own political activism of the time as secretary of the Welsh Language Society,...
- 8/29/2011
- by Anthony Hayward
- The Guardian - Film News
Pobol y Cwm actor Huw Ceredig has died at the age of 69. The Welsh actor played Reg Harries in the long-running soap for 29 years and also starred in TV programmes such as Emmerdale, Heartbeat and Z-Cars. "Huw was a huge presence here for the 29 years he portrayed one of the giants of the small screen, Reg Harries in Pobol y Cwm, " Keith Jones, Director of BBC Wales, told the BBC. "I'd like to pay tribute and thank him for his great contribution to Pobol y Cwm over the years. On behalf of myself and many (more)...
- 8/16/2011
- by By Daniel Sperling
- Digital Spy
Congratulations to some fantastic young British actors announced today as Screen International Star's of Tomorrow, including some Screenterrier favourites:
John Boyega, who starred in Joe Cornish's Attack the Block, and has since signed with agent CAA in La.
Georgia King, set to star opposite Michelle Ryan and Harry Treadaway in Matthias Hoene’s London-set Cockneys vs Zombies.
Douglas Booth. No surprises here with with Douglas's career on a meteoric rise. He played the young Boy George in Worried About the Boy, stars in forthcoming feature Lol with Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore and has recently been announced as Pip in the BBC’s forthcoming Great Expectations. He will also play Romeo in Carlo Carlei’s Romeo and Juliet shooting later this year.
The 22-year-old actor-writer Joe Cole came up through the National Youth Theatre (Nyt) — “I did it for a bit of fun,” says the London native. “School hadn...
John Boyega, who starred in Joe Cornish's Attack the Block, and has since signed with agent CAA in La.
Georgia King, set to star opposite Michelle Ryan and Harry Treadaway in Matthias Hoene’s London-set Cockneys vs Zombies.
Douglas Booth. No surprises here with with Douglas's career on a meteoric rise. He played the young Boy George in Worried About the Boy, stars in forthcoming feature Lol with Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore and has recently been announced as Pip in the BBC’s forthcoming Great Expectations. He will also play Romeo in Carlo Carlei’s Romeo and Juliet shooting later this year.
The 22-year-old actor-writer Joe Cole came up through the National Youth Theatre (Nyt) — “I did it for a bit of fun,” says the London native. “School hadn...
- 6/30/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
The Welsh Government has given the go ahead to develop a new Drama Villiage at a site near Cardiff Bay to be used by BBC Wales.
The proposed centre would accommodate all BBC Drama made in Wales, including Doctor Who and any future series of Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures as well as other drama productions made in the country such as Casualty and the Welsh language soap Pobol y Cwm.. The proposed site is the currently derelict, former dock side land at Roath Basin. The Welsh Government will work with Igloo Regeneration to develop the area and to progress with the building of the BBC Drama Village, which would total 170,000 sq ft of television studios and ancillary accommodation, as well as a new office building.
Menna Richards, Director of BBC Cymru Wales, said "This is a fantastic opportunity to build on the success of BBC Wales drama production...
The proposed centre would accommodate all BBC Drama made in Wales, including Doctor Who and any future series of Torchwood and the Sarah Jane Adventures as well as other drama productions made in the country such as Casualty and the Welsh language soap Pobol y Cwm.. The proposed site is the currently derelict, former dock side land at Roath Basin. The Welsh Government will work with Igloo Regeneration to develop the area and to progress with the building of the BBC Drama Village, which would total 170,000 sq ft of television studios and ancillary accommodation, as well as a new office building.
Menna Richards, Director of BBC Cymru Wales, said "This is a fantastic opportunity to build on the success of BBC Wales drama production...
- 1/18/2010
- by Marcus
- The Doctor Who News Page
Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm has beaten EastEnders, Hollyoaks and Doctors to this year's Mind award for 'Soaps and Continual TV Drama'. Mental health charity Mind's annual ceremony, held at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts last night, honoured Pobol y Cwm's portrayal of single mum Nesta's (Catrin Mara) battle with post-natal depression. The storyline fought off competition from EastEnders' ongoing Stacey Slater (Lacey Turner) bipolar plot, Newt's (Nico Mirallegro) struggle with schizophrenia in Hollyoaks and Doctors' personality disorder story. Pobol y Cwm producer Ynyr Williams said: "It means a great deal for the series and shows that our storylines are dealing with difficult and important (more)...
- 11/25/2009
- by By Kris Green
- Digital Spy
Rumours of a move for the Doctor Who production team have continued in recent weeks, with a closed cigar factory in Cardiff the likley venue for a move that will turn the former 220,000 sq ft centrepiece of a well known cheroux vendor into a “drama village”. The intention is that popular programmes like Doctor Who, Torchwood, Casualty, Merlin and Welsh soap Pobol y Cwm will all be produced on one site. Currently, the move is a long way from completion, with a BBC spokeswoman...
- 11/23/2009
- by Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com
- Kasterborous.com
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