Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
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| Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! | |
|---|---|
| Format | TV play |
| Created by | Martyn Hesford (writer) |
| Starring | Michael Sheen, Cheryl Campbell, Beatie Edney, Kenny Doughty |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 1 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 79 min |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC Four |
| Original airing | 13 March 2006 |
Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! is a 2006 BBC Four television play starring Michael Sheen as the English comic actor Kenneth Williams, based on Williams' own diaries. Cheryl Campbell plays Williams' beloved mother, Lou.
The drama received good reviews, The Observer singling out Sheen's performance as "a characterisation for which the description tour-de-force is, frankly, pretty faint praise,"[1] The Times compared Sheen's performance to "a diamond that is so dazzling as a result of the expertise deployed in its cutting that you can’t fully focus on the underlying shape of the stone, which is what actually enables it to glitter so spectacularly."[2]
Viewing figures were 860,000, including timeshift, making it by far the most popular BBC Four broadcast of March 2006.[3]
Sheen's performance won a Royal Television Society award for Best Male Actor,[4] and the play also won two BAFTA nominations (best single play and best actor (Michael Sheen)).[5]
Contents |
[edit] Cast
- Michael Sheen - Kenneth Williams
- Cheryl Campbell - Lou Williams
- Peter Wight - Charlie Williams
- Beatie Edney - Joan Sims
- Kenny Doughty - Joe Orton
- Ron Cook - Peter Eade
- Martin Trenaman - Tony Hancock
- David Charles - Charles Hawtrey
- Ewan Bailey - Kenneth Halliwell
- Rachel Clarke - Barbara Windsor
- Connor Garnet Comerford - Young Kenneth Williams
- Beatrice Comins - St Joan / Actress
- Timothy Davies - 1st Doctor
- Stephen Critchlow - Kenneth Horne
- Guy Henry - Hugh Paddick
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Sunday drama? Stop messing about, March 19, 2006, The Observer
- ^ Putting the Sheen on a life of despair, 14 March, 2006, The Times
- ^ BARB official Weekly Viewing Summary Multi-channel op 10 BBC4 - w/e 05/03/2006, 12/03/2006, 19/03/2006, 26/03/2006, 02/04/2006. The closest rivals were The Chatterley Affair, 2100 on March 20, 2006, with 546,000 viewers, and A for Andromeda, with 580,000 on 26 March, 2006 at 2101
- ^ RTS programme awards - winners, March 14 2007, The Guardian
- ^ BAFTA nominations announced, April 11 2007, The Guardian
[edit] External links
- Interview with Michael Sheen during the making of the film.
- Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! at the Internet Movie Database
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