Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard return as potty-mouthed parents in Sky sitcom Breeders
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From Tepid Tim in The Office to Wincing Watson in Sherlock, Martin Freeman has built his career on a talent for elevated grumpiness. There are funnier, more charismatic actors – but when it comes to projecting a crotchety everyman quality he is without peer.
It’s a very specific skill-set. And endearingly potty-mouthed parenting sitcom
Breeders (Sky One) continued to prove the perfect vehicle for Freeman. Returning for a second series, the outwardly cynical, secretly sentimental, London-set family drama was indebted to Freeman’s talent for looking massively peeved. As it would be, considering he has credits as creator and co-producer.
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The first season of comedy-drama Breeders explored the highs and the extreme lows of parenting very young children, from unexpected hospital visits to temper tantrums (that’s the parents as well as the kids) – but for the second season, series creators Simon Blackwell and Chris Addison were keen to put a new spin on things.
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The new episodes – filmed under strict guidelines in late 2020 following COVID-19 related delays, an experience that Addison describes as both “terrifying, and wildly boring” – pick up several years after the first season, with Paul (Martin Freeman) and Ally (Daisy Haggard) now more seasoned but no more confident as parents and their two children Ava (now played by Eve Prenelle) and Luke (now Alex Eastwood) aged 10 and 13 respectively.
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Sunday, Channel 5, 6.30pm During a survey to celebrate National Cake Day last year, 30 per cent of Brits confessed that they eat cake as a regular snack in-between meals. So with programmes like the Great British Bake Off seemingly making cake more popular than ever before, what is the nation’s favourite? Here, celebrities including JLS singer JB Gill, Blue star Duncan James, broadcaster and author Grace Dent, former Emmerdale actress Natalie Anderson, and ex-Blue Peter presenter Radzi Chinyanganya help count down the nation’s top 20 cakes. Plus, we discover the mysteries of lifelike cake illusions and the secret messages hidden in Royal cakes, as well as taking a look behind the scenes at an exceedingly big cake factory.
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Angelina Jolie is back in the thriller “Those Who Wish Me Dead” as a Montana smoke jumper who comes across a 12-year-old boy (Finn Little) on the run and in need of help.
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“Those Who Wish Me Dead”
After a bit of a hiatus from action films, Angelina Jolie is back in the thriller “Those Who Wish Me Dead” as a Montana smoke jumper who comes across a 12-year-old boy (Finn Little) on the run and in need of help. Director Taylor Sheridan, the Oscar-nominated writer of “Hell or High Water” and co-creator of the TV series “Yellowstone,” told the AP that the film was “very on-brand” for him and his proclivity for stories about vengeance and the American West. Available Friday on HBO Max for 31 days, “Those Who Wish Me Dead” co-stars Nicholas Hoult, Jon Bernthal and Tyler Perry. DETAILS