Hannah Rai on Instagram: “Last night □□□□□□ #university” Hannah Rai on Instagram: “Be gone you time consuming, fickle, annoyance of my life ✌□ #dissertation #university □□” Hannah Rai sur Twitter : "Bloody eck' Bournemouth Uni is in 7th place! #universitydrinkingleague2015. The University Drinking League 2015. So, it's that time of year again.
Awards season is upon us. We've seen Kanye do a Kanye at the Grammys, Eddie Redmayne start his quest for world domination at the BAFTAs and are now all eagerly awaiting one final bash... No, not the Oscars, we're talking about the Student Beans University Drinking League - back by popular demand for the first time since 2012. Back then it was the Irish who lived up to all the tired old stereotypes, with Queen's University Belfast taking home the crown - its students downing an average of 27.3 units per week. It looks like we've all calmed down a bit since then - the table toppers this year only managing a 'mere' 19.73 units - the equivalent of about 10 pints of lager. Those winners are... The University of Sussex came in a close second with 18.2 units, followed by Aberystwyth with 16.9. The recommended amount of booze for a man to consumer per week is no more than 21 units, while it is 14 for women.
Instagram. New TV prison drama does time in Sheffield - News. SCENES inside a jail in a new television drama series starting on BBC1 next week will seem very familiar to hundreds of Sheffield youngsters.
The reason is innocent enough, however. It’s simply that their school, King Ecgbert’s at Dore, doubles for the inside of HMP Highcross in Prisoners’ Wives, a six-parter set and filmed in Sheffield about four very different women struggling to cope with their other half serving time. The relationship-based ensemble drama stars Emma Rigby from Hollyoaks, Polly Walker (Rome), Green Wing’s Pippa Haywood, previously in Sheffield in Alice at the Crucible, and Natalie Gavin (The Arbour). There were a number of reasons why production company Tiger Aspect decided to film here, explains co-producer Abi Bach. “We definitely wanted it to be outside London and we felt Liverpool, Manchester and Leeds had been explored,” she says, adding that there were a personal aspect as well. Prisoners' Wives - New BBC1 drama set and filmed in Sheffield screens Tuesday 31st January.
Prisoners' Wives, BBC One. Prisoners’ Wives belongs in a hoary tradition of television drama which finds women doing it for themselves.
The men are always otherwise engaged, being either dead or useless or, in the case of Prisoners’ Wives, as it implies on the tin. In the old days such dramas were usually written by one of Lucy Gannon or Lynda La Plante or Kay Mellor, but here the broad brushstrokes are applied by Julie Gearey. On the evidence so far, each episode concentrates on one of the four main female characters while keeping an eye on the stories of the other three. In the opener we shared the ordeal of young pregnant Gemma (Emma Rigby) as she went through security – jewellery removed, hair frisked – into the Yorkshire jail for the first time where her husband had been remanded on suspicion of murder.
By last night she was a hardened veteran, finding and getting the murder weapon, while it was the turn of Franny’s cushy life to implode. Emma Rigby talks about her new role in BBC's Prisoners' Wives (From St Helens Star) Emma Rigby talks about her new role in BBC's Prisoners' Wives 9:20am Thursday 26th January 2012 in News Emma Rigby stars opposite Jonas Armstrong in Prisoners' Wives.
WHEN soap actors decide to move on, they usually do so in a flurry of non-committal “I'd like to leave the door open” and “never-say-nevers”. Not Emma Rigby. When the actress from Windle left her Hollyoaks role as anorexic teen Hannah Ashworth in 2010, she had her eyes fixed firmly on the horizon. Armed with a Best Actress gong from the British Soap Awards, the 22-year-old ex-De La Salle pupil went on to land a lead role in British horror flick Demons Never Die, produced by The Wire's Idris Elba, as well as parts in Channel 4 comedy Fresh Meat and the forthcoming BBC Three series Pram Face.
Prisoners' Wives. Prisoners' Wives is a BBC drama series, created and written by Julie Gearey and starring Emma Rigby, Polly Walker, Pippa Haywood and Natalie Gavin, with supporting cast including Jonas Armstrong and Iain Glen.
The series centres around four very different women, each struggling to cope with a significant man in her life serving time in prison.[1][2][3] The series is set in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Series one was six episodes long, and premiered on Tuesday 31 January 2012. Series two was a shorter run of four episodes, and began on Thursday 14 March 2013 on BBC One.[4][5] Main cast[edit] Series 1[edit] Blogs - Writersroom - Prisoners' Wives. Heather Arnet on Strong Women and ‘Mad Men’ Heather Arnet at one of many media interviews You may have seen her on CNN or NBC with high school students who organized a “girlcott” of Abercrombie and Fitch, prompted by the retailer’s marketing of clothing with inappropriate messages about girls.
Or you may have read about her work as a Director on the board of Pittsburgh Public Schools, which during her tenure passed legislation to decrease school bus diesel emissions, support a comprehensive, science-based sex education program, and implement a Title IX audit to ensure female athletics were receiving equal resources throughout the district. Or you may have attended one of the plays she has directed that feature women’s voices. That’s because Mt Lebanon resident Heather Arnet, well spoken, smart and passionate, is everywhere - especially when it comes to promoting equality for women and girls. Arnet notes that policies benefitting women also benefit the community. Www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CF0QFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wisewomenlife.com%2F%3Fp%3D1928&ei=DC1yT9P3JNOX8gO_oZxo&usg=AFQjCNGIlo_SRXutGJqAMhpVEPdMfnRCaQ&sig2=ZiVBkM8PZDMB9ds5LfA05w.
"Miss Representation" Shows Ugly Side of Women in Media. Jennifer Siebel Newsom (right) and Devanshi Patel (left) in Siebel Newsom's documentary, "Miss Representation"Courtesy Miss Representation Lately, it seems the entertainment industry is doing alright by women: Tina Fey won the Kennedy Center's top humor award in 2010, and Bridesmaids, written by and about two ladies, earned loads of accolades this year (and was actually deemed funny by male critics).
But the dirty truth prevails that whenever women show up on TV shows and movies, they're usually seconds away from being objectified, degraded, or flat-out ignored. For every "Hermione," there are a dozen "Snookis" duking it out over the guy du jour. It's a reality Jennifer Siebel Newsom intends to make loud and clear in her new documentary Miss Representation, which airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network tonight at 9 EST. And yet, the energy surrounding Miss Representation suggests that plenty of TV and movie lovers want to see change. Mad Men — And The Women Who Love Them. Mad Men’s sexist, brash world of 1960s ad men oddly speaks to women — especially those who thought this world was supposed to be history.
Watching Betty Draper (now Francis) march out to her front lawn and take aim at the neighbour's birds in season one of Matthew Weiner's Mad Men there is a moment of realisation - maybe, just maybe, the more things change, the more they stay the same. It's the same when Joan Holloway (now Harris) is raped by her fiancé on the floor of Don Draper's Sterling Cooper office in season two. Or when, throughout her rise to copywriter, Peggy Olson is constantly met with the kind of barriers a modern career woman does not expect to encounter. Why 'Mad Men' is TV's most feminist show.
The Washington Post, Sunday October, 2010 By Stephanie Coontz Historians are notorious for savaging historical fiction.
We're quick to complain that writers project modern values onto their characters, get the surroundings wrong, cover up the seamy side of an era or exaggerate its evils -- and usually, we're right. But AMC's hit show "Mad Men," which ends its fourth season next Sunday, is a stunning exception. Every historian I know loves the show; it is, quite simply, one of the most historically accurate television series ever produced. And despite the rampant chauvinism of virtually all its male characters (and some of its female ones), it is also one of the most sympathetic to women.
The Women of ‘Mad Men’: An Essay. Why "Mad Men" is bad for women - Mad Men. As a child of the 1950s and ’60s who entered the workforce in the still-discriminatory ’70s, I have deeply appreciated “Mad Men’s” frank and searing depiction of women’s lives both at home and at work.
Created by enormously talented and meticulous artists, “Mad Men” often feels so real and compelling to those of us who lived through those times that watching it sometimes revives painful memories. But as we approach the start of the fourth season, I fear that I’ve been wrong about its treatment of womanhood. The message that many women, especially those under 40, seem to have taken from the show is not relief or gratitude at what’s changed, nor an understanding of the past, but something quite different: Those fashions are cool! God, Don’s hot! Are you a Joan or a Peggy? The other men on the show are equally flawed and yet suffer very little. Betty has always represented the “Feminine Mystique”-era woman, privileged yet imprisoned by the restrictions of her life. Which brings me to Joan. TV Review: “Mad Men” Question: “What do women want?”
Answer: “Who cares?” The sexist feminism of 'Mad Men' One of the most historically accurate TV programs ever, it shows why women have had to fight for their rights, says historian STEPHANIE COONTZ Historians are notorious for savaging historical fiction. The Women Behind ‘Mad Men’ The 10 Best Moments in Mad Men History. 10 Best 'Mad Men' Quotes. These 10 best Mad Men quotes reflect a world of strong cocktails, cigarette smoke and men who take what they want. Don Draper and company at the Sterling, Cooper, Draper, Pryce advertising agency may live in the 1960s, but many of their words resonate today.
“I hate to break it to you but there is no big lie. There is no system. The universe is indifferent.”