Mail Online Emma Cox 13 Jan 2012 Five middle-aged ex-classmates gather at a villa in Majorca for a school reunion… but within hours it’s turned into a living nightmare as one of them is murdered and the others find themselves tangling with heavy-duty criminals and corrupt coppers while loaded down with laundered money. That was … Continue reading
Sky1 HD 10 Jan 2012 Mad Dogs starts Thursday 19th January at 9PM on Sky 1 From The Lakes to State of Play, The Devil’s Whore to Doctor Who, Sex Traffic to Exile, John Simm’s CV reads like a checklist of some of Britain’s best dramas of the last two decades. In 2009, he appeared … Continue reading
Vinyl Revival BBC Radio 6 Music Pete Paphides 26 Dec 2011 Pete Paphides celebrates the vinyl format with musicians who are avid collectors. 6 Music continues its month-long celebration of the vinyl format with four two-hour specials featuring Pete Paphides in conversation with famous record collectors. On Boxing Day, he trawls through the vinyl treasures … Continue reading
ShortList Magazine Joe Ellison Issue 199 27 Oct 2011 Five leading men discuss tackling the greatest role ever penned. Ahead of Michael Sheen’s performance as the prince onstage, Joe Ellison finds out why, for actors, it remains the most daunting of roles. Life has given us many weighty questions to mull over. Alongside “Why are … Continue reading
BBC Radio 2 Dermot O’Leary, Noel Gallagher Sits In 10 Sep 2011 John Simm joins Mancunian musical legend and wit Noel Gallagher as he presents the Dermot O’Leary Show, with Matt Morgan. David Walliams also joins the show by phone, to provide an update on his bid to swim the length of the Thames for … Continue reading
The Citizen Jemma Humphreys 4 May 2011 One of TV’s finest actors, John Simm, was back on our screens this week in BBC psychological thriller Exile. The publicity-shy Nelson star tells us how filming in East Lancashire took him back to his youth. When Burnley-born Paul Abbott created the plot for Exile it had Nelson-raised … Continue reading
Catch it all here! Your one stop shop for this past week’s radio and TV appearances with John Simm promoting Exile. Plus John reveals he is open to a Doctor Who return and why he probably won’t be watching the Royal Wedding. BBC Radio 6 Music Sean Keaveny Breakfast Show 26 Apr 2011 BBC Radio … Continue reading
The Independent James Rampton 25 April 2011 John Simm has given some memorable performances over the years. Think of the troubled detective Sam Tyler in Life on Mars, the equally troubled journo Cal McCaffrey in State of Play, the even more troubled painter Vincent van Gogh in The Yellow House, and the most troubled of the lot, … Continue reading
Manchester Evening News Ian Wylie 21 Apr 2011 John Simm does his best to cope with the fame game. But he isn’t happy when it gets too intrusive. The Lancashire-raised actor admits: “I find it excruciating. It’s horrible to get a cameraphone shoved in your face every time you walk out the door. Not nice. … Continue reading
The Guardian Amy Raphael 18 Mon 2011 Shameless sent him to the States – but now Paul Abbott is back with Exile. On set, Amy Raphael hears about Alzheimer’s, how to get an all-star cast, and where British TV should head next When Paul Abbott was in his early 20s, he would regularly do a 10-hour day … Continue reading
BBC Press Office 18 April 2011 What did you think when you first read the script and what attracted you to the role? The quality of the script shone out at me straight away. It’s not often that you get a script of such quality and it’s quite few and far between in TV or … Continue reading
British GQ Stuart McGurk 6 April 2011 Here’s one reason why GQ likes John Simm: “When I was shooting The Lakes, the World Cup was on, but the producer wasn’t keen on football. He said we were going to finish a scene, and I said, ‘No, we’re really not,’ and staged a walkout. Well, I did warn him…” … Continue reading
Steve Lamacq with guest John Simm BBC Radio 6 Music Broadcast 25 Feb 2011 Lammo kicks the weekend off in style with Friday Free For All suggestions, plus he talks to Good Day Bad Day caller, John Simm. BBC Radio 6 Music – Steve Lamacq with John Simm (0:13:13) Listen to Radio Interview (click play … Continue reading
The Guardian Amy Raphael 5 February 2011 Fortysomething crime caper Mad Dogs takes the duo to Mallorca in the company of Max Beesley, Marc Warren and Ben Chaplin It’s sometime after lunch in southern Mallorca and John Simm, escaping the intense heat of summer, lounges around in the shade sipping bottled water. It’s odd; he … Continue reading
Daily Mail Online Lisa Sewards 4 Feb 2011 We’re in this together: How fears of their midlife crisis united the stars of Life on Mars and Hustle on and off screen He’s the antithesis of his alpha alter ego in Hustle and describes himself as a woman’s man, but Marc Warren has brought together the … Continue reading
Sky Magazine February 2011 There’s more new original drama on Sky 1 HD as four of the biggest actors in Britain come together for a tale of greed, corruption and murder. Click Sky Magazine page images below for large PDF View Continue reading
Telegraph.co.uk Dominic Cavendish 14 Sep 2010 Terror is integral to the pleasure of John Simm, who takes on “the greatest role ever written”, Hamlet, at the Sheffield Crucible. Three giant black-and-white photographs, dominated in turn by Derek Jacobi, Kenneth Branagh and Joseph Fiennes, are ranged across a wall of the Sheffield Crucible’s swish new bar. … Continue reading
Yorkshire Post Chris Bonde 12 Sep 2010 JOHN Simm manages to come across as both laidback and edgy at the same time. In the 25 minutes I spend in his company he is charming, witty, intense and just a little bit acerbic. These are all traits that should stand the Life on Mars star in … Continue reading
The Guardian Simon Hattenstone 11 September 2010 Why is John Simm so often cast as a chippy bugger? “Am I?” he asks. “Define chippy.” Well, there’s the brooding journalist Cal McCaffrey in TV drama State Of Play who feels he’s up against the world, and the displaced detective inspector Sam Tyler in Life On Mars, thrown back into the … Continue reading
Sheffield Telegraph By Ian Soutar 09 September 2010 PLAYING Hamlet is surely something most actors dream of – “the ultimate part for a young actor”, according to actor and director Samuel West. In the case of John Simm, preparing to open as the Prince of Denmark at the Crucible next week, it was more a … Continue reading
Carte Noire & Classic FM Classic FM and Carte Noire bring you the ultimate, indulgent coffee break. Each week a familiar voice will be reading an extract of a well known Penguin novel for you to enjoy whenever you want. They’ll also be telling Mark Forrest about their love of reading and what they’ve been … Continue reading
Manchester United Official Web Site Adam Bostock 25/03/2010 The actor best known for his time-travelling roles in Life on Mars and Dr Who, dropped into Old Trafford recently to front a new documentary… Tell us about your first OT experience and the impact it had on you… A friend’s dad brought me when I was 12. It … Continue reading
BBC – Doctor Who – The Official Site Adventure Calendar – Day Twenty Eight! 28 Dec 2009 One [of] the many fantastic things about the Tenth Doctor’s final adventure is the return of the Master! Since Utopia he has been played by John Simm, and we caught up him whilst he was shooting The End … Continue reading
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