ShowmastersCollectormania Film & Comic Con – Birmingham2 Mar 2023 Showmasters is back with Film & Comic Con Birmingham at The NEC. Taking place on Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd September 2023. Including photo shoots, panels, autograph sessions and hundreds of stalls full of TV, Film & Sports memorabilia. Standard Autograph £30Standard Photoshoot £30Diamond Pass £70 … Continue reading
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John Simm: ‘I got rid of the music and clubbing and got into some proper serious drama’
The Big IssueAdrian Lobb9 May 2022 The seven ages of Simm: actor John Simm on The Lakes, Life On Mars, Doctor Who, Macbeth, Grace… and the Game of Thrones prequel that got away John Simm in Macbeth, The Lakes, Grace, Life on Mars and Doctor Who.Photo illustration: The Big Issue (Images: Alamy / ITV) John … Continue reading
Meet John Simm: London Comic Con – Sat 2nd March 2019
Showmasters Presents London Comic Con Spring National Hall Olympia London 2-3 March 2019 We are delighted to announce that JOHN SIMM will be at #LCCSpring on Sat 2nd March 2019! John Simm is well known for his performances in #DoctorWho , #LifeonMars, #Strangers, @ITV‘s #Collateral and @BBC‘s #Trauma. Tickets are available to book now: https://t.co/SPvElzg7vk … Continue reading
Mad Dogs: Series 4 and Series 1-4 Box Set available on DVD
BBC Worldwide Press Release 13 Jan 2014 The highly anticipated fourth and final series of Mad Dogs, as seen on SKY 1 HD, is now available to own on DVD! Mad Dogs Series 1-4 box set has also been released, giving fans the chance to enjoy the entire series from start to finish. Woody (Max … Continue reading
John Simm Tweets: Thank you; Mad Dogs 3 Hat-throw scene
A big thank you for all the very kind birthday wishes last week, much appreciated, and to all who have been to see The Hothouse' thank you! — John Simm (@john_simm) July 16, 2013 ….and for those who enquired, The Hat-throw was take 3. #maddogs — John Simm (@john_simm) July 16, 2013 Continue reading
Interview: Action-packed series Mad Dogs is back for a third season
New Straits Times Dennis Chua 4 June 2013 The misadventures of Woody, Quinn, Baxter and Rick continue in the third season of Mad Dogs starting this Thursday. In the first season of the hit British black comedy series, the lads (all in their 40s) planned for a reunion at their old friend Alvo’s luxury villa … Continue reading
John Simm & Philip Glenister on Mad Dogs’ return
The Scotsman Sophie Herdman 28 May 2013 BLACK comedy thriller Mad Dogs is back for a third series, stranger and funnier than ever. Sophie Herdman hijacks its big-name stars – Simm, Glenister, Max Beesley and Marc Warren – as they discuss friendship, spray tans and the advantages of growing old Four of Britain’s finest actors … Continue reading
Mad Dogs: Living it up in Cape Town
Daily Mail | Mail Online Jon Wilde 6 April 2013 Cape Town’s poshest hotels, sunshine and wine-tasting – it sounds like a middle-aged man’s dream. But, insists the cast of Mad Dogs, it’s no holiday It’s breakfast time in sunny Cape Town. Lounging around on the roof terrace of the city’s most elegant boutique hotel … Continue reading
John Simm Tweets: Mad Dogs 3 Ends Filming
John Simm Tweets: Mad Dogs 3 Begins Filming
John Simm Interview: ‘I don’t really do awards’
The Guardian Gareth McLean 22 Jan 2012 On a break from filming beneath the baking Balearic sunshine, John Simm sits on a white plastic patio chair and ponders “second album anxiety”. Along with Philip Glenister, Max Beesley and Marc Warren, Simm is back in Majorca making the second series of Mad Dogs for Sky1. The … Continue reading
Radio Interview: John Simm & Philip Glenister join Graham Norton
Graham Norton BBC Radio 2 Broadcast 14 Jan 2012 There was a trio of great British actors joining Mr Norton this week. …Philip Glenister and John Simm popped in to talk about Sky1’s ‘Mad Dogs’ and the struggles of filming in stunning, hot locations. The life of an actor, who’d want it? BBC Radio 2 … Continue reading
John Simm Tweets: Mad Dogs 2 Premieres
Even madder dogs! If you thought last year’s sun-kissed crime drama Mad Dogs was an all-action thriller, just wait for series two
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
Mad Dogs Series 2: John Simm Q&A
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
Bafta television awards 2011: Small-screen stars in pictures
The Guardian Phil Fisk and Alice Fisher 20 May 2011 Ahead of the Philips British Academy Television Awards on Sunday, photographer Phil Fisk shares his extraordinary portfolio of television stars. Read more special Bafta coverage – including Mark Gatiss on the state of television and interviews with Miranda Hart and Sir Trevor McDonald – in … Continue reading
Mad Dogs Series 2 Confirmed For Early 2012
Sky1 HD The Gang is Back Mad Dog fans – the wait is finally over. Mad Dogs 2 has been confirmed for early 2012 and Max Beesley, Philip Glenister, John Simm and Marc Warren will all reprise their roles. Leftbank Pictures are once more behind the second series, filming this summer in Majorca and Ibiza, … Continue reading
Mallorca based drama, Mad Dogs, nominated for BAFTA
seemallorca.com Amy Neville-Elliot 27 Apr 2011 Mad Dogs, the Sky 1 drama filmed in Mallorca in association with Palma Pictures, was nominated yesterday for the BAFTA award for best drama serial. The series, which has an impressive cast including Max Beesley, Philip Glenister, John Simm and Marc Warren, received record viewing figures when it was … Continue reading
John Simm: Antihero making headlines again
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
John Simm: ‘I wish I’d done another series of Life on Mars’
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
Mad Dogs on DVD and Blu-ray
2entertain Life on Mars stars Philip Glenister and John Simm reunite in Mad Dogs, a dark and twisted comic tale in which four ordinary guys discover how easily the line between friend and foe can be blurred. Release date: 07 Mar 2011 Available at Amazon.co.uk or Play.com Synopsis Mad Dogs unites the very best in British acting … Continue reading
Life On Mars pair John Simm and Philip Glenister reunited
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
Mad Dogs: Hustle and Life on Mars stars unite for new series
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