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Russell Tovey: New Sitcom for ITV
The Job Lot: ITV1 has announced its first sitcom pilot commission since 2008, a comedy starring Russell Tovey as a Jobcentre worker.
Trade publication Broadcast reports that a non-broadcast pilot of The Job Lot will be produced by Big Talk Productions, the company behind BBC Three's HIm and Her in which Tovey also stars. Source: The British Comedy ( Read more... ) -
Russell Tovey Interview in Metro
In this interview with British newspaper Metro, Tovey reveals how he is peeing on camera. Quote:
You do a lot of weeing in the show…
I wasn’t aware of how much until I saw the series at the screening. Steve, my character, must have a weak bladder because he’s always pissing. Humans wee, so it’s true to life.
Is it embarrassing to do?
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Russell Tovey on Future Career
And finally, from the same interview with the Guardian, Tovey about his future career moves.
Quotes:
Tovey himself has just returned from Los Angeles, where his agent had him hob-nobbing with casting directors and studios, confident that Tovey's affable charm (and increasingly buff body), will land him meaty film parts.
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Russell Tovey on Him and Her
In the same interview by the Guardian, Tovey also comments on the sleeper hit comedy Him and Her, the show called out in the press for being crude, filthy, lewd and grubby,.
Quote: He reckons that Steve is the closest he has come to playing a character like himself. "Steve is so straight, like so many of the people I play, but I'm incredibly relaxed ( Read more... ) -
Cultbox Interview with Tovey
Cultbox conducted a great interview with Tovey. Published on 01 November, reporter: Will Martin. Here is the text:
As well as returning to BBC Three tonight as Steve in the second series of hit comedy Him & Her, Russell Tovey will be seen next year in Series 4 of Being Human and an episode of Sherlock. CultBox caught up with Russell to find out ( Read more... ) -
Tovey Interview on Sherlock
Digitalspy has a brief interview by Cultbox with Tovey on his appearance on Sherlock, The Hounds of Baskerville (2012):
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The Hounds of Baskerville
Russell Tovey will appear in episode 2 of series 2 of Sherlock, the episode title is The Hounds of Baskerville.
According to IMDB, the release date for this 90-minute TV show is not before 2012. Tovey plays the role of Sir Henry.
Note from Wikipedia: "The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring ( Read more... ) -
Russell Tovey: appears in Sherlock, The Hound of Baskervilles
Being Human‘s Russell Tovey has been cast in BBC’s Sherlock. He will play the role of Sir Henry Baskerville, Sir Charles Baskerville’s nephew in The Hound of the Baskervilles.
