Harry Shearer
Director
Playhouse Presents (2012)
Season 2
Playhouse Presents is a series of self-contained TV plays, made by British broadcaster Sky Arts. The series started airing on 12 April 2012, on Sky Arts 1. Each episode is written by a different writer and stars a different cast. The four-part adaptation of A Country Doctor's Notebook was also broadcast on the strand in December 2012. Sky Arts have announced that they are ordering a five-part spin-off of the third play, Nixon’s The One. They say the full cast, including Harry Shearer as Nixon and Henry Goodman as Kissinger, will return for the series run, which will be filmed in September 2012. The series will broadcast in 2013. The second series began airing in April 2013 featuring Kathy Burke, Frances Barber, Julia Davis, Idris Elba, Anna Friel, Rebecca Front, Stephen Graham, David Harewood, Ian Hart, Sharon Horgan, Mathew Horne, Suranne Jones, Kylie Minogue, Vanessa Redgrave, Peter Serafinowicz, Matt Smith, Johnny Vegas, Marc Warren, Jack Whitehall and Reggie Yates.
Released April 12, 2012
Episode 30 min
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S2E1 - Hey Diddly Dee
For every star that is born...one has to die. When the star of the show suffers a tragic accident who is to blame? The understudy? A faulty trap door? Or the theatre's lucky cat? A dark comedy-drama about drama.
April 18, 2013, midnight
S2E2 - Snodgrass
A 50 year old John Lennon sits in a dingy kitchen, smoking a roll up, unemployed and on his uppers. This John Lennon walked out on the Beatles in 1962 before the hits -- before they changed music for ever.
April 25, 2013, midnight
S2E3 - The Call Out
A disturbance at Union Square leads to some strange encounters for two policemen in this funny and poignant portrait of loneliness in the city.
May 2, 2013, midnight
S2E4 - Pavement Psychologist
Idris Elba writes and directs this taut drama in which accountant Anna Friel strikes up a unique relationship with homeless man Nonso Anozie.
May 9, 2013, midnight
S2E5 - Mr. Understood
In a funny and thought-provoking tale co-created by artist Grayson Perry, a transvestite battling with issues of self-doubt tries to overcome his fears.
May 16, 2013, midnight
S2E6 - Stage Door Johnnies
Five theatre enthusiasts will stop at nothing to let their idols know how they truly feel...even if it means causing a little accidental grievous bodily harm along the way.
May 23, 2013, midnight
S2E99 - Psychobitches: Episode 1
May 30, 2013, midnight
S2E7 - Cargese
Matt Smith makes his directorial debut with a tense and stylish drama about two teenagers stuck on a council estate. Written by Simon Stephens, it stars Craig Roberts.
June 30, 2013, midnight
S2E98 - Episode 98
S2E8 - Ragged
Based on Ricky Tomlinson's true experiences campaigning to overturn a verdict which sent him to jail for 2 years in the early 1970s. While in prison and on hunger strike, Ricky is encouraged by a prison governor to read Robert Tressell's book The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists -- which changed his life forever.
June 6, 2013, midnight
S2E97 - Episode 97
S2E96 - Episode 96
S2E95 - Episode 95
S2E9 - Gifted
Chris has a unique gift,the ability to heal the sick by touching them. He is also a germophobe,which makes him shy away from human contact and live a lonely,secluded life. His sister Eleanor is scornful of his inability to connect with the rest of his family but then he meets Mona,a new colleague and single mother and - in all likelihood - his very first date. But at the same time his mother May is admitted to hospital with cancer. Can his new-found confidence after meeting Mona enable him to save his mother's life?
June 13, 2013, midnight
Network: Sky1
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: April 12, 2012
Last Air Date: July 9, 2015, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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