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The Lead

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First episode dateMay 22, 2017
Final episode dateJune 30, 2017
Networks MediaCorp Channel 8
Number of episodes 30
GenresRomance
Drama
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About The Lead


The Lead is a 30 episode Singaporean drama produced and telecast on Mediacorp Channel 8. The show aired at 9pm on weekdays and had a repeat telecast at 8am the following day. The Series is repeated at 5. 30pm on Channel 8 on weekdays after Legal Eagles.

Ruth Perry: Inquest hears head felt humiliated after Ofsted inspection

Ruth Perry: Inquest hears head felt humiliated after Ofsted inspection
Nov 29,2023 2:01 pm

... Mr Perry said his wife thought The Lead inspector was a bully and she was left feeling " powerless"...

Toxic gas putting millions at risk in Middle East, BBC finds

Toxic gas putting millions at risk in Middle East, BBC finds
Nov 27,2023 9:41 pm

... Respiratory disease is one of The Leading causes of death in the region, with the rates of asthma in Pollution from IraqThe BBC analysis indicates that in the case of Kuwait, some of this man-made pollution is coming from flares 140km away in Iraq...

America Ferrera: We are still just fighting to be visible

America Ferrera: We are still just fighting to be visible
Nov 27,2023 4:11 am

... " How lucky and fortunate I have been in my career to be coming up in a time where I was met with the sparse opportunities that exist for a young Latina actress to get to be The Lead… much less a lead that is self-determining and is not represented as a as a poor immigrant criminal, or a hyper-sexualized Latina...

Delhi pollution: Indian Supreme Court's 40-year quest to clean foul air

Delhi pollution: Indian Supreme Court's 40-year quest to clean foul air
Nov 26,2023 9:51 pm

... The Supreme Court has often taken The Lead in reforms to clean up Delhi s air - some of its orders include rules on the kind of vehicles that should run in the city; the relocation of thousands of smoke-spewing factories; and the sealing of businesses to reduce emissions...

The job sharing apps that feel like online dating

The job sharing apps that feel like online dating
Nov 26,2023 8:41 pm

... The scheme helped Emma Wright find her job share partner in The Lead up to her return to Ford this year after her second period of maternity leave...

Seabed mining will stress jellyfish - scientists

Seabed mining will stress jellyfish - scientists
Nov 21,2023 11:21 am

... One of The Lead researchers on this study, Dr Helena Hauss from the Norwegian research institute Norce told BBC News that this was the impetus behind the new experiment...

Troubles Legacy Act to be challenged at Belfast High Court

Troubles Legacy Act to be challenged at Belfast High Court
Nov 21,2023 2:01 am

... But a judge selected one as The Lead case due to the " broad spectrum" of issues covered by their challenge...

Nuclear-armed submarine suffered malfunction

Nuclear-armed submarine suffered malfunction
Nov 20,2023 7:41 am

... In January this year it was reported that on HMS Vanguard, The Lead boat of the four Vanguard-class submarines, while it was undergoing maintenance work...

Obituary: Honor Blackman

Nov 20,2023 3:51 am

Honor Blackman was the original fat, black-dressed female agent in The Avengers .

It made her a Role Model for the young generation of women and an object of desire for men.

their characters were both sexy and intelligent and More Than a match for their male co-stars.

She was often compared to Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo , although you can't imagine, throw them around rogue, as her Avengers character, Cathy Gale .

Honor Blackman was born in a family from the lower Middle Class in Plaistow, East London , on 22. August, 1925.

her father offered her a choice of gifts for your birthday 16th; a Bicycle or elocution lessons. She opted for the latter.

She said, elocution teacher, as an inspiring woman She was, the poetry and The Theatre and advised her father to her in The Guildhall School of Music and Drama .

it served as a pursuit car. in the second World War ,

studied part time, while you are raging a writing job in the Home Office , and, with the war, also worked as a motorcycle pursuit car..

your first look at game enter of job as an understudy in a West End play called The Guinea Pig , and when The Lead actress was sick, She was asked to.

More theatre roles followed, before her film debut in fame is the Spur, starring Michael Redgrave . Your character dies after a riding accident, a fate They narrowly avoided, in Real Life , when, during the filming, her horse stepped on her hair, as She lay on the floor.

In the early 1950s, British cinema was dominated by the Rank Organisation and Blackman your company joined the youth, the promotion of up-and-coming actors and Actresses.

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Synchronizes promoted The Charm of the school by The Press , the careers of, Among Others , Diana Dors , Joan Collins , Christopher Lee and Anthony Steele.

in The Next 10 Years She appeared in A Number of British films, to Remember, including A night that told The Story of The Titanic disaster, and for So Long at The Fair with Dirk Bogarde .

She moved into television with a role in ITV-The Four Just Men, which were delivered in 1959.

Cathy Gale became something of a model for a New Generation of women

In 1961, The Producers of the TV series The Avengers , were on the search for a new partner for Patrick Macnee , replace his original co-star, Ian Hendry had decided to quit the series.

"Blackman's character, Cathy Gale , was something of a Symbol for the growing number of women who were taking advantage of the changes in society, to assert their rights to equality in the British life.

Cathy Gale showed that women could have it all. She was intelligent and funny, had to hold your own life and career and with her skills in unarmed combat, was able their own in a melee.

As the series develops, Blackman skillfully used, to flirt and to create allusions, an unspoken sexual tension between Mrs Gale and steed, but They were never intimate.

Seduced

During her time with The Avengers , Blackman and Macnee a single, Kinky Boots , the success was a surprise recorded when it was re-released in the year 1990, leading to an appearance on Top of The Pops .

Blackman stayed with The Avengers for two series but quit when the part was offered from Pussy Galore opposite Sean Connery in a new James Bond film, Goldfinger.

The legendary Bond producer Albert R Broccoli, threw her on the basis of their appearance in The Avengers , despite the fact that the series had not aired in the United States.

The Role of Pussy Galore in Goldfinger brought them to a worldwide audience

"The Brits would love, because They knew her as Mrs Gale," He Said . "The Yanks would like her because She was so good, it was a Perfect Combination ."

The Film , Ian Fleming diluted its original character but nevertheless, Blackman's Pussy Galore combines all The Best features of Cathy Gale , although eventually She had been seduced by the womanising Bond in the last scenes

At 39, Blackman actually five years older than Sean Connery , and, at The Time , the oldest actress to play the ever a Bond girl.

"Most of The Bond girls were stallion-tailed bimbos," She once said. "I've never seen a bimbo. "

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While Goldfinger " made them known internationally, it failed to be a stepping stone for her film career. Now She was 40, and The Producers overlook tending to your undoubted skills for the benefit of younger Actresses.

In an interview in 2009, you lament the lack of good roles for older women.

"We have all these older men with their guts hanging is still active - you can hardly put the belt around the waist, so belts need to round your step and wear them all accepted on the first roll, and to be praised, whereas older women are more boring parts, or cut off their Prime . "

The Bbc 's Hotel Babylon with one of the many cameo appearances

She appeared in A Number of films, including the Western Shalako, again with Connery, and the DH Lawrence tale, The Virgin and The Gypsy but none of them achieved great success.

She did, however, it is not better, in the Theater, especially in musicals. It was in the year 1981, the stage revival of The Sound of music, which starred Petula Clark and opened to reviews rave. She also appeared in A Little Night music, On her toes, and Nunsense.

In 2005, She toured as Mrs Higgins in a production of My Fair Lady, before Taking Over from Sheila Hancock in a West End production of Cabaret.

Blackman on the television, including a part in the 1986 Doctor Who serial The Trial of a Time Lord , alongside Colin Baker . They also won a New Generation of fans when She played Laura West, in the long-running ITV sitcom, The upper hand.

She had a brief spell as the glamorous Rula Romanoff in Coronation Street in 2004, and has appearances a series of cameo, including a part in John Malkovich 's black Comedy film, Colour Me Kubrick in 2005 and the sparkling BBC series" Hotel Babylon , in the year 2009.

She toured a series of one-woman shows entitled, Honor Blackman as herself.

away from The Set , Blackman was a supporter of the Republic, anti-monarchy pressure group and supposedly have the offer of a CBE in 2002. She was also active in politics as a high-profile member of the Liberal Democrats .

She was married and divorced twice, Bill Sankey, and Maurice Kaufmann and had Two Children with the latter.



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Source of news: bbc.com

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