#Adjani Salmon

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Happy New Year! 🎆

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Doctor Who Rewatch | Eve of the Daleks

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Rewatched Eve Of The Daleks. Genuinely just a really fun episode of Doctor Who. Nothing spectacular or groundbreaking, just good fun. With an enjoyable small cast, some lovely moments and a very nice flow helped by it’s simple plot. One of my favourites of the era!

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Dreaming Whilst Black

Dreaming Whilst Black (Serie 2023) #AdjaniSalmon #DaniMoseley #RachelAdedeji #BabiryeBukilwa #DemmyLadipo #JoMartin Mehr auf:

Serie Jahr: 2023- Genre: Comedy / Drama Hauptrollen: Adjani Salmon, Dani Moseley, Rachel Adedeji, Babirye Bukilwa, Demmy Ladipo, Jo Martin, Roger Griffiths, Martina Laird, Alexander Owen, Muna Otaru, Will Hislop, Kemi Lofinmakin, Akemnji Ndifornyen, Isy Suttie, Tomi Ogunjobi … Serienbeschreibung: Kwabena (Adjani Salmon) ist ein aufstrebender Filmemacher, der in seinem Recruiting-Job gefangen…

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Flop and Bubble - Part 3/End - The Writers Room

When I recommended I May Destroy You, Mood, Dreaming Whilst Black and Champion it wasn’t just because they were Black British shows, even though that’s part of it. It was because they all represented similar themes to Dot and Bubble with more tact, nuance and depth than that episode could ever dream of. Arabella’s social media dependency became her outlet because she thought it was the only way to reclaim power after her assault. Sasha’s obsession with social media is because she knows social currency can turn financial and in her dire situation, she needs the reach. Kwabena’s outbursts take place inside his head because even though he knows he’s right, he knows what the consequences are if he speaks out and he walks the tightrope of validation and authenticity. Vita’s musical image is under control by her white manager because her roles as a dark-skinned Black woman in the music industry are limited. I also recommended them because they all reflect the dissonance between Black British media and creatives and white British media like Doctor Who. Every show essentially is the story of a Black British creative struggling to ‘make it’ in their respective industry. Arabella’s book. Sasha’s EP. Kwabena’s short film. Vita’s music career. Each of these reflects the struggle of the Black British creative in real life from lack of funds, the right imagery and ultimately what the white British consumer wants.

Again, by giving Black people our creative agency, there’s a place for Black experiences that Doctor Who can’t provide, or at least could but hasn’t. In Doctor Who, Adjani Salmon was just that guy with the ‘weird hair’ from that Eve of the Daleks episode. In Dreaming Whilst Black, he’s the creator and lead actor of a critically acclaimed show, BAFTA nominated alongside David Tennant. In Doctor Who, Malorie Blackman was just that Black woman that made Rosa. In Noughts and Crosses, she’s a critically acclaimed author, the first Black Children’s Laureate and to me, a massive inspiration that showed me Black girls can be book protagonists too. In Doctor Who, Tosin Cole as Ryan Sinclair is the ‘worst companion of the whole show’, a bad actor and a cardboard cutout. In Supacell, he’s the leading man and a breakout star of 2024. Where Doctor Who fails in Black representation, Black British media gets it right. In a bittersweet sense, I know the true representation I’d want from the show won’t come (or not at least for a very long time) but I know where it could be outside it. To repeat from previous essays, I don’t expect the perfect Black representation to come from Doctor Who as it's a predominantly white show intended for a white audience. I only expect the bare minimum of living up to its promise (which it made all by itself by the way) of having ‘space for all’, in this case providing Black representation both in and behind the screen. If it can’t do that, then at least be honest and say you just don’t want us here. It saves a lot of time. We can make our own spaces where we’re actually wanted.

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The tone drastically changes when you shift from performing for white validity to defending yourself and essentially, stop chasing after the boat. It’s harsh and cold. It even exists in the show. When Martha defended herself she was ‘aggressive’. When Mickey and Danny called out their mistreatment they became ‘abusive’. When the Fugitive held a gun she never fired she was ‘violent’. The price you pay for not chasing after the boat is that you become the Bogeyman. It’s very clear from the responses I got from my OG thread, many white fans and non-Black fans of colour wanted me to stay in my place and be grateful for the steaming dump I was given. How dare I not bow before RTD? He wrote about racism and he’s got a Black guy what else can you want? Isn’t that enough? Didn’t he try his best? Isn’t RTD’s best good enough? 

No. It’s not good enough. I don’t care who cries about me saying this. As I’ve already addressed in my Fugitive Doctor essay, I’m not crediting Black stories to RTD. Simply enjoying his work is fine. I enjoy his work myself, specifically the Sarah Jane Adventures, It’s a Sin and Years & Years. But when the Doctor Who fandom claims RTD, a white writer, is the reason for progress in Black representation and Black art over the countless Black creatives who’ve worked before him, the same time as him and after him, I will always, always push back on that as a Black person. I had no reason to gas this episode because it disappointed me from the initial watch and rewatch. From the disgusting antiblackness I experienced from this fandom for critiquing Dot and Bubble, I have zero reason to ever call it a good story about my own experience as a Black person. If you’re looking for a Black user to gas this episode to make your interest in this episode and season look morally superior and woke, it’s not happening. I don’t need to consider your disagreements, your interpretations, your opinions or your permission to dislike Dot and Bubble as a Black person. I will also push back on the bold comments made by RTD himself. You have a Black character and racism plot. Cool. How this is written and how this plays out is what actually matters to me than it just simply existing. Allyship isn’t the state of going from racist to anti-racist overnight. It’s not clinging onto the nearest Black person for dear life. It’s through consistent actions and support that someone becomes an ally. For once, you aren’t instantly rewarded for just showing up, you have to do more than the bare minimum. And that’s the closest to the Black British experience this fandom will ever get.

In a renaissance of Black British media, if Doctor Who’s getting any accolades from me, it needs to keep up. The idea I have to praise an episode just because ‘it's the racism one’, with shallow messages meant to soothe the ego of its audience instead of challenge it, with no Black writers in the creation process, no original theme of racism to begin with and that dozens of pieces of Black media have done a hell of a lot better, to sum it up, is a fucking joke. Black creatives don’t have to ask permission to create and represent ourselves. We just have to get on with it because it’s not gonna create itself. I’m not asking for permission to hate this dutty episode. I’m not chasing after that boat.

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Explore the winners and nominations for the 2024 BAFTA Television Awards with P&O Cruises and BAFTA Television Craft Awards, celebrating the very best in television broadcast in 2023.

Scroll down to view the full list, and images below to reveal category nominations and winners.

The BAFTA Television Awards, hosted by Rob Beckett and Romesh Ranganathan, took place on Sunday 12 May. The BAFTA Television Craft Awards, were hosted by Stacey Dooley, took place on Sunday 28 April.

Happy Valley and Top Boy were among the ceremony’s major winners, with the latter taking home Best Drama and Best Supporting Actress, and Happy Valley’s Sarah Lancashire winning Leading Actress.

Timothy Spall collected Leading Actor for The Sixth Commandment, while Matthew Macfadyen was awarded Best Supporting Actor for Succession, though was not in attendance to collect the trophy himself. Lorraine Kelly and Baroness Floella Benjamin also pocketed special awards.

Leading Actress

Anjana Vasan, Black Mirror: Demon 79 – Netflix

Anne Reid, The Sixth Commandment – BBC One

Bella Ramsey, The Last of Us – Sky Atlantic

Helena Bonham Carter, Nolly – ITVX

Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley – BBC One WINNER

Sharon Horgan, Best Interests – BBC One

Sarah Lancashire with her Best Actress Bafta for ‘Happy Valley’ (BBC) © Provided by The Independent

Leading Actor

Brian Cox, Succession – Sky Atlantic

Dominic West, The Crown – Netflix

Kane Robinson, Top Boy – Netflix

Paapa Essiedu, The Lazarus Project – Sky Max

Steve Coogan, The Reckoning – BBC One

Timothy Spall, The Sixth Commandment – BBC One WINNER

Timothy Spall with his Best Actor Bafta (BBC) © Provided by The Independent

Supporting Actress

Elizabeth Debicki, The Crown – Netflix

Harriet Walter, Succession – Sky Atlantic

Jasmine Jobson, Top Boy – Netflix WINNER

Lesley Manville, The Crown – Netflix

Nico Parker, The Last of Us – Sky Atlantic

Siobhan Finneran, Happy Valley – BBC One

Actor Jasmine Jobson collects her Supporting Actress Bafta (BBC) © Provided by The Independent

Supporting Actor

Amit Shah, Happy Valley – BBC One

Éanna Hardwicke, The Sixth Commandment – BBC One

Harris Dickinson, A Murder at the End of the World – Disney+

Jack Lowden, Slow Horses – Apple TV+

Matthew Macfadyen, Succession – Sky Atlantic WINNER

Salim Daw, The Crown – Netflix

Matthew Macfadyen in 'Succession' (Graeme Hunter/HBO) © Provided by The Independent

Female Performance in a Comedy

Bridget Christie, The Change – Channel 4

Gbemisola Ikumelo, Black Ops – BBC One WINNER

Máiréad Tyers, Extraordinary – Disney+

Roisin Gallagher, The Lovers – Sky Atlantic

Sofia Oxenham, Extraordinary – Disney+

Taj Atwal, Hullraisers – Channel 4

Gbemisola Ikumelo with her Female Performance in a Comedy Bafta for ‘Black Ops’ (BBC) © Provided by The Independent

Male Performance in a Comedy

Adjani Salmon, Dreaming Whilst Black – BBC Three

David Tennant, Good Omens – Prime Video

Hammed Animashaun, Black Ops – BBC One

Jamie Demetriou, A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou – Netflix

Joseph Gilgun, Brassic – Sky Max

Mawaan Rizwan, Juice – BBC Three WINNER

Mawaan Rizwan with his Bafta for Male Performance in a Comedy (BBC) © Provided by The Independent

Drama Series

The Gold – BBC One

Happy Valley – BBC One

Slow Horses – Apple TV+

Top Boy – Netflix WINNER

Limited Drama

Best Interests – BBC One

Black Mirror: Demon 79 – Netflix

The Long Shadow – ITV1

The Sixth Commandment – BBC One WINNER

Ben Field in ‘The Sixth Commandment’ (BBC) © Provided by The Independent

Scripted Comedy

Big Boys – Channel 4

Dreaming Whilst Black – BBC Three

Extraordinary – Disney+

Such Brave Girls – BBC Three WINNER

Soap

Casualty – BBC One WINNER

EastEnders – BBC One

Emmerdale – ITV1

Entertainment Programme

Hannah Waddingham: Home For Christmas – Apple TV+

Later… With Jools Holland – BBC Two

Michael McIntyre’s Big Show – BBC One

Strictly Come Dancing – BBC One WINNER

Claudia Winkleman and Tess Daly collect their Entertainment Programme Bafta for ‘Strictly Come Dancing' (BBC) © Provided by The Independent

Entertainment Performance

Anthony McPartlin & Declan Donnelly, I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! – ITV1

Big Zuu, Big Zuu’s Big Eats – Dave

Graham Norton, The Graham Norton Show – BBC One

Hannah Waddingham, Eurovision Song Contest 2023 – BBC One

Joe Lycett, Late Night Lycett – Channel 4 WINNER

Rob Beckett & Romesh Ranganathan, Rob & Romesh Vs – Sky Max

Joe Lycett, dressed as Queen Elizabeth, is surprised by his Bafta win for 'Late Night Lycett’ (BBC) © Provided by The Independent

Comedy Entertainment Programme

The Graham Norton Show – BBC One

Late Night Lycett – Channel 4

Rob & Romesh Vs – Sky Max WINNER

Would I Lie To You? – BBC One

Factual Entertainment

Celebrity Race Across the World – BBC One WINNER

The Dog House – Channel 4

Endurance: Race To The Pole – Channel 5

Portrait Artist of the Year – Sky Arts

Reality

Banged Up – Channel 4

Married at First Sight UK– E4

My Mum, Your Dad– ITV1

Squid Game: The Challenge– Netflix WINNER

Daytime

Loose Women and Men – ITV1

Lorraine – ITV1

Make It at Market – BBC One

Scam Interceptors – BBC One WINNER

International

The Bear – Disney+

Beef – Netflix

Class Act – Netflix WINNER

The Last of Us – Sky Atlantic

Love & Death – ITVX

Succession – Sky Atlantic

Live Event Coverage

The Coronation Concert – BBC One

Eurovision Song Contest 2023 – BBC One WINNER

Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance – BBC One

Current Affairs

Storyville: Inside Russia: Traitors And Heroes – BBC Four

Putin vs the West – BBC Two

Dispatches: Russell Brand: In Plain Sight – Channel 4

This World: The Shamima Begum Story – BBC Two WINNER

Single Documentary

David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived – Sky Documentaries

Ellie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family – ITV1 WINNER

Hatton – Sky Crime

Vjeran Tomic: The Spider-Man of Paris – Netflix

Factual Series

Dublin Narcos – Sky Documentaries

Evacuation – Channel 4

Lockerbie – Sky Documentaries WINNER

Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland – BBC Two

Specialist Factual

Chimp Empire – Netflix

The Enfield Poltergeist – Apple TV+

Forced Out – Sky Documentaries

White Nanny, Black Child – Channel 5 WINNER

News Coverage

Inside Gaza: Israel And Hamas At War – Channel 4 News WINNER

Inside Myanmar – The Hidden War – Sky News

Israel-Hamas War – Sky News

Sports Coverage

Cheltenham Festival Day One – ITV1 WINNER

MOTD Live: Fifa Women’s World Cup 2023 – BBC One

Wimbledon 2023 Men’s Final – BBC One

Memorable Moment

Beckham, David teases Victoria about her ‘working class’ upbringing – Netflix

Doctor Who, Ncuti Gatwa revealed as the 15th Doctor – BBC One

Happy Valley, Catherine Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce’s final kitchen showdown – BBC One WINNER

The Last of Us, Bill and Frank’s Story – Sky Atlantic

The Piano, 13-year-old Lucy stuns commuters with jaw dropping piano performance – Channel 4

Succession, Logan Roy’s death – Sky Atlantic

Short Form

Mobility – BBC Three WINNER

The Skewer: Three Twisted Years – BBC iPlayer

Stealing Ukraine’s Children: Inside Russia’s Camps – Vice News

Where It Ends – BBC Three

Writer: Comedy

Jack Rooke, Big Boys – Channel 4 WINNER

Jamie Demetriou, A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou – Netflix

Kat Sadler, Such Brave Girls – BBC Three

Mawaan Rizwan, Juice – BBC Three

Writer: Drama

Charlie Brooker & Bisha K Ali, Black Mirror: Demon 79 – Netflix WINNER

Jesse Armstrong, Succession – Sky Atlantic

Sally Wainwright, Happy Valley – BBC One

Sarah Phelps, The Sixth Commandment – BBC One

Bafta Special Award

Lorraine Kelly

Bafta Fellowship

Baroness Floella Benjamin

#2024BAFTA #TelevisionAwards #P&OCruises #BAFTA #TelevisionCraftAwards, #television #broadcast

Posted 12th May 2024

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Showtime’s British Showbiz Comedy – The Hollywood Reporter

Showtime’s Dreaming Whilst Black is not the story of its own making, but it kind of feels like it could be. Described as being “loosely inspired by real-life events,” the comedy follows Kwabena (co-creator Adjani Salmon), whom we find toiling away at a dreary office job while dreaming (figuratively and literally; he’s napping on the clock) of being a filmmaker. But the road to making it is a…

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Absolutely epic series. A must watch.

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every episode of the thirteenth doctor’s era:

eve of the daleks

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He’s starred in Doctor Who, won a Bafta, and now is launching his own hilarious new series. Ahead of Dreaming Whilst Black’s release, he talks race, female empowerment – and YouTube fansAchieving your dreams often comes with a day...

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Jessica Hynes, Akemnji Ndifornyen Join Series 'Dreaming Whilst Black'

Jessica Hynes (“Shaun of the Dead”) and Akemnji Ndifornyen (“Famalam”) are among the cast set to join Adjani Salmon’s BBC and A24 series “Dreaming Whilst Black.” The show, which Salmon created and stars in, is based on a web-series of the same name. It was adapted into a critically acclaimed pilot in 2021 and greenlit for a six-part series last fall. The series will see Salmon reprise his role…

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Doctor Who (series 13.interregnum)

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I held off posting on these inter-series specials until they were all aired; it has been a long wait, admittedly.

Say what you want about Chibnall, I’ll still grant him kudos for making sense of a broken bible for the show. It may have been a huge leap, but all the mistakes of the Moffat years now can be untangled and finally make some sort of sense.

So these 3 specials pick up post-Flux. We now deal with fallout, wrap-up, and transitions. There wasn’t much left to tackle after the initial mini-arc, but the holiday and centenary episodes are important codas and hand-offs for the new season to come. And the finale is a blockbuster unlike just about anything done before.

Overall, the specials are uneven and not particularly wonderful, other than The Power of the Doctor. And the Easter special was one of the worst episodes in a long while, to my mind. I like that Chibnall takes risks and ownership, and I really like a lot of his other work. But something was definitely off for 2/3 of these efforts. And his reliance on existing material, especially the Master, got a bit thread-bare even if he found a complete arc by the end of it all.

Show-by-show thoughts (some spoilers):

Eve of the Daleks The holiday specials were always odd little beasts. For the longest time they were stand-alone gifts with fun side-characters and some overlap with the seasonal structure. Of late, however, they’ve become simple another, direct continuation of the season. Both approaches have merit, but this was the least special “special” I can recall. For all intents this is a typical episode, with the fun additions of Aisling Bea (Hard Sun) and Adjani Salmon. It has great drive, utilizing a count-down clock, but is otherwise just another Who encounter. However, it exists for two specific reasons. Primary among them is to redesign the Tardis, which had taken a beating of late. The second was to get Jas to admit her very subtle (and somewhat retconned) feelings for the Doctor.

Legend of the Sea Devils The reinvention of classic monsters continues with this latest Easter special. And that’s about the kindest thing that can be said for the episode. It’s a strange, rushed, silly historical fantasy that reminds me of the worst of the Moffat years. Add to it a sound mix that was worse than usual for muddling dialogue and it was a 45 min (yes also short) bit of absurd adventure. It also placed no value on life and even less on death.

It would seem the only reason the episode even existed was to a) fulfill the need for a holiday special and b) close the loop on a needed conversation between Yaz and the Doctor. Not that any of that latter bit has really had any sense of reality or urgency, but the show was determined to make it seem it was so. As the penultimate episode for Whittaker, it was a sad installment. Rather than building up steam to the upcoming changeover it is, instead, floundering.

The Power of the Doctor

Chibnall certainly thinks big in this windup to the Whittaker years. And he pulls together all of the threads he wove throughout his stewardship while doing it. And he probably has the biggest final moment the series has ever managed. Forgetting all the action and all the plotting, the final reveal had my jaw on the floor.

There is a lot to unpack in this 90 minute finale. However, to discuss any of the specifics would be to spoil far too much, so I’m not going to even though I usually don’t shy from that in these flagged posts–the surprises are just too good.

Generally, The Power of the Doctor is a breathless story from the moment it begins through till just before the ending when it takes the time it needs for the characters to have their moments. It is one of the better sequence finales of the series and a nice hand-off from Chibnall back to Davies, who gets to relaunch his involvement in the upcoming 60th anniversary show and the next season. I want to be clear, this episode’s success still doesn’t forgive him for the Sea Devils episode, but he did go out on a high note.

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Doctor Who: Eve of the Daleks