Mike Sherman
Acting
Biography
Mike trained at The Welsh College of Music and Drama followed by Cardiff College of Education. As an actor Mike has had an extensive career in all areas of the industry, working at the National Theatre and in the West End, in Repertory and regional touring and he has also worked extensively in film and television. He was co-founder of Forest Forge Theatre Company. As a writer he has written for both theatre and television including two shows for Liverpool Everyman and several episodes of BBC Doctors. As a Director and guest lecturer he had a long association with the University of Wales TSD in Carmarthen and designed and delivered various projects with AUB Bournemouth and The Kogan Academy in London.
Known For
Six friends in their thirties navigate dating, sexual adventures, and mishaps on their quest to find love.
Coupling
The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and Columbia Pictures Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom Who's the Boss?. As in the former series, an affluent single woman, raising a son with the help of her mother, hires a housekeeper only to have a man apply for the job.
The Upper Hand
The Brittas Empire is a British sitcom created and originally written by Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen. Chris Barrie plays Gordon Brittas, the well-meaning but incompetent manager of Whitbury New Town Leisure Centre. The show ran for seven series and 53 episodes — including two Christmas specials — from 1991 to 1997 on BBC1. Norriss and Fegen wrote the first five series, after which they left the show. The Brittas Empire enjoyed a long and successful run throughout the 1990s, and gained itself large mainstream audiences. In 2004 the show came 47th on the BBC's Britain's Best Sitcom poll, and all series have been released on DVD. The creators Andrew Norriss and Richard Fegen often combine farce with either surreal or dramatic elements in episodes. For example in the first series, the leisure centre prepares for a royal visit, only for the doors to seal, the boiler room to flood and a visitor to become electrocuted. Unlike the traditional sitcom, deaths were quite common in The Brittas Empire.
The Brittas Empire
This is a British movie set in Brighton. It shows teenage angst and female gang behaviour. The leader of the gang is Hayley (Lara Belmont) and the other gang members are Jo (Beccy Armory), Anna (Sarah French-Ellis) and Lauren (Jessica Harris). They roam the streets of Brighton stalking single men, seducing and then robbing them. Hayley meets a policeman, Daniel (Nick Moran), and becomes fixated on him. She dreams of becoming his girlfriend/lover. Daniel has a shoe fetish and lets himself be seduced by Hayley. The end result is not what he envisages.
Ashes and Sand
The story of the rise of morals crusader Mary Whitehouse in the UK in the 1960's.