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40 years of comedy classic Auf Wiedersehen, Pet: ‘The producers thought it was too crude, too manly’

It’s four decades since the comedy drama detailing the exploits of British migrant workers in Germany – burst on to our screens. As they stage a live show, its writers and stars let us in on how they constructed a classic

The Guardian - UK

Steve Wraith tastes Cannes success with Sayers film as return to acting pays off

Well known Newcastle actor and football enthusiast Steve Wraith is becoming quite a regular on the big screen

Chronicle Live

50 years of a North East television classic - Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

At 8.30pm on Tuesday, January 9, 1973, BBC1 unveiled a new comedy series set on Tyneside called Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? It would be a huge success

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Bill Nighy to appear at Whitley Bay Film Festival this Wednesday night

Last-chance tickets are up for grabs to join the conversation as the Love Actually actor attends a special Q&A event introduced by The Likely Lads creator Ian La Frenais

Chronicle Live

A TV Likely Lad standing on Newcastle United's Gallowgate End terraces

Fifty years ago, actor Rodney Bewes and writer Ian La Frenais toured Tyneside looking for possible outside locations - including St James' Park - for a new TV sitcom, Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

Chronicle Live

The Auf Wiedersehen, Pet boys were finally back in town 20 years ago

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet - starring Jimmy Nail, Tim Healy and Kevin Whatley - returned to our TV screens with a new series on April 28, 2002 after a break of 16 years

Chronicle Live

Flushed with success: singing plumber signs Hollywood film deal

Kev Crane, 50, who landed record contract after singing on the job, signs deal for rights to his story

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Plumber signs Hollywood movie deal after he's overheard singing on bathroom job

Kev Crane was fitting a bathroom for a local record producer when he was overheard singing along to the radio - now his story is set to hit the big screen

Daily Mirror

Plumber Who Landed Unexpected Record Deal Is Having A Hollywood Movie Made About His Life

The 50-year-old spent six weeks installing a new bathroom completely unaware the owner was a music boss.

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Film to be made on Long Eaton plumber whose bathroom singing landed him a record deal

He had been fitting a bathroom for a record producer

Nottingham Post

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet - it's been nearly 40 years but where are they now?

It was the start of their careers - Geordies Tim Healy, Jimmy Nail and Kevin Whately joined Timothy Spall, Gary Holton, Pat Roach and Christopher Fairbank to play Dennis, Oz, Neville, Barry, Wayne, Bomber and Moxie in the hit TV series - here we look at what they did next

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