Steffan Rhodri: Last News

There are few characters as iconic as Gavin and Stacey's Dave Coaches - who is returning for the BBC sitcom's final ever episode tonight.The Barry Island coach driver and Nessa's ex-fiancé will be back in Gavin and Stacey's Christmas finale, played by Steffan Rhodri. While Dave Coaches has a distinctive look on the BBC sitcom - actor Steffan looks completely different in real life, as highlighted when the star appeared at the premiere of Gavin and Stacey's upcoming special.

Gavin & Stacey finale and wondering if that’s all they’ll get until Christmas.Set five years after Nessa (Jones) proposed to Smithy (Corden), it was recently confirmed that despite airing on Christmas Day, the final instalment won’t be set during the festive period.While Steffan Rhodri, who plays Dave Coaches in the show, has recently teased a “very touching” final scene for the hit BBC sitcom, fans have been left wondering where they’ll pick up, as well as when an official trailer might drop.“They’re being oddly secretive about the gavin and stacey finale,” wrote one on X/Twitter. “Any teaser i’ve seen is old footage.

Ruth Jones and James Corden have warned fans the Gavin & Stacey finale won’t be what they’re expecting.Set five years after Nessa (Jones) proposed to Smithy (Corden), it was recently confirmed that despite airing on Christmas Day the final episode won’t be set during the festive period.Steffan Rhodri also recently teased a “very touching” final scene for the hit BBC sitcom.But in a new interview for the Big Issue, Jones and Corden hint that it may not see the pair end up together.“I keep telling people this finale might not be what you are expecting,” Jones said. “And I guarantee we will definitely not be coming back.”Corden added: “What people are going to see on Christmas Day is the culmination of a 20-year love story, which hopefully shows, if nothing else, that love is complicated and messy and for everyone.”Last month, the first look at the cast in the upcoming Gavin & Stacey special was shared featuring Corden (Smithy), Mat Horne (Gavin), Joanna Page (Stacey) and Jones (Nessa).A synopsis also said the final episode will see Bryn (Rob Brydon) “packing the Picasso in readiness for a trip to Essex; Stacey and Gavin are looking for new ways to spice up their seventeen year marriage and Gwen (Melanie Walters) is behaving most strangely.

Gavin and Stacey star Steffan Rhodri has teased a “very touching” final scene for the hit sitcom, which returns to the BBC for a Christmas special this year.The show’s final ever episode is due to air on Christmas Day and Rhodri, who plays Dave Coaches in the show, teased that the final scene could prove emotional for viewers.He told Metro: “My character Dave is a bit of an outsider…But they planned it so that with the last scene we did, which is the ending, we were all together and it was very touching.”He continued: “I can’t tell you anything about the Christmas special other than I’m in it. I actually enjoyed it more than I thought I would.“I didn’t do the one five years ago so it’s 17 years since I’ve done it.

EXCLUSIVE: Filming has wrapped in Wales on Mr. Burton, the upcoming biopic about the man who inspired screen legend, Richard Burton.

The Way is a bold, new and compelling BBC drama about a family faced with an impossible choice - and it starts on Monday 19 February. The three-part series promises to delve into today's social and political landscape is written by James Graham and directed by Michael Sheen - in fact it’s his directorial debut.The Way tells the story of an ordinary family caught up in extraordinary events when there’s a civil uprising in their hometown and focuses on the Driscoll family as they try to escape Wales.The cast includes Gavin and Stacey's Steffan Rhodri who said: “I’ve known Michael since I was 16.

The story of an ordinary family caught up in extraordinary circumstances, The Way, follows the fortunes of the Driscoll family who have to flee their hometown due to a civil uprising.The Welsh star-studded cast of this new BBC drama includes Gavin & Stacey actor Steffan Rhodri, who plays the dad of the family, Geoff Driscoll. Steffan took the role after hearing about it from Michael Sheen, one of the show’s creators, who Steffan has been friends with for decades. “I’ve known Michael since I was 16.

Gavin & Stacey Ruth Jones has put to bed the recent rumours surrounding the popular British sitcom.It was reported this week that the series, which stars co-writer James Corden, along with Joanna Page, Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb, would be returning for another Christmas special later this year.However, this was not confirmed by BBC and today (February 14), Jones has addressed the rumour.Speaking with Irish radio station RTE Radio 1, via the BBC, she said: “All I can say is, if there was something to say on that front, James and I would happily announce it, we would.”Dave ‘Coaches’ actor Steffan Rhodri also weighed in on the news telling BBC One’s Morning Live he had “no knowledge to impart”.The actor said: “I’ve heard there was a rumour, I never know where they star and I certainly don’t know where they’ll end.”The sitcom, which ran for three seasons, followed the lives and close family relationships of a married couple, who met online despite one of them living in Barry in Wales and the other in Billericay, Essex.Gavin & Stacey won several awards, including a BAFTA Audience Award. In 2019, it was named by Radio Times as 17th-greatest British sitcom.The 2019 Christmas special aired on BBC One, and gathered nearly 18.5million viewers – making the broadcast the most viewed non-sporting event in the UK in a decade and the most-watched comedy in 17 years.The special ended with a cliffhanger marriage proposal from Jones’ character Nessa, to Corden’s character Smithy.

Naman Ramachandran British singer-songwriter Craig David (“22”) and singer and stage actor Beverley Knight (“Sister Act”) will headline the Windrush 75 celebration at London’s Royal Albert Hall on June 9. The event is being curated and hosted by DJ and radio presenter Trevor Nelson. The Windrush generation came to the U.K. from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971. The ship MV Empire Windrush had arrived in Tilbury on June 22, 1948, bringing workers from the Caribbean to help address a post-war labor shortage in the U.K. The concert will aim to capture the breadth of musical influence which the Windrush generation has had on British culture over the last 75 years, with performances including R&B group Loose Ends’ “Hangin’ on a String,” G-folk’ pioneer Hak Baker’s “Windrush Baby” and David’s “Fill Me In,” as well as renditions of classic tracks like Lord Kitchener’s “London is the Place for Me,” Bob Marley’s “Is this Love,” and Goldie’s “Inner City Life.”

Luke Evans and Callum Scott Howells are among the stars of upcoming BBC drama The Way from Michael Sheen, James Graham and Adam Curtis.

The BBC is making a feature-length drama about the remarkable true story of one of the world’s first medical trials for the drug that became Viagra, which once again pairs It’s A Sin’s Russell T. Davies with Nicola Shindler.

K.J. Yossman   “Doctor Who” showrunner Russell T Davies is set to exec produce a new BBC drama about the first trials for Viagra. Produced by Quay Street Productions and Boom, “Men Up” tells the story about a trial for the sex drug that took place in Wales in 1994. “Industry” scribe Matthew Barry is writing the feature-length drama, which is a co-commission with BBC Wales. Starring in the show are Iwan Rheon (“Game of Thrones”), Aneurin Barnard (“Dunkirk”), Alexandra Roach (“Killing Eve”), Phaldut Sharma (“Sherwood”), Paul Rhys (“A Discovery of Witches”), Steffan Rhodri (“House of the Dragon”), Mark Lewis Jones (“Gangs of London”), Joanna Page (“Gavin & Stacey”), Alexandria Riley (“The Pembrokeshire Murders”), Nathan Sussex (“It’s A Sin”), Lisa Palfrey (“Sex Education”), Dyfan Dwyfor (“A Very English Scandal”) and Katy Wix (“Ghosts”).

EXCLUSIVE: Philip Glenister and Steffan Rhodri are to front a factual-based drama for the BBC.

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Filming for the fourth season of the Sky Original series “Das Boot” wrapped in Malta last week, and the first look images have been released. NBCUniversal Global Distribution is handling international sales of the series, which is produced by Bavaria Fiction, on behalf of Sky Studios. In Season 4, which is coming to Sky’s premium channel Sky Atlantic and streaming service NOW next year, the brutal submarine war in the Mediterranean Sea comes to a head, while intrigues and secrets spread through Berlin. Resistance to the Nazis grows within the Kriegsmarine’s own ranks. After a shared tragedy, the siblings Klaus (Rick Okon) and Hannie Hoffmann (Rosalie Thomass) find their way back to each other. Both fight for their cause. Klaus has returned to the German Reich from Portugal. As a submarine commander he travels to Naples on a secret mission to change the course of the war. Hannie wants to help the many orphans who have become victims of the war and uncovers infamous machinations of the Nazi Reich.

Gavin and Stacey fans were left stunned after seeing a Barry Island legend on the latest episode of the Game Of Thrones prequel show House of the Dragon.

Manori Ravindran International Editor“Poldark’s” Aidan Turner will star as a maverick coach guiding an up-and-coming tennis player (Ella Lily Hyland) to stardom in Amazon Prime Video’s new U.K. drama “Fifteen-Love.”Created by Hania Elkington, “Fifteen-Love” explores the fictional story of Justine Pearce (Hyland), a young sports prodigy, who enjoyed a meteoric rise in the world of Grand Slam Tennis, aided by her coach Glenn Lapthorn (Turner), with whom she shared an intense rapport.Together they reached the semi-final of the French Open but Justine’s dream was cut brutally short by a devastating injury and the end of her professional career.