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Stella Street

Stella Street
Created by John Sessions, Phil Cornwell and Peter Richardson
Written by John Sessions, Phil Cornwell and Peter Richardson
Directed by Peter Richardson
Starring John Sessions, Phil Cornwell, Sandra Cush
Opening theme "Art of Art" by Gary DiMichele
Country of origin United Kingdom
No. of series 4
No. of episodes 36
Production
Producer(s) Ben Swaffer
Running time 10 minutes (series 1, 3-4), 15 minutes (series 2)
Release
Original network BBC2
Original release 22 December 1997 (1997-12-22) – 11 December 2001 (2001-12-11)
Stella Street: The Movie
Directed by Peter Richardson
Produced by Ben Swaffer
Written by John Sessions, Phil Cornwell and Peter Richardson
Starring John Sessions, Phil Cornwell, Ronni Ancona
Music by Rod Melvin, Dominic Muldowney
Cinematography Mike Robinson
Edited by Geoff Hogg
Production
company
Absolutely Productions, Stella Street Ltd.
Distributed by Columbia TriStar
Release date
  • 22 October 2004 (2004-10-22)
Running time
80 minutes
Country United Kingdom, United States
Language English

Stella Street is a British television comedy programme, originally screened in four series on BBC Two between 1997 and 2001. It takes the form of a mockumentary filmed on a camcorder, based on the fantastical premise that a group of British and American celebrities have all decided to move into Stella Street in Surbiton (actually Hartswood Road, London, W12).

The show (and subsequent film) was conceived and written by John Sessions, Phil Cornwell and Peter Richardson (who also directed). The main characters are played by Sessions, Cornwell and Ronni Ancona. The characters themselves are impressions of famous celebrities such as Marlon Brando, Michael Caine, Jack Nicholson, and, idiosyncratically, UK football pundit Jimmy Hill.

Stella Street's depiction of celebrities is mainly rooted in the popular stereotypes surrounding them. For example, Stella Street's Jack Nicholson is an inveterate womaniser, drug taker, and has a tacky line in Hawaiian shirts. Michael Caine is seen as an awkward wanna-be cognoscente in horn-rimmed glasses and a shock of ginger hair. Dirk Bogarde is a posh buffoon only interested in his rose garden and Country Life magazine. Al Pacino is deluded that he is a "tall actor, like Danny DeVito and Dustin Hoffman", despite the viewer knowing that he (and the others) are of short stature. Joe Pesci is portrayed in the light of his most well-known roles in violent gangster films, while Jimmy Hill inevitably appears dull when talking about the FA Cup Final to plainly uninterested greater celebrities.


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