Urban Myths: Hendrix & Handel - Sky Arts Comedy Drama - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Urban Myths: Hendrix & Handel. Image shows from L to R: George Frideric Handel (David Haig), Jimi Hendrix (Zach Wyatt)

Genre

Comedy Drama

Broadcast

2020

Channel

Sky Arts

Episodes

1

Stars

David Haig, Zach Wyatt, Harriet Cains, Anna Kate Golding, Matthew Steer, Sophia La Porta, Jonny Sweet, Kara Tointon and Tom Godwin

Writers

Cara Jennings and Sophie Trott

Director

Justin Chadwick

Producers

John Rushton, Lucy Lumsden and Morwenna Gordon

Company

Housemates separated by time, Jimi Hendrix and George Frideric Handel grapple with the stresses of the music business in this funny and intimate portrait of two eccentric musical geniuses.

In January 1969, Jimi Hendrix and his girlfriend Kathy Etchingham moved into their first real home in Brook Street in London - the same building that Handel first called home 246 years earlier, in 1743, and where he wrote Messiah.

The film imagines the events leading up to a transformative moment when Jimi saw Handel's ghost, which he reported to Kathy.

Additional details

Part of

Urban Myths

Production

Location

Camera set-up

Single camera

Picture

Colour

Broadcast details

First broadcast

Wednesday 21st October 2020 at 10pm on Sky Arts

Episode length

30 minutes

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