Elliot Hegarty

Director - Rivals, Cheaters, Ted Lasso, Trying, Lovesick, Grandpa’s Great Escape, Bad Education Movie, ABC's Black-ish & The Middle, Star Stories etc.

[Elliot Hegarty @eltel88]

@rickygervais Bloody love this show. Excellent work Ricky 👏👏👏🎉🎉🎉🎉😸😸😸😸

[Dov Forman @DovForman]

You can read my full article in @thetimes here👇

https://t.co/5kHKAkR8WA

[Dov Forman @DovForman]

Eighty-seven years ago today the world watched as Jewish homes, shops and synagogues were burnt across Germany and Austria.

Windows were smashed, Torah scrolls set alight, hundreds of synagogues destroyed, 91 Jews murdered and tens of thousands imprisoned. Families who had considered themselves part of the fabric of European life were humiliated and beaten in the streets. It became known as Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass.

It was not yet the Holocaust, but it was the moment the unthinkable began to feel possible. Years of boycotts, hatred, caricatures and conspiracy had prepared the ground for what many see as the beginning of the long, twisted road that led to the Holocaust. When the attacks came, neighbours turned away, pretending not to see what was happening to their friends and those they had lived alongside for generations. Many look back today and ask: how could the Holocaust have happened in what was one of the most civilised societies in the world?

Kristallnacht offers an uncomfortable answer. It happens when words of hate are tolerated, when lies are given a platform and when silence becomes easier than speaking out. By the time the glass breaks, the silence has already done its work. It is already too late. And that sounds all too familiar to us today across the West, in Europe and here in Britain.

My great-grandmother Lily Ebert, a survivor of Auschwitz, used to remind schoolchildren that the Holocaust didn’t start with the gas chambers. “It started with words,” she said. “With small acts of hatred that people ignored.”

She survived the concentration camp, built a new life in London and spent decades teaching others where hatred leads when it goes unchallenged. She used to say that it didn’t matter what religion, race, or ethnicity we were “when you cut us, it hurts, and we all bleed the same colour: red”.

Today, nearly nine decades after Kristallnacht, her warning feels painfully alive and her message too often ignored. Across Europe, and even here in Britain, Jewish schools and synagogues are protected by police and security, and stand behind security fences with barbed wire. Jewish students are harassed on university campuses, shouted down and told that their pain is “political”.

On social media, antisemitic conspiracies spread faster than truth. Our NHS has doctors who share antisemitic posts, our arts world has pushed Jews to the margins and some parliamentarians even use their privileged positions to launder ideas about Jews that once belonged on the fringes: that Jewish safety is conditional; that Jews are legitimate targets; that Britain belongs more to the mob than to the law. Hate doesn’t disappear - it merely changes its face.

The liberation of Auschwitz in 1945 did not mark the end of the hatred that led to it. What once came from the far right is now found on parts of the far left, who have jumped into bed with Islamist extremists. What once hid behind swastikas now hides behind slogans of “resistance”. Each generation finds new excuses for the same old hatred. And yet, despite everything, there is hope.

After all she endured my great-grandmother refused to lose faith in people. That was her defiance - not revenge or bitterness, but life itself. And I, too, still believe in the British people: in their decency, in their courage to say enough is enough, and to stand with their Jewish neighbours and colleagues against this resurgence of the world’s oldest hatred. In the silent majority that we, the Jewish community, are always told stands with us, I still have faith.

Remembering Kristallnacht is not only about the past. It is about refusing to repeat its patterns in our own time. Eighty-seven years ago, hundreds of synagogues burnt. Yet the Jewish people endured. Our task is not just to remember the glass that shattered - but to make sure the silence that allowed it never returns.

[Independent Talent @ITG_Ltd]

''This romcom is so convincing it’ll worm its way into your heart.'' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ @guardian

Check out the glowing review of #Cheaters season 2, coming to @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer November 19th.

⭐️ #OlumideOlorunfemi, #FelixEdwards
✍️ Written & Created: #OliverLyttelton
🎬 Director: @eltel88
🎥 Producer: #AlexWalshTaylor
🧍‍♂️ Casting by: @cat_willis

https://t.co/CDWIe8MrZV

[Elliot Hegarty @eltel88]

@Jacklouisfox @wetlibraryband @olilyttelton @alexw_t @clerkenwellfilm @CallieCooke_ @ShilohCoke @AndreaSValls Love that!!

[BBC Studios @bbcstudios]

"She's kind of pushing everything under the surface" 👀

#CallieCooke tells us what we can expect from her character this season… will she find happiness? 💘

Don't miss #Cheaters series 2 tonight on @BBCOne at 9:45pm

Made by our production label @Clerkenwellfilm

#BBCStudios

[olilyttelton @olilyttelton]

CHEATERS Series 2 is out on BBC iPlayer right now, and on BBC One from 9.45. Eight new episodes written by me, directed by @eltel88, produced by @alexw_t & @clerkenwellfilm and starring Susan Wokoma, Josh McGuire, @CallieCooke_, @Jacklouisfox, @ShilohCoke, @AndreaSValls & more!

[Radio Times @RadioTimes]

Fola and Josh are back!

Taskmaster star Susan Wokoma and Lovesick's Joshua McGuire return in the first look at #Cheaters season 2, coming to BBC One and BBC iPlayer Tuesday 19th November.

Read more:
https://t.co/vkfg0GJ2X1

[TV Zone @tvukzone]

CONFIRMED: #Cheaters returns Tuesday 19th November at 9:45pm on BBC One.

https://t.co/bAQiEKFbgX

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“Rivals” brims with absurd excess, but is surprisingly serious about pleasure. @sophieGG on the Hulu show’s welcome swerve in a year of dour television: https://t.co/FpMldg88VO

[Sam Hoare @mrSamHoare]

#Rivals is 2nd most popular show in the world this week! Give yourself a naughty treat and watch on @hulu or @DisneyPlus

[Rosamund Urwin @RosamundUrwin]

I had the absolute delight of speaking to the makers of Rivals @dominictc, @felicityblunt and @eltel88 who were was as much fun as the @DisneyPlus series
With the all-important hint of a series 2

https://t.co/HhZDWbJaKi

[Kath 💙🙀🇪🇺✊🏾 @KathyBurke]

If you’ve got @DisneyPlus and need a big old bawdy brilliant binge then #Rivals is it. I didn’t think it would be my kind of thing but I’m now a HUGE fan of all involved and comping at the bit (horse ref there, kids 💅🏼) for season two. Come on you lovely fuckers!!!! ♥️📺🐴👠

[Kath 💙🙀🇪🇺✊🏾 @KathyBurke]

Rivals review – even the naked tennis scene is a triumph https://t.co/YAUFJYHMEy Had the privilege of a sneak peek of the first episode and it’s fantastic! All eps drop today like most of the characters under-crackers. Can’t wait! ♥️📺

[Happy Prince @HappyPrinceTV]

Episode 1 sneak peek 👀👠👨🏻🍆🍾📺🐎You can watch all episodes of #RIVALS from 8am tomorrow on @DisneyPlusUK & @hulu @dominictc @alexlamb81

[Independent Talent @ITG_Ltd]

''Gloriously un-PC romp stays true to Jilly Cooper’s spirit '' - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ , @Telegraph

''Incredibly well made''⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - @guardian

Check out these incredible reviews for #Rivals, officially streaming on @DisneyPlusUK October 18th.

⭐️#DavidTennant, @MrDDyer, #ClaireRushbrook, @rufusjones1, @hmb1991, @AnnabelScholey
🎬 Director (Eps 1-4) and Executive Producer: @eltel88 #ElliotHegarty
✍��� Written by @MarekHorn (Ep 4)
✍️ Staff Writer: #SorchaKurienWalsh
🎥 Series Producer: #ElizaMellor
✂️ Editor: #MatthewGray (Eps. 1 & 3)
🎥 Associate Producer: Marco Petrucco

https://t.co/3n5Z10YXlJ

https://t.co/jBTOWQkgYG

[Happy Prince @HappyPrinceTV]

Not 1 cover 3!! Three covers!! THREE!!
#RIVALS streaming on
@DisneyPlusUK and @hulu from
Friday 18th October 👀👠🍆🐎📺🥂

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

💋 Rivals, Disney+, review: gloriously un-PC romp stays true to Jilly Cooper’s spirit

https://t.co/Znt4TWArJC

[Elliot Hegarty @eltel88]

@colehauser Loving your work in #YellowstoneTV RIP Wheeler is my favourite character I’ve seen on the box in a loooong time. Morally complex an American icon and frickin cool 😎 👌👌👌

[Disney+ UK @DisneyPlusUK]

Everyone wants to get on top…
Based on the bestselling novel by Dame Jilly Cooper, #Rivals, the Original series, is streaming 18 October, only on Disney+.