Barry Hearn
- English
- Business person and actor
Press clippings
Ralf Little "darts superhero" film released after 20 years
A film that was set to star Ralf Little as a darts wunderkind is finally being released almost 20 years after he shot it, now focused instead on his character's murder and his former team captain's fight to clear his name as perpetrator of the crime.
British Comedy Guide, 9th December 2022The picaresque world of 70s and 80s snooker was so obviously ripe for retrofitted TV drama that the only surprise is that this feature-length tragicomedy is an iPlayer-only affair. Luke Treadaway and Will Merrick enjoy themselves as broad, even scurrilous, caricatures of Alex Higgins and Steve Davis, respectively. Higgins is cast as snooker's darkly irresistible demon who self-destructs even as Davis, in cahoots with ruthless promoter Barry Hearn, is taking the game into every living room. This narrative thrust is a slight over-simplification but does make for high drama.
Phil Harrison, The Guardian, 18th January 2016The Rack Pack brilliantly brings alive 1980s snooker
"Snooker," thunders Kevin Bishop's fabulously mouthy snooker promoter Barry Hearn in new BBC film The Rack Pack, is going to be so popular it "could even be bigger than wrestling."
Ben Dowell, Radio Times, 17th January 2016