Adam Buxton
Diane Morgan is the latest guest on Adam Buxton’s podcast. Aside from Motherland and Philomena Cunk, Adam’s interesting (and very funny) chat with Diane covers all sorts of topics including films, childhood TV, nerves and method acting at drama school, distractions from writing,
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February 26, 2018 // 0 Comments
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton are guests on the latest episode of The Adam Buxton Podcast. The episode was recorded live at the London Podcast festival last month. In their conversation with Adam, the duo discuss The League of Gentlemen without revealing much about the upcoming Christmas
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October 13, 2017 // 0 Comments
The Guardian is hosting ‘Richard Ayoade in conversation with Adam Buxton’. The special one-off event will take place on Tuesday 26th September, 7pm–8.30pm, at the Emmanuel Centre in London. Tickets are available now for £20 plus booking fees. The Guardian has organised the evening
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July 24, 2017 // 0 Comments
The Crystal Maze is officially back on our screens, following Friday’s launch special, in which a team of celebs led by Alex Brooker (The Last Leg) won £10,000 in aid of Stand Up To Cancer. The series, hosted by Richard Ayoade, has another hidden TVO talent behind the scenes: as original
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June 25, 2017 // 0 Comments
Adam Buxton and Jessica Hynes will appear alongside host Richard Ayoade in Channel 4’s reboot of The Crystal Maze. In The Crystal Maze, teams of five contestants must navigate the Aztec, Medieval, Industrial and Futuristic Zones before facing the fans in the iconic Crystal Dome. On their
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June 12, 2017 // 0 Comments
Sharon Horgan is the latest guest on Adam Buxton’s podcast. In the new episode, Sharon joins Adam to discuss everything from Catastrophe and Divorce to her production company Merman and the late, great Carrie Fisher. She also talks about writing new comedy Motherland with Graham Linehan,
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June 3, 2017 // 0 Comments
Julian Barratt is the latest guest on Adam Buxton’s podcast. In the new episode, Julian Barratt joins Adam Buxton to discuss Mindhorn, which is out in UK cinemas from 5th May and will be available to watch on Netflix for those of you who live elsewhere. For anyone unfamiliar with
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April 15, 2017 // 0 Comments
There’s a popular meme that goes around the internet, which states that David Bowie was the glue that held the fabric of the universe together. And as 2016 has seen countless other great talents pass to the other side, it might just be right. And that’s not even taking into account all
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November 21, 2016 // 0 Comments
Matt Berry is the latest guest on Adam Buxton’s podcast. Matt isn’t really one for podcasts, chat shows, panel shows and the like, but Adam Buxton has managed to enlist him for a ‘ramble-chat’. They talk about Matt’s career, starting with art school and a job in the
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November 14, 2016 // 0 Comments
The Big Fat Quiz of Everything is returning to Channel 4, and this time it’s not a one-off special but a whole series! The first edition will air tonight (Monday 15th August) at 9pm on Channel 4, with guests Mel Giedroyc, Claudia Winkleman, David Mitchell, Jonathan Ross, Bob Mortimer and
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August 15, 2016 // 0 Comments
Richard Ayoade is a very busy man at the moment! Whilst in Lisbon with Adam Buxton filming the next series of Travel Man, he found the time to be a guest on Adam’s popular podcast. The pair’s ‘ramble-chat’ has been split into two episodes, which are both available now.
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July 11, 2016 // 0 Comments
Richard Ayoade has been spotted filming the next series of Travel Man with some very interesting guests. If, like us at The Velvet Onion, you’re a fan of Channel 4’s Travel Man, you’ll be pleased to know that production of the comedy-travel show’s next series is under
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July 1, 2016 // 0 Comments
Graham Linehan‘s pilot project with Adam Buxton is to become a full series. The Cloud, which we first told you about earlier this year, is a space set comedy which, in its pilot form at least, starred Aisling Bea and SunTrap‘s Jamie Demetriou. At the time it was revealed that the show
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November 4, 2015 // 1 Comment
Reece Shearsmith is interviewed by Adam Buxton in the first of the new series of BBC Radio 4’s tag team interview show Chain Reaction. Each week the interviewee from the week before becomes the interviewer. The 10th series of the chat show carries on from the end of the last series, when
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February 20, 2015 // 0 Comments
Graham Linehan and Adam Buxton have teamed up to write a new space-set tv pilot, according to Radio Times. The Cloud will feature a hapless crew on board a data hub floating above the earth, protecting the vast amounts of information humanity now hoards of its endless devices. Information such
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February 9, 2015 // 1 Comment
Graham Linehan will be taking part in Chain Reaction on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday at 6.30pm. If you haven’t heard the show before, each episode has a celebrity as guest interviewer and they decide who they would like to interview. For the next show, the person being questioned
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January 19, 2014 // 0 Comments
Comedy legend Adam Buxton has uploaded the full length solitary edition of MeeBOX – the 2008 BBC3 pilot he made featuring a smattering of TVO faces – to his YouTube page. The half hour sketch show featured a lot of the hallmarks of Buxton’s work from both his early days with
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January 25, 2013 // 0 Comments
Tough Crowd, the latest photo exhibition by Dave Brown, opens today at The Strand Gallery in central London. A collection of portraits capturing the very essence of the lonely, fragile comedian, the exhibition is in aid of the brilliant Afrikids and features a whole host of famous names
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December 5, 2012 // 1 Comment
August 3rd sees the launch of the 2011 Edinburgh Festival, and with a smattering of TVO faces in amongst the hundreds of comedic faces who have descended upon the Scottish city for the next few weeks, we decided it was as good a time as any to remind you of exactly who’s going to be where.
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August 2, 2011 // 3 Comments
The full line-up for The Edinburgh Festival 2011 has been announced, and amongst the hundreds of shows on offer are a handful of TVO big-guns. Rich Fulcher, Colin Hoult and Paul Foot have full-length runs for the duration of the Festival, whilst Dan Clark will be making a special appearance for
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June 9, 2011 // 5 Comments
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