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Welcome to The Velvet Onion – the central hub for an interconnected range of alternative comedy and more. Click through for the least news, and see what’s so hot right now THIS WEEK below… ON THE TELLY AND RADIO THIS WEEK We won’t lie to you: as weeks go, this one is absolutely huge
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March 23, 2015 // 0 Comments
Welcome to The Velvet Onion – the central hub for an interconnected range of alternative comedy and more. Click through for the LATEST NEWS, and see what’s so hot right now take a look below. House of Fools welcomes Way & Davis Series Two of House of Fools continues apace this week, with
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March 16, 2015 // 0 Comments
Welcome to The Velvet Onion – the central hub for an interconnected range of alternative comedy and more. Click through for the LATEST NEWS, and see what’s so hot right now take a look below. NURSE – Tuesday @ 10pm, BBC Two This week sees the launch of Paul Whitehouse‘s new
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March 9, 2015 // 0 Comments
Welcome to The Velvet Onion – the central hub for an interconnected range of alternative comedy and more. Click through for the LATEST NEWS, and see what’s so hot right now take a look below. POMPIDOU BEGINS… This week sees Matt Lucas new show Pompidou, co starring Alex
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February 23, 2015 // 0 Comments
A series of promotional images for Pompidou – the new (mostly) silent comedy from the brain of Matt Lucas – have been released. Earlier this weekend, you may have noticed TVO get a little weird, as our language barrier collapsed into Pompidou territory, in celebration of the release
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February 22, 2015 // 1 Comment
Ah trahlorh fuh deh Pompidou, ehsnu avehbehl teh vuw ohnlihn. Pompidou eh deh brahnchil deh Mah Luhcah, ahn ahlsuh stur Ahleh MehQueh, Tehne Weh, Aleh Loh eh Reh Bahrahcluh. Luhcah stur ah Pompidou – ah tehbeh, pehmpahs, pehnnileh, exentreh, yeh lahvbah ahristohcrah, lehvin ihn ahn ohl
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February 21, 2015 // 0 Comments
Now there are two more reasons to get Sky Atlantic – and they come in the form of two productions from Baby Cow. The award-winning Hunderby, Julia Davis‘ darkly comic homage to Daphne Du Maurier, will be returning to the channel for a Christmas special. Co-written with fellow
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February 16, 2015 // 1 Comment
Greetings and salutations to all who enter The Velvet Onion! For your regular news updates you used to find on our home page, click here. Here’s what’s sooo hot right now in Onion Land. TELEVISUAL TREATS Just as Halloween isn’t a good day to be a bad guy (just ask Skank), Monday
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November 3, 2014 // 0 Comments
Today sees the release of two of the latest additions to the TVO canon on digital versatile disc… as both Hunderby and Moone Boy are unleashed to the world, joining Alan Partridge: Mid Morning Matters which was released last week. Julia Davis‘ period comedy Hunderby also
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November 19, 2012 // 0 Comments
Series One of cult US/UK crossover sitcom The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret is released on dvd in the UK on Monday. The show was created by American stand-up and actor David Cross, and originally aired as a backdoor pilot as part of Channel 4’s Comedy Showcase series in 2009.
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September 22, 2012 // 0 Comments
Acclaimed political satire The Thick of It returns for a long-awaited fourth and final season this weekend, and we’ve got a selection of pictures from the new run to celebrate. The show, which focuses on fictional representatives of both major parties in UK government, was created by Alan
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September 4, 2012 // 0 Comments
Julia Davis’ sublime new costume-drama comedy Hunderby continues apace tonight on Sky Atlantic, and is now available to pre-order on dvd! The show also features Rufus Jones, Kevin Eldon, Daniel Lawrence Taylor and three Alex’s – Alex MacQueen, Alexandra Roach and Alexander
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September 3, 2012 // 1 Comment
Monday, 27th August sees the première of Hunderby – the new comedy costume drama from Baby Cow and Julia Davis, airing at 10pm on Sky Atlantic. The channel has kindly let us catch a sneaky peak of the first episode, and our editor in chief shares his thoughts below. When a shipwrecked
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August 23, 2012 // 4 Comments
Sky Atlantic have released a new trailer to get you in the mood for Hunderby, the new dark comedy created by and starring Julia Davis that starts on Monday 27th August at 10pm, and we’ve got some lovely new photos to share with you too! The hour-long programme is set in a 19th Century
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August 16, 2012 // 0 Comments
TVO regular Katy Wix, stars in a new radio show, Hard to Tell, which starts on Radio 4 today. The four-part relationship comedy, written by Jonny Sweet, revolves around Tom Sheffield (played by Jonny himself), his immediate family (Getting On’s Vicki Pepperdine, The Thick Of It’s Alex
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October 12, 2011 // 0 Comments
Earlier this week, as part of our IT Crowd 4.0 celebrations, we started a helpful rundown of familiar faces who have cropped up in previous episodes, in aid of those viewers who just can’t quite put a name to a face. The series has had its fair share of cameos, especially during its first
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June 23, 2010 // 5 Comments
This weekend sees the release of Four Lions – the controversial film debut of Nathan Barley & Brass Eye creator Chris Morris. Head peeler DidymusBrush managed to take a look, and this is his review… It was never going to be an easy ride. For the past two decades, Chris Morris
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May 7, 2010 // 4 Comments
2008 BBC3 sketch show The Wrong Door looks set for a DVD release. The series, which featured a heavy use of CGI in most of its sketches, relied on a revolving door of performers, including the wonderful Matt Berry, Spaced star Michael Smiley, The Thick of It’s Alex MacQueen and Alan
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March 22, 2010 // 2 Comments
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