Big Train
The lineup for this year’s Pilot Light TV Festival has been announced. Manchester’s festival dedicated to celebrating the best in TV and web series from around the world is back, for its third year, on 3rd-6th May. The lineup this year includes a 20th anniversary screening of Big
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April 6, 2018 // 0 Comments
Here at The Velvet Onion, we try to focus on the real, genuine news stories surrounding the alternative comedians who make up our family of frequent collaborators. We leave their personal lives very much off limits – as cute as all those Velvet Babies are these days – and don’t
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August 15, 2015 // 0 Comments
Arthur Mathews will be one of the guest speakers at Soundstage, a new regular arts event in London. Mathews is one of Britain’s most successful television comedy writers, and his CV includes a number of TVO-connected shows. For starters, he co-created and co-wrote Father Ted with Graham
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April 1, 2015 // 0 Comments
The Velvet Onion would like to extend its sympathies to the family and friends of Mel Smith, who died this weekend aged 60. First bursting onto television screens in anarchic, topical sketch show Not The Nine O’Clock News, alongside Rowan Atkinson, Pamela Stephenson and his later double-act
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July 21, 2013 // 0 Comments
Yesterday, we posted the first half of our retrospective on the origins of The Boosh. You can read Part One again here. The story concludes below, with the rest of our in-depth look at some of the people behind On The Hour and The Day Today who went on to become instrumental in the development
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November 2, 2011 // 4 Comments
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