Brass Eye
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
A new documentary on the making of Brass Eye from its original director Michael Cummings will receive its world premiere at the Pilot Light TV Festival in Manchester this Spring. Oxide Ghosts: The Brass Eye Tapes offers a curated selection of never before seen material from the making of the
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March 23, 2017 // 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
Next Saturday the BBC will broadcast a three-hour tribute programme devoted to the radio work of new wave comedy pioneer, Chris Morris. ‘Raw Meat Radio’ will look back at Morris’ radio career, and will include rarely-heard archive material. Mary Anne Hobbs (who we’ve been
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November 23, 2014 // 1 Comment
As part of Funny Fortnight celebrations, we thought it’d be a good idea to look back at some of TVO’s favourite moments in the history of Channel 4. Here’s Velveteer Paulyne’s take on the controversial classic, Brass Eye. If anyone amongst our extensive list of acts would
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August 17, 2012 // 0 Comments
Details have emerged of the exact transmission times for much of the programming in Channel 4’s Funny Fortnight – which features a number of TVO faces in new productions and old favourites. These include Julia Davis and Sharon Horgan in Bad Sugar, Matt Berry in Toast Of
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August 13, 2012 // 3 Comments
Channel 4 have released more details of their Funny Fortnight next month, which features more than a smattering of TVO regulars and influences. Over 30 hours of programming across two weeks of television, the season promises brand new shows, excellent stand up and familiar faces staging their
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July 20, 2012 // 0 Comments
It may be hard to believe for some of our older readers, but Channel 4 hits the big 30 this year, and as we’ve previously mentioned, there’s a whole host of comedy content to savour during their anniversary. Part of that collection of comedy old and new looks set to be a countdown of
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June 22, 2012 // 1 Comment
Channel 4 will be marking its 30th anniversary with a fortnight of exciting new comedy – and there are a number of TVO-related artists in the mix! One of the highlights of Channel 4’s Funny Fortnight is a brand new sitcom, Toast of London, co-written by and starring Matt Berry. Matt
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June 16, 2012 // 0 Comments
The Velvet Onion 