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This Thursday sees Film 4 give movie lovers another chance to see not one, not two, but three recent TVO related smashes in a row. Alice Lowe‘s Prevenge – in which a pregnant mother-to-be begins revenge-killing those responsible for the death of her partner, seemingly at the behest
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December 13, 2017 // 0 Comments
Dan Skinner is the latest guest on Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, or as the cool kids are calling it RHLSTP. Dan tells Richard all about the origins of Angelos Epithemiou, and how thanks to a suggestion from Lucy Montgomery, he sent a videotape in a bag to Bob
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August 31, 2017 // 0 Comments
The Ghoul is in UK cinemas and available on-demand now, and to celebrate, The Velvet Onion is offering you the chance to win a pair of tickets to a very special screening and Q&A event tomorrow night in London! Gareth Tunley‘s debut film, starring Tom Meeten, Alice Lowe, Dan
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August 9, 2017 // 0 Comments
The Ghoul – the incredible directorial debut of Gareth Tunley starring Tom Meeten and a cavalcade of TVO regulars – is now available to pre-order on DVD and Blu-Ray. The film, which saw limited screenings last year and earlier in 2017, is due to hit cinemas on 4th August. It tells
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August 1, 2017 // 0 Comments
Angelos and Barry are heading back out on the road for another leg of their UK tour The New Power Generation this Autumn. We mention this mostly because we write about the work of their minders, Dan Skinner and Alex Lowe and we understand that their charges will be rather annoyed if we
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July 1, 2017 // 0 Comments
Sky Arts has announced a new batch of comedy shorts, with several TVO regulars involved including Morgana Robinson, Sharon Horgan and Ellie White. The seven shorts, themed around summertime, will be available on demand from June 28th. Previously the channel has broadcast shorts for
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June 8, 2017 // 0 Comments
Prevenge – the directorial feature debut from Alice Lowe – is available on dvd and blu-ray now. To celebrate, TVO cornered Alice once more to talk in depth about the Prevenge experience from conception to completion. With major spoilers (you have been warned), this is the
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June 5, 2017 // 0 Comments
The ever-brilliant Richard Herring returns to Leicester Square Theatre for his live podcast series RHLSTP next week, and TVO regulars Dan Skinner and Katy Brand are amongst this season’s special guests. We’re big admirers of not only Richard Herring’s output over the last
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May 30, 2017 // 0 Comments
Alice Lowe’s smash hit film Prevenge is released on DVD and Blu-Ray in the UK on 5th June, which gave TVO an ample excuse to revisit a film we’d previously called “a startling debut from an incredibly talented individual”. With the film also available to download from
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May 29, 2017 // 0 Comments
The Rio Cinema in Dalston, London, will be showing a Velvet Onion-flavoured double bill this Sunday, with a combined screening and Q&A for Aaaaaaaah! and Prevenge. With both films emerging from of the hearts and minds of two of our favourite people, and each of them featuring a whole host of
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May 10, 2017 // 0 Comments
The next installment of regular sell-out live night Cardinal Burns Presents… takes place next week, with another corking lineup you won’t want to miss. The monthly shows at Moth Club in Hackney have been taking place for the last few years now, and are regular sell-outs, with waiting
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May 4, 2017 // 0 Comments
There’s a chance to learn from masters of their craft this weekend at the BAFTA Guru Live events in London and Glasgow, and this includes the makers of Murder in Successville and Notes on Blindness. BAFTA are opening their doors for two inspirational days of masterclasses, panels +
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May 4, 2017 // 0 Comments
Alice Lowe‘s sensational directorial debut Prevenge will be released on dvd and blu-ray in June. For the uninitiated the film stars its writer and director as Ruth, a downtrodden mum-to-be who lost her partner on the very day she found out she was pregnant, and now believes that their
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April 3, 2017 // 0 Comments
Family friendly fantasy favourite Yonderland will not be returning, it has been revealed. The Sky One comedy drama, which ran for three series and a Christmas special, was the work of the original lead cast for CBBC’s Horrible Histories – all of whom have made regular contributions
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February 17, 2017 // 1 Comment
This week sees the return of Tracy Ullman’s Show to BBC One, with the first episode airing on Friday 3rd February at 9:30pm. As with the first series, a bevy of TVO regulars are involved: this time around Dan Skinner, Tracy Ann Oberman, Lucy Montgomery and Laurence Rickard are part of the
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February 2, 2017 // 0 Comments
This week sees the long-awaited London run of Katy Brand‘s critically acclaimed I Was a Teenage Christian at the Soho Theatre, with shows every night from Monday 23rd to Saturday 28th January. But this is just the start of a long run of comedy across this Winter and early Spring for the
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January 23, 2017 // 0 Comments
Colin Hoult, Dan Skinner and Dan Tetsell are amongst the comedy stars appearing in the next batch of Sky’s Comedy Shorts this Valentines Day. The series of films follows in the wake of the channel’s previous Christmas, Halloween and Irish themed pieces, with pieces coming from a
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January 20, 2017 // 0 Comments
The Ghoul and Trespass Against Us are to screen across the UK as part of the BIFI Independents season. For the uninitiated The Ghoul is the directorial debut by Gareth Tunley and stars a bevy of TVO regulars including Tom Meeten, Alice Lowe, Dan Skinner, Geoffrey McGivern and Rufus
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January 17, 2017 // 0 Comments
Ricky Gervais seems ubiquitous at the moment, what with his recent film David Brent: Life on the Road, live performances in character as Brent, and a stand-up tour (as himself) scheduled for 2017. So we thought we’d take a look back through Ricky’s television work, from The
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December 22, 2016 // 0 Comments
Alice Lowe will be touring the UK in the new year to promote her forthcoming film Prevenge, which is to be released in UK cinemas on February 10th 2017, and you can see the brand new trailer below. Prevenge is Alice’s directorial debut, which she has also written and starred in whilst 7-8
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December 20, 2016 // 1 Comment
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