Daniel Lawrence Taylor
Daniel Lawrence Taylor’s sitcom about a time-travelling jazz band is well worth your time. In Timewasters, a filthy lift in a dilapidated block of flats becomes a time machine, sending a struggling four-piece jazz band back to the roaring 20s. The central players are Daniel Lawrence
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October 25, 2017 // 0 Comments
The latest two episodes of Dan Clark’s Screen Talk feature three guests with links to TVO. In his Fubar Radio podcast, Dan Clark chats to guests from the big and small screen, asking them about their work and ending each interview by getting them to name a guilty pleasure film or television
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October 17, 2017 // 0 Comments
The first trailer for ITV2’s new time-travel comedy Timewasters has been released. This new sitcom from ITV2 is about a struggling South London jazz band who travel back in time to the 1920s via a lift in a block of flats. Created by and starring Daniel Lawrence Taylor (Hunderby) with Barunka
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September 6, 2017 // 2 Comments
What a cracking combination of words, eh? We are delighted to report that ITV2 has commissioned a new time travelling jazz sitcom which has been touched by a few TVO-friendly folk. Timewasters is a brand new comedy from Daniel Lawrence Taylor about a struggling four-piece South London jazz
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August 24, 2016 // 0 Comments
Audible, the Amazon-owned company that sells audio downloads, has created five new sitcom pilots which it is giving away for free. The collection is titled This Is Your Pilot Speaking!, and this is the first time that Audible has commissioned original comedy content in the UK. Of course if
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July 7, 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. MOONE BOY RETURNS This week sees the long awaited return of Moone Boy to Sky 1 HD, once again
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March 2, 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
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. COME ON IN… Monday evening puts out the Welcome mat for the long awaited second series of House
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February 16, 2015 // 0 Comments
This week sees the launch of Series Two of Uncle: BBC Three’s comedy drama featuring Nick Helm as an out of work musician with a 13 year old nephew. Strictly speaking, it’s not a fully Velvet Onion-flavoured TV show, but with TVO regulars Daniel Lawrence Taylor and Nicholas
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February 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 below. YOU SAY GOODBYE… This week sees the Comedic Guard of 2015 begin to change for the first time, as
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February 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 below. THE VELVET ONION IS FIVE This week marks our fifth anniversary, and to celebrate, a number of our regulars sent
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February 2, 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 below. SEVEN IN ONE This week sees not one, not two, but SEVEN great shows with direct TVO connections airing across UK
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January 26, 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 below. CATASTROPHE FOR SHARON HORGAN Monday 19th sees the launch of Catastrophe – the brand new comedy
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January 19, 2015 // 0 Comments
This week saw the launch of new ITV2 apocalyptic comedy Cockroaches – and there was a familiar name or two for regular TVO readers involved. The show stars Daniel Lawrence Taylor, known on the live circuit as one half of excellent musical storytelling duo Ginger & Black, but perhaps
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January 14, 2015 // 0 Comments
The second series of The Alternative Comedy Experience, curated by Stewart Lee, will be hitting our screens this Tuesday – and it will be featuring a few TVO faces. The new 13-part series will reflect the format of series one, having also been filmed at The Stand in Edinburgh. Once
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July 11, 2014 // 0 Comments
There’s a brand new comedy show with TVO connections tucked away on Sky Living later this week – so much so we almost missed it! Seriously… tell us about your shows, broadcasters! Entitled Love Matters, the six half-hour comedies are all about the ugly business of relationships.
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March 26, 2013 // 1 Comment
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
The televisual resurgence in new wave comedy has had a surprising beacon of shiny awesomeness over the last twelve months, in the form of Sky Atlantic – and that association looks set to continue apace with the announcement of Common People. An eleven part series of comedy shorts directed by
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October 11, 2012 // 1 Comment
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
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