Father Ted
TVO has rounded up this year’s essential festive viewing, and summarised it on our homepage for the season. But here for posterity, and those of you bookmark thevelvetonion.com/news and come straight here, is that round-up. The following selection of new shows on your tellybox this Yuletide
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December 19, 2015 // 0 Comments
“I haven’t written anything, because I’m not really good at that type of thing. But I did a drawing.” In one of the oddest news stories we’ve seen for a while, a Dublin-based artist has taken to drawing a Father Ted related picture every day in an attempt to break a
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July 25, 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
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. CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY FOR TVO TELLY FANS! As Noddy Holder once sang: IT’S
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December 22, 2014 // 0 Comments
If you’re a bit mad about Father Ted, and you fancy a trip to ‘Craggy Island’ with a bunch of fellow Ted nutters, Tedfest 2015 will be right up your street. Every year a group of Father Ted fans gather on an island north of Galway called Inis Mor for several days of silly
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December 5, 2014 // 0 Comments
The Irish parliament has rejected a petition to make ‘My Lovely Horse’ from Father Ted Ireland’s official entry into next year’s Eurovision Song Contest. The petition entitled “legislate to make ‘My Lovely Horse’ Ireland’s entry for Eurovision 2015”
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June 28, 2014 // 0 Comments
Ted’s Tees, the T-shirt shop for any Father Ted slogan you could possibly want, have branched out into mugs. So you can now have your favourite brew from a mug with the legend “That would be an ecumenical matter”, “Down with this sort of thing” or more appropriately
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April 12, 2014 // 0 Comments
We bet that’s a pairing you never thought you’d see! And if anything, this story gets even odder when the connection between the two characters is explained. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the follow up to the 2011 movie Captain America: The First Avenger. And we, the public,
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February 1, 2014 // 0 Comments
This weekend saw Father Ted come up trumps in Channel 4’s 30 Greatest Comedy Shows countdown. With an impressive three shows in the top four, it cemented Graham Linehan’s place as a king of comedy. Helen Cowlyn looks back at a timeless classic, below… Father Ted was shown from
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August 27, 2012 // 0 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
After years of rumours, this week it was confirmed that the Alan Partridge movie is definitely happening! The feature-length Partridge film, starring Steve Coogan, will be shot later this year and is due for release in 2013. Armando Iannucci has been working on the script with Coogan, and Neil and
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May 2, 2012 // 1 Comment
Whether you like long films or just want a solid 30 minutes of entertainment; a Victorian drama or a comedy quiz show – you can pick and choose this Christmas, because there’s a hearty selection to choose from. Read on, bring your calendars and note down what to watch and when…
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December 5, 2011 // 10 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
What with Halloween being on the most awkward day of the week, we at TVO have been wondering what to do with ourselves this coming spooky weekend and have found there to be a plethora of Booshdom goodies on throughout. Of course, in true Boosh form, this schedule is more suitable for our
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October 28, 2011 // 0 Comments
For those of you pining for a seasonal dose of Booshniverse, here’s a rundown of the TV that’s worth setting your Sky+ for… First off there are the repeats of Little Crackers currently airing on Sky. Julian Barratt’s episode airs on Sky2 at 01:45 on 26th December and
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December 23, 2010 // 2 Comments
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