Graham Linehan
“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
Reece Shearsmith is interviewed by Adam Buxton in the first of the new series of BBC Radio 4’s tag team interview show Chain Reaction. Each week the interviewee from the week before becomes the interviewer. The 10th series of the chat show carries on from the end of the last series, when
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February 20, 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. 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
Graham Linehan and Adam Buxton have teamed up to write a new space-set tv pilot, according to Radio Times. The Cloud will feature a hapless crew on board a data hub floating above the earth, protecting the vast amounts of information humanity now hoards of its endless devices. Information such
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February 9, 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 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
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. DRUNK HISTORY Over on Comedy Central UK, a brand new British version of Drunk History is about to begin –
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January 12, 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. LOVE IN RECOVERY This week sees the launch of a brilliant new radio 4 comedy drama, Love in Recovery, featuring
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January 5, 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
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
This weekend saw Richard Ayoade and Katherine Parkinson pick up BAFTA TV Awards for their roles in The IT Crowd. The duo were nominated for Best Performance In A Comedy Programme, in the Male/Female categories respectively. Parkinson faced off stiff competition from Doon Mackichan (Plebs),
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May 19, 2014 // 0 Comments
Those of us of a certain age hold will always have a special place in our hearts for Chris Morris‘s game-changing radio series Blue Jam, which first aired on BBC Radio 1 between 1997 and 1999. And the first five episodes of the series are now being repeated on Radio 4 Extra! The series
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March 1, 2014 // 0 Comments
Graham Linehan has been talking to the press this week about his new sitcom The Walshes. The three-part series, which starts on BBC4 in March (provisionally 13th March), features an oddball Irish family. However, Linehan is keen to avoid comparisons with Brendan O’Carroll’s hit show
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February 26, 2014 // 0 Comments
BBC4, the channel perhaps better known for meaningful documentaries about seminal albums is ramping up its comedy offering, and there are a few TVO faces in the line-up! First up is The Walshes, a three-part series co-written by Graham Linehan and the five piece Irish comedy troupe Diet of Worms
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February 4, 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
Graham Linehan will be taking part in Chain Reaction on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday at 6.30pm. If you haven’t heard the show before, each episode has a celebrity as guest interviewer and they decide who they would like to interview. For the next show, the person being questioned
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January 19, 2014 // 0 Comments
It can’t have escaped your attention that The IT Crowd returns for a one-off special on Friday, September 27th. The first – and most likely final – episode since 2010 airs at 9pm, as part of a whole night devoted to the beloved sitcom, and TVO has been lucky enough to see the
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September 16, 2013 // 2 Comments
As we announced back in July, the final, long-awaited episode of The IT Crowd will air during a special The IT Crowd Night, on Friday 27th September at 9pm, on Channel 4. The hour-long episode re-unites Richard Ayoade as Moss, Katherine Parkinson as Jen, Chris O’Dowd as Roy and Matt Berry
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September 11, 2013 // 0 Comments
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