Jeremy Dyson

Preview: The League of Gentlemen Specials

The League of Gentlemen return with three anniversary specials next week, and TVO has been lucky enough to take a sneaky peek at the first two instalments. Fifteen years after the third series, twelve since their movie spin-off and final UK tour together – is it worth the wait and deserving [...]

December 12, 2017 // 0 Comments

League of Gentlemen screenings in the North

The first of The League of Gentlemen‘s three new episodes will be screened in Hartlepool and York in December. The BBC is holding a screening at Hartlepool Town Hall on 14th December at 8.30pm and another at The Guild Hall in York on 15th December 15th at 8.30pm. They are also holding [...]

November 26, 2017 // 0 Comments

London Film Festival

The lineup for BFI’s London Film Festival has been announced. This year’s festival runs from 4th to 15th October and there are a few TVO-connected films among the jam-packed programme. Funny Cow In 1970s and 80s Northern England, a woman rises above abusive relationships and crass [...]

September 1, 2017 // 0 Comments

League of Gentlemen Update

A few more details have been revealed about the upcoming new episodes of The League of Gentlemen. The three 20th anniversary specials will begin filming next month in Manchester and the Peak District. Along with Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson, Steve Bendelack is [...]

August 26, 2017 // 1 Comment

League of Gentlemen return confirmed

BBC Two has confirmed that The League Of Gentlemen will be back on screen later this year for three special episodes, commemorating the 20th anniversary of their debut on BBC Radio. Patrick Holland, Controller of BBC Two, made the announcement today at the Edinburgh TV Festival. In the short [...]

August 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

Psychobitches Returns

Filming has started on a second series of Sky’s Psychobitches, the sketch show which has starred a few TVO artists from the fairer sex, including Rebecca Front, Katy Brand, Julia Davis and Sharon Horgan. The show puts history’s most iconic women into the psychiatrist’s chair to have [...]

April 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Onion On The Red Carpet At The Comedy Awards

We were lucky enough to bag some camera space alongside the red carpet at last week’s British Comedy Awards, so we sent two of our intrepid team down there to extract some chat from the award winners. Sadly for TVO, the artists and shows that we celebrate on this site didn’t scoop as [...]

December 20, 2013 // 1 Comment

Are You Sitting Comfortably?

This week sees the long awaited launch of Crackanory on UKTV channel Dave, and there are many TVO connections involved. Described as ‘storytime for adults’ the series consists of six half-hour episodes split into two 15 minute tales, told by a guest story-teller sitting in a big comfy [...]

November 11, 2013 // 1 Comment

Psychobitches Starts Thursday

A while back we mentioned that a full series of the superb Psychobitches would start airing in May 2013. Well hold onto your hairdo, because the first episode airs on May 30th! Psychobitches reads like a who’s who of female TVO artists, featuring the likes of Katy Brand, Sharon Horgan and [...]

May 20, 2013 // 3 Comments

The Wrong Mans

The Wrong Mans is a dark comedy thriller co-written by and starring James Corden and Matthew Baynton with Tom Basden and script edited by Jeremy Dyson. It has just been announced that comedy legends Dawn French and Rebecca Front have joined the cast and the show also stars Dan Renton Skinner [...]

January 30, 2013 // 0 Comments

Psychobitches Returns

One-off sketch show Pyschobitches will return for a full series in 2013. The Sky Arts show features The Day Today legend Rebecca Front as The Therapist – who interviews history’s most famous women about their obsessions and psychoses.  The pilot episode featured Catherine Tate, [...]

December 18, 2012 // 2 Comments

Bitch Boss Booshdom Double

Tonight brings comedy lovers everywhere two chances to see Sharon Horgan on their tellyboxes, with a few other familiar faces from Onion Land too. The Playhouse Presents comedy pilot Psychobitches, which we told you about recently, airs on Sky Arts at 9pm – featuring comic legend Rebecca [...]

June 21, 2012 // 0 Comments

Psychobitches

Katy Brand and Sharon Horgan are part of the star-studded ensemble cast of a new one-off comedy for Sky Arts. Hot on the heels of previous Playhouse Presents entry The Snipist from Matt Holness, the 30 minute show entitled Psychobitches features comic legend Rebecca Front (The Day Today, [...]

May 10, 2012 // 2 Comments