Julian Barratt
The highly acclaimed Channel 4 series featuring Julian Barratt and Olivia Colman will be released on DVD next week. Forever associated with the birthday of John Taylor (Duran Duran) thanks to my 13 year-old self, this year June 20th will instead be recognised as the release date of the DVD of
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June 16, 2016 // 0 Comments
Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, and members of his family have donated postcard-sized artworks to raise money for the Card2Kendal appeal. From left to right: postcard by Julian Barratt; Julian’s Mum; Julian Barratt, Walter (Julian’s son); Emma Pettifer (Julian’s sister and a
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June 8, 2016 // 0 Comments
Will Sharpe, the astonishingly young and talented writer/director/actor from Flowers, is the subject of the latest comedy podcast from writer and performer Andy Beckerman. If you haven’t come across Andy’s work before, he’s a New York-based writer and performer who began
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June 1, 2016 // 0 Comments
Brakes, the debut feature film by Mercedes Grower which features a whole host of TVO talent, will be screening at the Edinburgh International Film festival in June. The dark comedy traces the emotionally heightened pivot points at the end and beginning of nine different relationships. Four years
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May 25, 2016 // 0 Comments
Boosh fans were sent into a frenzy last week, when the online version of Radio Times claimed The Mighty Boosh were to reunite for a new project. The article centred around comments made by Julian Barratt during promotion for his role in the new Channel 4 sitcom Flowers (get the lowdown
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April 19, 2016 // 0 Comments
Flowers, the new sitcom from Will Sharpe, stars Olivia Colman and Julian Barratt, and is due to air at the end of April. Here's what Julian had to say about it...
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April 11, 2016 // 0 Comments
Flowers, the new sitcom from Will Sharpe, stars Julian Barratt and Olivia Colman, and is due to air at the end of April. Here's what we thought of it...
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April 11, 2016 // 0 Comments
One of our favourite films of 2015, Steve Oram‘s dystopian simian punk vision, Aaaaaaaah!, will be out on DVD and Blu-ray on Monday 18th January. Previously only available via VOD, the cult film sees its actors (a phenomenally strong cast featuring a bevy of TVO-connected folk: Steve
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January 16, 2016 // 0 Comments
A new promo film for Aaaaaaaah! has been released, which features members of the cast talking about their the film. As you might expect from Steve Oram, it’s not your run-of-the-mill ‘speaking heads’ promo. Featuring Julian Barratt (with post-Mindhorn barnet), Sean Reynard, Julian
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October 31, 2015 // 1 Comment
Julian Barratt will be pouring into our ear holes on Halloween night in a spooky radio drama for BBC Radio 4. The Stone Tape is adapted from the 1972 TV movie of the same name, originally written by the creator of the Quatermass series, Nigel Kneale. The story revolves around a team of
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October 27, 2015 // 1 Comment
If you’re a regular reader of The Velvet Onion, you’ll know that we’ve been getting more than a bit excited about Aaaaaaaah!, the comedy horror from Steve Oram, which stars a bevy of TVO faces. And now we can get excited again – because from Monday everyone will get the
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October 17, 2015 // 1 Comment
Peterford Golf Club is being revived in brand new take on the cult classic for Radio Two. Promising to do for golf clubs what Green Wing did for hospitals, this new sitcom incarnation of the long gestating project is written by its co-creator Simon Farnaby and stars Simon alongside Barunka
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October 5, 2015 // 1 Comment
The good folk at Rook Films have released a limited screen print run of the Aaaaaaaah! movie poster. There are only 100 copies of the five-layer print made to celebrate Steve Oram‘s directorial debut. In case you’ve missed it, the film stars Oram alongside a cavalcade of TVO
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September 29, 2015 // 0 Comments
One of the things that distinguishes the artists that we write about at The Velvet Onion is their ability to think differently and to make waves in a sea of entertainment mediocrity. At their best, they conjure up ideas and dream of worlds so creatively vibrant that they force us, the
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August 28, 2015 // 2 Comments
Julian Barratt joins Olivia Colman in a new six-part dark comedy from Channel 4, entitled Flowers. Written and directed by BAFTA nominated writer and director Will Sharpe (who last crossed our paths as a young Pat Quid in The Life of Rock with Brian Pern), the series is described as an
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August 26, 2015 // 0 Comments
As our regular readers will be aware, we’ve been getting more than a little over-excited about Aaaaaaah! for some time – and now the details of the World Premiere have been announced. Steve Oram‘s directorial debut comedy horror, about a world inhabited by apes in human form,
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July 5, 2015 // 1 Comment
Rumours have been circulating for a while about this one, but the details of Julian Barratt and Simon Farnaby‘s feature film, Mindhorn, have now been made public. Written by Julian and Simon, and directed by award-winning theatre director Sean Foley (who will be making his feature debut),
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June 24, 2015 // 2 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 THIS WEEK below… TRAILAAAAAAAAH! Late last week, TVO recieved the first teaser trailer for Aaaaaaaah! – the
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April 13, 2015 // 0 Comments
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April 10, 2015 // 1 Comment
If you’re an avid Twitter user, you can’t help but have noticed the buzz mid-week when the poster for Aaaaaaah! was revealed. It. Has. Arrived. #Aaaaaaaah! @steve_oram @TomMeeten @noelfielding11 @julian_barratt @toyahofficial @alicelowe pic.twitter.com/NiNRfZOyCA — The Velvet Onion
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March 7, 2015 // 1 Comment
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