Mark Gatiss
Sky and HBO have commissioned Sally4Ever, a new comedy series from Julia Davis. The brand new series, written and directed by Julia Davis, promises to “explore the facets of love and sex in our confused, obsessive and gender-fluid world”. Starring alongside Julia are Catherine Shepherd
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May 1, 2018 // 0 Comments
Steve Pemberton and Mark Gatiss have joined the cast of Good Omens. Steve and Mark will be taking on the roles of mysterious book-buyers Harmony and Glozier. With this casting news, they’re following in the footsteps of their fellow The League of Gentlemen star Reece Shearsmith, who was
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February 11, 2018 // 0 Comments
The Blood on Satan’s Claw, starring Reece Shearsmith and Mark Gatiss, is now available on Audible. Seventeenth-century England, and a plough uncovers a grisly skull in the furrows of a farmer’s field. The skull disappears, but its malefic influence begins to work in insidious ways upon
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January 16, 2018 // 0 Comments
With The League of Gentlemen back on our screens this month, we’re taking a look at what the group’s four members have been up to since the original TV series ended in 2002. Now that Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have been covered, Sophie turns her attention to Mark Gatiss… During the
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December 14, 2017 // 0 Comments
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
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December 12, 2017 // 0 Comments
The League of Gentlemen returns to our screens on Monday 18th December for a three-part revival miniseries, and we can reveal this exclusive gallery of images from the new episodes! Once again written by Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, the new series of three
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December 7, 2017 // 0 Comments
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
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November 26, 2017 // 0 Comments
Comic actors including Mark Gatiss, Kevin Eldon, David Bamber and Richard Glover appear in BBC One’s Gunpowder. The new three-part historical drama follows Robert Catesby, the man who masterminded the 1605 ‘gunpowder plot’ to blow up Parliament and kill reigning British monarch
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October 21, 2017 // 0 Comments
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
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August 26, 2017 // 1 Comment
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
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August 23, 2017 // 0 Comments
A rather unusual floral tribute was spotted in the back of a hearse yesterday in Carlisle. A confused passer by photographed the vehicle, only to discover that the flower arrangement was an unusal last request from the chap whose funeral it was, who was a League of Gentlemen fan. Spotted in
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July 29, 2017 // 0 Comments
Reece Shearsmith, Mark Gatiss and Alice Lowe star in a new audio adaptation of classic 1971 horror film The Blood on Satan’s Claw. In addition to Shearsmith, Gatiss and Lowe, the cast of the new adaptation includes John Heffernan, Ralph Ineson, Philip Hill-Pearson and star of the original
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July 24, 2017 // 0 Comments
Our Friend Victoria concludes tonight with two episodes, one of which is hosted by The League of Gentlemen. Over the last few weeks, the BBC series has been celebrating the work of Victoria Wood. With a different theme and host each week, plus contributions from friends and admirers of Victoria,
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May 9, 2017 // 0 Comments
WARNING: This post contains spoilers for Season 4 of Sherlock and references to episodes in previous series. It’s one of the biggest shows in television and as secretive as its stars are lucrative, so it was a pleasant surprise even to TVO that Katy Wix appeared in the latest episode of
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January 11, 2017 // 0 Comments
As you probably know, if you live in the UK, there is a General Election happening in May, and The Donmar Warehouse is celebrating this event with “A national television event and a first for theatre and television“. A lot to live up to you might think, but The Vote is certainly on
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March 24, 2015 // 2 Comments
A new book of photography featuring a bevy of TVO regulars is available for order. 50 Comedians is the work of portrait photographer Matt Crockett, and features over 50 portraits of comedic legends and fresher faces across 108 pages. This includes Matt Berry, Paul Foot, Tony Law, Reece
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January 14, 2015 // 0 Comments
Katy Brand has been confirmed to appear in a forthcoming BBC adaptation of the comic drama by EF Benson, Mapp And Lucia. Steve Pemberton has written the 3-part adaptation – about the notorious social rivals Miss Elizabeth Mapp and Mrs Emmeline ‘Lucia’ Lucas. The story celebrates and
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May 4, 2014 // 0 Comments
The Bafta nominations are out, and there are many TVO connections to be found. To begin with; The IT Crowd has 4 nominations, with Chris O’Dowd, Richard Ayoade and Katherine Parkinson nominated for Best Male/Female Performance in a Comedy Programme, and Best Situation Comedy, where it
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April 8, 2014 // 0 Comments
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
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May 20, 2013 // 3 Comments
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,
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December 18, 2012 // 2 Comments
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