Matt Berry
Matt Berry is set to star in a TV version of vampire mockumentary film What We Do in the Shadows. Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok) and Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords), who wrote/directed/starred in the original 2014 film, are serving as executive producers on the What We Do in the
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January 22, 2018 // 1 Comment
NBC is having another go at adapting The IT Crowd for American audiences. This marks their third attempt to create a US version of the show, although it will be the first time that the UK series creator, Graham Linehan, will be involved in writing it. In 2007, the network produced a pilot which
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December 27, 2017 // 0 Comments
Christmas is now only two weeks away, and that means one of two things: you’re either already sorted for present-buying this year, or you’ve got a stressful fortnight ahead. Well, if you’re in the latter camp, we’ve got you covered, as 2017 has been a bumper year for great
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December 10, 2017 // 0 Comments
Short film Sleigh starring Matt Berry and Nigel Planer is now available to watch online. Formerly successful rock band The Kindness are trying to record a Christmas song for their comeback single. It’s the height of summer, tempers are fraying and obnoxious lead singer Rob (Aidan Casey) and his
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December 1, 2017 // 0 Comments
Matt Berry makes a guest appearance in the latest music video from Irish chamber-pop outfit Pugwash. Until very recently a four-piece band, Pugwash is now the solo moniker for Thomas Walsh. In their previous iteration, the band supported Matt on his 2013 UK tour, and both Walsh and his former
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November 28, 2017 // 0 Comments
Matt Berry and Nigel Planer star in new short film Sleigh. Formerly successful rock band The Kindness are trying to record a Christmas song for their comeback single. It’s the height of summer, tempers are fraying and obnoxious lead singer Rob (Aidan Casey) and his dad Gerald, the officious
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November 17, 2017 // 0 Comments
Matt Berry is starring in a Victorian crime comedy pilot for Channel 4. Filming started today on the pilot, which has no confirmed title so far. It pastiches gritty 70s detective dramas by transposing the action to Victorian London, notorious for the murders of Jack the Ripper. Matt Berry plays the
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October 9, 2017 // 0 Comments
Matt Berry will be releasing his new album, Night Terrors, on Acid Jazz Records on 17th November. The eight track record, subtitled ‘Nocturnal Excursions in Music’, is the companion piece to his previous release, The Small Hours, a collection of songs about the half-awake moments we
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October 5, 2017 // 0 Comments
The Moomins is being revived with Matt Berry among the voice cast. The children’s classic will be back on our screens in 2019, with Matt playing Moominpappa and Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) as Moominmamma. Also among the cast are Richard Ayoade, Kate Winslet, Taron Egerton, Warwick
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September 12, 2017 // 0 Comments
Toast of London – the acclaimed, BAFTA winning Channel 4 sitcom written by and starring Matt Berry – is now available on Netflix worldwide. Co-written and co-created by Father Ted and Big Train writer Arthur Matthews, and directed by Michael Cumming (Snuff Box, Brass Eye) the
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September 2, 2017 // 0 Comments
Matt Berry, Rich Fulcher, Noel Fielding and Lucy Montgomery have been announced as part of the A-list ensemble cast on Matt Groening’s new animated fantasy show for Netflix, Disenchantment. The creator of The Simpsons and Futurama has been working on the series development for the
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July 25, 2017 // 0 Comments
Matt Berry is among a talented comedy cast appearing in The Philanthropist at Trafalgar Studios. Here’s what Sophie made of it… Originally staged in 1970, Christopher Hampton’s The Philanthropist centres on a group of insular academics, more concerned with their own lives than
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May 19, 2017 // 0 Comments
So many podcasts, so little time. Here’s a handy list of British podcast episodes that feature the people we cover at TVO. The Comedian’s Comedian In this long-running podcast, stand-up comedian Stuart Goldsmith interviews fellow stand-ups about how and why they do comedy. Things
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April 21, 2017 // 0 Comments
This year’s charity telethon featured a large TVO contingent amongst its bevy of stars, and raised over £71m for great causes around the world. But it was also a highly divisive evening for audiences. Our editor in chief, Paul Holmes, shares his thoughts on some of the things that worked,
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March 25, 2017 // 1 Comment
The BBC has revealed the lineup for its Comic Relief broadcast on Red Nose Day – Friday 24th March 2017. Here are the TVO highlights of the night… Philomena Cunk Philomena Cunk (aka Diane Morgan) presents a new ‘Moments of Wonder’ segment about charity, featuring Richard
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March 14, 2017 // 0 Comments
A music video has been released for the song Lord Above from Matt Berry’s latest album The Small Hours. Watch the video below: The Small Hours is available on CD and vinyl
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March 5, 2017 // 0 Comments
Matt Berry will star in a new production of comedy play The Philanthropist at Trafalgar Studios in London. The celebrated play, which first premiered in London in 1970 and was written by Christopher Hampton, is a biting comedy set in a fictitious English University town. It follows 24 hours in
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February 22, 2017 // 0 Comments
Matt Berry will be part of a stellar lineup for the newly-announced feature film, An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn. Fellow cast members for the offbeat movie include Aubrey Plaza, Craig Robinson, Emile Hirsch and Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement. The film is the next project from
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February 10, 2017 // 0 Comments
The festive season is upon us and there’s plenty to keep you entertained on the tellybox. Here’s our roundup of this year’s most essential Christmas viewing. Drunk History Wednesday 21st December at 10pm, Comedy Central UK Rick Edwards tells the story of the World War I Christmas
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December 21, 2016 // 0 Comments
Get those Christmas lists out! A new DVD box set of The IT Crowd has just been released in the US and it will be available in the UK later this month. The Ultimate Boxset includes Versions 1.0-4.0 of the award-winning show as well as The Internet Is Coming episode, and a whole bunch of extras,
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December 3, 2016 // 0 Comments
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