Phil Whelans

My First Planet Makes Second Contact

Sci-fi radio sitcom My First Planet returns to Radio 4 Extra next week. Written by and starring Phil Whelans (Kill Phil, The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains, It’s Kevin) and Doctor Who audio range author/actor John Dorney, the show features Only Fools and Horses legend Nicholas [...]

July 16, 2014 // 1 Comment

Get Your Hands On Peacock Season

Last week we mentioned in passing a film called Peackock Season, the first part of a low-budget trilogy by James Wren. Now further information has come to light about how you can get hold of it. Peacock Season (which features Richard Glover, Justin Edwards, Reece Shearsmith and Paul Foot, [...]

May 25, 2014 // 1 Comment

Get It Seen

No, that title isn’t just an instruction from us… it’s also the name of a new underground film festival taking place at legendary venue The Hen & Chickens Theatre in Islington this month. The venue, which has been a spiritual home for TVO regulars for almost two decades [...]

April 1, 2014 // 0 Comments

Kill Phil Vol. 2

The sublime comedy play Kill Phil returns next month at legendary London venue The Hen & Chickens. The show is the brainchild of Pros From Dover veteran (and writer/star of My First Planet), Phil Whelans, and co-stars Marny Godden of brilliant sketch troop The Grandees and TVO’s very [...]

February 22, 2014 // 0 Comments

Chat Show Roulette Spins Again

Tickets are now available for the latest iteration of Chat Show Roulette, which records next month. The improvised chat show features Justin Edwards as the host, and a string of guest performers who don’t know who they will be playing until literally seconds before they appear – [...]

January 30, 2014 // 3 Comments

Kill Phil

A brand new TVO-packed stage show will be unveiled later this month at legendary London venue The Hen & Chickens. Entitled Kill Phil, the show is the brainchild of Pros From Dover veteran (and writer/star of My First Planet), Phil Whelans.  It also features a what’s who of the sketch [...]

January 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

Partaaaay With The Forgery Club!

If your idea of the perfect Christmas party involves a combination of boogying, bevvying and brilliant comedy, then look no further! The Forgery Club‘s Christmas Party will be taking place on 21st December at Lowdown at The Albany, Great Portland Street in London (their original home). Hosted [...]

December 9, 2013 // 1 Comment

Your Second Series Of My First Planet

Radio 4 sci-fi sitcom My First Planet – written by and starring Phil Whelans – is set to return for a second series, and you could be in the audience. The show stars Only Fools And Horses legend Nicholas Lyndhurst as the ineffectual head of a new space colony, alongside rising [...]

October 5, 2013 // 1 Comment

Sucking McGuff, It’s More Masters Of Celluloid

Still craving your regular fix of The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains? If so, just like us, you’ll have recently enjoyed the first editions of Masters Of Celluloid – the spoof making of series starring Warwick Davies, from the mind of the increasingly active Bob Pipe.  The [...]

August 10, 2013 // 0 Comments

Onion Talking: The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains!

You’d have to have been living under a rock these last few months not to notice us banging on about a brilliant new web series called The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains. Jam-packed with TVO regulars, the show is the brainchild of Bob Pipe, and as the show comes to the end of its first [...]

June 5, 2013 // 5 Comments

Prime Sucker

The latest installment of The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains is now online. This week, Professor Langhorne and Dr. Von Busey (Phil Whelans and Richard Glover), have a meeting with the Prime Minister (Alex Kirk), about the global epidemic of brain sucking. Can it be too late for mankind? [...]

May 31, 2013 // 0 Comments

First Contact

The latest edition of The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains is now online for your peepers to cast their gaze upon. This week, the leading faiths of our land join forces to try and fend off the alien invaders, and there’s a surprise waiting in Professor Langhorne’s [...]

May 16, 2013 // 0 Comments

Forged Hope

The latest installment in the gloriously silly web series The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains has emerged online. This week’s episode from the minds of Bob Pipe, James Wren and Phil Whelans features the return of the latter and Richard Glover, with more brain sucking victims [...]

May 10, 2013 // 1 Comment

The Wrath Of Ken

More Brain Sucking action from the Multiverse gang. This week Roger and Brenda meet Ken, leader and only member of The Resistance, except for his broom. With a message from the Prime Minister (Alex Kirk) and cameos from husband and wife duo Waen Shepherd and Katy Derby as hapless tourists, this [...]

April 28, 2013 // 0 Comments

The Road To Death!

Not a nasty case of Motorway Madness, but the latest episode of The Day They Came to Suck out Our Brains from The Multiverse – the new online portal for sci-fi related silliness from Warwick Davies. The ten part web-show is from the genius minds of Bob Pipe, James Wren and Phil Whelans, and [...]

April 19, 2013 // 1 Comment

The Multiverse Keeps Going

The Multiverse – that glorious new online portal for sci-fi related silliness from Warwick Davies – has unleashed two new TVO flavoured slices of nonsense to savour. The latest edition of The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains was released today, and features Alex Kirk as the Prime [...]

April 11, 2013 // 0 Comments

Wade McGuff And The Brain Suckers!

Episode two of The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains is now live, and it’s another corker from the team. Written once again by Bob Pipe, Phil Whelans and James Wren, and directed by Bob as well, Episode Two features none other than Colin Hoult as rough, tough Wade McGuff, and he [...]

April 4, 2013 // 1 Comment

The Brain Sucking Begins!

It’s here at last! The long awaited online comedy series, The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains premièred its first episode today! The show is part of the Warwick Davies fronted YouTube channel The Multiverse, and features music from Waen Shepherd plus a host of TVO stars in front of [...]

March 28, 2013 // 2 Comments

The Sucking Draws Nearer

The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains grows ever nearer, and the mastermind behind it all, Mr Bob Pipe (of Forgery Club & TVO Live fame!) has unleashed a new trailer for this stonking great web series. Featuring the likes of Colin Hoult, Stephen Evans, Richard Glover, Gareth Tunley, [...]

March 22, 2013 // 0 Comments

The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains

If you thought that film and television technology is developing a bit too quickly, then the latest mini-series from Bob Pipe & James Wren is right up your street. The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains is bringing back the classic, Black & White horrors in a whole new way plus is [...]

March 14, 2013 // 0 Comments