Richard Glover
The Velvet Onion has received a copy of the brand new teaser trailer for forthcoming short film The Monster. We first told you about the film back in March, when the production was awarded funding by Film London. A comedy horror about an iconic monster who falls in love with his leading lady on
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September 22, 2015 // 0 Comments
Bill – the long awaited film about the lost years of William Shakespeare is finally released tomorrow (September 18th), six months later than originally planned. It is written by Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond, who star in the film, along with the rest of the cast of BBC’s
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September 17, 2015 // 0 Comments
We’re late. We’re late. For a very important date. No time to say Jasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, we’re late, we’re late, we’re late! Yes, it’s not often we’re behind the times, but somehow, a bubble in the Onionverse caused a rift in the comedy continuum
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September 16, 2015 // 0 Comments
In most cases, the kids break up from school this week, for 49 days of freedom. We don’t need no education, indeed. (Yes, we know we just used a double negative.) What we will need, however, is some Bad Education – as the hit BBC Three sitcom which starred Jack Whitehall, Mathew
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July 17, 2015 // 0 Comments
Audible, the Amazon-owned company that sells audio downloads, has created five new sitcom pilots which it is giving away for free. The collection is titled This Is Your Pilot Speaking!, and this is the first time that Audible has commissioned original comedy content in the UK. Of course if
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July 7, 2015 // 0 Comments
The Velvet Onion is proud to bring you an updated version of our TVO IS FIVE video for your perusal, featuring a cavalcade of comedy legends wishing us a very happy birthday. Some of you may remember at the end of January, The Velvet Onion marked its official fifth anniversary with a string of
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March 15, 2015 // 0 Comments
A new short film, starring Richard Glover, directed by Bob Pipe and produced by James Wren, has been awarded funding by Film London. The film, The Monster, is a comedy horror about an iconic monster who falls in love with his leading lady on the set of a dubious film, as he tries to resurrect
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March 8, 2015 // 1 Comment
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 take a look below. POMPIDOU BEGINS… This week sees Matt Lucas new show Pompidou, co starring Alex
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February 23, 2015 // 0 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 take a look below. COME ON IN… Monday evening puts out the Welcome mat for the long awaited second series of House
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February 16, 2015 // 0 Comments
Rufus Jones will be a guest on tonight’s edition of The One Show to promote this weekend’s première of The Casual Vacancy. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll be aware by now of the JK Rowling adaptation, with its star-studded cast, starting on BBC One this
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February 12, 2015 // 0 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 below. YOU SAY GOODBYE… This week sees the Comedic Guard of 2015 begin to change for the first time, as
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February 9, 2015 // 0 Comments
BBC One’s star studded adaptation of The Casual Vacancy airs later this month, and as transmission approaches, more information is starting to be made public. An adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s novel of the same name, The Casual Vacancy centres on Pagford, a seemingly idyllic English
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February 2, 2015 // 2 Comments
He’s currently wowing the crowds in a mainstream Hollywood film, but Richard Glover still has the time to be suitably bonkers. This needs so few words to describe, so we’ll hand right over to Richard, as he tells us the true origins of a very well known phrase. Enjoy. As a cheeky
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January 12, 2015 // 0 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 below. LOVE IN RECOVERY This week sees the launch of a brilliant new radio 4 comedy drama, Love in Recovery, featuring
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January 5, 2015 // 0 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 below. CHRISTMAS COMES EARLY FOR TVO TELLY FANS! As Noddy Holder once sang: IT’S
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December 22, 2014 // 0 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 below. TELLY VELVETS CONTINUE We’re knee deep into the current series of several TVO related shows at present,
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November 17, 2014 // 0 Comments
It’s the news we’ve been waiting for… The Day They Came To Suck Out Our Brains is becoming a movie – and YOU can get involved with the production! Written and created by Bob Pipe (the man behind The Forgery Club) and James Wren (the man behind The Hen & Chickens),
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October 24, 2014 // 2 Comments
A while ago we mentioned that perennial TVO favourite, Richard Glover, was appearing in the new Disney blockbuster Into the Woods with Hollywood A-listers, Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep. Now the trailer for the film has been released! Based on the Stephen Sodenheim musical of the same name, the
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August 2, 2014 // 0 Comments
A wee while ago we mentioned that Peacock Season, the movie by and featuring James Wren, alongside a bevy of TVO-related comedians, would soon be available to view via Distrify, a site which allows you to buy films via social media. Well now it’s on there! The film follows the story
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July 3, 2014 // 0 Comments
Rufus Jones and Richard Glover are amongst the big names attached to the BBC/HBO co-production of JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy, to film this summer. The adaptation of Rowling’s first adult novel after her boy wizard Harry Potter conquered the world, tells the story of an idyllic
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June 7, 2014 // 0 Comments
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