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The nominees have been announced for the BAFTA Craft Awards, with some well-deserved recognition for Camping and Alan Partridge’s Scissored Isle. Here are the nominees in the comedy writing category: JULIA DAVIS – Camping (Baby Cow Productions/Sky Atlantic) PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE
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March 28, 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 Trip will return for its third series on Thursday April 6th. Whereas the previous two series aired on BBC Two, the show has now moved to Sky Atlantic, and the opening episode will see Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon travel to Santander in northern Spain. In a recent BAFTA event to launch the
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March 2, 2017 // 0 Comments
Steve Coogan stars alongside Richard Gere in new film The Dinner. Coogan and Gere play estranged brothers who meet with their wives (Laura Linney and Rebecca Hall) for a dinner where ‘family drama and dark secrets are on the menu’. See the trailer for the psychological thriller
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February 12, 2017 // 0 Comments
No matter what else occurred in 2016, it was a bit of a cracking year for ‘our sort’ of comedy on TV. Within the first few months we were treated to new dark comedies Stag, Camping and Flowers, shortly followed by specials from both Alan Partridge and Philomena Cunk. We also got a
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January 29, 2017 // 1 Comment
Before series three has even aired, BBC Two has ordered a fourth series of Inside No. 9. Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton have been working on scripts for the fourth series over the last few months during the daytime, while they have been treading the boards in The Dresser and Dead Funny
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January 19, 2017 // 0 Comments
This new clip gives us a first look at Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan in The Trip to Spain, which will be broadcast on Sky Atlantic in
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December 14, 2016 // 0 Comments
Gogglebox returns with its third celebrity special, raising awareness and money for Stand up to Cancer – and Steve Coogan will be one of the people to watch while he watches. Steve will be joined on the sofa by Anna Friel – and an unnamed dog. Other celebrity participants in the show
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October 19, 2016 // 0 Comments
In a newly released audio clip, Alan Partridge introduces us to his upcoming book Nomad. The book has been written by Steve Coogan, along with Rob and Neil Gibbons, and is due to be released on October 20th this
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October 9, 2016 // 0 Comments
Alan Partridge is making the trip from Norwich to Manchester to launch his new travel book. Expect to see Steve Coogan somewhere in the vicinity too. Steve’s alter ego will be at Waterstones Deansgate on 25th October to sign copies of his new book Alan Partridge: Nomad. Alan’s
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October 1, 2016 // 0 Comments
Tony Way be joining his former Mongrels co-star Paul Kaye in Dave Lambert‘s new fantasy sitcom Zapped which airs later this year. The series, which we told you about back in June, stars former Inbetweeners actor James Buckley (fresh from The Comedian’s Guide to Survival), as
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September 6, 2016 // 0 Comments
A new Alan Partridge memoir, entitled Nomad, will be hitting the shelves on October 20th this year. While the bestselling I, Partridge released in 2011 was an ‘autobiography’ of Steve Coogan’s iconic character, Nomad will take the form of a ‘journey journal’ as
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July 21, 2016 // 0 Comments
The new series of The Trip, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, will start filming in September. The third series of the part-improvised comedy travelogue will be filmed in Spain. The duo will be visiting Cantabria, the Basque region, Aragon, Rioja, Castile-La Mancha and Andalusia. We hope,
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July 3, 2016 // 0 Comments
The Velvet Onion is extremely saddened to report the death of Caroline Aherne who has lost her battle with cancer, aged 52. Born in Ealing but raised in the Manchester district of Wythenshawe, Caroline Aherne’s breakthrough role was as the elderly chat-show host and agony aunt Mrs Merton
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July 2, 2016 // 0 Comments
Dave has commissioned Zapped!, a new fantasy comedy from Baby Cow Productions with Steve Coogan as Executive Producer and a cast that includes Paul Kaye. Baby Cow is the production company of Steve Coogan and Henry Normal which has been behind lots of TVO favourites such as The Mighty Boosh and
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June 6, 2016 // 0 Comments
Bank Holiday Monday sees Steve Coogan return to the role of Alan Partridge once more in his latest Sky Atlantic special: Scissored Isle. Produced by regular Baby Cow collaborators Dave Lambert and Ted Dowd, the special sees Alan tackle Broken Britain in a bid to fix his broken career. But
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May 27, 2016 // 0 Comments
The Velvet Onion would like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Victoria Wood CBE, who passed away today. Hailing from the Prestwich area of Bury in the North West of England, Victoria Wood started her career appearing on tv talent show New Faces in 1974, and became a
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April 20, 2016 // 0 Comments
Happyish, the US sitcom that features Steve Coogan as disillusioned 40-something advertising exec, Thom Payne, has just hit UK TV screens.
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April 10, 2016 // 0 Comments
Steve Coogan is to join John C. Reilly in a film drama about comedy pioneers Laurel and Hardy, according to Empire. The film, Stan & Ollie will be set in the twilight years of their career, focusing on their farewell tour of Britain’s variety halls in 1953. Though their golden era is
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January 18, 2016 // 0 Comments
Twenty years since his first, and only festive special, ended in disaster for Norwich’s most infamous broadcaster Alan Partidge, he returns to Prime Time mainstream TV this Christmas as co-presenter of the TFI Friday Christmas special. Regular host Chris Evans will be joined by Alan for a
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December 1, 2015 // 0 Comments
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