Toast of London
The lineup for this year’s Pilot Light TV Festival has been announced. Manchester’s festival dedicated to celebrating the best in TV and web series from around the world is back, for its third year, on 3rd-6th May. The lineup this year includes a 20th anniversary screening of Big
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April 6, 2018 // 0 Comments
The latest two episodes of Dan Clark’s Screen Talk feature three guests with links to TVO. In his Fubar Radio podcast, Dan Clark chats to guests from the big and small screen, asking them about their work and ending each interview by getting them to name a guilty pleasure film or television
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October 17, 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
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
Toast of London‘s Tracy Ann Oberman will star in a production of Fiddler on the Roof at the Chichester Festival Theatre. Since Toast of London was last on our screens, Tracy Ann Oberman has been very busy on stage, starring in The Mighty Walzer at Manchester’s Royal Exchange
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February 22, 2017 // 0 Comments
Tracy Ann Oberman has joined the cast of comedy play Stepping Out. The play is about a group of seven women and one man trying to tap their troubles away at a weekly dance class. Along with the fabulous Tracy Ann Oberman, the cast includes Amanda Holden, Angela Griffin, Tamzin Outhwaite and
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September 24, 2016 // 0 Comments
Next Monday sees the launch of the long-awaited new sketch show: Morgana Robinson’s The Agency. The series sees the House of Fools star transform into a cavalcade of celebrities, and also features a number of our regulars for good measure. But is it any good? TVO’s Sophie Davies
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September 21, 2016 // 0 Comments
To kick off a celebration of 21st century sitcoms, the Radio Times is inviting you to vote for your favourite. A shortlist of 40 British sitcoms broadcast since the year 2000 has been created by Radio Times critics and BFI TV experts, and the online poll is now open until Thursday 11th August.
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July 21, 2016 // 0 Comments
TVO has rounded up this year’s essential festive viewing, and summarised it on our homepage for the season. But here for posterity, and those of you bookmark thevelvetonion.com/news and come straight here, is that round-up. The following selection of new shows on your tellybox this Yuletide
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December 19, 2015 // 0 Comments
Here’s what’s coming up over the next 7 days. Hunderby Thursday, 10:00pm, Sky Atlantic A two part return for Julia Davis black comedy, featuring Rufus Jones, Alex MacQueen and Reece Shearsmith. For Hunderby coverage, CLICK HERE. Toast of London Wednesdays, 10:30pm, Channel Four
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December 14, 2015 // 0 Comments
Here’s what’s coming up over the next 7 days. Toast of London Wednesdays, 10:30pm, Channel Four Matt Berry returns as the larger than life Steven Toast, in the sitcom he writes with Arthur Matthews (Father Ted, Big Train). As ever, Harry Peacock, Doon Mackichan, Tracy Oberman, Tim
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November 30, 2015 // 0 Comments
The long awaited third series of Toast of London airs this week (Wednesday, 10:30pm, Channel Four), and you’re in for a real treat. TVO’s newest recruit, Jess Gerber, recently attended the series launch, which featured a Q&A from the show’s writers Matt Berry and Arthur
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November 17, 2015 // 0 Comments
A new book by Steven Toast will be released later this month, and is now available to per-order. Toast on Toast is part memoir, part ‘how to act’ manual, with the author drawing on his self-proclaimed vast and varied acting experiences, taking the reader on his journey from school
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October 4, 2015 // 0 Comments
Matt Berry is well known for his resonant vocal prowess (amongst his many other talents, of course), so who better to play his father than Brain Blessed, famous for owning the most booming voice in the business! In an inspired piece of casting, 79 year old Blessed will appear in an episode in
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September 29, 2015 // 0 Comments
Matt Berry has had a busy couple of weeks. He is the voice of a space dolphin named Bubbles in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, which came out last week and he has been nominated, along with Arthur Matthews, for a British Academy Craft Award for Toast of London, as they are busy writing
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April 3, 2015 // 0 Comments
Arthur Mathews will be one of the guest speakers at Soundstage, a new regular arts event in London. Mathews is one of Britain’s most successful television comedy writers, and his CV includes a number of TVO-connected shows. For starters, he co-created and co-wrote Father Ted with Graham
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April 1, 2015 // 0 Comments
Earlier this week, The British Comedy Awards 2014 took place in Wembley, with a number of TVO regulars winning awards, including Aisling Bea, Katherine Parkinson, Moone Boy and Toast of London. TVO had been graciously invited to attend the event, but couldn’t make it on the night, so we
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December 19, 2014 // 1 Comment
Tonight sees the 2014 British Comedy Awards take place in Wembley, with broadcast taking place on Channel 4 tomorrow evening – and as ever, there’s a huge chunk of TVO nominees. As we’ve mentioned previously, Matt Berry is up for a bevvy of awards – with a whopping six
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December 16, 2014 // 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 below. TVO ON TELLY This week sees a drop in the number of TVO related shows on our screens, as both Toast of
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December 15, 2014 // 0 Comments
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