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Irish Talent Honoured at British Comedy Awards
15 December 2009 5:29 AM, PST
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The British Comedy Awards saw the presentation of the Ronnie Baker Writer's Guild of Great Britain Award by Griff Rhys Jones to Graham Linehan and a Lifetime Achievement Award for Sir Terry Wogan for their outstanding work in comedy. Former Ifta winner, Linehan, was honored with the accolade as a result of his work as writer, co-writer with long-time partner Arthur Mathews, and director of many popular and critically acclaimed comedy series. Working alone and with Mathews, Linehan is behind celebrated series such as 'Father Ted', 'The It Crowd' (for which he won the Ifta award for Best Television Script in 2006).
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Ayoade's 'Submarine' Takes on More Crew
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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Richard Ayoade might not be a household name on this side of the Atlantic, but fans of The Mighty Boosh, The It Crowd, the doc concert film Arctic Monkeys at the Apollo (see trailer) and more recently his bit (a tour guide) in the Bunny and the Bull know his work in front of, and are about to get a little bit more from him behind the camera. - Richard Ayoade might not be a household name on this side of the Atlantic, but fans of The Mighty Boosh, The It Crowd, the doc concert film Arctic Monkeys at the Apollo (see trailer) and more recently his bit (a tour guide) in the Bunny and the Bull know his work in front of, and are about to get a little bit more from him behind the camera. Shooting on Submarine began today with Noah Taylor (replacing Michael Sheen
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‘Berry/Agee Experiment’, Cross Pond Music Video War Turned Series
7 December 2009 9:44 AM, PST
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Atom.com’s new series The Berry/Agee Experiment is an experiment indeed. Can an inside joke between two friends be enjoyable for other people? Can a funny song be expanded into a video mockumentary? Can this be kept up for several episodes? The answer is both yes and no.
Luckily, the two friends who share the inside joke are Matt Berry and Steve Agee, both very funny dudes with serious comedy street cred. Berry is a veteran of British TV comedies The Mighty Boosh and The It Crowd, while Agee is best known for his role on The Sarah Silverman Program. They became friends when Berry came to La to guest star in a Silverman episode and after he left town, they kept in touch by composing and recording songs that hilariously insulted each other and e-mailing them back and forth across the pond. And The Berry/Agee Experiment
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BBC signs comedy duo Watson & Oliver
7 December 2009 6:51 AM, PST
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BBC Two was commissioned a comedy pilot with female comedy duo Lorna Watson and Ingrid Oliver. The show, which will take place in front of a live studio audience, will also feature a host of other comedy talent. Watson & Oliver have previously had three sell-out Edinburgh gigs and have appeared in comedy shows including Peep Show, The It Crowd and We Are (more)
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Collider Holiday Giveaway - We Finally Have a New Server! Win Free DVD’s, Blu-rays and Books!
6 December 2009 7:12 PM, PST
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With the holiday’s fast approaching and everyone struggling to find enough money to buy presents, we’ve come up with a novel way to save money: get free stuff from us! Thanks to a bunch of PR films, I’ve got a huge box filled with DVDs, Blu-rays and books and I’m going to give everything away to our readers. So if you’d like to know what you could win and how to enter, just hit the jump for all the info:
And one bit of news before you click on the jump…if you’re a regular reader of Collider, you’ve probably noticed we’ve had a lot of problems keeping the site online over the past few months. Due to heavy traffic and an old server, the site was crashing almost everyday. But after many weeks of work behind the scenes, we have a
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- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
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Bruno Leads British Comedy Awards
18 November 2009 4:16 AM, PST
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Sacha Baron Cohen's controversial movie Bruno is leading the nominations at the British Comedy Awards, scooping a nod in the coveted Best Film category.
The picture, which features the funnyman as an outlandish Austrian TV presenter, will compete against bachelor party film The Hangover and In the Loop, a spin-off from TV series The Thick of It.
The shows fighting it out in the Best Sitcom category include Peep Show, The It Crowd, and Outnumbered: Series 2, while Alan Carr, Harry Hill and stand-up comedian Michael McIntyre are all vying for the title of Best Comedy Entertainment Personality.
The awards will be handed out at a ceremony in London on 12 December.
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Alan Carr and Michael McIntyre lead British Comedy Awards nominations
18 November 2009 3:32 AM, PST
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Jonathan Ross to return as host, while BBC1's Outnumbered receives five nods including best sitcom
Alan Carr and Michael McIntyre have topped the list of nominations for this year's British Comedy Awards, with three each.
Hosted by Jonathan Ross after his absence last year following the "Sachsgate" scandal, the awards will see McIntyre and Carr go head to head in both the best comedy entertainment personality and entertainment programme categories.
BBC1's hit family sitcom Outnumbered, written by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin, has received five nominations, including one for best sitcom, and all three of the show's child stars are up for an award.
Ramona Marquez is in the best female comedy newcomer category for her role as Karen, against Rebekah Station and Tanya Franks from BBC3's Pulling.
Tyger Drew-Honey and Daniel Roche – who play Jake and Ben – have been nominated for best male newcomer, alongside the Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker.
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- Tara Conlan
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British Comedy Awards: The Nominations
17 November 2009 4:02 PM, PST
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Digital Spy presents the full list of nominees for the 20th British Comedy Awards, which will be broadcast on Saturday, December 12 on ITV1 and ITV2. Best Comedy Entertainment Personality
Alan Carr - Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Harry Hill - Harry Hill's TV Burp
Michael McIntyre - Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow Best Comedy Entertainment Programme
Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow
The Sunday Night Project
Harry Hill's TV Burp Best Television Comedy Actor
Rob Brydon - Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special
Simon Bird - The Inbetweeners
Robert Webb - Peep Show Best Television Comedy Actress
Ruth Jones - Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special
Claire Skinner - Outnumbered: Series 2
Katherine Parkinson - The It Crowd Best New British Television Comedy
Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Ladies Of Letters
Psychoville Best (more)
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- By Mayer Nissim
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Review: Pirate Radio
12 November 2009 3:29 PM, PST
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Just a few days back Robert Carlyle used the Scottish BAFTAs as a platform to voice his displeasure of the British film industry. There have been no decent films produced here, he said, since Trainspotting.
Studying Carlyle’s words, he has a point; the cinematic output of Great Britain primarily regurtiates the same type of film over and over. Chief amongst them are the kitchen sink tragedy and the costume drama. However, there is a third type of high profile movie produced on these shores which generally lead to much commercial success. This genre can be, for all intents and purposes, attributed to one man. This, the third entry into the British cinema canon, is the “Richard Curtis movie”.
Since graduating from television writing, Curtis has pioneered an individualistic approach to the world of cinema relying heavily on picture postcard locations in Southern England, syrupy sentiment, “comedy” swearing and middle-class males indulging in linguistic mishaps.
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Happy Halloween Links. Today in Film Bloggery 10/30/09
30 October 2009 3:27 PM, PDT
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Still one more day til Halloween (Silver Shamrock!), but as this will be the final Today in Film Bloggery post ever on SpoutBlog, it's my only opportunity to do a roundup of what the blogs are posting this week related to the holiday of candy and costumes.
I'll actually be dressing up as something non-film-related tomorrow ("Moss" from UK series The It Crowd), but I do plan on watching some horror flicks (including Paranormal Activity), which I rarely do, on Halloween or any other day. Maybe if I'm feeling academic -- and since my present job situation has me aiming to get my PhD in cinema studies -- I'll break out Mary Ann Sloan's essay "Film and the Masquerade" and attempt to make it relative to the festivities (I know, it's a real stretch).
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- Christopher Campbell
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It Has Happened Before and Will Happen Again… "Hex" is Now On Chiller
17 September 2009 1:41 PM, PDT
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Bloody. Hell.
One of the greatest British TV shows ever made is back on American television and will hopefully find a brand new audience with its fantastic writing, spooky ambience, and some of the most sexual characters ever created.
Considered to be the British answer to Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Charmed, Hex premiered on Britain's SkyOne in the Fall of 2004 with a five episode first series starring Christina Cole (What A Girl Wants, The Deaths of Ian Stone) as Cassie Hughes, our heroine; Jemima Rooper (The Black Dahlia) as Cassie's lesbian best friend, Thelma Bates and Michael Fassbender (300, Inglorious Basterds) as the seductive, yet evil fallen angel, Azazeal.
The show mixed dark humor with an eerie atmosphere that only the UK can offer and sexual overtones that drives the motivation of most of the show's primary characters. What Buffy did with female empowerment, Hex does the same with repressed sexual identity,
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Joel McHale talks about The It Crowd and the reality TV fat trend
17 September 2009 9:03 AM, PDT
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With the much-anticipated premiere of Community finally bowing tonight, I figured it was a good time to pull out the interview I did with Joel McHale when I encountered him at the NBC party during the TCA press tour. I didn't talk to McHale about his current NBC show, however; I talked to him about his previous NBC show.
Fans of the British sitcom The It Crowd may remember that an American pilot was shot and the show was announced for NBC's midseason schedule a couple of years back, with McHale playing Roy and Richard Ayoade bringing his breakout role of Moss over from the original. Only, the pilot never saw the light of day, and a series was never picked up.
I asked McHale about what caused the show to be dropped and if he has any regrets over the show's flame-out. Then, as a person standing in front
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- Joel Keller
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New On DVD This Week
15 September 2009 1:15 PM, PDT
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Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows like Army of Darkness, Hero, An American Werewolf in London, The Big Bang Theory Season Two and Bonanza. Yes, some of us are even excited about the debut of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which drops today on Blu-ray.
Check them out.
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An American Werewolf in London (Full Moon Edition) ~ David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, Griffin Dunne (Blu-ray)
Army of Darkness (Screwhead Edition) ~ Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz (Blu-ray)
Bionicle: The Legend Reborn ~ Dee Bradley Baker, Jeff Bennett, Jim Cummings, and Michael Dorn (DVD)
Child’s Play ~ Roslyn Alexander, Jack Colvin,
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This Week on DVD: X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Grace, Pvc-1
15 September 2009 10:15 AM, PDT
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The first of the summer blockbusters, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, makes its way to DVD this week with very little in the way of other competing studio releases. The inane comedy Next Day Air and Jessica Biel romantic comedy Easy Virtue are also in stores, along with some genre flicks including Grace, Deadgirl and Pvc-1. And, of course, how can resist yet Another version of Army of Darkness? What's on your shopping list/rental queue this week?
X-Men Origins: Wolverine [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2])
Next Day Air [3]
Easy Virtue [4] (DVD, Blu-ray [5])
Deadgirl [6]
Grace [7] (DVD, Blu-ray [8])
Pvc-1 [9]
Nerdcore Rising [10]
Army of Darkness: Screwhead Edition [11] (DVD, Blu-ray [12])
Bonanza: Season 1 [13]
Fame: Seasons 1 & 2 [14]
Crash: Season 1 [15] (DVD, Blu-ray [16])
Grey's Anatomy: Season 5 [17] (DVD, Blu-ray [18])
My Name is Earl: Season 4 [19] (DVD, Blu-ray [20])
The It Crowd: Season 3 [21]
The Big Bang Theory: Season 2 [22]
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Season 4 [23]
Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Clone Commandos [24]
X-Men: Vol.
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The It Crowd: The Complete Second Season - DVD Review
7 September 2009 6:12 AM, PDT
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If you thought season one of the It Crowd was the funniest thing you.ve seen, get ready, they are at it again! Season Two is available on DVD, and is full of the laughs and mayhem we have come to expect from Roy (Chris O.Dowd), Moss (Richard Ayoade) and Jen (Katherine Parkinson), as the It Crowd does their thing to keep computers running at Reynholm Industries. Anyone who has ever worked in an office or an organization that has a specialized computer tech group will find this series hilarious. Clever dialogue, funny scenes, outrageous situations all combine with true comic timing of the actors to make this series really funny. Roy still answers the phone with .have you tried
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- June L.
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A 'Twilight' Star And A 'Buffy' Star Both Have A Special Connection With Pigeons In Today's Twitter-Wood
3 September 2009 3:00 PM, PDT
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Warmoth is out today and, with him, Twitter-Wood's enduring fondness for former "Full House" stars. Nothing against Saget, Stamos and Coulier... but your regular Twitter-Wood contributor is their champion here. He'll be back tomorrow, so have no fear: "Full House" will live on at MTV Movies Blog.
So what's up today on the feed? Well, for starters "The State" veteran David Wain, currently in Sicily, had someone snap a super-cool photo of him. It was enough to edge out Paris Hilton's own photo, of a bunch of fancy cakes that she was sent. Presumably for free. In the world of text-only Tweets, Rainn Wilson dropped some knowledge about Pfizer and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" star Amber Benson revealed that she has a special connection with pigeons, especially the anorexic ones. "Twilight" star Peter Facinelli also had a pigeon run-in, while bird-watching for the elusive Twitter Bird. Meanwhile, Idris Elba
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Sheen movie uses open online auditions
14 August 2009 4:32 AM, PDT
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Producers on the new Michael Sheen movie Submarine have launched open auditions online. Aspiring stars can upload their performances on a new website, which has been launched to find new young talent. According to the BBC, nearly 100 people have submitted videos for the three junior lead roles. Submarine, based on a novel by Swansea-based author Joe Dunthorne, is being directed by Richard Ayoade, whose credits include The It Crowd and The Mighty Boosh. The film follows the story of Swansea teenager Oliver Tate, who attempts to woo (more)
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Contest: Win The Mighty Boosh Seasons 1, 2 and 3!
5 August 2009 8:46 AM, PDT
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The Mighty Boosh: Season 1, The Mighty Boosh: Season 2 and The Mighty Boosh: Season 3 were all recently released in two-disc sets on July 21 and we want to give our readers a chance to catch up with this hilarious British series. We have a new contest running and we're giving away bundles of all three seasons for our readers. You know these amazing sets will go fast, so enter this contest today!
Winners Receive:
- The Mighty Boosh: Season 1 two-disc set
- The Mighty Boosh: Season 2 two-disc set
- The Mighty Boosh: Season 3 two-disc set
to win these amazing sets today.
This July, audiences are invited to journey through time and space to the magical, bizarre and exciting world of The Mighty Boosh as BBC VideoÔ releases all three seasons of the BAFTA-nominated comedy series on three 2-disc DVD sets. Inspired by the Perrier Comedy Award-winning live comedy show from creator-stars Julian Barratt
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[TV] The Mighty Boosh: The Complete Season 2
25 July 2009 8:29 AM, PDT
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A glowing testament to the phenomenal power of word of mouth The Mighty Boosh, has over the last decade, transformed from a makeshift stage troupe performing to small crowds into an international sensation boasting a catalogue of five live stage shows, a series of radio plays, a hit television show and an upcoming feature film. Formed over a decade ago by principle members Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding, The Boosh was born out of a desire to recreate the anarchic comedy of The Goodies, an iconic early seventies television series specializing in offbeat sketch comedy, bizarre musical numbers, and overt surrealism. But rather than a series of self-contained sketches The Mighty Boosh takes the idea much further, expanding the notion of boundless whimsy to the world at large.
This second season leaves behind the “Zooniverse” that was the setting for season one and relocates itself to a flat in Dalston by way of forests,
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[TV] The Mighty Boosh: The Complete Season 2
25 July 2009 8:29 AM, PDT
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A glowing testament to the phenomenal power of word of mouth The Mighty Boosh, has over the last decade, transformed from a makeshift stage troupe performing to small crowds into an international sensation boasting a catalogue of five live stage shows, a series of radio plays, a hit television show and an upcoming feature film. Formed over a decade ago by principle members Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding, The Boosh was born out of a desire to recreate the anarchic comedy of The Goodies, an iconic early seventies television series specializing in offbeat sketch comedy, bizarre musical numbers, and overt surrealism. But rather than a series of self-contained sketches The Mighty Boosh takes the idea much further, expanding the notion of boundless whimsy to the world at large.
This second season leaves behind the “Zooniverse” that was the setting for season one and relocates itself to a flat in Dalston by way of forests,
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