The Trip to Italy is a 2014 British comedy film, written and directed by Michael Winterbottom, and is the sequel of Winterbottom's TV series, which 2010 British television sitcom series, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalised versions of themselves on a restaurant tour of northern England?
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The Trip to Italy The Trip to Italy is a 2014 British comedy film, written and directed by Michael Winterbottom. It is the sequel of Winterbottom's TV series "The Trip", whose second series also titled "The Trip to Italy" broadcast on BBC Two, following the film's premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. The film had its world premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival on 20 January 2014.
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The Trip (2010 TV series) The Trip is a 2010 British television sitcom series directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalised versions of themselves on a restaurant tour of northern England. The series was edited into a feature film and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2010. The full series was first broadcast on BBC Two and BBC HD in the United Kingdom in November 2010. Both the TV series and film received very positive reviews.
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Oliver Postgate Richard Oliver Postgate (12 April 1925 – 8 December 2008) was an English animator, puppeteer and writer. He was the creator and writer of some of Britain's most popular children's television programmes. "Pingwings", "Pogles' Wood", "Noggin the Nog", "Ivor the Engine", "Clangers" and "Bagpuss", were all made by Smallfilms, the company he set up with Peter Firmin, and were shown on the BBC between the 1950s and the 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day. In a 1999 BBC poll "Bagpuss" was voted the most popular children's television programme of all time.
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Threesome (TV series) Threesome (stylised as threesome) is a British television sitcom written by Tom MacRae and starring Stephen Wight, Amy Huberman and Emun Elliott. The series is focused around three friends—Alice, Mitch and Richie—who return home from a night out celebrating Alice's birthday and end up having a threesome, which results in Richie getting Alice pregnant. Instead of getting an abortion, the three friends decide to raise the baby as a trio. The series began airing on 17 October 2011 on Comedy Central and Comedy Central HD. It is the first original scripted comedy commissioned by Comedy Central and is produced by Big Talk Productions.
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Funnybones Funnybones (Welsh: Y Sgerbyde) is a Welsh/British children's television comedy series, which originally aired in Welsh on S4C, and English on BBC One, from 29 September to 15 December 1992. It was based on the eponymous series of nine storybooks, by Janet and Allan Ahlberg, which were illustrated by André Amstutz, and focused on the adventures of a gang of skeletons who were the eponymous "Funnybones". There was "Big Funnybone" (whose catchphrase was "Good idea."), "Little Funnybone" (who was the brains of the group), "(White, White) Dog ("These Bones") Funnybone" (whose catchphrase was "Woof.") and "(Black, Black) Cat" (whose catchphrase was "Meow."). Each of the show's twelve episodes was five minutes in length. The voices were provided by popular comedian Griff Rhys Jones, who also sang the theme song as the "Moon Man".
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Newzoids Newzoids is a British topical satirical puppet/CGI sketch show that is aired on ITV and is a co-production between Citrus Television and Factory. The show has a similar style of presentation to that of "Spitting Image", a show it has been compared to, in that it features comedic satirical scenes that spoof current events at the time of each episode's broadcast, with many well known celebrities of different fields (e.g. politics, entertainment) often portrayed in a satirical fashion, with voices provided by impressionists Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson and Lewis MacLeod, all current stars of the similarly-themed BBC Radio 4 comedy "Dead Ringers".
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This is Jinsy This is Jinsy is a British comedy series. The pilot was first broadcast on 1 March 2010 on BBC Three. The programme is about the bizarre residents of the fictional island of Jinsy and based on the island of Guernsey, where the two writers are from. The show was written by Chris Bran and Justin Chubb who also play the leading roles. Although the pilot episode was made for the BBC, the full series of eight episodes was picked up by Sky Atlantic. The first series began airing with a double bill on 19 September, 2011 and ended on 31 October, 2011. A second series was commissioned and was first broadcast on 8 January, 2014.
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A Cock and Bull Story A Cock and Bull Story (marketed in Australia, New Zealand and the United States as Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) is a 2005 British comedy film directed by Michael Winterbottom. It is a film-within-a-film, featuring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as egotistical actors during the making of a screen adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 18th century metafictional novel "Tristram Shandy". Gillian Anderson and Keeley Hawes also play themselves in addition to their "Tristram Shandy" roles. Since the book is about a man attempting but failing to write his autobiography, the film takes the form of being about failing to make the film.
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Jamie Mathieson Jamie Mathieson is a British television writer. A former stand-up comedian, he has written for a number of UK science fiction TV shows, namely "Being Human", "Dirk Gently", and for series 8, 9 and 10 of "Doctor Who". He also scripted the 2009 film "Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel". He wrote the drama pilot "ALT" for Channel 4 in 2014. It was announced in October 2014 that Mathieson will be the lead writer of French science fiction series "Métal Hurlant: Origins," a sequel to "Métal Hurlant Chronicles", which is currently in development.
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Pompidou (TV series) Pompidou is an experimental British television comedy series for BBC Two created and written by comedian Matt Lucas, Julian Dutton and Ashley Blaker. It began airing on 1 March 2015 on BBC Two.
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The Durrells The Durrells (also known as The Durrells in Corfu on American Television) is a British comedy-drama series based on Gerald Durrell's three autobiographical books about his family's four years (1935–1939) on the Greek Island of Corfu, which began airing on 3 April 2016. The series is written by Simon Nye, directed by Steve Barron and Roger Goldby, and produced by Christopher Hall. The executive producers are Lee Morris and Sally Woodward Gentle. Lee Durrell, Gerald Durrell's widow and director of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, acted as consultant. The series is partly filmed on Corfu and at Ealing Studios in London.
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All at Sea (TV series) All at Sea is a British children's television sitcom set in a bed and breakfast. It stars Nicola Stephenson, Steve Edge, Ryan Wilkinson, Olivia Cosgrove and Sam Hattersley amongst others. It is filmed on location in Scarborough and various locations around South Manchester (principally Stockport) and at studios in Manchester. It is produced by CBBC (CBBC's in-house production company) A second series began airing in September 2014. The series was nominated for the 2014 Kids' BAFTA awards for Best Comedy. It was nominated again in 2015 for the same award. "Santa" was the last ever episode.
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Undercover Dads! Undercover Dads is a cult British television programme popular with both kids and adults. It first aired on BBC2 and CBBC in 2009. Presented by comedian, actor and puppeteer Dave Chapman ("The Slammer, The Thick Of It, Shooting Stars, Dick and Dom In Da Bungalow"), the show challenges a hard-working dad to get to know his kids, bring his family closer together and win them prizes...by dressing up as made-up TV expert 'Mega Nanny' and spending two whole days in their company without them realising it.
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Norman Clegg Norman Clegg, often nicknamed Cleggy, is a fictional character from the world's longest-running sitcom, "Last of the Summer Wine".
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Life's Too Short Life's Too Short is a British sitcom mockumentary created and written by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, from an idea by Warwick Davis, about "the life of a showbiz dwarf". Davis plays a fictionalised version of himself, and both Gervais and Merchant appear in supporting roles as themselves. The show began airing on BBC Two on 10 November 2011. Premium cable channel HBO, which co-produced the series with the BBC, have the US rights and began airing the series on 19 February 2012.
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Marion and Geoff Marion and Geoff is a BBC television mockumentary, produced by Baby Cow Productions and screened on BBC Two in 2000, with a second series following in 2003. The series starred Rob Brydon as Keith Barret, a naïve taxi driver going through a messy divorce from his wife, Marion, who, though he fails to realise it, has had a long-standing affair with her colleague, Geoff. Each episode is presented as a monologue, filmed by a fixed camera in the confines of his cab.
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Luke Nguyen's Vietnam Luke Nguyen's Vietnam is an Australian television series first screened on SBS One in 2010. The series follows chef, Luke Nguyen, as he tours Vietnam seeking culinary delights and adventure. It is regularly broadcast on Good Food, a UK food-orientated TV channel.
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You Have Been Watching You Have Been Watching is a British comedy panel game presented by Charlie Brooker, produced by Zeppotron for Channel 4 and filmed at BBC Television Centre (pilot and series 2) and Riverside Studios (series 1) in London. It first aired on 7 July 2009, for a weekly eight-episode run. Each week Brooker is accompanied by a panel of three guests. The focus of the quiz is television - before recording, guest panellists watch selected episodes of various television shows. They may then be asked to suggest hypothetical improvements to the format, critically assess it, or to answer quiz questions on the content.
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Newman and Baddiel in Pieces Newman and Baddiel in Pieces is a sketch comedy television show written by and starring comedians Robert Newman and David Baddiel, produced by Harry Thompson, and broadcast on BBC2 from 20 September to 20 December 1993.
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Moving Wallpaper Moving Wallpaper is a British satirical comedy-drama television series set in a TV production unit. It ran on ITV for two series in 2008–2009. The subject of the first series was the production of a soap called "Echo Beach", each episode of which aired directly after the "Moving Wallpaper" episode about its production. The second series shifted to the production of a "zombie show" called "Renaissance". Ben Miller confirmed in May 2009 on his Twitter account that no further series will be made.
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Coach Trip (series 6) Coach Trip 6 was the sixth series of Coach Trip in the United Kingdom. It was filmed from July until August 2010 and aired from 14 February to 25 March 2011. The voting system rules reverted to those of earlier series. The length of this series was the same as the previous non-celebrity series but with weekends excluded. The tour visited Mediterranean countries like series 2 but with visits to Switzerland added for a month. Tour guide Brendan Sheerin, coach driver Paul Donald, narrator Dave Vitty and the coach with registration number MT09 MTT all returned for this series, which was aired on Channel 4 with a similar start to series 2 and a similar end to series 4.
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Jason Atherton Jason Atherton (born 6 September 1971) is an English chef and restaurateur. His restaurant Pollen Street Social gained a Michelin Star in 2011, its opening year. He was the Executive Chef at Gordon Ramsay's Michelin starred "Maze" in London until 30 April 2010. In 2014 he co-hosted the Sky Living TV series "My Kitchen Rules".