Source: The Velvet Onion It can’t have escaped your attention that the Edinburgh Fringe is just around the corner. And with it, comes Colin Hoult‘s new hour of comedy, A Sketch Show for Depressives. We tried to speak to Colin about his return to the festival, but when we rang his number, Anna Mann, who is sharing theContinue reading “Anna Mann on A Sketch Show for Depressives”
Author Archives: Didymus Holmes
Sarah Kendall on Shaken
SOURCE: The Velvet Onion With the Edinburgh Fringe drawing ever closer, TVO has been speaking to some of the familiar faces you can see at this year’s festival. Fresh from a round of intensive previews, we caught up with the 2015 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominated Sarah Kendall for an in-depth natter about her incredible newContinue reading “Sarah Kendall on Shaken”
Preview: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
SOURCE: The Velvet Onion Bank Holiday Monday sees Russell T Davies new adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream première on BBC One, with TVO regular Matt Lucas in the star-studded cast. But as the flagship drama on the nation’s biggest tv channel that night, TVO was curious: is it accessible to relative Shakespeare newbies? We took a sneakyContinue reading “Preview: A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
Preview: Cunk on Shakespeare
SOURCE: The Velvet Onion As part of their celebrations for the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, BBC Two have commissioned Philomena Cunk to look back at the Bard’s life and works. Set to air on Wednesday 10th May, TVO couldn’t resist taking a sneaky peek… 400 years ago this year, William Shakespeare stopped happening.Continue reading “Preview: Cunk on Shakespeare”
Arts and Culture for Older People
In early 2016, I co-produced this short film for Arts Council England, concerning several projects in the North of England which provided a creative lifeline to elderly members of the local community. This was part of the wider #CultureMatters campaign.
Diversity and the Creative Case
A video I co-produced whilst working at Arts Council England. This was part of a wider campaign which I also worked on regarding the Creative Case. A version of this was also produced with British Sign Language which can be viewed below. You can read the full Diversity and the Creative Case report I workedContinue reading “Diversity and the Creative Case”
Goldblade: Jukebox Generation
A deliberately lo-fi music video for the band Goldblade, shot during their 2015 Punk Rock Tram Ride in Blackpool. A one-chance event to shoot handheld footage, later matched up to the Acoustic version of their song Jukebox Generation. Lots of fun to attend, and a joy to frantically patch together an edit in under 24Continue reading “Goldblade: Jukebox Generation”
Greg James on Dead Air
SOURCE: The Velvet Onion Monday, 13th July sees the launch of the latest batch of BBC Comedy Feeds – taster pilots for potential new shows launched exclusively on BBC iPlayer. Naturally, there’s a whole host of TVO talent involved on both sides of the camera, with the likes of Michael Smiley, Ellie White, Alice’s Wunderland producer SamContinue reading “Greg James on Dead Air”
Fergus Craig goes Hoff the Record
SOURCE: The Velvet Onion This week sees the launch of Hoff the Record – the brand new partially improvised mockumentary about David Hasselhoff, in which the 80s legend stars alongside TVO regular Fergus Craig. With numerous other familiar faces appearing across the run, and this being Fergus’ most high profile role in quite some time, we were keenContinue reading “Fergus Craig goes Hoff the Record”
Dave Lambert goes Under Cover
SOURCE: The Velvet Onion This week sees the launch of Undercover – the new sitcom starring Daniel Rigby and Sarah Alexander. In it, Rigby plays hapless detective Chris Anderson, who goes undercover within the Sarkissian crime syndicate in an attempt to nail the head honcho Ara, and Alexander is his uncompromising boss, Zoe Keller. One of a stringContinue reading “Dave Lambert goes Under Cover”
Paul Kaye on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Source: The Velvet Onion. This weekend sees the long-awaited launch of BBC One’s fantasy epic Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, based on the best selling book of the same name, and adapted by the makers of Wallander, Sherlock and Doctor Who. Set during the Napoleonic Wars in an alternate England where magic was once commonplace, the show focusesContinue reading “Paul Kaye on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell”
The Long Game
TV presenter and actor Chris Johnson asked me to join him on his Doctor Who themed podcast #9is10, celebrating ten years since the return of the series. The episode focused on discussion of the 2005 episode The Long Game and became very, very silly indeed…
