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Pixelface
''Sorry, I've Got No Head'' is a CBBC children's sketch comedy television series. The programme's cast originally consisted of William Andrews, David Armand, James Bachman, Marcus Brigstocke, Anna Crilly, Justin Edwards, Mark Evans, Mel Giedroyc, Marek Larwood, and Nick Mohammed. The series was produced by So Television. Anne Gilchrist, former CBBC controller, has been credited by her successor for commissioning the series. ''Pixelface'', another programme by CBBC, is inspired by the show's "Backstage Access" sketches. ''Sorry, I've Got No Head'' was axed by the BBC in 2011 after its third series. Reception James Wignall of ''The Guardian'' referred to the show in 2008 as " ''Little Britain'' for kids", also stating that it was "on par" with ''Big Train'', reached the heights of ''Maid Marian and Her Merry Men'', and "easily outstrip ed''the Fast Show ''The Fast Show'', also known as ''Brilliant'' in the United States, is a BBC comedy sketch show that ran on BBC Two, BB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Armand
David Armand (born David Robert Whitehead in September 1977) is an English comedian, actor and writer who has performed on stage, film, radio and most notably, television, where the shows he has appeared in include ''Armstrong and Miller'', ''EastEnders'', ''My Family'', ''Peep Show'', ''Rush Hour'', '' How Not to Live Your Life'', and ''Episodes''. He is one of the writers and stars of the hit CBBC comedy shows '' Sorry, I've Got No Head'', and its sister show, '' Pixelface. ''He has also written for shows such as ''The Peter Serafinowicz Show'' and'' Katy Brand's Big Ass Show.'' Early life and career Armand was educated at Latimer Community Arts College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. As a member of the sketch comedy troupe ''The Hollow Men'', he appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe four times between 1999 and 2002, travelled to America as a participant at the 2003 US Comedy Arts Festival in the Colorado mountain resort of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Crilly
Anna Crilly is an English actress and comedian. Education Crilly was educated at Kent College, Pembury, and attended Middlesex University, where she studied performing arts. Career She was a finalist in the So You Think You're Funny? competition at the Gilded Balloon in 2003 and performed two shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the following year. In 2004, she was placed at the Funny Women Awards. From 2006 to 2011 she played the role of Magda, an Eastern European housekeeper, in the BBC sitcom ''Lead Balloon''. Her deadpan performance has been described as "scene-stealing". In 2013 she and regular comedy partner Katy Wix began starring in their own sketch show, '' Anna and Katy'', on Channel 4, having originated the show as a ''Comedy Lab'' episode the previous year. She stars in the BBC children's comedy series '' Sorry, I've Got No Head'', alongside William Andrews, James Bachman, Marcus Brigstocke, Mel Giedroyc, Marek Larwood and Nick Mohammed. In December 2008 C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Andrews (comedian)
William Andrews (born 10 October 1977 in Salisbury, now Harare, in the former British colony Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe) is a British actor and comedian. Andrews attended Edinburgh College of Art, where he gained a Bachelor of Arts in Photography. He won The Tap Water Awards for character standup comedy in the 2003 Edinburgh Fringe Festival performing as Tony Carter, a luckless Geordie. In 2007 he won a Scottish BAFTA for his role in the television show ''Blowout''. He stars in the BBC TV children's comedy series ''Sorry, I've Got No Head'', alongside David Armand, James Bachman, Marcus Brigstocke, Anna Crilly, Justin Edwards (actor), Justin Edwards, Mel Giedroyc, Marek Larwood and Nick Mohammed. He also starred in ''Pixelface''. William Andrews is a board member of The Alternative Comedy Memorial Society. In 2022 he appeared as Josiah in an episode of Series 4 of ''Ghosts (2019 TV series), Ghosts''. Personal Andrews is married to British actress and comedian Anna Crilly. Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Edwards (actor)
Justin Matthew Edwards (born 21 July 1972) is an English actor, comedian and writer. His roles include Ben Swain in the BBC political comedy ''The Thick of It'' and the lead role in the short-lived Channel 5 sitcom '' Respectable''. Screen career His television work includes roles in ''Black Books'', '' Endeavour'', '' The Suspicions of Mr Whicher'', '' The Old Guys'', '' Skins'', ''Secret Diary of a Call Girl'', '' Fast and Loose'', '' The Trip'', '' Veep'''', '' Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle'', and ''Black Mirror'' amongst many others. He won an RTS Award in 2014 for Best Male Actor for his performance in ''Father Brown'' ("The Daughters of Jerusalem"). He has played Jeremy Clarkson three times for television, twice for'' Harry & Paul'', and once for '' Murder in Successville''. In 2016 he played Mr Rumbold in the BBC remake of ''Are You Being Served?'' His film work includes the role of Charles Vernon in Whit Stillman's ''Love & Friendship'', Spartak Sokolov in ''The Deat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Mohammed
Nicholas George Mohammed is a British actor, comedian and writer. He has portrayed the character Mr. Swallow across both stage and television for over a decade. He is the creator of the Sky One comedy series ''Intelligence (British TV series), Intelligence''. Mohammed portrayed the character of Nathan Shelley in the Apple TV+ series ''Ted Lasso'', for which he was nominated in the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series category at the 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards, 73rd and 74th Primetime Emmy Awards. Early life and education Nicholas George Mohammed was born in England. His mother was a Cyprus-born general practitioner and his Trinidad-born father worked in law. Mohammed was educated at Abbey Grange High School in Leeds. He turned down an offer to study at the University of Cambridge and instead chose to study Geophysics at Durham University, where he was a member of St Aidan's College, Durham, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
So Television
So Television Limited is a production company established in 1998, founded by Irish comedian Graham Norton and Graham Stuart to make television shows. The company is well known for producing Norton's chat shows, including ''So Graham Norton'' and '' V Graham Norton'' for Channel 4 and ''The Graham Norton Show'' for BBC One and BBC Two. The company also produces various shows for BBC Radio 4 under the name of ''So Radio''. So Television and So Radio are based in London, England. On 30 August 2012, ITV Studios ITV Studios Limited is a British multinational television media company owned by British television broadcaster ITV plc. It handles production and distribution of programmes broadcast on the ITV network and third-party broadcasters, and is ba ... acquired So Television for an estimated £17 million. Selected shows Awards 2002 *Broadcast Awards – Best Entertainment Programme *BAFTA – Best Entertainment Performance *Rose D'Or Montreux – Bronze Rose Variety Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Television Sketch Shows
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,200 are in public-sector broadcasting. The BBC was established under a royal charter, and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC's streaming service, iPlayer. The fee is set by the British government, agreed by Parliament, and is used to fund the BBC's radio, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Television Comedy
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public broadcasting, public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,200 are in public-sector broadcasting. The BBC was established under a Royal charter#United Kingdom, royal charter, and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual Television licensing in the United Kingdom, television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC's streaming service, BBC iPlayer, iPla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s British Children's Television Series
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Train
''Big Train'' is a British television sketch show created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan. The first series was broadcast on BBC Two in 1998, while the second, in which Linehan was not involved, aired in 2002. Overview The series starred the actors Kevin Eldon, Mark Heap and Simon Pegg in both series one and two, with Julia Davis and Amelia Bullmore in the first series (Nick Frost also appeared in two episodes), and Rebecca Front, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Catherine Tate in the second series. All starred in a variety of other comedy shows including ''I'm Alan Partridge'', ''Look Around You'', ''Spaced'', ''Smack the Pony'', ''Brass Eye'' and ''Green Wing.'' Tate went on to get her own show on the BBC, ''The Catherine Tate Show''. The first series was directed by Graham Linehan and other series contributors included David Mitchell and Robert Webb. The pilot episode was directed by Chris Morris but was never broadcast in full. Some sketches from the pilot are scattered throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010s British Satirical Television Series
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group. 1 is the unit of counting or measurement, a determiner for singular nouns, and a gender-neutral pronoun. Historically, the representation of 1 evolved from ancient Sumerian and Babylonian symbols to the modern Arabic numeral. In mathematics, 1 is the multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number. In digital technology, 1 represents the "on" state in binary code, the foundation of computing. Philosophically, 1 symbolizes the ultimate reality or source of existence in various traditions. In mathematics The number 1 is the first natural number after 0. Each natural number, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
