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That Mitchell And Webb Look
''That Mitchell and Webb Look'' is a British sketch comedy television series starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb that ran from 2006 to 2010. Many of its characters and sketches were first featured in the duo's radio show '' That Mitchell and Webb Sound''. As well as Mitchell and Webb themselves, the writers include Jesse Armstrong, James Bachman, Sam Bain, Mark Evans, Olivia Colman, Joel Morris, John Finnemore, Simon Kane. It was produced by Gareth Edwards. Colman, Bachman, and Evans were also members of the cast, alongside Gus Brown, Sarah Hadland, Daniel Kaluuya and Paterson Joseph. The first two series were directed by David Kerr, and the third and fourth series were directed by Ben Gosling Fuller. First aired on 14 September 2006, a second series was commissioned later that same year and was broadcast between 21 February and 27 March 2008. The third series began on 11 June 2009. Since the second series, the production has also been broadcast on BBC HD. The first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sketch Comedy
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches" or, "skits", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. While the form developed and became popular in music hall in Britain and vaudeville in North America, today it is used widely in variety shows, as well as in late night talk shows and even some sitcoms. While sketch comedy is now associated mostly with adult entertainment, certain children's television series such have used it, too. The sketches may be improvised live by the performers, developed through improvisation before public performance, or scripted and rehearsed in advance like a play. History Sketch comedy has its origins in music hall and vaudeville, where many brief humorous acts were strung together to form a larger programme. In the 1890s, music hall impresario Fred Karno developed a form of sketch comedy without dialogue, and in 1904 he produced a sketch called ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenton Allen
Kenton Allen is a British television producer and executive. He became Chief Executive of Big Talk Studios in September 2008. He is a multi-award–winning programme-maker with credits including the BAFTA Award-winning sitcoms '' The Royle Family'' and '' Rev.'' and the Oscar-winning film '' Six Shooter''. He was the Advisory Chair of the Media Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival 2012. Early life He was born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire and educated at the Grange Comprehensive School, and King Edward VI College, Stourbridge. He turned down a place to study the clarinet and saxophone at the Royal School of Music. In 1983, aged 18, he joined the BBC at Pebble Mill in Birmingham. His first BBC job was as a trainee studio manager, working on radio, TV and film productions as a sound recordist on productions including '' Howards' Way'', '' Pebble Mill at One'', and ''The Archers'', where he spent three months doing spot Fx and once played Aunt Laura's dead bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Gosling Fuller
Ben is frequently used as a shortened version of the given names Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett, Benson or Ebenezer, and is also a given name in its own right. Ben meaning "son of" is also found in Arabic as ''Ben'' (dialectal Arabic) or ''bin'' (بن), ''Ibn''/''ebn'' (ابن). Ben (賁/便嗯 ) is a Chinese surname. People with the given name * Ben Adams (born 1981), member of the British boy band A1 * Ben Affleck (born 1972), American Academy Award-winning actor and screenwriter * Ben Ashkenazy (born 1968/69), American billionaire real estate developer * Ben Askren (born 1984), American sport wrestler and mixed martial artist * Ben Axtman (born 1933), American politician * Ben Bailey (born 1970), American comedian and game show host * Ben Banogu (born 1996), American football player * Ben Barba (born 1989), Australian rugby player * Ben Barnes (other), multiple people * Ben Bartch (born 1998), American football player * Ben Bartlett, British composer * Ben Beck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus Brown (actor)
Gus Brown (born 1974) is an English actor and comedian. He is half of the double act Laurence & Gus, alongside fellow comedian and writer Laurence Howarth. Together they have made two series of comedy sketch shows for BBC Radio 4 – ''Laurence & Gus: Untold Stories'' (2004); ''Laurence & Gus: Men in Love'' (2006) and performed in 3 Edinburgh Fringe shows: ''A History of the World in 5 1/5 sketches'' in 2003, ''Men in Love'' in 2004 and ''Next in Line'' in 2006. In 2009, recording has begun for a series called ''Laurence & Gus: Hearts & Minds''. In 2006, he teamed up on stage with comedian Justin Edwards, playing Hilary Cox, pianist and sidekick to Edwards' comedy character Jeremy Lion. He attended Cambridge University, where he met and performed regularly with Mitchell and Webb. He appears in their BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Finnemore (writer)
John David Finnemore (born 28 September 1977) is a British comedy writer and actor. He wrote and performed in the radio series ''Cabin Pressure (radio series), Cabin Pressure'', ''John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme'', and ''John Finnemore's Double Acts'', and frequently features in other BBC Radio 4 comedy shows such as ''The Now Show''. Finnemore has won more British Comedy Guide, Comedy.co.uk awards than any other writer, and two of his shows appear in the top ten of the ''Radio Times'' list of greatest ever radio comedies. He also is the writer of season 2 of ''Good Omens (TV series), Good Omens''. Early life and education John Finnemore was born in Reading, Berkshire, Reading to parents David and Patricia and has a younger sister, Anna. He attended Dolphin School (Berkshire), Dolphin School in Berkshire, High Lea in Dorset and Poole Grammar School. At 19, he moved to Kraków in Poland, where he spent 6 months teaching English language, English. He then studied English a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Morris
Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris are a British comedy writing duo. Their work includes a collection of parody Ladybird books, and they have written scripts for many British comedy series and films, including ''That Mitchell and Webb Look'', '' Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe'' and the ''Paddington'' films. Early lives Hazeley (then known as Jason Smith) and Morris met at King Edward VI Grammar School in Chelmsford, Essex. Whilst at school they produced a parody newsletter, and at sixth form received their first paid work after selling a joke to '' The Russ Abbot Show''. Career Television and film Hazeley and Morris have written for a number of British TV shows and films. These include ''That Mitchell and Webb Look'', '' A Touch of Cloth'', '' Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe'', ''Electionwipe'' and '' Newswipe with Charlie Brooker'' programmes, and several Philomena Cunk series. The pair are regular contributors to the British adult comic '' Viz''. The 2016 ''Electionwipe'' won the BAFTA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Evans (comedian/writer)
Mark Evans is a Welsh comedy writer, director and actor. Early life Evans was raised in Wrexham and read Classics at Cambridge University. He joined the Footlights, where he became president, and met writing partner James Bachman and also Robert Webb. After an unsuccessful stint as a stand-up comedian, he decided to switch to screenwriting. Career Television Evans' big break came when he was asked to write for Jack Docherty's eponymous show '' The Jack Docherty Show''. His most notable work was for Mitchell and Webb's radio show '' That Mitchell and Webb Sound'' and its award-winning television adaptation ''That Mitchell and Webb Look''. Some of his other credits include '' Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway'' (2002–2003), '' Popetown'' (2005) and '' The Late Edition'' (2006). He has also appeared in ''That Mitchell and Webb Look'' as various minor characters, '' Saxondale'', the CBBC programme '' Sorry, I've Got No Head'' and various commercials. Radio He wrote the pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitchell And Webb
Mitchell and Webb are a British comedy double act composed of David Mitchell and Robert Webb. They are best known for starring in the Channel 4 sitcom '' Peep Show'' and their radio and TV sketch shows '' That Mitchell and Webb Sound'' and '' That Mitchell and Webb Look''. The duo first met at the Footlights in 1993 and collaborated on the 1995 revue while at Cambridge. Works Television and radio After graduating from university, the duo performed in two-man shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and some sketch writing, including a series of '' Big Train'' and also for Armstrong and Miller's eponymous show. Their big break came in 2000 when they joined the writing team for the BBC Two sketch show '' Bruiser''. The following year, the short-lived Play UK channel invited them to write their own sketch show, '' The Mitchell and Webb Situation''. Later, they wrote and starred in the Radio 4 sketch show '' That Mitchell and Webb Sound'', later adapted for television on BBC Two a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sketch Comedy
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short, amusing scenes or vignettes, called "sketches" or, "skits", commonly between one and ten minutes long, performed by a group of comic actors or comedians. While the form developed and became popular in music hall in Britain and vaudeville in North America, today it is used widely in variety shows, as well as in late night talk shows and even some sitcoms. While sketch comedy is now associated mostly with adult entertainment, certain children's television series such have used it, too. The sketches may be improvised live by the performers, developed through improvisation before public performance, or scripted and rehearsed in advance like a play. History Sketch comedy has its origins in music hall and vaudeville, where many brief humorous acts were strung together to form a larger programme. In the 1890s, music hall impresario Fred Karno developed a form of sketch comedy without dialogue, and in 1904 he produced a sketch called ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
That Mitchell And Webb Sound
''That Mitchell and Webb Sound'' is a comedy sketch show which was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 28 August 2003. A second series was broadcast in 2005 with a third starting on 24 May 2007. The radio programme, which itself followed the 2001 Play UK television sketch series '' The Mitchell and Webb Situation'', was adapted for television in ''That Mitchell and Webb Look'' in 2006. ''That Mitchell and Webb Sound'' returned to BBC Radio 4 for a fourth series in 2009, with the first episode broadcast on 25 August 2009. A fifth series was announced in September 2013, and began transmission on 26 November 2013. The series stars David Mitchell and Robert Webb, who also wrote some of the material. The cast includes frequent Mitchell and Webb collaborators James Bachman and Olivia Colman. Sarah Hadland joined the cast for the fourth series. Many sketches were contributed by other cast members or writers, including Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain (the writers of ''Peep Show'', in wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mitchell And Webb Situation
''The Mitchell and Webb Situation'' is a British sketch comedy television show originally shown on Play UK in 2001. Written by and starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, it lasted for one series of six episodes and was released on region 2 DVD in 2006 by Eureka Video. It was rebroadcast on BBC Two in October 2008 (as ''That Mitchell and Webb Situation''). Production David Kerr storyboarded each episode exhaustively, allowing the entire series to be filmed in a space of just fifteen days. Most of the filming took place at the United States International University of Bushey (formerly the Royal Masonic School for Boys). Reception A negative review came from ''Empire'', who called it "extremely hit and miss. Emphasis on 'extremely." ''DVD Times'' wrote: "We're faced with a duo trying to find a voice and as a result the material misses more often than it hits. For every sketch that works there's also one that doesn't, another that goes on for far too long, another that's unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC HD
BBC HD was a high-definition television channel owned by the BBC. The channel was initially run as a trial from 15 May 2006 until becoming a full service on 1 December 2007 before its discontinuation on 25 March 2013. It broadcast only during the afternoon and evening and only broadcast material shot in high definition, either in a simulcast with another channel or by inserting a repeat of an HD programme. The channel featured a mix of programming including new episodes of '' Top Gear'', ''Doctor Who'' and '' Hustle'', repeats of HD programmes including '' Planet Earth'', ''Bleak House'' and '' Torchwood'' as well as live coverage of large events such as The Proms, Wimbledon, the Eurovision Song Contest and the FIFA World Cup. The channel closed for the final time at 01:20 am on the night of Monday 25 March 2013, and was replaced with BBC Two HD the following day on Tuesday 26 March, partly as a result of budget cuts affecting the entire corporation. History Trial BBC H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
