BBC Three have commissioned Galaxy Dance, its first original animation in over 20 years. Here are the details:
In 2003, BBC Three, then a new channel, commissioned Monkey Dust, one of the darkest animated series ever seen on British television.
Written by Shaun Pye and Harry Thompson, it was a sketch show that handled many taboo topics and featured a cast which included Simon Greenall, Sharon Horgan, Morwenna Banks, Rebecca Front, Frances Barber and Kate Robbins. The show ran for three series between 2003 and 2005 and has become a cult classic.
Now, BBC Three have commissioned its first original animation in over 20 years.
The synopsis for the new show, Galaxy Dance, reads as follows:
Galaxy Dance is set amid Eurovision 2989, with the interstellar dance competition seeing a myriad of alien groups and Earth’s human band competing for a prize fund so gigantic it could save the planet from extinction. The only issue...
In 2003, BBC Three, then a new channel, commissioned Monkey Dust, one of the darkest animated series ever seen on British television.
Written by Shaun Pye and Harry Thompson, it was a sketch show that handled many taboo topics and featured a cast which included Simon Greenall, Sharon Horgan, Morwenna Banks, Rebecca Front, Frances Barber and Kate Robbins. The show ran for three series between 2003 and 2005 and has become a cult classic.
Now, BBC Three have commissioned its first original animation in over 20 years.
The synopsis for the new show, Galaxy Dance, reads as follows:
Galaxy Dance is set amid Eurovision 2989, with the interstellar dance competition seeing a myriad of alien groups and Earth’s human band competing for a prize fund so gigantic it could save the planet from extinction. The only issue...
- 4/24/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
Exclusive: BBC Three has greenlit a Eurovision-themed animation, its first in two decades.
Galaxy Dance is the youth-skewing RuPaul’s Drag Race UK network’s first animated show since Harry Thompson and Shaun Pye’s irreverent sketch series Monkey Dust, which ran from 2003 to 2005.
Galaxy Dance is set amid Eurovision 2989, with the interstellar dance competition seeing a myriad of alien groups and Earth’s human band competing for a prize fund so gigantic it could save the planet from extinction. The only issue is that Earth is on a notorious losing streak and ‘Galaxy Dance’ is the fiercest contest in the Milky Way. Enter Doyle, Jane and their team of misfits with nothing more to lose.
Starring Liam Bixby (Wreck), Lisa Dwyer Hogg (Dance First) and Mukamajulé Michelo (The Lovers), the one-off is expected to air around Eurovision. Developed by Unreal Engine tech, it is being produced by HaZimation and...
Galaxy Dance is the youth-skewing RuPaul’s Drag Race UK network’s first animated show since Harry Thompson and Shaun Pye’s irreverent sketch series Monkey Dust, which ran from 2003 to 2005.
Galaxy Dance is set amid Eurovision 2989, with the interstellar dance competition seeing a myriad of alien groups and Earth’s human band competing for a prize fund so gigantic it could save the planet from extinction. The only issue is that Earth is on a notorious losing streak and ‘Galaxy Dance’ is the fiercest contest in the Milky Way. Enter Doyle, Jane and their team of misfits with nothing more to lose.
Starring Liam Bixby (Wreck), Lisa Dwyer Hogg (Dance First) and Mukamajulé Michelo (The Lovers), the one-off is expected to air around Eurovision. Developed by Unreal Engine tech, it is being produced by HaZimation and...
- 4/23/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s never been a better year to be a David Tennant fan – the man’s the very definition of “booked and busy”.
You could have been forgiven for thinking he’d had a pretty unbeatable year back in 2005, when (among other things) he starred in two of that year’s biggest TV and film successes, both beginning his tenure as the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who and playing Barty Crouch Jr in Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire.
But almost 20 years later, Tennant’s demand has only continued growing, so much so that these days it’s almost easier to list the blockbuster shows and franchises that don’t involve David Tennant.
Add to that acting roles for Georgia Tennant, his wife, and three of their five children (so far!), and there’s a whole smorgasbord of Tennant talent on offer.
Let’s take a look at what...
You could have been forgiven for thinking he’d had a pretty unbeatable year back in 2005, when (among other things) he starred in two of that year’s biggest TV and film successes, both beginning his tenure as the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who and playing Barty Crouch Jr in Harry Potter and The Goblet Of Fire.
But almost 20 years later, Tennant’s demand has only continued growing, so much so that these days it’s almost easier to list the blockbuster shows and franchises that don’t involve David Tennant.
Add to that acting roles for Georgia Tennant, his wife, and three of their five children (so far!), and there’s a whole smorgasbord of Tennant talent on offer.
Let’s take a look at what...
- 6/14/2023
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
Writer Shaun Pye’s Facebook posts led to the eventual creation of a BAFTA award-winning television series.
Pye and his wife Sarah Crawford serve as writers for the U.K. television series “There She Goes,” which is based on their experiences raising a child with a chromosomal disorder. The central storyline follows the Yates family, made up of Simon (David Tennant), his wife Emily (Jessica Hynes) and their children Ben (Edan Hayhurst) and Rosie (Miley Locke), who has a chromosome disorder that limits her development.
Tennant and Hynes, joined Pye and Crawford in the Variety Streaming Room, moderated by Variety senior editor Michael Schneider, for a conversation about the show’s first two seasons. The panel included discussions on the show’s origins, dual narrative and reception as a case study in parenting.
“We have a daughter called Joey who is 14 now. She has a chromosome disorder like Rosie in...
Pye and his wife Sarah Crawford serve as writers for the U.K. television series “There She Goes,” which is based on their experiences raising a child with a chromosomal disorder. The central storyline follows the Yates family, made up of Simon (David Tennant), his wife Emily (Jessica Hynes) and their children Ben (Edan Hayhurst) and Rosie (Miley Locke), who has a chromosome disorder that limits her development.
Tennant and Hynes, joined Pye and Crawford in the Variety Streaming Room, moderated by Variety senior editor Michael Schneider, for a conversation about the show’s first two seasons. The panel included discussions on the show’s origins, dual narrative and reception as a case study in parenting.
“We have a daughter called Joey who is 14 now. She has a chromosome disorder like Rosie in...
- 9/1/2020
- by Eli Countryman
- Variety Film + TV
When the first series of Shaun Pye and Sarah Crawford’s autobiographically inspired comedy-drama aired, they were prepared for a mixed reaction. Their dramatisation of life raising a severely learning disabled child would likely shock, cause discomfort, and – in these furious days of gladiatorial online parenting forums – almost certainly provoke judgment and criticism. What they weren’t necessarily expecting were stories about poo.
“The most common reaction from parents or siblings with a child similar to Jo [Sarah and Simon’s learning disabled daughter on whom the character of Rosie, played by Miley Locke, is based] is they’ll come up and say ‘Saw the show, loved the show’ and then start telling me funny stories.” Faecal hijinks, outrageous incidents and family code words… “They can’t wait to tell me,” says Pye speaking at the series two press launch. “They just want to start talking about their children in a joyous, celebratory way, but also, not.”
The “also, not” of it all is the...
“The most common reaction from parents or siblings with a child similar to Jo [Sarah and Simon’s learning disabled daughter on whom the character of Rosie, played by Miley Locke, is based] is they’ll come up and say ‘Saw the show, loved the show’ and then start telling me funny stories.” Faecal hijinks, outrageous incidents and family code words… “They can’t wait to tell me,” says Pye speaking at the series two press launch. “They just want to start talking about their children in a joyous, celebratory way, but also, not.”
The “also, not” of it all is the...
- 7/9/2020
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
In the Britbox series There She Goes, David Tennant and Jessica Hynes play parents to a nine-year-old daughter with a learning disability. Based on the family life of the show’s co-writer and creator Shaun Pye, he wanted to make sure that the story was not told through rose-tinted glasses. From the authentic representation of the daughter Rosie (Miley Locke) to the struggle and joy in raising a family, Pye wanted to give a truthful portrayal of his experiences. He was joined on the TCA stage Saturday morning by producer Clelia Mountford, BBC Comedy Commissioner Shane Allen as well as Tennant via satellite to talk about the journey in making the dramedy based on Pye’s life.
Pye said, “what I set to do was two-fold.” He didn’t want to “sugarcoat the strain” that having a child with a disability puts on a family. At the same time, he...
Pye said, “what I set to do was two-fold.” He didn’t want to “sugarcoat the strain” that having a child with a disability puts on a family. At the same time, he...
- 2/9/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
A David Tennant-fronted comedy drama, a multi-character sitcom from the writer of Paddington 2, a comedy crime thriller featuring Episodes’ Daisy Haggard and a raft of new talent form part of the BBC’s latest comedy drive.
The British public broadcaster has unveiled its new slate of comedies across its channels BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four. This comes as BBC comedy chief Shane Allen tells Deadline that by making shows that are quintessentially British, they are increasingly traveling to the U.S. and internationally without the need to be remade.
On BBC One, Paddington 2’s Simon Farnaby and his colleagues behind Horrible Histories and Yonderland are producing Ghosts, a multi-character sitcom. Farnaby, Mathew Baynton, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond are working with Monumental Television on the six-part horror comedy, which follows a group of restless spirits squabbling in a crumbling country house.
The British public broadcaster has unveiled its new slate of comedies across its channels BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four. This comes as BBC comedy chief Shane Allen tells Deadline that by making shows that are quintessentially British, they are increasingly traveling to the U.S. and internationally without the need to be remade.
On BBC One, Paddington 2’s Simon Farnaby and his colleagues behind Horrible Histories and Yonderland are producing Ghosts, a multi-character sitcom. Farnaby, Mathew Baynton, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond are working with Monumental Television on the six-part horror comedy, which follows a group of restless spirits squabbling in a crumbling country house.
- 6/19/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Former “Doctor Who” star David Tennant will play the father of a severely learning-disabled girl in “There She Goes,” a new comedy for the BBC from Sharon Horgan’s production company Merman.
The five-part series will go out on the pubcaster’s BBC Four channel. Tennant and Jessica Hynes (“Shaun of the Dead”) star as Simon and Emily, respectively, the parents of 9-year-old Rosie, played by Miley Locke. Edan Hayhurst appears as Ben, Rosie’s brother.
Shaun Pye (“Todd Margaret”) penned the series. The producers said that each episode would shine a light on day-to-day life with Rosie, from simply trying to take her to the park to explaining that every day isn’t her birthday. Sky Vision is selling the series internationally.
Merman also won a second-season order for “Motherland,” its comedy about modern parenting and family life.
The shows were announced as part of the BBC’s new comedy slate.
The five-part series will go out on the pubcaster’s BBC Four channel. Tennant and Jessica Hynes (“Shaun of the Dead”) star as Simon and Emily, respectively, the parents of 9-year-old Rosie, played by Miley Locke. Edan Hayhurst appears as Ben, Rosie’s brother.
Shaun Pye (“Todd Margaret”) penned the series. The producers said that each episode would shine a light on day-to-day life with Rosie, from simply trying to take her to the park to explaining that every day isn’t her birthday. Sky Vision is selling the series internationally.
Merman also won a second-season order for “Motherland,” its comedy about modern parenting and family life.
The shows were announced as part of the BBC’s new comedy slate.
- 6/19/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
The BBC has commissioned its first feature-length scripted film for iPlayer - a comedy drama based on the rivalry between snooker players Alex Higgins and Steve Davis.
Endemol Shine indie Zeppotron will produce The Rack Pack, a 90-minute-plus film exploring the “glory days” of the 1970s and 80s snooker scene.
The film is penned by Shaun Pye, Mark Chappell and Alan Connor, the writing team behind Sky Arts’ A Young Doctor’s Notebook, which starred Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe and Mad Men’s Jon Hamm..
Luke Treadaway (Fortitude) will play ‘Hurricane’ Higgins, the naturally talented showman, while Will Merrick (About Time) has been lined up as the more conservative Davis, who under the guidance of snooker mogul Barry Hearn (Kevin Bishop) dominated the sport.
The film coincides with the 30th anniversary of the 1985 World Snooker Championships final between Davis and Dennis Taylor which was watched by 18.5m people - holding the record for the UK’s biggest...
Endemol Shine indie Zeppotron will produce The Rack Pack, a 90-minute-plus film exploring the “glory days” of the 1970s and 80s snooker scene.
The film is penned by Shaun Pye, Mark Chappell and Alan Connor, the writing team behind Sky Arts’ A Young Doctor’s Notebook, which starred Harry Potter’s Daniel Radcliffe and Mad Men’s Jon Hamm..
Luke Treadaway (Fortitude) will play ‘Hurricane’ Higgins, the naturally talented showman, while Will Merrick (About Time) has been lined up as the more conservative Davis, who under the guidance of snooker mogul Barry Hearn (Kevin Bishop) dominated the sport.
The film coincides with the 30th anniversary of the 1985 World Snooker Championships final between Davis and Dennis Taylor which was watched by 18.5m people - holding the record for the UK’s biggest...
- 9/25/2015
- ScreenDaily
Greg James is to try his hand at acting in an upcoming BBC Three film.
The BBC Radio 1 DJ will star in Dead Air, a 17-minute comedy short which he also co-wrote for the channel.
He will play commercial late-night radio DJ Jake Cross, who is given the surprise job as the breakfast show host when the former presenter dies. He faces the dilemma of selling out or staying with his loyal fanbase.
Speaking about his acting debut, he said: "I have always wanted to write a comedy for the BBC. The fact that this silly idea I jotted down two years ago is now a reality is ridiculously exciting.
"It's been the most enjoyable thing I've ever done and I can't wait for people to see it. My 14-year-old self wouldn't believe it."
Tom Davis (Murder In Successville), Olivia Poulet (The Thick Of It), Richard David-Caine (Skins) and Montserrat Lombard...
The BBC Radio 1 DJ will star in Dead Air, a 17-minute comedy short which he also co-wrote for the channel.
He will play commercial late-night radio DJ Jake Cross, who is given the surprise job as the breakfast show host when the former presenter dies. He faces the dilemma of selling out or staying with his loyal fanbase.
Speaking about his acting debut, he said: "I have always wanted to write a comedy for the BBC. The fact that this silly idea I jotted down two years ago is now a reality is ridiculously exciting.
"It's been the most enjoyable thing I've ever done and I can't wait for people to see it. My 14-year-old self wouldn't believe it."
Tom Davis (Murder In Successville), Olivia Poulet (The Thick Of It), Richard David-Caine (Skins) and Montserrat Lombard...
- 5/14/2015
- Digital Spy
In a fan fiction-worthy feat of casting (Don Draper and Harry Potter!), Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe play older and younger versions of a Russian doctor in the four-part British miniseries "A Young Doctor's Notebook," which aired in the U.K. on Sky Arts in December and was the most successful program in the history of the network. Arts channel Ovation will air the period drama, which is based on a collection of stories by Mikhail Bulgakov adapted by Mark Chappell, Shaun Pye and Alan Connor, in the U.S., and today announced a date for the premiere. The first part of the miniseries will debut on Thursday, October 3 at 8pm Et, with subsequent installments airing weekly. "I'm thrilled that Ovation has picked up the rights to broadcast 'A Young Doctor's Notebook' stateside," said Hamm in the announcement. "Like our UK benefactor Sky Arts, they have proven to...
- 7/23/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
"A Young Doctor's Notebook," a British series that stars Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe, is getting a second season.
The four-part series debuted to good reviews last December on the Sky Arts channel in the U.K., as well as the largest audience in the channel's history. Radcliffe stars as a young, morphine-addicted doctor working in a remote part of Russia in 1917; Hamm plays an older, sober version of the same character looking back on his past.
The series is based on stories by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov; Mark Chappell and Shaun Pye ("The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret") and Alan Connor adapted it.
The first season is scheduled to air on cable channel Ovation in December; Season 2 will debut in the U.K. later this year. ...
The four-part series debuted to good reviews last December on the Sky Arts channel in the U.K., as well as the largest audience in the channel's history. Radcliffe stars as a young, morphine-addicted doctor working in a remote part of Russia in 1917; Hamm plays an older, sober version of the same character looking back on his past.
The series is based on stories by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov; Mark Chappell and Shaun Pye ("The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret") and Alan Connor adapted it.
The first season is scheduled to air on cable channel Ovation in December; Season 2 will debut in the U.K. later this year. ...
- 7/22/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
The doctors are in, again. Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe have signed on for a second series of A Young Doctor’s Notebook & Other Stories. The Big Talk Productions mini will return later this year on Sky Arts in the UK. The first four-part series originally aired in December 2012 and was the most successful program in Sky Arts history. Ovation will air series one this fall in the U.S. The adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s short stories sees Hamm as a Russian doctor during the Russian Revolution, and Radcliffe as his younger self. The comedy-drama’s second series will return to the small village of Muryevo in 1918 to find the Young Doctor battling against an all-consuming morphine addiction. Under the critical gaze of his “clean” older self, the Young Doctor struggles to cope with life in the hospital, the Civil War, and the arrival of a beautiful young aristocrat...
- 7/22/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Photo credit: Colin Hutton
Ovation, America’s only arts network, has further grown its slate of arts-centric programming by completing a deal with BBC Worldwide for the highly sought after UK hit from Big Talk Productions, A Young Doctor ‘s Notebook, starring Jon Hamm (TV’s Mad Men, The Town) and Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, The Woman In Black).
“As a cause-based media company dedicated to the arts, Ovation is the perfect home for such a rich visual adaptation of this classic literary work,” said Robert Weiss , Ovation’s Chief Creative Officer. “It’s an honor to deliver work from artists as passionate about this project as Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe .”
Originally broadcast on Sky Arts in the UK last year, A Young Doctor ‘s Notebook became the highest-rated program in the network’s history, with audiences up over 1000% on the slot average and receiving universal critical acclaim.
“I...
Ovation, America’s only arts network, has further grown its slate of arts-centric programming by completing a deal with BBC Worldwide for the highly sought after UK hit from Big Talk Productions, A Young Doctor ‘s Notebook, starring Jon Hamm (TV’s Mad Men, The Town) and Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter, The Woman In Black).
“As a cause-based media company dedicated to the arts, Ovation is the perfect home for such a rich visual adaptation of this classic literary work,” said Robert Weiss , Ovation’s Chief Creative Officer. “It’s an honor to deliver work from artists as passionate about this project as Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe .”
Originally broadcast on Sky Arts in the UK last year, A Young Doctor ‘s Notebook became the highest-rated program in the network’s history, with audiences up over 1000% on the slot average and receiving universal critical acclaim.
“I...
- 5/9/2013
- by Melissa Thompson
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
BBC Three called time on Being Human yesterday, bringing an end to the channel's most credible hit after five successful series.
The ending of the supernatural drama inevitably led to outcry from fans and the usual slew of complaints about BBC Three valuing tacky documentaries and trash over quality drama and entertainment.
We're not entirely sure if that argument stacks up, but we can't possibly deny that the channel has been a bit hasty in the past with lowering the axe. So for this week's Friday Fiver, we've picked a handful of shows that deserve a second chance.
The Fades
It's not very often that a show wins a BAFTA, but fails to get a second series. There must have been some awkward meetings in Zai Bennett's BBC Three head office after the show he culled and that he claimed failed to "engage" walked away with the 'Best Drama' crown.
The ending of the supernatural drama inevitably led to outcry from fans and the usual slew of complaints about BBC Three valuing tacky documentaries and trash over quality drama and entertainment.
We're not entirely sure if that argument stacks up, but we can't possibly deny that the channel has been a bit hasty in the past with lowering the axe. So for this week's Friday Fiver, we've picked a handful of shows that deserve a second chance.
The Fades
It's not very often that a show wins a BAFTA, but fails to get a second series. There must have been some awkward meetings in Zai Bennett's BBC Three head office after the show he culled and that he claimed failed to "engage" walked away with the 'Best Drama' crown.
- 2/8/2013
- Digital Spy
Mikhail Bulgakov's chaotic account of his early career in medicine has been adapted for TV, with Daniel Radcliffe and John Hamm as the leads. Writer Alan Connor on the precision surgery involved
Like Chekhov, Mikhail Bulgakov was a doctor before he was a writer. He started writing at 29, and before then got to know plenty about the absurdity and intensity of medical practice. He had met a lot of people, and sawn off some of their legs.
After graduating from medical school in 1917, Bulgakov was sent to run a hospital in the remote Smolensk province, where his patients lived a brutal, essentially medieval existence. He turned these experiences into a series of short stories, collected in A Young Doctor's Notebook, a fictional account of a nameless doctor whose experience largely overlaps with its author's. His young doctor discovers that childbirth and tracheotomies go much faster, and get a lot messier,...
Like Chekhov, Mikhail Bulgakov was a doctor before he was a writer. He started writing at 29, and before then got to know plenty about the absurdity and intensity of medical practice. He had met a lot of people, and sawn off some of their legs.
After graduating from medical school in 1917, Bulgakov was sent to run a hospital in the remote Smolensk province, where his patients lived a brutal, essentially medieval existence. He turned these experiences into a series of short stories, collected in A Young Doctor's Notebook, a fictional account of a nameless doctor whose experience largely overlaps with its author's. His young doctor discovers that childbirth and tracheotomies go much faster, and get a lot messier,...
- 12/5/2012
- by Alan Connor
- The Guardian - Film News
Starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe in the leads, the anticipated mini-series, A Young Doctor’s Notebook, stars airing here in the UK early next month, and after a handful of great first-look images last week, Sky have debuted the first trailer for the programme.
The four-part mini-series will be airing on Sky Arts 1 (and Sky Arts 1 HD) from 6th December, and when you have the likes of Hamm and Radcliffe front and centre of a programme, the odds are pretty good it’s going to be a success.
“A Young Doctor’s Notebook is a four-part comedy drama based on a collection of short stories by the celebrated Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov. The drama recounts Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical experiences as a young doctor working in the small village of Muryovo at the dawn of the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Recounting from his notebooks, the Doctor considers his life...
The four-part mini-series will be airing on Sky Arts 1 (and Sky Arts 1 HD) from 6th December, and when you have the likes of Hamm and Radcliffe front and centre of a programme, the odds are pretty good it’s going to be a success.
“A Young Doctor’s Notebook is a four-part comedy drama based on a collection of short stories by the celebrated Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov. The drama recounts Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical experiences as a young doctor working in the small village of Muryovo at the dawn of the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Recounting from his notebooks, the Doctor considers his life...
- 11/10/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Starring Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe, A Young Doctor’s Notebook is sure to give Sky a big ratings boost when it airs in the UK early next month. Hamm is of course well known for his unparalleled performance as Don Draper in AMC’s Mad Men, and Radcliffe is diversifying his credits nicely following the end of Harry Potter.
The four-part mini-series will be airing on Sky Arts 1 (and Sky Arts 1 HD) in early December, and now the first images from the series have been released. We can’t wait to see how Hamm and Radcliffe interact on the small screen.
“A Young Doctor’s Notebook is a four-part comedy drama based on a collection of short stories by the celebrated Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov. The drama recounts Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical experiences as a young doctor working in the small village of Muryovo at the dawn of...
The four-part mini-series will be airing on Sky Arts 1 (and Sky Arts 1 HD) in early December, and now the first images from the series have been released. We can’t wait to see how Hamm and Radcliffe interact on the small screen.
“A Young Doctor’s Notebook is a four-part comedy drama based on a collection of short stories by the celebrated Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov. The drama recounts Bulgakov’s semi-autobiographical experiences as a young doctor working in the small village of Muryovo at the dawn of...
- 11/2/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Harry Potter and Mad Men stars lead cast for four-part comedy drama set in Russia in 1917
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe and Mad Men's Jon Hamm are to star in a comedy drama about the Russian revolution on Sky Arts.
The pair will play the same doctor at different stages of his life in the four-part series, A Young Doctor's Notebook, by Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.
Hamm will play the older man, who has a series of "bleakly comic" exchanges with his younger self, played by Radcliffe.
The Mad Men actor described the project as "original, dark, funny and moving" and said he was "thrilled to get the opportunity to work on such rich source material with such fantastically talented people whose work I greatly respect".
A Young Doctor's Notebook will air in Sky Arts' Playhouse Presents strand in 2013. Playhouse Presents has featured projects starring Emma Thompson,...
Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe and Mad Men's Jon Hamm are to star in a comedy drama about the Russian revolution on Sky Arts.
The pair will play the same doctor at different stages of his life in the four-part series, A Young Doctor's Notebook, by Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.
Hamm will play the older man, who has a series of "bleakly comic" exchanges with his younger self, played by Radcliffe.
The Mad Men actor described the project as "original, dark, funny and moving" and said he was "thrilled to get the opportunity to work on such rich source material with such fantastically talented people whose work I greatly respect".
A Young Doctor's Notebook will air in Sky Arts' Playhouse Presents strand in 2013. Playhouse Presents has featured projects starring Emma Thompson,...
- 5/18/2012
- by John Plunkett
- The Guardian - Film News
Even longtime fans of David Cross may not have seen his latest show, "The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret," a limited-run British-American comedy that can be difficult to find. In the United States, the show began its second-season stint Friday on the Independent Film Channel (also known for "Portlandia," another cult comedy series).
Compared to the kudos Cross got as Tobias Funke on "Arrested Development," or as one-half of the brilliantly surreal "Mr. Show With Bob And David," critical response to his latest project has been lukewarm. The Los Angeles Times called Margaret, an office temp hoodwinked into moving to England to sell an impossibly large inventory of an energy drink, "exhausting company," while The New York Times described him as "yucky."
But Margaret is also the most distilled expression of Cross' talents to date. Where Funke's weird adventures were tangential to the Bluth family's, and the sketch structure...
Compared to the kudos Cross got as Tobias Funke on "Arrested Development," or as one-half of the brilliantly surreal "Mr. Show With Bob And David," critical response to his latest project has been lukewarm. The Los Angeles Times called Margaret, an office temp hoodwinked into moving to England to sell an impossibly large inventory of an energy drink, "exhausting company," while The New York Times described him as "yucky."
But Margaret is also the most distilled expression of Cross' talents to date. Where Funke's weird adventures were tangential to the Bluth family's, and the sketch structure...
- 1/9/2012
- by Mallika Rao
- Huffington Post
Even longtime fans of David Cross may not have seen his latest show, "The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret," a limited-run British-American comedy that can be difficult to find. In the United States, the show began its second-season stint Friday on the Independent Film Channel (also known for "Portlandia," another cult comedy series).
Compared to the kudos Cross got as Tobias Funke on "Arrested Development," or as one-half of the brilliantly surreal "Mr. Show With Bob And David," the response to his latest project has been lukewarm. The Los Angeles Times called Margaret, an office temp hoodwinked into moving to England to sell an impossibly large inventory of an energy drink, "exhausting company," while The New York Timeswent with "yucky."
But Margaret is also the most distilled expression of Cross' talents to date. Where Funke's weird adventures were tangential to the Bluth family's, and the sketch structure of "Mr. Show...
Compared to the kudos Cross got as Tobias Funke on "Arrested Development," or as one-half of the brilliantly surreal "Mr. Show With Bob And David," the response to his latest project has been lukewarm. The Los Angeles Times called Margaret, an office temp hoodwinked into moving to England to sell an impossibly large inventory of an energy drink, "exhausting company," while The New York Timeswent with "yucky."
But Margaret is also the most distilled expression of Cross' talents to date. Where Funke's weird adventures were tangential to the Bluth family's, and the sketch structure of "Mr. Show...
- 1/9/2012
- by Mallika Rao
- Aol TV.
"The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret" is, in addition to being absurdly and often wonderfully funny, probably a show that wouldn't have seen the light of day in the United States five or 10 years ago.
The series, which begins its second and final season on IFC Friday (Jan. 6), is an intricately plotted comedy about an American (David Cross, who also created it) who lies his way into a job in London and finds his life spiraling out of control. It was designed from the start to run for only a handful of episodes. In short, it's pretty much the antithesis of a show a traditional broadcaster would want to make.
"It's a very explicit example of a marriage between British and American sensibilities, and I don't just mean that from a creative standpoint, but from the idea of the show," Cross tells Zap2it. "It's finite -- it's got a beginning,...
The series, which begins its second and final season on IFC Friday (Jan. 6), is an intricately plotted comedy about an American (David Cross, who also created it) who lies his way into a job in London and finds his life spiraling out of control. It was designed from the start to run for only a handful of episodes. In short, it's pretty much the antithesis of a show a traditional broadcaster would want to make.
"It's a very explicit example of a marriage between British and American sensibilities, and I don't just mean that from a creative standpoint, but from the idea of the show," Cross tells Zap2it. "It's finite -- it's got a beginning,...
- 1/6/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Chicago – A number of recent TV seasons hit DVD and Blu-ray right after Christmas, hoping to get a share of that gift card balance burning a hole in your wallet. If you have any left, we thought you might want to know the details so you can plan your assault of the local Best Buy or fill your Amazon cart. This is a Round-up feature that serves mostly as information, letting you know the synopsis, tech specs, special features, etc., but if we had to pick favorites, FX’s “Archer” rules. It’s the best of the bunch, but, honestly, all four should satisfy fans (even if “The Borgias” is annoyingly light on special features). Yes, even “Jersey Shore.”
All four titles were released on December 27th, 2011.
“Archer: The Complete Season Two”
Archer
Photo credit: Fox
Available: Blu-ray and DVD
Starring (the voice of): H. Jon Benjamin, Jessica Walter,...
All four titles were released on December 27th, 2011.
“Archer: The Complete Season Two”
Archer
Photo credit: Fox
Available: Blu-ray and DVD
Starring (the voice of): H. Jon Benjamin, Jessica Walter,...
- 1/5/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
DVD Review - The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Series 1
David Cross and Will Arnett are already gods of television comedy, thanks to their roles as Tobias and Gob on the Fox (and soon to be Netflix) sitcom Arrested Development. But while fans worldwide are waiting for the two to reunite with that show's highly-anticipated fourth season, Cross and Arnett are still co-stars -- this time on the little IFC series The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. The show's six-episode first season hit DVD on December 27.
Not since Extras has a comedy left me with such mixed feelings (not really surprising, considering Todd Margaret co-creator Shaun Pye did have a recurring role on that show). The show certainly takes several pages from the Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant school of comedy; Todd Margaret skews more toward the awkward than the funny, featuring a clueless protagonist and intricately constructed traps that he creates for himself.
David Cross and Will Arnett are already gods of television comedy, thanks to their roles as Tobias and Gob on the Fox (and soon to be Netflix) sitcom Arrested Development. But while fans worldwide are waiting for the two to reunite with that show's highly-anticipated fourth season, Cross and Arnett are still co-stars -- this time on the little IFC series The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. The show's six-episode first season hit DVD on December 27.
Not since Extras has a comedy left me with such mixed feelings (not really surprising, considering Todd Margaret co-creator Shaun Pye did have a recurring role on that show). The show certainly takes several pages from the Ricky Gervais/Stephen Merchant school of comedy; Todd Margaret skews more toward the awkward than the funny, featuring a clueless protagonist and intricately constructed traps that he creates for himself.
- 12/30/2011
- by Sam McPherson
- TVovermind.com
Jon Hamm stayed busy this summer after a supporting role in the hit comedy Bridesmaids as Kristen Wiig's boyfriend and another Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the AMC period drama Mad Men. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hamm continued to emphasize his comic talents by agreeing to a recurring role on the IFC series The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret from co-writers Shaun Pye (Extras) and Mark Chappell (Hu$tle). Hamm, who started off his career on The Sarah Silverman Show, signed on for five of the six new episodes in the second season of Todd Margaret appearing alongside David Cross and Will Arnett.
- 7/25/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Jon Hamm stayed busy this summer after a supporting role in the hit comedy Bridesmaids as Kristen Wiig's boyfriend and another Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the AMC period drama Mad Men. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hamm continued to emphasize his comic talents by agreeing to a recurring role on the IFC series The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret from co-writers Shaun Pye (Extras) and Mark Chappell (Hu$tle). Hamm, who started off his career on The Sarah Silverman Show, signed on for five of the six new episodes in the second season of Todd Margaret appearing alongside David Cross and Will Arnett.
- 7/25/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Jon Hamm stayed busy this summer after a supporting role in the hit comedy Bridesmaids as Kristen Wiig's boyfriend and another Emmy nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for the AMC period drama Mad Men. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Hamm continued to emphasize his comic talents by agreeing to a recurring role on the IFC series The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret from co-writers Shaun Pye (Extras) and Mark Chappell (Hu$tle). Hamm, who started off his career on The Sarah Silverman Show, signed on for five of the six new episodes in the second season of Todd Margaret appearing alongside David Cross and Will Arnett.
- 7/25/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Jon Hamm is nominated for an Emmy once again for his dramatic turn as Don Draper on "Mad Men," but he's shown that he can be a flat out comedy star, too. With his various guest appearances on "Saturday Night Live" and supporting role as Kristen Wiig's jerky non-boyfriend in "Bridesmaids," he's established a reputation as a promising funnyman, and now, he's got a brand new TV role to flex that humor muscle.
IFC today announced that Hamm has joined their series, "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret," a goofball comedy starring David Cross as a mailroom loser who fakes his way into running an energy drink company in England -- thanks to the equal incompetence of his bizarre CEO, played by "Arrested Development" co-star Will Arnett.
No role has been announced, but it will air starting in January, just as the fifth season of "Mad Men" kicks off.
IFC today announced that Hamm has joined their series, "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret," a goofball comedy starring David Cross as a mailroom loser who fakes his way into running an energy drink company in England -- thanks to the equal incompetence of his bizarre CEO, played by "Arrested Development" co-star Will Arnett.
No role has been announced, but it will air starting in January, just as the fifth season of "Mad Men" kicks off.
- 7/25/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
IFC has greenlit a second season of its original comedy series The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. Production on the six-episode order begins in April for an October premiere. The series is created, written by and stars David Cross (Arrested Development) as Todd Margaret, a corporate nobody and pathological liar who bluffs his way into a senior sales position heading up the London office for the new energy drink Thunder Muscle. “Todd Margaret personifies the type of offbeat comedy IFC brings to viewers,” said IFC's Svp original programming Debbie DeMontreux. Season One, which aired in the fall, featured a roster of stars including Will Arnett and guest stars Janeane Garofalo, Amber Tamblyn and Russ Tamblyn. Todd Margaret is a co-production between IFC and Rdf Television, part of Zodiak Media Group in the UK. The series is co-written by Shaun Pye (Extras) and Mark Chappell.
- 2/24/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
I really wanted to like IFC's David Cross-led comedy The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, a co-production with Channel 4's More4 in the UK. After all, the series was created by Cross and Shaun Pye (Extras) and stars Cross, Will Arnett, The Inbetweeners's Blake Harrison, and Sharon Horgan (Pulling). So I should really love it as I would seem to be the target audience for such a dark and depraved comedy of errors set against a backdrop of cultural differences between Americans and Brits. But try though I might, there's something entirely off about Todd Margaret, at least in the three episodes that were submitted to the press for review. I couldn't shake off the feeling that this wasn't so much the story of an American adrift in England but rather an effort to smash together Us and UK comedy styles. It doesn't quite gel, however.
- 10/1/2010
- by Jace
- Televisionary
David Cross and Will Arnett will soon be back together on TV, according to the USA Today's Pop Candy site. The show is called 'The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret.' Cross co-wrote the project with an English comic named Shaun Pye, and he'll star in the title role as a temp who winds up running and energy drink company.
Pop Candy also says the project will co-star director Spike Jonze, which seemed like a misprint, but Slashfilm seems to confirm that. The series will get six episodes, a standard series run for U.K. television, and will air on Channel 4. No word yet on any plans to air the series in the States, but the obvious eventual outlets would be HBO or Showtime, and/or a DVD release.
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Pop Candy also says the project will co-star director Spike Jonze, which seemed like a misprint, but Slashfilm seems to confirm that. The series will get six episodes, a standard series run for U.K. television, and will air on Channel 4. No word yet on any plans to air the series in the States, but the obvious eventual outlets would be HBO or Showtime, and/or a DVD release.
Continue reading Will Arnett, Spike Jonze and David Cross Team for UK Comedy
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- 2/25/2010
- by Nick Zaino
- Aol TV.
Fans of Fox’s long-cancelled but living-in-infamy Arrested Development have a reason to smile today. David Cross, who played “Tobias” on the series, has just scored a full season pickup on the United Kingdom’s Channel 4 for his new sitcom The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, which he’ll co-wrote with Shaun Pye, and will also star alongside fellow Arrested Development alum Will Arnett (early word has Spike Jonze down as a second co-star, but that’s yet to be confirmed, it seems). The catch, however, is that a full season run in the UK is a mere fragment of what us stateside viewers are accustomed to, with only six 30-minute episodes. No wonder there’s so few eps of Ricky Gervais’s The Office available.
This isn’t good news strictly for UK viewers, as Broadcast (learned through /Film’s secondhand work) reports that negotiations are currently brewing...
This isn’t good news strictly for UK viewers, as Broadcast (learned through /Film’s secondhand work) reports that negotiations are currently brewing...
- 1/25/2010
- by Matt Barone
- ReelLoop.com
Back in December, Hunter shared an excerpt from The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, a comedy pilot from the UK's Channel 4. Written by David Cross and Shaun Pye and starring Cross, Spike Jonze and Will Arnett, this was unusually heavy with Stateside talent for a British production. Hands across the Ocean, cousins. Contrary to the comment of /Film reader Daryl Smith just a few hours ago (he said it "won't get a full season, because it wasn't funny"), the show has already been given the nod for a full run. Well, a UK-scale full run, which is just 6 episodes of 30 minutes a piece. What can I say? We like to keep these things tight. I think there's now over 90 episodes of the Us Office do-over, but there were only ever 14 of the BBC original. Broadcast report that negotiations are currently underway with a Us co-producer, meaning ...
- 1/24/2010
- by Brendon Connelly
- Slash Film
This may be one of the best clips for a television show I've ever seen. This Saturday, my good friend Ryan posted this clip to my wall on the Facebook. To my surprise it was a show I had heard a little about called, The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret. David Cross and English actor, Shaun Pye, who you might know from the series Extras from Ricky Gervais, are the writers for Margaret. Sadly, it will only be shown for now on Channel 4 in the UK. A clip from the pilot has...
- 12/7/2009
- by Niki Stephens
- JoBlo.com
Welcome to your Tuesday morning television briefing. Pushing Daisies creator Bryan Fuller has left his position as consulting producer on NBC's Heroes, just a few months after he rejoined the writing staff of the NBC drama. The reason behind the departure: to focus on developing new series for the network (he has an overall deal with Universal Media Studios), rather than creative differences with Heroes creator Tim Kring. "I'm crafting two pilots right now and it's a lot of work," Fuller told Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello. "It was just too hard to [juggle] Heroes and my development; something had to give." Meanwhile, Fuller told Ain't It Cool News' Herc, ""Development was really starting to heat up, And it appears like I may be writing multiple pilots for NBC so that wasn't leaving a ton of room for Heroes, unfortunately. We crafted some really great arcs for the season that I'm...
- 6/23/2009
- by Jace
- Televisionary
Were you let down by the so-so showing of David Cross in this weekend's Year One? Here's the antidote: Cross has written a pilot for a UK comedy show called The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret. His co-writer is Shaun Pye, an actor who had a recurring role in Extras. Alongside Cross, the stars of the show are Will Arnett and, in his first big acting gig since Three Kings, Spike Jonze. The pilot was shot recently and should be finished now, as Cross said to the La Times a week ago: I shot a pilot for Channel 4. And it'll air, I believe, in December. When we picture-lock on Friday, it will be almost two years to the day that I was first approached by those guys. The cast is a crazy dream team. Dream team, indeed. The plot follows a Us exec who is mistakenly sent to run...
- 6/22/2009
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
In what has to be the strangest news in recent memory, visionary director Spike Jonze is set to...star in a British sitcom? "The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret" is an upcoming comedy pilot being produced by Rdf Television, and will air as part of C4’s second comedy showcase season and is being written by David Cross and Shaun Pye. The story centres on a Us executive who is mistakenly sent to run his company’s UK arm and finds himself out of his...
- 6/16/2009
- by Daniel Barna
- JoBlo.com
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