‘A deeply twisted shocker… You will never, ever, ever find a psychotic she-monster more blood-chilling than Susan Tyrrell’
Coming Soon
‘An excellent shocker… queasy and wildly ahead of its time… Susan Tyrrell delivers a character unlike any other in horror history’
Mondo Digital
‘Tyrrell steals the show… the sight of her… clutching a machete and chasing a poor unfortunate through a stormy night is once seen, never forgotten!… I heartedly recommend you seek out’
Hysteria Lives
One of the notorious 1980s video nasties Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker has been lauded as ‘Brilliantly insane’ (Cool Ass Cinema) and a ‘horror gem, well-crafted, ripe for analysis… should not go overlooked (Bloody Disgusting) and now, thanks to Severin Films, you can witness the film like never before. The company announces a brand-new Special Edition Dual 4K Uhd and Blu-ray is set for its UK release on 13th May 2024.
In a surprising change of direction,...
Coming Soon
‘An excellent shocker… queasy and wildly ahead of its time… Susan Tyrrell delivers a character unlike any other in horror history’
Mondo Digital
‘Tyrrell steals the show… the sight of her… clutching a machete and chasing a poor unfortunate through a stormy night is once seen, never forgotten!… I heartedly recommend you seek out’
Hysteria Lives
One of the notorious 1980s video nasties Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker has been lauded as ‘Brilliantly insane’ (Cool Ass Cinema) and a ‘horror gem, well-crafted, ripe for analysis… should not go overlooked (Bloody Disgusting) and now, thanks to Severin Films, you can witness the film like never before. The company announces a brand-new Special Edition Dual 4K Uhd and Blu-ray is set for its UK release on 13th May 2024.
In a surprising change of direction,...
- 4/17/2024
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
Horror Highlights: The Love Witch, Shudder, Deathless Legacy, The Quacky Slasher, The Sunken Convent
The Love Witch has set her sights on the UK. The Final Girls have teamed up with Icon Distribution and FrightFest Presents to bring Anna Biller's latest film to select UK theaters. Also in today's Horror Highlights: Kumail Nanjiani's curates a Shudder collection, the music video for Deathless Legacy's "Witches' Brew," details on The Quacky Slasher, and The Sunken Convent festival screening.
The Love Witch UK Theatrical Release Details: Press Release: "Feminist film collective The Final Girls partner with Icon Distribution and FrightFest Presents to present a UK-wide preview tour of Anna Biller’s highly anticipated new feature, The Love Witch.
Launching at The Prince Charles Cinema, London on Thursday 23rd February 2017, The Final Girls will host a series of events, Q&A’s and discussions across the UK at venues including Glasgow Film Theatre and Bristol Watershed.
The tour will conclude on Tuesday 14th March with a...
The Love Witch UK Theatrical Release Details: Press Release: "Feminist film collective The Final Girls partner with Icon Distribution and FrightFest Presents to present a UK-wide preview tour of Anna Biller’s highly anticipated new feature, The Love Witch.
Launching at The Prince Charles Cinema, London on Thursday 23rd February 2017, The Final Girls will host a series of events, Q&A’s and discussions across the UK at venues including Glasgow Film Theatre and Bristol Watershed.
The tour will conclude on Tuesday 14th March with a...
- 1/19/2017
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
The Comic Strip is set to return with a new spoof focusing on Rebekah Brooks and the phone hacking scandal.
The Comic Strip Presents... The Red Top! - a working title - will star Maxine Peake as the infamous former tabloid editor, alongside Nigel Planer as Rupert Murdoch and Russell Tovey as Andy Coulson.
The show is described as the story of Rebekah, "an innocent and beguiling Northern girl" who through a series of accidental circumstances becomes Chief Executive of News International and gets tied up in a "'70s Watergate-style scandal".
A 75-minute "comic fantasy", the show follows in the footsteps of The Comic Strip's The Hunt for Tony Blair and will see Stephen Mangan reprise his role as the former Labour Prime Minister.
The new special will also star Johnny Vegas, Alexei Sayle, Harry Enfield and John Sessions.
Peter Richardson, who is behind the programme, said: "Like...
The Comic Strip Presents... The Red Top! - a working title - will star Maxine Peake as the infamous former tabloid editor, alongside Nigel Planer as Rupert Murdoch and Russell Tovey as Andy Coulson.
The show is described as the story of Rebekah, "an innocent and beguiling Northern girl" who through a series of accidental circumstances becomes Chief Executive of News International and gets tied up in a "'70s Watergate-style scandal".
A 75-minute "comic fantasy", the show follows in the footsteps of The Comic Strip's The Hunt for Tony Blair and will see Stephen Mangan reprise his role as the former Labour Prime Minister.
The new special will also star Johnny Vegas, Alexei Sayle, Harry Enfield and John Sessions.
Peter Richardson, who is behind the programme, said: "Like...
- 9/7/2015
- Digital Spy
BBC
The actor and writer Rik Mayall, who died this week aged fifty-six, was a whirling dervish of manic energy: an astonishingly wild force of nature, responsible for giving the world some of the most memorably anarchic characters in television history.
One of the break-out stars of the United Kingdom’s alternative comedy boom of the 1980s, Mayall’s signature style was always chaotic and more than slightly unraveled, whichever of his many famous characters he was playing. In fact, there was so much Rik in each of them – many sharing his name – that they often seemed less like separate, distinct people and more like splintered facets of his own personality.
Larger than life onscreen and off, Mayall has been referred to a comic genius: his co-star in The Young Ones, Nigel Planer calls him “inspirational, bonkers and a great life force”; comedian and writer Alexei Sayle, another legend of the alternative comedy era,...
The actor and writer Rik Mayall, who died this week aged fifty-six, was a whirling dervish of manic energy: an astonishingly wild force of nature, responsible for giving the world some of the most memorably anarchic characters in television history.
One of the break-out stars of the United Kingdom’s alternative comedy boom of the 1980s, Mayall’s signature style was always chaotic and more than slightly unraveled, whichever of his many famous characters he was playing. In fact, there was so much Rik in each of them – many sharing his name – that they often seemed less like separate, distinct people and more like splintered facets of his own personality.
Larger than life onscreen and off, Mayall has been referred to a comic genius: his co-star in The Young Ones, Nigel Planer calls him “inspirational, bonkers and a great life force”; comedian and writer Alexei Sayle, another legend of the alternative comedy era,...
- 6/12/2014
- by Ben Cooke
- Obsessed with Film
The Young Ones, Bottom and The New Statesman star Rik Mayall has died. The British comedian and actor was 56. He passed away at home in London today, although the cause of death is as-yet unknown. The BBC reports that the Metropolitan Police said it was not believed to be suspicious. The Essex-born Mayall was a pioneer of alternative comedy in Britain in the 1980s. He was best known to TV audiences for such sitcoms as The Young Ones, the classic 1982-1984 BBC series in which he starred as a would-be anarchist. He co-created that show along with Blackadder‘s Ben Elton. Mayall also starred in the series with Adrian Edmonson, his longtime collaborative partner. The pair, who met at university, formed The Comic Strip in 1982. A group of alternative British comedians, it included Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders. Together, they created spoof series The Comic Strip Presents on Channel 4.
- 6/9/2014
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Rik Mayall, who played the pompous, poetry-spouting anarchist Rick on the early Eighties U.K. cult comedy The Young Ones, has died, according to a statement his manager shared with the BBC. He was 56. The cause and circumstances of Mayall's death have not yet been revealed.
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In addition to The Young Ones, Mayall appeared on the U.K. sitcoms Blackadder, The New Statesman and a show with his Young Ones costar Adrian Edmondson, Bottom. His best-known movie role was playing opposite...
Last-Laugh Tracks: The 40 Best Cult TV Comedies Ever
In addition to The Young Ones, Mayall appeared on the U.K. sitcoms Blackadder, The New Statesman and a show with his Young Ones costar Adrian Edmondson, Bottom. His best-known movie role was playing opposite...
- 6/9/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Rik Mayall has died at the age of 56.
The British comedy icon - best known for his roles in The Young Ones, Bottom and The New Statesman - passed away today (June 9), his management company has confirmed.
A statement from Mayall's management, Brunskill, said: "We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Rik Mayall who passed away this morning.
"We will be issuing a further statement in the fullness of time."
A Scotland Yard spokesman said officers were called by London Ambulance Service to a house in Barnes, south-west London at around 1.20pm, where "a man, aged in his 50s, was pronounced dead at the scene". He added that the death is not believed to be suspicious.
A London Ambulance Service spokesman also stated that they had been called to the house at 12.07pm.
Mayall began his career on stage in the late 1970s with long-term comedy partner Adrian Edmondson,...
The British comedy icon - best known for his roles in The Young Ones, Bottom and The New Statesman - passed away today (June 9), his management company has confirmed.
A statement from Mayall's management, Brunskill, said: "We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Rik Mayall who passed away this morning.
"We will be issuing a further statement in the fullness of time."
A Scotland Yard spokesman said officers were called by London Ambulance Service to a house in Barnes, south-west London at around 1.20pm, where "a man, aged in his 50s, was pronounced dead at the scene". He added that the death is not believed to be suspicious.
A London Ambulance Service spokesman also stated that they had been called to the house at 12.07pm.
Mayall began his career on stage in the late 1970s with long-term comedy partner Adrian Edmondson,...
- 6/9/2014
- Digital Spy
Peter Richardson has confirmed that Harry Enfield and Stephen Mangan are to star in the upcoming Comic Strip film It Ends Badly.
The Comic Strip founder was speaking to Digital Spy to mark the launch of new five-disc DVD collection The Comic Strip Presents: The Best Of, which was released on Monday.
Asked if he had a wishlist of comedy talent to work with, Richardson said: "If there is we always ask them! We will again.
"We're about to make a movie actually, next spring - a Comic Strip movie with Harry Enfield and Stephen Mangan - we will be asking lots of new people to be in that."
Of whether the script had been written for the film, he added: "Yes, yes, it's called It Ends Badly.
"It's about two absolute scoundrels, two rotten scoundrels really, Harry and Steve, who are trying to a make a chick-flick.
"They've taken...
The Comic Strip founder was speaking to Digital Spy to mark the launch of new five-disc DVD collection The Comic Strip Presents: The Best Of, which was released on Monday.
Asked if he had a wishlist of comedy talent to work with, Richardson said: "If there is we always ask them! We will again.
"We're about to make a movie actually, next spring - a Comic Strip movie with Harry Enfield and Stephen Mangan - we will be asking lots of new people to be in that."
Of whether the script had been written for the film, he added: "Yes, yes, it's called It Ends Badly.
"It's about two absolute scoundrels, two rotten scoundrels really, Harry and Steve, who are trying to a make a chick-flick.
"They've taken...
- 10/8/2013
- Digital Spy
Classic British comedy series The Comic Strip will return for a new film on UKTV's Gold. Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer and Jennifer Saunders were among the regular cast members, while Peter Richardson has been the show's key writer during its 30-year stretch. The show has previously aired on the BBC and Channel 4. Gold's 30th anniversary special, The Comic Strip Presents: Five Go To Rehab, will return to the show's characters and setting from its debut episode in 1982 - Five Go Mad In Dorset. According to industry magazine Broadcast, the channel (more)...
- 6/14/2012
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
London – A fresh one-off episode of cult British comedy show The Comic Strip Presents has been greenlight by British pay TV platform UKTV to air on its channel Gold. The Comic Strip Presents debuted in 1982 with Five Go Mad in Dorset, starring Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle, in a parody of storyteller Enid Blyton's British children's classic series The Famous Five. UKTV, a joint venture between BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, and Scripps Networks International, has also given the go-ahead for a two-hour
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- 6/14/2012
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There’s not a single other show in the history of television that has had as sporadic a run as The Comic Strip Presents.... It ran for five seasons: from 1982-1984 (two seasons), 1988, 1990, and 1993. In between those seasons, a series of TV specials and theatrical releases peppered the public consciousness keeping the show in mind, even as the stars that made it famous went on to wild success in shows of their own. At the heart of the show you’d find Adrian Emondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders, and Nigel Planer, though later on it was increasingly common for only a few of them to appear with recognizable faces such as Jim Broadbent, Miranda Richardson, Robbie Coltrane, and others as guests. The Comic Strip Presents... wasn’t your typical comedy show; it didn’t skip from one skit to the next, it didn’t have the...
- 2/22/2012
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
The Comic Strip Presents: The Hunt for Tony Blair
By B Van Heusen
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The Comic Strip returns to British TV on Friday 14th October as Channel 4 air a one-off special entitled The Hunt for Tony Blair. The former Prime minister’s fall from grace may be no laughing matter for his political supporters but comedy writers Peter Richardson and Pete Richens have a rather different take on the matter.
In this film noir style caper Stephen Mangan plays Tony Blair as he tries to evade the authorities after committing a murder after a rough day at number 10. The hapless politician seeks refuge at the home of Inspector Hutton (Robbie Coltrane) and before the hunt is over he also has a run in with the Maggie Thatcher (Jennifer Saunders). Harry Enfield, John Sessions and...
By B Van Heusen
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The Comic Strip returns to British TV on Friday 14th October as Channel 4 air a one-off special entitled The Hunt for Tony Blair. The former Prime minister’s fall from grace may be no laughing matter for his political supporters but comedy writers Peter Richardson and Pete Richens have a rather different take on the matter.
In this film noir style caper Stephen Mangan plays Tony Blair as he tries to evade the authorities after committing a murder after a rough day at number 10. The hapless politician seeks refuge at the home of Inspector Hutton (Robbie Coltrane) and before the hunt is over he also has a run in with the Maggie Thatcher (Jennifer Saunders). Harry Enfield, John Sessions and...
- 10/6/2011
- by admin
Nearly 30 years after it first aired, the Comic Strip is back. Penned by the original writers and starring the classic cast (Rik Mayall, Jennifer Saunders, Nigel Planer, Robbie Coltrane), its return is one of Channel 4's most anticipated broadcasts of 2012. The writers and some "special guests" (please be Hagrid!) are expected at the latest Mgeitf panel. Stick with Digital Spy for all the latest news and chat on the comedy revival. The live panel starts at 3.15pm... 15:18: They're blasting out some Take That in the Pentland room ahead of the Comic Strip panel. Kirsty Wark kicks off proceedings. We'll have "world premiere" of the show and a look back at the show's canon. 15:19: Writer Peter Richardson is asked about his memories of 1981. "The cast all went on to their own shows. The Comic Strip was the (more)...
- 8/26/2011
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Big Screen TV, Edinburgh
In conjunction with the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, a quick burst of advance screenings to make your friends jealous – such as the first episode of the second half of this series of Doctor Who, the second season of The Killing (Danish original), the Lost producers' new project, and Fresh Meat, the latest sitcom from the creators of Peep Show, about a houseful of students. If that recalls The Young Ones, look out for the return of The Comic Strip with The Hunt For Tony Blair, with Robbie Coltrane, Jennifer Saunders, and Nigel Planer as Peter Mandelson.
Filmhouse, Fri to 28 Aug
Frightfest, London
Reading the headlines is frightening enough for most people these days, but for those in search of stronger, gorier, sillier permutations of fear, Frightfest is the country's favourite worst nightmare. And it also demonstrates good news for Britain's beleaguered trade balance: domestic output...
In conjunction with the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, a quick burst of advance screenings to make your friends jealous – such as the first episode of the second half of this series of Doctor Who, the second season of The Killing (Danish original), the Lost producers' new project, and Fresh Meat, the latest sitcom from the creators of Peep Show, about a houseful of students. If that recalls The Young Ones, look out for the return of The Comic Strip with The Hunt For Tony Blair, with Robbie Coltrane, Jennifer Saunders, and Nigel Planer as Peter Mandelson.
Filmhouse, Fri to 28 Aug
Frightfest, London
Reading the headlines is frightening enough for most people these days, but for those in search of stronger, gorier, sillier permutations of fear, Frightfest is the country's favourite worst nightmare. And it also demonstrates good news for Britain's beleaguered trade balance: domestic output...
- 8/19/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The producers of "Hairspray" are delighted to announce that Nigel Planer and Verity Rushworth are to join the cast of the multi-award winning musical, beginning on Monday 2 February. Nigel takes over the role of 'Wilbur Turnblad', husband of larger than life 'Edna' played by Michael Ball. Verity will play Penny Pingleton', best friend of ?Tracy Turnblad' played by Leanne Jones. Nigel Planer is one of the UK's most prolific comedy actors with credits including ?The Comic Strip Presents...', The Young Ones', ?Shine On Harvey Moon', Blackadder' and Terry Pratchett's The Colour of Magic'. His numerous West End credits include ?Chicago',The Rocky Horror Show' and Wicked'. Verity joined the cast of ?Emmerdale' in the role of Donna Windsor-Dingle at the age of 12, and has gone on to become one of the show's best loved characters. She leaves the programme onscreen at the end of January...
- 1/19/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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