Historical British comedy Seize Them! lands in UK cinemas in April, and the trailer has landed.
Prolific comedy writer Andy Riley, along with his writing partner Kevin Cecil, has written for numerous comedy shows including Trigger Happy TV, So Graham Norton, Smack the Pony, The Armando Iannucci Shows, Black Books, Harry and Paul, Big Bad World and Veep. They also created and wrote the underrated Matt Berry sitcom Year of The Rabbit for Channel 4.
On the big screen, Cecil and Riley wrote the scripts for Gnomeo And Juliet and the sequel, Sherlock Gnomes.
Now, Riley has written the screenplay for Seize Them! a historical comedy with a huge ensemble cast of familiar faces from the British comedy scene. Originally set for release last year, we’re delighted to see it’s now returned to the cinema release schedule.
The synopsis reads as follows:
Brimming with warmth, humour and swordfights,...
Prolific comedy writer Andy Riley, along with his writing partner Kevin Cecil, has written for numerous comedy shows including Trigger Happy TV, So Graham Norton, Smack the Pony, The Armando Iannucci Shows, Black Books, Harry and Paul, Big Bad World and Veep. They also created and wrote the underrated Matt Berry sitcom Year of The Rabbit for Channel 4.
On the big screen, Cecil and Riley wrote the scripts for Gnomeo And Juliet and the sequel, Sherlock Gnomes.
Now, Riley has written the screenplay for Seize Them! a historical comedy with a huge ensemble cast of familiar faces from the British comedy scene. Originally set for release last year, we’re delighted to see it’s now returned to the cinema release schedule.
The synopsis reads as follows:
Brimming with warmth, humour and swordfights,...
- 1/19/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
In factual, the British royals are red hot ahead of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s May wedding, and many of the big documentary titles for MipTV have a regal air.
For buyers looking to make a royal appointment, Fngcd has “Meghan Markle: An American Princess,” made for the Fox network. U.K.-based Drive has one-off “Invitation to a Royal Wedding,” which will be on ITV in the U.K.
Fusing royalty and natural history, Cineflix Rights will launch “The Queen’s Green Planet,” the one-off that built around a conversation between the British monarch and naturalist David Attenborough about a shared love of nature, and a project to create a network of protected forests.
It’s not just royals, there are some rough and tough American pioneers in town too. Stephen David Entertainment, which specializes in factual that plays similar to drama, made “The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen,...
For buyers looking to make a royal appointment, Fngcd has “Meghan Markle: An American Princess,” made for the Fox network. U.K.-based Drive has one-off “Invitation to a Royal Wedding,” which will be on ITV in the U.K.
Fusing royalty and natural history, Cineflix Rights will launch “The Queen’s Green Planet,” the one-off that built around a conversation between the British monarch and naturalist David Attenborough about a shared love of nature, and a project to create a network of protected forests.
It’s not just royals, there are some rough and tough American pioneers in town too. Stephen David Entertainment, which specializes in factual that plays similar to drama, made “The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen,...
- 4/5/2018
- by Stewart Clarke
- Variety Film + TV
Louisa Mellor Jul 1, 2016
Not every artist is happy to have their song featured in a particular TV show or film. Here are 17 times the rights were refused...
It's not only political campaigns that inspire musical artists to exercise the power of veto on the use of their songs. For reasons of finance, reputation, ego, taste and more, the following TV shows and films weren't able to secure the use of the recordings they originally sought...
Frank Sinatra – Goodfellas
This Express piece quotes an Empire Magazine interview with Martin Scorsese’s long-time editor Thelma Schoonmaker in which she relates how the original plan was to have Frank Sinatra’s original recording of My Way play over the end credits of modern gangster classic Goodfellas instead of the Sid Vicious cover that was eventually used.
“Sinatra would never let Marty use his music,” explains Schoonmaker, “which is too bad because Marty may...
Not every artist is happy to have their song featured in a particular TV show or film. Here are 17 times the rights were refused...
It's not only political campaigns that inspire musical artists to exercise the power of veto on the use of their songs. For reasons of finance, reputation, ego, taste and more, the following TV shows and films weren't able to secure the use of the recordings they originally sought...
Frank Sinatra – Goodfellas
This Express piece quotes an Empire Magazine interview with Martin Scorsese’s long-time editor Thelma Schoonmaker in which she relates how the original plan was to have Frank Sinatra’s original recording of My Way play over the end credits of modern gangster classic Goodfellas instead of the Sid Vicious cover that was eventually used.
“Sinatra would never let Marty use his music,” explains Schoonmaker, “which is too bad because Marty may...
- 6/30/2016
- Den of Geek
Keep an eye out for a tall guy in silly outfits. Trigger Happy TV is coming back after 12 years.
Channel 4 has decided to bring back Dom Joly's prank show, unless of course Joly's announcement is a prank itself.
Speaking to BBC Radio London's Robert Elms, Joly promised a more "cinematic" version of the original series, which ran from 2000 to 2003 including an American spinoff on Comedy Central.
"I'm bringing Trigger Happy back. I just went to Channel 4 yesterday. I'm doing it in a very different way.
"I'm doing it in kind of 'modules' because I really want to make some cinematic-style ones. I want some really big hits.
"So it's not coming back as the original show, it's coming back as a Trigger Happy stunt show, so I'm quite excited about that."
Joly said he found fame "really terrifying" in the early 2000s, explaining: "I didn't want that level.
Channel 4 has decided to bring back Dom Joly's prank show, unless of course Joly's announcement is a prank itself.
Speaking to BBC Radio London's Robert Elms, Joly promised a more "cinematic" version of the original series, which ran from 2000 to 2003 including an American spinoff on Comedy Central.
"I'm bringing Trigger Happy back. I just went to Channel 4 yesterday. I'm doing it in a very different way.
"I'm doing it in kind of 'modules' because I really want to make some cinematic-style ones. I want some really big hits.
"So it's not coming back as the original show, it's coming back as a Trigger Happy stunt show, so I'm quite excited about that."
Joly said he found fame "really terrifying" in the early 2000s, explaining: "I didn't want that level.
- 5/21/2015
- Digital Spy
Dom Joly has announced that he has signed up to front a brand new ITV1 show. The Trigger Happy TV comedian will star in new hidden-camera prank series Fool Britannia, which will reportedly air on Saturday evenings in October for eight nights. It will be broadcast before The X Factor, in the slot previously taken by Harry Hill's TV Burp, which is likely to end its run this year. Joly tweeted: "If (more)...
- 1/23/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
Betty White will receive an all-star televised salute by NBC in honor of her 90th birthday. The Peacock Network will celebrate the iconic star on January 16 with Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl, which will feature live musical performances and special guest appearances from Los Angeles. Following the 90th Birthday special, NBC will premiere White's new hidden camera prank series Betty White's Off Their Rockers. Off Their Rockers is to feature senior citizens playing practical jokes on the public in the style of Trigger Happy TV. (more)...
- 12/19/2011
- by By Justin Harp
- Digital Spy
Dom Joly has claimed the UK is not as excited about Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding as it was about Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer's 1981 nuptials. The Trigger Happy TV comedian admitted that he has "no interest" in the royal ceremony, which will take place this Friday. "Hopefully [I won't be] in the country," Joly told Digital Spy. "I have no interest in it whatsoever. "Genuinely, I don't get the excitement. There's people in my village wanting to have a village party and stuff." He continued: "I don't (more)...
- 4/26/2011
- by By Ryan Love
- Digital Spy
Betty White to Host Off Their Rockers for NBC
NBC has put in an order for 12 half-hour episodes of Off Their Rockers, picking up the format from German sales group SevenOne International. The show, a golden ager version of Trigger Happy TV, features senior citizens playing pranks on unsuspecting youngsters.
“People have been telling me that I’m ‘Off My Rocker’ for years – now I can prove it,” quipped White.
The Talk Executive Producer Brad Bessey To Exit
Because The Talk is owned by CBS, it is already more profitable for the network than the soap it replaced, As The World Turns. It has also started to sell internationally.
Good Wife, Degrassi win Peabody Awards
The shows were among 39 recipients of the 2010 Peabody Awards, the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication announced Thursday. Selected by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media, the winners...
NBC has put in an order for 12 half-hour episodes of Off Their Rockers, picking up the format from German sales group SevenOne International. The show, a golden ager version of Trigger Happy TV, features senior citizens playing pranks on unsuspecting youngsters.
“People have been telling me that I’m ‘Off My Rocker’ for years – now I can prove it,” quipped White.
The Talk Executive Producer Brad Bessey To Exit
Because The Talk is owned by CBS, it is already more profitable for the network than the soap it replaced, As The World Turns. It has also started to sell internationally.
Good Wife, Degrassi win Peabody Awards
The shows were among 39 recipients of the 2010 Peabody Awards, the University of Georgia Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication announced Thursday. Selected by the Peabody board as the best in electronic media, the winners...
- 3/31/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Dom Joly has revealed that he is working on a reality show with ex-Big Brother producer Daniel Nettleton. The Trigger Happy TV comedian met Nettleton after taking part in last year's I'm A Celebrity. Nettleton, who was the voice of Big Brother's Tree of Temptation, worked on last year's jungle series as part of the creative team. Speaking to Digital Spy about the joint project, Joly said: "I think I'm supposed to hate reality TV, but I'm obsessed by it. Not all of them, but well-made reality TV is a real skill I think. "I am trying to put one together actually. When (more)...
- 3/17/2011
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
Dom Joly has revealed that he has completed the script for his planned movie War of the Flea. The Trigger Happy TV creator told Digital Spy that he is hoping to film the "Ben Hur of hidden camera films" in the Us at the end of this year. "Ours is taking the best bits of flashmobs and doing things with them that isn't a big dance," he said of the project. "We've got huge crowd scenes in some of our jokes and, rather than paying bored extras, the idea is that people who like our comedy can not only watch it, you (more)...
- 3/17/2011
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
I’m Ken Plume, and soon you’ll be listening to “A Bit Of A Chat” with me, Ken Plume.
In this episode, I chat with writer/comedian/documentarian/presenter Dom Joly, creator and provocateur of Trigger Happy TV, about Dark Tourism, celebrities trapped in the jungle, and much more…
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In this episode, I chat with writer/comedian/documentarian/presenter Dom Joly, creator and provocateur of Trigger Happy TV, about Dark Tourism, celebrities trapped in the jungle, and much more…
Hope you enjoy…
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- 12/15/2010
- by UncaScroogeMcD
<p><a href="http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/im-a-celebrity/im-a-celebrity-2010-kayla-collins-has-bikini-shower-scenes-cut/attachment/kayla-bikini2/" rel="attachment wp-att-39731"><img src="http://www.unrealitytv.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/kayla-bikini21.jpg" alt="" title="kayla-bikini2" width="424" height="333" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-39731" /></a></p><p>Yesterday wasn’t going well for I’m A Celebrity’s Kayla Collins and as she sat looking crestfallen by the camp fire on her own Jenny commented to Dom and Shaun that it’s hard for her but Dom disagreed saying, “Its hard for us…if you looked like that you wouldn’t mind. You’d be like ‘yeah I’m alright who wants it?’ Come on its not hard for her she’s 23 years old. I’d love to be hard up and 23 years old.”</p><p>As Dom joined Kayla and Aggro by the fire the camp commented how unlike their wet surroundings, it was the conversation that was drying up. A frustrated Dom tried to turn the chat to Marcel Proust but a confused Aggro replied “What’s that?” whilst Kayla commented “We can’t talk about that because we don’t even know who it is.”</p><p><span id="more-40785"></span></p><p>Fed...
- 12/2/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Dom Joly pretended to understand the Korean language as part of the ongoing secret missions on I'm A Celebrity. Joly gathered the other celebrities around the camp fire and told them that he was going to give them a lesson in Korean and would teach them to count to ten. He began with the first two numbers in the sequence, explaining: "Hoi, Sin. Remember that by hoi sin sauce, it means one, two sauce!" Rapper Aggro Santos asked Joly if he was from Korea, with the Trigger Happy TV star replying: "Does (more)...
- 11/29/2010
- by By Alex Goldberg
- Digital Spy
Dom Joly and Jenny Eclair have joined ‘I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!’
The comedians were transported into the camp by helicopter, and were immediately forced to spend three hours in a spooky shack with only jungle critters for company in a bid to win meals for their fellow contestants.
However, Jenny confessed the only reason she had agreed to take part in the ITV1 reality show is because she wants to look like Australian model Elle Macpherson in time for Christmas.
She joked: “It’s an extreme diet plan. The reason I’ve got to come here actually is to drop a dress size before Christmas. I’m going to loose so much weight in there, I’m going to come out looking like Elle MacPherson.
“I’m slightly panicking about the fact that I turned my nose up at the hotel breakfast this morning. I...
The comedians were transported into the camp by helicopter, and were immediately forced to spend three hours in a spooky shack with only jungle critters for company in a bid to win meals for their fellow contestants.
However, Jenny confessed the only reason she had agreed to take part in the ITV1 reality show is because she wants to look like Australian model Elle Macpherson in time for Christmas.
She joked: “It’s an extreme diet plan. The reason I’ve got to come here actually is to drop a dress size before Christmas. I’m going to loose so much weight in there, I’m going to come out looking like Elle MacPherson.
“I’m slightly panicking about the fact that I turned my nose up at the hotel breakfast this morning. I...
- 11/18/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
Comedian Jenny Eclair has been tipped to enter I'm A Celebrity later today. The 50-year-old and Trigger Happy TV's Dom Joly will join the 10 campmates on Thursday's show, according to The Sun. Speaking about her last minute arrival on the programme, Eclair said: "One moment I was in my bath in Camberwell, the next I was at Heathrow. I'm on the reserve bench. I think there are eight of us. (more)...
- 11/17/2010
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
This week will see the release of I'm Still Here, the "documentary" in which Joaquin Phoenix feigns lunacy for a year to the amusement of no one, save for himself and Casey Affleck.
Not unlike most things we here on the internet diatribe about, I've not yet seen the movie. But I do know it is the latest example of a somewhat infuriating genre: the fucking-with-civilians-as-comedy genre.
For about a year, Joaquin Phoenix just screwed with people. He grew his hair out, Grizzly Adams-style, and rapped and was weird. He made people uncomfortable for fun and called it art. So what's the line between art and just being an asshole?
Here's where I'm about to get really unpopular: this is how I feel about Sacha Baron Cohen.
As ideas, I appreciate both Borat and Bruno, less so Ali G, as it spent a lot of time making not-necessarily deserving people feel awkward.
Not unlike most things we here on the internet diatribe about, I've not yet seen the movie. But I do know it is the latest example of a somewhat infuriating genre: the fucking-with-civilians-as-comedy genre.
For about a year, Joaquin Phoenix just screwed with people. He grew his hair out, Grizzly Adams-style, and rapped and was weird. He made people uncomfortable for fun and called it art. So what's the line between art and just being an asshole?
Here's where I'm about to get really unpopular: this is how I feel about Sacha Baron Cohen.
As ideas, I appreciate both Borat and Bruno, less so Ali G, as it spent a lot of time making not-necessarily deserving people feel awkward.
- 9/9/2010
- by Courtney Enlow
Dom Joly has claimed that a planned movie version of his Trigger Happy TV will be "the Ben Hur of hidden camera" films. The comedian confirmed that he is still planning the project, which he previously described as "the first post-Obama movie". Joly told Metro: "I'm trying to get a Trigger Happy film made. Films take an extraordinary amount of time to get made. "It'll be the Ben Hur (more)...
- 9/2/2010
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
Thanks to the good people over at Sky Movies HD, HeyUGuys tagged along to a very special event in Union Chapel, Islington. The Sky Movies crew had transformed the Chapel into the most Gothic looking cinema this side of Gotham City.
The stage had been set to kick off the night with a ‘‘Which is the best Batman movie?’’ debate, hosted by 35mm presenter Mark Dolan. This was to be followed by a screening of Dark Knight in all of it’s HD glory.
Four fan-favourite Batman films were selected and advocated in the debate -Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins and Dark Knight. Batman was championed by Shortlist editor Terri White, while comedian, movie-geek and ‘Batman-freak’ Josh Howie waved the flag for Batman Returns. Dom ‘Trigger Happy TV’ Joly justified Batman Begins and Vic ‘Eranu/Uvavu’ Reeves drew the “short straw” for Dark Knight. (Disclaimer: The actual views...
The stage had been set to kick off the night with a ‘‘Which is the best Batman movie?’’ debate, hosted by 35mm presenter Mark Dolan. This was to be followed by a screening of Dark Knight in all of it’s HD glory.
Four fan-favourite Batman films were selected and advocated in the debate -Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins and Dark Knight. Batman was championed by Shortlist editor Terri White, while comedian, movie-geek and ‘Batman-freak’ Josh Howie waved the flag for Batman Returns. Dom ‘Trigger Happy TV’ Joly justified Batman Begins and Vic ‘Eranu/Uvavu’ Reeves drew the “short straw” for Dark Knight. (Disclaimer: The actual views...
- 7/8/2010
- by Adam Farina
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Dom Joly has announced that his Trigger Happy TV show will be adapted for the big screen. The comedian said that the tone of the film will be different to that of Sacha Baron Cohen's hit movie Borat, Pa reports. Joly said: "I have just got the first draft. It's weird to write a script because you can't because it's all kind of made up. It's really funny, I'm really excited about it. "We are gonna have a go at doing it in America just because (more)...
- 6/10/2009
- by By Mayer Nissim
- Digital Spy
NEW YORK -- MSN Originals and Reveille are bringing a short daily pop culture segment, conceived by one of the creators of Pop Up Video, to the Microsoft-owned portal beginning Thursday.
The new segments, dubbed Pop of the Day, will highlight a pop culture event from a past year that took place on that date. Described as an online daily flip calendar, "Pop" will be updated with a 30- to 45-second video three days a week and a picture with text for the other days on popoftheday.msn.com.
The project was co-created by Woody Thompson, one of the creators of VH1's Pop Up Video, and Sam Cadman, a co-creator of the British program Trigger Happy TV.
Examples of "Pop" include video of Sean Diddy Combs running the New York City Marathon in 2003 or Michael Jackson dangling his baby out of a Berlin hotel window in 2002, with both accompanied by pithy commentary.
" 'Pop of the Day' is a great example of playing to what we find consumers love online," said Gayle Troberman, global GM of branded entertainment and experiences at MSN.
The new segments, dubbed Pop of the Day, will highlight a pop culture event from a past year that took place on that date. Described as an online daily flip calendar, "Pop" will be updated with a 30- to 45-second video three days a week and a picture with text for the other days on popoftheday.msn.com.
The project was co-created by Woody Thompson, one of the creators of VH1's Pop Up Video, and Sam Cadman, a co-creator of the British program Trigger Happy TV.
Examples of "Pop" include video of Sean Diddy Combs running the New York City Marathon in 2003 or Michael Jackson dangling his baby out of a Berlin hotel window in 2002, with both accompanied by pithy commentary.
" 'Pop of the Day' is a great example of playing to what we find consumers love online," said Gayle Troberman, global GM of branded entertainment and experiences at MSN.
- 11/5/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Following the success of the British hidden-camera comedy Trigger Happy TV on Comedy Central this fall, the cable channel has greenlighted an American version of the half-hour show with original host Dom Joly attached to co-star. Comedy Central has ordered six new episodes of the series, tentatively scheduled to launch April 7 at 10 p.m., with an option for more. The strong performance and warm critical reception of the Channel 4 show -- and the fact that only 14 episodes of it were ever produced by Absolutely Prods. -- was what triggered Comedy Central's decision to commission an extension of the series set in the United States, said Jim Sharp, vp development and original programming at Comedy Central.
- 12/9/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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