Exclusive: Ricky Gervais has directed his first BBC project for a decade as the corporation’s Comedy Director Jon Petrie unveils his debut batch of 11 Short Films since taking on the role last year.
Deadline can reveal that The Office and After Life creator Gervais has directed 7 Minutes, a show about two people awkwardly contemplating suicide from his own Derek Productions.
Penned by Harry Carlile and Jonathan Parramint and starring Joe Wilkinson and Seroca Davis, 7 Minutes’ logline reads: “A desolate train track seems the perfect spot to end it all, until someone else turns up with the same idea. Awkward.”
Gervais’ last BBC project was the Warwick Davis-starring Life’s Too Short, which ran from 2011 to 2013 and was co-written with long-time writing partner Stephen Merchant. Since then, he has mostly made shows for Netflix such as global smash After Life.
Petrie’s Comedy Shorts are comprised of 10-15 minute one-offs,...
Deadline can reveal that The Office and After Life creator Gervais has directed 7 Minutes, a show about two people awkwardly contemplating suicide from his own Derek Productions.
Penned by Harry Carlile and Jonathan Parramint and starring Joe Wilkinson and Seroca Davis, 7 Minutes’ logline reads: “A desolate train track seems the perfect spot to end it all, until someone else turns up with the same idea. Awkward.”
Gervais’ last BBC project was the Warwick Davis-starring Life’s Too Short, which ran from 2011 to 2013 and was co-written with long-time writing partner Stephen Merchant. Since then, he has mostly made shows for Netflix such as global smash After Life.
Petrie’s Comedy Shorts are comprised of 10-15 minute one-offs,...
- 5/24/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Rob Leane Dec 15, 2016
Dave's fantastically fun gaming show, Go 8 Bit, will be back for 20 more episodes...
Here's some fab news to brighten up your Thursday: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit has been renewed by Dave for two more series. The length of each series has been expanded, too, with 10 episodes now making up a complete run rather than six.
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Put simply: 20 new episodes of the great gaming game show - which had a terrific range of guests in its first series, including Russell Howard, Rachel Riley, Bob Mortimer and former England goalkeeper David James - are on their way.
Mr O Briain said this about the news:
"What bittersweet news. The more time I spend making this...
Dave's fantastically fun gaming show, Go 8 Bit, will be back for 20 more episodes...
Here's some fab news to brighten up your Thursday: Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit has been renewed by Dave for two more series. The length of each series has been expanded, too, with 10 episodes now making up a complete run rather than six.
See related Jessica Jones season 2: female directors will helm all the episodes Iron Fist: see some images from Marvel's next Netflix show The Punisher: 5 new cast members and 2017 release confirmed
Put simply: 20 new episodes of the great gaming game show - which had a terrific range of guests in its first series, including Russell Howard, Rachel Riley, Bob Mortimer and former England goalkeeper David James - are on their way.
Mr O Briain said this about the news:
"What bittersweet news. The more time I spend making this...
- 12/15/2016
- Den of Geek
James Stansfield Sep 7, 2016
Dara O'Briain hosts a new videogaming TV show for Dave that turns out to be huge fun...
When Videogame Nation came to an end in June it left the UK games-based TV landscape barren yet again.
But not for long, as this week saw the debut of the latest attempt to combine gaming and good telly in the shape of Go 8 Bit. Clearly hoping to do with gaming what Never Mind The Buzzcocks did with music, channel Dave appear to have largely succeeded. The inaugural episode was a decent mix of laughs and controller bashing confrontation.
Derived from team captains Sam Pamphilon and Steve McNeil’s successful live comedy show that began life at the Edinburgh fringe in 2013, Go 8 Bit pairs each with a different celebrity guest each week to take part in a series of gaming challenges. The whole thing is overseen by the...
Dara O'Briain hosts a new videogaming TV show for Dave that turns out to be huge fun...
When Videogame Nation came to an end in June it left the UK games-based TV landscape barren yet again.
But not for long, as this week saw the debut of the latest attempt to combine gaming and good telly in the shape of Go 8 Bit. Clearly hoping to do with gaming what Never Mind The Buzzcocks did with music, channel Dave appear to have largely succeeded. The inaugural episode was a decent mix of laughs and controller bashing confrontation.
Derived from team captains Sam Pamphilon and Steve McNeil’s successful live comedy show that began life at the Edinburgh fringe in 2013, Go 8 Bit pairs each with a different celebrity guest each week to take part in a series of gaming challenges. The whole thing is overseen by the...
- 9/7/2016
- Den of Geek
"Good artists copy; great artists steal." Going by that famous quote, the makers of Terror Trap are truly great artists because they appear to have outright stolen Vacancy.
Watching the trailer for this new thriller starring David James Elliott from "J.A.G.", Jeff Fahey from Grindhouse, and Michael Madsen from Reservoir Dogs, so much of it appears to be brazenly mimicking Vacancy to the point you cannot believe The Asylum didn't produce it.
At least the synopsis for writer-director Dan Garcia's Terror Trap (originally titled Bed & Breakfast) acknowledges the similarities:
In the tradition of hit films Vacancy and The Strangers comes Terror Trap -- a horrifying story of games, voyeurism, and murder! Terror Trap is everyone’s worst nightmare about what can happen in a rural Southern town. Corrupt law enforcement, isolation, sick and violent rednecks, and no way to leave.
Driving to a weekend getaway, a car...
Watching the trailer for this new thriller starring David James Elliott from "J.A.G.", Jeff Fahey from Grindhouse, and Michael Madsen from Reservoir Dogs, so much of it appears to be brazenly mimicking Vacancy to the point you cannot believe The Asylum didn't produce it.
At least the synopsis for writer-director Dan Garcia's Terror Trap (originally titled Bed & Breakfast) acknowledges the similarities:
In the tradition of hit films Vacancy and The Strangers comes Terror Trap -- a horrifying story of games, voyeurism, and murder! Terror Trap is everyone’s worst nightmare about what can happen in a rural Southern town. Corrupt law enforcement, isolation, sick and violent rednecks, and no way to leave.
Driving to a weekend getaway, a car...
- 3/5/2010
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
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