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
Former Netflix UK Director of Scripted Chris Sussman has signed a deal with Banijay UK.
Under terms of the exclusive first-look agreement, he’ll develop original scripted projects, working with Banijay labels to produce them.
This is part of Banijay’s £50M ($59M) UK Growth Fund initiative, which is aimed at partnering the group with high-profile talent, investing in new business and striking other sorts of talent deals.
Sussman fits that bill. His credits include work on Fleabag, This Country, Catastrophe, Charlie Brooker’s Wipe, Good Omens, Mum, People Just Do Nothing and Bad Education. We revealed back in June last year that he was exiting his post at Netflix, where he had worked on shows such as Man Vs Bee and Harlan Coben drama Stay Close, and we later reported he was in talks to exec the fourth season of Apple TV+’s Trying.
Banijay UK CEO Patrick Holland first...
Under terms of the exclusive first-look agreement, he’ll develop original scripted projects, working with Banijay labels to produce them.
This is part of Banijay’s £50M ($59M) UK Growth Fund initiative, which is aimed at partnering the group with high-profile talent, investing in new business and striking other sorts of talent deals.
Sussman fits that bill. His credits include work on Fleabag, This Country, Catastrophe, Charlie Brooker’s Wipe, Good Omens, Mum, People Just Do Nothing and Bad Education. We revealed back in June last year that he was exiting his post at Netflix, where he had worked on shows such as Man Vs Bee and Harlan Coben drama Stay Close, and we later reported he was in talks to exec the fourth season of Apple TV+’s Trying.
Banijay UK CEO Patrick Holland first...
- 3/9/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Tonight (Tuesday, April 22) sees that rarest of beasts get an outing on ITV4 - a British animated series aimed exclusively at adults.
Warren United - co-created by Men Behaving Badly's Simon Nye and featuring the voice of BAFTA winner Darren Boyd - is a new animated sitcom about family, football and the passion of being a fan.
"While Warren United focuses on a bloke who's crazy about football, it's really about passion," said co-executive producer Henry Normal. "Football's about human stories - we've tried to capture that."
The first of six Warren United episodes airs tonight at 9pm, but could the series be at the forefront of an animation revolution in the UK?
On April 1, a new tax break for the UK animation industry went into effect, with many predicting a boost for UK-based production - but will that be enough to reverse the long-floundering fortunes of adult animation in Great Britain?...
Warren United - co-created by Men Behaving Badly's Simon Nye and featuring the voice of BAFTA winner Darren Boyd - is a new animated sitcom about family, football and the passion of being a fan.
"While Warren United focuses on a bloke who's crazy about football, it's really about passion," said co-executive producer Henry Normal. "Football's about human stories - we've tried to capture that."
The first of six Warren United episodes airs tonight at 9pm, but could the series be at the forefront of an animation revolution in the UK?
On April 1, a new tax break for the UK animation industry went into effect, with many predicting a boost for UK-based production - but will that be enough to reverse the long-floundering fortunes of adult animation in Great Britain?...
- 4/22/2014
- Digital Spy
WikiLeaks founder to judge films at the 21st Raindance Film Festival; 2013 line-up unveiled.Scroll down for full line-up of films
Julian Assange has joined the jury of the 21st Raindance Film Festival (Sept 25 - Oct 6), a London-based event that celebrates independent film in the UK and around the world.
The appointment is a controversial one. The Australian editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning about sexual assault allegations.
It is understood that he fears Sweden would extradite him to the Us, where he believes he is wanted in relation to WikiLeaks’ disclosure of a significant amount of classified Us military and diplomatic documents.
Commenting on Assange’s appointment, Raindance founder Elliot Grove said: “Every year Raindance invites interesting people to join our jury. In the past we have had musicians like Mick Jones, Marky Ramone and [link...
Julian Assange has joined the jury of the 21st Raindance Film Festival (Sept 25 - Oct 6), a London-based event that celebrates independent film in the UK and around the world.
The appointment is a controversial one. The Australian editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks took refuge in the Ecuadorean embassy in London in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning about sexual assault allegations.
It is understood that he fears Sweden would extradite him to the Us, where he believes he is wanted in relation to WikiLeaks’ disclosure of a significant amount of classified Us military and diplomatic documents.
Commenting on Assange’s appointment, Raindance founder Elliot Grove said: “Every year Raindance invites interesting people to join our jury. In the past we have had musicians like Mick Jones, Marky Ramone and [link...
- 9/3/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
A Liar’s Autobiography, a loose adaptation of late Monty Python star Graham Chapman’s 1980 memoir, is a fiendish concoction indeed, utilising audio recordings of the book made by Chapman prior to his death, played over an aesthetic which smatters together 14 different animated styles, mimicking the likes of South Park, Monkey Dust, cel-shaded video games and faux-claymation. What’s more, it’s in 3D, making its unorthodox visual presentation all that more striking.
Simply, fans of Python will be very much at home here, the troupe’s unique brand of absurdism penetrating right through the snappy 82-minute runtime. It also sees the Python lot at their most wickedly crude, with the likes of phallic roller-coasters and talking piles of vomit frequently littering the screen. Chapman’s barmy narratives include detailing everything that brought him to Monty Python, telling a number of scarcely believable yarns about his...
A Liar’s Autobiography, a loose adaptation of late Monty Python star Graham Chapman’s 1980 memoir, is a fiendish concoction indeed, utilising audio recordings of the book made by Chapman prior to his death, played over an aesthetic which smatters together 14 different animated styles, mimicking the likes of South Park, Monkey Dust, cel-shaded video games and faux-claymation. What’s more, it’s in 3D, making its unorthodox visual presentation all that more striking.
Simply, fans of Python will be very much at home here, the troupe’s unique brand of absurdism penetrating right through the snappy 82-minute runtime. It also sees the Python lot at their most wickedly crude, with the likes of phallic roller-coasters and talking piles of vomit frequently littering the screen. Chapman’s barmy narratives include detailing everything that brought him to Monty Python, telling a number of scarcely believable yarns about his...
- 10/22/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
Sky1 controller Stuart Murphy has revealed his wishlist of programming for the channel. Speaking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, Murphy explained that he wants to air four to six comedies a year. "[The] Simpsons [was a] really big hit," he said. "We wanted other comedies that felt like that - the family could watch, but with an edge. Modern Family felt like that. "We don't want a lot of surreal. At BBC Three, we commissioned pretty dark stuff like Nighty Night, Monkey Dust, Shirley Ghostman... at Sky I don't think that's going to work. It's about being optimistic, having best in show, and those values tend to clash with dark, sicko comedy." (more)...
- 8/27/2010
- by By Catriona Wightman
- Digital Spy
Religious controversy aside, Chris Morris's new film challenges the perception all terrorists are evil geniuses with pointed beards
Everybody remembers where they were. As the second plane slammed into the World Trade Centre on 11 September 2001 the entire world sat up and paid attention to a new global narrative flickering into life. A generation in search of its defining moment had found it. Terrorism had arrived in the 21st century.
Almost 10 years later and a young Muslim man is attempting to attach explosives to a crow with the intention of training it to fly into buildings. The man whispers softly to the bird that it will be a martyr to the cause of Islam, before tiptoeing away as it detonates in a cloud of feathers.
The setting is not, of course, a training camp in Pakistan but a scene in the Chris Morris film Four Lions, a comedy about four wannabe suicide bombers.
Everybody remembers where they were. As the second plane slammed into the World Trade Centre on 11 September 2001 the entire world sat up and paid attention to a new global narrative flickering into life. A generation in search of its defining moment had found it. Terrorism had arrived in the 21st century.
Almost 10 years later and a young Muslim man is attempting to attach explosives to a crow with the intention of training it to fly into buildings. The man whispers softly to the bird that it will be a martyr to the cause of Islam, before tiptoeing away as it detonates in a cloud of feathers.
The setting is not, of course, a training camp in Pakistan but a scene in the Chris Morris film Four Lions, a comedy about four wannabe suicide bombers.
- 5/9/2010
- by Alexander Walters
- The Guardian - Film News
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