Feature Gem Wheeler 4 Apr 2014 - 07:00
Ten years on, Gem looks back fondly on the masterwork of dreamweaver Garth Marenghi and his Darkplace...
We should have seen it coming. They’d managed to keep it under wraps for twenty years: hiding the tapes, suppressing the press coverage. Two long decades of misinformation separated us from a truth too shocking to screen. Rumours persisted: a Peruvian broadcast, a missing castmember, skulduggery in high places. Finally, in 2004, Channel 4 did the decent thing. Some brave souls bit the bullet – perhaps literally, though we have no real proof – and broadcast Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, giving the self-styled ‘dreamweaver’ (‘horror writer’, for the uninitiated) some long overdue exposure. Writer of countless bestselling chillers, the man’s brilliant career’s won him acolytes and enemies in equal measure. Inevitably, his every venture has been dogged by controversy. Even Dean Learner, Garth’s manager and agent,...
Ten years on, Gem looks back fondly on the masterwork of dreamweaver Garth Marenghi and his Darkplace...
We should have seen it coming. They’d managed to keep it under wraps for twenty years: hiding the tapes, suppressing the press coverage. Two long decades of misinformation separated us from a truth too shocking to screen. Rumours persisted: a Peruvian broadcast, a missing castmember, skulduggery in high places. Finally, in 2004, Channel 4 did the decent thing. Some brave souls bit the bullet – perhaps literally, though we have no real proof – and broadcast Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, giving the self-styled ‘dreamweaver’ (‘horror writer’, for the uninitiated) some long overdue exposure. Writer of countless bestselling chillers, the man’s brilliant career’s won him acolytes and enemies in equal measure. Inevitably, his every venture has been dogged by controversy. Even Dean Learner, Garth’s manager and agent,...
- 4/3/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Feature Sarah Dobbs 3 Apr 2014 - 07:00
What have Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe and Matt Berry been up to in the decade since Garth Marenghi's Darkplace?
It’s been ten years now since author, visionary, and dreamweaver Garth Marenghi’s legendary horror TV show, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, was rescued from a vault in Peru and broadcast to a largely unappreciative audience.
Or, you know, in the reality we actually inhabit, it’s been ten years since a group of comedians donned 80s costumes and pretended to be aging filmmakers commenting on their own ‘lost’ series. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was a perfect send-up of both trashy low-budget horror and science fiction productions and pompous creators, as a bewigged Matthew Holness straight-facedly explained the unique genius of his horror writing alter ego even as his greatest creation, Dr Rick Dagless M.D., mugged away in the background.
It was a ludicrously high concept show,...
What have Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade, Alice Lowe and Matt Berry been up to in the decade since Garth Marenghi's Darkplace?
It’s been ten years now since author, visionary, and dreamweaver Garth Marenghi’s legendary horror TV show, Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, was rescued from a vault in Peru and broadcast to a largely unappreciative audience.
Or, you know, in the reality we actually inhabit, it’s been ten years since a group of comedians donned 80s costumes and pretended to be aging filmmakers commenting on their own ‘lost’ series. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was a perfect send-up of both trashy low-budget horror and science fiction productions and pompous creators, as a bewigged Matthew Holness straight-facedly explained the unique genius of his horror writing alter ego even as his greatest creation, Dr Rick Dagless M.D., mugged away in the background.
It was a ludicrously high concept show,...
- 4/3/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
If you, like us, were left wondering just what Garth Marenghi co-creator Matthew Holness would do to follow Darkplace (and Man To Man With Dean Learner), wonder no more: he’s now plotting to turn his dark vigilante comedy short film A Gun For George into a full-fledged feature called The Reprisalizer. A spoof of both ‘80s cop dramas and the likes of the Death Wish films, The Reprisalizer will follow the twisted acts of Bob Shuter, described as “a normal newspaper kiosk vendor until gangsters electrified his brother’s testicles by car battery.”And, much in the same fashion that Holness portrayed both writer Marenghi and the character he played on the Darkplace series, Dr Rick Dagless, he’ll appear as both Shuter and his creator, writer Terry Finch. Whose books, by the way, promise Brutal Violence Or Your Money Back. And you can take that to the bank.
- 12/7/2011
- EmpireOnline
To those familiar with his work, Richard Ayoade is one of the leading minds of British comedy. He co-created with Matthew Holness the 2004 cult TV show "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace," which operates under the conceit that a banned show from the 1980s from horror writer Garth Marenghi has been unearthed and is now being aired with commentary from its stars. He also starred in that show as Marenghi's publisher, Dean Learner, who appears on the series despite having no acting experience. Learner was then spun off into his own faux talk show, "Man to Man With Dean Learner," and each week he would interview a different guest, always played by Holness. In addition, Ayoade appeared on and worked as story editor on the cult hit "The Mighty Boosh." But he is perhaps best known for his role as the socially awkward computer expert Maurice Moss in the hit comedy "The...
- 6/2/2011
- by help@backstage.com (Jenelle Riley)
- backstage.com
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