Cult classic sitcom Green Wing has been resurrected as a podcast with the original cast and creative team.
Back in 2004, fresh from the success of sketch show Smack The Pony, writer Victoria Pile created Green Wing, a sitcom set in a hospital.
With an ensemble cast that included Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan – who would later reunite to star opposite Matt LeBlanc in Episodes – the comedy is helped enormously by committed clowning the cast, particularly Mark Heap and Michelle Gomez. The show ran for two series from 2004 to 2006 and, in a move more in common with American sitcoms, had a large pool of writers.
After the show ended, the same creative team made the terrific University comedy Campus in 2009, which despite only running for one series is well worth tracking down, especially for the tour de force performance from Andy Nyman as megalomaniacal monster and Vice Chancellor Jonty De Wolfe.
Back in 2004, fresh from the success of sketch show Smack The Pony, writer Victoria Pile created Green Wing, a sitcom set in a hospital.
With an ensemble cast that included Tamsin Greig and Stephen Mangan – who would later reunite to star opposite Matt LeBlanc in Episodes – the comedy is helped enormously by committed clowning the cast, particularly Mark Heap and Michelle Gomez. The show ran for two series from 2004 to 2006 and, in a move more in common with American sitcoms, had a large pool of writers.
After the show ended, the same creative team made the terrific University comedy Campus in 2009, which despite only running for one series is well worth tracking down, especially for the tour de force performance from Andy Nyman as megalomaniacal monster and Vice Chancellor Jonty De Wolfe.
- 4/30/2024
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
Green Wing: Resuscitated is a new six-part Audible Original revisiting the stories of its characters 12 years on. Across the episodes, the series features the original cast and goes back to East Hampton Hospital. Created once again by Victoria Pile, and scripted by original writers including Robert Harley, James Henry, Oriane Messina and Fay Rusling, there will be more surreal twists and turns in the lives and loves of East Hampton’s staff.
- 4/29/2024
- by PodcastingToday
- Podcastingtoday
Exclusive: Audible is today releasing Green Wing: Resuscitated, a six-part series revisiting the hit Channel4 hospital sitcom.
Spanning six episodes, Green Wing: Resuscitated features the original cast. Created again by Victoria Pile, and scripted by original writers including Robert Harley, James Henry, Oriane Messina and Fay Rusling, the show will explore more surreal twists and turns in the lives and loves of East Hampton Hospital’s staff.
The series revisits characters including Guy Secretan, played by Stephen Mangan, who is now a media sensation, balancing his TV and podcast appearances with his role as an anaesthetist. Following his many near-death experiences, ‘Mac’ MacCartney played by Julian Rhind-Tutt, has now returned to work as a surgeon, while Caroline Todd played by Tamsin Greig is making waves overseas as a medical pioneer. Joanna Clore, played by Pippa Haywood, is now imprisoned following her killing spree.
Olivia Colman, Mark Heap, Oliver Chris, Michelle Gomez...
Spanning six episodes, Green Wing: Resuscitated features the original cast. Created again by Victoria Pile, and scripted by original writers including Robert Harley, James Henry, Oriane Messina and Fay Rusling, the show will explore more surreal twists and turns in the lives and loves of East Hampton Hospital’s staff.
The series revisits characters including Guy Secretan, played by Stephen Mangan, who is now a media sensation, balancing his TV and podcast appearances with his role as an anaesthetist. Following his many near-death experiences, ‘Mac’ MacCartney played by Julian Rhind-Tutt, has now returned to work as a surgeon, while Caroline Todd played by Tamsin Greig is making waves overseas as a medical pioneer. Joanna Clore, played by Pippa Haywood, is now imprisoned following her killing spree.
Olivia Colman, Mark Heap, Oliver Chris, Michelle Gomez...
- 4/29/2024
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Piglets, a new series from the writers of Green Wing, is heading to Itvx next year, and the first details of the new comedy have just landed.
Green Wing is one of the most memorable comedies of the early 2000s. Following the trials and tribulations of the staff who populate East Hampton Hospital, the writing was frequently silly and surreal, and it featured star making turns from the likes of Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Michelle Gomez.
Underrated comedy Campus followed a similar scenario, this time in the fictional Kirke University, where Andy Nyman’s domineering don Jonty De Wolfe ruled with an iron fist. That series has also built up quite a fanbase, and rightly so. Now? There’s more for that fanbase to look forward to as well.
That’s because the same creative team have now created Piglets, which heads to Itvx next year. The first details...
Green Wing is one of the most memorable comedies of the early 2000s. Following the trials and tribulations of the staff who populate East Hampton Hospital, the writing was frequently silly and surreal, and it featured star making turns from the likes of Tamsin Greig, Stephen Mangan and Michelle Gomez.
Underrated comedy Campus followed a similar scenario, this time in the fictional Kirke University, where Andy Nyman’s domineering don Jonty De Wolfe ruled with an iron fist. That series has also built up quite a fanbase, and rightly so. Now? There’s more for that fanbase to look forward to as well.
That’s because the same creative team have now created Piglets, which heads to Itvx next year. The first details...
- 11/21/2023
- by Jake Godfrey
- Film Stories
Few author’s works have been such a rich source of Oscar-nominated film adaptations as J.R.R. Tolkien, the creator of the beloved fantasy sagas “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit.”
Now his own life might provide awards fodder as his experience both with his fellowship of outsider school chums and his devastating experiences as a soldier during World War I are at the center of the biopic “Tolkien,” which opens in theaters May 10. In the title role? Nicolas Hoult, fresh off his cheeky performance as a Robert Harley, a manipulative minister to Olivia Colman’s Queen Anne in the royal farce, “The Favourite,”which reaped 10 Oscar nominations and a win for Colman as Best Actress.
The just-released second trailer for the film suggests a melange of genres: a story of brotherhood among outcast students who want to change the world with art; a romance between Tolkien, who was...
Now his own life might provide awards fodder as his experience both with his fellowship of outsider school chums and his devastating experiences as a soldier during World War I are at the center of the biopic “Tolkien,” which opens in theaters May 10. In the title role? Nicolas Hoult, fresh off his cheeky performance as a Robert Harley, a manipulative minister to Olivia Colman’s Queen Anne in the royal farce, “The Favourite,”which reaped 10 Oscar nominations and a win for Colman as Best Actress.
The just-released second trailer for the film suggests a melange of genres: a story of brotherhood among outcast students who want to change the world with art; a romance between Tolkien, who was...
- 3/7/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Nicholas Hoult is in yet another film getting significant awards attention, “The Favourite,” where he has a supporting role as Robert Harley. Hoult previously had a notable role in 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road,” and actually worked with his “Favourite” co-star, Rachel Weisz, in 2002’s “About a Boy.”
Hoult recently chatted with Gold Derby senior editors Daniel Montgomery and Susan Wloszczyna about getting to play such an over-the-top character in “The Favourite,” what it was like to work with director Yorgos Lanthimos, and the responsibility of playing a real person. Watch the exclusive webchat above and read the complete interview transcript below.
See‘The Favourite’ costume designer Sandy Powell explains her ‘off-the-wall’ royal fashions [Exclusive Video]
Gold Derby (Daniel Montgomery): Nicholas Hoult, you co-star in “The Favourite” as Robert Harley, who’s kind of jockeying for a position in Queen Anne’s court. What did you think about this script and...
Hoult recently chatted with Gold Derby senior editors Daniel Montgomery and Susan Wloszczyna about getting to play such an over-the-top character in “The Favourite,” what it was like to work with director Yorgos Lanthimos, and the responsibility of playing a real person. Watch the exclusive webchat above and read the complete interview transcript below.
See‘The Favourite’ costume designer Sandy Powell explains her ‘off-the-wall’ royal fashions [Exclusive Video]
Gold Derby (Daniel Montgomery): Nicholas Hoult, you co-star in “The Favourite” as Robert Harley, who’s kind of jockeying for a position in Queen Anne’s court. What did you think about this script and...
- 1/12/2019
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
“Mary Poppins Returns,” “The Favourite” and “Bodyguard” stars join the 76th Golden Globe Awards party scene.
“A Quiet Place” power couple John Krasinski and Emily Blunt spent Saturday afternoon at the BAFTA Los Angeles Tea Party presented by Jaguar Land Rover at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for her role in “Mary Poppins Returns,” Blunt’s fellow Brit Olivia Colman would take home the trophy the following day.
Richard Madden (pictured arriving at the BAFTA Los Angeles Tea Party) has gone from being best known as the ill-fated Robb Stark on “Game of Thrones” to winning a Best Actor Golden Globe for Netflix drama “Bodyguard.”
“Who Is America?” creator Sacha Baron Cohen came as his real self with actress/wife Isla Fisher, arriving in a very British Jaguar F-pace vehicle.
Onscreen rivals in “The Favourite,...
“A Quiet Place” power couple John Krasinski and Emily Blunt spent Saturday afternoon at the BAFTA Los Angeles Tea Party presented by Jaguar Land Rover at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills. Nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for her role in “Mary Poppins Returns,” Blunt’s fellow Brit Olivia Colman would take home the trophy the following day.
Richard Madden (pictured arriving at the BAFTA Los Angeles Tea Party) has gone from being best known as the ill-fated Robb Stark on “Game of Thrones” to winning a Best Actor Golden Globe for Netflix drama “Bodyguard.”
“Who Is America?” creator Sacha Baron Cohen came as his real self with actress/wife Isla Fisher, arriving in a very British Jaguar F-pace vehicle.
Onscreen rivals in “The Favourite,...
- 1/8/2019
- by Debbie Emery
- The Wrap
Yorgos Lanthimos‘ “The Favourite” features strong roles for three women — Olivia Colman as Queen Anne and Oscar winners Rachel Weisz (“The Constant Gardener”) and Emma Stone (“L a La Land”) as two rivals for her affection. Two young British actors — Nicholas Hoult and Joe Alwyn — feature in scene-stealing supporting roles.
Hoult portrays Robert Harley, leader of the opposition and adversary to Weisz’ Lady Sarah. Meanwhile, Alwyn is Masham, a nobleman friend of Harley who becomes ‘completely c**tstruck’ with Emma Stone‘s Abigail, who plays along for her own gain.
Hoult praises each of the three leading ladies and their characters. “They all vary so much and they all change so much throughout the film. I would want to have delivered Rachel’s [Weisz] line when she says ‘we are playing very different games. I’d have like to have done Olivia’s bit when she shouts at the page boy.
Hoult portrays Robert Harley, leader of the opposition and adversary to Weisz’ Lady Sarah. Meanwhile, Alwyn is Masham, a nobleman friend of Harley who becomes ‘completely c**tstruck’ with Emma Stone‘s Abigail, who plays along for her own gain.
Hoult praises each of the three leading ladies and their characters. “They all vary so much and they all change so much throughout the film. I would want to have delivered Rachel’s [Weisz] line when she says ‘we are playing very different games. I’d have like to have done Olivia’s bit when she shouts at the page boy.
- 12/30/2018
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
“The Favourite” co-writer Tony McNamara was quite taken with the performance of Nicholas Hoult as politico Robert Harley when I spoke to him at the Bifas. McNamara revealed his favourite line in the film was one spoken by Hoult (“a man must look pretty”) and observed that “anything Nick says is fun.”
Could Oscar voters could be as impressed with Hoult ? Just shy of 30, he has been acting since he was seven and had his big breakthrough at age 13 in “About a Boy,” which also featured Rachel Weisz. While he does not number among the top tier of contenders for Best Supporting Actor according to our overall predictions, here are three reasons we could collectively be underestimating him.
He was singled out by critics in their rave reviews of the movie
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone noted “he gets in his comic licks as Lord Harley, a statesman with a...
Could Oscar voters could be as impressed with Hoult ? Just shy of 30, he has been acting since he was seven and had his big breakthrough at age 13 in “About a Boy,” which also featured Rachel Weisz. While he does not number among the top tier of contenders for Best Supporting Actor according to our overall predictions, here are three reasons we could collectively be underestimating him.
He was singled out by critics in their rave reviews of the movie
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone noted “he gets in his comic licks as Lord Harley, a statesman with a...
- 12/28/2018
- by Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
In Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite,” Emma Stone plays Abigail Masham, the daughter of a disgraced lord who makes a Walter White-esque rise to the top of Queen Anne’s court…at the cost of her morals.
It’s a chilling tale of how corruption and deception can take over a person obsessed with power, but was the real Abigail Masham really like that?
Did she manipulate and betray Sarah Churchill, the woman that took her into Queen Anne’s inner circle, to protect the status she rose to by gaining Queen Anne’s favor?
Also Read: 'The Favourite' Fact Check: Was Queen Anne Really Lesbian?
Historians have had a hard time tracking Abigail’s rise to power, as there is very little historical record of her from court letters and documents. But there are some major differences between some parts of her life that are known and how...
It’s a chilling tale of how corruption and deception can take over a person obsessed with power, but was the real Abigail Masham really like that?
Did she manipulate and betray Sarah Churchill, the woman that took her into Queen Anne’s inner circle, to protect the status she rose to by gaining Queen Anne’s favor?
Also Read: 'The Favourite' Fact Check: Was Queen Anne Really Lesbian?
Historians have had a hard time tracking Abigail’s rise to power, as there is very little historical record of her from court letters and documents. But there are some major differences between some parts of her life that are known and how...
- 12/4/2018
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
“I fell in love with him as a character. He’s very manipulative, smart and cruel, but also makes sense … using all the pieces and people he can to get the results he wants politically,” says Nicholas Hoult about his role as Robert Harley, a minister to Queen Anne (played by Olivia Colman) in “The Favourite.” But director Yorgos Lanthimos had a loose, explorational approach to portraying his characters on screen. “I said in the audition, ‘What do you think this character is like?’ And he said, ‘I don’t know. We’ll see.” Watch our exclusive video interview with Hoult above.
“You’re never quite sure where you stand with each character and where they’re going to come out in the wash,” Hoult adds about Lanthimos’s approach. That’s especially unusual for a historical story like this one, which is based in fact but takes liberties with...
“You’re never quite sure where you stand with each character and where they’re going to come out in the wash,” Hoult adds about Lanthimos’s approach. That’s especially unusual for a historical story like this one, which is based in fact but takes liberties with...
- 11/26/2018
- by Daniel Montgomery and Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
The following essay was produced as part of the 2018 Nyff Critics Academy, a workshop for aspiring film critics that took place during the 56th edition of the New York Film Festival.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest feature “The Favourite” is a delicious and biting look at the intrigue of the British Court during Queen Anne’s reign, and the fight between Sarah Churchill and Abigail Masham for her favour. The dryly funny film centers on a trio of women navigating their place in a power-driven world, and the film follows its central characters as they find increasingly absurd and inventive ways to explore and subvert the gender roles of the time.
Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) functions as both the literal and symbolic center of the power the other two women covet. What Sarah (Rachel Weisz) and Abigail (Emma Stone) are actually fighting for as they jostle for her favour is in fact...
Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest feature “The Favourite” is a delicious and biting look at the intrigue of the British Court during Queen Anne’s reign, and the fight between Sarah Churchill and Abigail Masham for her favour. The dryly funny film centers on a trio of women navigating their place in a power-driven world, and the film follows its central characters as they find increasingly absurd and inventive ways to explore and subvert the gender roles of the time.
Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) functions as both the literal and symbolic center of the power the other two women covet. What Sarah (Rachel Weisz) and Abigail (Emma Stone) are actually fighting for as they jostle for her favour is in fact...
- 10/27/2018
- by Cate Young
- Indiewire
Director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) is beginning to assemble his star-studded cast for The Favourite, a new period drama set to explore the defining reign of Queen Anne toward the end of the 17th century and beginning of the 18th.
As previously reported, The Light Between Oceans star Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman and the Oscar-winning Emma Stone are all on board for Lanthimos’s follow-up to The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Deadline now brings word that Nicholas Hoult, star of Mad Max: Fury Road and Fox’s flagship (dormant?) X-Men franchise, has closed a deal to play Robert Harley.
Harley was leader of the Tory party at the time, and served under Queen Anne (Colman) as Lord High Treasurer. Elsewhere, Weisz, is attached to the part of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, a close confidant to her majesty throughout her time on the throne, while Stone will portray the poverty-stricken Abigail Masham.
As previously reported, The Light Between Oceans star Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman and the Oscar-winning Emma Stone are all on board for Lanthimos’s follow-up to The Killing of a Sacred Deer, and Deadline now brings word that Nicholas Hoult, star of Mad Max: Fury Road and Fox’s flagship (dormant?) X-Men franchise, has closed a deal to play Robert Harley.
Harley was leader of the Tory party at the time, and served under Queen Anne (Colman) as Lord High Treasurer. Elsewhere, Weisz, is attached to the part of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, a close confidant to her majesty throughout her time on the throne, while Stone will portray the poverty-stricken Abigail Masham.
- 3/1/2017
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
Paddy McGuinness has joined the cast of The Delivery Man.
The Take Me Out host will play Ian in the ITV sitcom, the best friend of ex-police officer Matthew (Darren Boyd).
The Delivery Man follows Matthew, who quits his job as a policeman and becomes a midwife on a maternity ward.
The six-episode series also stars Aisling Bea, Fay Ripley, Alex MacQueen and Llewella Gideon.
The Delivery Man was picked up for a full series after a pilot aired earlier this year.
Written by Green Wing's Robert Harley and James Henry, the series will air on ITV in 2015.
It will be joining returning comedies Benidorm, Birds of a Feather and Vicious.
The Take Me Out host will play Ian in the ITV sitcom, the best friend of ex-police officer Matthew (Darren Boyd).
The Delivery Man follows Matthew, who quits his job as a policeman and becomes a midwife on a maternity ward.
The six-episode series also stars Aisling Bea, Fay Ripley, Alex MacQueen and Llewella Gideon.
The Delivery Man was picked up for a full series after a pilot aired earlier this year.
Written by Green Wing's Robert Harley and James Henry, the series will air on ITV in 2015.
It will be joining returning comedies Benidorm, Birds of a Feather and Vicious.
- 11/19/2014
- Digital Spy
ITV has ordered a full series of sitcom The Delivery Man after a successful pilot.
Darren Boyd and Aisling Bea will star in the comedy about a policeman who decides to become a midwife.
The new six-episode series follows a pilot episode filmed earlier this year, which also starred Fay Ripley, Alex Macqueen and Dominic Coleman.
Written by Green Wing's Robert Harley and James Henry, the series is expected to air on ITV in mid-2015.
It will be produced and directed by Green Wing creator Victoria Pile.
Further casting details are expected to be announced in the coming months, ahead of its recording in October.
Boyd is best known for his roles in Sky1's Spy and for playing John Cleese in the drama Holy Flying Circus. He appeared in an episode of HBO's Veep earlier this year.
Darren Boyd and Aisling Bea will star in the comedy about a policeman who decides to become a midwife.
The new six-episode series follows a pilot episode filmed earlier this year, which also starred Fay Ripley, Alex Macqueen and Dominic Coleman.
Written by Green Wing's Robert Harley and James Henry, the series is expected to air on ITV in mid-2015.
It will be produced and directed by Green Wing creator Victoria Pile.
Further casting details are expected to be announced in the coming months, ahead of its recording in October.
Boyd is best known for his roles in Sky1's Spy and for playing John Cleese in the drama Holy Flying Circus. He appeared in an episode of HBO's Veep earlier this year.
- 8/6/2014
- Digital Spy
Campus is a brand new comedy set in the hotbed of academic mediocrity that is Kirke University. At its helm is the stubby, mercurial Vice Chancellor Jonty de Wolfe, who wants nothing more than to drench Kirke in the juices of his own greatness.
As a scary cloud of financial doom hovers over the gently crumbling 60s concrete, Jonty attempts to pimp up Kirke in any way he can, whether it’s faked alumni, kidnapped prodigies or a range of “Eau de Kirke” perfumery – but his lofty plans soar as gracefully as a porky tortoise and while the strangely unsettling puppet master plunges deeper into the pickle jar, the rest of Kirke’s assorted staff get sidetracked by the more urgent dilemma of who to sleep with next.
The philandering English Professor Matt Beer is forced to up his game in all departments, as he makes no impression on shy Maths lecturer Imogen Moffat,...
As a scary cloud of financial doom hovers over the gently crumbling 60s concrete, Jonty attempts to pimp up Kirke in any way he can, whether it’s faked alumni, kidnapped prodigies or a range of “Eau de Kirke” perfumery – but his lofty plans soar as gracefully as a porky tortoise and while the strangely unsettling puppet master plunges deeper into the pickle jar, the rest of Kirke’s assorted staff get sidetracked by the more urgent dilemma of who to sleep with next.
The philandering English Professor Matt Beer is forced to up his game in all departments, as he makes no impression on shy Maths lecturer Imogen Moffat,...
- 5/9/2011
- by Kat
- Nerdly
I wasn’t a fan of Green Wing, the semi-improved comedy based on scripts that were a hodgepodge of jokes, sketches and sight gags gathered from a hive-mind of writers. It was an interesting way to produce a single-camera sitcom, and one that clearly found an audience, but I found its scattergun approach quite tiring. Many of Green Wing‘s writers are behind Channel 4′s new comedy offering Campus, which won’t escape “Green Wing in a university” branding, because that’s exactly what it is. The uni’s motto is even “with wings”.
“Publication, Publication, Publication” was a 70-minute extension of the half-hour Comedy Showcase pilot from 2009 (including adverts), which basically means there was an awful lot of filler. But this filler is exactly what Campus thrives on, as it’s really just an extended sequence of sketches and non sequiturs. Jonty De Wolfe (Andy Nyman) is the...
“Publication, Publication, Publication” was a 70-minute extension of the half-hour Comedy Showcase pilot from 2009 (including adverts), which basically means there was an awful lot of filler. But this filler is exactly what Campus thrives on, as it’s really just an extended sequence of sketches and non sequiturs. Jonty De Wolfe (Andy Nyman) is the...
- 4/6/2011
- by Dan Owen
- Obsessed with Film
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