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There aren't a lot of guitar riffs on Dead Ringers.

The actors are all dead ringers for their respective band members.

I thought of "Dead Ringers," but there are many successful variations.

And you're right, there's less distortion and noise and murk on Dead Ringers.

On Dead Ringers I wanted to use repetition in a slightly different way.

Ahead, we rounded up 11 products that are dead ringers for our favorite foods.

The cover of Horseback's new album, Dead Ringers, suggests a kind of twisted folk metal.

The Howard Shore/Mondo collaborative editions of Naked Lunch, Dead, Ringers, and Crash will be available through Mondo's website.

Case in point: The Kardashian-Jenner sisters are dead ringers for their respective signs — and not in the ways you'd expect.

In David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers" (Sunday and Wednesday), she plays an actress who creates a rift between identical-twin gynecologists (both played by Jeremy Irons).

The one thing that never really changed was that, whether the production was Davis' Dead Ringers or Crawford's Berserk, Davis was the greater actress and Crawford the greater star.

This summer, Howard Shore's teamed up with Mondo to release vinyl editions of three of his scores from Cronenberg films: Naked Lunch, 1988's Dead Ringers, and Crash (1996).

These are just a few of our favorites, from Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983), and Dead Ringers (1988), but there's a total of 23 body horror cards for you to peruse.

For those who can't wait to play with these rich shadow shades, we offer consolation in the form of buy-it-now alternatives, which are nearly dead ringers for the real thing.

However, the phone icons depicted in last year's Android 8.0 Oreo beta turned out to be dead ringers for the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, which gives this particular Easter egg a little extra chocolate.

Then, Blip trips and falls down the stairs, bouncing out her front door and into a technicolor wonderland where three forest creatures (including dead ringers for Bambi and Thumper, plus a duck) help her explore nature.

Swatch filed for a $100 million lawsuit on Friday, and the company's complaint is filled with images of watches that appear to be dead ringers for watchfaces you can buy for the Samsung Gear Sport, Gear S3 Classic, and Frontier.

As we pulled into Wilkins Fruit & Fir Farm, passing at least a dozen dead ringers for the Christian girl autumn lady on our way to the parking lot, my boyfriend remarked that he'd been here before and proceeded to tell me an absolutely preposterous story.

Adams and Fisher, some people say, are dead ringers for each other, and in an even more meta bit of doppelgängery, the actress who plays Susan's daughter, and whom we glimpse briefly, is named India Menuez, thus sharing a name with Tony and Laura's daughter.

There were 130 of them on the video-game side and they were dead ringers for competitive poker players on television: quiet concentration, slouched posture, eyes covered by hats—albeit ones featuring those gentlemanly young owls instead of nationally ranked college basketball programs—and jotting notes on paper.

"Double Lover" nods a bit to David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers" (1988) and Roman Polanski's "The Tenant" (1976), two arguably classic thrillers on doppelgängers and madness, and Mr. Ozon's stylistic gymnastics sometimes bring to mind Brian De Palma, who made a film about good/bad twins early in his career.

Dressed in their finest pro-Trump gear, a gaggle of skinny teenage boys, almost all them white, were dead ringers for Nicholas Sandmann, the teenager from Covington who went viral earlier this year after footage emerged of him wearing a MAGA hat while seeming to taunt a Native American demonstrator.

By using glue sticks and powder to cleverly cover eyebrows (in case you hadn't noticed, many filters remove your arches!), fine art brushes to make pencil-thin lines, and tweezers to place plastic jewels in precisely the right spots, these artists create end results that are dead ringers for the real thing.

A user on the Science Fiction and Fantasy Stack Exchange forum suggests that that episode was, in turn, inspired by an episode of Adam West's live action Batman series called "The Dead Ringers" (1966), in which Liberace plays a villain who tries to kill the Bat with a hole-punching machine controlled by piano music.

The terrible experiences she's processing are punctuated by flashes of simpler horrors — drawings of the covers of her beloved Dread, Ghoulish and Ghastly magazines (dead ringers for the real-world Creepy and Eerie, whose frequent contributor Richard Corben seems to have had as much of an impact on Ferris's artwork as his polar opposite, Lynda Barry).

Dead Ringers by David Cronenberg was selected as the opening film.

His style of delivery is made light of by Jon Culshaw on Dead Ringers.

"Cronenberg film earns a dozen nominations: Dead Ringers tops Genie list". The Globe and Mail, February 14, 1989.

He was also parodied by Dawn French on an episode of French and Saunders and by Jon Culshaw on Dead Ringers.

Janet "Jan" Ravens (born 14 May 1958) is an English actress and impressionist, known for her voices on Spitting Image and Dead Ringers.

Kreutzmann instructing about drumming Kreutzmann's son Justin is a film and video director.Justin Kreutzmann on the Internet Movie Database Justin Kreutzmann directed Backstage Pass, a 35-minute Grateful Dead music documentary video that was released in 1992, and Dead Ringers: The Making of Touch of Grey, a 30-minute documentary released in 1987.Dead Ringers: The Making of A Touch of Grey, DeadDisc.com; accessed February 6, 2018.

Dead Ringers is a United Kingdom radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and later BBC Two. The programme was devised by producer Bill Dare and developed with Jon Holmes, Andy Hurst and Simon Blackwell. Among its stars was Jan Ravens, who said the BBC cancelled the television run in 2007 after five years. Dead Ringers' return to Radio 4 was announced in 2014.

The video has been parodied in a Dead Ringers spoof, with Jon Culshaw impersonating Blunt, singing the song with different lyrics where he explains how he can be cool.

Toronto Star, March 20, 1986. and at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989 for The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes)."Dead Ringers leads Genie race". Ottawa Citizen, February 14, 1989.

Screenings, followed by questions and answers time with the editor include "Dead Ringers" (editor Ron Sanders, C.C.E.), "Cairo Time" (editor Teresa Hannigan, C.C.E.) and "District 9" (editor Julian Clarke, C.C.E.).

The awards were dominated by David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers, which won ten awards. The event was held at the Westin Harbour Castle Hotel in Toronto and was hosted by Dave Thomas.

Nev Fountain, born Steven John Fountain (born 12 August 1969)Companies House, is an English writer, best known for his comedy work with writing partner Tom Jamieson on the radio and television programme Dead Ringers.

The Grateful Dead also released a 30-minute documentary called Dead Ringers: The Making of Touch of Grey, about the production of the music video. The documentary was directed by Justin Kreutzmann, the son of drummer Bill Kreutzmann.

Newzoids featured the voice talents of Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson and Lewis MacLeod, all from BBC Radio 4 comedy Dead Ringers, and featured iconic satirical appearances for several noted British celebrities, including Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson, and Prince George of Cambridge.

Hicks, Chris. "`DOUBLE IMPACT' OF GUNS AND SOFT-CORE `LOVE SCENE' WON'T LURE WIDE AUDIENCE", Deseret News, published August 14, 1991. Retrieved December 27, 2019. Seeing Jeremy Irons portray a dual role in Dead Ringers allegedly influenced Van Damme's decision.

"Cronenberg film earns a dozen nominations: Dead Ringers tops Genie list". The Globe and Mail, February 14, 1989. In 1991, he coordinated a concert series for world beat musicians at Ontario Place"Music fest celebrates multiculturalism". Toronto Star, June 24, 1991.

Since 2000, radio and television comedy impressions show Dead Ringers has a running joke depicting Brian Perkins as the "Godfather of Radio 4", played on the show by impressionist Jon Culshaw. His imitation often refers to himself as "Big Daddy Perkins" and frequently badmouths BBC colleagues, hinting that he's given out various punishment beatings to those who had earned his ire. In one sketch, the Dead Ringers Brian telephoned the real Brian, accusing him of not being hard enough. The real Brian riposted with a claim that he'd put Peter Donaldson's feet in concrete and thrown him into a canal.

The warehouse district was a haven. Smith and Wilcox had an "Art Behind Bars" installation in the district with mannequins, Mickey Mouse, and neon tube calliope. Smith's brother "Cat" moved into the warehouse with him. Cat Smith's collages were dead ringers for Schwitters'.

Culshaw rose to fame in January 1998 while working with Steve Penk on Capital Radio, by impersonating William Hague and succeeding in contacting Number 10 Downing Street. He was put through to Tony Blair who, despite instantly discovering the ruse, had a lengthy conversation with him until a member of Blair's staff ended the call. Culshaw was one of the stars of the BBC Radio 4 comedy series Dead Ringers, which ran from 2000 to 2007 as well as the BBC Two television series of the same name, from 2002 until 2007. The radio series of Dead Ringers made a return to BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

The son of the actor and broadcaster Peter Jones, he is a graduate of the University of Manchester where he studied English and Philosophy. Dare is the producer or devisor of various (mainly comedy) programmes mainly for BBC Radio and television, including The Mary Whitehouse Experience, Dead Ringers, The Now Show, The Late Edition, I've Never Seen Star Wars and The Secret World, and Brian Gulliver's Travels. He was also the producer of eight series of ITV's Spitting Image. A running gag on the radio version of Dead Ringers was Jon Culshaw, in the style of Tom Baker saying Dare's name in an exaggerated fashion at the end of the credits.

Their most notable work, however, has been for Dead Ringers in which Fountain occasionally makes cameo appearances. The pair are also responsible for the historical comedy Elephants to Catch Eels and wrote "Txt Mssg Rcvd", a 2005 episode of the BBC Three anthology series Twisted Tales.

The special marked the end of Tony Blair's premiership after ten years. It was commissioned after he announced his resignation on 10 May 2007 and aired five days later. The special was also the final episode of Dead Ringers for seven years, until it returned in 2014.

"Kevin Connelly, Now You're Talking" Connelly lives in North Yorkshire, where he spends much of his time travelling to London to work at the BBC on Dead Ringers. The remainder of his time is spent delivering after- dinner speeches using his talent for impersonation, principally of sports personalities.

After a seven-year break Dead Ringers returned to Radio 4 for a twelfth series. Jon Culshaw and Jan Ravens returned joined by Debra Stephenson (except episode 5), Duncan Wisbey and Lewis MacLeod. Jan Ravens did not appear in episodes 3–4. Bill Dare returned as the programmes producer.

In previous work, Magor used mould-making and casting techniques to make replicas of coats, trays and cutlery (which she calls "serviceable objects") as receptacles for other materials (such as candies or cigarettes).Woodley, E.C. "Real Dead Ringers: The Art of Liz Magor". Border Crossings, Issue 117, March 2011.

She came back in 2013, in The Light at the End, a two-part 50th Anniversary audio story released on CD in the same year. On TV, She has appeared in the television series Dead Ringers, and narrates BBC One's cookery programme MasterChef. She also performs voiceovers for television advertisements.

Ottawa Citizen, March 4, 1989. The film premiered on September 8, 1988 at the 1988 Toronto International Film Festival. The film received a Genie Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989.Jay Scott, "Cronenberg film earns a dozen nominations Dead Ringers tops Genie list".

The 10th Genie Awards were held on March 22, 1989."Dead Ringers tops at Genies". Montreal Gazette, March 23, 1989. This was in the middle of a strike at the CBC, causing the ceremony to be scaled down and several nominees to boycott the awards in sympathy;"Genies going on with help".

Jay Scott, "Cronenberg film earns a dozen nominations Dead Ringers tops Genie list". The Globe and Mail, February 14, 1989. It also won the Golden Reel Award as the year's top-grossing Canadian film with a gross of C$1.79 million just from Quebec, before it had even opened in English Canada.

Starring Peter Davison, The Kingmaker is written by professional scriptwriter Nev Fountain, best known as writer of the radio comedy series Dead Ringers for BBC Radio 4. Moreover one of the principal guest stars in this story is the Dead Ringers actor: impressionist Jon Culshaw. The script has some elements which spoof The Hitch- Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (there is a robot which evokes memories of Marvin, the Paranoid Android); it has William Shakespeare (complete with a humorous, but authentic, cod-Birmingham accent); and it has King Richard iii(both the character in Shakespeare's play, and the actual king in 1485). It also has Jon Culshaw doing, at one point, his famous impression of Tom Baker as the 4th Doctor.

Diane Chenery-Wickens had worked as a makeup artist for BBC Television for over 20 years. She worked on such shows as The League of Gentlemen, Casualty and Pride and Prejudice. She also won an Emmy Award in 2000 for Arabian Nights, and was nominated for a BAFTA Award in 2003 for Dead Ringers.

He has also had numerous television and radio appearances including Lily Savage's Blankety Blank, Richard & Judy, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and The 11 O'Clock Show. He has also been a warm-up artist for many television shows including I'm Alan Partridge and Dead Ringers. He is represented by Glorious Management.Artist Profile: Junior Simpson, Glorious Management.

The radio series of Dead Ringers has frequently parodied characters from The Archers, including a special edition. The subtitle was parodied by Bill Tidy in his long-running cartoon of The Cloggies, "an Everyday Saga in the Life of Clog Dancing Folk", which ran in the satirical magazine Private Eye, and later in The Listener.

Bujold starred in Choose Me (1984), directed and written by Alan Rudolph. She promptly made two more films for Rudolph:Trouble in Mind (1985) and The Moderns (1988). Bujold starred in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers (1988) opposite Jeremy Irons, then made a TV movie Red Earth, White Earth (1989). She did False Identity (1990) with Stacy Keach.

In a review of Honey, AllMusic said: "Palmer himself sounds as inhumanly suave as ever, though much of the material is a prescription for déjà vu. Tracks like the funk-lashed cover of Devo's "Girl U Want" are dead ringers for the stuff on the Riptide album." People described Palmer's version as "head-banging new wave".

The second version was shown minus the BBC One logo in 2005. This ident was used to introduce the Comic Relief of 2003. A further spoof featured Jon Culshaw as Tony Blair dancing in a fictional ident outside 10 Downing Street. This was shown on a July 2003 episode of Dead Ringers, broadcast on BBC Two.

Reviewers have had mixed opinions as to the effectiveness of the show's use of modern styles and current political references. Several episodes of Dead Ringers broadcast in February and March 2007 mocked Robin Hood for its anachronistic approach. Since its broadcast, it has gained a small cult following along with similar BBC shows including Merlin and Atlantis.

21, New York, NY: R.R. Bowker, 1976, p. 430. It was followed by Twins, co-written with Jack Geasland in 1977. In 1988 the novel was adapted into a film under the title Dead Ringers with Jeremy Irons in the eponymous lead roles. Her 1993 novel Doll's Eyes was adapted into a film titled In Dreams in 1999.

Jonathan Peter Culshaw (born 2 June 1968) is an English impressionist and comedian, best known for his work on the radio comedy Dead Ringers since 2000. Culshaw has voiced a number of characters for ITV shows including 2DTV (2001), Spitting Image (1994–96) and Newzoids (2015–2016), as well as appearing in The Impressions Show alongside Debra Stephenson from 2009 until 2011.

The tenth series starred Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Mark Perry, Phil Cornwell and Kevin Connelly (except episode 3). The programme was devised by Bill Dare and the producer was Mario Stylianides. Episode 5 was entitled the 50th edition of Dead Ringers, however this was inaccurate because the fourth episode of Series 5 never aired, meaning this was the 49th episode overall.

She was born in Clatterbridge, in Wirral (then in Cheshire).You and Yours She attended West Kirby Grammar School, notably with Jan Ravens (two years above her) who would later mercilessly imitate many Radio 4 presenters of You and Yours and Woman's Hour on Dead Ringers. She gained a degree in English, Drama and American Studies from the University of Manchester.

On the BBC British comedy impression show Dead Ringers, Bush was a recurring target for satire, being portrayed by Jon Culshaw. The parodies of Bush put emphasis and exaggeration on the concept of Bushisms, general ignorance and lampooned malapropisms, such as "My fellow Abbytitmuses, this is your Sterident speaking..." and "I want Osama Bin Laden capturised alive or dead or both!".

Under the current regime, those selected for the bursary work on BBC Radio 4's three high-profile topical shows; The News Quiz, The Now Show and Dead Ringers, contribute writing across the range of the BBC Radio Comedy Department's output as well as script- editing sketch-shows and sitcoms. Bursary recipients are also encouraged to develop new formats and create their own shows.

Despite their weather-beaten faces, rotten teeth and unkempt hair, the chief and his cave-wife are dead ringers for Koenig and Helena. That night, the spear-man steals across the cave to see Sandra. He presents her with a leopard skin, which she refuses. His offer becomes more vigorous and, in his attempt to make her to wear the skin, he tears off her uniform tunic.

The show has been imitated in the ITV programme Harry Hill's TV Burp. It was also mocked in the BBC impression programme Dead Ringers, in which Sir Alan Sugar turns fired contestants into frogs and the candidates are portrayed as failed applicants of Strictly Come Dancing and Big Brother who are seeking their 15 minutes of fame. Rory Bremner did an impression of Sir Alan on the show Bremner Bird and Fortune; he was in the boardroom with the main London Mayoral candidates, Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone and Brian Paddick, and after each of the candidates failed to get a single vote according to his results, he hired himself for the job claiming he "would make a profit on City Hall". In Dead Ringers Bremner also impersonated a Sir Alan with magic powers castigating a contestant over an event akin to what occurred to The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Thomas Vámos (born September 21, 1938) is a Hungarian-Canadian cinematographer.Thomas Schnurmacher, "Couple held captive in Laurentians - but it's only for a film". Montreal Gazette, December 3, 1986. He is most noted as a two-time Genie Award nominee for Best Cinematography, receiving nominations at the 10th Genie Awards in 1989 for The Revolving Doors (Les Portes tournantes)Jay Scott, "Cronenberg film earns a dozen nominations: Dead Ringers tops Genie list".

The Secret World is a comedy radio series using impressionists broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Using many of the creative team from the long-running series Dead Ringers, and originating as part of Radio 4's Happy Mondays pilot strand in 2008, the Secret World takes a subtler, more naturalistic approach, using famous figures in various bizarre yet humdrum situations, the comedy arising from the juxtapositions of contrasting characters and situations.

Such occurrences are called "dead ringers" and are still used toward the pitcher/ringer average. Back-yard games can be played to any number of points that is agreed upon, but are usually to 21 points, win by 2. In most sanctioned tournaments the handicapped divisions pitch 50 shoe games, most points win. If there is a tie, the pitchers pitch two additional innings (alternating pitch) until the tie is broken.

He also voiced Draco Malfoy, Albus Dumbledore, Fred Weasley and George Weasley in various Harry Potter video games, including Philosopher's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, and Order of the Phoenix. Since 2014, he has voiced various characters in Dead Ringers, numerous celebrities in ITV's Newzoids and various animals in CBBC's The Zoo. In the simulation game Planet Coaster, he voices the entertainer King Coaster.

When a journalist criticised her teenage children, Osbourne sent a box of excrement with a note saying, "I heard you've got an eating disorder. Eat this." The popular British comedy Dead Ringers, features and spoofs Osbourne (played by Jan Ravens) quite prominently alongside her husband (played by Jon Culshaw). Also, she was spoofed by impressionist Ronni Ancona on Alistair McGowan's Big Impression and was also featured in comedy 2DTV.

Peggy Mitchell, spoofed in 2DTV. Peggy has been spoofed in several programmes, including the ITV cartoon sketch show 2DTV, and Harry Hill's TV Burp. In the BBC's Big Impression, impressionist Ronni Ancona performs as Peggy, shuffling around on her knees to exaggerate Barbara Windsor's petite height, and regularly using the catchphrase "Get outta my pub!" Impressionist Jan Ravens has spoofed her in the BBC's Dead Ringers, also mimicking her cheeky laugh.

In 2008, Cronenberg directed Howard Shore's first opera, The Fly. Since Dead Ringers (1988), Cronenberg has worked with cinematographer Peter Suschitzky on each of his films (see List of film director and cinematographer collaborations). Suschitzky was the director of photography for The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and Cronenberg remarked that Suschitzky's work in that film "was the only one of those movies that actually looked good", which was a motivating factor to work with him on Dead Ringers. Although Cronenberg has worked with a number of Hollywood stars, he remains a staunchly Canadian filmmaker, with nearly all of his films (including major studio vehicles The Dead Zone and The Fly) having been filmed in his home province Ontario. Notable exceptions include M. Butterfly (1993), most of which was shot in China, Spider, and Eastern Promises (2007), which were both filmed primarily in England, and A Dangerous Method (2011), which was filmed in Germany and Austria.

Captain Jack has gone on to become a recognisable figure in the British public consciousness, and has attracted some parody. These parodies frequently echo criticisms both of the character and of Barrowman's portrayal. The character of Jack Harkness has been parodied several times on the satirical impressionist television show Dead Ringers. Played by Jon Culshaw, the show pokes fun at his bisexuality and apparent campness, as well his melodramatic personality in Torchwood.

In his early career, McGowan had minor roles in shows such as Children's Ward, and in the pilot episode of Jonathan Creek. He also was a series regular in the first season of Dead Ringers. McGowan also appeared in the Scottish football sketch show Only an Excuse? from 1996 to 1998. He also hosted and starred in a sporting impressions show on Radio 5 live called The Game's Up in the late 1990s.

She created the series Audio Diaries for Radio 4 which ran for three series from 1998 to 2001. This innovative mockumentary was ahead of its time in style and content. As a performer she appeared in another mock documentary series People Like Us both in its Radio 4 and BBC 2 incarnations. She was also a contributor to other Radio 4 comedy shows including The Sunday Format, Dead Ringers and Week Ending.

Hennessy has won several awards for her work, including the Canadian Nurses Association Award of Merit (recognizing health care reporting) and the Canadian Journalism Federation Greg Clark Award. Prior to becoming a journalist, Hennessy dabbled in acting alongside her sister. In 1988, the two appeared as twin call girls in the David Cronenberg film Dead Ringers. They also co-starred in a film written and co-directed by Jill entitled The Acting Class.

In David Mamet's Mind Your Pantheon he played the actor Strabo. He is known for his long series of readings of Richmal Crompton's Just William stories, which show his characteristic and flexible reading voices. He has also narrated the Billy Bunter series by Frank Richards. As a result of this extensive work, Jarvis has been satirised in the radio show Dead Ringers by Mark Perry, highlighting his seeming ubiquity in Radio 4 programmes.

Hennessy at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival Hennessy and her sister made their acting debut playing twin call girls in 1988's Dead Ringers. She was short listed for the role of Dana Scully on The X-Files according to Gillian Anderson, the actress who eventually got the role. She appeared on Broadway in the musical Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story in 1990. In 1993, she appeared as Dr. Marie Lazarus in RoboCop 3.

While still at school, Robinson first appeared on stage in the title role of Little Voice in The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, by Jim Cartwright, at the Courtyard Theatre. Her role included imitating the voices of Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf and Julie Andrews. Geraldine McNulty appeared as her mother, Marie Hoff. She then went on to perform in the last two series of Dead Ringers on BBC2.

Peter Suschitzky, A.S.C. (born 25 July 1941) is a British cinematographer and photographer. Among his most known works as director of photography are The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Empire Strikes Back, and Mars Attacks! and the later films of David Cronenberg. Suschitzky succeeded Mark Irwin as Cronenberg's regular cinematographer when Irwin left during the pre-production of Dead Ringers (1988), and has been the cinematographer for all of Cronenberg's films since.

"WFTDA Welcomes 14 New Member Leagues", 1 March 2012 Up until December 2013, the Twin City Derby Girls consisted of three league teams (the Damagin' Dames, the 'Paign, and the Boneyard Bombshells) as well as two travel leagues, an A and a B team. As of 2017, Twin City has three teams, the Evil Twins (Travel A), Dead Ringers (Travel B), and the Alter Egos (C) as well as a new skater program, Doppel Gang.

Between 2001 and 2002, Culshaw hosted a programme on ITV called Alter Ego, where he interviewed male celebrities in their own style of speaking, a form of simultaneous translation. Culshaw also appeared on 2DTV, a cartoon version of Dead Ringers. In early 2004, using the same production team, he had his own programme, The Impressionable Jon Culshaw commissioned for ITV. Culshaw also appeared in the Doctor Who webcast "Death Comes to Time" and audio drama The Kingmaker.

Geneviève Bujold (; born July 1, 1942) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Anne Boleyn in the film Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), for which she won a Golden Globe Award and received an Academy Award nomination. Subsequent film credits include The Trojan Women (1971), Earthquake (1974), Obsession (1976), Coma (1978), Murder by Decree (1979), Tightrope (1984), Choose Me (1984), Dead Ringers (1988), The House of Yes (1997), and Still Mine (2012).

The original Five Satins version of the song featured prominently in Martin Scorsese's 2019 epic crime film The Irishman, including the opening scene and end credits. It is the first track on the film's soundtrack album, released by Sony Music on November 8, 2019. The original song also appeared in its entirety in David Cronenberg's 1988 psychological thriller film Dead Ringers. It also appears briefly in a very moving and yet violent scene in the TV series Gotham.

The track "Harsh Stone White", when performed live, featured a backing video that, like the infamous Worlock video, consisted of frightening and graphic scenes from movies. These include The Hunger, Blue Velvet, Day of the Dead, The Thing, Pumpkinhead, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Drugstore Cowboy, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Dead Ringers, Altered States, Evil Dead II, Brain Damage, Parents, The Fly II, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Galaxy of Terror, and The Serpent and the Rainbow.

Morgan Creek Entertainment is an American film production company that has released box-office hits including Young Guns, Dead Ringers, Major League, True Romance, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Crush, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and The Last of the Mohicans. The studio was co-founded in 1988 by James Robinson and Joe Roth. Robinson is company as chairman and CEO. His two sons, Brian Robinson and David C. Robinson, run the day-to-day operations.

Carrott's Lib is a British satirical comedy series broadcast between 2 October 1982 and 30 December 1983. It starred Jasper Carrott and a cast of many comedians. The show was a satirical comedy and sketch show, featuring many comedians who went on to become famous in their own right, notably Chris Barrie (Red Dwarf, The Brittas Empire) and Jan Ravens (Dead Ringers, Spitting Image). It was broadcast live from Shepherd's Bush on Saturday nights, albeit with some pre-recorded elements.

The Jeremy Kyle Show has been the subject of parody by at least two BBC comedy shows. In the programme Dead Ringers, a parody of the show has appeared. Also, in October 2007, the BBC began broadcasting The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle, a sitcom starring and co-written by Jennifer Saunders and Tanya Byron. David Walliams had a series of sketches parodying the show as if it involved middle class guests in his sketch show Walliams & Friend in 2016.

A locally produced Australian comedic radio program is Hamish & Andy, and in the United Kingdom an example is The Burkiss Way. Many of the BBC's most successful television comedies began life as radio shows. These include Hancock's Half Hour, Goodness Gracious Me, Knowing Me, Knowing You, The League of Gentlemen, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Room 101, Have I Got News For You, (based on Radio 4's The News Quiz), Dead Ringers and most recently Little Britain and Absolute Power.

The series is frequently lampooned for its dialogue and unlikely scenarios. Andy Hamilton called the dialogue "the funniest on TV" and David Mitchell selected it as his "TV hell" in the series TV Heaven, Telly Hell. Deed's "swashbuckling" persona has been satirised on the sketch series Dead Ringers. Despite the criticism given to the programme, the series is praised as being at its best when tackling topical issues, such as the MMR vaccine, human exposure to telephone masts and incestuous relationships.

Dead Ringers is a 1988 Canadian-American psychological thriller film starring Jeremy Irons in a dual role as identical twin gynecologists. David Cronenberg directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Norman Snider. Their script was based on the lives of Stewart and Cyril Marcus and on the novel Twins by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, a "highly fictionalized" version of the Marcus' story. The film won numerous honors, including for Irons' performance, and 10 Genie Awards, notably Best Motion Picture.

The programme is mentioned in an episode of Irish sitcom Father Ted entitled "The Old Grey Whistle Theft",IMDB Father Ted movie connections—Retrieved 21 June 2006. Still Game (in the episode "Wireless") and is also referenced in the very first episode of Little Britain from 2003.IMDB Little Britain movie connections page—Retrieved 21 June 2006. BBC impression sketch show, Dead Ringers, parodies Countdown numerous times, and another television programme, The Big Breakfast, parodied Countdown in a feature called "Countdown Under".

She occasionally appeared as an impressionist but mostly played characters in various sketches to support the stars: Jan Ravens, Jon Culshaw, Mark Perry, Kevin Connelly, and Phil Cornwell. In the Dead Ringers CBBC spin off 'Spoof!' (part of the Gina's Laughing Gear comedy pilot season), Robinson appeared as Supernanny, Charlotte Church, Konnie Huq and Billie Piper among others. Other appearances include the CBBC talent show The Slammer as part of an impressions double act and as a special guest on Blue Peter.

Far Out (1996) is the second full-length album released on CD by Tadpoles. The album was recorded by the core trio of Todd Parker, David Max and Nick Kramer after drummer, Michael Kite Audino and guitarist Andrew Jackson Shapiro left the group. Guest musicians Edward Odowd (The Toilet Boys / Psychic TV) and Steve Savoca (The Werefrogs) perform drums and percussion on the album. Additional lap steel guitar was provided by Jeff Passifiume (Hank McCoy and The Dead Ringers / The Lost Continentals).

In an episode of Dead Ringers his close relationship with Tony Blair is satirised in an imaginary scenario where Blair is divorcing his wife. He is asked if it will be difficult to sack the person he most loves and cherishes replying "I'm not sacking Alastair Campbell". It is also widely believed that the character of Malcolm Tucker from the BBC political satire comedy The Thick of It is loosely based on Campbell. Tucker is famous for his short fuse and use of very strong language.

Laurence Howarth is an English comic actor and writer. He has appeared in one episode each of the TV series After You've Gone (2007), Hyperdrive (2006), Blessed (2005), The Robinsons (2005), My Hero (2005) and Dark Ages (1999). He has also appeared in the radio comedy Bleak Expectations and written for TV to Go, the 2006 TV series of Dead Ringers, and for Alistair McGowan's Big Impression (1996). He is one half of the double act Laurence & Gus, alongside fellow comedian and writer Gus Brown.

Doctor Who has been satirised and spoofed on many occasions by comedians including Spike Milligan (a Dalek invades his bathroom — Milligan, naked, hurls a soap sponge at it) and Lenny Henry. Jon Culshaw frequently impersonates the Fourth Doctor in the BBC Dead Ringers series. Doctor Who fandom has also been lampooned on programs such as Saturday Night Live, The Chaser's War on Everything, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Family Guy, American Dad!, Futurama, South Park, Community as Inspector Spacetime, The Simpsons and The Big Bang Theory.

Television programmes such as Harry Hill's TV Burp, GMTV, Richard & Judy and Dead Ringers all made jokes about and regularly speculated as to the Banker's real identity. Some sources have speculated that the Banker is really former Coronation Street actor and host of The Mole, Glenn Hugill, who works as part of the show's production team. Edmonds denied these claims in Heat magazine in July 2006. However, in 2015, these claims were later proven to be accurate by Richard Osman and Stephen Mulhern, who confirmed that Hugill is the Banker.

The programme included readings of serialized stories although this was later dropped as the show 'matured'; instead listeners were encouraged to listen to sister programme Big Toe Books on BBC7. The 4 May 2008 episode was a special on comics. Featured was Philip Pullman's new comic strip and Eagle. During the first year the show was extensively parodied on the Radio 4 impressionist satire Dead Ringers for being about 'what people at Radio 4 think young people want to listen to', for instance Dylan Thomas poetry read by Richard Burton and Will Self stories.

This article would later help inspire the film Dead Ringers. Wolfe also twice served as a restaurant reviewer for New York Magazine in the 1970s. Wolfe also wrote about travel, starting an annual series called Island Travel that ran in New York Magazine from 1984 to 1994, as well as doing travel pieces for the New York Times, the New York Post, and Washington Post, among others. Wolfe's interest in sexuality and social behavior would later lead to her writing Playing Around: Women and Adultery and The Cosmo Report: Women and Sex in the Eighties.

While in Los Angeles to record the part he decided that he did not like the area much, and preferred filming in Britain. He wrote series five of the BBC2 impressionist sketch show Dead Ringers, and voiced Mitch in the Disney animated series Phineas and Ferb. He also narrated the reality show Beauty and the Geek. Following the success of Channel 4's Alternative Election Night in 2010, which Mitchell hosted with Jimmy Carr, Charlie Brooker and Lauren Laverne, the four presented 10 O'Clock Live, a series of live shows looking at the week's affairs.

2017 radio includes the roles of Auntie Megs and Zita in new dramatisation of Michael Morpurgo's Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea for BBC Radio 2. For Classic FM: The Pazza Factor: the story of the birth of Classic FM, directed by Bill Dare, producer of Dead Ringers. Written by Sean Grundy and Cara Jennings, it starred Jon Culshaw, Duncan Wisbey as Ralph Bernard and Kate O'Sullivan as Margaret Thatcher. In 2016 she read for Something Understood, produced by Adam Fowler and presented by Mark Tully, also Radio 4.

In radio, Wisbey has appeared in the BBC productions Trapped, Undone, The Secret World and Go 4 It. Wisbey also appeared in the fifth instalment of the popular series Wrong Turn 5: Bloodlines, as a character named "Mose". Wisbey also writes for and performs in Dead Ringers (especially the musical items). Wisbey is currently appearing as 'Doctor Brain' in the CBBC series Ultimate Brain He also voices several characters in the Cbeebies TV show Tree Fu Tom. Wisbey is also the voice over on the Channel 4 programme, Four in a Bed.

Lou Todd and Andy Pipkin, recurring characters in the series Like several other BBC comedies (such as Dead Ringers and The Mighty Boosh), Little Britain made the transition from radio to television. All the episodes for the series were filmed at Pinewood Studios. Much of the TV material was adapted from the radio version, but with more emphasis on recurring characters and catchphrases. ;Series One, 2003 The first TV series was one of the new programmes in the launch line-up for digital channel BBC Three, the replacement for BBC Choice, which launched in February 2003.

She adopted the 'twenty-oh' method instead of 'two- thousand-and'. This was said to have sparked so many complaints that she reverted to 'two-thousand-and' in 2006. She played herself in a 2005 radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and again played herself in 2008 in Simon Brett's radio detective drama Charles Paris. She has been impersonated by Jan Ravens reading out a double-entendres-filled shipping forecast on the BBC radio comedy show Dead Ringers. She signed a public letter of protest to the BBC Trust regarding cuts to the radio news service in 2007.

Cohen is a prolific writer for television and radio as well as contributing columns to NME, Chortle and The Huffington Post.The Huffington Post "Dave Cohen's Page" 2012. He has written for BBC Radio 4 including The Best of British, Dead Ringers which won a Sony Gold Award 2001, The Sunday Format, The News Quiz and 15 Minute MusicalComedy Guide "15 Minute Musical" which he was also a co-creator and won the 2009 Writer's Guild Best Radio Comedy Show, to name a few. He also wrote for BBC Radio 5's The Treatment and They Came From Nowhere.

The comedy series Dead Ringers often parodied The South Bank Show. It does this in a series of sketches called South Bank, a cross between The South Bank Show and the American cartoon South Park, set in the South Bank of London. In these sketches, Melvyn Bragg is Stan Marsh, Alan Yentob is Kyle Broflovski, Mark Lawson is Eric Cartman and Kenneth Branagh is Kenny McCormick. A sketch in The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer featured Vic Reeves as Melvyn Bragg (with felt- tip marks on his face) presenting a feature on fictional folk singers Mulligan and O'Hare.

His presenting techniques were spoofed by Benny Hill on The Benny Hill Show (sketch "The Golden Boy"), Alistair McGowan on Big Impression and by Jon Culshaw on Dead Ringers, in which Culshaw portrays Parkinson interviewing the public at bus stops and other locations. Kenny Everett's character Cupid Stunt was "interviewed" by a cut-out Parkinson in her sketches. Parkinson is on the cover of the Paul McCartney and Wings album Band on the Run. Paul McCartney told Parkinson that he would appear on his show if Parkinson appeared on the album cover, although it was not until 1999 that McCartney fulfilled his promise.

In Canada, it won the Golden Reel Award, indicating the highest box-office performance of any Canadian film that year with a gross of C$2.53 million in Canada. It went on to gross C$3 million. In English Canada, it was among only three Canadian films to gross over $500,000 between 1987 and 1990, along with Black Robe and Dead Ringers with a gross of C$747,000. Jesus of Montreal did not enjoy the degree of success in France as Arcand's prior The Decline of the American Empire (1986), drawing an audience of 187,827 people, the eighth highest for a Quebec film to date.

The Oldsmobile Toronado, the 1963 Corvette Stingray, the experimental Chevrolet Corvette-like Astro 1 and the Adams Probe all appear to have been recastings of previous British Corgi models. Though Tekno also made a Toronado and Pilen's Toronado had opening doors similar to the Tekno, the general look and opening headlights appear more like the Corgi. Several Pilen models were dead ringers for French Solidos such as the De Tomaso Mangusta which Dinky also made, but Pilen's version was more refined like the Solido, while the Dinky was rather thick and distorted. Pilen's Opel Manta was likely a Solido replica, as well as the Mercedes-Benz C111 rotary concept.

Debra Stephenson (born 4 June 1972) is an English actress, comedian, impressionist and singer, best known for her roles as Diane Powell in Playing the Field, Shell Dockley in Bad Girls and as Frankie Baldwin in Coronation Street. Between 2009 and 2011, she co-starred with Jon Culshaw in The Impressions Show, a comedy sketch show with impressions of top celebrities. Stephenson has voiced a number of characters for sketch shows such as Dead Ringers (2014–present) and Newzoids (2015–2016). She appeared as Harriet in Holby City in February 2017 and in March 2019, she appeared in the BBC daytime soap, Doctors as Charlotte Hill.

Impressionists were very popular on the televised talent shows of the 1970s; Lenny Henry is a notable example of an act that developed from this. In the 1990s there was a certain absence of impressionists on television, with the demise of Spitting Image and Rory Bremner mainly concentrating on political figures (notably John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and also members of the Royal Family). Then in 1999 came Alistair McGowan's Big Impression with Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona, and in 2002 Dead Ringers. Both these shows featured impressions of celebrities and television personalities, as well as sporting figures on the former and politicians on the latter.

In the same year as Dead Ringers' debut, Channel 4 began broadcasting an adult sketch show created by and starring comedian Leigh Francis, Bo' Selecta! which spoofed singers including Craig David, Mel B and Michael Jackson, however the show focused on making caricatures out of celebrities, rather than impersonating them. The Icons in London, which ran at The Venue in Leicester Square from 4 January to 28 February 2007 and starred the notable American-born, English-reared impressionist Greg London, is the first original musical to have dealt with impressions in depth. The book was by Greg London, West End theatre director David Taylor and London playwright Paul Miller.

The show was a big hit for Saturday nights and a second series was scheduled to air in autumn 2010. Holmes also co-writes Horrible Histories for BBC One, for which he won two BAFTAs in 2010 as part of the writing team. Apart from the transfer of Radio 4's Dead Ringers, in 2002 Holmes co-presented the fifth series of The Eleven O'Clock Show on Channel 4 television with Sarah Alexander. He wrote for Graham Norton on his award-winning Channel 4 show V Graham Norton and co-presented BBC3's The State We're In, in which he was beaten up by the SAS.

Much of the channels schedule is formed of repeats from classic comedy and drama. The schedule spans The Goon Show (1950s) and Round the Horne (1960s), through Radio 2 favourites like The News Huddlines, Castle's On The Air and Listen to Les to recent Radio 4 shows such as Little Britain and Dead Ringers. Some of this content is newly discovered, such as copies of the version of Dick Barton Special Agent that were made for international distribution and early episodes of The Goon Show. Despite having 50 years of archive material to draw from, Radio 4 Extra's programming schedule, in the vast majority, consists of repeating the same content across a two year cycle.

He had previously written many of the songs for the satirical comedy show Spitting Image in the late 1980s and the entirety of the 1990s, originally providing just lyrics and eventually taking over permanently from Philip Pope as house composer/musical director, as well as providing many of the sung impressions. He has worked and appeared extensively with Rory Bremner in the 80s and 90s, completing UK tours and the BBC series, The Rory Bremner Show. Brown wrote a number of songs for BBC 2's Dead Ringers, even appearing briefly as Noel Gallagher with Jon Culshaw singing as Liam Gallagher. He has also acted as MD for impressionists Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona.

Other formats have also been popular, with sketch shows, stand-up comedy, impressionists and even puppet shows finding success. Although impressionists experienced a lull in popularity in the 1990s, the recent success of Dead Ringers (another BBC Radio cross-over) and Alistair McGowan's Big Impression has been notable. The most notable satirical comedies are the ground-breaking 1960s series That Was The Week That Was, 1980s series Not the Nine O'Clock News, and ITV's puppet show Spitting Image. One of the most-watched shows of the 1980s and early 1990s, Spitting Image was a satire of politics, entertainment, sport and British culture of the era, and at its peak it was watched by 15 million people.

He presented the show alongside Sophie Raworth, Natasha Kaplinsky, Kate Silverton, Sian Williams and Susanna Reid. He was also a regular stand-in on the BBC Six O'Clock News and BBC Ten O'Clock News and co-presented the BBC News at Six on Fridays from September 2003 to summer 2007 alongside Sian Williams. His presenting style was lampooned in the impersonation sketch show Dead Ringers by Jon Culshaw, his widely spaced legs on the presenting couch mocked with the phrase 'I'm Dermot Murnaghan, watch my crotch follow you round the room'. Whilst at the BBC, he presented BBC One's Treasure Hunt (2002–2003), a revival of an earlier format on Channel 4 Television.

The character of Pat has been spoofed in the cartoon sketch series 2DTV. The impressionist who provides the voice is Jan Ravens, Who has not only provided the voice of Pat, but also acted the part on-screen in several episodes of the BBC's Big Impression, which devoted a regular sketch to various EastEnders characters, and she also played Pat in the other impressionist series Dead Ringers. The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson also contains sketches where impressionist Debra Stephenson portrays Pat in situations, often with Coronation Street character Ken Barlow, played by Jon Culshaw. She is also the frequent target of jokes in Harry Hill's TV Burp, usually alluding to her former prostitution and alleged sexual promiscuity.

Jan Ravens played a parody version of Gwen in the impressionist television series Dead Ringers, in which she displays a badge labelling her with what Jon Culshaw's Captain Jack describes as her sole characteristic: Welsh. In November 2006 Jim Shelley from The Mirror stated Gwen to be "neither as interesting nor as sexy as she should be." A plot development that saw Gwen respond to the advances of an alien sex-gas in another woman's body was described by Karman Kregloe of AfterEllen as characterising "nearly every negative lesbian stereotype imaginable". Kregloe considers Gwen's inability to satiate the alien as a "play on a traditional, sexist social construct", and the fact that Gwen never again mentions this experience is also criticised.

O'Sullivan played vet Sally Freeman in two BBC series of Home Farm Twins based on Jenny Oldfield's novels of the same name. She has appeared in Dead Ringers, Channel 4 film Bill's New Frock, directed by Pete Travis, and BBC Scotland sketch show 2000 Not Out with Craig Ferguson. Other TV work includes Armando Iannucci's Time Trumpet, 2004: The Stupid Version, BBC 4's Don't Watch That, Watch This, four series of Bremner Bird and Fortune, and the 2008 CGI BBC3 sketch show The Wrong Door in which she voices a Smutty Alien, The World's Most Annoying Creature and myriad other extra terrestrial/android characters. She also played the lead role of 'Girl' in Dead Cat, a short film directed by Derek Jarman and David Lewis.

Titled There is a War, with an essay by Virgil Hammock, and a foreword by Ronald Edsforth. The text reflects Stephen Lack's ability to see the world dominated by American conflicts as Goya saw his world in his work The Disasters of War, or Jacques Callot's Les Grandes Misères de la guerre (The Great Miseries of War). The best-known films in which he appeared are Scanners in 1981 and Dead Ringers in 1988, but he has also appeared in cameo roles and independent films. Credits include Montreal Main (1974), The Rubber Gun (1978, which he also co-wrote with Allan Moyle, winning Genie Awards for both Performance and Screenplay), Head On (aka Deadly Passion, 1980); Perfect Strangers (1984), and All the Vermeers in New York (1990).

Since 2013, Neil's golden retriever Miss Molly also frequently appeared on the show, often walking in front of the camera during shots or choosing to sleep next to guests. This Week often appeared on the BBC Radio 4 Comedy Show Dead Ringers, where Andrew Neil interviewed Diane Abbott and then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn often popped up. Episode format Shown directly following Question Time, This Week presented itself as a more laid-back companion to its predecessor, with episodes regularly opening with a summary of the week's main events in the form of a parody of a popular television series. At the beginning of each episode, Neil asked the two regular commentators for their "Moment of the Week", occasionally contributing his own "moment".

In its third series, the Doctor Who parody Nebulous also began to parody Torchwood, with references to "baby dinosaurs falling through a hole in time" and "the sheer amount of paranormal activity in the Cardiff area alone ... starting to threaten the Earth's plausibility shield". Satirical impressionist television series Dead Ringers also parodied Torchwood, with Jon Culshaw playing Captain Jack and Jan Ravens as Gwen Cooper. The sketches parodied the level of sex in Torchwood, claiming "we never deal with an alien unless at least one [of the team] has shagged it", and describing the lack of motivations of the characters. It also parodies the bisexuality of the characters and the melodramatic personality of Jack, who in the sketch walks extremely dramatically, swinging his coat about himself.

Roche wrote for all four series of the programme, as well as its spin-off film In the Loop, which was nominated for the 2010 Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay). His other writing credits include The All New Harry Hill Show (ITV1), Alistair McGowan's Big Impression (BBC Two), Smith & Jones (BBC One), Dead Ringers (BBC Radio 4), Miranda (BBC Two) and Cast Offs, Fresh Meat and Back for Channel 4. In 2011 Roche wrote Holy Flying Circus, a fictionalised account of the controversy surrounding the 1979 release of Monty Python's Life of Brian broadcast on BBC Four. Roche's script centred on the imagined build-up to the appearance of Michael Palin and John Cleese on BBC chat show Friday Night, Saturday Morning to defend Life of Brian.

Since then, she has also occasionally stood in for a holidaying Clarkson in his Sunday Times car review column, which she referred to as the ultimate revenge: "perching my bottom – nice or otherwise – on his patch." In the BBC Two version of the satirical impressions show Dead Ringers, Bruce is parodied by Jan Ravens, who ruthlessly exaggerates her mannerisms through sexual innuendo. For example, "Hello, my name is Fiona Bruce sitting on the luckiest chair in Britain", and "Hello, I'm Fiona Bruce; don't touch what you can't afford." She appeared in a tongue-in-cheek BBC HD advert in 2008, featuring the Antiques Roadshow show where she drove a car through a wall, before running towards a falling vase; the car explodes as she jumps to save the vase from crashing.

Though BBV was licensed to use the Nestenes, Autons and UNIT by the writers who created them, as with all spin-off productions the canonicity of these films is unclear. In the first series of the televised Dead Ringers, in a sketch with Jon Culshaw visiting the London Eye (calling it an Interstitial Time Delay Helix) in the persona of the Fourth Doctor, he humorously accused two tourists: "You are Autons from the planet Tosos!" In 2006, a sketch on The Charlotte Church Show showed the Doctor examining the inner thigh of a scantily clad female mannequin; when confronted by Church (playing his companion), he claimed that he thought it was an Auton. The Autons appear as sketches in John Smith's A Journal of Impossible Things in the episode "Human Nature".

Wellard is considered a "celebrity" dog, and during his EastEnders tenure, the dogs playing him would occasionally make personal appearances at events, including the dog-show Crufts in 1998, a fundraising appeal for the Victoria Animal Hospital in London in 2000, and the first All About Dogs Day at Notcutts garden centre in August 2008. Satirical impression series Dead Ringers referenced Wellard in a 2004 episode, running the continuity announcement: "Later on ITV1, new drama featuring the latest EastEnders star we've signed up for a ridiculous advance. Yes Wellard the dog is Barker, a cop on the edge with a drink problem and distemper." For Red Nose Day 2007, Aardman Animations created a Creature Comforts-style short featuring Wellard asking for money for Comic Relief, along with selling his offspring and being put in prison.

After graduating, he moved to Toronto and joined The Second City troupe there, working with them during the 1980s. In 1989, he received a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 10th Genie Awards, for his performance in the film Something About Love."Dead Ringers leads Genie nominations". Ottawa Citizen, February 18, 1989. He later moved to Los Angeles during the early 1990s for three years and got a spot on a late-night syndicated series produced by Ron Howard’s Imagine TV, where he landed the role of Bucky Fergus, a Canadian transplant who worked for the City of Derby, Wisconsin in the Talk parody sitcom My Talk Show, which ran from 1990 to 1991 (in one episode, he bonded with another Canadian, William Shatner, after he used Canadian phrases and sayings Shatner recognized).

Barrowman is described as a "pound shop Tom Cruise", and reference is made to the perceived low-budget of the show, with Owen describing the Torchwood equipment as "an Apple Mac with stickers on the case". Later spoofs in the final episode of the 2007 series of Dead Ringers featured Jack Harkness in a threesome with two Attack of the Cybermen-era Cybermen, and an elderly version called Driftwood, which claims to be "separate from the Post Office, beyond the bingo hall and outside the Oxfam", a parody of Torchwood's opening narration. It also featured Albert Steptoe of Steptoe and Son as the leader of the team, claiming "a terrible event in my past means that I can't die. It's called UK Gold", and parodied its use of amnesia pills (unnecessary for this team due to the onset of senile amnesia).

Simon Lipson is an actor, writer, comedian and impressionist from England. His radio career has included being<\--to avoid false positives in search for 'being led/lead' typo--> lead impressionist on BBC Radio 5 Live's The Game's Up, regular presenter and impressionist on Interesting...Very Interesting, Radio 4's Dead Ringers, a regular panelist on BBC Radio 2's And This is Them and a frequent guest on Radio 4's Loose Ends. His TV appearances have included BBC1's The Stand Up Show and Auntie's Sporting Bloomers, Channel 4's 100 Greatest Cartoons and 100 Funniest Moments and ITV's Talking Telephone Numbers and Celebrity Squares. Lipson has performed three solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and in 2005, together with Philippa Fordham, his show He Barks, She Bites was nominated for the prestigious Dubble Act Award.

The show follows on from the duo's earlier TV series The Mitchell and Webb Situation, and is an extension of their Radio 4 sketch show That Mitchell and Webb Sound. The show's producer Gareth Edwards commented that the show's pitch to the BBC "was the shortest pitch I've ever written", citing that the show "has worked on the radio, just like Little Britain worked on the radio and Dead Ringers worked on the radio, and they transferred successfully to TV, so why don't you [the BBC] transfer this one to TV as well?" A pilot for the show was filmed on 27 January 2006 at BBC Television Centre, with a full series being later commissioned. Preview nights for the show were held at The Drill Hall in London on 11 January and 20 March 2006, and at Ginglik in Shepherd's Bush in London on 14 and 21 May 2006.

Having produced and written sketches for Capital's Brunch, the first programme on British radio to use the zoo format, whose regular performers included Steve Coogan, Angus Deayton and Jan Ravens, he broadened his radio output"A ‘little guy’ making some outstanding radio" (Tim Blackmore, Broadcast, 28 July 1995) with comedy documentaries and four series of Talking Comedy for BBC Radio 2 which featured Bill Bailey, Harry Hill and Graham Norton. In 1999, Pidgeon was approached by the BBC to run Radio Entertainment, which he did for six years, nurturing Dead Ringers, Flight of The Conchords, Little Britain and The Mighty Boosh during his time in charge. He was appointed a Fellow of the Radio Academy in 2003 and chaired the Perrier Panel in Edinburgh in 2005. One of Pidgeon's first recruits to Radio Entertainment was Danny Wallace, then a recent graduate, who quickly became a trainee producer.

Christmas specials normally included a spoof of a traditional pantomime (or several combined). They had few qualms about the use of puns – old, strained or inventive – and included some jokes and catchphrases that would seem politically incorrect by the mid-1990s. Garden's impressions of the legendary rugby league commentator Eddie Waring and the popular Scottish TV presenter Fyfe Robertson, Oddie's frequent send- ups of the game-show host Hughie Green, and Cleese's occasional but manic impressions of Patrick Moore (astronomer and broadcaster) built these people into eccentric celebrities in a way that the Mike Yarwood, Rory Bremner, Spitting Image and Dead Ringers programmes did for other TV presenters with similar disrespect years later. As the only woman on the show, Jo Kendall voiced all the female characters (with the exception of Brooke-Taylor's oversexed harridan, Lady Constance de Coverlet) and demonstrated a tremendous range and versatility, which occasionally extended into having conversations with herself in different voices.

In 1994, Parker formed Bakery Records to release He Fell Into The Sky, an album of short, powerful, psychedelic pop-rock songs; and, it received very positive reviews... although, the band still had a difficult time finding their audience in the Manhattan clubs. Tadpoles continued to record new material with Kramer at Noise New Jersey with guest drummers, Steve Savoca (The Werefrogs) and Edward Odowd (The Toilet Boys / Psychic TV) and with Nick Kramer taking a bigger role in song-writing and guitar-playing. Jeff Passifiume (The Lost Continentals/Hank McCoy and The Dead Ringers) added tasty, soaring lap steel to the mix. In the fall of 1994, Tadpoles were showcased in the College Music Journal (CMJ) music marathon at Manhattan's Batcave club. In 1996, Tadpoles’ second album, Far Out, again produced by Shimmy Disc’s Kramer, was released on Bakery Records and was extremely well received, both nationally and internationally, by the alternative music press. Far Out also garnered an unexpected and uncommon (for a self-released band) 4-star review from Rolling Stone magazine by writer Jim DeRogatis.

Frank Muir and Denis Norden parodied the Shipping Forecast in a song written for an episode of Take It From Here: Dead Ringers parodied the Shipping Forecast using Brian Perkins rapping the forecast ("Dogger, Fisher, German Bight – becoming quite cyclonic. Occasional showers making you feel cat-atatatatatata-tonic..."). Many other versions have been used including a "Dale Warning" to warn where Dale Winton could be found over the coming period, and a spoof in which sailors are warned of ghostly galleons and other nightmarish apparitions. Stephen Fry, in his 1988 radio programme Saturday Night Fry, issued the following "Shipping Forecast" in the first episode of the programme: The BBC Radio 4 monologue sketch show One features a number of Shipping Forecast parodies, written by David Quantick and Daniel Maier, such as the following, originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Thursday 21 February 2008: In an episode of the BBC Radio 4 series Live on Arrival, Steve Punt reads the Shopping Forecast, in which the regions are replaced with supermarket names, e.g.

Although not rivalling the LSO's total of more than 200 film score recordings, the LPO has played for a number of soundtracks, starting in 1936 with Whom the Gods Love. The orchestra played for ten films made during the Second World War, and then did little soundtrack work until the 1970s, with the major exception of Lawrence of Arabia (1962). Later scores have included those for Antony and Cleopatra (1972), Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), Disney's Tron (1982), The Fly (1986), Dead Ringers (1988), In the Name of the Father (1993), the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03) and most of the music for the three films derived from The Hobbit (2012–14)."Film highlights", London Philharmonic Orchestra. Retrieved 5 September 2014. The orchestra has made many non-classical recordings, including such titles as Hawaiian Paradise (1959), Evita (1976), Broadway Gold (1978), Folk Music of the Region of Asturias (1984), Academy Award Themes (1984), Japanese Light Music (1993), The Symphonic Music of Pink Floyd (1994) and The Symphonic Music of The Who (1995).

Irons in 2014. Directing him in The Merchant of Venice, Michael Radford states Irons "has such a magnetic quality on screen, and he has a kind of melancholy about him." Irons made his film debut in Nijinsky in 1980. He appeared sporadically in films during the 1980s, including the Cannes Palme d'Or winner The Mission in 1986, and in the dual role of twin gynaecologists in David Cronenberg's Dead Ringers in 1988. Other films include Danny the Champion of the World (1989), Reversal of Fortune (1990), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor, Kafka (1991), Damage (1993), M. Butterfly (1993), The House of the Spirits (1993) appearing again with Glenn Close and Meryl Streep, the voice of Scar in The Lion King (1994), portraying Simon Gruber in Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), co-starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson, Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty (1996), the 1997 remake of Lolita, and as the musketeer Aramis opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1998 film version of The Man in the Iron Mask. Other roles include the evil wizard Profion in the film Dungeons and Dragons (2000) and Rupert Gould in Longitude (2000).

Williams (2005), pgs. 80 & 156-159 Likewise, Paul Verhoven’s Basic Instinct (1992) was a blockbuster, and perhaps the apotheosis of the 1990s erotic thriller.Williams (2005), pg. 163 Verhoeven's controversial and critically panned Showgirls (1995), made soon after, has gained a cult following but was critically panned when released. Canadian filmmakers Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg elevated the genre in the 1990s by producing arthouse erotic thrillers that evolved the form in new directions. Egoyan's The Adjuster (1991), Exotica (1994), and Chloe (2009) all trade on the audience's perception of what an erotic thriller should be, but then give them something more complex in exchange.Cath Clarke, "January 21, 2010: The double life of Atom Egoyan", The Guardian, 2010 Likewise, Cronenberg's Dead Ringers (1988) and Crash (1996) propel the genre into the near future, where sex, obsession, and erotic desire are played out in cerebral, hypermodern settings mediated by potentially destructive technologies.Brian D. Johnson, "March 17, 2003 : Cronenberg Film Controversy", Macleans, 2003 Erotic thrillers directed by and starring African Americans are rare, but Rob Hardy directed both Trois (2000) and Trois 2: Pandora's Box (2002) before moving on to work in television.

He has worked on a number of radio and TV programmes including Comedy Firsts (ITV, 1995), The Big Town All Stars (BBC Radio 4, 1998), Spaced (Channel 4, 1999), The Bigger Issues (BBC Radio 4, 2000), Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections (BBC Radio 2, 2001), Dead Ringers (BBC Two, 2003, 2004), Posh Nosh (BBC Two, 2003), Vent (BBC Radio 4, 2006–09) Edwards produced That Mitchell and Webb Sound (BBC Radio 4, 2003–09), which won a Sony Silver Award in 2004; he also produced the TV version of this, starring the same David Mitchell and Robert Webb, entitled That Mitchell and Webb Look (BBC Two, 2006–10), which won best comedy BAFTA in 2006. Edwards also produced The One Ronnie (BBC One, 2010), a one-off comedy television sketch show that aired on BBC One on Christmas Day 2010 to celebrate the 80th birthday of Ronnie Corbett and Still Open All Hours (BBC One Boxing Day 2013). He also produced the BBC2 sitcom Upstart Crow 2016. He has also produced Bleak Expectations (BBC Radio 4, 2007–11), the cult radio show starring Anthony Head and the TV spin-off from this, The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (BBC Two, 2011).