THE COMPLETELY MADE-UP ADVENTURES OF DICK TURPIN: Star Noel Fielding and executive producer Kenton Allen on Season 1 – Exclusive Interview

By ABBIE BERNSTEIN 03/15/2024
THE COMPLETELY MADE-UP ADVENTURES OF DICK TURPIN - Season 1 Key Art | ©2024 Apple TV+

THE COMPLETELY MADE-UP ADVENTURES OF DICK TURPIN, currently in its first season in the U.S. on Apple TV+, is a British comedy/fantasy take on the legendary (but real-world) eighteenth-century English highwayman. Noel Fielding is co-creator and star of the cult favorite THE MIGHTY BOOSH (2003-2007) and, from 2017 through the present, one of the hosts of THE GREAT BRITISH BAKING SHOW and THE GREAT CELEBRITY BAKE OFF. Fielding plays Turpin as a kind-hearted pacifist vegan who accidentally becomes head of an outlaw gang. Dick would actually rather make clothes for people than rob them, but the gang has a reputation […]Read On »


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TCA 2011 News: ABC talks about its midseason cross-dressing comedy WORK IT

By CARL CORTEZ 08/07/2011
Amaury Nolasco and Ben Koldyke in WORK IT - Season 1 | ©2011 ABC/Eric McCandless

While ABC has filled its new schedule some pretty amazing new programs, the one series that is having many critics scratching their heads is WORK IT – a cross-dressing comedy about two men, who dress like women, to get a job in the working woman’s world. At today’s ABC Television Critics Association session, ABC Entertainment President Paul Lee defended his decision for picking up the series. “I’m a Brit – I have to do a cross-dressing show,” says Lee. “And I grew up with Monty Python.” Of course, Lee admits he didn’t expect the new show would be embraced by […]Read On »


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CD Review: YELLOWBEARD soundtrack (1,000 edition)

By DANIEL SCHWEIGER 03/17/2011
YELLOWBEARD soundtrack | ©2011 Quartet Records

Composer John Morris has romped through the past with such comedically rousing scores as BLAZING SADDLES, THE LAST REMAKE OF BEAU GESTE and HISTORY OF THE WORLD: PART 1, but Morris’ symphonic lunacy truly hit its swashbuckling height with YELLOWBEARD. Even if this Python-esque pirate spoof displayed more fool’s gold than the comedic riches that Mel Brooks had provided him with, Morris still invests a terrific, glistening majesty to a score that plays like Erich Wolfgang Korngold chasing after Bugs Bunny. Anchoring this infectiously nostalgic score is a march theme that sounds like the start of Warner Bros. logo, with […]Read On »


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