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BBC announce ‘Holy Flying Circus’

Home > Comedy > BBC announce ‘Holy Flying Circus’ September 29th, 2011 by Sarah. No comments In 1979, Monty Python’s film Life Of Brian caused outrage around the world. Nuns with banners picketed cinemas, councils banned the film without even seeing it and the religious group Festival of Light organised a concerted campaign against the film, trying to get it banned. Against this backdrop Michael Palin and John Cleese found themselves facing prominent society figures Malcolm Muggeridge and the Bishop of Southwark in a television debate in front of a live studio audience to defend their film against charges of blasphemy: but who won? Written by Tony Roche (In The Loop, The Thick Of It) Holy Flying Circus is a fantastical re-imagining of the controversy surrounding the release of Life Of Brian. Witty and humorous in tone, the comedy drama incorporates surreal cutaways including puppetry and animation in telling its narrative. Richard Klein, Controller BBC Four, comments: “This i...

Flying Monsters 3D WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

December 22nd, 2010 by Lisa McGarry. No comments David Attenborough’s groundbreaking film Flying Monsters 3D will air on Christmas Day 2010, at 6pm on SKY 3D. Flying Monsters 3D which is written and presented by BAFTA winning natural history broadcaster Sir David Attenborough, is a pioneering feature documentary about the evolution of pterosaurs – flying vertebrates with a wingspan of up to 45 feet who lived 200 million years ago. A behind-the-scenes preview; Making David Attenborough’s Flying Monsters 3D, will also air on SKY 1 at 5pm on Christmas Day. Filming Flying Monsters 3D took nine months and involved David Attenborough and a crew of 12, taking in locations across the world including Germany, New Mexico, France and the UK. A team of over 80 people were involved in the filming and post-production, required for the film’s scale, and the process took over half a year in total to complete. The film has been produced by award winning producer Anthony Geffen and his company Atlantic...

Bachelor Jake Pavelka is now flying for Delta

The Bachelor’s Jake Pavelka has resumed the job he had before he became a hated famewhore who appeared on Dancing with the Stars and Drop Dead Diva: He’s piloting commercial airlines for Delta. Jake “piloted an Oct. 24 Delta flight from Atlanta to Augusta, Ga.,” Us Weekly reports , adding that “Pavelka’s rep confirms to Us that he is indeed flying planes again.” However, a passenger on that flight told the magazine, “The flight attendant asked us not to tell anyone because he didn’t want it to be known. When they announced our captain they just said, ‘Your captain today is Jake’.” Let’s hope he doesn’t have any angry outbursts and tell air traffic controllers to shut up or tear out the plane’s GPS and hurl it at his co-pilot. View the original article here