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News Entry Date -- December 12, 1999:
On December
5, Rik and Ade were interviewed on Exclusive on channel 5 in the
UK.
They also appeared at the GHP premieres in Belgium (Hasselt and Antwerp) on Thursday, December 4th. They both received stars on the "Walk of Fame" during their time there. Thanks to Philip Reyntens, M.D. for this information.
Rik's appearance on the Jonathan Creek Christmas Special will be rerun on BBC 1 on Christmas Eve. If you missed it last year, now's the time to catch it. Thanks to Anders Holstad Lilleng for finding this information. For the Rik collectors out there, this episode was recently released on home video in the UK, so it can be bought from any video store as well.
News Entry Date -- December 2, 1999:
On December
3rd, Rik will appear on Radio 1 in the UK on the Jo Wiley show. The show is on
between 12:00pm and 2:00pm in the afternoon.
Rik has continued to give interviews these past few weeks to the British press in papers such as The Telegraph, News of the World, Hotline magazine, Chat and others. It's safe to expect that features on him will continue as GHP is released to theatres tomorrow.
News Entry Date -- December 2, 1999:
A GHP
soundtrack was released on November 29th in the UK. It's expected to be
released in other European countries in the next few months. For now, online
music stores such as Yalplay are
stocking it, as well as local stores.
Here's the information on the cd, straight from POV Records:
Guest House Paradiso Original Soundtrack CD
(catalog
number POV 1103)
Contains original music by composer Colin Towns with
dialogue from the film from Richie and Eddie.
"The CD will be released in Holland to tie in with the film release on December 16th and in Belgium to tie in with the film release on Dec 15th. We have yet to set release dates for Australia, New Zealand, Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Spain. The film will be released in those countries in March or April or May next year and we will tie in the soundtrack album release date when we have the film release dates confirmed."
News Entry Date -- November 28, 1999:
Rik and Ade
will be on The Big Breakfast in the UK sometime this week -- check
local listings for details. A GHP feature was shown on The Johnny Vaughan
Film Show on November 28 in the UK. Thanks to Jen from
Jen's Rik and Ade Website
for this information.
Rik has also been doing a few interviews with English newspapers lately -- so keep your eyes open for new interviews during this time as the GHP opening comes closer. Most of these articles will appear on this site sometime in the next few weeks -- whatever I can gather will be reprinted in the Library section.
News Entry Date -- November 19, 1999:
Rik is
reported to have signed on to Robert Altman's new film, Dr. T and the
Women, to begin production soon. There's also a new British Comic Strip
film in the works titled Four Men in a Plane, but it's not known
if Rik will take part in that project. Rik's also appears on the new
Jellikins soundtrack cd in the UK.
News Entry Date -- November 19, 1999:
A new
Bottom video was recently released in the UK on November 15.
Titled The Best of Bottom Live, the video include the best clips
from all of the live Bottom stage shows. It also features mock
interviews and mock documentary footage.
The video also features a big treat for fans of Rik and Ade -- bloopers from the upcoming Guest House Paradiso!
Thanks to Lisa Kennedy of COR! for the video details.
News Entry Date -- November 3, 1999:
There's now an
official Guest House Paradiso website at
http://www.guesthouseparadiso.com.
Thanks to Chrissie Macdonald of the
Adrian
Edmondson Web site for this information!
In more GHP news, Marco de Bruin from Holland has done European fans a big favor by researching whether or not GHP will be shown in mainland Europe. Here's the information for mainland fans, thanks to Marco:
The Kineplis Group from Belgium, who incidentally also operates a theater in Madrid (Spain that is), will most likely start showing 'Guesthouse Paradiso' in the week of December 8th. By that time you can check this adress to see if and in which theaters you can go see this movie:http://www.kinepolis.com/kinepolis.nsf/page/showtimes
For the record: Kinepolis Group operates huge cinema complexes with - in the case of the Antwerp Metropolis - 24 screens, so things look pretty good.
According to Andrew Davidson, GHP will premiere in the Netherlands on December 16.
News Entry Date -- October 24, 1999:
The trailer
for Guest House Paradiso is being shown in theatres in the UK
right now. If you frequent the movies, keep your eyes out for it!
News Entry Date -- September 30, 1999:
For Rik's US
fans, we have a correction! Tom and Vicky, which is being
broadcast on the FOX Family Channel as part of their It's Itsy Bitsy
Time! daily cartoon series, has been dubbed over for American audiences
-- Rik's voice over work is NOT heard on the American version.
News Entry Date -- September 26, 1999:
According to
The TV Times, there are plans for a Young Ones movie
reunion. In the film, Rik is now a presenter on MTV, Vyvyan's a top scientist
who has invented flatulence-powered cars, and Neil runs a chain of sandal
shops. But things go wrong when Mike shows up with urgent problems that bring
the four back together. The release date is said to be 2001. According to
TV Times, if all goes well, a major relaunch on tape and DVD of
the original show will concide with the film's release.
News Entry Date -- September 26, 1999:
Starting
September 28 on ITV in the UK, Watership Down, which Rik will
narrate, will be broadcast at 4:05 pm. The following information is what the
September 26 issue of The Daily Mail has to say about it (thanks
to Charlotte for the information):
The world of Watership Down comes to life again, 21 years after the film version, with a Canadian animation that has set out to make Hazel, Fiver, BigWig, Pipkin and friends more expressive and accessible. The voices however, have remain English, with a cast including Rik Mayall, Phill Jupitus, Jane Horrocks, Stephen Fry, Dawn French, Richard Briers, and John Hurt. It includes a re-recording of "Bright Eyes" sung by Stephen Gately.
For more information on Watership Down, visit the Official Watership Down site.
News Entry Date -- September 26, 1999:
For Rik's US
fans, Jellabies and Tom and Vicky are to be broadcast
on the FOX Family Channel this fall. Tom and Vicky is already
being shown on weekdays at 9:00am and 11:30 am under the title of It's
Itsy Bitsy Time! and Jellabies was slated to be be
broadcast sometime soon on Fridays at 12:30pm but as it turns out, it's being
broadcast weekdays at 12:50pm. Check your local listings or
TV GuideOnline to be sure of exact
broadcast times in your area.
News Entry Date -- September 29, 1999:
Rik appears
in a few new commercials on British television for Virgin trains. Thanks to
Chrissie MacDonald of
The Adrian
Edmondson Website, we can now tell you what kind of
personality you have if you enjoy one of these ads =)
News Entry Date -- September 1, 1999:
According to
LineOne on the web, Rik is considering the part of Dandini in the ITV Christmas
Day panto production of Cinderella starring Spice Girl Emma Bunton
(Baby Spice).
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News Entry Date -- September 1, 1999:
Rik is the
voice of the new McDonald's Happy Meals commercials in the UK. Rik is also
reportedly going to be doing commercials for the upcoming Jellikins tie in toys
in the UK.
News Entry Date -- September 1, 1999:
Rik is
reported to have contracted to star in a show titled Bobby's
Angel, which will be a takeoff of such talk shows as The Jerry
Springer Show.
News Entry Date -- September 1, 1999:
Rik and Ade's
Guest House Paradiso has been completed and is scheduled to
preimiere in the Uk on November 25. It will be be generally released to
theatres in the UK on December 3. Rik and Ade are currently writing another
film, supposedly a sequel to GHP.
News Entry Date -- August 22, 1999:
Tom and
Vicky, an animated kids program which Rik has lent his voice to, will
begin airing on ITV in the UK on August 27 at 3:30pm.
News Entry Date -- August 22, 1999:
According to
The Sun newspaper, Rik won't be doing the upcoming Dirty
Work tv series after all. According to the article, Neil Pearson will be
taking his place.
News Entry Date -- July 11, 1999:
Rik will be
lending his voice to an animated version of Watership Down on ITV
next season. Others participating in the project include John Hurt, Stephen
Fry, Phill Jupitus, Dawn French, Stephen Gately and Richard Briers.
News Entry Date -- May 23, 1999:
Rik and Ade will
appear on The Big Breakfast in the UK sometime this week to
promote Guest House Paradiso -- watch the tv listings for the
exact date!
News Entry Date -- May 23, 1999:
Jellikins, a kids tv show on GMTV which Rik
provides a voice over for, will be broadcast in the UK beginning in July. It'll
be broadcast on Saturdays at 6:50 am and Sundays at 7:10am on GMTV.
News Entry Date -- May 23, 1999:
Lucy Glover is starting a Rik fan
club. For details, please e-mail her or visit her
fan club website.
News Entry Date -- May 5, 1999:
On May 9, Rik will
be interviewed on The Movie Chart Show on Channel 5 in the UK.
News Entry Date -- April 28 1999:
Rik has signed
with BBC1 to appear in a six part series titled Dirty Work.
Filming begins this summer, and the series will be broadcast either this coming
Chrismas or next Spring.
The series will be written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, who created and wrote one of Rik's prior projects, The New Statesman. In Dirty Work, Rik will play a private detective in the Cardiff underworld.
News Entry Date -- April 28 1999:
Rik and Adrian
Edmonson are reported to be making cameos in the upcoming
Blackadder film. Rik reportedly will be playing Robin Hood. The
film, Blackadder Back and Forth will be shown exclusively at the
Millennium Dome until 2001.
News Entry Date -- April 11, 1999:
This coming
week, Rik and Ade are going to start filming a Bottom film titled
Guest House Paradiso, a project they've been talking about doing
for several years now. For the full story as reported by BBC News, click
here.
News Entry Date -- April 11, 1999:
According to
amazon.co.uk, an audio cassette of
The Sound of Trumpets as read by Rik is to be released on June 3,
1999 through Penguin Audio.
News Entry Date -- April 11, 1999:
For those
looking for the Accident News Section, it's available here.
News Entry Date -- March 31, 1999:
A program titled
Laughter In The House is currently airing in the UK on Wednesday
evenings. It airs weekly on BBC1 at 10:00. Clips of some of Rik's past projects
are being shown on this series.
On Monday evenings at 9:30, a show hosted by Alexei Sayle titled You Cannot Be Serious is being aired on ITV. On this show, Alexei presents clips from numerous comedy shows, and some of Rik's work may be shown in the coming weeks.
News Entry Date -- February 21, 1999:
On February
5, this Rik site garnered a nice review on the BBC's
Beeb Comedy Zone Webguide
section. To whoever wrote it -- the check's in the mail ; )
Rik Mayall - Homage from the US
He's probably no big name in
America, but British comedian Mayall has at least one dedicated fan in Jennifer
C Huebl, who runs this lively website. Mayall's career - from his stage debut
at the age of six to the present day - is well documented. There are loads of
pictures from his various TV shows and films, a compilation of his quotes
stretching over 16 years or so, and reasonably up-to-date info on his more
recent movements and appearances. There is a chat line in which fans can argue
till they are blue in the face over which are the best episodes of Bottom, The
Young Ones or The New Statesman.
http://www.wesjen.simplenet.com/rik/
News Entry Date -- February 10, 1999:
Rik was
admitted to the hosptial on February 10. The exact cause of his hospitalization
hasn't yet been revealed, but it may be related to his accident last year. The
news reports on both last years accident and Rik's recent hospitalization can
be found here.
News Entry Date -- January 30, 1999:
In the UK on
Tuesday, February 2, Radio 4 will begin broadcasting an audio version of
The History of Alternative Comedy at 11:00pm. The show will last
for four weeks and will contain longer interviews than have appeared in the
television version of the program.
News Entry Date -- January 28, 1999:
Beginning
Monday, January 25 and continuing until Friday, February 5, Rik will be reading
John Mortimer's The Sound of Trumpets on Radio 4 in the UK. It's
being aired from 10:45 to 11:00 in the evening.
News Entry Date -- January 28, 1999:
Rik was
featured in a small article in the January 16 Daily Mail. The
article reported on a recent "Rik spotting" and also announced the news of
Rik's new upcoming television project, Dirty Work. To view the
article and photo, please click here. Thanks to Mags
for the scan and text!
News Entry Date -- January 17, 1999:
A documentary
series titled The History of Alternative Comedy is currently being
shown on BBC 2 in the UK every Sunday evening. Rik has been featured in each
installment thus far.
