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News Entry Date -- December 22, 2002:
The updated
list of dates Rik is doing on the Present Laughter play is as
follows (thanks to Rachel Warner for updates!):
January 20 - 25 in Brighton (Theatre Royal Brighton)
January 27 -
February 1 in Malvern (Malvern Festival Theatre)
February 3 - 8 in High
Wycombe (Swan Theatre)
February 10 - 15 in Oxford (The Oxford
Playhouse)
February 17 - 22 in Bromley (Churchill Theatre)
Feb 24 - March
1 in Glasgow (King's Theatre)
March 3 - 8 in London (Richmond
Theatre)
March 10 - 15 in Guildford (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre)
March 24 - 29
in Bath (Theatre Royal Bath)
For information on the theatres, please check Google and Ticketmaster.
For the long overdue results of the eighth website poll, which asked, "Which of Rik's films should be released on DVD?", click here.
News Entry Date -- December 8, 2002:
For updated
information on the High Society audio book Rik has just done,
click here.
The updated list of dates Rik is doing on the Present Laughter play is as follows:
January 20 - 25 in Brighton (Theatre Royal Brighton)
January 27 -
February 1 in Malvern (Malvern Festival Theatre)
February 3 - 8 in High
Wycombe (Swan Theatre)
February 10 - 15 in Oxford (The Oxford
Playhouse)
February 17 - 22 in Bromley (Churchill Theatre)
Feb 24 - March
1 in Glasgow (King's Theatre)
March 3 - 8 in London (Richmond
Theatre)
March 10 - 15 in Guildford (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre)
March 24 - 29
in Bath (Theatre Royal Bath)
For information on the theatres, please check Google and Ticketmaster.
News Entry Date -- December 1, 2002:
Rik has
recorded the audio book version of Ben Elton's High Society. It's
just been released on audiotape by Random House Audiobooks.
"High Society is a wonderfully brash expose of sex, drugs, politics and the celebrity lifestyle. Elton's polemic comedy on the misuse of drugs has been superbly abridged, and wonderfully enhanced by the velocity and impeccable comic timing of Rik Mayall. He brings Elton's superbly drawn characters and satirical tour de force to life with a fine degree of inventiveness. Those familiar with Mayall's work will recognise his idiosyncratic style and bold characterisations."
The Peter Cook Tribute that Rik took part in in September will be broadcast on BBC 2 on December 27th. Thanks to Kate for this info!
News Entry Date -- November 28, 2002:
RIK WILL BE
DOING LIVE SHOWS FROM JANUARY TO MARCH in the Noel Coward comedy, Present
Laughter!!!
Thanks so much to Evansgreenday for finding this information! According to Ticketmaster, all shows are currently on sale, except for the London ones.
Currently, this is a brief rundown of the schedule as listed on
Ticketmaster UK:
January 20 - 25 in Brighton (Theatre Royal Brighton) ON
SALE NOW
February 17 - 22 in Bromley (Churchill Theatre) ON SALE NOW
Feb 24 - March 1 in Glasgow (King's Theatre) ON SALE NOW
March 3 - 8 in
London (Richmond Theatre) NOT ON SALE YET
For information on the theatres, please check this link on Google.
News Entry Date -- November 17, 2002:
Rik is most
definitely not in theHarry Potter: The Chamber of Secrets film.
Thanks to everyone who let us know the news. According to Mike,
upcomingmovies.com lists Rik as
being included in 2004's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Only time will tell if Rik will ever be seen as Peeves in a Harry Potter
film!
According to IMDB.com, Rik is to appear in upcoming films called Cold Dark, Ashes and Sand and Chaos and Cadavers. However, the information listed for these last two films is unclear, as they both list Rik as playing the same character! The website for Ashes and Sand is http://www.ashesandsand.com. Thanks to Lise Croon for pointing this info out!
The Greatest Comedy Collection! Seriously Funny! will be released soon on video and DVD. There isn't much information available on it, but it looks as if several Comic Relief sketches will be on it. And perhaps a Bottom episode or something Bottom related? Thanks to Andy Searle for spotting this video!
News Entry Date -- October 10, 2002:
According to
upcomingmovies.com, Rik is listed
in the cast for the upcomingHarry Potter: The Chamber of Secrets
film. Thanks to Lise for spotting this.
The Peter Cook Tribute that Rik participated in is schedule to be broadcast around Christmas on BBC2. Thanks to Andy Searle for this information.
News Entry Date -- September 29, 2002:
On the new
Believe Nothing DVD, Rik states twice that there will be a
Bottom Live 5! Thanks to Andy Mariani for spotting this first!
News Entry Date -- September 15, 2002:
Rik is
currently working on another new film, Oh Marbella!, playing a time share
rep named Greg Dubois. Thanks so much to DB for this information!
News Entry Date -- September 7, 2002:
Rik and Ade
will be part of an upcoming tribute to Peter Cook, to take place on September
29th at the Prince Of Wales Theatre in London. Information about the event, as
well as a link to buy tickets, is available
here. Thanks to
Fred for discovering this great news for us!
News Entry Date -- September 4, 2002:
Believe
Nothing will be released on VHS and DVD on September 23rd in the UK. The
DVD version will feature interviews with the cast and writers as well as
out-takes. Both the video and DVD are available to pre order on the Internet
right now.
News Entry Date -- August 6, 2002:
A number of
sound files are going up on this site — but only temporarily! They'll be
up until the end of the month or early September. For Bad News songs, click
here. For the rare
Jellikins Storytapes, click
here. And for Rik
interview clips, click here. All sound files are
currently being uploaded, so check back at the end of this week to see
everything available.
News Entry Date -- July 29, 2002:
For the results
of the seventh website poll, which asked, "Which Comic Strip episode do you
like best?", click here. Bad
News/More Bad News was the winner, with Mr. Jolly
Lives Next Door coming in as a close second.
An online petition to get Drop Dead Fred released on DVD is available here. I have no idea who started the petition or when/if it will be sent to the powers that be. However, it can't hurt to sign it!
For those who'd like to see the dismal day-after-the-premiere reviews of Believe Nothing, here you go. All are from the July 15th English daily papers. The Daily Express 1, The Daily Express 2, The Daily Mail, The Daily Star and The Telegraph.
On a nicer note, the premiere of Believe Nothing was mentioned in the "What's Hot" section of the July 11 - 24 issue of Web User magazine. The very brief mention also included a link to this here website.
News Entry Date -- July 22, 2002:
Kevin of
the North has been released on DVD in Canada and several other countries
(the UK doesn't seem to be one of them).
Amazon.ca,
the Canadian leg of Amazon.com, stocks the DVD. Thanks to Monica's search
skills, we can all view the trailer for the film
here.
Rik will appear in the new film, Day of the Sirens. A release date isn't known yet. The press information for the film describes it as "Traffic meets "A Short Film About Killing".
Amazon.com currently lists Drop Dead Fred as being potentially available on DVD in the future. Time will tell if it ever is released.
On September 17th, the complete Young Ones show will be released on DVD in the US. The video release of the series from several years back had a few edits. It's not known if the DVD will also contain these edits or if the episodes will be complete. According to Deepdiscountdvd.com, the DVD set will feature the following:
Three Disc Set
Keep Case
Full Frame - 1.33 Single Side - Dual Layer
Additional Release Material:
Featurette - 1. CREATING THE YOUNG ONES
2. THE YOUNG ONES AND THE 80S
Additional Features - 1. FILTY RICH & CATFLAP (Pilot Episode)
2. BOTTOM (Pilot Episode)
Text/Galleries: Biographies A 07/03/2002
As reported several months ago, August 5th will see the UK DVD release of Series One of The Young Ones. It's not known when the second series of the show will be released in the UK. The Very Best of Bottom will be released on DVD in the UK on August 5th as well.
Marks & Gran, the creators of The New Statesman and Believe Nothing, will be appearing at the Cult TV Convention in the UK this October. Thanks to Gusty for spotting this.
Rik recently answered those who criticized his appearance as Hitler in the Anti Euro video. In an interview with The Sun, he says, "my wife is Jewish, so my children are Jewish, too, as the Jewish race goes through the mother’s line. And I suppose that if the SS were to march in, I’d be in the concentration camp for collaboration simply for marrying Barbara.”
Matt Campbell reports that Series One of The New Statesman will be available on DVD in Australia on August 7.
A copy of the script for the second episode of Believe Nothing can be found here. Please note that this scan has not been edited and checked yet, so there are several typos and formatting errors.
News Entry Date -- July 4, 2002:
The anti-Euro film
that Rik appeared in is now online at no-euro.com. I've also added it to this
website in case there's too much traffic on the no-euro site. It can be
accessed (in Real Player format) by clicking here. Rik
appears for about 3 seconds towards the end of the spot as Hitler. It is VERY
quick, so don't blink. See a still photo of Rik as Hitler (or more like Charlie
Chaplin as Hitler?) here. In it, Rik says: "Ein
Volk! Ein Reich! Ein Euro! Euro? Oh yes please!"
This is what the no-euro site has to say about the film (thanks to Monica for pulling info out of the PDF file):
The no cinema advert Stars of this 90 second film include Diane Abbott MP, Phil Cornwell, Harry Enfield, Bob Geldof, Kate Hoey MP, Jools Holland, Rik Mayall, Tony Parsons, Gordon Ramsay, Vic Reeves, John Sessions and Johnny Vaughan.These individuals represent a range of backgrounds and views, but they are all united in their opposition to the UK joining the euro. They all agreed to take part in the film on a voluntary basis as their way of showing support for the no campaign.
The advert will appear in Odeon and UCI cinemas across the UK from 12 July. It will run for 3 months and will be seen by at least 5 million people. It will trail several films, including Birthday Girl (Nicole Kidman), Windtalkers (Nicolas Cage), The Sweetest Thing (Cameron Diaz), The Road to Perdition (Tom Hanks and Paul Newman), The Bourne Identity (Matt Damon) and Kissing Jessica Stein (Jennifer Westfeldt) — see Carlton Screen Advertising’s schedule for more details.
A direct mail campaign, featuring personalities from the film, will take place in the autumn.
Rachel Warner has discovered that Rik will be interviewed in the July 7 (London) Sunday Times. Also be sure and get hold of the Brit TV listings magazines that come out on July 9th as Believe Nothing premieres July 14 at 10:05pm on Carlton & LWT.
News Entry Date -- June 17, 2002:
Please click
here for fan reactions, photos and memories from
the recent Believe Nothing tapings!
News Entry Date -- May 29, 2002:
Rachel Warner and
Will Tudor report that Rik can be heard doing the lastest McDonalds TV ad
voiceover for their "Bill and Ben" toys.
Katrina in Australia did some searching and discovered that Bottom 2001: An Arse Oddity will be released on video format there on July 12th. It will retail for $24.95.
Thanks to Jane Sallis, one of the lucky people able to see the first Believe Nothing taping, here's the synopsis they handed out to those attending the taping:
Rik Mayall is Quadruple Professor Adonis Cnut, the cleverest man in Britain (if not the world). Adonis is irresistible to women, consulted by governments and paid huge amounts of money for his appearances on the Moral Maze. But he is bored and needs new and exciting challenges to service his mighty mind. Adonis' first challenge is to fill the thirteenth and final seat at "The Council for International Progress" — a shadowy underground organisation that controls and manipulates everything in the world. His second task is to try and get the luscious Doctor Hannah Awkward (Emily Bruni) into bed — but she seems to be the only woman in the universe capable of resisting Adonis' advances. Throughout all of his adventures, Adonis is accompanied by his faithful yet sinister manservant, Albumen (Michael Maloney).Set in the present day, against a backdrop of globalisation, global warming and a lot of other things staring with global, BELIEVE NOTHING satirises modern day living and takes us into a parallel world where everything is slightly skewed..."
News Entry Date -- May 9, 2002:
Rik is appearing in
an anti Euro film, to be shown in cinemas starting this June. Read about it
here.
Col H. and Matt Campbell from Australia tell us that all four live Bottom shows will be released on DVD over there on July 17th. They'll retail for an estimated price of $29.95. The Young Ones will follow on DVD in August. No report on just which YO episodes will be included on the Aussie DVD.
Sarah Jacotine saw Chris Columbus, director of the Harry Potter films, on Newsround recently. In the interview, Chris said that Rik's character, Peeves, wouldn't be included in the DVD of the first film. But, he might be included in a later DVD version.
For the results of the sixth website poll, which asked, "Which series would you like to see Rik do more of?", click here. Bottom was the big winner!
News Entry Date -- May 5, 2002:
Tickets for the
next three tapings of Believe Nothing should be up for grabs soon.
Be sure to check April 23rd's news for information on where to get your
tickets!
According to an interview with the director of Harry Potter, Rik's deleted scenes won't be featured in the DVD release of the film.
News Entry Date -- April 23, 2002:
Rik came in
third in Channel 4's The Top Ten Bastards of All Time on April 20.
He won his spot for his portrayal of Alan B'stard.
IF YOU'D LIKE TO SEE RIK LIVE FOR FREE, READ
THIS!!!
Thanks to the numerous people who sent this in!
http://www.chortle.co.uk/features/free.html
Believe
Nothing
Rik Mayall is back with a brand new sitcom, written by New
Statesmen creators Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. Recording at
Teddington Studios on Thursdays May 23, 30, June 6 at 7pm.
Call 020 8870
0111 or e-mail nick@standroom.com or
jay@standroom.com for free
tickets.
** I'd advise that anyone who wants tickets calls just to be
safe! **
News Entry Date -- April 16, 2002:
The BBC Shop is
advertising The Very Best of Bottom DVD as being available for
sale through them, and will be released on August 5th. However, NO other online
store lists this DVD, and no one has seen it in stores yet. The jury is still
out on this one!
A Young Ones: Series One DVD is also scheduled to be released on August 5, according to the BBC Shop. As with the Bottom DVD, no other online stores are listing this one yet.
Several people have heard a radio commercial in England for prescription glasses which they believe is voiced by Rik. Keep your ears open for this one.
News Entry Date -- March 17, 2002:
The Sun reports
that Rik will be starring in a new film titled Alone in the Dark.
It's supposed to be out at the end of the year, and Simon Pegg is the writer.
Thanks to Sarah Clark and Foxystoat for this info.
A Best of The Young Ones DVD is rumored to be released sometime this year.
News Entry Date -- February 8, 2002:
For the
results of our fifth website poll, which asked, "Which Bottom Live Show is Your
Favorite?", click here.
Rik was spotted recently at the London premiere of the film Black Hawk Down.
