richard ayoade Archives

Joining team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton were guest-host Richard Ayoade, and guest-panelists Baronness Warsi and Richard Osman. Richard Ayoade, host of tonight's Have I Got News For You – BBC PR Issues regarding Dominic Cummings were a favourite – Richard Osman's comment about him coming back in the news as comparable to watching a baddie[...]

Don't expect the same kind of show and everyone will be happy." Set in the offices of the fictional Reynholm Industries, The IT Crowd revolved around the three staff members of its IT department: a geeky genius named Maurice Moss (Richard Ayoade), the work-shy Roy Trenneman (Chris O'Dowd), and Jen Barber (Katherine Parkinson), the department head/relationship[...]

To mark the anniversary Danny will have 'water-cooler moments' with Lynch-inspired director Richard Ayoade and crime writer Denise Mina We'll pay homage to the soundtrack that influenced musicians from the 90s to today with DJ Rob da Bank Andy Burns, author of Twin Peaks history Wrapped in Plastic, explains how the programme still ripples through[...]

Two mysterious teaser trailers down, and the first full length trailer for Richard Ayoade's The Double finally clarifies the tone and plot of the mysterious comedy a little. Jesse Eisenberg's rapid fire dialogue delivery is in top form here, as his character Simon finds his life turned upside down when a doppelganger, James, gets hired at[...]

Fans of Richard Ayoade's style, as evidenced in Submarine, will no doubt find a lot to love, as it is not exactly dripping in his style but competently drenched by it. Two new posters for the film were released today, via Empire, and they nicely play on the conceit of the film Well, one does[...]

Reportedly only loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel of the same name Richard Ayoade's follow-up to his 2010 directorial debut Submarine features Jesse Eisenberg as a man sent mad when he finds that his life is being taken over by a doppelganger. We got our first trailer for the film this week and it doesn't appear[...]

You read it here first.* Series creator and writer of the Channel 4 sitcom set in a company's IT department, Graham Linehan just announced during an IT Crowd Q&A at German conference re:publica that the long-teased special, which he has previously stated will serve as the finale to the series, will be filmed in three weeks'[...]