
Victoria Wood
Oyuncu · 1953 – 2016 · Prestwich, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
Victoria Wood CBE (19 May 1953 – 20 April 2016) was an English comedian, actress, singer and songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood wrote and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions, which she accompanied on piano. Wood also composed and performed the theme music for her award winning BBC sitcom Dinnerladies. Much of her humour was grounded in everyday life, and included references to popular British media and brand names of quintessentially British products. She was noted for her skills in observing culture, and in satirising social classes. She started her career in 1974 by winning the ATV talent show New Faces. It wasn't until the 1980s that she began to establish herself as a comedy star, with the award-winning television series Victoria Wood As Seen on TV and became one of Britain's most popular stand-up comics. In 1998, she wrote and starred in the (again, award-winning) sitcom Dinnerladies. In 2006, she won two BAFTA awards for her one-off drama for ITV1, Housewife, 49. Wood frequently worked with long-term collaborators Julie Walters, Duncan Preston and Celia Imrie. Victoria Wood died on 20 April 2016 after a short battle with cancer. She was 62.
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Dizi7.2KomediTalk ShowEach week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · 290 votes
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The One Show
2006 · 31 votes
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The South Bank Show
1978 · 7 votes
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QI
2003 · 291 votes
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Wogan
1982 · 8 votes
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Omnibus
1967 · 9 votes
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An Audience with...
1978 · 3 votes
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Parkinson
1998
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Pebble Mill
1991 · 5 votes
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Screen One
1989 · 5 votes
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That's Life!
1973 · 2 votes
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Lux Video Theatre
1950 · 7 votes
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Going Live!
1987 · 2 votes
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The Secret Policeman's Ball
1976 · 1 votes
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Case Histories
2011 · 42 votes
Dizi7.5KomediDinnerladies is a BBC sitcom written by and starring Victoria Wood that chronicles the antics of a group of workers in a canteen in the north of England. Bren tries to maintain a semblance of order in amongst the chaos, while dealing with the canteen supervisor, slightly sex-obsessed cancer sufferer Tony. Dolly and Jean are the bickering menopausal older women, always at odds but best friends beneath it all. Then there's thick-as-two-short-planks Anita, and the terminally uninterested Twinkle, more concerned with having a good time than anything else. Making up the motley crew are military man handyman Stan, all rules and regulations, and ditzy Philippa, who never seems to get anything right.
dinnerladies
1998 · 38 votes
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Aspel & Company
1984
Dizi8.0KomediVictoria Wood was a series of six one-off situation comedies written by and starring Victoria Wood in 1989, who took a break from sketches, two years after her very successful and award winning series Victoria Wood As Seen on TV. Wood appeared as "Victoria", a fictionalised version of herself, in all six episodes - in The Library it was said that she "worked in TV" and in Over To Pam characters appeared to recognise her celebrity and in the final episode, Staying In, she was taken to a party to perform as a comedienne and was expected to go through her stand-up 'routine'. Her character often broke the 'fourth wall' of TV and spoke directly to the camera, but not in every episode. Bored with the sketch format and with a yearning to recapture previous success as a playwright, Wood came up with six individual sitcoms as a compromise. She admitted to finding the writing difficult. Though Wood was written as the central character, other lead parts were written with specific actresses in mind, like Julie Walters and Una Stubbs. "I want people to like me and the people who play my friends, and not everybody else" she said. Screenonline says of the shows "Modest in ambition and scale but rich in wit and acuity, the six playlets showcase Wood's eye for human foibles and her distinctively eccentric characters.".
Victoria Wood
1989 · 5 votes
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Harry & Paul
2005 · 9 votes
Dizi8.0BelgeselRealiteDocumentary series that celebrates the incredible careers of the best of British talent.
A Life on Screen
2014 · 1 votes
DiziRealiteKomediComic Relief takes over the Great British Bake Off tent. Different celebrity faces battle it out with their baking skills to claim one of the coveted Comic Relief Star Baker titles.
Dizi7.9KomediVictoria Wood: As Seen on TV is a British sketch comedy series created by and starring comedian Victoria Wood with Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Susie Blake and Patricia Routledge. The show broadcast on BBC Two between 1985 and 1987, and included sketches that became famous in the United Kingdom; these included one-offs like Two Soups and regular features such as Acorn Antiques, as well as musical performances by Wood including her most well-known number, The Ballad of Barry and Freda.
Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV
1985 · 9 votes
Dizi7.0"Clive James' Postcards," is a travel programme originally broadcast on BBC, and later transferring to ITV.
Clive James' Postcard from
1989 · 1 votes
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The Story of Light Entertainment
2006 · 3 votes
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Film6.4BelgeselThe craft, creative process and complicated lives of Stand-up Comedians.
Dying Laughing
2017 · 19 votes
Film6.3DramAileBBC tarafından bir çocuk masalından uyarlanan Ballet Shoes da Emma Watson bir öksüzü canlandırıyor. Emma Watson filmde Richard Griffiths'ın(Harry Potter daki Karakteri Vernon Dursley) yanında yardımcı oyuncu olarak oynayacak. Filmin konusu; tuhaf bir kaşif tarafından evlat alınan ve kaşifin kuzeni tarafından büyütülen üç kimsesizin hayatıdır.Bir TV kaynağına göre Emma Watson tam olarak bu rol için doğmuş."
Film5.8FantastikKomediJailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.
The Wind in the Willows
1996 · 63 votes
Film5.9AileKomediFilmin kahramanları, ev döşemeleri altında yaşayan parmak boyutunda küçük insanlardır. İzinsiz olarak ödünç aldıkları eşyalar, onları evde istenmeyen misafir konumuna getirmiştir. Bu minik insanları yakalamak için devreye giren profesör, amacına ulaşmak için akıl almaz yollar deneyecektir...
FilmBelgeselKomediComedy legend Stanley Baxter returns from retirement and returns to the Christmas schedules with a trawl through the very best of his classic sketches and routines, his memories of making the shows, plus some brand new material, including his contemporary take on the Queen's Christmas Message to the Commonwealth.
Film4.0KomediThis is the time of year when friends and family gather round the television to exchange the traditional greeting -“Don’t bother, there’s nothing on”. Well this Christmas join Victoria Wood for her ‘Mid Life Christmas’ featuring highlights from the Mid Life Olympics 2009, with the most unlikely sporting events and a dance number that brings together the killer combo of midriff bulge. Victoria then dons a bonnet and corset, for the popular costume drama Lark Pies to Cranchesterford, and revel in the further adventures of soap star Bo Beaumont played by long term collaborator Julie Walters. DVD extras include the searing in-depth documentary (!) ‘What larks!’
Victoria Wood's Midlife Christmas
2009 · 2 votes
Film7.0KomediThe comedienne stars in this festive sketch show, alongside a host of celebrity guests.
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings
2000 · 7 votes
Film6.2KorkuKomediYazar, telefonda arkadaşına hikayenin nasıl devam edeceğini anlatır, konu üzerinde biraz tartışırlar ve telefonu kapar. Tam o sırada olması imkanız gibi gözüken bir mazarayla karşılaşır. Hikayesindeki kahramanlar tam karşısında durup ondan hesap sormaktadırlar. Amaçları yaşadıkları çevreden dışarı çıkabilmektir çünkü dünyalarının sonu gelmekte, kıyamet kopmak üzeredir.
FilmTV MovieThe film features clips looking at the successes, upsets and moments that caused drama in different talent shows.
Film6.3KomediMüzikFollowing the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums – Cleese, Lewis and Walker planned the next show to be a more spectacular event. Cleese focused on broadening the comedic talent to be presented at the show. In addition to the Amnesty show stalwarts drawn from the Oxbridge/Monty Python/Beyond The Fringe orbit, he invited newcomers such as Rowan Atkinson’s colleagues from the BBC TV show Not the Nine O'Clock News including Pamela Stephenson and Griff Rhys Jones; comedian Victoria Wood and regional comic Jasper Carrott. Lewis secured a return appearance by Billy Connolly and a debut appearance by "alternative" comedian Alexei Sayle who Lewis had recently discovered and was managing. Building on the success of Pete Townshend's 1979 appearance Lewis recruited other rock musicians to perform at the 1981 show including Sting, Phil Collins, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Donovan and Bob Geldof.
The Secret Policeman's Other Ball
1982 · 6 votes
Film8.0DramRomantikA play by Victoria Wood. Frances is 28, single and happy, despite ritual interrogation from her family as to why she's not married. Then she meets Jim, and finds she has decisions to make.
Happy Since I Met You
1981 · 2 votes
Film10.0BelgeselSir Michael Parkinson looks back over his 50 years as a broadcaster, revealing some tricks of the interview trade and remembering some of his favourite encounters.
Parkinson at 50
2021 · 1 votes
Film5.3KomediBritish comedy legend Victoria Wood entertains a star-studded audience including Julie Walters, Judi Dench and Dawn French in this 1988 special. Watch her crack jokes, play the piano and answer light-hearted questions.
An Audience With Victoria Wood
1988 · 5 votes
Film6.0DramTarihDowntrodden wife and mother Nella's life takes an unexpected turn for the better after she joins the Women's Voluntary Service office in Barrow-in-Furness during the Second World War. However, her new-found happiness is shattered when her son Cliff leaves to join the troops - provoking a painful confrontation with her husband Will.
Housewife, 49
2006 · 18 votes
FilmBelgeselKomediFriends and fans pay tribute to a great comic talent in this celebration of the life and work of the hugely popular Victoria Wood, who died of cancer in April 2016 at age 62. Victoria wrote some of television's greatest comedy sketches and musicals, won two BAFTAs for her drama Housewife, 49, and was once voted by the British public as the person they would most like to have as their next door neighbour.
FilmBelgeselA history of the British television comedy double act Morecambe & Wise to coincide with the BBC drama about their early lives.
Film6.0TV MovieKomediA television comedy special broadcast on BBC One on Christmas Day 1992. Sketches, stand-up comedy and songs combine to create the latest daytime show to be hosted by a popular husband-and-wife team. There are tips on female problems like seriously split ends, calorie reports, keep-fit with Jolly Polly, Agony Uncle Gerard's phone-in and Britain's first four times daily soap, set in a cosy corner of a shopping mall.
Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast
1992 · 3 votes
Film8.0KomediAcorn Antiques: The Musical! is the all-singing, all-dancing and fully overalled stage version of the beloved TV spoof. The triumphant West End production brought together Julie Walters (Mrs Overall), Celia Imrie (Miss Babs) and Duncan Preston (Mr Clifford) - the original cast of the series. It was directed by Sir Trevor Nunn ("Les Miserables", "Woman in White", "Starlight Express") and written by Julie's understudy, the award-winning Victoria Wood. Filmed during the sell-out run at the beautiful Haymarket Theatre, the musical features an all-star supporting cast of Josie Lawrence, Neil Morrissey & Sally Ann Triplett.
Acorn Antiques: The Musical
2006 · 2 votes
Film9.0KomediDramA play by Victoria Wood. Maureen has been faithfully attending the slimmers' club for months. Now the weeks of endless crispbreads have paid off - but is her optimism misplaced? Sequel to Wood's earlier play Talent, featuring the same characters of lifelong friends Maureen and Julie.
Nearly a Happy Ending
1980 · 1 votes