Matt and David were both welcomed in Melbourne
during the tour in Australia by some of the cast from Neighbours.
The boys have added some local gags to their sketches and there were huge
cheers from the audience when Matt Lucas' character Vicky Pollard mentioned
that she had been on a tour to Ramsay Street hoping to meet Ned Parker.
Happily the gang found plenty to chat about and the evening ended with an
open invitation to Matt and David to come and visit the set when they're
back in Melbourne. There was even talk of a possible cameo appearance if
schedules allow. Now that really would cause a kerfuffle in Erinsborough.
Full story.
Not happy Fans
For the fans that have written to Matt and
David's agents "Troika", unfortunately might not receive an autograph or a
reply to the letter and so fans may have to write again.
One fan of the show wrote to Troika to find out what happened with the
letter and they replied that some fan mail got lost but looking into it
further, the letters didn't and this is a disappointment to many fans with
the same problem.
From contacting Troika, the people who are responsible for the autographed
photos have said that they haven't signed any and they couldn't reply to the
great amount of letters anymore.
But good news, the agents have now made a list with the addresses of the
fans who have been waiting for autographs since autumn last year and will
hopefully get autographs sent out to everyone that wrote to them.
30/1/2007 - Look at moi, Britain
Little Britain stars Matt Lucas and David
Walliams have had some impressive help to make Australian their sell-out
comedy tour.
Full story.
29/1/2007 - New Video Game Pictures
Released
Little Britain: The
Video Game will be available from February 2nd 2007. Check out these brand
new screen shots of the characters as they will look in the game:
David is featured on the album 'End of an
Error' by Les Incompétents (2004-2005) and was released through White Heat
on 26th February. The album includes a contribution from David Walliams,
taken from a Les Inc live show.
View source.
26/1/2007 - Little Brit's Kath & Kim cameo
Americans may be bracing themselves for those
foxymorons from Fountain Lakes, but Little Britain star Matt Lucas leaped at
the chance to get up close and personal with Kath & Kim this week, recording
a surprise cameo for a new series of the hit Aussie show.
Lucas, who is holidaying in Australia with husband Kevin McGee ahead of the
Little Britain stage show tour starting in Melbourne next week, filmed the
guest role alongside Gina Riley and Jane Turner this week - believed to be
playing an estranged English cousin of Australia's own desperate housewives.
Sydney fans of Lucas and his Little Britain co-star David Walliams will get
their first glimpse of the UK comedians at a Sydney Mardi Gras launch event
next Saturday.
Full story.
Alliance has helped to create
Little Britain game
The show's
stars, Matt Lucas and David Walliams, have provided the voices for Little
Britain: The Video Game, which features popular characters including Lou and
Andy, Dafydd Thomas, Vicky Pollard and Marjorie Dawes.
The game is the brainchild of Leeds-based video game designer Gamerholix,
which has designed and produced it.
Full story. The game will be released on February 2nd 2007.
Site reaches 50,000!
Thank you to everyone of you 50,000 fans
that have visited this website since April 2006.
25/1/2007 - Daffyd for Mardi Gras?
One of comedy’s most internationally
recognisable personalities could help launch the 2007 New Mardi Gras season,
with rumours Little Britain star Matt Lucas is on the guest list for next
month’s Flash Mob Launch.
The latest mobile phone text message clue about the Flash Mob event suggests
Lucas might find time to mingle with the Mardi Gras crowds.
“Sorry 4 the kafuffle Bubbles but due to unforeseen circs we must move Flash
Mob Launch to AFTERNOON of SAT 3RD FEB,” the clue reads.
The Flash Mob Launch has been moved from Friday 2 February to the following
day because of “the availability of talent”.
Full story.
Watch Little Britain on a DVD player for
£9!
DVD players that are cheaper than a film will
go on sale today for £9. About 80,000 of the Durabrand 1005 machines have
gone on to Asda shelves. The supermarket says the price makes them the
cheapest DVD players on sale in Britain and it expects them to sell out
within two days.
Full story.
I visited Asda today and ended up buying four of these DVD players to test
out this special offer - only one per customer so make sure you go with your
friends!
24/1/2007 - Little Britain Live Review
I am in the heart of London's Little
Australia, watching the Little Britain stage show in a theatre full of
little British people (and some big ones). I'm sitting with my British
little brother, who is excited we have tickets to the sell-out show. He is a
fan and I'm hoping he can explain Little Britain's appeal to me.
Full review.
22/1/2007 - Australian Tour Date Changed
Due to a change in the filming scheduling for
a movie that David Walliams is taking part in, Little Britain Brisbane
Convention Centre performances have now been re-scheduled to the following
new dates:
Monday 22 January is now Sunday 18 February
Tuesday 23 January is now Monday 19 February
All tickets purchased for the original dates are valid for the re-scheduled
dates without need for exchange. Thanks Christina for this information.
Star is Pete Dough-erty
Pete Doherty hands over a wad of cash as a mystery package is delivered
to him at lover Kate Moss’s birthday bash.
The Babyshambles singer, 27, gave the delivery driver around £200, grabbed
the package and ran back into the party at Little Farringdon, Oxfordshire.
Kate, 33, hosted the bash at her £2million mansion on Saturday night. Guests
included celeb pals Sadie Frost and Little Britain’s David Walliams.
View source.
19/1/2007 - Now he'll be the only gay in
the conservation area
Matt Lucas
and David Walliams' use of Llanddewi-Brefi as the place where rubber-clad
Dafydd is "the only gay in the village" in the BBC series Little Britain has
led the council to announce that it should become a conservation area - so
increasing the potential to generate tourism revenue.
...Any move to generate more tourist trade
is good news for Glesni and Neil Driver, who run the whitewashed Siop Bresni
- the only store in the village - and have a nice trade in £12.99 polo
shirts bearing the village name. "Any assistance to bring more people
through helps," Mrs Driver said yesterday, as the winter storms kept
visitors away. "It is a wonderful part of the world, though there's not a
lot of work out here except for farming."
For those seeking a less subtle keepsake, there is a £10.99 T-shirt
emblazoned with the words, "Nid Dafydd yw'r unig hoyw yn Llanddewi-Brefi" (Dafydd
isn't the only gay in Llanddewi-Brefi). Novelty maps, made with sheep
droppings gathered from the slopes of the Snowdonia National Park, are also
selling well at £15.99, while those in search of something more weighty have
taken the law into their own hands: six of the village's signposts were
stolen last year and some ended up on eBay...
Full story.
17/1/2007 - Announcing final Brisbane &
Melbourne shows
It’s now less
than 3 weeks before Matt Lucas & David Walliams commence their Little
Britain Live Australian tour! Debuting in Melbourne on January 30, with the
announcement of 6th & final shows in both Brisbane and Melbourne Little
Britain Live shows now tally at a phenomenal 32! For a full list of the
Australian tour dates,
click here.
Order to protect Dafydd's village
A village in Ceredigion looks set to be
made a protected area, thanks partly to hit BBC comedy Little Britain.
The show starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams has put Llanddewi-Brefi on
the map, making it a potential tourism hotspot. Now the county council wants
the village to be given special status in an attempt to protect its
character.
Full story.
15/1/2007 - What a Walli
David Walliams, 35, left London's Cuckoo
Club hand-in-hand with showbiz pal Vernon Kay.
Vern's wife Tess Daly has nothing to worry about though, as David only had
eyes for ladies at the club.
We're told: "David was trying it on with every woman in sight. His best
chat-up line was, 'This is my mate, Vernon.'"
Well, we suppose it beats "Do you come here often?"
Full story.
14/1/2007 - Updated Page
The
links
page has just been updated with a website previewing tool that allows
you to check out the website in a snapshot image before viewing. Remember,
if you own a comedy related website, we would be more than happy to do a
link exchange with you!
13/1/2007 - Little Britain: The Game
Trailer
Check out this trailer for the new PC/PS2/PSP
Little Britain Game
here. This will be available to buy from Jan 26th.
Mini-games include: Vicky Pollard - Playing truant from school, Vicky must
navigate a course set up in the park, doing tricks and collect as many CDs
as she can on the way round.
Lou and Andy - Set at the local swimming baths, Lou says he is going to find
a lifeguard to help Andy into the water. Whilst his back is turned the
player must guide Andy up to the Olympic diving board, dive into the pool
and then get out and back into his wheelchair. All before Lou returns!
Marjorie Dawes - Set in a supermarket, Marjorie must run up and down the
aisles guzzling chocolate biscuits whilst being chased by members of her Fat
Fighters Club.
Daffyd Thomas - Dressed in his trademark tight fitting outfit, Daffyd cycles
down the Llandewi Breffi high street. As he goes he must pick up copies of
"The Gay Times" and drive the other gays out of the village. For more
information, visit the
merchandise
page.
12/1/2007 - One more for comedy duo
Little Britain has become Brisbane's first big
entertainment hit of 2007 with a sixth concert added to its tour next month.
The live show starring David Walliams and Matt Lucas has already sold out
four shows at the Brisbane Convention Centre starting on February 16.
A BCC spokesperson said the fifth show had also sold very well in the
4000-seat hall.
Promoters Michael Coppel announced another show for Brisbane yesterday,
which will go on sale on January 22.
View source.
Opening credits used for News story
At 6.40pm on ITV News, a story with Tony Blair
started with the opening credits to Little Britain (the main theme and the
style of the opening credits) along with the words "Britain, Britain,
Britain..." which then lead into the news story.
10/1/2007 - David signs up legendary comic
David Walliams is apparently set to be one
half of a surprising new comedy double act - with Ronnie Corbett.
The Little Britain star has signed up comic legend Ronnie for his next
project, the Daily Star reports.
David will co-star in the series about a rest home and Ronnie, 76, will play
an ageing lothario. Rob Brydon will play David's brother in the show.
Ronnie, famous for being half of The Two Ronnies alongside Ronnie Barker, is
quoted as saying: "My character is a real old charmer who is in his element
being the only man in the place.
"David and Rob were kind enough to come up with the idea and I'm really
looking forward to working on it."
The TV veteran also admitted he'd turned down a role in Little Britain.
"They asked me to take part in the last series as Roman Devere, ex-husband
of Bubbles," he said.
"It was very sweet of them but I had to tell them that, at my age, rolling
around in a sauna with a fat, naked lady was going a little too far."
View Source.
09/1/2007 - It's all in the cards
Britain's biggest greetings card chain
delivered upbeat Christmas results yesterday.
Clinton Cards saw sales rise 2.1 per cent in the five-week festive period,
despite a drop in demand for gifts.
The Little Britain craze - including comedy mugs and key-rings - proved to
be a big Christmas hit for the group's gift business in 2005. But it failed
to find anything quite so hot this time round. Results were boosted by card
sales, up by five per cent.
View source.
05/1/2007 - This merchandise is ****
Has Little Britain merchandising gone too far?
Now you can buy ‘the only map in the village’ – an 1824 map of Llandewi
Brefi, printed on paper made out of recycled sheep poo. On sale,
here at £15.99.
Full story.
Check out this great new 'Computer Says No'
search engine here!
03/1/2007 - Little Britain Abroad Video 2
Both parts of Little Britain Abroad have now
been added to the
transcripts page.
2/1/2007 - Revving up the ratings
The Vicar of Dibley came to an end last night
with 12.3 million viewers. This figure is up 900,000 on the first special,
which aired on Christmas night, and is likely to make the show one of the
most-watched programmes of the whole of 2007. Little Britain Abroad, managed
just 8.4 million.
Full story.
1/1/2007 - Wind in the Willows
From Vicky Pollard to Bubbles Devere, Matt
Lucas is famous for playing grotesque characters. But now he's delighted to
be softening his satirical edge - as Mr Toad in 'The Wind in the Willows'.
Full review. The Wind in the Willows is shown on BBC1 tonight
at 6.20pm.
Hundreds of episodes of BBC programmes will
be made available on a file-sharing network for the first time, the
corporation has announced.
The move follows a deal between the commercial arm of the organisation, BBC
Worldwide, and technology firm Azureus.
The agreement means that users of Azureus' Zudeo software in the US can
download titles such as Little Britain.
Until now, most BBC programmes found on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks
have been illegal copies.
Azureus is best known for developing a BitTorrent client, or program, that
allows large media files to be easily shared over the internet. The program
has been downloaded more than 130 million times.
File-sharing is often associated with illegal distribution of copyrighted
content. But in recent months a number of networks have tried to shake off
this old image.
BitTorrent, the company behind the original file-sharing software of the
same name, has recently signed a number of deals with content providers,
such as 20th Century Fox, in a bid to become a legitimate download service.
Full story.
Little Britain the PS2/PC Game images
Here are some brand new images from the Playstation 2 Game: Little
Britain The Video Game which will be released on January 26 2007. This game
will also be available for PC and PSP.
Little Britain Abroad Part 1 Video
If you missed the first part of Little
Britain Abroad, the show has now been added to the
transcripts page. Part 2 will
follow shortly plus a full transcript from the show.
Comedy Desktop Wallpaper
The BBC website has recently added these
cracking
desktop backgrounds including some from the Little Britain Abroad
special.
