Chris Taylor (I)

  • Writer and producer

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Tim Minchin stars in new Sky road trip comedy

Tim Minchin is to take the lead role in Upright, a comedy drama for Sky and Australia's Foxtel, about two misfits on a road trip with a battered old upright piano.

British Comedy Guide, 23rd July 2018

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was weird, but also truly original and brilliantly funny. A show-within-a-show, it saw Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade's popular Edinburgh Fringe character, the eponymous horror writer and egomaniac (played by Holness), present his fictional, never-aired TV show, intercut with interviews with cast and crew. It captured the spirit of hammy Eighties action shows, with acting and special effects appalling enough to make Ed Wood look like Steven Spielberg. Being aired late at night with very little advertising actually worked in the show's favour: Garth Marenghi's Darkplace became the true "lost classic" that Marenghi himself always proclaimed it to be.

Chris Taylor, The Telegraph, 13th September 2014

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