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Victoria Wood CBE (19 May 1953 – 20 April 2016) was an English comedian, actress, lyricist, singer, composer, pianist, screenwriter, producer and director. Wood wrote and starred in dozens of sketches, plays, musicals, films and sitcoms over several decades and her live comedy act was interspersed with her own compositions which she performed at the piano.
Rowan Atkinson has won this award twice, for Not the Nine O'Clock News (1981) and Blackadder Goes Forth (1990). Tracey Ullman won for Three of a Kind in 1984. Judi Dench won for A Fine Romance in 1985. Victoria Wood was won twice, for Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV (1986) and An Audience with Victoria Wood (1989).
The show won the first Victoria Wood award at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2023 [13] and raised almost £20,000 for Richards' family. [14] Awards.
Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV is a British comedy sketch series written by and starring comedian Victoria Wood, with appearances from Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Duncan Preston, Susie Blake and Patricia Routledge. The show was televised on BBC2 between 1985 and 1987 and included sketches that became famous in the United Kingdom.
Housewife, 49 is a 2006 television film based on the wartime diaries of Nella Last. [1] [2] Written by and starring English actress and comedian Victoria Wood, it follows the experiences of an ordinary housewife and mother in the northern English town of Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire, during the Second World War. [3]
One of his biggest successes came in 1985, when he produced and directed the multi-award-winning Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, a sketch show written by (and starring) the comedian. [3] Posner has since produced and directed some of the most popular British television comedies of the 1990s and 2000s.
The Daily Telegraph's Judith Woods described Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, Dinnerladies and Acorn Antiques as "character-led television gems". [7] The film won the Broadcasting Press Guild Award for best single drama, and the best actress and best screenplay awards at the Reims Television Festival. [8]
Eric and Ernie is a 2011 British television drama film based on the early career of the British comic double-act Morecambe and Wise. [1] The film was produced by BBC Wales, completed in 2010, and premiered on BBC Two on 1 January 2011. [2]