Richard Ayoade News

No matter how many concerts I go to, and no matter how many dazzling light shows I see, I never seem to grow tired of the crazy things people do with LED's. Now that they've become relatively cheap and easy to get ahold of, nerdy creative types all over the world are incorporating them into mesmerizing works of art.

Richard Ayoade, John Thomson and Caroline Aherne are among the vocal talents in this oddly amusing animation about an all but forgotten inner-city school.

Everything's coming back now, some worse than others so we should be thankful that the latest 'thing' to announce its return is something very good indeed - The IT Crowd! No before you all get excited it is just coming back for a one-off special, but apart from that you can all get very excited indeed because Channel 4 have confirmed that the ... (more)

The cult British sitcom aired between 2006 and 2010 and starred Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson and Matt Berry, who are all expected to reprise their roles for the new 40-minute episode, according to Bleeding Cool.

Black Sails Starz has released two early teaser promos, poster art, and a January air date for the Michael Bay-produced pirate drama series "Black Sails". The eight-episode first season is set twenty years before events in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" and revolves around Captain Flint and his men.

The IT Crowd is set to return later this year for one last time. 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 ... (more)

To mark the 50th anniversary of John Schlesinger's Billy Liar , a digitally restored edition of the film is released next week on DVD and Blu-ray. Dwarling, it's wonderful.

Pictured left to right are Becky Butters , MItchell Tanner , Templeton . A NEW children's TV show produced by an Altrincham-based company and using cutting edge animation is about to go on air.

Josh Weinstein has had spells in charge of US TV favourites The Simpsons and Futurama.

Director Mike Leigh, who begins shooting his film about the artist JMW Turner next month.

Not enough people have watched 2010's offbeat coming-of-age dramedy Submarine , the first feature film directed by British comedian/writer Richard Ayoade.

IT Crowd star Richard Ayoade and Royle Family creator Caroline Aherne are among the voices cast for a new BBC animated comedy.