Exclusive: Iconic British comedian Harry Enfield has stepped down as director of his production company after 12 years.
The Harry & Paul star founded Balloon Entertainment in 2012 alongside Skins writer Bryan Elsley, with a focus on “nurturing emerging talent.” Its first commission was Channel 4 comedy Dates.
Enfield was terminated as director of Balloon Entertainment on January 12, according to Companies House. The remaining three directors are Elsley, development boss Dave Evans and company manager Lindsay Taggart. Deadline understands Enfield could still make shows for Balloon and he remains on good terms with the company. Balloon declined comment and reps for Enfield did not respond to requests for comment.
Balloon has been a consistent player in UK TV over the past dozen years, making numerous shows with and without Enfield.
Past shows include An Evening With Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse, Channel 4/Netflix cyber-thriller Kiss Me First and BBC Three drama Clique, the...
The Harry & Paul star founded Balloon Entertainment in 2012 alongside Skins writer Bryan Elsley, with a focus on “nurturing emerging talent.” Its first commission was Channel 4 comedy Dates.
Enfield was terminated as director of Balloon Entertainment on January 12, according to Companies House. The remaining three directors are Elsley, development boss Dave Evans and company manager Lindsay Taggart. Deadline understands Enfield could still make shows for Balloon and he remains on good terms with the company. Balloon declined comment and reps for Enfield did not respond to requests for comment.
Balloon has been a consistent player in UK TV over the past dozen years, making numerous shows with and without Enfield.
Past shows include An Evening With Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse, Channel 4/Netflix cyber-thriller Kiss Me First and BBC Three drama Clique, the...
- 3/1/2024
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Principal photography underway in the UK on book adaptation.
Cast and crew have set sail for the big-screen adaptation of the film update of Arthur Ransome classic Swallows and Amazons.
Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), Jessica Hynes (Shaun of the Dead) and Harry Enfield (Kevin and Perry Go Large) have joined Rafe Spall and Kelly Macdonald in Philippa Lowthorpe’s (Call the Midwife) feature debut, adapted by Andrea Gibb (Dear Frankie).
The Walker and Blackett children will be played by Dane Hughes, Orla Hill, Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen, Bobby McCulloch, Seren Hawkes and Hannah Jayne Thorp.
Principal photography got underway in the Lake District on June 21.
Nick Barton of Harbour Pictures Productions, Nick O’Hagan, and BBC Films’ Joe Oppenheimer, are producers.
Swallows and Amazons follows four children dreaming of an escape from the tedium of a summer holiday with their mother. When finally given permission to camp on their own on a remote island in the middle of a vast...
Cast and crew have set sail for the big-screen adaptation of the film update of Arthur Ransome classic Swallows and Amazons.
Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), Jessica Hynes (Shaun of the Dead) and Harry Enfield (Kevin and Perry Go Large) have joined Rafe Spall and Kelly Macdonald in Philippa Lowthorpe’s (Call the Midwife) feature debut, adapted by Andrea Gibb (Dear Frankie).
The Walker and Blackett children will be played by Dane Hughes, Orla Hill, Teddie-Rose Malleson-Allen, Bobby McCulloch, Seren Hawkes and Hannah Jayne Thorp.
Principal photography got underway in the Lake District on June 21.
Nick Barton of Harbour Pictures Productions, Nick O’Hagan, and BBC Films’ Joe Oppenheimer, are producers.
Swallows and Amazons follows four children dreaming of an escape from the tedium of a summer holiday with their mother. When finally given permission to camp on their own on a remote island in the middle of a vast...
- 6/24/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie hit cinemas on Friday (June 27), as Brendan O'Carroll brought Mammy and co. to the big screen.
While the BBC sitcom has always proved to be hugely popular with viewers, the critics have remained less impressed. However, will a film version change their opinions?
Below, Digital Spy rounds up the reactions to D'Movie.
The Guardian - Mike McCahill
"You sense O'Carroll has diluted his own show's essence for wider multiplex consumption: while the sitcom could be broad, it was often clever with it, and never this bland.
"Unlike Guest House Paradiso or Kevin and Perry Go Large or Keith Lemon, D'Movie is never aggressively, in-your-face bad; it's more a flatly indifferent cash-in – and the devoted fanbase this character has accrued over the past decade may yet rally to ensure it does indeed become another Inbetweeners-style box-office bonanza: comedy is subjective, after all. Yet poking through the...
While the BBC sitcom has always proved to be hugely popular with viewers, the critics have remained less impressed. However, will a film version change their opinions?
Below, Digital Spy rounds up the reactions to D'Movie.
The Guardian - Mike McCahill
"You sense O'Carroll has diluted his own show's essence for wider multiplex consumption: while the sitcom could be broad, it was often clever with it, and never this bland.
"Unlike Guest House Paradiso or Kevin and Perry Go Large or Keith Lemon, D'Movie is never aggressively, in-your-face bad; it's more a flatly indifferent cash-in – and the devoted fanbase this character has accrued over the past decade may yet rally to ensure it does indeed become another Inbetweeners-style box-office bonanza: comedy is subjective, after all. Yet poking through the...
- 6/28/2014
- Digital Spy
The fate of those four horny sixth-formers, currently on world tour, will tell us a lot about the prospects for British film overseas
In Russia, they're Переростки, in Italy Finalmente Maggiorenni, in France Les Boloss. Pay attention, because this could be important for the future of British film. The Inbetweeners, as we English christened them, are currently on world tour. The Russian translation literally means "children who are older than everyone else in their class", and the Italian "finally adults". But it's the French moniker, a slangy and pejorative splice of "bourgeois" and lopette ("fag") that properly shows how every country brings different cultural expectations to the same film. Premiere magazine's verdict – "The charm of the television vignettes is diluted through the course of a film whose awful comic tempo makes it resemble a fish-and-chips version of Les Sous-Doués en Vacances" [a 1982 comedy] – was typical of a more contemptuous strain of criticism...
In Russia, they're Переростки, in Italy Finalmente Maggiorenni, in France Les Boloss. Pay attention, because this could be important for the future of British film. The Inbetweeners, as we English christened them, are currently on world tour. The Russian translation literally means "children who are older than everyone else in their class", and the Italian "finally adults". But it's the French moniker, a slangy and pejorative splice of "bourgeois" and lopette ("fag") that properly shows how every country brings different cultural expectations to the same film. Premiere magazine's verdict – "The charm of the television vignettes is diluted through the course of a film whose awful comic tempo makes it resemble a fish-and-chips version of Les Sous-Doués en Vacances" [a 1982 comedy] – was typical of a more contemptuous strain of criticism...
- 1/10/2012
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
Who’s at number six in Den Of Geek’s ten favourite films of 2011? It’s The Inbetweeners Movie, and here’s Caroline to tell us why it’s so great…
Over the past few weeks, Den Of Geek writers have been voting for the films of the year. It's a democratic vote, which inevitably means that things end up in a slightly funny order that not one individual writer is likely to fully agree with. But it's still a fine list. Here's entry number four…
6th place:
The Inbetweeners Movie
Movie spin-offs from British television sitcoms have a history that could be called chequered at best. Although we’ve been blessed with great films like In The Loop (from The Thick of It) in recent years, not many people were feeling optimistic about The Inbetweeners Movie. The show’s appeal was widespread and niche at the same time, and...
Over the past few weeks, Den Of Geek writers have been voting for the films of the year. It's a democratic vote, which inevitably means that things end up in a slightly funny order that not one individual writer is likely to fully agree with. But it's still a fine list. Here's entry number four…
6th place:
The Inbetweeners Movie
Movie spin-offs from British television sitcoms have a history that could be called chequered at best. Although we’ve been blessed with great films like In The Loop (from The Thick of It) in recent years, not many people were feeling optimistic about The Inbetweeners Movie. The show’s appeal was widespread and niche at the same time, and...
- 12/20/2011
- Den of Geek
Months ago, there were suspicions that The Inbetweeners Movie would be a bit of a disaster. It’s turned out to be anything but. So where did it go right?
Last Friday, I was one of many people who turned out for the first ‘official’ day of The Inbetweeners Movie screenings. Granted, there had been two days of previews, which had brought in a sizeable amount of cash (and then some). But what had intrigued me the most was the incredibly positive word of mouth that the film was getting.
Contrast that with the suspicions that were being banded about when the film was first announced, and when the maiden trailer appeared. A trailer that led to co-writer Iain Morris assuring us that the film was much better. Then there’s the small matter of the lack of press screenings (unless you happened to work for a lads’ magazine, it...
Last Friday, I was one of many people who turned out for the first ‘official’ day of The Inbetweeners Movie screenings. Granted, there had been two days of previews, which had brought in a sizeable amount of cash (and then some). But what had intrigued me the most was the incredibly positive word of mouth that the film was getting.
Contrast that with the suspicions that were being banded about when the film was first announced, and when the maiden trailer appeared. A trailer that led to co-writer Iain Morris assuring us that the film was much better. Then there’s the small matter of the lack of press screenings (unless you happened to work for a lads’ magazine, it...
- 8/23/2011
- Den of Geek
The Inbetweeners Movie
Guest review by Dog Ate My Wookie
Stars: Blake Harrison, James Buckley, Joe Thomas, Simon Bird | Written by Iain Morris, Damon Beesley | Directed by Ben Palmer
E4′s widely popular British sitcom centering four aggressively unpopular school boys has ended. After three seasons, the writers knew when to quit — something quite rare, as you can imagine. Episodes were brimming with teen awakardness and genuine humour; plainly why it worked so well. Here, the writers, and director Ben Palmer, have opted for the Kevin and Perry route, and shifted our boys off to Malia for a lads holiday. Cue the clunge!
Promised by the crudely explosive Jay (Buckley), Malia offers the boys “sun, sea, sex, sand, booze, sex, tits, and booze”, and with Rudge Park Comprehensive behind them, there’s only one thing they can do before being shipped off to university: go wild. Geeky Will (Bird) may...
Guest review by Dog Ate My Wookie
Stars: Blake Harrison, James Buckley, Joe Thomas, Simon Bird | Written by Iain Morris, Damon Beesley | Directed by Ben Palmer
E4′s widely popular British sitcom centering four aggressively unpopular school boys has ended. After three seasons, the writers knew when to quit — something quite rare, as you can imagine. Episodes were brimming with teen awakardness and genuine humour; plainly why it worked so well. Here, the writers, and director Ben Palmer, have opted for the Kevin and Perry route, and shifted our boys off to Malia for a lads holiday. Cue the clunge!
Promised by the crudely explosive Jay (Buckley), Malia offers the boys “sun, sea, sex, sand, booze, sex, tits, and booze”, and with Rudge Park Comprehensive behind them, there’s only one thing they can do before being shipped off to university: go wild. Geeky Will (Bird) may...
- 8/19/2011
- by Guest
- Nerdly
Can The Inbetweeners make the jump from the small screen to the cinema? Here's Caroline's review...
Let’s straighten something out right from the start: The Inbetweeners Movie isn’t Kevin And Perry Go Large. While that misjudged sketch show off-shoot failed to inspire any emotion other than a gag reflex amongst many (although it cleaned up at the box office), The Inbetweeners Movie is a love letter to innocent teenage years, and a sweet and good-natured look back at the milestone of the first lad’s holiday.
On the surface, the story of The Inbetweeners Movie isn't actually a million miles away from Kevin And Perry. But here, it's worked into a British coming of age film fit to be mentioned in the same breath as Us efforts like Superbad and American Pie. It’s crude, rude, importantly funny and essentially tragic. The important thing is, it isn’t a disaster.
Let’s straighten something out right from the start: The Inbetweeners Movie isn’t Kevin And Perry Go Large. While that misjudged sketch show off-shoot failed to inspire any emotion other than a gag reflex amongst many (although it cleaned up at the box office), The Inbetweeners Movie is a love letter to innocent teenage years, and a sweet and good-natured look back at the milestone of the first lad’s holiday.
On the surface, the story of The Inbetweeners Movie isn't actually a million miles away from Kevin And Perry. But here, it's worked into a British coming of age film fit to be mentioned in the same breath as Us efforts like Superbad and American Pie. It’s crude, rude, importantly funny and essentially tragic. The important thing is, it isn’t a disaster.
- 8/17/2011
- Den of Geek
Actor best known for his part in Potter's The Singing Detective
The actor Badi Uzzaman, who has died from a lung infection aged 72, was perhaps best known for playing the patient in the hospital bed next to Michael Gambon in The Singing Detective (1985). The pair's camaraderie provided some of the lighter moments in Dennis Potter's TV series and showed off Uzzaman's talent for comedic roles. In their scenes together, Gambon (as Philip Marlow) and Uzzaman (as Ali) were shown to share an outsider status, Marlow due to his disfiguring skin condition and Ali due to his race.
Uzzaman again explored British attitudes toward race in Brothers in Trouble (1995), a film directed by Udayan Prasad and based on Abdullah Hussein's novel about the experiences of Pakistani illegal immigrants in Britain in the 1960s. Uzzaman himself was no stranger to the immigrant experience. He was born in Phulpur, in Azamgarh,...
The actor Badi Uzzaman, who has died from a lung infection aged 72, was perhaps best known for playing the patient in the hospital bed next to Michael Gambon in The Singing Detective (1985). The pair's camaraderie provided some of the lighter moments in Dennis Potter's TV series and showed off Uzzaman's talent for comedic roles. In their scenes together, Gambon (as Philip Marlow) and Uzzaman (as Ali) were shown to share an outsider status, Marlow due to his disfiguring skin condition and Ali due to his race.
Uzzaman again explored British attitudes toward race in Brothers in Trouble (1995), a film directed by Udayan Prasad and based on Abdullah Hussein's novel about the experiences of Pakistani illegal immigrants in Britain in the 1960s. Uzzaman himself was no stranger to the immigrant experience. He was born in Phulpur, in Azamgarh,...
- 6/21/2011
- by Tania Ahsan
- The Guardian - Film News
The trailer for The Inbetweeners movie, (a kind of cooler version of Kevin and Perry Go Large right?) has been playing in U.K. cinema’s for a little while, I’ve actually seen it twice now in the past fortnight – but it’s finally made it’s way online thanks to Entertainment Film Distributors.
The film version of the popular Channel 4 t.v. sitcom finds Will (Simon Bird) Neil (Blake Harrison), Simon (Joe Thomas) and Jay (James Buckley) go on holiday to Crete where I imagine they’ll be even further out of their depth with the ladies. I mean hell, they find it hard enough as it is. Will the structure of a film suit the 30 minute (less with ads) show, or will The Inbetweeners suffer the usual fate of sitcoms that have run their course and have the idea of taking these characters abroad to bring something anew?...
The film version of the popular Channel 4 t.v. sitcom finds Will (Simon Bird) Neil (Blake Harrison), Simon (Joe Thomas) and Jay (James Buckley) go on holiday to Crete where I imagine they’ll be even further out of their depth with the ladies. I mean hell, they find it hard enough as it is. Will the structure of a film suit the 30 minute (less with ads) show, or will The Inbetweeners suffer the usual fate of sitcoms that have run their course and have the idea of taking these characters abroad to bring something anew?...
- 6/9/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
What do you get when you cross Channel 4’s The Inbetweeners with Kevin And Perry Go Large? Only The Inbetweeners Movie! Yep, the first teaser trailer for the big screen outing of our favourite four hapless teens has been unveiled online, over at the film’s official Facebook page. Paired with a head-thumping soundtrack, it shows our central quartet walking down a rocking strip in Malia – while Jay (James Buckley) films all the lovely ladies on his phone. It’s a great teaser precisely because it plays up the promise of...
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- 6/9/2011
- by Josh Winning
- TotalFilm
The Inbetweeners really are making a movie. They really are. And it's actually shooting, right here, right now. Can you believe it? Can you though? Previous British TV comedies' jumps to the big screen have been patchy at best (Kevin And Perry Go Large, anyone?) but after winning bucket loads of awards (Two BAFTAs, Best Sitcom at the British Comedy Awards, a Rose d'Or) we've got faith in these potty-mouthed lads.But what will the movie actually consist of -- you know, bar Jay (James Buckley) coming up with increasingly extravagant lies, disgusting imagery, and new words for sex -- is limited to this:"It’s a lads' holiday to Malia – that’s all we’re allowed to say."That's right, this is going to be messy. Just to reassure you, regulars Simon Bird, James Buckley, Blake Harrison and Joe Thomas will of course return, as will Emily Head as Carli,...
- 2/4/2011
- EmpireOnline
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