tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37685866624886751582024-02-18T20:05:26.955-08:00tombasden.comTom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-63222587735707201492024-01-31T07:51:00.000-08:002024-01-31T07:51:56.677-08:00Here We Go (again) - Series 2 starts this Friday (2nd Feb) at 8pm on BBC1<p>Hi Everyone,</p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0vy7mqls3i1YC5BpGYTpLn8nRk9H1CuKnEtVfXWIjkxDg1CaNtuvhzJ6_X8Pob6RI7byEyDKcIDg5Z9L1yvLnvkNY7e_7ttSQE0bMqZ343fP3QBIA4JOqmJ7qzuRGpx5P9fk53EFJNCxj8REIvg94H5SYsOB0iSMi_8j1chvcKJt12kM7Z321gIBWyBxM/s6105/Here%20We%20Go%20series%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3434" data-original-width="6105" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0vy7mqls3i1YC5BpGYTpLn8nRk9H1CuKnEtVfXWIjkxDg1CaNtuvhzJ6_X8Pob6RI7byEyDKcIDg5Z9L1yvLnvkNY7e_7ttSQE0bMqZ343fP3QBIA4JOqmJ7qzuRGpx5P9fk53EFJNCxj8REIvg94H5SYsOB0iSMi_8j1chvcKJt12kM7Z321gIBWyBxM/w640-h360/Here%20We%20Go%20series%202.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p><br /></p>The first episode of <span style="color: #800180;">Here We Go</span> series 2 is very much <span style="color: red;">on the telly</span> this <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Friday at 8 on BBC1</span>, and all 6 episodes plop onto iPlayer (I believe) directly afterwards, so it's basically all available at once if you can't/won't wait for weekly instalments. Please do tune in/click on it, depending on the technology you're using.<p></p>The <span style="color: #ffa400;">Christmas Special</span> is also on iPlayer now in case you missed that,(<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001tlhm/here-we-go-mums-classic-family-christmas">https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001tlhm/here-we-go-mums-classic-family-christmas</a>) as well as all of Series 1 and the pilot from 2020.<div><br /></div><div>There are some excellent guest stars in this series (eg Harry Enfield), and fun stuff involving going glamping, entering 5 a side football tournament and turning a hearse into an ice cream van, so it'll hopefully go some way towards compensating for the dire state of the weather/world.</div><div><br /></div><div>Good luck!</div><div><br /></div><div>Tom</div><div><br /></div>Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-80348370368862029062022-04-27T10:00:00.000-07:002022-04-27T10:00:12.496-07:00HERE WE GO - BBC1 8.30 Friday 29th April<p><span style="font-family: arial;">Hi everyone,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I have a new sitcom coming out <span style="color: #800180;">this Friday</span> which I wrote and am also in (I'm on the far right nestled behind Jim Howick in the photo, look). It's called <span style="color: red;">Here We Go</span> and it's on <span style="color: #2b00fe;">BBC1</span> at<span style="color: #ffa400;"> 8.30pm </span>(as in the 29th - also my Dad's birthday (not relevant to this post but truth nonetheless)). </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">All the episodes will be available on <span style="color: #800180;">iPlayer</span> from 9pm on Friday <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0byxbkn" target="_blank">here</a> (eps 2 and 5 are my favourites fyi). </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWOAsCpuojTQuE6bB7hUvA6XblTBpCv0t5dNNpFO1Ostcv_FvcJ-gqQc02tbYo0-aQQRBTG-9IthV8vBfk0ReniNaWqBMFuAmdnq4q4S2gZd28BoweSJTajRPowkXBMo3qKYSUgboKEQ8bXRu-BaY2lb1ibjRCK2c1yGEe2QtMs8vVRVw1Y-mDsrFMiA/s1432/HWG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" data-original-height="917" data-original-width="1432" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWOAsCpuojTQuE6bB7hUvA6XblTBpCv0t5dNNpFO1Ostcv_FvcJ-gqQc02tbYo0-aQQRBTG-9IthV8vBfk0ReniNaWqBMFuAmdnq4q4S2gZd28BoweSJTajRPowkXBMo3qKYSUgboKEQ8bXRu-BaY2lb1ibjRCK2c1yGEe2QtMs8vVRVw1Y-mDsrFMiA/w640-h410/HWG.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's essentially a full series of the pilot I made back in 2020 (which was called Pandemonium*) about a family called the Jessops who, to be fair to them, do their absolute level best to have a good time together. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">It's sort of like the National Lampoons Vacation movies crossed with The Office if you can imagine that. It's got brilliant, funny people like Alison Steadman and Katherine Parkinson in it and I pop up here and there playing a loveable dickhead called Robin. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Please watch if you can/would like to, either AT THE TIME (8.30pm on Friday) or AT YOUR LEISURE on iPlayer. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Good luck! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Tom</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">*the pilot was all about the pandemic (hence the name), but the series isn't at all (hence the name change).</span></p>Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-33317162616761696702020-12-29T06:23:00.000-08:002020-12-29T06:23:20.849-08:00PANDEMONIUM on BBC1 30th December<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Hi all,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I made a TV show during the old pandemic about a family trying to go on holiday during said pandemic and (spoiler alert) struggling. Here's a picture of me with the cast (e.g. <span style="color: red;">Alison Steadman</span> for goodness sake) to prove it. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">It's called <span style="color: #ff00fe;">Pandemonium</span> and it's on at <span style="color: #ff00fe;">9.45(pm) on BBC1</span> on the <span style="color: #ff00fe;">30th (of December)</span>.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF0IMhyphenhyphenxIYX2rBgNaNRop8AetQKqvhuTZpA7uwovhZrS3qabwDOmZVQczyhEiGX-ao3hWv8pdu363eSqN_FCZG61yVIXt2I0EMXSCnUSFFZtFYzcU5KSODeSg1V_4VebH0cagcCPu7m_57/s640/p091wt05.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF0IMhyphenhyphenxIYX2rBgNaNRop8AetQKqvhuTZpA7uwovhZrS3qabwDOmZVQczyhEiGX-ao3hWv8pdu363eSqN_FCZG61yVIXt2I0EMXSCnUSFFZtFYzcU5KSODeSg1V_4VebH0cagcCPu7m_57/w451-h254/p091wt05.jpg" width="451" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><p>Despite having to wear masks all the time and not being allowed to high five the crew between takes, I'm really happy with how it's turned out. Please do tune in if you're the kind of person who likes to watch things when they're actually on. Otherwise maybe watch it on iPlayer <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qqzt" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>If you want to read an article by an American journalist attempting to get his head around it, there's one in, weirdly, the New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/business/media/pandemonium-bbc-coronavirus.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>Good luck! </p><p>Tom</p></span><p></p><p><br /></p>Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-29221803620542352652020-03-18T04:23:00.002-07:002020-03-18T04:23:34.807-07:00Tim Key's Radio 4 Show New Series Tonight at 11pm<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just to say that the new series of <b>Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme</b> (which I'm also in (not that you'd know it from the shamelessly self-promoting title)) starts at <b>11pm</b> on <b>Wednesday 18th March</b> on <b>Radio 4 </b>and is on for the next 4 Wednesdays. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you miss it, it'll be on <b>BBC Sounds</b> (I think - don't completely understand the new app to be fair). </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can listen to the last ep of the previous series if you want to get a sense of it </span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b09v3ff8" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (there's not a plot to follow exactly so no pressing need to catch up). </span><br />
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Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-73392109309579045252020-02-06T02:43:00.001-08:002020-02-06T02:43:47.700-08:00BLOOMSBURY THEATRE GIG<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi everyone,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy 2020. I know it's not been a terrific decade so far, but bear with it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For one thing, I'm headlining the <b>Musical Comedy Awards</b> at (London's) <b>Bloomsbury Theatre</b> on <b>April 4th</b>, which I think we can all agree is exactly the tonic we need after Brexit and the sham Trump impeachment trial.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the details are <a href="https://tickets.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsburytheatre/website/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=171056&resize=true" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, if you enter the promo code <b>TOM2020</b> when buying tickets you get money off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Because it's a musical-comedy-themed evening, it'll just be songs. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">So if you came to my show at the Soho Theatre last month and were all like 'Why were there only 3 songs in it, I want my money back etc etc' - this gig will be way more up your street. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Equally, if you're one of those people who sometimes comes to a gig wanting to hear old songs I don't really play anymore, I will almost certainly do them all here / take requests, provided a) I can remember them and b) it's one of my songs and not, for example, I Gotta Feeling by the Black Eyed Peas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">[Here's a photo of me a fair while ago, wearing a t-shirt I no longer own, playing a guitar I subsequently sold to give you an idea of the sort of thing it'll look like. [But I'll be older. And probably in a shirt.]]</span><br />
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Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-8351357539001962742019-11-13T06:55:00.000-08:002019-11-13T06:55:08.230-08:00Soho Theatre Run January 2020<br />
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I'm doing a 6 night run of my new stand up show SORRY THANK YOU PLEASE at London's (glittering) Soho Theatre in January 2020, which I know sounds like a long way off because it's in a new decade and everything, but it (genuinely) isn't.<br />
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Tickets and blurb and fun photo of me in a big chair <a href="https://sohotheatre.com/shows/tom-basden/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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It's every night from the 13th - 18th, so no excuses not to come really. Also, it's a famously very depressing time of the year, so it'll do you good just to get out the house in my opinion.<br />
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Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-75032574648326866682019-09-05T03:13:00.001-07:002019-09-05T03:35:44.597-07:003 Work In Progress Shows <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hi all,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I've got 3 work in progress stand-up shows at the <b>Bill Murray</b> this month (September (2019)). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They're on the <b>11th</b>, the <b>25th</b> and the <b>9th</b> (that one's in October to be fair).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">They're all at <b>9.30pm</b>, so will have an edgy late-night / sweary / tired feel. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not wanting to jinx it but I suspect at least two of them will be GOOD and one of them will be a TRIUMPH.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you'd like to buy tickets (only £6.50 for Pete's sake) - you can do so <a href="https://www.showandtelluk.com/event/tom-basden-work-in-progress-3/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That link also contains some blurb and a list of some of the TV shows I've been in if that's the sort of thing you find reassuring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Bill Murray is <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/39+Queen's+Head+St,+Islington,+London+N1+8NQ/@51.5362659,-0.1010148,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x48761b60a6b0a467:0x9a076df578ab7f11!8m2!3d51.5362659!4d-0.0988261" target="_blank">here</a>. It's an excellent venue in London's Islington. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Please come if you can / want to. </span><br />
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Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-18951028671527802812019-07-09T05:48:00.001-07:002019-07-09T05:48:57.537-07:00Work In Progress Show at the BAC<span style="color: lime;">19th July, 7pm at the Battersea Arts Centre.</span><div>
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Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-70687866905941029272019-02-22T15:19:00.002-08:002019-02-22T15:19:48.656-08:00WORK IN PROGRESS SHOWS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: red;">I'm doing two work in progress stand up shows at The Bill Murray in Islington in March (21st and 27th at 9.30). An hour or so of very new stuff, maybe some songs.</span><br />
<span style="color: blue;">Tickets and details all here: </span><a href="https://www.showandtelluk.com/event/tom-basden-work-in-progress-2/" target="_blank">www.showandtelluk.com/event/tom-basden-work-in-progress-2/</a><br />
<span style="color: orange;">(I couldn't find any photos of me doing stand up so here's a picture of Seinfeld doing it. I probably won't use this stance to be fair.)</span>Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-12964287863351381782018-04-09T01:47:00.000-07:002018-04-09T01:47:23.997-07:00PLEBS SERIES IV + GIGS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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TV's longest running Ancient Rome sitcom, PLEBS, starts tonight (Monday 10th) at 10pm on ITV2 with a double bill.<br />
There are two deaths over the two episodes, so it's fair to say the show's got more gritty.<br />
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If you miss it, it'll be on the ITV hub <a href="http://www.itv.com/" target="_blank">www.itv.com</a> and I guess Netflix eventually.<br />
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I've also got a bunch of stand up gigs coming up.<br />
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12th April - Watson's Wangabout - Mark Watson's night at Crouch End Arthouse Cinema. Tickets and info here: <a href="http://www.skiddle.com/whats-on/London/Arthouse-Crouch-End/Watsons-Wangabout-April-Fools/13179635/">www.skiddle.com/whats-on/London/Arthouse-Crouch-End/Watsons-Wangabout-April-Fools/13179635/</a><br />
19th April - 100 Club, 100 Oxford St. Tickets and info here: <a href="http://www.showandtelluk.com/event/100-club-presents-with-james-acaster-3/">www.showandtelluk.com/event/100-club-presents-with-james-acaster-3/</a><br />
3rd May & 14th May - Arts Depot Finchley and Pleasance Islington. I'm doing two gigs with Ricky Gervais and David Earl and others. I don't have many details on this one I'm afraid. If you want to come, best keep an eye on Ricky's twitter feed and he'll announce them at some point soon (weirdly, most people will be coming to see him rather than me).<br />
14th June - Stand Up Under the Stars at the BAC. Tickets and details here: <a href="http://www.showandtelluk.com/event/stand-up-under-the-stars/">www.showandtelluk.com/event/stand-up-under-the-stars/</a><br />
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<br />Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-63320846704994484822017-08-15T02:07:00.001-07:002017-08-15T02:07:26.788-07:00QUACKS on BBC2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: lime;">I'm in a new sitcom called </span><span style="color: yellow;">QUACKS</span><span style="color: lime;"> about a bunch of Victorian doctors (although I play a dentist).</span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">It starts tonight (depending on when blogger decides to post this), August 15th at 10pm on BBC2. </span><br />
<span style="color: lime;">And it's on iPlayer if you miss it:</span><span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0596dsf" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0596dsf</a><br />
<span style="color: lime;">It's quite gory so probably try and eat beforehand. </span><br />
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<br />Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-36372173741852877262017-03-28T01:14:00.001-07:002017-03-28T01:14:28.268-07:00Charity Gig - 31st March 7.30pm<div>
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Hi there.<br />
I'm doing a gig at the (very nice) New Diorama Theatre near Warren Street this Friday, hosted by The Pin and with Nish Kumar and Lazy Susan for kids' cancer (as in against kids' cancer). Details <a href="http://newdiorama.com/whats-on/the-pin-friends-fight-kids-cancer" target="_blank">here</a>. Ben from The Pin is worrying about tickets so I promised I'd pester people about it. Do come if you can/want to. Tom</div>
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Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-19886209928991893672017-02-22T05:30:00.000-08:002017-02-22T05:30:24.320-08:00Gap Year - Thursdays 9pm E4<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My new TV show <span style="color: red;">Gap Year </span>starts this <span style="color: yellow;"><span style="color: yellow;">Thursday at</span><span style="color: yellow;"> 9</span><span style="color: yellow;"> on </span><span style="color: yellow;">E4</span>.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's a comedy drama about 4 young people travelling around Asia, and the older guy they can't shake off (played by Tim Key, right)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's set in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and Nepal, so as much as anything else, it's a good way to see a lot of lovely places and briefly escape the poor weather/dire political situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here's the <span style="color: lime;">trailer</span>: <span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr299XWAUuA">www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr299XWAUuA</a></span></span>Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-81384262952085605562015-12-08T01:43:00.002-08:002015-12-08T01:43:59.956-08:00FREEZE At the Soho Theatre - 21-23/12<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me and Key (Tim) are doing our festive </span><span style="color: lime;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FREEZE</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sort of show at the Soho Theatre on the 22nd and 23rd of December to ideally get everyone more into the idea of Christmas.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We're also doing a </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SCREENING </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of our short film about Santa and his elf on the 21st that we mistakenly made in Lapland in 2013 (too cold). And probably another one we made about 10 years ago about New Years Eve as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Here's where you can get tickets for </span><span style="color: lime;">FREEZE</span><span style="color: red;">:</span> <a href="http://www.sohotheatre.com/whats-on/freeze/">www.sohotheatre.com/whats-on/freeze/</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here's the </span><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SCREENING </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">one:</span> <a href="http://www.sohotheatre.com/whats-on/tom-basden-and-tim-key-present-andquot-anthonyandq/"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">www.sohotheatre.com/whats-on/tom-basden-and-tim-key-present-andquot-anthonyandq/</span></a><br />
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Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-32330916440689036992015-03-11T18:46:00.000-07:002015-03-11T18:46:06.835-07:00THE CROCODILE<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRvvrhermxi8gkO300KTH0fjx43VuUeMfasBfsKX7E7jce1D3JaaCwzaw8cD79qfo7cijaGf2hjoeJ69xUkIWkNd1HuGYo7xTXJzJN3NG1nNtVYHsPHQvIlCLbYsxzPwKTyaYKkE6DpTXT/s1600/Croc+Image+Idea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRvvrhermxi8gkO300KTH0fjx43VuUeMfasBfsKX7E7jce1D3JaaCwzaw8cD79qfo7cijaGf2hjoeJ69xUkIWkNd1HuGYo7xTXJzJN3NG1nNtVYHsPHQvIlCLbYsxzPwKTyaYKkE6DpTXT/s1600/Croc+Image+Idea.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My new play, </span><span style="color: lime; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Crocodile</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, based on a Dostoevsky short story, will be at the <span style="color: red;">Manchester International Festival</span> this July. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the details are <a href="http://www.mif.co.uk/event/the-crocodile" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's about a man that gets eaten by a Crocodile and isn't sure at first and then gets into it. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's surreal and, ideally, funny.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, while I've got you, I'm in the latest <span style="color: blue;">5 Dials Podcast</span> reading some of my dogshit novel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can listen to that </span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/five-dials/five-people-talking-about-one-thing-episode-1/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FREEZE </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">at the <span style="color: cyan;">Soho Theatre</span> - 22-23/12</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me and Key (Tim) will be doing a Christmas flavoured version of our dire double act FREEZE at the Soho Theatre on the 22nd and 23rd of December. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some stuff will be as old as the hills and other things will have been written specially. It's better than this photo suggests.</span></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can book tickets </span><a href="http://www.sohotheatre.com/whats-on/tim-key-andamp-tom-basden-freeze/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span><br />
<br />Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3768586662488675158.post-22784484590236141252014-08-10T02:16:00.000-07:002014-08-10T03:06:55.912-07:00<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">almost certainly the best tom basden-related website on the internet. I mean, I've not checked the whole thing, but I'd be staggered if it wasn't. </span>Tom Basdenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02460137546683618960noreply@blogger.com