"of the album the Divine Comedy went on tour with Tori Amos, supporting her during her European dates. At around the same time, Hannon also wrote and performed, with Allison, the theme music for the sitcom ""Father Ted"" (which would subsequently be incorporated into the song ""Songs of Love"" on the album ""Casanova""), and later wrote the music for the mock-Eurovision song ""My Lovely Horse"" for one episode. Hannon resisted widespread requests from fans to release the track as a single for the Christmas market, but it was eventually released in 1999 as the third track on the CD-single ""Gin"
"The show's theme tune was ""Where I Find My Heaven"" by the Gigolo Aunts. The single reached number 29 in the UK singles chart in May 1995, when the series debuted, and was also included in the soundtrack to the film ""Dumb and Dumber"" at the same time. Among other music included was ""Dogs of Lust"" by The The, ""Screamager"" by Therapy?, ""From Despair to Where"" by Manic Street Preachers, ""Girls & Boys"" by Blur, ""God! Show Me Magic"" by Super Furry Animals, ""The View From Here"" by Dubstar and Oasis. A fourth series was initially considered. Writer Bernadette Davis"
"animal charity My Lovely Horse Rescue, named for the ""Father Ted"" Eurovision song he wrote the music for. Neil Hannon Edward Neil Anthony Hannon (born 7 November 1970) is a Northern Irish singer and songwriter. He is the creator and front man of the chamber pop group The Divine Comedy, and is the band's sole constant member. Hannon wrote the theme tunes for the television sitcoms ""Father Ted"" and ""The IT Crowd"". Hannon was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, the son of Brian Hannon, a Church of Ireland minister at the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe and later Bishop of"
"of ""In Pursuit Of Happiness"" was subsequently adopted as the theme for the TV series ""Tomorrow's World"". The original version was used for one season of the show, with a specially-recorded version being substituted thereafter. The Divine Comedy: The Brunel Ensemble: Christopher Austin - conductor A Short Album About Love A Short Album About Love is the fifth album by The Divine Comedy, released in 1997. The album was included in the book ""1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die"". All songs written by Neil Hannon except where stated. The tracks which are starred are bonus tracks which are"
"is based. He is credited with composing the theme music for the sitcoms ""Father Ted"" and ""The IT Crowd"", the former theme composed for the show and later reworked into ""Songs of Love"", a track on The Divine Comedy's breakthrough album ""Casanova"". Both shows were created or co-created by Graham Linehan. For the ""Father Ted"" episode, ""A Song for Europe"", Hannon co-wrote and sang ""My Lovely Horse"", the song Ted and Dougal enter in Eurosong (a parody of the Eurovision Song Contest). For the same episode, Hannon wrote ""The Miracle Is Mine"", the 'typical' Eurovision ballad sung by Ted's nemesis,"
"the Divine Comedy's 2004 single ""Come Home Billy Bird"". Laverne's first television presenting job was Play UK's series ""The Alphabet Show"", with Chris Addison, made while Kenickie were still together. She subsequently presented ""Planet Pop"" and ""Loves Like A Dog"" for Channel 4, ""Fanorama"" for E4, ""Party in the Park"" with Melanie Brown and ""Pop"" for Five and ""Orange Playlist"" for ITV, as well as reporting for """", leading the house band on ""Johnny Vaughan Tonight"" and appearing as an expert in a music special of BBC One's ""Test the Nation"". Later, she became one of BBC2's main presenters for"
"Divine Comedy producer Darren Allison entitled ""Love On The March"". The Thin Lizzy-inspired ""I'm a Cuckoo"" was the second single from the album. It achieved their highest chart position yet, reaching No. 14 in the UK. The ""Books"" EP followed, a double A-side single led by ""Wrapped Up in Books"" from ""Dear Catastrophe Waitress"" and the new ""Your Cover's Blown"". This EP became the band's third top 20 UK release, and the band was nominated for both the Mercury Music Prize and an Ivor Novello Award. In January 2005, B&S was voted Scotland's greatest band in a poll by The"
"to produce Myths, a series of five-minute episodes which told the story of the classic Greek Myths in a modern setting. ""Popatron"", a sitcom based behind the scenes of a celebrity entertainment show also aired that year, as did ""Shelfstackers"", another comedy about four teenagers working at a supermarket. The last BBC Switch programme was the feature-length musical, ""Rules of Love"", which premiered on 18 December 2010. A contemporary musical set in London, ""Rules of Love"" was a modern love story concentrating on the romantic relationship between the young Matt (Jake Roche) and Daisy (Daisy Head), and their friends Jack"
"of Derek Love, assists his friend Piers, who has inherited a stately home and with it a financial nightmare. Dates listed are original broadcast dates for ITV: The cast included Clive Owen, Susannah Harker, Leslie Phillips, Peter Vaughan, Simon Shepherd, Louise Lombard, Caroline Langrishe, Ralph Riach, Stephen Tompkinson, Benjamin Whitrow and Lynsey Baxter. The theme music was written by Jan Hammer. Christopher Eccleston had a small role of prison inmate in one of the episodes. In 1991, Hammer's ""Miami Vice"" soundtrack ""Crockett's Theme"" was re-released with his ""Chancer"" theme tune as a double A-side after the former featured in a"
"British comedy in 25 years to be nominated for a Golden Globe, and the first ever to win one. Gervais was also awarded the Golden Globe For Best Actor in a Television series: Comedy or Musical. The same year, the series won a Peabody Award. The theme song for the show is ""Handbags and Gladrags"", arranged by Big George and originally written in the 1960s by Mike D'Abo, former vocalist for the pop group Manfred Mann. In series 1, episode 4, a version performed by Gervais (in character as Brent) was featured over the end credits. The first series also"
"panel of Nihals Radio 1 review show. The band received airplay in the UK from the likes of Absolute Radio, XFM, BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 1. 'Lions in Cages', along with the 2011 single 'Dancing with the Devil' was added to the BBC Radio 1 B List in 2011 where it was played by Fearne Cotton, Greg James, Scott Mills and Chris Moyles. 'Lions in Cages' is currently being used as the Theme Song for new British TV Occult Comedy 'Switch', which started airing in October 2012. The theme song for the BBC television football"
"Neil Hannon Edward Neil Anthony Hannon (born 7 November 1970) is a Northern Irish singer and songwriter. He is the creator and front man of the chamber pop group The Divine Comedy, and is the band's sole constant member. Hannon wrote the theme tunes for the television sitcoms ""Father Ted"" and ""The IT Crowd"". Hannon was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, the son of Brian Hannon, a Church of Ireland minister at the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe and later Bishop of Clogher. He spent some of his youth in Fivemiletown before moving with his family to Enniskillen, in County"
"so they need help from their friends to establish the rules of love. ""Rules of Love"" was first broadcast on Saturday 18 December 2010, and has not been repeated on television since. It was broadcast as part of BBC Switch's last ever show, and was the first modern British urban musical to be made. Rules of Love Rules of Love is a 2010 British film starring Jake Roche, Daisy Head, Sydney Rae White, Paterson Joseph, Daniel Anthony, Madeline Duggan, Ryan Hawley and Laura Aikman. A contemporary musical set in London, ""Rules of Love"" is a modern love story concentrating the"
"weekly viewership of the show was about twenty-five per cent of the British population. In 1998, the average viewership was between 5 and 6 million. Because of the long time airing of ""Songs of Praise"" following the Sunday evening news, the time slot has become known as the ""God slot"". The show has been accused of ""abandon[ing] its long-standing commitment to straightforward hymns and 'ordinary' people talking about their often very extraordinary lives and faith and becoming increasingly obsessed with celebrities and soft-focus schmaltz"". The show featured in episodes of the BBC comedy television series ""The Vicar of Dibley"". The"
"Pennies from Heaven (TV series) Pennies From Heaven is a 1978 BBC musical drama serial written by Dennis Potter. The title is taken from the song ""Pennies from Heaven"" written by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston. It was one of several Potter serials (another being ""The Singing Detective"") to mix the reality of the drama with a dark fantasy content, and the earliest of his works where the characters burst into extended performances of popular songs. In the mid-1930s, Arthur and Joan Parker (Bob Hoskins and Gemma Craven) are an incompatible married couple living in the London suburbs. Arthur, a"
"Fermanagh, in 1982. While there, he attended Portora Royal School. Hannon is founder and mainstay of The Divine Comedy, a band which achieved their biggest commercial success in the mid to late 1990s with the albums ""Casanova"" (1996), ""A Short Album About Love"" (1997), and ""Fin de Siècle"" (1998). Hannon continues to release albums under The Divine Comedy name, the most recent being ""Foreverland"" (2016). In 2000 he and Joby Talbot contributed four tracks for Ute Lemper's collaboration album, ""Punishing Kiss"". In 2004 he played alongside the Ulster Orchestra for the opening event of the Belfast Festival at Queen's. In"
"These included: Every episode featured contemporary music, usually with clips of at least five songs (regularly including the bands The Bluetones, Shed Seven, Feeder, The Dandy Warhols, Starsailor, Mercury Rev, The Hives, Athlete, I Am Kloot, The Libertines, Ash, and Supergrass), and the soundtrack to all four series has been released on CD by the Channel 4 shop. The theme tune is the solo section of ""The Boy With The Arab Strap"" by Belle and Sebastian. Teachers (UK TV series) ""'Teachers ""' is an English television comedy-drama series, created by Tim Loane and originally shown on Channel 4. The series"
"their act. Fester states: ""Ailin' here came out of the womb with that accordion on him"". Fester and Ailin' also claim that Foster and Allen's song ""Bunch of Thyme"" was in fact a stolen copy of their original work ""Bunch of Lesbians"". Fester and Ailin's songs featured in the series included ""Tropical Diseases"", ""The Monkey Song"" and ""Doing the Wife's Sisters on the Sly"" as well as the classic yuletide number """"There's a Dead Man Up The Chimney"""". The show has run for nine series as of January 2006. The programme has aired in both the UK and Ireland on"
"introductory music for much of each episode is ""Tico's Tune"" by Geoff Love (recorded by him under the name ""Manuel & The Music of the Mountains""). This piece of music has near-iconic status in Ireland as it was used as the theme music for ""The Gay Byrne Show"", a long-running and immensely popular morning radio show on RTÉ Radio 1. Background music and soundtrack pieces were composed for the series by Rónán Johnston. The opening credits are accompanied with the song ""Where's Me Jumper"" by The Sultans of Ping FC. ""Moone Boy"" aired its third and final season in 2015."
"episodes have been shown on satellite channel UK Gold since spring 1993. Every episode was at least 10 minutes. Narration was by Robin Parkinson. Puppeteers included Ian Allen, John Thirtle, Francis Wright, Alistair Fullarton, Sue Dacre, Chris Leith, Judith Bucklow, Ian Brown, Tony Holthamand, and others. The incidental music for the series was written by Peter Goslin. The show's theme tune was composed and performed by Peter Davison and Sandra Dickinson, who were married at the time. A live stage show toured England in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The creator of the show successfully sued the manufacturer"
"The Divine Comedy (band) The Divine Comedy are an orchestral pop band from Northern Ireland formed in 1989 and fronted by Neil Hannon. Hannon has been the only constant member of the group, playing, in some instances, all of the non-orchestral instrumentation besides drums. To date, eleven studio albums have been released under the Divine Comedy name. The group achieved their greatest commercial success in the years 1996–99, during which they had nine singles that made the UK Top 40, including the top ten hit ""National Express"". Neil Hannon has been the only ever-present member of the band, being its"
"Rules of Love Rules of Love is a 2010 British film starring Jake Roche, Daisy Head, Sydney Rae White, Paterson Joseph, Daniel Anthony, Madeline Duggan, Ryan Hawley and Laura Aikman. A contemporary musical set in London, ""Rules of Love"" is a modern love story concentrating the relationship between Matt (Jake Roche) and Daisy (Daisy Head), and their friends Jack (Daniel Anthony) and Jess (Sydney Rae White). Matt is a lowly postboy at Passion, a fashion-based advertising agency, whilst Daisy is a young, ambitious girl on work experience. Matt's attraction to Daisy is obvious, but Daisy is in a relationship and"
"and didn't get to finish airing the rest of the 18 episodes that were ordered for the season. However, all episodes of the second season were shown on TG4 in Ireland and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. The theme song, entitled ""Once in a Lifetime"", is played by John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls. Wunderkind producer Jake Silver decides to accept the job helming the worst TV show in all of Miami. He falls in love with the show's beautiful, down-to-earth hairdresser, Dylan. The carnival of clowns at the station includes pompous and insulting on-air host Gavin; Jake's"
"Ted"" theme became ""Songs of Love"", while Hannon's rejected theme became ""A Woman of the World"". In 2010, Linehan discussed the dramatic effect this choice had on the tone of the series: ""'Woman of the World' was kind of like a jaunty, plinky-plonky song, and we wanted that song. He [Hannon] gave us two choices: he gave us that, and ""Songs of Love"", and we wanted the plinky-plonky song because our idea was we were making fun of sitcoms. We were saying, you know, we don't like sitcoms. This is a parody of sitcoms. This is a kind of satire"
"Songs of Praise Songs of Praise is a BBC Television religious programme that presents Christian hymns that first aired in October 1961. Since 2016 it has been presented by many people, including former ""BBC Breakfast"" co-presenter Bill Turnbull and ""Good Morning Britain"" sports editor Sean Fletcher. The first edition was broadcast from the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Cardiff, and the series is one of the longest running of its kind on television anywhere in the world. Presenters of the show have included Geoffrey Wheeler, Michael Barratt, Cliff Michelmore, Sir Harry Secombe, Alan Titchmarsh, Roger Royle, Debbie Thrower, Bruce Parker, Ian"
"and its popularity; ""Music from ""Horrible Histories"""" was chosen as the 2011 theme of the BBC Proms' annual children's concert. Alongside various short intro themes and commercial jingles, each episode and each special contains at least one longer comedy song centred around a particular historical figure or theme and performed by the cast in appropriate character. In the first series, the songs generally had no particular satirical slant, and were often intercut with sketches from the same era. However, after the creative team noted the critical and popular success of the major exception (""Born 2 Rule"", which featured King Georges"
"subject of two BBC period dramas. The first, ""The Love School"", (1975) features Ben Kingsley as Rossetti. The second was ""Desperate Romantics"", in which Rossetti is played by Aidan Turner. It was broadcast on BBC Two on Tuesday, 21 July 2009. Dr. Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) appears in an episode of ""Cheers"" as Dante Gabriel Rossetti for his Hallowe'en costume. His wife Dr. Lilith Sternin-Crane appears as Rosetti's sister, Christina. Their son Frederick is dressed as Spiderman. Rossetti's poem ""The Blessed Damozel"" was the inspiration for Claude Debussy's cantata ""La Damoiselle élue"" (1888). John Ireland (18791962) set to music as"
"of death that is opening up life opportunities for him and his friends. Scott's womanizing, gambling-addicted, wise-cracking half brother. Scott's waggish pal who works as a fast-food machine repair technician. The daughter of Paddy, the boys' first client, she ends up becoming Scott's girlfriend. Cozzo's extraordinarily tolerant, newly pregnant wife, who also happens to be a police officer. Scott's sexy, but somewhat vapid ex-girlfriend who has high expectations and ""great arms"". Scott's Machiavellian, sexually-harassing boss, she is the veterinarian at the pet clinic. The show's theme tune, ""Superstar Luck Machine"" was composed by Ian Masterson. A week and a half"
"shortly after but on 10 March 2017 it was announced that the tender had been won by two independent production companies; Avanti Media based in Cardiff and Nine Lives Media located in Manchester who would be producing the show for the next three years as a co-production. Songs of Praise Songs of Praise is a BBC Television religious programme that presents Christian hymns that first aired in October 1961. Since 2016 it has been presented by many people, including former ""BBC Breakfast"" co-presenter Bill Turnbull and ""Good Morning Britain"" sports editor Sean Fletcher. The first edition was broadcast from the"
"series regulars Philip and Julie Martin, while Ben Nicholas reprised his role as Stingray Timmins. The first episode of the five-part series was released on 30 October 2017. Several records were released in the 1980s. The ""Neighbours"" theme tune sung by Barry Crocker was released by BBC Records in 1988. It reached a peak of 84 on the UK Singles Chart. The Angry Anderson power ballad ""Suddenly"" which was featured in ""Episode 523"" was released in 1987, while the show's love theme ""In Your Arms"" by Lynne Hamilton was released in 1989. ""Suddenly"" was later covered by Sam Clark in"
"""Goodies"" episodes, in which ""Monty Python's Flying Circus"" was either parodied or to, included the following: The Goodies (TV series) The Goodies is a British television comedy series shown in the 1970s and early 1980s. The series, which combines surreal sketches and situation comedy, was broadcast by BBC 2 from 1970 to 1980. One seven-episode series was made for ITV company LWT and shown in 1981-82. The show was co-written by and starred Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie (together known as ""The Goodies""). Bill Oddie also wrote the music and songs for the series, while ""The Goodies Theme"""
"Muzika, the music production company he formed with several other former members of Devo including his brother, Bob Mothersbaugh. Mothersbaugh composed ""Having Trouble Sneezing"", the distinctive music in the award-winning ""Get a Mac"" commercials for Apple Inc. He composed the score for the first season of the television series ""Big Love"" but was replaced after one season by David Byrne of Talking Heads. Mothersbaugh has also composed the theme music for the American television show ""Eureka"", broadcast on the Syfy channel. He also composed the score of the Cartoon Network's TV series ""Regular Show"". In 2013, Mothersbaugh appeared on an"
"a UK comedy-drama television series starring Russ Abbot and Michael Williams which ran for three series between 1993 and 1995. The music was also used for the credits British sitcom in the television series ""May to December"" (a quote from the opening line of the song), which ran for 39 episodes, from 2 April 1989 to 27 May 1994 on BBC One. It was covered by Anjelica Huston (Huston's granddaughter) in an episode of the NBC musical series Smash(S01.ep14). The BBC Radiophonic Workshop recorded a cover of September Song, which was commonly used in intervals on both BBC1 and BBC2."