Toast of London was created by Arthur Matthews and Matt Berry, who also stars in the series. The show's central character, Steven Toast, is a washed-up actor who is determined to prove to everyone he is the world's greatest actor. This comedy has run for three seasons now and was signed on for another in 2017 by Channel 4. Since 2020, a YouTube channel has been releasing new audio skits.
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Apart from Toast's quest for validation, the series follows his interactions with the acting community and industry, a majority of who disown him, including his archnemesis Ray Purchase (Harry Peacock), whose wife occasionally cheats on him with Toast. The series has been hailed for its broad and ludicrous humor, indelible acting, and novelty musical numbers.
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Apart from Toast's quest for validation, the series follows his interactions with the acting community and industry, a majority of who disown him, including his archnemesis Ray Purchase (Harry Peacock), whose wife occasionally cheats on him with Toast. The series has been hailed for its broad and ludicrous humor, indelible acting, and novelty musical numbers.
- 7/31/2020
- ScreenRant.com
Catherine Pearson Jan 25, 2018
11 recommended TV comedies streaming on Netflix UK that feel like a much-needed warm hug…
It’s that time of year again. It’s cold and miserable outside but instead of the luxury of having chocolate coins and mulled wine for breakfast, you’re back to grabbing a swift bowl of cereal before heading out the door to work.
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January may go on for absolutely bloomin’ ever, but luckily we’re on hand to help. Here is a run-down of cosy comedies old and new streaming on Netflix UK to put a smile on your face and a skip in your step. So, get yourself a nice warm cuppa, throw on a blanket and indulge in the pure silliness of some of these great shows.
Toast Of London
Did someone say Matt Berry? Well,...
11 recommended TV comedies streaming on Netflix UK that feel like a much-needed warm hug…
It’s that time of year again. It’s cold and miserable outside but instead of the luxury of having chocolate coins and mulled wine for breakfast, you’re back to grabbing a swift bowl of cereal before heading out the door to work.
See related Hard Sun episode 3 review Hard Sun episode 2 review Hard Sun episode 1 review
January may go on for absolutely bloomin’ ever, but luckily we’re on hand to help. Here is a run-down of cosy comedies old and new streaming on Netflix UK to put a smile on your face and a skip in your step. So, get yourself a nice warm cuppa, throw on a blanket and indulge in the pure silliness of some of these great shows.
Toast Of London
Did someone say Matt Berry? Well,...
- 1/23/2018
- Den of Geek
Will there be more Toast of London? Recently, co-creator and star Matt Berry told BBC Radio there will be a fourth season of the UK TV show, Deadline reports.The comedy, which airs on Netflix in the U.S., stars Berry as Steven Toast, an egocentric, middle-aged actor who thinks he's the talk of the town. The cast also includes Doon Mackichan, Roberth Bathurst, Harry Peacock, Tim Downie, and Shazad Latif. Jon Hamm, Jude Law, and Martin Freeman have guest starred.Read More…...
- 11/25/2017
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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To celebrate the release of Toast of London Series Three on DVD, available to own from 26th December 2015, we have 3 copies to give away.
The third series of the BAFTA® and Rose d’Or winning comedy, Toast Of London, sees Matt Berry play Steven Toast, an eccentric actor with a chequered past who spends more time dealing with problems off stage than performing on it. Written by Arthur Mathews and Matt Berry, the supporting cast includes Doon Mackichan, Robert Bathurst, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Harry Peacock.
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To celebrate the release of Toast of London Series Three on DVD, available to own from 26th December 2015, we have 3 copies to give away.
The third series of the BAFTA® and Rose d’Or winning comedy, Toast Of London, sees Matt Berry play Steven Toast, an eccentric actor with a chequered past who spends more time dealing with problems off stage than performing on it. Written by Arthur Mathews and Matt Berry, the supporting cast includes Doon Mackichan, Robert Bathurst, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Harry Peacock.
Pre-order Toast of London – Series Three here http://amzn.to/1NXdGaT
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- 12/21/2015
- by Laura Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Katherine Parkinson has revealed she almost said no to the critically acclaimed sci-fi thriller Humans.
The actress said that it was her husband Harry Peacock who persuaded her to play Laura in the Channel 4 and AMC series.
"Honestly I am so pleased I didn't say no to it," she told the Sunday Mirror. "I said to my husband that it was going to be a no, then over the weekend he had started reading the script and was like, 'Darling, you need to do this, it is really very good'."
Having just given birth, Parkinson used an electric pump to breastfeed while filming.
"I was using it next to Colin Morgan in the make-up chair - one of the sexiest actors ever. And I'm trying to feel like a woman next to him, but the noise it makes, good God."
Parkinson praised the work of the actors playing the synths in the series,...
The actress said that it was her husband Harry Peacock who persuaded her to play Laura in the Channel 4 and AMC series.
"Honestly I am so pleased I didn't say no to it," she told the Sunday Mirror. "I said to my husband that it was going to be a no, then over the weekend he had started reading the script and was like, 'Darling, you need to do this, it is really very good'."
Having just given birth, Parkinson used an electric pump to breastfeed while filming.
"I was using it next to Colin Morgan in the make-up chair - one of the sexiest actors ever. And I'm trying to feel like a woman next to him, but the noise it makes, good God."
Parkinson praised the work of the actors playing the synths in the series,...
- 9/20/2015
- Digital Spy
12 year old Lucy Hutchinson stars as a young Emma Kennedy in a new family comedy set in the 1970s coming to BBC On at the end of September.
Lucy (represented by A&J Management) made her screen debut as young April in the Emmy-award winning Dustbin Baby and has gone on to appear in various TV roles including Eastenders, Little Crackers, The Poison Tree and Dani's Castle. She also played Scout in the Regent's Park Open Air Production of To Kill A Mockingbird.
The Kennedys is a six-part aspirational family comedy loosely based on actress, writer and TV presenter Emma Kennedy's memoirs ‘The Tent, The Bucket and Me.’ Each episode is introduced by Emma Kennedy, played by Lucy, a 10-year-old Star Wars obsessed tom-boy who is happy to tag along with her much-loved parents, Brenda and Tony Kennedy played by Katherine Parkinson and Dan Skinner.
The Kennedy family have...
Lucy (represented by A&J Management) made her screen debut as young April in the Emmy-award winning Dustbin Baby and has gone on to appear in various TV roles including Eastenders, Little Crackers, The Poison Tree and Dani's Castle. She also played Scout in the Regent's Park Open Air Production of To Kill A Mockingbird.
The Kennedys is a six-part aspirational family comedy loosely based on actress, writer and TV presenter Emma Kennedy's memoirs ‘The Tent, The Bucket and Me.’ Each episode is introduced by Emma Kennedy, played by Lucy, a 10-year-old Star Wars obsessed tom-boy who is happy to tag along with her much-loved parents, Brenda and Tony Kennedy played by Katherine Parkinson and Dan Skinner.
The Kennedy family have...
- 9/10/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Channel 4 knows it's onto a good thing with Matt Berry's Toast Of London, which has just been renewed for series 3...
Here's some cheering news for comedy fans: Matt Berry's ace, critically acclaimed sitcom Toast Of London is returning to Channel 4 for a third run.
The series, which has been an awards magnet since its one-off debut episode arrived as part of Channel 4's Funny Fortnight in 2012, follows the adventures of actor Stephen Toast (Berry) and co-stars Doon Mackichan, Robert Bathurst, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Harry Peacock.
Toast Of London recently concluded its second series on Channel 4, with its first episode having drawn a consolidated audience of 582k, rising to over 1 milllion with the addition of the Friday night repeat. Those numbers and a heap of goodwill obviously made Channel 4's decision for them, and hooray for that.
Six new episodes written by Matt Berry...
Here's some cheering news for comedy fans: Matt Berry's ace, critically acclaimed sitcom Toast Of London is returning to Channel 4 for a third run.
The series, which has been an awards magnet since its one-off debut episode arrived as part of Channel 4's Funny Fortnight in 2012, follows the adventures of actor Stephen Toast (Berry) and co-stars Doon Mackichan, Robert Bathurst, Tracy-Ann Oberman and Harry Peacock.
Toast Of London recently concluded its second series on Channel 4, with its first episode having drawn a consolidated audience of 582k, rising to over 1 milllion with the addition of the Friday night repeat. Those numbers and a heap of goodwill obviously made Channel 4's decision for them, and hooray for that.
Six new episodes written by Matt Berry...
- 12/9/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
The British Comedy Awards 2014 nominations have been revealed.
Matt Berry's Toast of London is up for six awards, while Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse's Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos has four nominations.
Berry himself has three nominations, including Best TV Comedy Actor and new category Best Internet Comedy Short.
The BBC's Would I Lie to You? receives four nominations, as team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack find themselves both up for Best Male TV Comic.
Berry, Enfield and Whitehouse are up against The Wrong Mans' Mathew Baynton in the Best TV Comedy Actor category, while Alan Carr will need to defend his Best Comedy Entertainment Personality title from Graham Norton, Ant & Dec and Adam Hills.
This year's ceremony has introduced two new categories - Best Internet Comedy Short and Best Comedy Moment of 2014. Best Comedy Film and Best International Comedy Programme have also made a return to the line-up,...
Matt Berry's Toast of London is up for six awards, while Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse's Harry and Paul's Story of the Twos has four nominations.
Berry himself has three nominations, including Best TV Comedy Actor and new category Best Internet Comedy Short.
The BBC's Would I Lie to You? receives four nominations, as team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack find themselves both up for Best Male TV Comic.
Berry, Enfield and Whitehouse are up against The Wrong Mans' Mathew Baynton in the Best TV Comedy Actor category, while Alan Carr will need to defend his Best Comedy Entertainment Personality title from Graham Norton, Ant & Dec and Adam Hills.
This year's ceremony has introduced two new categories - Best Internet Comedy Short and Best Comedy Moment of 2014. Best Comedy Film and Best International Comedy Programme have also made a return to the line-up,...
- 11/10/2014
- Digital Spy
Should you be watching Matt Berry comedy show Toast Of London on Channel 4? In the words of Stephen Toast... Yes!
Did you know that musical star Michael Ball has double the amount of blood in his body as that of the average human? It's what allows him to belt out those big notes.
If you watched Series 1 of Toast Of London then you'll already know that's true.
But if you didn't know and didn't watch, then that's entirely not your fault. After a strong pilot, Channel 4 took the first series of Matt Berry and Arthur Matthews' comedy about failing actor Steven Toast (Berry) and buried it in the late hour soil of Sunday nights, in a time slot so obscure you'd need a TV guide, compass, shovel, and remote to find it.
Fortunately the Rose D'Or committee still managed to unearth it on 4Od - no doubt...
Did you know that musical star Michael Ball has double the amount of blood in his body as that of the average human? It's what allows him to belt out those big notes.
If you watched Series 1 of Toast Of London then you'll already know that's true.
But if you didn't know and didn't watch, then that's entirely not your fault. After a strong pilot, Channel 4 took the first series of Matt Berry and Arthur Matthews' comedy about failing actor Steven Toast (Berry) and buried it in the late hour soil of Sunday nights, in a time slot so obscure you'd need a TV guide, compass, shovel, and remote to find it.
Fortunately the Rose D'Or committee still managed to unearth it on 4Od - no doubt...
- 11/5/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
The first image of Josh Homme in Toast of London has been revealed exclusively by Digital Spy.
The Queens of the Stone Age musician, posing with Morgana Robinson and Matt Berry, will star in the final episode of series two.
Homme will play a love rival for Steven Toast (Berry), in the series finale 'Fool In Love', due to air December 8.
Toast of London follows Toast, a classically-trained actor living in Soho, as he tries to get the relationship, job and life he thinks he deserves.
The opening episode of series two will see Toast becoming obsessed with winning a "Celebrities and Prostitutes Blow Football Tournament", and battle against his arch-rival Ray Purchase (Harry Peacock) to claim first place.
Toast of London will return on Monday, November 3 at 10.35pm on Channel 4.
Watch a clip from series one below:...
The Queens of the Stone Age musician, posing with Morgana Robinson and Matt Berry, will star in the final episode of series two.
Homme will play a love rival for Steven Toast (Berry), in the series finale 'Fool In Love', due to air December 8.
Toast of London follows Toast, a classically-trained actor living in Soho, as he tries to get the relationship, job and life he thinks he deserves.
The opening episode of series two will see Toast becoming obsessed with winning a "Celebrities and Prostitutes Blow Football Tournament", and battle against his arch-rival Ray Purchase (Harry Peacock) to claim first place.
Toast of London will return on Monday, November 3 at 10.35pm on Channel 4.
Watch a clip from series one below:...
- 10/27/2014
- Digital Spy
Digital Spy presents The Best TV Shows You Might Have Missed - a celebration of television's underrated gems, undiscovered wonders and future hits.
Toast of London
The brainchild of Matt Berry and Father Ted co-creator Arthur Matthews, Toast of London largely flew under the radar when it aired on Channel 4 last autumn. With the second series soon upon us, there's no better time than now to take a look back at the funniest sitcom you've probably never heard of.
Berry, a veteran of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and The It Crowd, takes on the lead role of Steven Toast, a British thespian whose best days are long behind him. A vain and egotistical actor, he's at rock bottom thanks to a divorce (Amanda Donohue crops up as his ex-wife) and a starring role in a play that's so offensive the public want to see him dead.
This might sound like...
Toast of London
The brainchild of Matt Berry and Father Ted co-creator Arthur Matthews, Toast of London largely flew under the radar when it aired on Channel 4 last autumn. With the second series soon upon us, there's no better time than now to take a look back at the funniest sitcom you've probably never heard of.
Berry, a veteran of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and The It Crowd, takes on the lead role of Steven Toast, a British thespian whose best days are long behind him. A vain and egotistical actor, he's at rock bottom thanks to a divorce (Amanda Donohue crops up as his ex-wife) and a starring role in a play that's so offensive the public want to see him dead.
This might sound like...
- 10/4/2014
- Digital Spy
Is there any crime more heinous than witholding telly teasers and TV air-dates from the masses?
Fear not, for we've survived our latest tussle with taciturn PRs and tight-lipped celebs and emerged with another seven days' worth of scoop. Read on, faithful followers!
Do Universal have the rights to the second season of Sleepy Hollow?
Yes siree bob - this brilliantly bonkers fantasy series was a big hit for Universal in the UK, with the channel quickly snapping up the rights to the extended, 18-part second season.
Dates are subject to change, but a season two launch has been tentatively pencilled in for Wednesday, October 15 at 9pm - just a little over three weeks after the new episodes make their Us premiere, which ain't too shabby.
Is there any news on whether the From Dusk till Dawn TV spinoff will air in the UK?
It's unlikely - though Netflix original...
Fear not, for we've survived our latest tussle with taciturn PRs and tight-lipped celebs and emerged with another seven days' worth of scoop. Read on, faithful followers!
Do Universal have the rights to the second season of Sleepy Hollow?
Yes siree bob - this brilliantly bonkers fantasy series was a big hit for Universal in the UK, with the channel quickly snapping up the rights to the extended, 18-part second season.
Dates are subject to change, but a season two launch has been tentatively pencilled in for Wednesday, October 15 at 9pm - just a little over three weeks after the new episodes make their Us premiere, which ain't too shabby.
Is there any news on whether the From Dusk till Dawn TV spinoff will air in the UK?
It's unlikely - though Netflix original...
- 9/4/2014
- Digital Spy
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