Toast
I really hope the BBC recommissions Toast of Tinseltown. I know it's only February but I'm pretty sure it will rank as one of my TV highlights of the year when I get to do a round up in eleven months.
There aren't that many TV comedies that I make a point of watching old school when they go out but Toast of Tinseltown is one of them. And that's despite the fact that I've already binged on it on iPlayer. In fact in a way it's because I've binged on it on iPlayer. The scripts, by Matt Berry and Arthur Mathews, are so densely packed with verbal and visual gags it's worth watching twice just to pick up on funnies I've missed first time round.
After his successful run on C4 it's a new channel for Matt Berry's hapless, deluded actor Steven Toast and a location change afoot, hence the title. But first there's some housekeeping to do with Toast still in London, still bellowing at the top of his voice and still missing out on jobs to his moustachioed nemesis, Ray Bloody Purchase (Harry Peacock).
Steven Toast (Matt Berry), actor, voice-over artist, and legend of the London theatrical scene, has reached PEAK ANGER. After a final, very violent, confrontation with his old nemesis Ray Purchase (Harry Peacock), he decides to head off for a new life in the US of A, where he has been promised a ‘leading role’ in a major Hollywood franchise movie.
Beyond The Joke has learnt more details about the forthcoming BBC series Toast of Tinseltown which finds boomy voiced thespian Steven Toast, played by Matt Berry, trying to establish himself in Los Angeles.
This first episode of the new series, which starts on January 4 a 10pm on BBC Two, finds Toast visiting an anger management specialist played by his fellow What We Do In The Shadows star, Kayvan Novak. There are also reports that another What We Do In The Shadows star, Natasia Demetriou, also makes an appearance.
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