Richie Webb and Matt Katz

15 Minute Musical Wins!

noreply@blogger.com (Richie) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:17:00 +0000

Blimey - 15 Minute Musical has only gone and won the 2009 Writers' Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy. Get in.

You know me, I'm not one to blow my own trumpet but you can read about it here and here and here. And I shall be mentioning it at every conceivable opportunity between now and the end of time.

No doubt CD sales of the will increase dramatically - get series 3 and 4 at heavily discounted rates here.

November News and Nominations

noreply@blogger.com (Richie) — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:24:00 +0000

Just about done on Horrible Histories (which is up for two BAFTAs no less), Ed and Oucho and Bamzooki - which I'm also the commentator on - all of which will hit the screens at some point over the next few months. Now starting up on eight songs for We Are Mongrels for BBC3 and finally getting round to writing my new radio series, the Music Teacher.

I think I'm about to break the eighty songs so far this year barrier. There's only so many combinations of C F and G7, you know, so that's pretty good going. Good job I learnt A minor this summer.

In other 'blow your own trumpet' news my radio 4 show 15 Minute Musical has been nominated for a 2009 Writers' Guild Award in the Radio Comedy/Light Entertainment category, which is particularly nice what with it being judged by fellow writers. All of whom I have slept with coincidentally.

August News

noreply@blogger.com (Richie) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:03:00 +0000

It's been a frantic few months - hence the lack of updating. Suffice is to say My Almost Famous Family is largely responsible. But now it's over and the 30+ songs I wrote for it should be hitting CBBC screens in September.

In other news pretty much every show we worked on last year has been recommissioned - so say hello to new series of Bear Behaving Badly, Ed and Oucho's Excellent Inventions and Horrible Histories, all for CBBC. We've also done other bits and bobs recently for Mitchell and Webb on Radio 4 and The Fluffy Club on GMTV.

Stuff I'm really looking forward to in the coming months: songs for We Are Mongrels for BBC3 - an adult puppet comedy about a fox, a hound, a street cat and a sarcastic pigeon - doing the music and voice-over for the re-invented Bamzooki for CBBC and finally starting work on my new series for Radio 4, The Music Teacher - which I'm making through our own Production Company - Top Dog. Oh, and going on holiday, I'm looking forward to that.

April News

noreply@blogger.com (Richie) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:45:00 +0000

Ooooh. It's been a while, hasn't it? And that's mainly because CBBC's My Almost Famous Family has been keeping my alternately busy/awake at night. There's lots to do - we're in the middle of filming at the moment - and with three or four songs per episode plus lots of other musical sequences there's not a lot of time for much else to be honest.

The fruits of our recent labours can currently be seen on screen: Horrible Histories and Ed and Oucho; Bear Behaving Badly and The Fluffy Club; they're all on various channels at various times so, you know, tune in. And the third series of That Mitchell and Webb Look should hit the airwaves soon - there's been a best of series 2 repackaging preceding it - so look out for that. We did some funny harpsichord music if I remember rightly.

February News

noreply@blogger.com (Richie) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:51:00 +0000

I've just begun work as Musical Director on a big project for CBBC that'll keep me out of trouble till the summer. Currently called 'My Almost Famous Family', it's a 12 part sit-com about a family that all play together as the house band on a chat show. I'm quite excited by it.

That means that my all-new radio series -The Music Teacher -that I've had commissioned through our Production Company, Top Dog, will now probably be written and recorded later in the year for delivery to Radio 4 for January 2010. I'm quite excited by that, as well.

Other bits and bobs that myself and Mr Katz have been up to include music and songs for a comedy pilot for CBBC stars Sam and Mark, a slightly random arrangement of the 1982 ITV World Cup Theme for a BBC4 panel game 'We Need Answers' - I don't really know why - and a backing track for the 'Two Pints of Lager' crowd to sing along to for Comic Relief on March 13th. It's very rude. Not my fault, your honour.

January News

noreply@blogger.com (Richie) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:19:00 +0000

... and a happy new year.

I'm currently in the middle of writing songs for and appearing in David Quantick's Radio 4 show, Broken Arts - which starts going out in the highly sought-after 6.30 slot from Tuesday 13th January. Tune in if you're keen to hear Gilbert and Sullivan's triumphant return from the dead. And tune in if you're not.

I've also just written and recorded a song for a fantastic new BBC3 pilot called 'We Are Mongrels' - a show billed as the world's first urban, multi-species, adult puppet comedy. Oh yes. I wrote a R n B love song for a cat to sing to his recently removed testicles. It's a must see.

15 Minute Musical - series 5

noreply@blogger.com (Richie) — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:39:00 +0000

The fifth series of my radio show 15 Minute Musical starts going out on Radio 4 on Wednesdays at 11pm from the 5th November. For six - count them - weeks. Obviously I don't expect anyone to stay up that late but should you feel the need to hear music and jokes - OFTEN AT THE SAME TIME - then please seek out the show via the BBC iplayer.

The Observer said the series 'kicks off in fine style' - which leaves only one way to go, clearly, and The Sunday Times said it was 'rather clever'. I'd have preferred 'funny' but there you go. Other previews can be found here and here.

This series features various combinations of me, Dave Lamb, Vicki Pepperdine, Mel Hudson and Jess Robinson and includes the following episodes:

5/11 - 'Washington High School Musical' - Barack Obama competes to become President of Washington High

12/11 - 'Sweary Todd' - Gordon Ramsay stars as The Demon Carver of Meat Street.

19/11 - 'We're All Going On An Olympic Odyssey' - with Boris Johnson at the wheel of a Routemaster bus.

26/11 - 'Cleggerella' - Nick Clegg's (who?) dreams come true in a makeover fairytale.

3/12 - 'Pappa Pia' - Piers Morgan searches for his real father. Turns out he's a bastard.

10/12 - 'A Christmas Gordon' - the ghosts of Prime Ministers past, present and future come knocking at Ebenezer Brown's door.

There. I've finished. If you're still reading, thank you.

October News

noreply@blogger.com (Richie) — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:17:00 +0000

Series 5 of '15 Minute Musical' is all recorded - many thanks to all of you who attended the recordings, they were an awful lot of fun. We're in the process of editing them, and they're sounding great. They go to air from Wednesday 5th November at 11.00pm on Radio 4.

The Fluffy Club also started going out this month - early mornings at the weekend simultaneously on GMTV and CITV from 25th October. If you have children of a certain age I'm sure you'll come to love my delirious 'Wake Up' song blasting into your living room at 6.00am.

We're in the middle of songs and stuff for Ed and Oucho's CBBC Science-based comedy at the moment and I'm about to embark on some comedy songs for David Quantick's new Radio 4 show, Broken Arts - which will be recording in December.

15 Minute Musical on CD again

noreply@blogger.com (Richie) — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:34:00 +0000

If two year old musical satire is your thing - and for God's sake why wouldn't it be? - then you'll be delighted to know the BBC have tardily released series three of my radio series 15 Minute Musical.

Buy it here. It'll perfectly complement series four that you'll have clearly already bought.

Look out for series 2 release three years late next year. I'm not joking.

September news

noreply@blogger.com (Richie) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:52:00 +0000

It's quite busy here at Webbkatz Towers. Here's what we're currently up to:

Putting the finishing touches to the backing tracks for series 5 of my radio 4 show 15 Minute Musical, which I'm recording at The Drill Hall on the 24th Sept and the 8th and 22nd Oct. Remarkably, all the tickets have gone for the first recording but you can still get them for the other two here.

We're also working on music for a number of new children's shows which will see the light of day over the coming months, including a theme tune package and 12 songs for Horrible His tories for Lion TV, more of the same for Ed and Oucho's Excellent Inventions for CBBC, and having just finished work on the second series of Bear Behaving Badly for Darrall MacQueen, we're working with them once more on GMTV's new pre-school strand The Fluffy Club, which if nothing else is a great title.

And once again we're doing some odd bits and bobs for series 3 of That Mitchell and Webb Look. No relation, by the way. Although if I had a pound for everytime someone rings me up to offer me a job thinking I'm Robert Webb I'd be three pounds better off.

Nev The Bear On DVD

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:27:00 +0000

We are once again providing the musical backdrop to Nev's on screen antics for Darrall Macqueen's second series of Bear Behaving Badly (currently in production). Meanwhile, you can get your fix of Nev and Crazy Keith anywhere, anytime by simply purchasing the new Bear Behaving Badly DVD...

Vote For Headcases

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:53:00 +0000

Yet more self promotion (and the outside chance of another award ceremony)

Please take 2 minutes to vote for Headcases in the most popular comedy show category at this year’s National Television Awards. Click on the link below and skip through to category 3. You'll need to skip through the rest and submit an email address too.

http://www.nationaltvawards.com

Ta

15 Minute Musical on CD

noreply@blogger.com (Richie) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:24:00 +0000

While I'm in the mood for gratuitous self-promotion, why not treat yourself - and everyone you know - to the CD of the fourth series of my radio show '15 Minute Musical'.

You can buy it here

Or get one off ebay for about 8p.

Headcases DVD

noreply@blogger.com (Richie) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:07:00 +0000

Having spent most of our waking hours working on Headcases this year, I am more than comfortable shamelessly promoting the sale of the DVD of series 1. We wrote the theme and all the incidental music and I wrote all the songs with a variety of writers including David Quantick and Dan Maier.

Buy it at Play.com

Or simply enjoy the extended jazz-fusion remix of the theme tune...

Video Showreel

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:54:00 +0000

To get us started here is our old video showreel - the new one will be along any minute...

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:38:00 +0000

Welcome to the new WebbKatz website. We've decided to present it as a blog in order to make content updating as easy as possible.

Richie and Matt - Recent Credits

noreply@blogger.com (Matt) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:34:00 +0000

2010

We Are Mongrels – series 1, BBC3

That Mitchell and Webb Look – series 4, BBC2

2009

Bamzooki Streetrules – series 1, CBBC

Horrible Histories – series 2, Lion Television for CBBC

Ed and Oucho's Excellent Inventions – series 2, CBBC

Bear Behaving Badly – series 3, Darrall MacQueen for CBBC

The Fluffy Club – Darrall MacQueen for GMTV

Look Away Now – series 3, BBC R4

That Mitchell and Webb Look – series 3, BBC2

My Almost Famous Family – CBBC

Abi Hour – pilot, BBC R4

Two Pints of Lager – Comic Relief Special, BBC3

Class – pilot, CBBC

We Need Answers – BBC4

We Are Mongrels – pilot, BBC3

Broken Arts – series 1, BBC R4

2008
15 Minute Musical – series 5, BBC R4

The Fluffy Club – series 1, Darrall MacQueen for GMTV

Ed and Oucho's Excellent Inventions – series 1, CBBC
Coming Of Age – series 1, BBC3
Horrible Histories – series 1, Lion Television for CBBC
Bear Behaving Badly – series 2, Darrall MacQueen for CBBC
Headcases – series 1, ITV
Look Away Now – series 2, BBC R4
Happy Birthday Brucie, BBC1
Brainbox Challenge – series 1, BBC2

2007
15 Minute Musical – series 4, BBC R4
Radio 4 This Is Your Life, BBC R4
That Mitchell and Webb Look – series 2, BBC2
Jackanory Junior – series 2, Cbeebies
Bear Behaving Badly – series 1, Darrall MacQueen for CBBC
Look Away Now – series 1, BBC R4
Blue Peter, CBBC
Springwatch, CBBC
The Spiritual Centre, BBC R4
Today, BBC R4
Parsons and Naylor – series 9, BBC R2
Dead Ringers – series 7, BBC1
Comedy:Shuffle – series 1, BBC3

2006
15 Minute Musical – 30 minute special, BBCR4
15 Minute Musical – series 3, BBC R4
Jackanory Junior – series 1, Cbeebies
Gina’s Laughing Gear – CBBC
Autumn Watch – Cbeebies
That Mitchell and Webb Look – series 1, BBC2
Dead Ringers – series 6, BBC1
The Virgin Diaries, Tiger Aspect for MTV
The Day The Music Died – BBC R4
28 Acts in 28 Minutes – BBC R4
Doodle Do, Cbeebies
Bamzooki – series 3, CBBC

2005
15 Minute Musical – series 2, BBC R4
Parsons and Naylor – series 8, BBC R2
Stupid – series 2, CBBC
Dead Ringers – series 5, BBC1

Smart:Africa – CBBC
The Hudson and Pepperdine Show – series 4, BBC R4
Miles Jupp’s Real World – BBC R4
That Mitchell and Webb Sound – series 2, BBC R4
Bamzooki – series 2, CBBC

2004
15 Minute Musical – series 1, BBC R4
Bamzooki – series 2, CBBC
Claire In The Community, BBC R4
Stupid – series 1, CBBC
SM:TV – series 6, Zenith Entertainment for ITV
The Hudson and Pepperdine Show – series 3, BBC R4
Bamzooki – series 1, CBBC
Parsons and Naylor – series 6&7, BBC R2