Victoria Wood with All The Trimmings

Infobox British television
show_name = Victoria Wood with All The Trimmings


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genre = Comedy
picture format = 4:3 full screen
runtime = 55 minutes
creator = Victoria Wood
starring = Victoria Wood
Julie Walters
Celia Imrie
Susie Blake
Anne Reid
Maxine Peake
country = United Kingdom
network = BBC One
first_aired = December 25, 2000
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num_episodes = 1
producer = Geoff Posner
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imdb_id = 0272343
tv_com_id = A one-off Christmas comedy sketch show special written by and starring comedienne Victoria Wood. It was broadcast on BBC1 on Christmas Day 2000.

Lasting 55 minutes, the show is described by "RDF", its rights holders as "a great big Christmas pudding of a show, stuffed full of stars in plum roles. Wonderfully funny sketches, brilliant pastiches and tons of celebrities. If you like your comedy roasting on an open fire this is one not to miss." [cite web
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Also appearing were Wood's regular co-stars Celia Imrie, Julie Walters, Anne Reid and Maxine Peake.

It also featured an enormous number of guest celebrity appearances such as Caroline Aherne, James Bolam, Betty Boothroyd, June Brown, Craig Cash, Roger Cook, Lindsay Duncan, Hannah Gordon, Richard E Grant, Philip Jackson, Derek Jacobi, Hugh Laurie, Robert Lindsay, Geraldine McEwan, Bob Monkhouse, Roger Moore, Michael Parkinson, Bill Paterson, Billie Piper, Pete Postlethwaite, Alan Rickman, Angela Rippon, Kate Robbins, Ted Robbins, Delia Smith, Kathy Staff, Imelda Staunton, Alan Titchmarsh, Ian Watkins, Honeysuckle Weeks, Penelope Wilton, Anna Wing and Bernard Wrigley. [cite web
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accessdate =2007-09-16] Wood said of the casting "I had a great long list of all the people I really liked. I wrote to the first 14 or so - and they all said yes. So I thought, 'oh, bloody hell - I've got to write it now."cite web
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The show was described by the BBC itself in 2000 as "the centrepiece of BBC One's Christmas Day schedules". Wood responded to this accolade by saying "it's a very strange feeling - but it's got to be someone, hasn't it?" The show was made straight after Wood had finished work on her sitcom "dinnerladies". She said "I was worn out from doing "dinnerladies" and it took me a long time to recover. "It was great to do but it was very draining....the last 10 "dinnerladies" I did in a really, really short time and I was ill at one point. This Christmas special was much easier to write because it was in bits."

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