Michael Cumming

Tortured thespian Steven Toast relocates to the ultimate actor’s playground – Hollywood. Surely this time he will get the adulation he so richly deserves.

“Toast of London” is a British comedic series that centers around Steven Toast, an unconventional actor in his middle years. With a colorful history, he finds himself more often entangled…

Brass Eye is a UK television series of satirical news magazines. A series of six episodes aired on Channel 4 in 1997, and a further episode in 2001. The series was created by Chris Morris, and written by Morris, David Quantick, Peter Baynham, Jane Bussmann, Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan. The series was directed by Michael Cumming. It was a sequel to Morris’s earlier spoof news programmes On the Hour and The Day Today. It satirised media portrayal of social ills, in particular sensationalism and creation of moral panics. The series starred Morris’s The Day Today colleague Doon MacKichan and…