July 2008: Wo0T! 4mations, Channel 4's new animation website, have commissioned us to produce four 90 second cartoons featuring a brand new character. Which is nice. And paid. Hehe. I hope August is really rainy or we'll never get 'em done. Designed by the insanely talented illustrator Gus Hughes, the shorts will feature... a sausage. Honestly. More on this soon...

July 2008: Shooting has wrapped on Come Back, James' 5 minute lottery-funded biblical epic. Can't say too much about it, but it does feature a pigeon, a big knife and a bare arse (not necessarily in the same shot). More news as the film gets nearer to completion.

July 2008: James produced six short animations for a new show on BBC3. It's called FAO3. Dunno when it's on. He made them in April but forgot to tell anybody about it. He's a wally.

June 2008: James and George shot, edited and uploaded a short film using a mobile phone, as part of Motorola's DirectorME competition: Creme de Menthe.

June 2008: James shot three short viral thingies to publicise the lovely Mr Bob Fischer's new book, Wiffle Lever to Full. You can see them here. Never have so many vanilla slices been consumed for so great a cause.

May 2008: Shameless Films have been nominated for Best Sketch Comedy Web Show and Series at the Rooftop Comedy Festival Awards in Aspen, Colorado. This award recognizes the best and funniest on-going comedy web show or series.

March 2008: Moon Shot UK gets a 'U' certificate from the BBFC. Their full judgement (with SPOILER ALERT): MOON SHOT UK is a comic short film about a man who claims to have landed on the moon but is clearly on a British beach. The man has an unrealistic bloody bandage on his head but there is no sight of injury and this was not sufficient in this light-hearted context to warrant anything above a 'U' category. This work was passed with no cuts made. The certification means the film can now be shown in digital cinemas.

March 2008: We just made our first non-mock documentary. NFM asked us to take a look at Middlesbrough's AV 08 festival. See what we found: AV08.

Jan 2008: A bunch of our stuff is being screened on Totally Viral 2, a show on channel Dave.

Jan 2008: My Brother & I has been posted on the BBC's Comedy Shuffle blog. "It's always nice to see what Shameless Films have been up to." Aw.

Jan 2007: More festival stuff! January 11th 2008 Moon Shot UK is being screened twice at the London Short Film Festival, 11th Jan, Lo-Budget Mayhem, ICA, London, 8.45pm and 12th Jan, DepicT! screening, ICA, London, 6pm

Dec 2007: New Shameless Christmas films up at NorthEastMovies! Family Christmas. And Boxing Day. A Mele Kalikimaka from all at Shameless Towers!

Dec 2007: Simon - Dirty Dishes made it into 4Laughs Top 10 Videos 2007. "This was a fab little comedy quickie..."

Nov 2007: Moon Shot UK got a special mention at the DepicT! Awards.

Oct 2007: The DepicT! Award (Encounters Festival competition for films under 90 seconds long) shortlist has just gone live, and Moon Shot UK is on there, and if you were to watch the films and decide Moon Shot UK was the best, and were to vote for it, then if I win owt I'll thank you in my gushing, tearful, overlong acceptance speech. View the shortlisted films To be honest, I'm not sure it IS the best film, but don't let me sway you either way...

Oct 2007: North East Movies is now open for your viewing pleasure! You can upload and share your NE England-made films and ideas with the wider world whilst viewing other peoples films, and downloading them to a range of new media platforms, including mobile phone, I-Pod and PSP.

Moon Shot UK is up there, and if anyone was to vote for it, and if I, as a result, won a PSP, there'd be a verrrry good chance that such a voter could have a borrow for a couple of minutes...

Seriously.

August 2007: New film: MOON SHOT UK - the first English moon landing goes a bit skew-whiff. I still have the space suit.

August 2007: A review of Why I Hate Mechanics: Are you a jigsobian connoisseur? Will you be tickled by the abyss? Do you also hate mechanics? This random sketch show is performed by two very funny and quite charming men, with the aid of a plastic shark, a scotch egg and a satsuma. It all gets rather excitable, and climaxes with James serenading his comedy partner with a song entitled 'George, may I touch your elbow?'. Their sketches are quite unique; the pair perform well together, and they work hard to push the boundaries just beyond good taste. It's a relaxed venue as part of the Laughing Horse Free Festival, and the guys even bought the audience a drink... well a single can of premium lager got passed around. tw rating 3/5

July 2007: We have been a bit quiet this last month, but only because we've been so very busy doing Big Important Thangs. We've made a new short, Moon Shot Uk, which we'll be putting online soon. Some nice people gave us money to do it! We splurged most of it on a truly amazing space suit, which we get to keep - money well spent. And we've been planning our trip to Edinburgh. Hope we see you there!

June 2007: New film: My Brother & I, a heart-warming tale of yin, yang and making poverty history.

June 2007: Shark Attack! has won 4Laughs monthly sketch competition. You beauty!

May 2007: James is "user of the Week" on 4 Laughs: "The man seems like a veteran on the 4Laughs site now, but has only been with us for a matter of months. With a sack load of short, snappy, and blimmin' funny sketches, James has a built up somewhat of a cult fan base. The high quality humour of his numerous videos has never slipped, so it's difficult to pick out one particular highlight of his work, but for the sheer simplicity and execution of the gag we'd recommend you watch Simon: Dirty Dishes. You'll be able to keep an eye on James by checking back to the Pick of the Day where he's become a bit of a regular!" Gawrsh!

May 2007: New sketch: Shark Attack! It's a rough version of somthing we'll be doing at our Edinburgh show. (Why I Hate Mechanics, Hillside, 16th-25th Aug, 7.10pm - 7.55pm, funny.) Apologias for the accent. Australians make it look so easy.

April 2007: Simon is back on 4Laughs: Shameless Films have come up with another spectacularly surreal corker! Watch Simon: Frying Pan, and don't forget to have your say by rating the competition's entries.

April 2007: More DARTZ! Marcus did this video for Fantastic Apparatus.

February 2007: Thank you, Channel 4! "Simon: Dirty Dishes is one of the funniest things we've ever seen on 4Laughs." Link.

February 2007: "The Space Time Envelope" will be screened at Graham Poole's Film Night, at The Albany, London on February 28th. It's a new monthly evening of short films and live character comedy with David Armand, Adam Buxton, Gareth Tunley, Simon Farnaby, Waen Shepherd and Nick Tanner as film critic Graham Poole.

February 2006: James got interviewed for BBC Comedy Soup. Read his piffle here.

January 2007: We won the first Four Hour Film Challenge, run by Newcastle-based improv comedy troupe The Suggestibles and Northern Film and Media. We were given a game of Twister and the fine actor Alex Kinsey, and had to return four hours later with a finished film. Our entry Two or More Players was described as "funny" and "brave". We won a trophy. We have never won a trophy before. You can see the film HERE.

January 2007: The Prophecies of Nostradamus will be on Comedy Shuffle on Thursday 25th of January, 11pm, BBC3. You can watch it early online here. It also has Jimmy Carr and Colin and Fergus in it. Hey! For more Colin and Fergus, watch their 3 minute sci-fi epic The Space Time Envelope. Also: more Nostradamus.

December 2006: It's a Film, our 2006 Cobravision entry, will be on ITV3 on December 23rd, during the ad breaks for "Legal Eagles". All right!

December 2006: A new video for Dartz! Once Twice Again! (We're not shouting, that's how they spell it. Fingers crossed for more MTV exposure and suchlike. It's a really good song, too.

December 2006: Why I Hate Mechanics! A brand new comedy short exclusively on Rooftop Comedy. Go watch.

December 2006: Nostradamus will be on the BBC's Comedy Shuffle show - we've given them 6 cartoons, but we dunno how many they'll use.

December 2006: We have done a bunch of animations for a pilot show on MTV. Just thought we'd mention it. It might get on telly. Hooray.

December 2006: Mysteries of the Unexplained! Ufologist and moron Lesley Watkins stars in two brand new sketchlets on BBC Comedy Soup. Here is the other one.

November 2006: It's A Film! Our October Cobravision entry has won movie of the month. I think this means we get another crate of Cobra beer. Get in!

November 2006: New Sketch! made for the BBC's Comedy Shuffle Challenge. It's Colin Babyhead, a big man with a baby's head. Another winning Shameless Films high concept!

October 2006: Our screenplay "Sick Note" has come second in the NYC Midnight Screenwriters Challenge. It's got blood, a cricket bat, a P.E. teacher and more blood. And it's funny. Want to read it? Clickit.

October 2006: MTV2! Our video for St Petersburg by Dartz! will be screened on 120 Minutes from this week. Keep those motion-sickness tablets handy.

October 2006: Screenings! This month you can see "The Curse of Jeff" on Friday 13th at *popcorn not included, Enigma, Newcastle, and "The Answer Yam: Mo" in Colchester on Tuesday 10th at the Headgate Theatre, and Saturday 14th at the Arts Centre, as part of Signals 2006.

October 2006: Filmonik 19! We took our new film Why I Hate Mechanics down to Manchester's best open mic film night on Sunday 8th. It got cheers. Hurrah!

September 2006: Pop video! Made for the song "St Petersburg" by excellent new band Dartz! Comments from "the kids" have been overwhelmingly positive so far, and it's had a nice write-up from the culture vultures at Creative Review.

September 2006: New Sketch! made for BBC Comedy Soup's Time Trumpet challenge. It was mainly an excuse to get dressed up like Paris Hilton. Slinky.

September 2006: Our screenplay "Lick Me Deadly" just won its heat in the 2006 NYC Screenwriters Challenge. It's a mystery set at a funeral, and features all the staples of the genre: excellent violence, glue sniffing and ice cream. If you'd like to read it: clicky clicky.

September 2006: The Answer Yam: Mo has been selected for competition at the Signals Festival in Colchester. It'll be screened twice during the festival in the main venues, the Arts Centre and the Headgate Theatre. The judges are Laurent Crouzeix (Clermont-Ferrand short film festival), Sally Hibbin (Ken Loach's producer) and Jo Cadoret (New Talent Coordinator Film London). So watch out for the Yam starring with Ian Hart in "Eee, Int Fascism 'Orrible?" some time next year...

September 2006: King of the Road will be shown on Propeller TV (Sky 195) on Thursday 7th September at 23.53.

August 2006: Nostradamus and The Badly Drawn Boys in Canada: both cartoons has been selected for the 2006 Vidiotic Viral Video Festival, held around Toronto in concurrence with the Toronto International Film Festival. They'll be screened at various locations throughout Toronto between the 6th and 16th of September, via mobile projector.

August 2006: BBC3's Funny Hunt. We got shortlisted. Then we won. How pleased are we? VERY. (In 2006, BBC Three launched FunnyHunt on www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree – a user-generated comedy competition to find the next big comedy talent, attracting hundreds of entries. - BBC press release)

August 2006: Shameless Films in New York. The Curse of Jeff, The Crew and Spaniard's Choice were screened at "The Shakedown", A Happening at Siberia 356 W.40th Street, NYC. They went down very well. I heart NY.

August 2006: Shameless Films at Edinburgh. The BBC's Comedy Soup are doing summat up at the Edinburgh Festival, and they're taking our cartoon The Prophecies of Nostradamus with them. They'll be at Pleasance Courtyard, and they'll be sending our cartoon from the site to people with Bluetooth phones. If you have WAP you can get the cartoon from the BBC website too. Like Nostradamus saw that coming...

July 2006: Shameless at the National Film Theatre - we've got three 60 second surreal films on at the NFT on the 19th. But is it art?

July 2006: RooftopComedy.com Now Broadcasting Shameless Films. RooftopComedy.com has expanded its online library to include short comic videos from Shameless Films, the U.K.-based award-winning filmmaking group [whose] dry brand of humor brings to mind The Office and Monty Python.

RooftopComedy is broadcasting Shameless Films via their own “Rooftop Channel”. Viewers can also download Shameless Films directly to their iPods for free. RooftopComedy is broadcasting via the Internet the best, edgiest, up-and-coming stand-up and sketch comedians from around the globe.
Source: www.comedynewswire.com

July 2006: We just completed a new entry for the Hayward Gallery's 60 Second Surreal Challenge: Un Chien And. The moustache is the model's own.

June 2006: We got our own page on Rooftop Comedy! And it looks great! Go look.

June 2006: More Super Shorts news: Dadfinders, Avril Tungsten and Nona Transvaal have been selected for the festival, in the "Life", "Crazy" and "Life" categories respectively.

June 2006: One of our Simon? films, The Visitor, has been short listed in the Super Shorts Mobile Film Competition and it will be screened at the festival next month.

June 2006: We made a film for the Hayward Gallery 60 Second Surreal Challenge. "Surreal" (catchy title, hey?) was chosen as one of the five best of the week, and has been shortlisted for the NFT screening on July 21st. And it was only 30 seconds long. Weird, eh?

May 2006: We entered Dojo Films' Northern 48 Hour Film Challenge. Written, filmed and edited between the 27th and 28th of May, our effort "Takeaway" is on the player below.

May 2006: "Fancy Dress", one of our nifty little virals will be on HYPtv on Sunday 28th May, Sky channel 182 sometime between 11pm and 12pm.

May 2006: The Space Time Envelope will be screened at the Final Cut Last night Screening Party, part of the 2006 Brighton Festival on May 24th.

May 2006: We took a new film, Househaunter, to the Filmonik Screening in Manchester on 14/05/06. It went down very well. Hooray for us.

May 2006: We've got a bunch of new films coming up soon, keep an eye out for them. In the meantime here are six short cartoons about Nostradamus.

April 2006: Two new places to see Shameless Films! The BBC's new comedy website Comedy Soup and the American comedy site Rooftop Comedy. We're international, baby!

April 2006: The Answer Yam has been shortlisted for a prize at HYPtv. We might win an X-Box!

April 2006: Autophilia our Cobravision entry has been on ITV lots this month, during The Bourne Identity, Highlander, Fletch, James Bond and some Jennifer Anniston travesty. Not bad for a hungover afternoon's work.

April 2006: Another Answer Yam viral: Greenhouse effect.

March 2006: More Shameless stuff on HYPtv on Sunday 26th March on Sky 181 (Info TV) at 8-9pm. The Crew and two Answer Yams - if that's not an award-winning line up I don't know what is.

March 2006: James is on myspace www.myspace.com/jimbongo, the big div. Go add him to your friends. He's so needy. And look, there's Marcus too.

March 2006: The Answer Yam has gone viral. Click here for some sacrelicious Yam action.

March 2006: The Space Time Envelope will be screened on BBC3 on Thurs 23rd March at 24.25 (or half past midnight - the new primetime, I'm told)

February 2006: HYPtv show 3 features Avril Tungsten and The Answer Yam. Sunday 26th February on Sky 277 (Info TV) at 8-9pm.

February 2006: Autophilia - a series of 5-second short films we made for CobraVision, will be shown on ITV3 on Saturday 18th of Feb at 9.10pm, around the ad breaks for the film Gator. Burt Reynolds! Oh yeah!

February 2006: The Answer Yam on telly: HYPtv’s second programme strand, Sunday 12th February on Sky 277 (Info TV) at 8-9pm. Go Yam!

January 2006: The Answer Yam. That is all.

December 2005: Shameless X-Mas message 2005. Ho ho ho.

July 2005: Words Are My Language was screened on 25/07/05 at the Genesis Cinema, E1, London as part of the London Poetry Film Night III.

July 2005: Shameless telly: What on Earth!? and Scoopy's Story were screened on Create on the Community Channel (Sky 585, Telewest 233) in July. Create is also available to download here. (Shows 2 and 3 have our films in them.)

May 2005: James went and did a short film for the BBC, The Space Time Envelope.

February 2005: The Curse of Jeff on tour: The Independent Cinema Office Best of British programme.

21/11/04: Jeff didn't win at Bristol. Boo! However, we were invited to pitch a three-minute film to BBC3 as part of a new season of shorts, so yay! Also, there's another chance to see The Curse of Jeff in London on December 1st, as part of the Portobello Day of the Documentary. Jeff seems to have found himself in a bunch of real documentaries, so it'll be interesting to see how that works...

10/11/04: The Curse of Jeff has been shortlisted for the BBC Talent New Filmmakers Award. You can watch it here. The film will be screened on November 18th at the Brief Encounters Festival in Bristol ("The UK's most important short film festival" - The Guardian), along with the other ten finalists in the competition. The winner will be announced after the screening. Yoink. UPDATE: We didn't win. Or did we? No, we didn't.

30/10/04: What On Earth, our two minute superhero epic, won first runner-up (does that sound better than second?) at the Meniscus Festival short film competition.

19/09/04: We took part in Johnny Oddball's 24 Hour Film Challenge. For stills and behind the scenes gubbins on our entry, Pale With Envy, click here.

05/09/04: A Mile in my Shoes: Scoopy's Story nabbed the prize for "Best Direction" at the 48 Hour Film Project's Sheffield screening. The four directors will be taking it in turns to have the certificate on their wall.