London TV Award nomination Holy Flying Circus: 'Seeing each of the Pythons caricatured was the first of Holy Flying Circus’s many joys. Terry Jones (Rufus Jones) had a tewiffically pwonounced speech impediment, Graham Chapman (Tom Fisher) cradled a pipe, and Terry Gilliam (Phil Nichol) was constantly turning ideas into animations. Darren Boyd’s John Cleese, meanwhile, was fun from the start.'

The Telegraph: ‘Seeing each of the Pythons caricatured was the first of Holy Flying Circus’s many joys. Terry Jones (Rufus Jones) had a tewiffically pwonounced speech impediment, Graham Chapman (Tom Fisher) cradled a pipe, and Terry Gilliam (Phil Nichol) was constantly turning ideas into animations. Darren Boyd’s John Cleese, meanwhile, was fun from the start. “Just wanted to point out that this is a fictional representation of me based loosely on my Basil Fawlty persona,” he explained later in one of the drama’s many surreal sequences.’

At first, the idea of a dramatisation of the television debate about Monty Python's Life of Brian sounds like it's missing the point. Surely no one should ever make 'dramatisations' of these real life cartoon characters? But Holy Flying Circus had no intention of being a drama, this BBC film written by Tony Roche is a deliberately false account of the event, portraying the Pythons as fictional characters as much at war with themselves as the evil Bishop of Southwark. It's stylised to the point of absurdity, but humbly explores the issue of 'offense' as well as the perceived power struggle within the Python group.