The Thomas Thomanory Show

**The Thomas Thomanory Show** is a British sketch comedy/anthology television series starring Thomas Thomanory. It debuted on 2 October 2020, airing on Toffa. The show is similar to its predecessor The Thomanory Sketch Show but it has more of a focus on spoofing other British TV series, whilst also spoofing Toffa shows such as The Microsoft Sam Show.

## History

The show came to light after Thomas Thomanory left Toffa, to go to Comedy Central Extra to present 'Inside Thomanory' for 14 episodes, it never got a second series. Thomas left Comedy Central Extra to return to Toffa in September 2020. The show was similar to *The Peter Serafinowicz Show* which aired on BBC Two from 2007-2008, and briefly revived on Toffa in 2012, with even the same theme and a similar title sequence. But in Series 2, it was changed to a Kevin Bishop or No Signal type of show, surfing through TV channels. There is a much broader variety of TV channels than what Kevin Bishop (Channel 4) or No Signal (FX) (Fox) could achieve.

The show started strong bringing in around 2 million viewers tuning in to the first episode, however, it started losing viewers fast. The viewership went down from 2 million an episode to around 1.2 million an episode. The main problem was that it was airing at 8.30pm, as opposed to *The Thomanory Sketch Show*'s earlier 6.30pm showing. Thomas' audience was aimed from teenagers to around young adults and 8.30pm wasn't a very reasonable time. Thomas promised on Twitter that by the next series, it would be at an earlier time of around 7pm.

A third series was commissioned in June 2021 which aired from September and at an earlier timeslot of 7pm. It also received a feature-length 45-minute special celebrating Toffa's 18th birthday; parodying well-known shows from the past, with a total of ten episodes overall. The special aired on Saturday 4 September 2021, with the series beginning on Friday 10 September, less than a week later. A Christmas special was commissioned in November which aired on Christmas Day.

A fourth series was commissioned and aired in September 2022. However, due to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II the day before its planned broadcast, the series was pushed back by a week in favour of a best-of compilation of Series 3 which also helped bring viewers up to speed with the storyline. The series also moved to a 9:30pm timeslot to help better suit the darker tones of the show.

## Format

The sketch part of the show is styled as a TV box, surfing through parodies of TV shows on channels such as ITVBe, BBC One, National Geographic, Discovery, and ITV. The box is called *TipTopTV* (often styled **tipTOPtv**) as in play on words of it being a good TV box but in reality, it's quite disappointing. Shows parodied consist of CSI (*CSI: London*), Channel 5 documentaries (*A Royal Life: How To Act Royal - By A Royal*), and Countdown (*Countdown USA*).

The anthology part of the show often follows a group of seemingly hostile cartoon characters as they journey through different portal to planets and other universes. Along the way, they interact with the people in the dimension and often cause something bad to happen, leading them to reverse the act in order to escape back into their own world.

#### The Deep World

By series three, the toons end up in the '*deep world*', planet Earth in the future, but barely populated by humans due to an apocalypse years before. It draws comparisons to the 1968 film *Planet of the Apes*, where the toons are treated as animals and animated adult shows from Britain are executed for not being funny against their wishes. After escaping, they enter an out of control heavy metal club where the men inside direct them to the corpse of an elderly man who used to rule the Deep World but died due to a fatal heart attack. Escaping the authorities, they enter a temple of so called gods who ruled Earth after the government collapsed, not much is known other than the United Kingdom was badly effected by this due to the monarchy, which was abolished in favour of an absolute dictatorship (which included the countries of the Commonwealth). They find a key which allows them to open another portal. However, the floor collapses, leading them to the hell environment where demons torture media characters for blood. Using the power of the key, they fight off the creatures and fly into the portal, where the screen cuts to black. This is intended to continue in series four.

## Broadcasts

*List of The Thomas Thomanory Show episodes*

 2 | 15 January 2021
 3 | 10 September 2021
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