Mark Burton

Early Man is a joy even if you don't like football

The clever people at Pixar are also wonderful at what they do, but their new production is so slick and clever that it doesn't make you hug yourself with joy. Early Man does.

Early Man review: a gloriously funny tale

It's so important to choose the right materials for the task at hand, and when it comes to animating a pig nervously giving a back massage to a fat man in the bath, only Plasticine will do.

Video: Shaun the Sheep movie: 15 gags a minute no words

He made his first on screen appearance 20 years ago, and since then Shaun the Sheep has become a TV star in more than 170 countries.

Now, the former Wallace and Gromit sidekick is finally making it to the big screen in a new feature film, and it all unfolds without a single word being said.

Writers and Directors Mark Burton and Richard Starzak, and actor and comedian Omid Djalili told BBC Breakfast about the challenges of making a film with no script lines.

This two-part comedy drama is adapted by scriptwriter Mark Burton, of Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit fame, and it stands at the school gates to watch the desperate shenanigans of ambitious parents. Shirley Henderson and Darren Boyd play Alice and David, newly moved to the area and keen to fit in with their affluent gated community - that means getting in the right school. And won't the whole process be so much easier if Alice sits the entrance exam rather than daughter Molly?

The Peter Principle (BBC1), astonishingly from the blue chip production company Hat Trick, is a vacant farce about an incompetent bank manager. [...] Like the toad which wears a precious jewel in its head (don't try and check on this, children), The Peter Principle has the brilliant Jim Broadbent. Broadbent was the best Marie Antoinette I ever saw. And Marie Antoinette, let me tell you, was funnier than this.