Mongrels

Mongrels puppeteers to be guests at "furry" convention

FurCon (Further Confusion) is one of the world's largest anthropomorphic (or "furry") conventions, and is now in its fifteenth year. This year, two of the puppeteers from Mongrels will be appearing at the event!

Mongrels series two DVD and Blu-Ray release cancelled

The Velvet Onion can confirm that the proposed dvd and blu-ray release of Mongrels Series 2 has been scrapped.

Hulu to air U.K. puppet comedy 'Mongrels'

BBC Worldwide America said on Monday that the first two seasons of its British puppet comedy series Mongrels will be available on America's Hulu Web site.

Mongrels live chat

Fresh off the back of appearing on Scott Mills' Radio 1 Show this afternoon, Marion from Mongrels will be joining us for a live chat after the show at 11pm!

Meet the Mongrels - Britain's most irreverent puppets

Mongrels is a show that fits somewhere between The Muppets and Family Guy and Sesame Street; That is, if everyone on Sesame Street were Oscar the Grouch, was British with an accent, and repeatedly taught you swear words you've never heard before. Oh yeah - and did I mention the stars of Mongrels are puppets?

Mongrels series 2 episode 4 review

I was completely and utterly wrong. This episode is certainly the best of Series 2 so far and, without doubt, lives up Series 1.

Mongrels series 2 episodes 3 review

On the whole, it's a good episode, but the series seems to be struggling a little and isn't yet on a par with Series 1.

Mongrels was one of my favourite shows from last year. Mind you, I'm a sucker for just about anything anthropomorphic. The fact that this and Radio 4 comedy Warhorses of Letters is on at the same time's made me a rather happy man this past week...

This show, often viewed as an animal puppet version of Family Guy, is always enjoyable to a certain degree. It's full of jokes, most of which seem to work, both in the main dialogue and the cutaway scenes. The characters are entertaining, from metrosexual fox Nelson (Rufus Jones) to it-bitch Destiny (Lucy Montgomery), to the f***ing foul-mouthed fox Vince (Paul Kaye).

The second series started with a double bill - which to me felt wrong, primarily because the second episode was a "Horror special" which really should have gone out on Halloween. What on Earth the BBC Three schedulers were thinking of I have no idea.

Still, both episodes were entertaining, with their jokes and musical numbers, especially with a guest appearance from Richard O'Brien as a zombie dog singing a Rocky Horror Show-style love song. The one problem I have with Mongrels is that because it's on BBC Three, it has a very BBC Three idea of what a celebrity is. For example: Clive Anderson - great. Ainsley Harriott - could be worse. Jeff Brazier - never heard of him. Danny Dyer - oh f*** off (as Vince might say).

Still, this is good show on the whole. Certainly one of the better comedies on BBC Three, which probably means it'll be axed...

Mongrels - Definitely not the Muppets

Reminiscent of one of the all-time great movies, The Player, there are times that you'd like to be a fly on the wall in a pitch meeting trying to convince studio heads that your idea is the next Seinfeld, ER or Desperate Housewives. Imagine your pitch to the BBC commissioners for a series called Mongrels.