Tony Roche (writer) Tony Roche (writer) Tony Roche is an English television, radio and film comedy writer and producer, best known as a writer of the HBO comedy "Veep", the BBC Television series "The Thick of It" and its film spin-off "In the Loop". He is credited with inventing the word omnishambles, which was named 2012 Word of the Year by the Oxford English Dictionary. After graduating from Warwick University with a degree in English, Roche became a stand-up comedian using material from a magazine he had produced in his final year. He was spotted at one of his stand-up comedy shows and
Television film example is the Showtime movie "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch", which launched the sitcom of the same name that originally aired on ABC, and used the same actress (Melissa Joan Hart) for the lead role in both. The term "TV movie" is also frequently used as vehicles for "reunions" of long-departed series, as in "Return to Mayberry" and "A Very Brady Christmas". They can also be a spin-off from a TV series including "The Incredible Hulk Returns", "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk" and "The Death of the Incredible Hulk". Occasionally, television movies are used as sequels to successful theatrical films.