HandMade Films HandMade Films HandMade Films is a British film production and distribution company. Notable films from the studio include "Monty Python's Life of Brian", "Time Bandits" and "Withnail and I". HandMade Films was formed by former Beatle George Harrison and business partner Denis O'Brien in 1978 to finance the Monty Python film "Life of Brian". Harrison had first been introduced to O'Brien by actor Peter Sellers in 1973. Soon after, the two went into business together. When the original financiers of "Brian", EMI Films, pulled out of the project less than a week before filming was to commence, the creators had
Python Night – 30 Years of Monty Python almost everyone from "Flying Circus" was working on the programme. Terry Jones, who directed the new sketches, later showed regret for the fact that he was doing it for free and didn't get paid. Python Night – 30 Years of Monty Python Python Night was an evening of Monty Python-related programmes broadcast on BBC2 on 9 October 1999, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first broadcast of "Monty Python's Flying Circus". It featured newly written sketches, three documentaries and a screening of "Monty Python's Life of Brian". Only the documentaries were screened in the US, broadcast under the title