Doctor Who (2010) ~ mother
Doctor Who on IMDB
Olivia appeared in the episode ‘the eleventh hour’
Rev (2010)
Rev on IMDB
Olivia plays the solicitor wife of a vicer who has moved parish from the country to central London.
Mister Eleven (2009) ~ Beth
Mister Eleven on IMDB
I am currently trying to find out more information about this production
Skins series 3 (2009) ~ Gina
Skins on IMDB
Naomi (Lily Loveless) thinks she has the world worked out, and puts people in their appropriate boxes. There's her hippy mum (Olivia Colman); the adoration from Emily (Kathryn Prescott); Cook's (Jack O'Connell) insulting misogyny; and her politics teacher, Kieran's (Ardal O'Hanlon), flattery. She thinks she has them all sussed, and that it's only her who can see the truth.However, the upcoming student elections leave her at a loss, and her insecurities get the better of her. The trust and confidence inspired by a friend encourages her to stand up to her arch rival, the antithesis of everything she stands for, as her and Cook go head to head; but Naomi learns that nothing is black and white anymore.
For more information please see:
Skins official site
Midsommer Murders (2009) ~ Burnice
Small mercies on IMDB
A veteran DCI and his young Sergeant investigate murders around the regional community of Midsomer. Olivia appears in one episode of the long established show
Beautiful people (2008) ~ Debbie Doonan
Beautiful people on IMDB
It's 1997. Thirteen-year-old Simon and his best friend Kyle can't open a fridge door without belting out a show tune. And his family is even more eccentric. Mum Debbie is a whirlwind of matriarchal warmth in killer heels. Dad Andy is a lovable Irish softy and avid wine maker and older sister Ashlene is a wannabe ghetto queen. Then there's family lodger blind Aunty Hayley and lobotomised grandma Narg who lost God and found a foul mouth.
Based on the childhood memoirs of window-dresser extraordinaire, style arbiter and writer Simon Doonan, Beautiful People follows his childhood reminiscences of escaping the grey gloom of suburban Reading to live amongst the Beautiful People - before coming to the realisation that true beauty, as ever, is closer than we think.
For more information please see:
Beautiful people BBC press release
Consuming Passion (2008) ~ Janet
Consuming passion on IMDB
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the popular romance publishing phenomenon Mills and Boon, a colourful and camp drama which charts the witty and moving stories of three very different women affected by the brand's success: co-founder Charles Boon's wife Mary, daydreaming 1970s writer Janet and modern day literature lecturer Kirstie.
For more information please see:
Consuming passions BBC press release
Peep show (2003-2009) ~ as Sophie Chapman
Peep show on IMDB
Peep show follows the often sexually-frustrated lives of two men in their late twenties, Mark (Mitchell) and Jeremy (Webb). Having met while at the fictional Dartmouth University together (they occasionally refer to themselves as 'The El Dude Brothers' in reference to their student days), they now share a flat (Flat 5) in Apollo House, London Road in Croydon, south London. Mark is a loan manager and the more financially successful of the two, but is extremely uncomfortable socially and pessimistic about nearly everything. Jeremy, who at the start of the first series has recently split up with his girlfriend 'Big Suze', now rents Mark's spare room. He usually has a much more optimistic and energetic outlook on the world than Mark, yet his self-proclaimed talent as a musician is yet to be recognised, and he is not as popular or attractive as he would like to think himself.
For more information please see:
Peep show on comedy.org.uk
Peep show official site
That Mitchell and Webb look (2006-2008) ~ as various characters
That Mitchell and Webb look on IMDB
That Mitchell and Webb Look is a BAFTA award winning British television sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, that has currently run for one six-part series. The first episode originally aired 14 September 2006 on BBC Two.[1] A second series was commissioned later that same year.[2] The new series, consisting of six episodes, is due to be broadcast in early 2008. It is directed by David Kerr, who also directed Mitchell and Webb's previous television sketch show The Mitchell and Webb Situation. As well as Mitchell and Webb themselves, the writers include Jesse Armstrong, James Bachman, Sam Bain, Mark Evans, Toby Davies, Chris Pell and John Finnemore. It is produced by Gareth Edwards. The other cast includes Olivia Colman, James Bachman, Mark Evans, Abigail Burdess, Gus Brown, and Paterson Joseph.
For more information please see:
That Mitchell and Webb Look on comedy.org.uk
Hancock and Joan (2008) ~ as Marion
Hancock and Joan on IMDB
Drama which tells the story of comedian Tony Hancock's love affair with his friend's wife, and her fight to save the man and his career. Only months into her marriage to John Le Mesurier, Joan fell in love with Tony, who, despite his struggles with drink, remained charismatic and funny. They embarked on a passionate affair, but Tony's demons were never far away, and after months of turmoil Joan gave him an ultimatum: If he made a go of a new series in Australia and stayed sober, she would leave John.
For more information please see:
Hancock and Joan on BBC.co.uk
The time of your life (2007) ~ as Amanda
The time of your life on IMDB
A Gripping emotional thriller about the pain and confusion one woman faces after waking from an 18-year coma, to a world where nothing is the same. Attempting to piece together events of the past, she finds her efforts thwarted at every turn, but resolves to work out how to catch up on the time she has missed.
The grey man (2007) ~ as Linda Dodds
The grey man on IMDB
The shocking true story of Albert Fish, the most monstrous yet least known serial killer in the history of true crime in America. In 1928, the angelic 10-year-old Grace Budd is abducted by a kindly old grandfather and never seen again. After scouring the country for her for six years, detectives finally arrest Albert Fish for her kidnapping but are unprepared for the horrors they are about to uncover... Aged 55 when the film opens, Hamilton Fish, aka Albert Fish, is the father of six grown children whom he has raised on his own after his wife abandoned the family to run off with their boarder. A compulsive liar and letter writer, Fish corresponds with women through "friendship" magazines, woos several under false pretenses, and even marries a few -- even though he is still technically married to his first wife -- but eventually repulsing all of them with his sexual perversions. Having always struggled with leading his life according to his religious convictions, Fish now teeters on the brink of complete surrender to his sadomasochistic tendencies. It is the kidnapping of Grace Budd that leads to his downfall. When he is finally arrested, the authorities discover a trail of murder, mutiliation and cannibalism. Fish is found guilty despite overwhelming evidence of his insanity, and promptly sentenced to die in the electric chair.
For more information please see:
The grey man on Wikipedia
Green wing (2004-2006) ~ as Harriet Schulenburg
Green wing on IMDB
Set in a hospital and from the production team behind Smack The Pony, Green Wing has been described as "part surreal soap, part innovative comedy drama" and follows the sometimes strange, and often amusing, antics of its staff.
There's new doctor Caroline Todd whose first day on the job is far from perfect. Then there's Dr. Alan Statham, the boring Consultant Radiologist who is constantly being outsmarted by his juniors and who is having a secret affair with hot tempered and no-nonsense Head of Human Resources Joanne Clore.
To help the staff with any of their problems there is Staff Liaison Office Sue White (who is more likely to laugh at, then help solve, your troubles) and the object of her affection, smooth talking surgeon Dr. "Mac" Macartney who spends most of his time making stupid competitive bets with Anaesthetist Guy "I'm God's gift to women" Secretan.
Senior Paediatrics Register Dr. Angela Hunter has very little problems, except trying to get that kink out of her boyfriend's ‘perfect' nose, while the girls in admin Kim, Harriet, Naughty Rachel and Karen spend more time talking about their sex lives than actually doing any work.
And then there are the junior doctors; the confident and sarcastic Boyce and the drippy, useless Dr. Martin Dear who is hated by the patients and desperate for a woman, preferably Dr. Todd if he can manage it.
Green Wing was devised and produced by Victoria Pile
For more information please see:
Greenwing official site
Green wing on sitcom.co.uk
Green wing on Wikipedia
Love soup (2005) ~ as Penny
Love soup on IMDB
Alice Chenery (Tamsin Greig) and Gil Raymond (Michael Landes) are perfect for each other. They like the same things, respect the same things, and share the same beliefs. The only problem is that they are completely unaware of each other's existence.The series follows their somewhat forlorn attempts to find the perfect partner, whilst the viewer knows that Alice and Gil are the ideal couple. The series itself follows each plot separately, cutting from Alice's story to Gil's throughout the episode. The only exception is the final scene of the series, which shows Alice in the theatre watching a comedy where she is the only person in the entire audience not laughing - apart from Gil, who is sitting two rows behind her. They still do not find each other.
For more information please see:Love soup on Wikipedia Shakespeare retold (2005) much ado about nothing~ as Ursula
Shakespeare retold on IMDB
When the bickering between broadcasters Beatrice and Benedick gets too much to take, their colleagues at South West TV come up with a cunning plan to shut the pair up. Meanwhile, lovely weathergirl Hero and dashing reporter Claude are a match made in heaven - but does everyone want to see them so happy?
For more information please see:
Much ado about nothing official site
Murder in Suburbia (2004) ~ as Ellie
Murder in Suburbia on IMDB
Crime drama, starring Lisa Faulkner and Caroline Catz as Britain's answer to Cagney and Lacey. Based in the fictional town of Middleford, feisty duo DS Emma Scribbins and DI Kate Ashurst bring their own distinctive style to ridding the streets of crime while at the same time keeping an eye out for the men of their dreams
For more information please see:
Murder in suburbia on locatetv.com
The Robinsons (2005) ~ Connie
The Robinsons on IMDB
Sitcom following the life of Ed Robinson, the youngest son of a well-to-do south London family. Blind to their own faults the family consider Ed a loser. So does Ed, who hates his job and isn't having much luck with his love life (he's fired at work by his ex-girlfriend). Ed's older brother George is an over-strung time-management executive, his sister is an obsessive interior designer who can't make her mind up in regards to boyfriends and his parents... well they just bicker.
For more information please see:
The Robinsons on sitcom.co.uk
Help (2005)
Help on IMDB
With rarely more than 2 characters on screen at any one time, Paul Whitehouse plays every patient to Chris Langham's psychiatrist, as Help takes a comical look at the world of psychiatry.
For more information please see:
Help on sitcom.co.uk
Look around you (2005) ~ as Pam Bachelor
Look around you on IMDB
Look around you. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to mention, have one thing in common. Can you work out what it is? CORRECT! The answer is Science.
The first series of this British comedy show, filmed in 2002, was a send-up of the earnest BBC programmes for schools made in the 1960s and 1970s. The second series (2005) is a friendlier spoof of the BBC's own slightly wacky Tomorrow's World programme (1965-2002), and it gives a view from somewhere around 1982 of what life might be like in the early 21st century.
The new series is again written by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz and consists of six thirty-minute shows, a big improvement on the ten-minute format of the first series. The new episodes are all wonderfully daft...Remember to have your pencils and your copy books handy!
For more information please see:
Look around you on Wikipedia
Look around you on tv.com
Angell’s hell (2005) ~ as Belinda
Angell's hell on IMDB
I could not find much information as yet on this TV movie I am Scooby doing though!
Coming up (2004) ~ as the receptionist.
Coming up on IMDB
An anthology of half hour films by new writers, Olivia is in one episode called ‘The Baader Meinhoff gang show. Olivia appears in one episode.
NY-LON (2004) ~ as Lucy
Ny-Lon on IMDB
This drama series from Channel 4 follows the trans-Atlantic love affair between New York record store clerk Edie (Rashida Jones) and London banker Michael (Stephen Moyer), two very different personalities drawn together by fabulous chemistry. Watch as they juggle travel, jobs, and family responsibilities, whilst pursuing a deepening love against a stupendous soundtrack that helps tell the story.
For more information please see:
Ny-lon on tv.com
Swiss Toni (2004) ~ as Linda Byron
Swiss Toni on IMDB
With his blonde quiff standing to attention and his grey shot-silk suit sparkling under the showroom lights, Swiss Toni is the emperor of his car emporium.
And yet the guy cannot sell an Allegro, is being taught to drive by his long-suffering wife Ruth and is consistently out-performed by his alcoholic employee, Geoff. Swiss Toni is cheesy, out-of-date and chauvinistic – which is why everyone loves him.
Played by Charlie Higson and born from The Fast Show character who claimed "Buying a car is like making love to a beautiful woman…" Swiss Toni will no doubt entertain, enthral, evoke laughter and most of all make you feel evolved.
For more information please see:
Swiss Tony on tv.com
Black books (2004) ~ as Tanya
Black books on IMDB
Black Books is a second-hand bookshop in London run by an Irishman named Bernard Black. He is probably the planet's least-suited person to run such an establishment: he makes no effort to sell, closes at strange hours on a whim, is in a perpetual alcoholic stupor, abhors his customers (sometimes physically abusing them) and is often comatose at his desk. Help comes in the lumpy shape of Manny Bianco, a hairy, bumbling individual who (almost by osmosis) becomes Bernard's assistant. Manny is not exactly great at the job either but he is a million times better than Bernard. Next door is Fran, an anxious, frustrated woman who (in the first series) runs a sort of new-age shop selling the most unlikely bits of arty junk. (In the second, her shop wasn't seen.) Fran is friends with Bernard and, through him, with Manny; together the trio become embroiled in escapades that are sometimes extreme fantastically ludicrous, and always bizarre. The show has won two BAFTA awards and one Bronze Rose award.
For more information please see:
Black books on tv.com
The strategic Humour initiative (2003) ~ as various characters
The strategic Humour initiative on IMDB
I can’t find much information on this show as yet sorry.
Eyes down (2003) ~ as Mandy Foster
Eyes down on IMDB
Eyes Down was a short-lived comedy starring Paul O'Grady as Ray Temple, the manager of a Bingo Hall in Liverpool, England called The Rio, although the series was filmed in Rayners Lane in London. Although it had moderate ratings, the programme only lasted for two seasons until it was cancelled by the BBC in 2004.
For more information please see:
Eyes down on Wikipedia
Gash (2003) ~ as various characters
Gash on IMDB
A political comedy show, written and filmed on the day of broadcast, Olivia is in 3 episodes.
The Office (2002) ~ as Helena
The office on IMDB
The show is filmed as “a fly-on-the-wall documentary about modern office life”, but without any sort of narrator as you might expect. There is a noticeable difference in the way the characters behave when they are being caught on film as opposed to playing to the camera as they do most of the time. There are also often talking head moments where the four main characters are interviewed by the program makers, but we never hear the questions being asked, and we have no idea as to the identity of anyone behind the camera.
For more information please see:
The office on BBC.co.uk
The office on wernhamhogg.co.uk
Holby city (2002) ~ as Kim Prebble
Holby city on IMDB
A BBC drama following the personal and professional lives of the Drs and nurses in the cardiac unit of a London hospital. Olivia was in one episode New hearts, old scores.
Rescue me (2002) ~ as Paula
Rescue me on IMDB
Romantic comedy drama series about a thirtysomething writer who, while writing about love and romance for a glossy women's magazine, is trying to salvage her own crumbling marriage. Olivia appears in one episode.
Comedy lab (2001) ~ as Linda
Comedy lab on IMDB
The COMEDY LAB is C4's unique televisual comedy experiment experiment, responsible for launching the careers of some of Britain's favourite comics - from Trigger Happy TV's Dom Joly to Peter Kay. This year's season includes an eclectic mix of animation, comedy performance and innovative writing. COMEDY LAB goes out every Thursday.
For more information please see:
The comedy lab on channel4.com
Mr Charity (2001) ~ as distressed mother
Mr charity on IMDB
Meet a charity boss with no compassion, no morals and no scruples. Mr. Charity takes a satirical look at the inner workings of a small fund raising organization run by a man who believes charity begins as close to home as possible—with himself.
For more information please see:
Mr charity on tv.com
People like us (2001)
People like us on IMDB
I cannot find a lot of information as yet on this series, but Olivia appeared in one episode ‘The vicar’.
The Mitchell and Webb situation (2001) ~ as various characters
The Mitchell and Webb situation on IMDB
Before That Mitchell and Webb Look, That Mitchell and Webb Sound and even before Peep Show, David Mitchell and Robert Webb had their own sketch series on the now defunct channel Play UK.
The series featured many of Mitchell and Webb's trademark subjects, such as spoofs of make-over shows and other dull forms of TV. This series also co-starred their regular comedy partner Olivia Colman.
For more information please see:
Mitchell and Webb situation on Wikipedia
Mitchell and Webb situation on comedy.org.uk
Bruiser (2000) ~ as various characters
Bruiser on IMDB
Mixing bizarre characters with send-ups of television genres including satellite channels and BBC schools revision programmes, the quick-fire style never failed to keep viewers guessing what might crop up next.The recurring gags often worked well, including an appallingly thoughtless American TV reporter and the imagined hit interview series 'Outdoor Wee': a set of mid-urination conversations with the stars, among whom retired cricket umpire Dickie Harold gets somewhat carried away.A pre-Peep Show Mitchell and Webb led both the cast and writing team and several sketches show early hallmarks of their later TV and radio double act.For more information please see:
Bruiser on BBC.co.uk