Victoria Wood with All The Trimmings was a one-off Christmas comedy sketch show special written by and starring comedienne Victoria Wood

Victoria Wood

Victoria Wood CBE is a British comedienne, actress, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director. Wood has written and starred in sketches, plays, films and sitcoms, and her live stand-up comedy act is interspersed with her own compositions, which she accompanies on piano...

. It was broadcast on BBC1 on Christmas Day 2000.

Lasting 55 minutes, the show is described by RDF, its rights holders as "a great big Christmas pudding of a show, stuffed full of stars in plum roles. Wonderfully funny sketches, brilliant pastiches and tons of celebrities. If you like your comedy roasting on an open fire this is one not to miss."

Also appearing were Wood's regular co-stars Celia Imrie

Celia Imrie

Celia Diana Savile Imrie is an English actress. In a career starting in the early 1970s, Imrie has played Marianne Bellshade in Bergerac, Philippa Moorcroft in Dinnerladies, Miss Babs in Acorn Antiques, Diana Neal in After You've Gone and Gloria Millington in Kingdom...

, Julie Walters

Julie Walters

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, Anne Reid

Anne Reid

Anne Reid, MBE is a BAFTA Award-nominated English film and television actress from Newcastle upon Tyne, best known for her roles as Valerie Tatlock in Coronation Street and Jean in dinnerladies....

, Susie Blake

Susie Blake

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 and Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake

Maxine Peake is an English stage, film and television actress known for playing Veronica in Channel 4's Manchester-based drama series Shameless, Twinkle in Victoria Wood's sitcom Dinnerladies, and, most recently, barrister Martha Costello in BBC legal drama Silk.-Early life:Peake is the second of...

.

It also featured an enormous number of guest celebrity appearances such as Caroline Aherne

Caroline Aherne

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, James Bolam

James Bolam

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, Betty Boothroyd

Betty Boothroyd

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, June Brown

June Brown

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, Craig Cash

Craig Cash

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, Roger Cook

Roger Cook

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, Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Duncan

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, Hannah Gordon

Hannah Gordon

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, Richard E. Grant

Richard E. Grant

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, Shobna Gulati

Shobna Gulati

Shobna Gulati is an English actress, writer, and dancer of Indian origin, best known for playing Anita in Victoria Wood's Dinnerladies, and Sunita Alahan in the long-running soap opera Coronation Street from 2001 to 2006, a role to which she returned at the end of 2009...

, Philip Jackson

Philip Jackson (actor)

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, Derek Jacobi

Derek Jacobi

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, Hugh Laurie

Hugh Laurie

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, Robert Lindsay

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, Geraldine McEwan

Geraldine McEwan

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, Bob Monkhouse

Bob Monkhouse

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, Roger Moore

Roger Moore

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, Michael Parkinson

Michael Parkinson

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, Bill Paterson, Billie Piper

Billie Piper

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, Pete Postlethwaite

Pete Postlethwaite

Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE, was an English stage, film and television actor.After minor television appearances including in The Professionals, Postlethwaite's first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He played a mysterious lawyer, Mr...

, Alan Rickman

Alan Rickman

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, Angela Rippon

Angela Rippon

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, Kate Robbins

Kate Robbins

Katherine Robbins is an English actress, comedienne and singer.-Biography:Robbins is a first cousin once removed of Paul McCartney and older sister of Amy Robbins . She attended Wirral Grammar School for Girls and won the Drama Prizes each year, notably with her monologue "All this glitters is not...

, Ted Robbins

Ted Robbins

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, Delia Smith

Delia Smith

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, Kathy Staff

Kathy Staff

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, Imelda Staunton

Imelda Staunton

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, Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Titchmarsh

Alan Fred Titchmarsh, MBE DL is an English gardener, broadcaster and novelist. After working as a professional gardener and a garden journalist, he established himself as a media personality through appearances on gardening programmes...

, Ian Watkins, Honeysuckle Weeks

Honeysuckle Weeks

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, Penelope Wilton

Penelope Wilton

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, Anna Wing

Anna Wing

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 and Bernard Wrigley

Bernard Wrigley

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. Wood said of the casting "I had a great long list of all the people I really liked. I wrote to the first 14 or so - and they all said yes. So I thought, 'oh, bloody hell - I've got to write it now."

The show was described by a BBC News Online

BBC News Online

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 writer in 2000 as "the centrepiece of BBC One's Christmas Day schedules". Wood responded to this accolade by saying "it's a very strange feeling - but it's got to be someone, hasn't it?" The show was made straight after Wood had finished work on her sitcom dinnerladies

Dinnerladies

Dinnerladies is a British sitcom written, co-produced by and starring Victoria Wood. It ran on BBC One for 16 episodes from 1998 to 2000.-Plot:...

. She said "I was worn out from doing dinnerladies and it took me a long time to recover. "It was great to do but it was very draining....the last 10 dinnerladies I did in a really, really short time and I was ill at one point. This Christmas special was much easier to write because it was in bits."