Editing Victoria Wood (section)

==Career==
===1970s===
Wood began her show business career while an undergraduate, appearing on the TV talent show ''[[New Faces]]'' in 1974.<ref name="Whetstone"/> It led to an appearance in a sketch show featuring the series' winners ''[[The Summer Show]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/488970|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071207205154/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/488970|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 December 2007|title=BFI Film & TV Database on The Summer Show|publisher=BFI|date=29 March 2007}}</ref> A further break came as a novelty act on the [[BBC]]'s consumer affairs programme ''[[That's Life!]]'' in 1976. She had met long-term collaborator [[Julie Walters]] in 1971, when Wood applied to the [[Manchester School of Theatre]], then part of [[Manchester Polytechnic]].<ref name = "WD ITV DFM"/> Coincidentally the pair met again when they appeared in the same theatre revue ''[[In at the Death]]'' in 1978 (for which Wood wrote a brief sketch). Its success led to the commissioning of Wood's first play ''[[Talent (play)|Talent]]'' (in 1978), starring Hazel Clyne (in a role originally written for Walters), for which Wood won an award for the Most Promising New Writer. [[Peter Eckersley (TV producer)|Peter Eckersley]], the head of drama at [[ITV Granada|Granada Television]], saw ''Talent'' and invited Wood to create a television adaptation. This time, Julie Walters took the lead role, while Wood reprised her stage role.<ref name="Brandwood" /><ref>{{cite web |last =Duguid |first =Mark |title = Talent (1979) |work = Screenonline.org.uk |publisher =British Film Institute |date =July 2003 |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1241050/index.html |access-date = 18 October 2007 }}</ref>

===1980–1988===
The success of the television version of ''Talent'' led to Wood writing the follow-up ''[[Nearly a Happy Ending]]''. Shortly afterwards she wrote a third play for Granada, ''[[Happy Since I Met You]]'', again with Walters alongside [[Duncan Preston]] as the male lead. In 1980 she wrote and starred in the stage play ''[[Good Fun]]''.<ref name="Brandwood" />

Recognising her talent, Eckersley offered Wood a sketch show, although Wood was unsure of the project: she agreed to go ahead only if Walters received equal billing. Eckersley came up with an obvious title – ''[[Wood and Walters]]'',<ref name = "WD ITV DFM">[[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] 50: ''What Did ITV Do For Me?'', interview with Victoria Wood (September 2005).</ref> and the pilot episode was recorded. It led to a full series, featuring Duncan Preston and a supporting cast. In the period between the completion of the pilot and the shooting of the series, Eckersley died. Wood credited him with giving her her first big break, and felt that ''Wood and Walters'' suffered due to his death.<ref name = "WD ITV DFM"/> She was not impressed by Brian Armstrong, his fill-in, and was of the opinion that he hired unsuitable supporting actors.<ref name="Brandwood"/>

Wood appeared alongside 
Peter Llewellyn-Jones as an actor/presenter in [[Yorkshire Television]]'s 1984 schools television programme for hearing-impaired children, ''Insight'' - a remake of the series originally presented by [[Derek Griffiths]]. In 1982 and 1983 she appeared as a panellist on BBC Radio 4's ''[[Just a Minute]]''.

In October 1983 Wood performed her first solo stand-up show, ''Lucky Bag'', in a five-week run at the King's Head Theatre in Islington. The show transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre for a 12-night run in February 1984. ''Lucky Bag'' went on a short UK tour in November and December 1984 and was also released as a live album recorded at the Edinburgh Festival in 1983.<ref name="Brandwood"/>

Wood left Granada in 1984 for the BBC, which promised her more creative control over projects. Later that year her sketch show ''[[Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV]]'' went into production. Wood chose the actors: her friend Julie Walters once again starred, as did Duncan Preston. Wood's friends [[Celia Imrie]], [[Susie Blake]] and [[Patricia Routledge]] were in the cast. ''As Seen on TV'' featured the ''[[Acorn Antiques]]'' series of sketches, parodying the low-budget soap opera ''[[Crossroads (British TV series)|Crossroads]]'', and rumoured to be named after an antiques shop in her birthplace. ''Acorn Antiques'' is remembered for characters such as "Mrs Overall" (played by Walters), the deliberately bad camera angles and wobbling sets, and Celia Imrie's sarcastic tone as "Miss Babs". One of Wood's most popular comic songs,<ref name="Brandwood" /> "The Ballad of Barry and Freda (Let's Do It)", originated on this show. It tells the story of Freda (a woman eager for sex) and Barry (an introverted man terrified of intimate relations), and makes clever use of allusions to a multitude of risqué activities while avoiding all taboo words.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wood |first=Victoria
 |title=The Ballad of Barry and Freda (Let's do it!) |publisher=prestel.co.uk |url=http://www2.prestel.co.uk/cello/BarryAndFreda.htm |access-date=27 August 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070909162400/http://www2.prestel.co.uk/cello/BarryAndFreda.htm |archive-date=9 September 2007}}</ref>

Following the success of the first series of ''[[Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV]]'', Wood went on tour again with ''Lucky Bag'' in March 1985. ''Scene'', a documentary for BBC2 later that year, showed footage of Wood preparing for the tour.

A second series of ''[[Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV]]'' was made in 1986. Before filming began in the summer, Wood went on a short 23-date tour of England and Scotland during March and April. A final 'Special' 40-minute episode of ''As Seen on TV'' was made in 1987 and broadcast later that year.

During autumn 1987 Wood went on the road with what was to be her largest tour yet. The tour included a sell-out two-week run at the [[London Palladium]], and had a second leg in the spring of 1988.

In 1988 she appeared in the [[BAFTA]]-winning ''[[An Audience with...|An Audience with Victoria Wood]]'' for [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]. At the time of recording the show she was six months pregnant. The end of 1988 saw the release of her second live performance ''Victoria Wood Live'', recorded at the Brighton Dome.<ref name="Brandwood"/>

===1989–1999===
During this period Wood moved away from the sketch show format and into more self-contained works, often with a bittersweet flavour. ''[[Victoria Wood (1989 TV series)|Victoria Wood]]'' (six parts, 1989) featured Wood in several individual stories such as "We'd Quite Like To Apologise", set in an airport departure lounge, and "Over to Pam", set around a fictional talk show.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1241016/index.html |title=Victoria Wood (1989)| work = Screenonline.org.uk |publisher= British Film Institute |year=2007}}</ref>

In May 1990, Wood began a large tour of the United Kingdom, which was followed by a ten-week run at the [[Novello Theatre|Strand Theatre]] in London titled ''Victoria Wood Up West''. Wood took the show on the road again during March and April 1991, where it was recorded at the [[Mayflower Theatre]] in Southampton, and later released as ''Victoria Wood Sold Out'' in 1991.<ref name="Brandwood"/><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7bd1b31f |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160617104313/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7bd1b31f |url-status= dead |archive-date= 17 June 2016 |publisher= [[British Film Institute]] |access-date= 20 April 2016 |title= Victoria Wood Sold Out}}</ref>

In 1991, she appeared on the Comic Relief single performing "The Smile Song", the flipside to "The Stonk" (a record by ITV comedians
[[Gareth Hale]] and [[Norman Pace]] with charity supergroup The Stonkers).<ref>London Records 90 Ltd LON 296/LON 296CD/869 363-2</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2011/03/hale-and-pace-the-stonk/| title = HALE AND PACE – "The Stonk" {{!}} FreakyTrigger| date = 3 June 2023}}</ref><ref name="Mabbett">{{Cite book| publisher = Omnibus| isbn = 0-7119-4109-2| last1 = Miles| first1 = Barry| last2 = Mabbett| first2 = Andy| title = Pink Floyd - The Visual Documentary |year= 1994}}</ref> 
A [[List of number-one singles from the 1990s (UK)#1991|UK number-one single]] for one week on 23 March 1991, the record was the UK's 22nd-best-selling single of the year. However, even though it was a joint-single (with "The Smile Song" credited on the front of the single cover<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.ultimatequeen.co.uk/queen/gallery/collaborations/hale-and-pace-the-stonk.htm| title = Hale & Pace "The Stonk" single gallery}}</ref> and listed as track 2 on the seven-inch and CD single rather than being a B-side), the UK singles chart compilers (now the Official Charts Company) did not credit her with having number one hit, in a situation similar to the fate of BAD II's "[[Rush (Big Audio Dynamite II song)|Rush]]", the AA-side of the preceding number one, "[[Should I Stay or Should I Go]]" by [[The Clash]].

She briefly returned to sketches for the 1992 Christmas Day special ''[[Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast]]'', and also branched out into children's animation, voicing all the characters for the [[CBBC (TV channel)|CBBC]] series ''[[Puppydog Tales]]''.<ref>{{Citation|title=Puppydog Tales|date=1992-09-17|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1710111/|type=Animation, Family|access-date=2021-09-27}}</ref>

In April 1993, Wood began a seven-month tour of the UK. The 104-date tour broke box office records, including 15 sell out shows at London's Royal Albert Hall, and played to residencies in Sheffield, Birmingham, Plymouth, Bristol, Nottingham, Manchester, Leicester, Liverpool, Bournemouth, Oxford, Southampton, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leeds and Hull.<ref name="Brandwood"/><ref>Tour dates listed in 1993 and 1994 Tour Programmes.</ref>

The television film ''[[Pat and Margaret]]'' (1994), starring Wood and Julie Walters as long-lost sisters with very different lifestyles, continued her return to stand-alone plays with a poignant undercurrent to the comedy.<ref>{{cite web |last =Duguid |first =Mark |title =Pat and Margaret (1994) |work = Screenonline.org.uk |publisher = British Film Institute |date =July 2003 |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1246899/index.html |access-date =18 October 2007}}</ref>

In 1994, Wood starred in the one-off BBC 50-minute programme based on her 1993/94 stage show ''Victoria Wood: Live in Your Own Home''. The special featured stand-up routines, character monologues and songs.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-17625869.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529073150/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-17625869.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 May 2016|title=Television: Behave yourself Parky!|last=Young|first=Graham|date=24 March 2000|work=[[Birmingham Evening Mail]]|access-date=20 April 2016}}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref name=bficat>{{cite web |url = http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/578938/credits.html |publisher= [[British Film Institute]] |access-date= 20 April 2016 |title= Wood, Victoria (1953–)}}</ref> An extended 80 minute version was released on VHS.

Wood set out on a 68-date tour of the UK in May 1996, which played at venues in Leicester, Sheffield, Ipswich, Blackpool, Wolverhampton, Bradford, Newcastle, Bournemouth, Brighton, Nottingham, Oxford, Southend, Manchester and Cambridge. The tour culminated with another 15 sell-out shows at London's Royal Albert Hall in the autumn. The tour recommenced in April 1997 in Liverpool and then travelled to Australia and New Zealand during the summer. It was later released as ''Victoria Wood Live 1997''.<ref name="Brandwood"/><ref name=bficat/>

In October 1997, Wood released a compilation of 14 of her songs titled ''Victoria Wood, Real Life The Songs''.<ref name="Brandwood"/>

Her first sitcom ''[[Dinnerladies (TV series)|dinnerladies]]'' (1998), continued her now established milieu of mostly female, mostly middle-aged characters depicted vividly and amusingly, but with a counterpoint of sadder themes.<ref>{{cite web
 | last =Duguid |first =Mark |title =dinnerladies (1998–2000) |work = Screenonline.org.uk
|publisher =British Film Institute |date =July 2003 |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/578972/index.html |access-date =18 October 2007}}</ref>

===2000–2005===
December 2000 saw the Christmas sketch show special ''[[Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings]]'', featuring her regular troupe of actors as well as a string of special guest stars including [[Hugh Laurie]], [[Angela Rippon]], [[Bob Monkhouse]], [[Bill Paterson (actor)|Bill Paterson]], [[Delia Smith]] and [[Roger Moore]].

2001 saw Wood embark on her final stand-up tour, ''Victoria Wood at It Again'' but was postponed slightly by Wood having to have an emergency [[hysterectomy]] shortly before the tour was due to begin. She re-wrote the entire first half of the show and incorporated the operation into her act. The 62-date tour included 12 nights at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] and had a further 23 dates in 2002.<ref name="Brandwood"/><ref name=bficat/>

During this period, Wood tended to move away from comedy to concentrate on drama. She continued to produce one-off specials including ''Victoria Wood's Sketch Show Story'' (2002) and ''Victoria Wood's Big Fat Documentary'' (2005).<ref>{{cite web |title =Victoria Wood's Sketch Show Story |publisher =Simply Stephanie Beacham |year =2007 |url =http://simplystephaniebeacham.com/SketchShow/sketchshowstory.html |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20060321165013/http://simplystephaniebeacham.com/SketchShow/sketchshowstory.html |url-status =dead |archive-date =21 March 2006 |access-date =18 October 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title =Victoria Wood's Big Fat Documentary |publisher =weightlossresources.co.uk |year =2004 |url=http://www.weightlossresources.co.uk/diet/bigfatdocumentary.htm |access-date =18 October 2007}}</ref>

Wood wrote her first musical, ''[[Acorn Antiques: The Musical!]]'', which opened in 2005 at the [[Haymarket Theatre|Theatre Royal, Haymarket]], London, for a limited period, directed by [[Trevor Nunn]]. It starred several of the original cast, with [[Sally Ann Triplett]] playing Miss Berta (played in the series by Wood). Wood played Julie Walters' lead role of ''Mrs Overall'' for Monday and Wednesday matinee performances.<ref>{{cite news |first =Caroline |last =Briggs |title =Mrs Overall Sings Onto The Stage | work =[[BBC News]] |date =2 December 2004 |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4062051.stm}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Rees |first1=Jasper |author1-link=I Found My Horn |title=Let's Do It: the Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood |date=October 2020 |publisher=Trapeze |location=London |isbn=978-1409184102 |url=https://www.thebookseller.com/news/trapeze-triumphs-winning-wood-biography-766391 |access-date=27 December 2020 |language=en |oclc=1226752410}}</ref>

===2006–2010===
Wood wrote the one-off [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] serious drama ''[[Housewife, 49]]'' (2006), an adaptation of the diaries of [[Nella Last]], and played the eponymous role of an introverted middle-aged character who discovers new confidence and friendships in Lancashire during the [[Second World War]]. ''Housewife, 49'' was critically acclaimed, and Wood won [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA]]s for both her acting and writing for this drama; a rare double.<ref>{{cite news |title =Victoria Wood Scoops BAFTA Double |work =[[BBC News]] |date =20 May 2007 |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6670797.stm |access-date = 18 October 2007 }}</ref> The film also starred [[Stephanie Cole]] and David Threlfall as well as, in a small role, [[Sue Wallace]] with whom Wood had worked before and studied alongside at Birmingham.

In November 2006, Wood directed a revival production of ''Acorn Antiques: The Musical!'' with a new cast. The musical opened at [[the Lowry]] in [[City of Salford|Salford]] in December and toured the United Kingdom from January to July 2007.<ref>{{cite news |title =Acorn Antiques: The Musical! |newspaper =The Stage |date =28 August 2007 |url =http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/15334/acorn-antiques-the-musical- |access-date =18 October 2007 }}</ref>

In January 2007, she appeared as herself in a series of advertisements featuring famous people working for the supermarket chain [[Asda]]. They featured Wood working in the bakery and introduced a catchphrase&nbsp;– "there's no place like ASDA".<ref>{{cite news |title =A Touch of Class? |work = Ad Breakdown |publisher =[[BBC News]] |date =2 May 2007 |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6592007.stm |access-date = 18 October 2007 }}</ref> Wood was the subject of an episode of ''[[The South Bank Show]]'' in March 2007, and is the only woman to be the subject of two ''South Bank'' programmes (the previous occasion was in September 1996).<ref>{{cite web |title =The South Bank Show |publisher =epguides.com |date =2 May 2007 |url = http://epguides.com/SouthBankShow/ |access-date = 18 October 2007 }}</ref>

Wood appeared in a three-part travel documentary on [[BBC One]] called ''[[Victoria's Empire]]'', in which she travelled around the world in search of the history, cultural impact and customs the [[British Empire]] placed on the parts of the world it ruled. She departed Victoria Station, London, for [[Calcutta]], Hong Kong and [[Borneo]] in the first programme. In programme two she visited [[Ghana]], [[Jamaica]] and [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]] and in the final programme, [[New Zealand]], Australia and [[Zambia]], finishing at the [[Victoria Falls]].<ref>{{cite news |last =Mangan |first =Lucy |title =The Weekend's TV: Victoria's Empire |newspaper =[[The Guardian]] |date =30 April 2007 |url = https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/apr/30/tvandradio.comment |access-date = 18 October 2007 |location=London}}</ref>

In a tribute to Wood, the British television station [[UKTV Gold]] celebrated her work with a weekend marathon of programmes between 3 and 4 November 2007, featuring programmes such as ''Victoria Wood Live'' and ''[[Dinnerladies (TV series)|dinnerladies]]'' and ''Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV''&nbsp;– its first screening on British television since 1995.

Wood returned to stand-up comedy, with a special performance for the celebratory show ''Happy Birthday BAFTA'' on 28 October 2007, alongside other household names. The programme was transmitted on [[ITV1]] on Wednesday 7 November 2007.<ref>{{cite web |work=BAFTA Heritage |url=http://www.bafta.org/heritage/features/happy-birthday-bafta,165,BA.html |title=''Happy Birthday BAFTA'' |access-date= 15 December 2013 |date=8 November 2007}}</ref> On Boxing Day 2007 she appeared as "Nana" in the Granada dramatisation of [[Noel Streatfeild]]'s novel ''[[Ballet Shoes (film)|Ballet Shoes]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last =Hemley |first =Matthew |title =Wood to star in a BBC1 adaptation of Ballet Shoes |newspaper =[[The Stage]] |date =20 July 2007 |url = http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/17473/wood-to-star-in-a-bbc1-adaptation-of-ballet |access-date = 18 October 2007 }}</ref>

In December 2007, when a guest on the radio programme ''[[Desert Island Discs]]'', Wood said she was about to make her first foray into film, writing a script described as a contemporary comedy about a middle-aged person. On Thursday, 12 June 2008, Wood was a member of the celebrity guest panel on the series ''[[The Apprentice: You're Fired!]]'' on BBC Two. In June 2009, she appeared as a panellist on the first two episodes of a series of ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]''.

In 2009, Wood provided the voice of [[God]] for ''Liberace, Live From Heaven'' by [[Julian Woolford]] at London's [[Leicester Square Theatre]]. Wood returned to television comedy for a one-off Christmas sketch-show special, her first for nine years, ''[[Victoria Wood's Mid Life Christmas]]'', transmitted on BBC One at 21:00 on Christmas Eve 2009.<ref>{{cite web |last =Brown |first =Mark |title =BBC One Christmas special for Victoria Wood |publisher =Seen It |date =17 September 2009 |url = http://www.seenit.co.uk/bbc-one-christmas-special-for-victoria-wood/094152/ |access-date = 19 September 2009 }}</ref> It reunited Wood with Julie Walters in ''Lark Pies to Cranchesterford'', a spoof of BBC period dramas ''[[Lark Rise to Candleford (TV series)|Lark Rise to Candleford]]'', ''[[Little Dorrit (TV series)|Little Dorrit]]'' and ''[[Cranford (TV series)|Cranford]]''; a spoof documentary, ''Beyond the Marigolds'', following ''[[Acorn Antiques]]'' star Bo Beaumont (Walters); highlights from the ''Mid Life Olympics 2009'' with Wood as the commentator; parodies of personal injury advertisements; and a reprise of Wood's most famous song "The Ballad of Barry and Freda" ("Let's Do It"), performed as a musical number with tap-dancers and a band. ''Victoria Wood: Seen On TV'', a 90-minute documentary looking back on her career, was broadcast on BBC Two on 21 December, whilst a behind-the-scenes special programme about ''Midlife Christmas'', ''Victoria Wood: What Larks!'', was broadcast on BBC One on 30 December.

===2011–2016===
On New Year's Day 2011, Wood appeared in a BBC drama ''[[Eric and Ernie]]'' as [[Eric Morecambe]]'s mother, Sadie Bartholomew.<ref>{{cite news |title =Victoria Wood tells all about Eric and Ernie | work =[[BBC News]] |date =30 December 2010 |url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11768311 |access-date = 22 August 2011}}</ref>

For the 2011 [[Manchester International Festival]], Wood wrote, composed and directed ''[[That Day We Sang]]'',<ref name=Hicking>{{cite news|last1=Hicking|first1=Alfred|title=That Day We Sang – review|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/jul/07/musicals-victoria-wood|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=7 July 2011|access-date=20 August 2019}}</ref> a musical set in 1969 with [[flashback (narrative)|flashbacks]] to 1929. It tells the story of a middle-aged couple who find love after meeting on a TV programme about a choir they both sang in 40 years previously. Although the characters are imaginary, the choir sang with the [[The Hallé|Hallé Youth Orchestra]]<ref name=Ward_Guardian>{{cite news|last1=Ward|first1=David|title=Victoria Wood recalls a historic day for Manchester music|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2011/jun/30/victoria-wood-historic|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=30 June 2011|access-date=20 August 2019}}</ref> in Manchester's [[Free Trade Hall]] on a record that sold more than a million copies. Apart from the pieces on the 1929 recording ([[Henry Purcell|Purcell's]] "[[Nymphs and Shepherds]]" and the Evening Benediction from ''[[Hänsel und Gretel (opera)|Hansel and Gretel]]'') the score for the musical was written by Wood.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1405472_remembering_manchester_childrens_choir |first= Lydia |last= Warren |title= Remembering Manchester Children's Choir |newspaper= Manchester Evening News |date= 17 January 2011 |access-date= 19 July 2011 |archive-date= 28 September 2011 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110928043940/http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1405472_remembering_manchester_childrens_choir |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title =That Day We Sang : A Manchester love story&nbsp;– with singing |publisher =[[Manchester International Festival]] |url =http://mif.co.uk/event/victoria-wood-that-day-we-sang |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20101006024347/http://www.mif.co.uk/event/victoria-wood-that-day-we-sang/ |url-status =dead |archive-date =6 October 2010 |access-date =21 August 2011 }}</ref> She also narrated the 2012 miniseries ''[[The Talent Show Story]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ukgameshows.com/ukgs/The_Talent_Show_Story|title=The Talent Show Story – UKGameshows|website=www.ukgameshows.com|access-date=27 May 2019}}</ref>

On 22 December 2012, Wood was a guest on [[BBC Radio 2]]'s Saturday morning ''Graham Norton Show''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012wllm |title=BBC Radio 2&nbsp;– Graham Norton, 22/12/2012, Victoria Wood chats to Graham Norton |date=22 December 2012 |publisher=Bbc.co.uk |access-date=22 April 2016}}</ref> On 23 December [[BBC One]] screened ''[[Loving Miss Hatto]]'', a drama written by Wood about the life of concert pianist [[Joyce Hatto]], the centre of a scandal over the authenticity of her recordings and her role in the hoax.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/proginfo/2012/52/loving-miss-hatto.html ''Loving Miss Hatto''], BBC Media Centre. Retrieved: 24 December 2012.</ref> In April 2013, Wood produced a documentary about the history of tea named ''Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea''.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-viewing-victoria-woods-nice-cup-of-tea-bbc1the-century-that-wrote-itself-bbc4-8567817.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220817/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-viewing-victoria-woods-nice-cup-of-tea-bbc1the-century-that-wrote-itself-bbc4-8567817.html |archive-date=17 August 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | location=London | work=[[The Independent]] | first=Gerard | last=Gilbert | title=Last Night's Viewing: Victoria Wood's Nice Cup of Tea, BBC1 The Century That Wrote Itself, BBC4 | date=11 April 2013}}</ref> In 2013 she played retired constable-turned-security-guard Tracy in BBC Scotland's ''[[Case Histories (TV series)|Case Histories]]'' starring [[Jason Isaacs]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10067299/Case-Histories-BBC-One-review.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/tv-and-radio-reviews/10067299/Case-Histories-BBC-One-review.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Case Histories, BBC One, review|last=Davies|first=Serena|date=20 May 2013|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|access-date=20 April 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> She appeared in an episode of ''[[QI]]'', broadcast on 13 December 2013,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03ls11k|title=QI&nbsp;– Kitchen Sink|publisher=BBC|access-date=20 April 2016}}</ref> and around the same time made two return appearances on ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' during the show's 60th series in which she joined in the game [[One Song to the Tune of Another|One song to the tune of Another]], singing the ''[[Bob the Builder]]'' theme "[[Can We Fix It?]]" to the tune of "[[I Dreamed a Dream]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/programme/dvjm/im-sorry-i-havent-a-clue/episodeguide/series-60|title=I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue&nbsp;– Series 60|work=[[Radio Times]]|access-date=20 April 2016}}</ref> In March 2014, Wood voiced the TV advertisement for the tour of the old set of ''[[Coronation Street]]''. On 5 December 2014 Wood was a guest on BBC's ''[[The Graham Norton Show]]''.<ref>{{cite web|author=British Comedy Guide |url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/graham_norton_show/episodes/16/10/ |title=The Graham Norton Show&nbsp;– Series 16 Episode 10 (Michael Keaton, Jamie Oliver, Victoria Wood, Sir Ian McKellen, One Direction)&nbsp;– British Comedy Guide |publisher=Comedy.co.uk |access-date=22 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Ingate |first=Kathryn |url=http://www.ok.co.uk/celebrity-video/532095/watch-victoria-wood-joke-about-plastic-surgery |title=Watch Victoria Wood joke about plastic surgery |date=20 April 2016 |publisher=Ok.co.uk |access-date=22 April 2016}}</ref> On 26 December 2014, a television movie adaptation of ''[[That Day We Sang#2014 television film|That Day We Sang]]'', directed by Wood, starring [[Michael Ball (singer)|Michael Ball]] and [[Imelda Staunton]], was shown on [[BBC Two]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a536146/imelda-staunton-michael-ball-for-victoria-wood-drama-tubby-and-enid/|title=Imelda Staunton, Michael Ball for Victoria Wood drama Tubby and Enid|last=Nissim|first=Mayer|date=5 December 2013|website=[[Digital Spy]]|access-date=20 April 2016}}</ref>

In early 2015, Wood took part in a celebrity version of ''[[The Great British Bake Off]]'' for [[Comic Relief]] and was crowned Star Baker in her episode.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/563923/Victoria-Wood-Great-Comic-Relief-Bake-Off-2015-champion|title=Red Nose Day 2015: Victoria Wood crowned Great Comic Relief Bake Off champion|last=Price|first=Annie|date=13 March 2015|work=[[Daily Express]]|access-date=20 April 2016}}</ref> She co-starred with [[Timothy Spall]] in [[Sky (United Kingdom)|Sky]] television's three-part television adaptation of ''[[Fungus the Bogeyman]]'', which was first shown on 27, 28 & 29 December 2015,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://go.sky.com/catchup/series/content/series/520f1f5a515c1510VgnVCM1000000b43150a____|title=Fungus The Bogeyman Series 1|publisher=[[Sky (United Kingdom)|Sky]] |access-date=2 January 2016}}</ref> her final acting role.

===Collaborators===
Wood was known for using many of the same actors in her projects, which comedian [[Tiff Stevenson]] later described as "this core of people who she knew she worked well with, and why would [she] want to walk away from that?" Duncan Preston said of these recurring appearances, "I wouldn't say that we were her favourite actors; I think we were like a company that she had."<ref>{{cite episode |series=Victoria Wood: In Her Own Words |date=20 December 2020 |network=[[Channel 5 (British TV channel)|Channel 5]] |publisher=[[ITN Productions]] |time=50:03 |time-caption=At}}</ref> Celia Imrie commented that Wood's "team" approach "meant that we could work together very fast."<ref>{{cite episode |series=Let's Do It: A Tribute to Victoria Wood |date=15 May 2016 |network=[[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] |publisher=[[Shiver Productions]] |time=27:33 |time-caption=At}}</ref> An overview of these recurring cast members is shown below:

{| class="wikitable"
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!Actor
!''[[Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV|As Seen on TV]]''
!''[[Victoria Wood (1989 TV series)|Victoria Wood]]''
!''[[Victoria Wood's All Day Breakfast|All Day Breakfast]]''
!''[[Pat and Margaret]]''
!''[[Dinnerladies (TV series)|dinnerladies]]''
!''[[Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings|With All the Trimmings]]''
!''[[Victoria Wood's Mid Life Christmas|Mid Life Christmas]]''
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|[[Kay Adshead]]
|{{yes C|Recurring}}
|{{yes C|1 episode}}
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|{{yes C|Guest}}
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|[[Susie Blake]]
|{{yes C|Regular}}
|{{yes C|2 episodes}}
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|[[Jim Broadbent]]
|{{yes C|Recurring}}
|{{yes C|1 episode}}
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|[[Deborah Grant]]
|{{yes C|Recurring}}
|{{yes C|1 episode}}
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|[[Philip Lowrie]]
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|{{yes C|2 episodes}}
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|[[Celia Imrie]]
|{{yes C|Regular}}
|{{yes C|3 episodes}}
|{{yes C|}}
|{{yes C|}}
|{{yes C|Regular}}
|{{yes C|}}
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|[[Duncan Preston]]
|{{yes C|Regular}}
|{{yes C|1 episode}}
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|{{yes C|Regular}}
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|[[Anne Reid]]
|{{yes C|Guest}}
|{{yes C|2 episodes}}
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|{{yes C|}}
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|[[Lill Roughley]]
|{{yes C|Recurring}}
|{{yes C|4 episodes}}
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|[[Julie Walters]]
|{{yes C|Regular}}
|{{yes C|3 episodes}}
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|{{yes C|Recurring}}
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