John Fortune was an English satirist, comedian, writer, and actor, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune. He was educated at Bristol Cathedral School and King's College, Cambridge, where he was to meet and form a lasting friendship with John Bird.
Movies6.52 2000 HD
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Brenda Blethyn
Movies1 2003 HD
The impressionist Rory Bremner and comedians Bird and Fortune take a look at the history of Iraq through a series of sketches, monologues and jokes....
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Cast: John Fortune
Movies5.5 1984 HD
Six scientists arrive at the creepy Headstone Manor to investigate a strange phenomena which was the site of a mysterious massacre years earlier...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Kenny Everett
Movies1 1996 HD
Jessie Fielding is a young MP who is trying to get an anti-hunting bill through the two Houses of Parliament, which is a little surprising as she...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Clare Holman
Movies7.368 2005 HD
Chris, a former tennis player, looks for work as an instructor. He meets Tom Hewett, a wealthy young man whose sister Chloe falls in love with Chris....
Genre: Drama
Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Movies7 1993 HD
British academics Loretta and Bridget run into Sandra, an old school friend at a book launch. Although Sandra appears to be gay and carefree, Loretta...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Janet McTeer
Movies6.541 2003 HD
Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women's Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Helen Mirren
Movies7 1981 HD
Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Jonathan Pryce
Movies5 1995 HD
The story of Henry Purcell.
Genre: History
Cast: Michael Ball
Movies4.3 1965 HD
In this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a working class man goes to put a deposit on a...
Genre: Music
Cast: Ken Jones
Movies1 1990 HD
A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home.
Genre: TV Movie
Cast: George Cole
Movies5.3 2000 HD
Sam and Lucie Bell are a married couple who seem to have it all: good looks, successful careers, matching motorbikes, and an enthusiastic love life....
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Hugh Laurie
Movies6.04 2001 HD
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Pierce Brosnan
Movies1 1996 HD
Jessie Fielding is a young MP who is trying to get an anti-hunting bill through the two Houses of Parliament, which is a little surprising as she...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Clare Holman
Movies7 1978 HD
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
Genre: Fantasy
Cast: Stacy Dorning
Movies10 1995 HD
The Home Secretary has his eye on the Prime Minister's job. But an experiment in the way the prisons are run leads to embarrassment - and escaped...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Tom Wilkinson
Movies5.4 1970 HD
Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick,...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Oliver Reed
Movies1 1965 HD
An interpretation of Plato's Symposium as a picnic organised by a University don for his students. Each guest is asked to explain the nature of love...
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Cast: Leo McKern
Movies1 1973 HD
A parody of the long running radio show "The Archers", an everyday story of country-folk based in the fictional village of Umbridge.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Joan Sims
Movies1 1999 HD
In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the...
Genre: History
Cast: Paul Rhys
Movies6 1982 HD
Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums –...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Rowan Atkinson
Movies4.4 1972 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: James Booth
Movies1 2006 HD
Genre: Drama
Cast: Jared Harris
Movies1 1973 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Joan Sims
S3 E78.3 1982 HD
Satirical sitcom set in the office of a UK Cabinet minister, Jim Hacker MP, who struggles with Civil Service bureaucracy and political machinations...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Paul Eddington
S16 E36 2010 HD
Bremner, Bird and Fortune is an award-winning satirical British television programme produced by Vera Productions for Channel Four, uniting the...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: John Fortune
S4 E61 1992 HD
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Cast: John Fortune
S7 E81 1998 HD
Genre: Comedy
Cast: John Bird
S1 E71 1976 HD
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Cast: John Bird
S4 E66.583 1999 HD
A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Dawn French
S26 E326.771 2010 HD
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Simon Rouse
S12 E97.3 2015 HD
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service....
Genre: Drama
Cast: Dennis Waterman
S1 E621 1965 HD
Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life is a BBC-TV satire programme produced by Ned Sherrin, which aired during the winter of 1964–1965,...
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Cast: Roy Hudd
S1 E375.2 1985 HD
The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and...
Genre: Drama
Cast:
S1 E81 1967 HD
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Cast: John Bird
S3 E66.781 2016 HD
Comedy about an inept American placed in charge of sales at his company's London branch. He has no experience with British culture, knows nothing...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: David Cross
S3 E77 2012 HD
Comedy Showcase is a series of one-off comedy specials featuring some of Britain's fledgling comedy talent. Its format is reminiscent of the much...
Genre: Comedy
Cast:
S2 E127.3 2008 HD
Bittersweet comedy drama about the eternal search for the perfect partner.
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Michael Landes
S1 E41 2008 HD
Rory Bremner takes a satirical look at the 2008 'credit crunch'. He spoofs politicians and other public figures to tell the story of the US and UK...
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Cast: Rory Bremner
S1 E155 2012 HD
A series of benefit shows staged initially in the United Kingdom to raise funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International. The shows...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: John Cleese
S9 E67 1988 HD
Hi-de-Hi! is a British sitcom set in Maplins, a fictional holiday camp, during 1959 and 1960, and was written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, who...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Ruth Madoc
S2 E141 2005 HD
Anthology series of black comedies, which sets out to deliver excellent stories with a darkly comic twist.
Genre: Mystery
Cast:
S2 E85.625 1990 HD
Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989...
Genre: Mystery
Cast: Peter Davison
S67 E107.188 2024 HD
Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party,...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Paul Merton
S16 E36 2010 HD
Bremner, Bird and Fortune is an award-winning satirical British television programme produced by Vera Productions for Channel Four, uniting the...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: John Fortune
S1 E81 1967 HD
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Cast: John Bird
S16 E36 2010 HD
Bremner, Bird and Fortune is an award-winning satirical British television programme produced by Vera Productions for Channel Four, uniting the...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: John Fortune
