Jan Ravens

Jan Ravens

Born: May 14, 1958
in Bebington, Cheshire, England, UK

Movies for Jan Ravens...

TK Maxx: How Do They Do It?
Title: TK Maxx: How Do They Do It?
Character: Narrator
Released: May 1, 2022
Type: Movie
TK Maxx boasts a somewhat unique business model for the fashion sector, with its buyers purchase stock throughout the year depending on the opportunities they come across.
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Title: Richard Osman's House of Games
Character: Self - Contestant
Released: September 4, 2017
Type: TV
Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.
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Title: Hebburn
Character: Susan
Released: October 18, 2012
Type: TV
Hebburn is a warm and affectionate tale of north east family life. It tells the tale of the Pearson family and their impetuous and ambitious son, Jack, who has left Tyneside for the bright lights and glamour of Manchester. He has secretly married a middle class Jewish girl, Sarah, and realises that it is about time he introduced her to his family.
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Title: Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
Character: Self - Participant
Released: October 24, 2011
Type: TV
Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction
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Title: Pointless Celebrities
Character: Self - Contestant
Released: July 4, 2011
Type: TV
Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present a celebrity version of the general knowledge quiz in which contestants try to come up with the answers that nobody else could think of.
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Fry and Laurie Reunited
Title: Fry and Laurie Reunited
Character: Self
Released: November 24, 2010
Type: Movie
Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie reunite for a TV special to mark the 30th anniversary of their partnership.
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Title: What the Dickens?
Character: Self
Released: May 28, 2008
Type: TV
What the Dickens is a television panel game hosted by Sandi Toksvig. Team captains were Dave Gorman and Tim Brooke-Taylor for the first series and Sue Perkins and Chris Addison for the second and third. It is recorded at Sky Studios in West London.
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Mock The Week: Too Hot For TV
Title: Mock The Week: Too Hot For TV
Released: November 26, 2007
Type: Movie
Produced exclusively for DVD, with nearly of 3 hours of the hottest standup comedians performing in the funniest program on TV. Mock the Week - Too Hot For TV contains all the best laugh out load moments that couldn't be shown on TV or anywhere else, for reasons of taste, decency and sheer outrageousness. For the first time see unbroadcastable material from Dara O'Briain, Frankie Boyle, Hugh Dennis, Andy Parsons, Russell Howard and a host of the funniest stand-up comedians on the circuit
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Title: Ronni Ancona & Co
Released: May 25, 2007
Type: TV
Ronni Ancona & Co is a comedy sketch show that aired on BBC One and began on 25 May 2007. The sketches all consisted of impressions of well-known celebrities amongst other comedy sketches of fictional characters created by Ronni Ancona. Phil Cornwell, Jan Ravens and John Sessions all starred in the series with Ancona. Bill Oddie also made a cameo appearance in the first episode. Fellow impressionist Alistair McGowan appeared in the first episode in a spoof of a perfume advertisement.
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Title: Nigella
Character: Self
Released: July 4, 2005
Type: TV
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Title: Monkey Trousers
Released: May 20, 2005
Type: TV
Monkey Trousers was a short-lived comedy series on ITV in 2005, featuring Alistair McGowan, John Thomson, Ronni Ancona, Mackenzie Crook, Griff Rhys Jones, Neil Morrissey, Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Marc Wootton and Steve Coogan. It was directed by David Kerr and produced by Bob Mortimer and Vic Reeves' production company, Pett Productions. It succeeded The All Star Comedy Show, which was written by Reeves and Mortimer, and produced by Coogan. Sketches of the show included the moronic, yet fearless 'Croc Botherer', Roy the eerie, lonely toy-shopkeeper, Alistair the hopeless estate agent, who replies to every question with "I don't know", the swearing chef, and the 'Geordie Astronauts'. A DVD of the series was released on 4 July 2005.
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Title: The Paul O'Grady Show
Released: October 11, 2004
Type: TV
The Paul O'Grady Show is a British comedy chat show hosted by Birkenhead-born comedian Paul O'Grady. The format was originally devised by Granada Television and was broadcast on ITV before moving to Channel 4, where the show was produced by Olga TV. The programme is a teatime chat show consisting of a mixture of celebrity guests, comic stunts, musical performances, and occasionally viewer competitions.
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Title: Celebrity Mastermind
Released: December 26, 2003
Type: TV
Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long-running quiz show Mastermind, with the exception that all the contestants are celebrities. As with the main show, John Humphrys is the host and question-master. Magnus Magnusson was quizmaster on the 2003/04 episodes featuring Jonathan Meades as winner.
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Title: QI
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 2003
Type: TV
Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.
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Title: The Terry and Gaby Show
Released: June 2, 2003
Type: TV
The Terry and Gaby Show was a daytime television show broadcast on Five on weekday mornings between June 2003 and April 2004, produced by Chris Evans' company UMTV. It was hosted by Terry Wogan and Gaby Roslin. The opening titles featured Gaby dressed up like a movie star driven to the studio in a limo and walking on red carpet to the door. Meanwhile Terry, carrying a briefcase, rode a rickety old bicycle across London and parked it outside the back door before quietly entering the building through said back door. The show was not well known for the guests who appeared on it, but rather for its many bloopers or double entendres
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Title: Dead Ringers
Released: November 18, 2002
Type: TV
Satirical comedy featuring topical impressions and humorous mimicry, starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens and Phil Cornwell.
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Title: 2DTV
Released: October 14, 2001
Type: TV
2DTV is a British satirical animated television show that was broadcast on ITV in the United Kingdom from March 2001 to December 2004. Lasting a total of five series and thirty-three episodes, 2DTV became the successor of popular 80's TV series Spitting Image, and the predecessor of 2008 ITV satirical animation Headcases.
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Title: The Big Impression
Released: April 26, 2000
Type: TV
The Big Impression, known as Alistair McGowan's Big Impression for the first three series, is a British comedy sketch show. It features Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona impersonating personalities from entertainment and sport. Four series and a number of specials were made by Vera Productions and it was first broadcast on BBC One between 2000 and 2004. The series has won five awards, including the 2003 BAFTA comedy programme prize.
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Title: The Grimleys
Released: March 8, 1999
Type: TV
The Grimleys is a nostalgic comedy-drama television series set on a council estate in Dudley, West Midlands, England in the mid-1970s. It was first broadcast by Granada TV for ITV in 1999, following a pilot in 1997, and concluded in 2001 after three series. The show was written by Jed Mercurio, who had trained as a doctor and whose first series, Cardiac Arrest - written under the pseudonym 'John MacUre' - had attracted critical plaudits for its dark portrayal of life in a disintegrating British National Health Service. The filming of the school took place in Salford, Buile Hill High, Hope High and Pendleton College, although the filming of the characters' homes actually took place some 80 miles away in the Dudley area itself; around Parkes Hall Road on the Dudley-Sedgley border.
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Title: Duck Patrol
Character: Angie Tennant
Released: July 19, 1998
Type: TV
Duck Patrol is a British television comedy series that originally aired in 1998. Produced by LWT for the ITV network, it centered around a river police station by the River Thames. The script for the pilot episode 'Of Ducks and Men' was re-filmed with some changes to supporting cast and main cast uniforms, and retitled as 'Flying Colours' which then became the first episode of the following series.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Sarah Wroath
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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La Passione
Title: La Passione
Character: Mama
Released: November 14, 1996
Type: Movie
For one young boy, a passion can be more than just a dream.
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Pete Townshend Live in New York Featuring Psychoderelict
Title: Pete Townshend Live in New York Featuring Psychoderelict
Character: Ruth Streeting
Released: November 16, 1993
Type: Movie
A performance from Townshend's first North American solo tour was broadcast live from the theatre of the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York in August 1993. The concert was in three parts: an opening session of eight songs, a complete performance of Psychoderelict and an encore of a further five songs.
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Title: Luv
Released: March 9, 1993
Type: TV
Luv is a British television sitcom made by the BBC in 1993 which ran for 18 episodes. The writer and executive producer was Carla Lane. The main character, Terese Craven, was played by Sue Johnston.
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B&B
Title: B&B
Character: Carol Dudley
Released: June 19, 1992
Type: Movie
An out-of-work architect turns his house into a bed and breakfast hotel.
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Title: Gibberish
Released: March 16, 1992
Type: TV
Gibberish was a celebrity panel game show hosted by Kenny Everett. Two teams of celebrities had to answer questions.
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Title: Have I Got News for You
Character: Herself
Released: September 28, 1990
Type: TV
Hilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.
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Title: One Foot In the Grave
Released: January 4, 1990
Type: TV
One Foot in the Grave is a BBC television sitcom series The series features the exploits of Victor Meldrew and his long-suffering wife, Margaret. The programmes invariably deal with Meldrew's battle against the problems he creates for himself. Living in a typical household in an unnamed English suburb, Victor takes involuntary early retirement. His various efforts to keep himself busy, while encountering various misfortunes and misunderstandings are the themes of the sitcom. The series was largely filmed on location in Walkford, near New Milton in Hampshire, although several clues show that the series may have been set in Hampshire – possibly Winchester. Despite its traditional production, the series supplants its domestic sitcom setting with elements of black humour and surrealism.
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Title: Alexei Sayle's Stuff
Released: October 13, 1988
Type: TV
Alexei Sayle's Stuff is a comedy sketch show which ran on BBC2 for a total of 18 episodes over 3 series from 1988 to 1991.
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Title: Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Character: Herself
Released: September 23, 1988
Type: TV
An un-scripted comedy show in which four guest performers improvise their way through a series of games, many of which rely on audience suggestions.
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Title: No Frills
Released: September 5, 1988
Type: TV
No Frills was a television sitcom broadcast on BBC1 in 1988, and consisted of 7 episodes. It starred Kathy Staff as Molly Bickerstaff, a recently widowed woman who moves from Oldham to live in London with her divorced daughter Kate and gothic granddaughter Suzy.
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Title: C.A.T.S. Eyes
Released: April 12, 1985
Type: TV
C.A.T.S. Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987.
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Title: Countdown
Released: November 2, 1982
Type: TV
The clock is ticking as contestants compete in games of lexical dexterity and numerical agility.
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Title: The Kenny Everett Television Show
Character: Various
Released: February 25, 1982
Type: TV
Sketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.
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Title: Are You Being Served?
Character: Mrs. Thatcher (voice)
Released: September 8, 1972
Type: TV
This comedy series, which follows the exploits of employees at London's fictional "Grace Brothers" department store, is full of sexual innuendo, slapstick, visual gags, and double entendres. Much of the show's humor parodies Britain's class system, and many of the show's characters are based on stereotypes of the period, including the effeminate Mr. Humphries and the rich, but stingy, store owner.