Mark Benton

Mark Benton

Born: November 16, 1965
in Guisborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Movies for Mark Benton...

The Sewer Map of Britain
Title: The Sewer Map of Britain
Character: Self (Narrator)
Released: March 29, 2024
Type: Movie
Take a deep dive into the hidden secrets of one of Britain's oldest and most crucial networks, from Victorian solutions to sewage pile-ups, to modern ideas for disposing of our waste safely. There is also a trip to Hadrian's Wall to marvel at how the Romans handled the sewage issue almost 2,000 years ago.
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The Canal Map of Britain
Title: The Canal Map of Britain
Character: Narrator
Released: March 15, 2024
Type: Movie
A look at Britain's beloved canal network via a fact-filled cruise along the first superhighways of the Industrial Revolution. In the age before mechanisation, a frenzy of canal-building saw a new army of workers carve out the British landscape, digging out hundreds of miles of waterways using picks, shovels and muscle.
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Title: Maps of Britain
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: March 8, 2024
Type: TV
Britain is connected by miles of roads, canals, and railway. This series explores the history of how we get around this ancient island.
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The Devil Went Down To Islington
Title: The Devil Went Down To Islington
Character: Barry Grossman
Released: October 23, 2023
Type: Movie
An underachieving music teacher and his dodgy colleague end a big night out by unwittingly selling their souls to the devil for three days' good fortune. Soon realising their grave mistake they find themselves in a race against the clock to break the deal and save their futures. But do the useless pair, aided by an unhinged priest, stand any real chance? As obstacles, and bodies, start piling up, the hour of reckoning grows near...
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Title: Painting Birds with Jim and Nancy Moir
Character: Self
Released: April 19, 2023
Type: TV
Comedic ornithological series, Painting Birds with Jim and Nancy Moir will follow prolific artist Jim and his wife Nancy as they explore some of Britain’s best beauty spots, joined along the way by a few famous friends. Their challenge? Create an original piece of bird art celebrating the unique species native to that region over the course of a weekend. Accompanied in each episode by local twitchers, artists and conservation experts, Jim, and Nancy will be guided through forest and fen as they venture through wild countryside and local bird sanctuaries to gather inspiration. They’ll spend meditative weekends sketching and painting their feathery subjects, tackling everything from grouse to goshawks and bitterns to bearded tits.
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Secrets of a Wallaby Boy
Title: Secrets of a Wallaby Boy
Character: Roland
Released: February 6, 2023
Type: Movie
When Tim becomes a courier for the app Wallaby, he reckons he can turn his life around: get fit, earn some money, and even get laid. He’s not accounted for his own haplessness, an antique teapot collection, and a sinister conspiracy.
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Title: Robson Green's Weekend Escapes
Character: Himself
Released: January 23, 2023
Type: TV
Relax, reset and recharge. Robson takes the roads less travelled across his beloved North East England. With friends and family, he finds wellbeing and adventure in wonderful places.
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Christmas Carole
Title: Christmas Carole
Character: Leon
Released: December 23, 2022
Type: Movie
Carole Mackay is an unashamedly outspoken and wealthy entrepreneur. Her online business selling all things festive has earned her a fortune, as well as the nickname 'Christmas Carole'. But her success hasn't made her a better human being. In fact, it's made her worse. The truth is that Carole is a monumentally mean person. Positively Scrooge-like. And, just like Ebeneezer, she doesn't love Christmas at all. But this Christmas Eve, Carole's past, present and future are about to collide. Will some rather familiar Christmas spirits help her discover the true spirit of Christmas?
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Title: Dead Canny
Character: Karl
Released: August 24, 2022
Type: TV
Kay, a questionable young psychic from Consett, County Durham, has the ability to see dead people. This not only earns her a few quid cash-in-hand down the local pub, but also lands her as the prime suspect in a murder enquiry.
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Title: Big Tree City
Character: Major Prickles (voice)
Released: August 1, 2022
Type: TV
A team of animal heroes with special skills and speedy vehicles work together to keep Big Tree City safe and solve the town's trickiest problems.
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Title: The Read
Character: Narrator
Released: April 10, 2022
Type: TV
Creative performance readings of iconic British novels.
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Title: The Weakest Link
Character: Self - Participant
Released: December 18, 2021
Type: TV
Romesh Ranganathan takes charge of the back-stabbing big money game show. Can the contestants create a chain of answers and avoid the boot?
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Cyrano
Title: Cyrano
Character: Montfleury
Released: December 17, 2021
Type: Movie
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her—and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.
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Title: The Nevers
Character: The Colonel
Released: April 11, 2021
Type: TV
In the last years of Victoria's reign, London is beset by the "Touched": people — mostly women — who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities, some charming, some very disturbing. Among them are Amalia True, a mysterious, quick-fisted widow, and Penance Adair, a brilliant young inventor. They are the champions of this new underclass, making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces — to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place.
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The Fruit Fix
Title: The Fruit Fix
Character: Doug
Released: November 6, 2020
Type: Movie
Hope has a life-changing piano audition coming up — nerve-wracking at the best of times. Unfortunately, as a sufferer of social anxiety, it's going to take extraordinary courage to seek the help needed to pursue her dream.
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The Making of Anna and the Apocalypse
Title: The Making of Anna and the Apocalypse
Character: Himself (archive footage)
Released: December 2, 2019
Type: Movie
A brand new feature-length documentary featuring new interviews with the cast and crew of Anna and the Apocalypse, produced exclusively by Second SIght Films for their 2-disc Blu-ray release of the movie.
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Torvill & Dean
Title: Torvill & Dean
Character: Ted
Released: December 25, 2018
Type: Movie
Biopic of the British ice dancers and British, European, Olympic and World champions, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.
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Anna and the Apocalypse
Title: Anna and the Apocalypse
Character: Tony Shepherd
Released: November 30, 2018
Type: Movie
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven – at Christmas – forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.
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Title: Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
Character: Frank Hathaway
Released: February 26, 2018
Type: TV
Frank Hathaway, a hardboiled private investigator, and his rookie sidekick Lu Shakespeare form the unlikeliest of partnerships as they investigate the secrets of rural Warwickshire's residents.
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Ratburger
Title: Ratburger
Character: Gary
Released: December 24, 2017
Type: Movie
A girl rescues a rat, which the malevolent burgerman wants to make into a burger and sell to the local school children and people.
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Title: The Halcyon
Character: Dennis Feldman
Released: January 2, 2017
Type: TV
The story of a bustling and glamorous five star hotel at the centre of London society and a world at war.
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Title: Damned
Character: Mike
Released: September 27, 2016
Type: TV
Comedy set in the social services department of a local authority. Social workers Rose and Al swim against the tide of bureaucracy, deal with the absurdities of life and try to navigate their equally trying professional and personal lives.
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National Theatre Live: As You Like It
Title: National Theatre Live: As You Like It
Character: Touchstone
Released: March 30, 2016
Type: Movie
With her father the Duke banished and in exile, Rosalind and her cousin Celia leave their lives in the court behind them and journey into the Forest of Arden. There, released from convention, Rosalind experiences the liberating rush of transformation. Disguising herself as a boy, she embraces a different way of living and falls spectacularly in love.
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Eddie the Eagle
Title: Eddie the Eagle
Character: Richmond the BOA Official
Released: February 25, 2016
Type: Movie
The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
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Danny & the Human Zoo
Title: Danny & the Human Zoo
Character: Syd Noble
Released: August 31, 2015
Type: Movie
A dramatised account of the early life and career of impressionist, comedian and actor Lenny Henry.
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Title: Inside No. 9
Character: Les
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: TV
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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Title: Father Brown
Character: PC Walt Everett
Released: January 14, 2013
Type: TV
Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
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Panto!
Title: Panto!
Character: Francis
Released: December 26, 2012
Type: Movie
Morecambe FM disc jockey Lewis Loud is thrilled to be appearing in his first pantomime 'Dick Whittington' opposite glamorous soap star Tamsin.
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Boys On Film 8: Cruel Britannia
Title: Boys On Film 8: Cruel Britannia
Character: Phil (segment "I Don't Care")
Released: May 28, 2012
Type: Movie
From the cliffs of the Isle of Wight to an abandoned swimming pool in Lambeth, Boys On Film 8: Cruel Britannia presents an eclectic mix of ten UK-set short films including: Harry Wootliff's "I Don't Care" starring Iwan Rheon; Ben Peters's "Downing" starring Jamie Brotherston and Ross William Wild; David Andrew Ward's "All Over Brazil" starring Iain De Caestecker, Frank Gallagher, and Gemma Morrison; David Leon and Marcus McSweeney's "Man and Boy" starring Eddie Marsan, Geoff Bell, and Eddie Webber; Aleem Khan's "Diana" starring Neeraj Singh; Jason Bradbury's "We Once Were Tide" starring Alexander Scott, Tristan Bernays, and Mandy Aldridge; Hong Khaou's "Spring" starring Chris O'Donnell and Jonathan Keane; Sybil H. Mair's "The Chef's Letter" starring Jonathan Firth, Ray Fearon, and Layke Anderson; Faryal's "What You Looking At?!" starring Rez Kabir, Michael Twaits, and Hussina Raja; and Dominic Leclerc's "Nightswimming" starring Harry Eden, Linzey Cocker, and Tim Dantay.
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Title: The Syndicate
Character: Graham Woods
Released: March 27, 2012
Type: TV
A drama exploring how winning the lottery transforms the lives of ordinary people.
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Title: Death in Paradise
Character: Les Doyle
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: TV
A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
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Title: Vera
Character: Stanley Booth
Released: May 1, 2011
Type: TV
A sharp detective with a messy life, DCI Vera Stanhope patrols her “patch” of northeast England, pursuing the truth in cases of murder, kidnapping, and blackmail. Vera is obsessive about her work and faces the world with caustic wit, guile and courage.
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I Don't Care
Title: I Don't Care
Character: Phil
Released: August 19, 2010
Type: Movie
Luka Bartholomew cares for his bed-ridden mother in the run-down resort town of Porthpunnet. On his thirtieth birthday his mother hires a carer to give him a day off. On a wintry beach he meets Dan,another young man who lives in a camper van and shares his interest in art. Initially he sees Dan as a kindred spirit until Dan proves to be gay and makes a violent pass at him. Disillusioned and drunk,Luka meets middle-aged biker Phil,who gives him a pillion ride and offers to help him leave town. But by now Luka knows where his priorities lie.
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My Last Five Girlfriends
Title: My Last Five Girlfriends
Character: Duncan World - Rollercoaster Alan
Released: March 19, 2010
Type: Movie
Depressed and suicidal, thirtysomething bachelor Duncan determined to find the secret to a healthy, strong relationship, flashes back to his last five relationships (in the last four years) and considers what caused each one to fail. Based on the novel 'Essays in Love' by Alain de Botton.
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Title: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Character: Dad
Released: October 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A travelling theatre company has more to it than meets the eye. It is an imaginary world commanded by the mind of Doctor Parnassus and the audience is in for more than just a show.
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Title: Land Girls
Character: Frederick Finch
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: TV
The lives, loves and highs and lows of four members of the Women's Land Army working at the Hoxley Estate during World War II.
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Title: Desperate Romantics
Released: July 21, 2009
Type: TV
Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
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Title: Personal Affairs
Released: June 16, 2009
Type: TV
Personal Affairs was a 2009 British television drama-comedy series, broadcast on BBC Three. It starred Annabel Scholey, Laura Aikman, Maimie McCoy and Ruth Negga as four City of London Personal Assistants looking for their lost friend Grace Darling.
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Beyond The Pole
Title: Beyond The Pole
Character: Graham
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A documentary film crew follows the first carbon neutral, organic, vegetarian expedition ever to attempt the North Pole. Simultaneously Saving the Planet and getting into the Guinness Book of Records Brian and Mark hope to kill two birds with one stone. Unfortunately, they have never done anything like this before.
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Clash of the Santas
Title: Clash of the Santas
Character: Howie
Released: December 21, 2008
Type: Movie
Christmas sequel to hit comedies, City Lights and Northern Lights. Follow the ups-and-downs of bickering best friends Colin and Howie at the World Santa Championships.
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Title: Britannia High
Released: October 26, 2008
Type: TV
Britannia High is a British musical drama television series co-produced by Granada Television and Globe Productions for the ITV network. The series focused on the lives of a group of teenagers and their mentors at a fictional London theatre school. It aired on ITV and TV3 Ireland, premiering on 26 October 2008. The show starred Sapphire Elia, Georgina Hagen, Mitch Hewer, Rana Roy, Matthew James Thomas and Marcquelle Ward, as well as Adam Garcia as the dance mentor, Lorraine Pilkington as the music mentor and Mark Benton as the school principal and acting mentor. In addition to the main cast, the series featured cameo performances from Girls Aloud, Boyzone, Matt Willis and Gemma Bissix. Also, Aston Merrygold, lead singer of hit boyband JLS, auditioned for the role before his success in the boyband - but only made it to the final 16. George Ure who attended Mountview Academy also auditioned before his success in the Musical Wicked where he played Boq. Pixie Lott also auditioned as did Ed Sheeran and Danielle Peazer. The show featured an original soundtrack which was created by a team of pop producers and writers in the UK, led by Take That member Gary Barlow.
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Three and Out
Title: Three and Out
Character: Vic
Released: October 12, 2008
Type: Movie
A London tube driver considers pursuing a third fatal accident to collect a huge payout.
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Flick
Title: Flick
Character: Sgt Miller
Released: October 3, 2008
Type: Movie
Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and wierd sightings following the resurrection of a murder victim from the 1950s(a local boy) who is brought back to life in modern times and tries to find his teenage sweetheart who is now aged 62 and also to seek revenge for his death.
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Hughie Green, Most Sincerely
Title: Hughie Green, Most Sincerely
Character: Jess Yates
Released: April 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Drama about the secret life of Opportunity Knocks and Double Your Money presenter Hughie Green, based on the inside story from his family, friends and peers. It tells of the destructive power of success and celebrity from Green's earliest days as a child star, and explores what family and fatherhood meant to this iconic character, who harboured an explosive secret that would rock the entertainment world after his death in 1997.
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Title: Fixer
Released: March 10, 2008
Type: TV
The Fixer is a British drama television series, produced by Kudos for ITV. Set in modern Britain, it follows the life of John Mercer, an ex-British Special Forces soldier, arrested by police for killing his aunt and uncle following his discovery of their abuse of his sister, Jess Mercer. John Mercer is released early from prison to serve in a covert state security squad as a government-backed assassin responsible for eliminating criminals and renegade police officers that the law cannot apprehend.
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Title: City Lights
Released: April 4, 2007
Type: TV
In "City Lights", Howie and Colin witness a gangland shooting and have to join the Witness Protection Scheme, leading to the forced relocation of their families to London.
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Title: Fallen Angel
Character: Eddie
Released: March 11, 2007
Type: TV
Fallen Angel is an ITV series broadcast on 11–13 March 2007 based on the Roth Trilogy of novels by Andrew Taylor. It tells the story of Rosie Byfield, a clergyman's daughter, who grows up to be a psychopathic killer. It has a unique narrative that moves backwards in time as it uncovers the layers of Rosie's past.
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Breaking and Entering
Title: Breaking and Entering
Character: Legge
Released: December 15, 2006
Type: Movie
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Title: I'm with Stupid
Character: Sheldon
Released: September 10, 2006
Type: TV
I'm with Stupid is a British television programme starring Paul Henshall and Mark Benton. The series was created by BBC Comedy North. Peter Keeley was series consultant and it was written by Danny Peak. The original pilot episode aired on BBC Three in March 2005. The main character, Paul, portrayed by disabled actor Paul Henshall, has cerebral palsy and Mark Benton's character, Sheldon, is a homeless man who Paul takes in to Bramble Lodge and offers him a place to stay. Bramble Lodge is a home for disabled people governed by Jean. The cast also includes Alan Martin as Graham, Kevin Davids as Syd, Cherylee Houston as Dorothy and Steve Edge as Sergeant Swithenback. The series aired from 10 September to 15 October 2006 on BBC Three.
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The Booze Cruise III: The Scattering
Title: The Booze Cruise III: The Scattering
Character: Dave
Released: May 21, 2006
Type: Movie
The gang return for their third adventure, this time on a trip to scatter Grace's mother's ashes on the Yorkshire Moors.
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Title: Comedy Doubles
Released: May 4, 2006
Type: TV
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If I Had You
Title: If I Had You
Character: Harry Fielding
Released: May 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A police detective moves back to her hometown and immediately becomes embroiled in a murder investigation in which her married ex-lover is the chief suspect.
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Title: The Street
Character: Wayne Taylor
Released: April 13, 2006
Type: TV
Anthology drama following the lives and passions of neighbors on a northern English street.
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Title: Northern Lights
Released: January 16, 2006
Type: TV
Northern Lights is a 2006 comedy-drama. It is a spin-off of the 2004 Christmas special Christmas Lights. A sequel, City Lights, was broadcast in 2007. Also a Christmas special, Clash of the Santas, was broadcast in December 2008. It featured Colin and Howie taking a trip to Lithuania to represent the United Kingdom in a Santa convention. The main problem with this is that miserable Howie is picked as Santa, while true Christmas believer Colin is relegated to the role of cheerleading elf.
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The Booze Cruise II: The Treasure Hunt
Title: The Booze Cruise II: The Treasure Hunt
Character: Dave
Released: December 25, 2005
Type: Movie
The Booze Cruise is a series of three feature length comedy dramas written for British television by Paul Minett and Brian Leveson. In this episode the same characters go on a treasure hunt, and end up with their car being washed out to sea on a beach. Marcus (a businessman who deals with Dave's company) first appears in this episode.
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Title: Afterlife
Released: September 24, 2005
Type: TV
University lecturer Robert Bridge becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Clive
Released: March 26, 2005
Type: TV
The Doctor is a Time Lord: a 900 year old alien with 2 hearts, part of a gifted civilization who mastered time travel. The Doctor saves planets for a living—more of a hobby actually, and the Doctor's very, very good at it.
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Planespotting
Title: Planespotting
Character: Paul Coppin
Released: February 20, 2005
Type: Movie
Television drama based on a true story about a group of planespotters wrongly accused of being spies. 14 planespotters are arrested for behaving 'suspiciously' at an air base in Greece and are accused of being spies because of the telescopes, radio scanners and aircraft serial numbers they have in their possession. They plead their innocence but the farce turns into a nightmare when the group are held in squalid Greek prisons.
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Title: Twisted Tales
Released: January 16, 2005
Type: TV
Twisted Tales is a dark and stylish comedy drama series. With intense scripts written by a mix of established writers and upcoming talent, each story is a self-contained episode with a mysterious twist. The tales set out to spook the brain and tickle the funny bone, so be prepared to expect the unexpected. The series is very closely related to Spine Chillers, an earlier BBC Three series. In effect, Twisted Tales is a rebranded second series of the earlier successful production.
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Christmas Lights
Title: Christmas Lights
Character: Howie
Released: December 20, 2004
Type: Movie
Robson Green and Mark Benton co-star in Christmas Lights, a one-off comedy drama for ITV1 centred on two lifelong friends who have always competed with each other. The festive season brings on new challenges and takes their rivalry to extremes resulting in the two friends forgetting what Christmas is really about. Can anything bring them to their senses?
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King of Fridges
Title: King of Fridges
Character: Alan
Released: September 18, 2004
Type: Movie
A play about an ambitious young manager of a Dixons-style electrical warehouse who gets saddled with a 65-year-old re-trainee on a frenetic bank holiday.
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Quite Ugly One Morning
Title: Quite Ugly One Morning
Character: Darren Mortlake
Released: September 4, 2004
Type: Movie
Investigative reporter Jack Parlabane stumbles across the aftermath of a murder scene in Edinburgh, and when he shows little sign of shock at the gruesome killing of a respected doctor, Detective Inspector McGregor suspects that he is the killer and Parlabane must clear his name.
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Gladiatress
Title: Gladiatress
Character: Hermes, Stage Manager
Released: August 19, 2004
Type: Movie
Three unlikely heroines set out to thwart a Roman invasion and save Celtic Britain in their own unique and outrageous style.
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Lighthouse Hill
Title: Lighthouse Hill
Character: Peter
Released: May 4, 2004
Type: Movie
After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than they should.
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The Reckoning
Title: The Reckoning
Character: Sheriff
Released: February 26, 2004
Type: Movie
In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman being sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors now stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.
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Title: Hustle
Character: Finch
Released: February 24, 2004
Type: TV
A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.
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Title: Catterick
Character: Mark
Released: February 15, 2004
Type: TV
Catterick, aka Vic and Bob in Catterick, is a surreal 2004 BBC situation comedy in 6 episodes, written by and starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, with Reece Shearsmith, Matt Lucas, Morwenna Banks, Tim Healy, Mark Benton and Charlie Higson. The series was originally broadcast on BBC Three and later rerun on BBC2. Reeves has said that the BBC do not want another series of Catterick, though he may produce a spin-off centring on the DI Fowler character. Catterick is arguably Vic and Bob's darkest and most bizarre programme to date, balancing their typically odd, idiosyncratic comedy with some genuinely dark scenes. It plays like a darkly comic road movie, albeit full of Vic and Bob's bizarre, often inscrutable and frequently silly humour. Catterick is probably Vic and Bob's most uncompromising show since their notorious and frequently baffling 1999 sketch series Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer, from which most of the characters are taken. It is in some ways stylistically similar to their short film The Weekenders first broadcast in 1992 on British television as part of Channel 4's "Bunch of Five" series. The series is named after Catterick in North Yorkshire, Britain's largest army base. It is about 10 miles away from Darlington where Vic Reeves grew up. It is also about 20 miles away from Middlesbrough where Bob Mortimer grew up.
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Cheeky
Title: Cheeky
Character: Big Mick
Released: September 8, 2003
Type: Movie
Consumed with sadness after the death of his wife and subsequent rejection from his son, a widower, at the urging of his friends, opts to appear on a vulgar, wildly popular game show (for which his wife signed him up) and watches his life start to change for the better.
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Title: The Booze Cruise
Character: Dave Bolton
Released: September 7, 2003
Type: TV
The Booze Cruise is a series of three feature length comedy dramas written for British television by Paul Minett and Brian Leveson. The first episode in the series was first shown on ITV in 2003. The three episodes have received mixed reviews, with the Radio Times describing it as "like comedy in 1973" and also "you can see each joke a mile off", but generally liking the show.
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The Booze Cruise
Title: The Booze Cruise
Character: Dave Bolton
Released: September 7, 2003
Type: Movie
A group of men from Kent; Clive (Martin Clunes), Rob (Neil Pearson), Dave (Mark Benton), Maurice (Brian Murphy) and Daniel (Ben Whishaw) - go on a booze cruise to France, with mixed success and many mishaps along the way. Events involving their wives and families back home also form a large part of the plot.
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Title: Spine Chillers
Released: June 23, 2003
Type: TV
Anthology series of black comedies, which sets out to deliver excellent stories with a darkly comic twist.
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Title: Blue Murder
Character: Neville Notts
Released: May 18, 2003
Type: TV
Blue Murder is a British crime drama television series based in Manchester. Shown on ITV from 2003 until 2009 when it was cancelled by the network, it starred Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis.
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Title: Early Doors
Character: Eddie Bell
Released: May 12, 2003
Type: TV
A sitcom set in a small pub in Manchester, “The Grapes”, where daily life is bound up in the issues of love, loneliness, and blocked urinals. Regular drinkers Joe and Duffy pass the time with landlord Ken and his police officer cronies.
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Title: 40
Character: Gregory
Released: April 8, 2003
Type: TV
Seven 40-year-olds are drawn together by a disturbing school reunion. Long-standing sexual tensions and emotional conflicts come to a head as the surreal secrets of apparently normal lives are revealed. Acting as a catalyst, the reunion forces the seven friends into a re-evaluation of their past and the present—and brings about an unexpected future.
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Title: Swiss Toni
Released: February 10, 2003
Type: TV
Sitcom following the antics of Toni, a self-deluding owner of a car showroom staffed by top salesman and alcoholic Geoff, trainee Paul and the object of Toni's affections, Miranda.
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Title: The Second Coming
Character: Johnny Tyler
Released: February 9, 2003
Type: TV
Video store clerk Steve Baxter realises that he is in fact the Son of God. He has just a few days to find the human race's Third Testament and thus avert the Apocalypse.
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Out of Control
Title: Out of Control
Character: Governor
Released: August 18, 2002
Type: Movie
Drama following the lives of three teenage boys sent to a young offenders' institution.
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Title: Nice Guy Eddie
Released: June 16, 2002
Type: TV
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All or Nothing
Title: All or Nothing
Character: Man at Bar
Released: May 17, 2002
Type: Movie
Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two children, Rachel, a cleaner, and Rory, who is unemployed and aggressive.
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Title: Born and Bred
Character: Mr. Ffotherington
Released: April 21, 2002
Type: TV
Born and Bred is a light-hearted British drama series that aired on BBC One from 2002 to 2005. Created by Chris Chibnall and Nigel McCrery, Born and Bred's cast was led by James Bolam and Michael French, who play a father and son who run a cottage hospital in Ormston, a fictional Lancashire village in the 1950s. Bolam and French's characters are later replaced by characters played by Richard Wilson and Oliver Milburn.
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Title: The Inspector Lynley Mysteries
Character: Professor Elias Blackwell
Released: April 8, 2002
Type: TV
DS Barbara Havers is assigned to work with the upper-crust DI Thomas Lynley to solve murders.
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Crime and Punishment
Title: Crime and Punishment
Character: Zosimov
Released: February 12, 2002
Type: Movie
John Simm stars in this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's tragic masterpiece - a profound drama of redemption and a thrilling detective story of the soul.
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Combat Sheep
Title: Combat Sheep
Released: December 30, 2001
Type: Movie
Combat Sheep is a heart warming Christmas story of four army mascots who have been made redundant due to military cutbacks and are jettisoned into the cold to face civvie life and it’s bleak options on offer.
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Title: Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible
Character: Sergeant Rohmer
Released: November 12, 2001
Type: TV
Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible is a British comedy-horror anthology series created by Graham Duff, who co-wrote the series with Steve Coogan. BBC Two broadcast the series in 2001. It spoofs the British horror films of Amicus Productions, Hammer Film Productions, and Tigon British Film Productions. The title parodies Amicus Productions' anthology film Dr. Terror's House of Horrors.
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Title: Murphy's Law
Released: September 24, 2001
Type: TV
Murphy's Law is a BBC television drama starring James Nesbitt as an undercover police officer, Tommy Murphy.
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Mr In-Between
Title: Mr In-Between
Character: Phil
Released: September 10, 2001
Type: Movie
A terrifying love triangle. An original twist on a story of divided loyalties, the perils of love and ultimate death. A haunting tale set in a London at times beautiful and ugly, but always captivating. A story that plays with the shadows and light of an underworld occupied by the fascinating and terrible.
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Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
Title: Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
Character: Euros
Released: September 3, 2001
Type: Movie
A prequel to Marion and Geoff, which captures on camcorder the fateful events at a garden party when mini-cab driver Keith's life fell apart. Friends and family have gathered for a barbecue to celebrate the career of Keith's wife Marion, who is at the party with her boss, Mr Sushimoto, and her colleague, Geoff. However, Keith's father-in-law uncovers the true extent of Marion's naked ambition, with humiliating results for Keith.
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Blow Dry
Title: Blow Dry
Character: George, Journalist #1
Released: March 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.
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Exposure
Title: Exposure
Character: Leonard
Released: November 14, 2000
Type: Movie
A short black comedy about a man who wants to commit suicide on television. Who will control his destiny?
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Title: Human Remains
Released: November 13, 2000
Type: TV
Black comedy documenting the relationships of six unusual couples in the style of a fly-on-the-wall documentary.
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Title: Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)
Released: March 18, 2000
Type: TV
A modern day version of the 1969 detective series about Private Investigator Jeff Randall, who is aided in cases by the ghost of his deceased partner Marty Hopkirk.
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This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Title: This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Released: January 26, 2000
Type: Movie
This is a dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield who led the enquiry.
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Title: Clocking Off
Released: January 23, 2000
Type: TV
How much do you know about the person working next to you? From the outside, life at Mackintosh Textiles appears to run smoothly, but in a community with so many secrets to hide, things are far from straightforward. In six powerful, self-contained dramas, everyday life is fractured by tumultuous marriages, snatched passions, disappearing husbands and gang harassment.
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Last Christmas
Title: Last Christmas
Character: Father Christmas
Released: December 22, 1999
Type: Movie
A young boy's dream of finding his dead father comes true when his father visits him as an angel. But things turn sour when he discovers that his father was not the hero he imagined him to be.
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Topsy-Turvy
Title: Topsy-Turvy
Character: Mr Price
Released: December 15, 1999
Type: Movie
After their production "Princess Ida" meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is strained to breaking. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which opens the way to "The Mikado," one of the duo's greatest successes.
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Title: Barbara
Character: Martin Pond
Released: June 27, 1999
Type: TV
Barbara is a British sitcom starring Gwen Taylor in the title role. A pilot was broadcast in 1995, and three series were then televised from 1999 to 2003. It was made by Central Television, and filmed at their Lenton Lane studios in Nottingham in front of a live studio audience. The majority of location scenes for the series were filmed in various suburbs of Nottingham, including Mapperley and West Bridgford, with other scenes filmed around Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. Despite winning awards and respectable viewing figures, it was axed by ITV in 2003.
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The Lost Son
Title: The Lost Son
Character: Giant
Released: June 25, 1999
Type: Movie
Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their daughter's objections, and quickly he finds himself in the realm of children's sexual slavery.
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Title: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Character: Bob Hobbs
Released: January 8, 1999
Type: TV
Linda La Hughes (Kathy Burke) shares a flat with Tom Farrell (James Dreyfus). Linda is overweight, loudmouthed and not particularly attractive. She thinks she's gorgeous and irrestible, however. She's also sex mad and obsessed with men. Tom is an aspiring actor. He's got an agent, but finds it difficult to get parts. He doesn't like Linda much, in spite of (or perhaps because of) the fact that they share a flat. She isn't completely comfortable with his homosexuality, perhaps because she finds it difficult to live with a man who doesn't find her sexually attractive.
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Title: The Jump
Character: Timmy Lambert
Released: September 6, 1998
Type: TV
Having married into a family with Mafia connections, Donna thought her husband George was the diamond in the rough. But after his arrest, she sees layers of him beneath her worst fears, and finds herself fighting for her safety and sanity.
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The Sea Change
Title: The Sea Change
Character: Derek
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Arrogant businessman Rupert Granger (Sean Chapman-"A Mighty Heart") is used to getting everything he wants... everything except Alison (Maryam d Abo-"The Living Daylights"). Rupert is determined to win her over, only Alison is not the kind who can be bought. He promises to change, but promises will not rescue him when a cancelled flight leaves him stranded at the airport in Spain. Now his only hope to win her back lies in Chas (Ray Winstone-"The Departed"), an airline passenger stuck at the airport with him. Chas doesn't tolerate any nonsense, while Rupert complains about everything... but Chas is about to give Rupert the personality makeover of a lifetime, one to put Rupert Granger on the right track to winning Alison back.
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Career Girls
Title: Career Girls
Character: Ricky Burton
Released: June 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Two young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier.
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Title: See You Friday
Character: Bernie
Released: May 9, 1997
Type: TV
Romantic comedy series about Greg and Lucy, a thirty-something couple.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Eddie Rowbotham
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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Dilemma
Title: Dilemma
Character: SWAT Team
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Whichever side he chooses, someone's gonna die. Death row inmate Rudy Salazar cuts a deal he can't refuse: he'll donate his rare bone marrow to a young girl dying of leukemia. In return, his death sentence is commuted to life without parole. L.A. Detective Quin (C. Thomas Howell), the cop who brought Salazar's murderous rampage to an end, sees through Salazar's selfless facade. En route to the hospital, Salazar makes a daring escape. Now it's up to Quin and his sexy partner, Lydia, to bring Salazar to justice one more time and save the life of an innocent little girl before it's too late.
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Crossing the Floor
Title: Crossing the Floor
Character: Ambulance Man
Released: October 5, 1996
Type: Movie
Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the opposition Labour Party, at a time when the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament of just one seat. Sequel to A Very Open Prison.
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Lord of Misrule
Title: Lord of Misrule
Character: Antler Man
Released: May 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house. The Prime Minister wants to stop him as he believes the government will fall if his book is published. One of Bill's old girlfriends, now the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, is sent to try and stop him, but also on his trail is a tabloid journalist who senses a scoop.
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Title: Dalziel & Pascoe
Released: March 16, 1996
Type: TV
British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour.
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The Girl
Title: The Girl
Character: Fred Loam
Released: February 16, 1996
Type: Movie
Adaptation of Catherine Cookson's novel. In mid-19th century Yorkshire, Hannah Boyle is left with the family of Matthew Thornton, the man her dying mother claims fathered her. Ill-treated by Thornton's bitter and vindictive wife Anne, who views Hannah only as evidence of her husband's infidelity, she is married off to the village butcher, whose waspish mother torments her further. But through her patience, intelligence and strength, she wins her freedom and the man she loves.
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Title: Kavanagh Q.C.
Character: Sgt. Redbridge
Released: January 3, 1995
Type: TV
James Kavanagh QC is one of the top flight barristers in Britain. Each episode has him handling challenging cases and defendants which put his skills to the test regularly.
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Title: (All Quiet on the) Preston Front
Character: Richard
Released: January 4, 1994
Type: TV
All Quiet on the Preston Front (or the shortened Preston Front as it became known for series two and three) was a BBC comedy drama about a group of friends in the fictional Lancashire town of Roker Bridge, and their links to the local Territorial Army infantry platoon. It was created by Tim Firth and ran from 1994 to 1997.
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There's No Business...
Title: There's No Business...
Character: Barman
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
There's No Business... is a 1994 British partially improvised comedy film directed by Kevin Molony and produced by Claudia Lloyd for Prospect Pictures. It stars Raw Sex (Simon Brint and Rowland Rivron) as Ken Bishop and his stepson Duane, and Lee Cornes as their musical agent Dickie Valentino, in their attempt to remake a track by Ken's old band, 'The Nice Twelve' for a TV advert for 'Pinkies', a brand of kitchen gloves made by Mort Clayton (Mac McDonald). Alexander Armstrong (Tim) and Sam Graham (Fergus) work for the fictional advertising agency Sprote and Sprote. The film takes its name from the 1954 film There's No Business Like Show Business which itself borrowed the 1946 song of the same name by Irving Berlin, written for the musical Annie Get Your Gun.
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Title: As Time Goes By
Character: Paul Partridge
Released: January 12, 1992
Type: TV
Two lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding.