Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
- TV factual
- BBC Two
- 2018 - 2024
- 49 episodes (7 series)
Comedy series observing Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer fishing together.
- Returns tomorrow on BBC2 at 9:15pm with Christmas Special
- Series 3, Episode 4 repeated Wednesday at 12:50pm on U&Dave
Streaming rank this week: 687
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Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Series 6 start date
Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer's acclaimed comedy-and-fishing series Gone Fishing returns next week.
British Comedy Guide, 26th August 2023Punching up: how British comedy became kinder and more inclusive - without losing its edge
As British politics has got crueller, our comedy has gone in the opposite direction, becoming a haven of decency and diversity. In this extract from his new book, Different Times, David Stubbs asks if these gentler comics are the new cutting edge.
David Stubbs, The Guardian, 17th July 2023Paul Whitehouse: All is not right with our rivers
The Gone Fishing star investigates pollution in a new documentary - and says he's still shocked that it's legal to pour sewage into our waterways.
Ben Dowell, The Times, 3rd March 2023Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing returning for two more series
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is returning for two more series, with Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse visiting the UK's oldest pub and celebrating their faithful hound Ted's birthday in episodes airing later this year.
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British Comedy Guide, 9th January 2023Paul Whitehouse was keen on a non-commercialised Christmas, taking his pal Bob Mortimer to Norway for a hearty and wholesome Gone Fishing trip. They could go to the moon and the same mix of gently confronting mortality while being silly would raise smiles across the land. They also kept a firm eye on the poignancy of the season and the way they remembered departed loved ones -- Bob via a Christmas sweater story involving his late dad -- was as beautifully understated as it was moving. God bless these two. And Ted the dog, of course.
The Times, 26th December 2022Video: Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse interview
Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse are back again this year with their Christmas fishing special, but this time, they've gone global.
ITV, 21st December 2022Bob Mortimer wants more Gone Fishing after Norwegian Christmas special
Bob Mortimer says that he and Paul Whitehouse want to keep making their Gone Fishing show until the BBC cancel it, ahead of a Christmas special which sees the pair leave Britain's riverbanks for the waters of Norway.
British Comedy Guide, 29th November 2022