Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
- TV factual
- BBC Two
- 2018 - 2024
- 49 episodes (7 series)
Comedy series observing Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer fishing together.
- Due to return for Series 8
- Series 3, Episode 4 repeated Saturday at 10am on U&Dave
Streaming rank this week: 1,199
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British Comedy Guide, 11th January 2021Mortimer & Whitehouse launch Gone Fishing website
An accompanying website for BBC Two's hit comedy-travelogue Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing has been launched.
British Comedy Guide, 7th January 2021Previews of BBC Christmas comedy specials
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, Ghosts, Motherland, QI and King Gary.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 23rd December 2020Village of Staithes basks in BBC fishing limelight
Interest in North Yorkshire beauty spot has rocketed since Mortimer & Whitehouse's Christmas special.
Rhi Storer, The Guardian, 20th December 2020Lunacy and poignancy in Bob & Paul's riverbank tales
It's like the World's Least Strongest Man Contest (North-East Regional Final) when Chris "Driving Home for Christmas" Rea shuffles into the pub to compare ailments with Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse.
Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 19th December 2020Gone Fishing review
Need a comedy straight man to crack the jokes? Bob's your uncle!
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail, 14th December 2020Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Christmas Fishing review
Comic babble and the odd catch in the throat.
Carol Midgley, The Times, 14th December 2020Mortimer & Whitehouse on the success of Gone Fishing
Christmas has come to Gone Fishing, and all is quiet and still. That's because Bob Mortimer, the man who invariably knocks rods out of their holders and is likely to have scared away many more fish than he's ever caught, hasn't yet arrived.
Michael Hodges, Radio Times, 13th December 2020Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Christmas Fishing, BBC2
A life-affirming look at the festive season.
Kasia Delgado, i Newspaper, 13th December 2020