The Story Of Light Entertainment
- TV documentary
- BBC Two
- 2006
- 8 episodes (1 series)
Stephen Fry narrates a series tracing the roots of light entertainment,
from variety to Strictly Come Dancing and all points in between. Features Stephen Fry.
Press clippings
This sparklingly funny documentary, part of a series on different aspects of British light entertainment which originally went out in 2006, explores the role that impressionists have played in British entertainment over the last 50 years. Its subjects range from Mike Yarwood's pitch-perfect lambasting of Harold Wilson in the Sixties up to the present-day work of Ronni Ancona and Alistair McGowan.
The Telegraph, 27th April 2012The first episode of The Story of Light Entertainment (BBC Two, Saturday) - this week, focusing on double-acts - and the narrative felt at times like an Old Testament of primetime. As the clips rushed by in pedestrian chronology, Flanagan & Allen begat Abbott & Costello, begat Morecambe & Wise, begat Cook & Moore, begat Reeves & Mortimer, begat Little Britain. It was a Mock Family Tree. A guide to Britain's one-liner-eage.
Caitlin Moran, The Times, 24th July 2006