Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
- TV factual
- BBC Two
- 2018 - 2023
- 40 episodes (6 series)
Comedy series observing Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer fishing together.
- Due to return for Series 7
- Series 5, Episode 1 repeated Monday at 10pm on BBC2
Streaming rank this week: 2,128
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Comedies up for RTS Awards 2019
The nominees for the RTS Awards 2019 include Famalam, Detectorists and Derry Girls. Lesley Manville, Sian Gibson, Daisy May Cooper, Samson Kayo and the stars of Inside No. 9 and The Young Offenders are nominated for acting prizes.
British Comedy Guide, 5th March 2019Comedies nominated for Broadcasting Press Guild Awards 2019
Car Share, Derry Girls, Inside No. 9 and Women On The Verge are amongst the nominees in the BPG Awards 2019.
British Comedy Guide, 13th February 2019Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse to publish fishing book
Following the success of their TV series Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse are to publish a book together. It'll be out in the shops in May.
British Comedy Guide, 4th February 2019Comedy.co.uk Awards 2018 shortlist
The shortlisted TV and radio shows for the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2018 have been announced. 60 programmes are now in the running for the Comedy Of The Year title.
British Comedy Guide, 21st January 2019With no series of The Trip this year, a new pair of self-ironising, physically fading comics arrived to provide a sunnier take on kinship between two very funny middle-aged men. Those of us who didn't even know Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse were mates soon delighted in the closeness of their evidently long-held friendship, as they simply went fishing together and chatted as they sat waiting on the riverbank. Notes of wistful, mortal vulnerability, along with the slight competitiveness that's always there when two comedians meet, gave their conversations depth to go with the endless silly laughs.
Jack Seale, Radio Times, 28th December 2018Broadcast Awards 2019 nominations
Derry Girls, Detectorists, Mum, Stath Lets Flats, This Country and The Windsors are amongst the nominees for the Broadcast Awards 2019.
British Comedy Guide, 22nd November 2018Gone Fishing crowned Radio Times champion
Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing has been crowned overall Champion in the Radio Times poll. The BBC2 series beat the other genre winners Versailles, Derry Girls and Shadowhunters in a four-way vote off.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 9th August 2018Bob & Paul to go fishing again
BBC Two has ordered a second series of Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing, to broadcast in 2019.
British Comedy Guide, 9th August 2018The final riverbank rumination in a series ornamented by Bob Mortimer's buffoonery, not to mention his ineptitude with a fishing rod. Paul Whitehouse remains infinitely patient as the pair go after pike on the Test in Hampshire for their final outing - and fear they may have to settle for perch.
Mike Bradley, The Guardian, 25th July 2018Gone Fishing has been the perfect antidote to bleak TV
You might not have thought that two ageing comedians bumbling around Britain in their waders would make for one of the surprise TV highlights of 2018. But Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing definitely has been.
Mark Butler, i Newspaper, 25th July 2018