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 1, Episode 1 repeated Saturday at 6:20pm on Dave
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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
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