
Nick Hancock
Actor · b. 1962 · Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK
Nicholas John Hancock is an English actor and television presenter. He hosted the sports quiz They Think It's All Over for 10 years.
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TV7.5CrimeDramaThe peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Midsomer Murders
1997 · 375 votes
TV7.1ComedyNewsHilarious, totally-irreverent, near-slanderous political quiz show, based mainly on news stories from the last week or so, that leaves no party, personality or action unscathed in pursuit of laughs.
Have I Got News for You
1990 · 82 votes
TV8.0RealityTalented chefs battle it out against the clock, creating delicious dishes in 20 minutes
Ready, Steady, Cook
1994 · 1 votes
TV7.1ComedyNever Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the pop industry.
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996 · 66 votes
- TV4.5Talk Show
The Alan Titchmarsh Show is a British daytime chat show presented by Alan Titchmarsh. It was first broadcast on ITV on 3 September 2007 and currently airs on weekday afternoons. The show's main focus is the "Best of British" theme with many of the shows' segments focusing on fashion, health, nature, cookery and animals.
The Alan Titchmarsh Show
2007 · 4 votes
TV6.0Talk ShowAntiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011 · 5 votes
TV8.0ComedyMr Bean turns simple everyday tasks into chaotic situations and will leave you in stitches as he creates havoc wherever he goes.
Mr. Bean
1990 · 1.6K votes
TV6.0Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long-running quiz show Mastermind, with the exception that all the contestants are celebrities. As with the main show, John Humphrys is the host and question-master. Magnus Magnusson was quizmaster on the 2003/04 episodes featuring Jonathan Meades as winner.
Celebrity Mastermind
2003 · 2 votes
TV7.1ComedyTFI Friday was an entertainment show broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2000. The show was produced by Ginger Productions, written by Danny Baker and hosted by Chris Evans, for the first 5 series. The final series was hosted by a number of guest presenters. It was broadcast on Fridays at 6pm from 9 February 1996 to 22 December 2000, with a repeat later that night. The title officially stood for "Thank Four It's Friday", but was widely understood to mean "Thank Fuck It's Friday" and was a reference to the popular phrase "Thank God it's Friday". The show's theme tune was Ron Grainer's theme from Man in a Suitcase, in keeping with Evans's frequent use of 1960s television themes in his work.
TFI Friday
1996 · 10 votes
TV6.3Celebrity series of The Chase. Contestants must pit their wits against the Chaser, a ruthless quiz genius determined to stop them winning the cash prize.
The Chase: Celebrity Special
2011 · 3 votes
TV6.6ComedyTalk ShowFast-moving game show meets talk show, which sees Frank Skinner refereeing three celebrities each week as they compete to banish their top peeve or worst nightmare to the depths of Room 101.
Room 101
1994 · 27 votes
TV6.3ComedyThe big-collared comic gives his own spin on TV clips from recent programmes, plus contributions from a set of regular characters
Harry Hill's TV Burp
2002 · 26 votes
TV7.4ComedyThey Think It's All Over is a British comedy panel game with a sporting theme produced by Talkback and shown on BBC One. The show's name is taken from Kenneth Wolstenholme's famous 1966 World Cup commentary quotation, "they think it's all over...it is now!" and the show used the phrase as the last line of every programme. In 2006 the show was axed after 11 years of being on-air.
They Think It's All Over
1995 · 14 votes
TV7.0DocumentaryGreat Railway Journeys, originally titled Great Railway Journeys of the World, is a recurring series of travel documentaries produced by BBC Television. The premise of each programme is that the presenter, typically a well-known figure from the arts or media, would make a journey by train, usually through a country or to a destination to which they had a personal connection. There were four series broadcast on BBC Two between 1980 and 1999, with the shorter series title being used for all but the first. In 2010 a similar series also aired on BBC Two, Great British Railway Journeys.
Great Railway Journeys
1980 · 1 votes
- TVDrama
Short plays by female writers new to television drama.
She-Play
1990
TV7.5ComedyTV Heaven, Telly Hell is a comedy television show on Channel 4, presented and produced by Sean Lock. The format is similar to Room 101, with guests discussing their likes and dislikes of items on television. The show also allows the guest to reconstruct any moment in television history in the way they wanted it to happen, in a short sketch shown at the end of the show usually parodying a clip discussed earlier.
TV Heaven, Telly Hell
2006 · 2 votes
- TV10.0DocumentaryFamily
Filmed on location in 1997 at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, the show was a six-part BBC documentary, which followed the day-to-day running of the park. It was mainly focused on the rides and the park managers, Jim Rowland and Keith Allen. The film crews also spoke to Geoffrey Thompson and Amanda Thompson, the director and producer of Stageworks Worldwide Productions (which directs, produces and choreographs the shows within the park.)
Pleasure Beach
1998 · 1 votes
TVDocumentaryFour famous volunteers agree to swap their lavish lifestyles, fame and fortune for a world of sleeping rough, soup runs and hostels.
TV5.0ComedyNewsThe long running NPR news quiz hosted by Peter Sagal since 1998, replacing Dan Coffey. Carl Kasell served as announcer & scorekeeper until 2014 and ceded duties to Bill Kurtis. WWDTM came to television for the first time in 2011 with a BBC America one-off special, then in 2013 a special live broadcast was shown in movie theaters across the U.S. and Canada
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
2011 · 1 votes
- TV7.0
Holding The Baby
1997 · 1 votes
- TV7.3Comedy
Phys ed teacher John Hanley lives alone in a Southbridge, London flat, until an old school friend, ambitious and obnoxious businessman Harry Dunstan, returns from France and moves in with him. And then there's unemployed but intelligent Mark Prior, who lives nearby but always visiting the others after quarrelling with his parents.
Me, You and Him
1992 · 3 votes
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Movie7.0DramaComedyAfter a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild.
Cashback
2007 · 1.5K votes
Movie7.1DramaMickey Love is an aging television quiz show host who after climbing his way back to the top after conquering alcoholism has hosted the highly rated "Family Values" for over ten years. But when he hears a false rumor that his show will be axed to make way for a new one to be hosted by young upstart Greg Deane. Mickey bitterly resorts to desperate measures to cling on to his career. Little does Mickey know however is that his bosses actually have something else in store for him.
Rik Mayall Presents: Micky Love
1993 · 8 votes
Movie6.7ComedyFormer players and associates of third division club Bostock Stanley gather for a celebratory dinner to commemorate their famous FA Cup victory twenty-five years previously during which a shocking truth is revealed.
Bostock's Cup
1999 · 3 votes
MovieDocumentaryNarrated by comedian Paddy McGuinness, here is a documentary celebrating 35 years of Bullseye featuring the hosts Jim Bowen and Tony Green with celebrity guests Linda Lusardi, Nick Hancock, Anne Diamond, David Baddiel, Katy Brand, Gary Wilmot, Frank Bruno, Tessa Sanderson and legendary dart players John Lowe, Eric Bristow and Bobby George.
MovieDocumentary'They Think It's All Over' presenter Nick Hancock teams together with Andy Smart of the Vicious Boys to follow the progress of the Iranian squad as they prepare for, and play through, the 1998 World Cup Finals. With only one, goalless, Finals appearance behind them, the team were 500/1 outsiders to win the competition, but they weren't about to exit the contest without putting up a fight
The Outsiders
1998
Movie6.0DocumentaryMATTHEWS tells the incredible true story of the life and career of a man considered by many to be the greatest soccer player of all time, Sir Stanley Matthews.
Matthews
2017 · 4 votes
MovieCelebrity Stoke City fan Nick Hancock presents another collection of horrible moments for fans and players alike. It features missed open goals, terrifying own goals and lethal back-passes, alongside moments of madness and referee's revenge antics.
MovieFootball 'doctor' Nick Hancock attempts to diagnose the various malaises from which the footballing world seemingly suffers on a regular basis, and goes in search of a cure. Nick attempts to find which illness it is that repeatedly prevents England from winning the World Cup, and also asks which bug it is that prevents young English talent from developing into healthy international stars.