
Rory McGrath
Actor · b. 1956 · Cornwall, England, UK
Patrick Rory McGrath (born 17 March 1956), known as Rory McGrath, is a British comedian, television personality, and writer. He came to prominence in the comedy show Who Dares Wins and was for many years a team captain on the gameshow They Think It's All Over. He acted in the sitcom Chelmsford 123 and appeared in the ITV reality show Sugar Free Farm.
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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
TV7.9ComedyTalk ShowComedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.
QI
2003 · 289 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
TV7.7ComedyAn un-scripted comedy show in which four guest performers improvise their way through a series of games, many of which rely on audience suggestions.
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
1988 · 74 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
TV6.0RealityThe clock is ticking as contestants compete in games of lexical dexterity and numerical agility.
Countdown
1982 · 20 votes
TVComedyWhat the Dickens is a television panel game hosted by Sandi Toksvig. Team captains were Dave Gorman and Tim Brooke-Taylor for the first series and Sue Perkins and Chris Addison for the second and third. It is recorded at Sky Studios in West London.
TV7.4ComedyChelmsford, Britain in the year AD 123; there is a power struggle between Roman governor Aulus Paulinus and the British chieftain, Badvoc. Britain is a miserable place, cold and wet – just the place to exile Aulus for accidentally insulting the Emperor's horse, but also give him something useful to do. Aulus, probably a play on Aulus Platorius Nepos, the governor of Roman Britain between 122 and 125, was a rather delicate Roman, who was usually outwitted by the scheming Badvoc, who hadn't had a haircut for twenty-five years.
Chelmsford 123
1988 · 7 votes
TV7.4ComedySeries giving a voice to 35- to 54-year-old men, very probably the grumpiest sector of our society.
Grumpy Old Men
2003 · 7 votes
- TVComedy
Commercial breakdown is a BBC/Celador light entertainment television programme which shows humorous television advertisements from around the world.
- TV8.5
Trivial Pursuit was a game show loosely based on the board game of the same name. The show first aired on BBC1 from 4 September to 18 December 1990 hosted by Rory McGrath.
Trivial Pursuit
1990 · 2 votes
TV5.0DocumentaryComedyThree Men in a Boat is a television comedy/documentary series produced by Liberty Bell Productions for BBC Two starring Dara Ó Briain, Rory McGrath and Griff Rhys Jones, first shown on 3 January 2006. In this first rendition, the three participants rowed in a replica wooden skiff from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford. The BBC subsequently commissioned and aired Three Men in Another Boat, Three Men in More Than One Boat, Three Men go to Ireland, Three Men go to Scotland; Three Men go to Venice, and Three Men go to New England, broadcast in 2008, 2009, 2009/2010, 2010 and 2011 respectively. Every series, bar the first, has featured the music from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. In late October 2011, a production team was shooting in Provincetown, Massachusetts, America's oldest art colony, at the tip of Cape Cod.
Three Men in a Boat
2006 · 1 votes
- TVDocumentary
A look at endangered species in the regions around the UK
TV7.0DocumentaryIndustrial Revelations is a Documentary show showing the connections between related industrial advances. The show's presenter has changed several times since the first series in 2002 hosted by Mark Williams.
Industrial Revelations
2002 · 1 votes
TV7.0Bloody Britain is a British history documentary, presented by TV comedian Rory McGrath and produced by Sophie Theunissen for the Discovery Channel. The series looks into Britain's more gruesome past, such as public executions and bloody battles. The show uses computer animation to create a more realistic and in depth program.
Bloody Britain
2004 · 1 votes
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TVCelebrities undertake a dietary experiment as they attempt to live entirely without sugar for two weeks, working on a farm where they enjoy healthy, wholesome food.
Sugar Free Farm
2016
TVDocumentaryGriff Rhys Jones takes a startlingly honest look at anger in himself and others
TVDocumentary
Movies7
Movie5.6ComedyDramaA feuding double act try to make it in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy.
Huge
2010 · 7 votes
Movie4.0DocumentaryA tribute to British comedian Mel Smith, who died in July 2013, aged 60, featuring home video footage, rare archive material and many classic sketches. Far more than a comic actor, Smith also wrote and edited a host of celebrated TV comedies in the 1980s and 90s. He was a theatre and film director, and as a TV producer he was responsible for several innovative comedy series. Friends and colleagues, including Griff Rhys Jones, John Lloyd and Richard Curtis, talk about Smith's talents, both in front of- and behind the camera. The programme also traces his time at Oxford and, before that, Latymer Upper School, where Smith's talents were first spotted.
Mel Smith: I've Done Some Things
2013 · 2 votes
- MovieDocumentaryFantasy
A Discovery Channel documentary exploring the influence of the work of J.R.R. Tolkien from the counter-culture of the 1960s to the present day.
Bilbo & Beyond
2001
MovieA frank documentary about the scandalous private life of Frankie Howerd.
- Movie5.8ComedyDocumentary
Griff Rhys Jones, Rory McGrath, Dara O'Briain and Loli the dog set out from Kingston to Oxford across the Thames in a wooden skiff, attempting to re-trace the journey of Jerome K. Jerome in his classic 1889 book "Three Men in a Boat" and having some adventures of their own along the way, including entering a race after rowing into the middle of the Wallingford Regatta.
Three Men in a Boat
2006 · 4 votes
- Movie4.0ComedyDocumentary
Griff Rhys Jones, Dara O'Briain and Rory McGrath reunite for a follow-up journey, this time on board Griff's classic yacht. The trio endeavor to sail from Tower Bridge to the Isle of Wight, followed by participation in a yacht race, with Griff teaching Dara and Rory how to sail.
Three Men In Another Boat
2008 · 2 votes
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In their third trip, the trio attempt to get from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly using several boats.