
Birthday:
03-11-1952
(72 years)
Birthplace:
Bilston, Staffordshire, England, UK
Biography
James Edward Fleet (born 11 March 1952) is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as the bumbling and well-meaning Tom in the 1994 British romantic comedy film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and the dim-witted Hugo Horton in the BBC situation comedy television series The Vicar of Dibley.
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Four Weddings and a Funeral
Act like Tom
event1994 star_border 6.8
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Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.
Kevin & Perry Go Large
Act like Dad
event2000 star_border 5
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When stubborn, spotty Kevin and his equally hopeless best friend Perry go on holiday to the party island Ibiza, they see it as their big chance to become superstar club DJs and, more importantly, to lose their virginities. But they aren't prepared for the interference of top DJ Eyeball Paul, not to mention the embarrassment factor of Kevin's long-suffering parents.
Charlotte Gray
Act like Richard Cannerly
event2001 star_border 6.1
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This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.
Blackball
Act like Alan the Pipe
event2003 star_border 5.3
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Blackball follows the fortunes of Cliff Starkey, a working-class fine of lawn bowls with an exceptional talent. Wanting to take on the Aussies he manages to become regional champion, only to get banned. Sports agent Rich Schwartz picks him up and makes him so popular the Bowls Committee deem to lift the ban. Now the question is whether he can regain his form and his friends to beat the Aussies.
Milk
Act like Adrian
event1999 star_border 2
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Forty-five-year-old Adrian has been living with his mother Lucy and running their Wiltshire dairy farm all his adult life. When Lucy unexpectedly dies of a heart attack, a rogue's gallery of family members show up at the farm to argue over the execution of Ruth's will. The one object that everyone seems to want, and several people try to steal, is Ruth's valuable Modigliani painting. In the midst of all this confusion over Ruth's death, a mysterious visitor named Ilaria inserts herself onto the scene and has a surprising effect on those gathered.
Running Late
Act like James Grahame
event1992
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Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife.
Two Men Went To War
Act like Maj. Bates
event2002 star_border 6.3
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Comedy drama based on the true story of two British Army dentists who in 1942, eager to see action, go AWOL and invade occupied France on their own.
Lady Godiva: Back in the Saddle
Act like Alan Jenkins
event2007 star_border 5
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Theres trouble brewing in Downtown Coventry. Mobster, Ray Carlton has a dreamcasinos! Hes got dirt on the local Mayor, Derek Osbourne and he wants his pound of flesh. In return for not flushing him down the toilet, Carlton has the Mayor greasing the way for a super casino on the site of the park where Lady Godiva actually rode!
3 Steps to Heaven
Act like Harry Roberts
event1995 star_border 2.5
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A bereaved woman adopts multiple disguises to track down the last three people to see her boyfriend before he died.
Blue Black Permanent
Act like Jim Thorburn
event1992 star_border 5.5
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In 1990s Edinburgh, Barbara Thorburn reflects on memories of her poet mother, Greta, and her tragic death.
Operation Mincemeat
Act like Charles Fraser-Smith
event2022 star_border 6.5
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In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
The Lost King
Act like John Ashdown-Hill
event2022 star_border 6.5
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An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.
Wolf Manor
Act like Oliver Lawrence
event2022 star_border 5.8
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Shooting a vampire flick in an old, abandoned manor house should have worked like a dream, but the film crew is out of their depth, over schedule and desperate to get the shoot finished and go home. However, as the moon turns full, the nightmare begins. Blood flows and the body count rises as cast and crew meet the manor’s resident werewolf…
Eskimo Day
Act like Simon
event1996 star_border 8
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Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.
They Never Slept
Act like Bob
event1991
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When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors Monk and Bob for driving duty, she finds herself catapulted into the murky world of the French Resistance.
Electric Moon
Act like Simon Lidell
event1992
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Set in an expensive tourist lodge in the forests of central India run by former royalty, Raja Ran Bikram Singh, 'Bubbles', the film is a satirical parody on Westerners visiting India, in search for their stereotypical notions of the country, replete with images of former Indian royalty, and relics of the British Raj. In turn the film was a commentary on social pretense and ecology.
Mr. Turner
Act like John Constable
event2014 star_border 6.5
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Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.
A Cock and Bull Story
Act like Simon
event2005 star_border 6.2
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Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.
My Mother’s Wedding
event2023 star_border 6
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Three sisters return to their home for the third wedding of their twice-widowed mother. But the mother and daughters are forced to revisit the past and confront the future, with help from a colorful group of unexpected wedding guests.
Sense and Sensibility
Act like John Dashwood
event1995 star_border 7.4
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The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family's sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood's current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.
Three Sisters
Act like Kulygin
event2003
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Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.
Dodger Special: Train
Act like Judge Fang
event2022
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Dodger reunites with Fagin's gang, and they try their boldest plan yet - a train robbery!
Dodger Special: Christmas
Act like Judge Fang
event2022
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A kind-hearted deed for an old friend leads Dodger to break into 10 Downing Street.
Dodger Special: Bad Egg
Act like Judge Fang
event2023
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When a heist goes wrong, Dodger is given his harshest punishment yet - school!
Common Pursuit
event1992
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Common Pursuit is a play by Simon Gray which follows the lives of six characters who first meet as undergraduates at Cambridge University when they are involved in setting up a literary magazine called The Common Pursuit.
The Grotesque
Act like Inspector Limp
event1995 star_border 5.4
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Sir Hugo is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet. He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo brings home her betrothed, Sidney, who aspires to be a poet. The new butler, Fledge, provides Lady Harriet with the attention she's been missing and then seduces Sidney. Did he have a role in Sidney's disappearance as well?
Femme Fatale
Act like Algie
event1993
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Sicilian-born Maddalena has moved to a Devonshire village in England to escape volatile sexual tempers. She marries, but the lust she inspires in the villagers makes them drop dead.
Micro Men
Act like Kenneth Baker
event2009 star_border 7.3
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In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opposes former assistant Chris Curry's belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry, in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students, set up his own, rival firm to Sinclair Radionics, Acorn. Acorn beat Sinclair to a lucrative contract supplying the BBC with machines for a computer series. From here on it is a battle for supremacy to gain the upper hand in the domestic market.
Billionaire Boy
Act like Mr Darrow
event2016 star_border 5.8
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The story of Len, who made a billion dollars from inventing a new toilet roll, and his 12-year-old son Joe who appears to have everything he could want but what he really needs is a friend.
Remember Me?
event1997 star_border 4
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A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.
Love & Friendship
Act like Sir Reginald DeCourcy
event2016 star_border 6.1
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From Jane Austen’s novella, the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors of her dalliances and to find husbands for herself and her daughter. Two young men, handsome Reginald DeCourcy and wealthy Sir James Martin, severely complicate her plans.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Act like James Bland
event1996 star_border 6.3
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After being born in prison, Moll Flanders wends her way through the top and bottom of 18th-century English society, has five husbands and many male and female lovers, travels to America and back again, and in general discovers all that is cruel and sweet in life.
Fields of Gold
Act like Alan Buckley
event2002
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A two-part conspiracy thriller starring Anna Friel. An eager young photographer and a bitter tabloid hack are sent to investigate mysterious deaths at a cottage hospital. But why is the new environment minister keeping tabs on their every move? The TV movie tackles controversial topics like genetically modified plants, the role of large pharmaceutical companies and the question of control of state and government
South from Granada
Act like Lytton Strachey
event2003 star_border 5.9
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Brenan arrives at Yegen on foot, interrupting the funeral held for the daughter of the local cacique. He collapses from dysentery and soon learns that the local cacique, Don Fernando, is leaving for Granada with his wife. Brenan rents Fernando’s house for a year and soon enlists the services of María as housekeeper and cook and becomes friends with a local man named Paco. Brenan spends most of his time reading, walking, and trying to write poetry.His friends Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey (who is ill), and Ralph Partridge visit for a couple of days. Brenan, who has been maintaining a correspondence with Carrington, learns during the visit that Partridge and Carrington are engaged. He is crushed, as he had been in love with Carrington.
The Butterfly Effect
Act like Oswald
event1995 star_border 6.8
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Luis, a Spanish student, goes to London to get a course in Economics. He lives at a house the neighbor of her aunt, but when she broke up with her husband, Luis goes to live with her.
Young Arthur
Act like Merlin
event2002
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Unaired TV movie pilot for a TV series on the childhood of King Arthur.
Broken Bird
event2024 star_border 4
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Whilst working at a funeral parlour, a lonely mortician develops a dark obsession with a local man.
Lord of Misrule
Act like Prime Minister
event1996
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Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house. The Prime Minister wants to stop him as he believes the government will fall if his book is published. One of Bill's old girlfriends, now the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, is sent to try and stop him, but also on his trail is a tabloid journalist who senses a scoop.
Promoted to Glory
Act like Michael Prendergast
event2003
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An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.
Milner
Act like Hugh Bonning
event1994 star_border 6
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Stephen Milner is a solicitor, but he fits uneasily into the world of Lewis Strange and Partners, who are an upmarket firm of solicitors. The film follows Milner's fraught relationship with a lucrative client, Ron Jesson. When one of his offices goes up in flames, the press are convinced that Ron arranged the fire for insurance purposes. Milner also has to cope with an estranged wife, batty mother and debt ridden younger brother.
Love of My Life
Act like Tom
event2017 star_border 5.1
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What if you had only five days to figure out... everything.
Still Crazy Like a Fox
Act like Bellhop
event1987 star_border 7.7
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Jack Warden is back as quirky detective Harry Fox, who becomes a suspect in a murder case while on holiday in England.
British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves
Act like Hugo Horton (archive footage) (uncredited)
event2016 star_border 5.7
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Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a trip through the comedy archive in the company of the people who made some of the very best British sitcoms. From The Likely Lads to I'm Alan Partridge, we find out the inspiration behind some of the most-loved characters and how they reflect the times they were living in.
The Decoy Bride
Act like William
event2011 star_border 6
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A local woman is hired to draw paparazzi away from a Hollywood actress who has come to Scotland to get married.
Crossing the Floor
Act like Prime Minister
event1996 star_border 6.7
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Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the opposition Labour Party, at a time when the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament of just one seat. Sequel to A Very Open Prison.
Defence of the Realm
Act like Ministry Man
event1986 star_border 6.5
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A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.
Revolution: New Art for a New World
Act like Wassily Kandinsky (voice)
event2017 star_border 7.5
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Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, curators and performers and personal testimony from the descendants of those involved, the film brings the artists of the Russian Avant-Garde to life. It tells the stories of artists like Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich - pioneers who flourished in response to the challenge of building a new art for a new world, only to be broken by implacable authority after 15 short years and silenced by Stalin's Socialist Realism.
The Spy Who Dumped Me
Act like Tom
event2018 star_border 6.4
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A couple of thirtysomething best friends unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail.
Frenchman's Creek
Act like Sir Harry
event1998 star_border 5.7
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Seeking to escape the stifling London court society, the beautiful headstrong Lady Dona St. Columb flees to her family estate on the Cornish coast. Her new freedom swiftly brings her into contact with the dashingly handsome French privateer Jean Aubrey who sweeps her off her feet and into a world of adventure on the high seas very different from her dull and boring life at court with her husband Sir Harry. Together with Jean Aubrey and her enigmatic servant William, Lady Dona conceives a daring plan to steal a ship right from under the noses of the English authorities. The theft enrages the authorities who make every effort to trap the French Pirate. However, as the noose begins to tighten around the lovers, Lady Dona is faced with the dilemma of duty and children with Sir Harry or freedom and excitement with Jean Aubrey
Murder on the Home Front
Act like Professor Stephens
event2013 star_border 6.5
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At the height of the London blitz, Dr Lennox Collins, pioneer of the new forensic science, is enlisted by DI Wilkins after prostitute Mary Williams is strangled and a swastika carved on her tongue.
Death on the Tyne
Act like Captain Jack Pearson
event2018 star_border 6.4
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Draper's Tours are taking Mildred and her care home friends on an overnight ferry trip from North Shields to Amsterdam, where things will quickly turn turbulent as the passengers and crew begin to get bumped off one-by-one. Throughout it all, Terry is still desperate to pop the question to Gemma, even if the circumstances are less than romantic.
One Red Nose Day and a Wedding
Act like Tom
event2019 star_border 7.2
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You’re invited to the wedding of the year, as the original cast of Four Weddings and a Funeral reunite in this one-off sequel. Twenty-five years after the events of Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Charles, Carrie, Fiona, Tom, David, Matthew, Bernard, Lydia and Father Gerald are back in church. But whose wedding is it - and will there be any more familiar faces?
An Exchange of Fire
Act like Michael Shanks
event1993
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Pavel Rhele is the ruthless head of a terrorist cell in a story of two fathers and two daughters whose relationships are suddenly subjected to public and private scrutiny.
Blithe Spirit
Act like Harry Price
event2020 star_border 5.7
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A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.
National Theatre Live: Les Blancs
Act like Dr. Willy Dekoven
event2019 star_border 6
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An African country teeters on the edge of civil war. A society prepares to drive out its colonial present and claim an independent future. Racial tensions boil over. Tshembe, returned home from England for his father’s funeral, finds himself in the eye of the storm.
The Phantom of the Opera
Act like Lefevre
event2004 star_border 7.3
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A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
Dick Whittington: The ITV Pantomime
Act like Alderman Fitzwarren
event2002 star_border 6
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An adaptation of the folktale about a lonely boy, his beloved cat, and the hard decisions that come with their adventures.
The Vicar of Dibley: In Lockdown
Act like Hugo Horton
event2020 star_border 6
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The nation's favourite vicar muses upon lockdown, social distancing, masks and absent friends.
The Vicar of Dibley: Inside Out
Act like Self
event2021
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Dawn French and Richard Curtis take viewers on a joyful stroll down memory lane as they look back at their favorite Dibley moments, and for the first time, tell the definitive story of the making of the show. The pair are joined by a host of guest stars and celebrity fans including Kylie Minogue, Hugh Bonneville, and Joanna Lumley, as well as writer Paul Mayhew-Archer, producer Jon Plowman, and James Fleet (Hugo Horton).
Born a King
Act like George V
event2019 star_border 7.9
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A coming-of-age story set in 1919 about 14 year old Faisal, an Arab prince who is dispatched from the deserts of Arabia to London by his warrior father, Prince Abd Al-Aziz, on a high stakes diplomatic mission to secure the formation of his country.
A Very British Hotel at Christmas
Act like Narrator
event2024 star_border 8
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Cameras go behind the scenes at Brown's, London's oldest luxury hotel, during the Christmas season, as staff face the expectations of delivering a luxury festive stay for guests booking rooms that start at £750 a night. The hotel's elite team hosts a vibrant charity Christmas fayre, creates imaginative festive pastries, and concocts a signature holiday cocktail, all aimed at delivering the Christmas feast of a lifetime.
Cracker
Act like Michael Trant (3 ep.)
event1993 star_border 6.5
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The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.
Midsomer Murders
Act like Ralph Plummer (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 7.5
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The 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.
Murder Most Horrid
Act like Tom (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 6.6
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A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with murder - either committing the crime herself or even getting bumped off herself!
Skins
Act like Martin (2 ep.)
event2007 star_border 8.1
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Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Chambers
(12 ep.)
event2000
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Comedy about a group of barristers who never let justice get in the way of making pots of money.
The Vicar of Dibley
Act like Hugo Horton (14 ep.)
event1994 star_border 7.4
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Reverend Granger is assigned as the Vicar of the rural parish of Dibley, but she is not quite what the villagers expected.
Brotherly Love
(7 ep.)
event2000 star_border 6
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Brotherly Love is a 1999 sitcom starring Gregor Fisher and James Fleet. The show was made in Scotland and similar to Last of the Summer Wine.
Recently, it has been aired in the United States on various PBS stations as part of 'One Season Wonders.'
Little Dorrit
Act like Frederick Dorrit (14 ep.)
event2008 star_border 7.8
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Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
School's Out
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2006
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School's Out was a BBC television series hosted by Danny Wallace. Based on the premise of school subjects, celebrity contestants are asked questions they would have been asked at school.
A Dance to the Music of Time
Act like Moreland (4 ep.)
event1997 star_border 5.3
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A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.
Patrick Melrose
Act like Sir Victor Eisen (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 7.5
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A critical and often humorous look at the upper class, tracking the protagonist's harrowing odyssey from a deeply traumatic childhood through adult substance abuse and, ultimately, toward recovery.
Unforgotten
Act like Chris Lowe (6 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7.7
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London police detectives Cassie Stuart and Sunny Khan investigate historic cold cases involving missing persons, murder and long-hidden secrets.
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
Act like James Bland (4 ep.)
event1996 star_border 9
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Ever since her birth in Newgate Prison, Moll has survived by her cunning wit, and considerable powers of seduction. She goes through five husbands and countless lovers to escape a life on the streets. In between using and deceiving her besotted paramours, she is not above picking a pocket or two! All the while, though, her heart belongs to the charismatic Jemmy. Inevitably, even the most clever criminal's luck runs out and Moll is soon facing hangman's noose. As her execution day approaches, she devises on last desperate ploy to save not only her own neck, but also the life of her one true love.
Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story
Act like King George (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 8
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The story of how the young Queen Charlotte’s marriage to King George sparked both a great love story and a societal shift, creating the world of the Ton inherited by the characters in Bridgerton.
All Creatures Great & Small
Act like Colonel Merrick (1 ep.)
event2020 star_border 8.1
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The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.
Tom Jones
Act like Squire Allworthy (4 ep.)
event2023 star_border 5.7
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A reimagining of Henry Fielding's "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling," the tale of an illegitimate young man's love for an heiress and his attempts to find a place in the world.
A Year in Provence
Act like Hugo Compton (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 6
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Annie and Peter Mayle decide, in their own words, to take the plunge: they quit their jobs as a tax investigator and an advertising executive and move to Provence in the south of France. Their experience in their first month go from outstanding to downright puzzling. They adore the food and wine but do encounter amusing cultural barriers from the lengthy discussion every time they go to the butcher, to the plumber who promises to come back but is unseen for the the next month. They also learn that their old friends in England are lining up to visit them in the summer.
Monarch of the Glen
(1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 7.5
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Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is the new Laird of Glenbogle.
Bad Education
Act like Richard (2 ep.)
event2012 star_border 7
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Young teacher Alfie Wickers is "the worst teacher ever to grace the British education system" – at Abbey Grove School, in Watford, Hertfordshire.
Plebs
(1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.3
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Sitcom about three desperate young men from the suburbs who try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - which just happens to be ancient Rome.
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Act like Neil Fairfax (uncredited) (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 6.2
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The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
The Omega Factor
(1 ep.)
event1979 star_border 6.5
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The Omega Factor is a British television series produced by BBC Scotland in 1979. It was created by Jack Gerson and produced by George Gallaccio, and transmitted in ten weekly episodes between 13 June and 15 August.
Hotel Babylon
(1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 7.2
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Hotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones. The show followed the lives of workers at a glamorous five-star hotel.
Indian Summers
Act like Lord Hawthorne (10 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7.1
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Epic drama set in the summer of 1932 where India dreams of independence, but the British are clinging to power.
Set against the sweeping grandeur of the Himalayas and tea plantations of Northern India, the drama tells the rich and explosive story of the decline of the British Empire and the birth of modern India, from both sides of the experience. At the heart of the story lie the implications and ramifications of the tangled web of passions, rivalries and clashes that define the lives of those brought together in this summer which will change everything.
Legit
(1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 7
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Legit was a Scottish sitcom produced by The Comedy Unit, written by Robert Florence and Iain Connell and broadcast on BBC One Scotland. The pilot episode aired on 16 September 2006 to much critical acclaim and positive reviews. The first series started on 7 September 2007 with the pilot episode being aired first and then the remaining episodes. The show was shown every Friday night at 9:30pm. In May 2008, the BBC made the decision not to renew the show for a second series. Instead Dear Green Place was renewed.
Father Brown
Act like Dr. Adam Crawford (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.5
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Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
Outlander
Act like Reverend Wakefield (6 ep.)
event2014 star_border 8.2
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The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Sea of Souls
Act like Findlay Morrison (2 ep.)
event2004 star_border 7.6
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Sea of Souls follows para-psychologist Monaghan and his two sidekicks from a fictitious Scottish University that investigates paranormal activity.
Houdini & Doyle
Act like Dr. Pilsen (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 6.5
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini and Stratton are tasked with the cases that nobody else can solve. It challenges their sense of what is real and what is not. Houdini is a skeptic, while Doyle believes in the unseen. Their diverse viewpoints make solving crime a challenge and often Stratton is put in the middle. The trio will take on cases that involve vampires, ghosts, monsters and poltergeists…or are they a ruse to conceal murder?
Grange Hill
Act like Mr. Perkins (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 6.5
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Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.
Murder in Suburbia
(1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 7.2
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Murder in Suburbia was a British detective drama that ran for two series in 2004 and 2005. Detective Inspector Kate Ashurst, a graduate of a posh girls' academy, has a sharp, analytical mind; her working-class partner, Detective Sergeant Emma Scribbins, relies on her instincts. Together this sassy, sexy investigative team uncovers the dark urges behind suburban Middleford's placid façade.
Bridgerton
Act like King George III (3 ep.)
event2020 star_border 8.1
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Wealth, lust, and betrayal set in the backdrop of Regency era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
Partners in Crime
Act like Carter (6 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7.2
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Set in a 1950s Britain rising from the ashes of the Blitz into the grip of a new Cold War, our beekeeping duo stumble into a world of murder, undercover agents and cold war conspiracy. Tuppence is a woman who sees adventure round every corner, throwing herself head first into every mystery with passion and fervour, determined to get to the truth no matter what it takes, much to the dismay of her more cautious husband Tommy.
Urban Myths
Act like The Professor (1 ep.)
event2017 star_border 7.4
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Our Urban Myths are stories that have been passed down over time and have now become part of urban folklore. But are they true? We take a slightly tongue in cheek, mischievous – and deliberately ambiguous – look at what might have happened...
The Advocates
(3 ep.)
event1991 star_border 3.5
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Set in Edinburgh, the series contrasts the high powered and respectable world of the lawyers and advocates of the Scottish legal profession, with the sleazy and deadly existence of the city's pimps, prostitutes and drug addicts. When a young prostitute is murdered by a deadly drug overdose, only Doctor Joe Sangster, who has been treating her at the local health clinic, suspects foul play. In the growing climate of fear over drugs and AIDS in the city, his clinic faces closure due to a local campaign. He turns to Greg McDowell for help, and the young lawyer sees the chance to make a name for himself.
Death Comes to Pemberley
Act like Mr. Bennett (3 ep.)
event2013 star_border 6.8
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Adaptation of PD James's bestselling homage to Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth and Darcy, now six years married, are preparing for their annual ball when festivities are brought to an abrupt halt.
Underworld
(6 ep.)
event1997 star_border 7
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A pair of unexceptional suburban siblings are drawn into a dark web of crime and danger.
Beyond Paradise
Act like Ernest (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 6.9
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After leaving paradise and seeking a quieter life, Humphrey has taken a job as Detective Inspector in his fiancée Martha's hometown. But with the high crime rate, maybe things will be louder than expected.
The Great Pottery Throw Down
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 7.5
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Ten home potters from around the country head to Stoke-on-Trent, the home of pottery, in their quest to become Top Potter.
The Pale Horse
Act like Oscar Venables (2 ep.)
event2020 star_border 5.9
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After a list of names is found in the shoe of a dead woman, one of the named people begins investigating and is drawn to the The Pale Horse, the home of a trio of rumored witches living in a small village. Word has it that the witches can do away with wealthy relatives using dark arts.
Spark
Act like Ashley Parkerwell (6 ep.)
event1997 star_border 6
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Following the death of his long time terminally ill mother, Ashley, enthusiastically aided and abetted by his sister-in-law, Colette, decides that he needs a wife if only for something to do with his big, now empty house. However, the task of finding a wife turns out to be not as easy as it seems, as Ashley has not had much contact with women in recent years and then there is always the delicate problem of the dull, safe, ever present Gillian to be solved. She and her mother have already settled the question of a wife for Ashley if only Gillian would do something about it!!
Blandings
Act like Colonel Fanshawe (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 7.2
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Blandings is a British comedy television series adapted by Guy Andrews from the Blandings Castle stories of P.G. Wodehouse. It was first broadcast on BBC One from 13 January 2013, and stars Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders and Mark Williams. The series was produced with the partial financial assistance of the European Regional Development Fund.
The Hollow Crown
Act like Hastings (2 ep.)
event2012 star_border 7.3
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A series of British television films featuring William Shakespeare's History Plays.
Lewis
Act like Dr. Alex Falconer (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 7.6
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Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Thanks for the Memories
Act like Patrick Conway (2 ep.)
event2019 star_border 7.3
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Lively Joyce Conway is happy with her life: her boyfriend Conor loves her, she enjoys her job behind the scenes at the local radio station and her relationship to father could not be better. But everything is turned upside down after she has an accident requiring a blood transfusion. She subsequently wakes up with memories that are not hers.
The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything
(2 ep.)
event2000
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Comedic British History
Death in Paradise
Act like Jeremy Tipping (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 7.5
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A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.
Screen Two
Act like Peter Wentworth (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 6.8
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Series of single made-for-television dramas.
The Watch
Act like Archchancellor of Unseen University (2 ep.)
event2021 star_border 5.5
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A group of misfit cops rise up from decades of helplessness to save their corrupt city from catastrophe. Inspired by the characters created by Sir Terry Pratchett’s famous “Discworld” novels.
Murder on the Home Front
Act like Professor Stephens (2 ep.)
event2013
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Crime drama set during the Blitz. After several women are murdered, pathologist Lennox Collins and his secretary Molly Cooper employ ground breaking forensic techniques in pursuit of the killer.
Being Human
Act like George Senior (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 7
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Deciding to turn over a new leaf, a group of friends who also happen to be vampires and werewolves move into a house together, only to find that it is haunted by ghosts of people who have been killed under mysterious circumstances. As they deal with the challenges of being supernatural creatures, their desire to be human bonds them.
Brian and Maggie
Act like Ronald Millar (2 ep.)
event2025 star_border 7.5
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A dramatization of the story behind and occasion of Thatcher’s last TV interview, the hugely damaging ITV grilling by her old friend Brian Walden, which some view as the final nail in her prime ministerial coffin.
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