Screenplay: Arthur Mathews

Direction Chris Morris · Michael Cumming · Tristram Shapeero

Cast Chris Morris · Mark Heap · Kevin Eldon · Doon Mackichan

Plot TV Series (1997). 1 season. 7 episodes. Controversal spoof of current-affairs TV and the role of celebrity in the UK. The series was repeated in 2001 along with a new...

Direction Chris Morris

Cast Chris Morris · Mark Heap · Kevin Eldon · Amelia Bullmore

Plot A collection of bleakly dark comedy sketches pushing the boundaries of taste, decency and television in general, shot using new and different techniques and fading slowly in and out of...

Direction Chris Morris · Armando Iannucci · Andrew Gillman

Cast Chris Morris · Steve Coogan · Patrick Marber · Rebecca Front

Plot TV Series (1994). 1 season. 6 episodes. Each 'The Day Today's' episode is presented as a mock news programme, and the episodes rely on a combination of ludicrous fictitious news...

Direction Dylan Moran · Martin Dennis · Graham Linehan · Nick Wood

Cast Dylan Moran · Bill Bailey · Tamsin Greig · Rosie Day

Plot Bernard Black runs his own bookshop even though he doesn't much like people who buy books and hates having customers. Next door to Bernard's shop is the Nifty Gifty gift...

Direction Catherine Tate · Derren Litten

Cast Catherine Tate · Mathew Horne · Niky Wardley · Angela McHale

Plot The Catherine Tate Show features Catherine Tate playing a wide range of characters, including the unforgettable Lauren Cooper, a stroppy teenager, and the equally spirited Nan Taylor, the scourge of...

Direction Graham Linehan · Arthur Mathews · Declan Lowney · Andy De Emmony

Cast Dermot Morgan · Ardal O'Hanlon · Frank Kelly · Pauline McLynn

Plot Have mercy on poor Father Ted Crilly. He has so much to contend with when it comes to dealing with the folks of Craggy Island, Ireland. There's Father Dougal McGuire,...

Direction Graham Linehan · Arthur Mathews · Chris Morris · Jonathan Gershfield

Cast Simon Pegg · Mark Heap · Kevin Eldon · Amelia Bullmore

Plot Big Train is a surreal British television comedy sketch show created by Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan, writers of the successful sitcom Father Ted. The first season was broadcast on...

Direction Michael Cumming

Cast Matt Berry · Robert Bathurst · Doon Mackichan · Tim Downie

Plot TV Series. (2012-Today). Steven Toast is an eccentric middle-aged actor with a chequered past who spends more time dealing with his problems off stage than performing on it.

Direction John Kilby · Robin Carr · Graham C. Williams · Chris Bould

Cast Mel Smith · Griff Rhys Jones · Chris Langham · Heather Tobias

Plot Mel Smith and Griff Rhys-Jones present a series of short (often tasteless, always scathing) sketches about modern life and the stupidity and gullibility of those who believe in it.

Direction Michael Cumming

Cast Matt Berry · Fred Armisen · Doon Mackichan · Robert Bathurst

Plot Steven Toast is determined to win the recognition he mistakenly believes he deserves.

Direction Tom Hall

Cast Ardal O'Hanlon · Ewen Bremner · Owen Roe · Don Wycherley

Plot When they land themselves in hot water after selling fake George Best photos on eBay, Myles (O'Hanlon) and Austin (Bremner) move from Dublin to the country where they land a...

Direction Geoff Posner · Patrick Marber

Cast Steve Coogan · John Thomson · Malcolm Raeburn · Teresa Banham

Plot TV Miniseries (1995). 6 episodes. Six different people live in a small town; all played by Steve Coogan.

Direction Declan Lowney

Cast Dermot Morgan · Ardal O'Hanlon · Frank Kelly · Pauline McLynn

Plot Father Ted wins the "Golden Cleric", for saving a fellow group of priests from an embarrassing situation.