Clive Anderson

Hancock fan Jack Dee presents Tony Hancock: Very Nearly An Armful. Taking its title from celebrated Hancock episode The Blood Donor, this two-hour retrospective features previously unseen scripts, scrapbooks and production files belonging to the lad himself, as well as personal items such as photos and letters.

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Miranda is a woman who has dedicated herself to her job but when the interview day for a big promotion comes up, she is overlooked in favour of a man who is everything she's not.

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Enter a world of mummies, witches, zombies, and shamans as we explore Britain's mysterious sites and mystic past.

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The end of an era as the studios where ITV filmed its many shows for 45 years closes its doors for the last time.

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This documentary explores the legacy of one of the most notorious British sitcoms of all time. Launching alternative comedy onto our screens, the show made household names of its performers and writers and proved to be a huge influence, despite the BBC reportedly being baffled by what they'd commissioned back in 1982. Never before had a flagship comedy show contained so much violence, depravity and anarchy - it was a shot across the bow to mainstream comedians that things would never be the same again.

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Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.

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Celebrities take a stroll in the great British outdoors with their faithful hound.

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David Tennant hosts the competition to determine which of Britain's comedians have the biggest fountain of funny knowledge

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Antiques experts accompany celebrities on a road trip around the UK searching for treasures and competing to make the most money at auction

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Nelson 'the urbane fox' and his anthropomorphic animal friends navigate the urban jungle from their home in London's East End in a puppet sitcom for adults.

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The Bubble is news based celebrity panel game show. Three different celebrities are locked away in a media-free zone for four days. When they are released and take part on the show they have to decide which stories that have been in the media are true or have been made up.

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Produced exclusively for DVD, three hilarious hours of the country's finest comic minds battling it out on TVs most outrageous comedy show. MOCK THE WEEK TOO HOT FOR TV 2 is the sharpest, rudest and funniest collection of Mock the Week moments so far, delving into the show's archives to unearth laugh out loud nuggets of comedy gold never previously allowed to be shown. Watch Dara O Briain, Frankie Boyle, Hugh Dennis, Russell Howard, Andy Parsons and a host of Britain s finest stand ups pushing the boundaries further than ever before

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Clive Anderson introduces this special concert celebrating 75 years of classic MGM film musicals. Performing live at London's Royal Albert Hall, John Wilson and his orchestra celebrate the golden age of Hollywood musicals with a plethora of songs from the great movies including 'The Wizard of Oz', 'High Society', 'Meet Me in St Louis' and many more.

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Eight famous amateurs, with a passion for classical music, do battle for the chance to conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra in front of a live audience of 30,000 at BBC Proms in the Park

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A comedic panel show featuring team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell plus two guests per side, hosted by Rob Brydon (formerly Angus Deayton). Each person must reveal embarrassing facts and outrageous lies during a series of different rounds including "Home Truths", "This Is My..." and "Quickfire Lies". It is up to the opposing team to tell tall tales from fantastic facts.

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Documentary charting the rise of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy from its original guise as a radio series through to becoming a Hollywood blockbuster.

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Mock the Week is a British topical celebrity panel game hosted by Dara Ó Briain. The game is influenced by improvised topical stand-up comedy, with several rounds requiring players to deliver answers on unexpected subjects on the spur of the moment.

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Comedy quiz show full of quirky facts, in which contestants are rewarded more if their answers are 'quite interesting'.

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TV documentary tracing the life of the comedian and satirist from his school days, through the Cambridge Footlights, to Beyond the Fringe and his partnership with Dudley Moore. With contributions from Cook's school friends Peter Rabey and Jonathan Harlow; Cook's first wife Wendy Cook; Cambridge University friends Tim Harrold and Roger Law; Adrian Slade (ex-president of Cambridge Footlights); Jonathan Miller; Sir David Frost; Ned Sherrin; John Bassett (creator, Beyond The Fringe); Willie Donaldson (producer, Beyond The Fringe); John Cleese; Eric Idle; Michael Parkinson; Brenda Vaccaro; John Fortune; Nicholas Luard (co-owner with Cook of The Establishment club); actress Gaye Brown; Christopher Booker; Ian Hislop; Victor Lownes and Michael Bawtree (friends of Cook); Joe McGrath; Dick Clement; Mel Smith; Clive Anderson; tv producer and executive Paul Jackson; Harry Enfield, radio presenter Clive Bull, and archival interview footage of both Cook and Dudley Moore.

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Pulling no punches in its depiction of soccer legend George Best's slow descent from the heights of his Manchester United career, the man once dubbed the fifth Beatle for his glamorous lifestyle and good looks.

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If I Ruled the World is a BBC comedy panel show parodying politics and politicians. Hosted by Clive Anderson, with team captains, Graham Garden and Jeremy Hardy. Guests included Mark Steel, Rebecca Front, Tony Hawks, Andy Hamilton and Doon MacKichan.

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Comedy about a brilliant young brain surgeon set in an unorthodox hospital. A "Naked Gun" type comedy from Britain, this one-off special was made specifically for the launch of Channel 5 in 1997.

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Fast-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.

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One of the most beloved editions of the show, as Clive chats to a biscuit inventor who was abducted by aliens; Scunthorpe's football manager; a suspended high court judge and a rock legend - all of whom bear a resemblance to Peter Cook.

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Hilarious, 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.

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Clive Anderson mixes comedy and his legal training to conduct a series of irreverent interviews with various guests. Also included is a satirical look at topical events.

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An un-scripted comedy show in which four guest performers improvise their way through a series of games, many of which rely on audience suggestions.

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Great 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.

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This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.

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An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.

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from the Comedy Theatre, London featuring Sue Aldred Clive Anderson , Jon Canter Jane Ellison , Geoff McGivern Griffith Rhys Jones Martin Smith , Crispin Thomas Written by ADAMS- SMITH-ADAMS CLIVE ANDERSON , ROBERT BENTON JON CANTER , SIMON LEVENE GRIFFITH RHYS JONES and JIM SIEGELMAN

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Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.

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Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't fit into the regular programme.

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Conspiracies is a documentary television programme produced by the BBC and broadcast on both BBC Choice and TechTV. The series was hosted by Clive Anderson. Though a small number of episodes were produced, they focused on a variety of well known conspiracy theories.

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One of the most beloved editions of the show, as Clive chats to a biscuit inventor who was abducted by aliens; Scunthorpe's football manager; a suspended high court judge and a rock legend - all of whom bear a resemblance to Peter Cook.

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from the Comedy Theatre, London featuring Sue Aldred Clive Anderson , Jon Canter Jane Ellison , Geoff McGivern Griffith Rhys Jones Martin Smith , Crispin Thomas Written by ADAMS- SMITH-ADAMS CLIVE ANDERSON , ROBERT BENTON JON CANTER , SIMON LEVENE GRIFFITH RHYS JONES and JIM SIEGELMAN

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