History
1986–1992: ''Now Something Else'' / ''The Rory Bremner Show''
Rory Bremner's first television series, ''Now Something Else'', started in 1986 on1993–1998: ''Rory Bremner...Who Else?''
In 1993 Bremner moved to Channel 4. His new show, ''Rory Bremner...Who Else?'', featured Bird and Fortune prominently, and over the seven series the show developed into a more hard-edged, satirical and political show, with sketches satirising subjects such as ''1999–2010: ''Bremner, Bird and Fortune''
By 1999 all non-political sketches were dropped and the show was refocused purely on political satire, with a name change. In 2002 three members of the show's production team, Geoff Atkinson, Steve Connelly and Tristam Shapeero, were nominated for a BAFTA for Best Comedy Programme or Series. Bird and Fortune were nominated for a BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance in 2001 and Best Comedy Performance in 2002. They did not win, however. In 2003, the 2002 one-off special ''At Her Majesty's Pleasure'' won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Entertainment. In October 2004, Bremner, Bird and Fortune published a book based on the show, called ''You Are Here: A Dossier'' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 288 pages, , also available as a paperback from Orion mass market paperback, ). In 2004 Rory Bremner was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Comedy Performance. In November 2008 a four-part miniseries was produced called ''Silly Money''. The trio looked at the economic downturn, with fewer of the usual sketches and co-stars. The episodes contained many more George Parr sketches than usual (the standard being one per episode). They also included a number of archive clips to further illustrate points and create satire from them based on hindsight. The last full series was broadcast in late 2008. Two further miniseries, both having three episodes, focussed more on specific issues. ''The Last Show Before The Recovery'' started on 7 June 2009 and looked at the banking crisis, while ''The Daily Wind-Up'', aired from 2–4 May 2010, focused on theRegular features
For most of its run, the show was almost entirely political, but in the later series different genres of sketches were introduced. The programme featured regular stand-up impressionism sections by Bremner. Another feature was interviews between Bird and Fortune, alternating each episode between interviewer and interviewee, with the interviewee usually being a man in a government position or a businessman, almost always named George Parr, who ended up exposing the idiocies of his area of expertise. There were also heavily researched, bitingly satirical three-handed historical narratives; the dinner party sketches, featuring Bird, Fortune,Episodes
Now Something Else / The Rory Bremner Show
*Series 1 (''Now Something Else''): 5 Episodes (3 March - 7 April 1986) *Series 2 (''Now Something Else''): 5 Episodes (3 April - 8 May 1987) *Series 3 (''Now Something Else''): 6 Episodes (5 May - 2 June 1988) *Series 4 (''The Rory Bremner Show''): 6 Episodes (31 March - 5 May 1989) *Series 5 (''The Rory Bremner Show''): 6 Episodes (20 May - 25 June 1990) *Series 6 (''The Rory Bremner Show''): 6 Episodes (15 March - 19 April 1991) *Series 7 (''The Rory Bremner Show''): 6 Episodes (8 May - 12 June 1992) 40 episodes in totalRory Bremner...Who Else?
*Series 1: 9 Episodes (9 October - 4 December 1993) *Series 2: 10 Episodes (8 October - 10 December 1994) *Series 3: 8 Episodes (7 October - 25 November 1995) *Series 4: 8 Episodes (5 April - 24 May 1996) *Series 5: 10 Episodes (27 September - 29 November 1996) *''Bremner, Bird and Fortune: Three Men and a Vote'' two-part special (26 April and 3 May 1997) *Series 6: 7 Episodes (24 October - 12 December 1997) *Series 7: 8 Episodes (11 October - 6 December 1998) 62 episodes in totalBremner, Bird and Fortune
*Series 1: 8 Episodes (17 October - 5 December 1999) *''Bremner, Bird, Fortune, Delia, Des...There'' one-off special (3 January 2000) *Series 2: 6 Episodes (4 March - 8 April 2001) *''Bremner, Bird and Fortune's Exit Pole'' one-off special (10 June 2001) *''Geoffrey Mallet: A Hero of Our Times'' one-off special (31 December 2001) *Series 3: 7 Episodes (27 January - 10 March 2002) *''At Her Majesty's Pleasure'' one-off special (2 June 2002) *''Between Iraq and a Hard Place'' one-off special (5 January 2003) *Series 4: 7 Episodes (19 January - 2 March 2003) *''Beyond Iraq and a Hard Place'' one-off special (11 May 2003) *''Trust Me, I'm a Prime Minister'' one-off special (20 November 2003) *Series 5: 7 Episodes (1 February - 7 March 2004) *Series 6: 5 Episodes (26 September - 31 October 2004) *Series 7: 6 Episodes (6 March - 10 April 2005) *''A Bunch of Counts'' one-off special (5 May 2005) *Series 8: 5 Episodes (11 September - 16 October 2005) *Series 9: 6 Episodes (4 March - 8 April 2006) *One-off special (23 September 2006) *Series 10: 6 Episodes (3 March - 7 April 2007) *''Tony Blair: My Part in His Downfall'' documentary (25 June 2007) *Series 11: 6 Episodes (30 September - 4 November 2007) *Series 12: 7 Episodes (13 April - 25 May 2008) *''Silly Money'' four-part special (2 - 18 November 2008) *''The Last Show Before the Recovery'' one-off special (7 June 2009) *''Who Broke Britain?'' one-off special (14 June 2009) *''Happy Days Are Here Again'' one-off special (21 June 2009) *''The Daily Wind-Up'' three-part special (2 - 4 May 2010) 96 episodes in totalBooks
*''The Long Johns'' by John Bird and John Fortune (published 3 October 1996 by Hutchinson/Channel 4) *''You Are Here: A Dossier'' by Rory Bremner, John Bird and John Fortune (published 28 October 2004 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson)References
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