John Sergeant

The Big Steam Adventure

John Sergeant, Peter Davison and Paul Middleton travel from London to Scotland using only the power of steam. From barges and paddle boats to steam trains and traction engines, the trio use a wide range of steam machines to make their way up the country, and learn about the history and engineering genius of the machines they are travelling on along the way.

Release Date:2023-04-25

Character:Himself

Episode Count:4

The Weakest Link

Romesh Ranganathan takes charge of the back-stabbing big money game show. Can the contestants create a chain of answers and avoid the boot?

Release Date:2021-12-18

Character:Self - Participant

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:5

The Great Plague

Xand van Tulleken, Raksha Dave and John Sergeant trace the spread of the Great Plague of 1665 week by week and discover parallels with the coronavirus.

Release Date:2020-11-17

Character:Presenter

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:1

Tutankhamun with Dan Snow

Release Date:2020-04-27

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Tut's Final Secrets

Towering pyramids. Chambers of treasure. Dramatic rituals. This fascinating movie travels back over 3,000 years to retrace the final 100 days of ancient Egypt's most legendary pharaoh Tutankhamun. Find out what daily life was like for the 19-year-old king as he ruled over one of the ancient world's most advanced civilizations.

Release Date:2020-01-26

Character:Himself - Presenter

Tutankhamun with Dan Snow

An investigative look into the life of the boy-king, his environment and his death.

Release Date:2019-11-26

Character:Host

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:1

The Queen and I

A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.

Release Date:2018-12-24

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:5

Britain By Boat

Veteran newsreader Michael Buerk and long-time journalist John Sergeant team up to explore Britain's coastline by boat. Starting on the sunny shores of Suffolk, the journalistic partners in crime board a 50-foot yacht, the Bonaventure, and set sail, heading south for some rollicking maritime adventures. Along the way, while putting their sailing skills to the test, they take in the glorious coastal scenery, learn some fascinating history, meet a host of interesting characters and enjoy some coastal cuisine.

Release Date:2018-11-23

Character:Self

Episode Count:4

Pompeii's Final Hours: New Evidence

Exploring life in Pompeii during the final days of the doomed city.

Release Date:2018-05-30

Character:Self - Presenter

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:2

Mumbai Railway

From the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai, Dan Snow, Anita Rani and Robert Llewellyn explore the science behind the world's busiest railway. With John Sergeant reporting from across India.

Release Date:2015-09-05

Character:Presenter

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:1

World's Busiest Railway

From the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in Mumbai, Dan Snow, Anita Rani and Robert Llewellyn explore the science behind the world's busiest railway. With John Sergeant reporting from across India.

Release Date:2015-08-24

Character:Self - Presenter

Episode Count:4

The Lancaster: Britain's Flying Past

Passionate flying enthusiast and broadcaster John Sergeant celebrates the plane that some believe won the war - the Lancaster. The film tells the story of this mighty aircraft and the ordinary people whose lives were made extraordinary through their association with it.

Release Date:2014-07-20

Character:Presenter

Just a Minute

Just a Minute is a BBC Radio 4 radio comedy and television panel game chaired by Nicholas Parsons. Its first transmission on Radio 4 was on 22 December 1967, three months after the station's launch. The Radio 4 programme won a Gold Sony Radio Academy Award in 2003. The object of the game is for panellists to talk for sixty seconds on a given subject, "without repetition, hesitation or deviation". The comedy comes from attempts to keep within these rules and the banter among the participants. In 2011 comedy writer David Quantick ascribed Just a Minute's success to its "insanely basic" format, stating, "It's so blank that it can be filled by people as diverse as Paul Merton and Graham Norton, who don't have to adapt their style of humour to the show at all."

Release Date:2012-03-26

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Britain's First Photo Album

Britain’s First Photo Album traces the extraordinary achievement of the pioneering Victorian photographer Francis Frith and his team. Frith embarked upon a colossal project to photograph as much of Great Britain as possible during the second half of the 19th century. In this series John Sergeant sets out to follow in Francis Frith’s footsteps to find out more about ‘Britain’s First Photo Album’ and celebrate our shared past.

Release Date:2012-03-12

Episode Count:10

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

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

Release Date:2011-10-24

Character:Self - Participant

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

Perspectives

Powerful stories and a unique insight into the arts from a range of well-known figures.

Release Date:2011-04-24

Episode Count:1

Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened

30 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.

Release Date:2009-05-10

Character:Self

Vote Count:4

QI

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

Release Date:2003-09-11

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:250

Spike Milligan I told you I was ill... A live tribute

One of many tributes following the death of Spike Milligan. Comedians, actors and musicians join forces to present a live tribute featuring a selection of comic highlights from Spike's life. From recreations of his most famous sketches to readings of Milligan's own poems and extracts from his controversial wartime memoirs, these are all interspersed with archive film clips of the great man himself, showcasing his inimitable comic genius.

Release Date:2002-10-05

Character:Self

The Blue Summer

Blue Summer is an experimental film about the doomed love affair between a writer and his conceptual artist lover. An unseen narrator guides us through the story, describing how he unearthed a pile of letters and fragments of a novel in an abandoned trailer in the countryside. Slowly, these fragments come to life, revealing how the writer's paranoid fantasies provoke a psychological meltdown.Exploring a number of contemporary concerns - the media, modern art, digitalisation, modernism, ecology - the film experiments with filmic genres and uses image and sound to mirror the writer's descent into madness.

Release Date:2000-11-18

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Room 101

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.

Release Date:1994-07-04

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:23

Have I Got News for You

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.

Release Date:1990-09-28

Character:Self - Host

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:65

Question Time

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.

Release Date:1979-09-25

Character:Self - Panellist

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:12

An Audience with...

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.

Release Date:1978-01-08

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3