Jimmy Mulville
Jimmy Mulville English film and television actor, producer, writer and director. He is one of the founder of the production companies Hat Trick Productions and Emporium Productions.
Works
Morons from Outer Space
The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by...
Release Date1985-03-29
Charactersd Motorway Policeman
Vote Count44
G.B.H.
GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray, the Militant tendency-supporting Labour leader of a city council in the North of England and Jim Nelson, the headmaster of a school for disturbed children. The series was controversial partly because Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council — in an interview in the G.B.H. DVD Bleasdale recounts an accidental meeting with Hatton before the series, who indicates that he has caught wind of Bleasdale's intentions but does not mind as long as the actor playing him is "handsome". In normal parlance, the initials "GBH" refer to the criminal charge of grievous bodily harm - however, the actual intent of the letters is that it is supposed to stand for Great British Holiday.
Release Date1991-06-06
Charactersd Philip
Episode Count7
Vote Count16
Chelmsford 123
Chelmsford, Britain in the year AD 123; there is a power struggle between Roman governor Aulus Paulinus and the British chieftain, Badvoc. Britain is a miserable place, cold and wet – just the place to exile Aulus for accidentally insulting the Emperor's horse, but also give him something useful to do. Aulus, probably a play on Aulus Platorius Nepos, the governor of Roman Britain between 122 and 125, was a rather delicate Roman, who was usually outwitted by the scheming Badvoc, who hadn't had a haircut for twenty-five years.
Release Date1988-03-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Aulus Paulinus
Episode Count13
Vote Count4
Old Harry's Game
Animation pilot for TV show
Release Date2012-01-01
Charactersd Thomas Quentin Crimp
Who Dares Wins
Daring 1980s alternative comedy sketch show that helped launch the careers of a number of British comedians. Often parodies the channel it aired on. Recurring characters include Terry and Wang-Wang - a pair of swearing Pandas.
Release Date1984-05-12
Charactersd Various
Episode Count8
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
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.
Release Date1988-09-23
Charactersd Self
Episode Count3
Vote Count66
Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball?
The Secret Policeman benefit shows for Amnesty International brought together comedy grand masters - from Python and Beyond the Fringe - and performers then relatively unknown, like Rowan Atkinson. Narrated by Dawn French, the programme includes interviews with many of the comedians and musicians who took part: John Cleese, Stephen Fry, Michael Palin, Sting, Lenny Henry and many more. The shows and their stars had a huge effect on modern British comedy. There are few comics today whose careers have not been heavily influenced by the anarchic and surreal humour of these events.
Release Date2004-12-09
Charactersd Self
Vote Count3
The Secret Policeman's Ball
A series of benefit shows staged initially in the United Kingdom to raise funds for the human rights organisation Amnesty International. The shows started in 1976 featuring popular British comedians but later included leading musicians and actors. The Secret Policeman's Ball shows are credited by many prominent entertainers with having galvanised them to become involved with Amnesty and other social and political causes in succeeding years.
Release Date1976-04-01
Charactersd Self
Episode Count15
Vote Count1
The Secret Policeman’s Biggest Ball
After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music - and the financial disaster of its music-only Festival Of Youth weekend concert in 1988, Amnesty returned to the original formula that had been so successful in the 1976-1981 era with a primary focus on comedy. Pat Duffy was dropped from organising any further benefit events for Amnesty and for the 1989 show, Amnesty hired producer Judith Holder.
Release Date1989-01-01
Charactersd Self
Vote Count2
Comedians Do It On Stage
A Group of Britain's top comedy and music performers gather at a London Theater, to give their support to the Oncology Club Fund. The Fund is a charitable organization which provides training for young doctors in the practical day to day care of patients with cancer.
Release Date1986-02-01
Charactersd Self
Have I Got a Bit More News for You
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.
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count16
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Comedian Aisha Tyler hosts this improv comedy show where the actors on the show - Wayne Brady, Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles along with a special guest each episode -must put their comedic skills to the test through a series of spontaneous improv games, prompted only by random ideas supplied by the studio audience.
Release Date2013-07-16
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count12
Vote Count98
Mastermind
Mastermind is a British quiz show, well known for its challenging questions, intimidating setting and air of seriousness. Devised by Bill Wright, the basic format of Mastermind has never changed — four and in later contests five contestants face two rounds, one on a specialised subject of the contestant's choice, the other a general knowledge round. Wright drew inspiration from his experiences of being interrogated by the Gestapo during World War II. The atmosphere is helped by Mastermind's famously ominous theme music, "Approaching Menace" by the British composer Neil Richardson. The quiz programme originated and was recorded in Manchester at studios such as New Broadcasting House and Granada Studios, before permanently moving to MediaCityUK in 2011.
Release Date1972-09-11
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count31
Vote Count11
Episodes
A British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.
Release Date2011-01-09
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count18
Vote Count197
Have I Got News for You
Host Roy Wood Jr. and team captains Amber Ruffin and Michael Ian Black serve up a smart take on the news of the week and guide guests through comic games and panels that test their knowledge of current events.
Release Date2024-09-14
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count2
Bike Squad
Comedy-drama featuring a group of inept constables who are relegated to the embarrassing "Bike Squad", a new police scheme intended to serve as a more flexible response unit.
Release Date2008-01-04
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Trigger Point
For London's bomb disposal experts, no day is ever the same as they risk their lives protecting the city from harm.
Release Date2022-01-23
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count95
The Sleeping Dictionary
A young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and finds himself faced with tough decisions of the heart involving the beautiful Selima, the unwitting object of his affections.
Release Date2003-01-31
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count174
Celebrity Mastermind
Celebrity Mastermind is a British television quiz show broadcast by BBC television. The show is a spin-off of the long-running quiz show Mastermind, with the exception that all the contestants are celebrities. As with the main show, John Humphrys is the host and question-master. Magnus Magnusson was quizmaster on the 2003/04 episodes featuring Jonathan Meades as winner.
Release Date2003-12-26
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count14
Vote Count2
Huge
A feuding double act try to make it in the cut-throat world of stand-up comedy.
Release Date2010-06-18
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count7
Gobble
As Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad turkey disease".
Release Date1997-02-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Lord of Misrule
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.
Release Date1996-05-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Spy
When an underachieving single father inadvertently becomes an MI5 agent, he must keep his government job a secret while battling his ex-wife for custody of their precocious son.
Release Date2011-10-14
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count17
Vote Count44
Hacks
A satirical swipe at the phone-hacking scandal surrounding the British newspaper industry.
Release Date2012-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count3
Sex 'n' Death
The host of a British Shock-TV Show blurs the line between show business and life.
Release Date1999-12-14
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
Power Monkeys
Following the success of their 2015 election comedy Ballot Monkeys, Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin (Ballot Monkeys, Outnumbered, Drop the Dead Donkey) return to Channel 4 with a six-part satire lampooning the fictional communications and social media ‘experts’ on both sides of the EU referendum, as well as taking audiences a few doors down from the Kremlin and into the imagined world of Donald Trump’s campaign plane.
Release Date2016-06-08
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count8
Bromwell High
Set in an under-funded, graffitti-scarred secondary school in South London and follows the exploits of three exceptionally naughty school girls, one maverick Headmaster and a bunch of desperate teachers. Keisha Marie, Latrina and Natella are the first word in streetwise charm.
Release Date2005-02-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count13
Vote Count6
TRINITY
A heroic female naval officer becomes involved with the outwardly charismatic Secretary of Defense, only to discover that he may be at the heart of a dangerous conspiracy.
Release Date2026-07-16
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count2
Bedtime
Bedtime was a British comedy-drama written and directed by Andy Hamilton and broadcast by the BBC. It ran for three series for a total of fifteen episodes between August 2001 and December 2003. The first two series had six episodes each and the third series had three episodes. Series 1 and 2 were released on DVD.
Release Date2001-08-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count15
Vote Count2
The Family Pile
A comedic exploration of one of life's big milestones, four sisters who have lost their parents and are packing up the family home to sell. But even in grief their messy lives go on.
Release Date2023-01-17
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Easy Money
Easy Money is a comedy-drama television series that aired on The CW from October 5, 2008 to August 16, 2009. The series was created by Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider. The show—along with Valentine, Surviving Suburbia, and In Harm's Way—are shows programmed by Media Rights Capital, an independent producer of television programming. The Sunday night block was sold to the producers on a leased-time basis from The CW after the network had no ratings success with the night. Production of the series was put on hold in mid-October and was expected to resume within four to six weeks. Two weeks later, MRC decided to cancel both Easy Money and Valentine. On November 20, 2008, The CW announced that it was ending its Sunday Night agreement with MRC, removing the current shows and programming the night itself. On July 6, 2009, The CW announced that beginning July 26, the series would begin burning off the remaining episodes Sundays at 7 p.m.
Release Date2008-10-05
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count8
Vote Count1
Trevor's World of Sport
Trevor's World of Sport began as a 2003 BBC television sitcom written and directed by Andy Hamilton and starring Neil Pearson as Trevor. Only one television series was made, and Hamilton felt mistreated by the BBC over the scheduling of the show. The first episode attracted an average of 3.4 million viewers, dropping to 2.9 million for the second and third episodes. The subsequent episodes were rescheduled from Friday evenings to Monday nights, despite the Radio Times issues having already been published listing the originally scheduled transmission dates. Hamilton went public with his displeasure over the show's scheduling and vowed never to work for BBC1 again, though he has since changed his mind. A radio version was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004, with subsequent series in 2005 and 2007. The series is set in the world of TS Sports – a sports public relations firm, run by Trevor Heslop and his partner, the lascivious Sammy Dobbs. Trevor is portrayed as an essentially decent, honest man in the corrupt money-obsessed industry of sporting celebrity, who is still deeply in love with his estranged wife Meryl. Andy Hamilton also appears in a minor role within the show, and several actors who have worked in his other comedy shows for television and radio appear. Neil Pearson was in Hamilton's Drop the Dead Donkey, as was Michael Fenton Stevens who plays TS Sports' only regular client, fading celebrity Ralph Renton.
Release Date2003-08-15
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count7
Vote Count2
Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire is a British-American comedic sword and sorcery series created by Peter A. Knight, co-produced by Hat Trick Productions and Media Rights Capital for Comedy Central and BBC Two, which premiered on April 9, 2009 in the USA and on June 11 in the UK. It began airing on July 8 in Canada, on Citytv. In August 2009, it was reported that the series was canceled after Comedy Central pulled out of the production, but the BBC has retracted this claim, stating that a second series could be produced if they were able to gain a new funding partner. According to Jimmy Mulville of Hat Trick Productions, "There is a bit of misinformation going on. As far as the writers and the controller of BBC comedy and the controller of BBC2 and Matt Lucas are concerned, we are developing a second series."
Release Date2009-04-09
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count6
Vote Count28
Stuck
It is based on a relationship between Dan and Carla with an age gap who are at a cross-roads. Dan has been made redundant, When Carla's ex-girlfriend Maya re-appears, things start to get even more tricky.
Release Date2022-09-26
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count5
Vote Count8
The Wilsons
Comedy drama about a deeply dysfunctional family from South London. Ray, a friendly but hopeless fifty-something, is a widower with three daughters, two sons and a drink problem.
Release Date2000-01-16
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count6
Vote Count5
How to Get to Heaven from Belfast
Three old friends from the Northern Irish capital – Saoirse, Robyn and Dara – are now in their late-thirties and lead very different lives. But when they receive an email informing them of the death of Greta, an old classmate they were once very close with, there’s clearly some unspoken, unfinished business. The trio’s subsequent adventure takes them on a journey across Ireland.
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count1
Boyz Unlimited
Boyz Unlimited is a British comedy series created by David Walliams, Matt Lucas and Richard Osman. It was initially broadcast on Channel 4 from 5 February to 12 March 1999. A six-part satire about the music industry, Frank Harper stars as career criminal Nigel Gacey, who gives himself a year to form his own boy band. Produced by Hat Trick Productions and credited as being written by Osman, Boyz Unlimited was struck by poor ratings and negative critical reception, resulting in cancellation; Walliams would later claim that his experiences caused both him and Lucas to refuse to work with Hat Trick on subsequent projects for many years, and Osman's experiences would cause him to lose confidence in his writing ability.
Release Date1999-02-05
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count2
Smoggie Queens
Cheers queers! Incredible lewks, titanic brunches, epic squabbles - this deeply weird and fiercely loving chosen family takes no prisoners. Out and proud Middlesbrough comedy.
Release Date2024-11-28
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Ballot Monkeys
Political comedy set on the campaign buses of the main parties as they battle their way through the chaos of the election campaign.
Release Date2015-04-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count8
Game Show in My Head
Game Show in My Head is an American television game show airing on CBS produced by Ashton Kutcher and hosted by Joe Rogan. The show premiered on CBS on January 3, 2009 and aired on Saturdays at 8PM Eastern Standard Time.
Release Date2009-01-03
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count8
Eleven Men Against Eleven
A curtain raiser for the 1995-6 football season and a state of the Premiership comedy drama about the corrupt world of football. Sir Bob is a football club chairman and megalomaniac. As the season draws to a climax his club are staring into the abyss of relegation. Can new manager Ted save City from the drop?
Release Date1995-08-31
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count3
The Very Best of 'Have I Got News for You'
Compilation of classic moments and unseen outtakes from the first 23 series (1990-2002) of the popular BBC comedy show.
Release Date2002-11-25
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Birdsong
A short film by Uncle Shortbread about the dangers of sleep deprivation, the brutality of the music industry and the power of Iggy Pop’s hip thrust.
Release Date2023-05-26
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters
More than 160 minutes of the best moments from the top TV comedy news quiz, with a different guest presenter in the chair each week. Includes the uproarious episode hosted by Boris Johnson together with specially extended versions of the shows presented by Martin Clunes, William Hague, and Bruce Forsyth.
Release Date2003-10-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
That's Love
That's love! is a British television sitcom about the domestic problems of a young married couple, lawyer Donald and designer Patsy.
Release Date1988-01-19
Episode Count26
Vote Count2
Just For Laughs
Release Date1987-03-17
Episode Count46