"carries a briefcase, endlessly dabbing at his forehead with a hankie."" Hogan goes on to argue that Poole is a ""bland blend of several dozen ""quirky"" screen sleuths: a bit of Morse here, a dash of Columbo there, a pinch of Precious Ramotswe and a lug of Jonathan Creek to taste."" The episode ""An Unholy Death"" reveals that he suffers from ""sphenisciphobia"" (an irrational fear of nuns), as a result of a bad experience during his school-boy days. Richard Poole (character) Detective Inspector Richard Poole is a character in the crime drama television series ""Death in Paradise"", portrayed by Ben"
"the starring role in the ABC television police comedy ""Barney Miller"". He portrayed the eponymous captain of the beleaguered 12th Precinct in bohemian Greenwich Village, dealing with mordant wit, compassion, and occasional frustration at the comedy-of-manners misfits brought in for arrest or questioning, or who came to lodge a complaint or stop by on bureaucratic business or to just say hi. He earned seven Emmy Award nominations for his work on the series, one for each season. Linden also earned four Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. The series aired from 1975 to 1982."
"Richard Poole (Ben Miller) is assigned to investigate the murder of a British police officer on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint Marie. After he successfully finds the murderer, he is reluctantly required by his supervisors to replace the victim and stay on as the detective inspector (DI) of the island, solving new cases as they appear, and being the object of many fish-out-of-water jokes. At the start of Series 3, Poole is killed and uncoordinated London detective Humphrey Goodman (Kris Marshall) arrives to investigate the death of his strait-laced predecessor. He then stays in the job as chief investigator"
"in late 2011 and a daughter born in June 2015, with his second wife, production executive Jessica Parker, daughter of British musician Alan Parker, whom he married in September 2013. On 20 February 2009, Miller appeared with Rob Brydon in an episode of ""QI"" (Series 6. 9). The two have often been mistaken for each other, and as a joke they dressed in similar shirts for the episode and shared an on-screen narcissistic kiss. A talented musician, Miller plays the guitar and drums. Ben Miller Bennet Evan Miller (born 24 February 1966) is an English comedian, actor and director. He"
"2 was also repeated on Paramount). The title was ""Armstrong and Miller"" for the first two series, and ""The Armstrong and Miller Show"" for the last two. All four series have been released on DVD. Armstrong and Miller (TV series) Armstrong and Miller - later retitled The Armstrong and Miller Show - is a comedy sketch television show that aired between 1997 and 2001 featuring Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller, known together as Armstrong and Miller. Following a series on the Paramount Comedy Channel in 1997, a further three were made for Channel 4. The duo moved to BBC One"
"Price in the serial drama ""Mansfield Park"". He then appeared in various television shows throughout the 1990s. These included ""Keeping Up Appearances"" in 1990, followed by ""Inspector Morse"" and ""Minder"" in 1991. He appeared in two separate guest roles in the ITV procedural ""The Bill"", one in 1991 and another in 1993, as well as single episode roles in the BBC drama ""Between the Lines"" and the medical drama ""Casualty"", both of which were broadcast in 1992. In 1993's third installment of ""Prime Suspect"", Miller gave a moving portrayal of a young man victimized as a child by a pedophile."
"Maxine Peake as troubled housewife Juliet Miller whose husband was stabbed in their bed. Yann Demange and Marc Jobst directed the second series. The first series won two British Academy Television Awards for Best Drama Serial and Best Writer, three Royal Television Society Awards and an International Emmy. The first season has been re-made into a HBO miniseries ""The Night Of"", starring John Turturro and Riz Ahmed. The first series was composed of five episodes, which were broadcast nightly from 30 June to 4 July 2008 on BBC One. The first series starred Ben Whishaw as Ben Coulter, a young"
"Armstrong and Miller (TV series) Armstrong and Miller - later retitled The Armstrong and Miller Show - is a comedy sketch television show that aired between 1997 and 2001 featuring Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller, known together as Armstrong and Miller. Following a series on the Paramount Comedy Channel in 1997, a further three were made for Channel 4. The duo moved to BBC One in 2007 with ""The Armstrong & Miller Show"". Four series were produced by Absolutely Productions. The first series was made for the Paramount Comedy Channel, the subsequent three series were broadcast on Channel 4 (Series"
"play of """".<br> In 2011, he took the role of dock worker Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's ""A View From the Bridge"" at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester (from 18 May to 25 June 2011). This portrayal won the 2011 Manchester Theatre Award for Best Actor. He played St. Paul in the 2013 mini-series ""The Bible"". He portrays Val Pearson in the sitcom ""Uncle"" (2014 to 2017). He played Cliff in ""Cucumber"", an eight-part TV drama series. in 2015. He starred in the 35th-anniversary staging of Willy Russell's ""Educating Rita"" at [Liverpool Playhouse|The Liverpool Playhouse]]. He appears as Neil"
"""The Mary Tyler Moore Show"", ""Rhoda"", and ""Lou Grant"". Television producer James L. Brooks, who later collaborated with Burns on these series, created, among others, ""Room 222"" and ""Taxi"", and served as executive producer of ""The Simpsons"" (which later parodied the show in the ""Lovematic Grandpa"" segment of ""The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase""), got his start in television sitcoms when he was called upon to rewrite a script for an episode of the series. The other co-creator, Chris Hayward, produced and wrote for ""Barney Miller"" during its first several seasons. The show follows the exploits of attorney David Crabtree (played by"
"and Paul Hipp. The pilot made significant changes to the characters and premise as it moved the setting from London to Los Angeles. Manchild (TV series) Manchild is a British television comedy/drama series that ran for two series on BBC Two between February 2002 and April 2003 with seven episodes in Series 1 and eight episodes in Series 2. The show starred Ray Burdis (Gary), Nigel Havers (Terry), Anthony Head (James) and Don Warrington (Patrick) as four successful fifty-something men dealing with different problems such as marriage and children or life after divorce, aging parents, sexual dysfunction, lost youth, a"
"Simon Greenall Simon James Greenall (born 3 January 1958) is an English actor, writer, producer and voice artist, well known for his roles as Michael in the BBC TV series ""I'm Alan Partridge"", as well as in """", the Caretaker in the CBBC game show ""Trapped!"", Richard in ""Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married"" and various roles in TV comedies such as ""Harry Enfield's Television Programme"", ""The Armstrong and Miller Show"", ""Alas Smith and Jones"" and ""The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson"". As a voice artist, Greenall is known for voicing Iqbal and Martin in ""Bromwell High"", the Twins in"
"as Bob Monkhouse, Griff Rhys Jones, Rik Mayall, Jack Dee, Bill Bailey, John Bird and Nigel Planer; who are mainly associated with comedy, but who gave straight performances. The first two series were broadcast in the U.S. on a number of PBS stations, while the remainder aired on BBC America. David Renwick wanted to write a detective series that dealt with the actual work of detection rather than action, which most crime dramas appeared to focus on at the time. Also, whereas most of these were about ""who did it"" (""Inspector Morse"" or ""Taggart"") and ""why it was done"" (""Cracker""),"
"Billy"" (1972), ""High Anxiety"" (1977), ""9 to 5"" (1980), ""Tin Man"" (1983), ""The Flamingo Kid"" (1984), ""The American President"" (1995) and ""Ghosts of Mississippi"" (1996). He also appeared in many TV situation comedies such as ""All in the Family"", ""Laverne & Shirley"", ""The Partridge Family"", ""Good Times"", ""The Odd Couple"" (nine episodes, never playing the same role twice), ""Married... with Children"", ""Empty Nest"", ""Newhart"", ""The Facts of Life"", ""Columbo"", ""Love American Style"", ""Barney Miller"", ""WKRP in Cincinnati"", ""The Golden Girls"", ""Soap"" and ""Night Court"". He was also a regular on the sitcom ""It's a Living"", and starred in his own"
"a Comedy Program at the 9th Gemini Awards in 1995. He is currently seen as Bob Currie on ""Schitt's Creek"", for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards. John Hemphill (actor) John Hemphill (born 1953) is a Canadian comic actor, writer and producer. A longtime player with The Second City troupe's Toronto cast, he was a writer for ""SCTV"" as well as appearing in supporting character roles such as Happy Marsden, Wesley Wilks, Willem DeCooney and Dr Ryne Thurman. He has also appeared in the"
"ratings of over two million viewers, regularly appearing in the top-ten weekly shows for the channel. Upon the end of the series in 1999, BBC Two immediately began to screen repeats, and the series was also rescreened on ITV3 in 2006, and again on BBC Two from October 18, 2010. A rerun on digital channel True Entertainment began on October 10, 2014 with the pilot, with regular-series episodes following on weekdays from October 13. The premise of the series centres on a Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) constable named Benton Fraser (Paul Gross) who travels to Chicago to solve the"
"as media journalists Craig Children and Martin Bain-Jones in a spoof music/children's/cultural review programme. Four series of the show have been made by Absolutely Productions, the first airing in 1997. The first two were titled ""Armstrong and Miller"", and the last two ""The Armstrong and Miller Show"". The first series, shown on the Paramount Comedy Channel, had six episodes and the subsequent series, all first shown on Channel 4, consisted of seven episodes. The second series was immediately repeated on the Paramount Comedy Channel after its initial broadcast. The fourth series of the show was released on DVD in the"
"Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza and Chris Pratt. The only permanent cast member not to return was Paul Schneider, who previously played city planner Mark Brendanawicz. Schneider departed from the series at the end of season two. Jim O'Heir and Retta, who made regular appearances as parks employees Jerry Gergich and Donna Meagle during the first two seasons, were considered members of the regular cast starting in season three, although they still do not appear in the opening credits. Adam Scott, who portrayed state auditor Ben Wyatt in the final two episodes of the second season,"
"The Ben Stiller Show The Ben Stiller Show is the name of two sketch comedy television programs that aired on MTV from 1989 to 1990, and then on Fox from September 27, 1992 to January 17, 1993. The Fox program starred Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo and Bob Odenkirk. Character actor John F. O'Donohue also appeared in every episode. The program featured numerous filmed comedy segments, many of which parodied mid 1980s to early 1990s pop culture. Despite mostly positive reviews, Fox cancelled the series after only 13 episodes, due to low ratings. Unlike most sketch comedy program, ""The"
"Michael Atkinson as an ex-insurance investigator and ex-policeman who start up their own security firm to tackle crime. Miller appeared in May during the eighth instalment called ""Freedom!"", as Tamara. When the BBC made a series, ""The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling"", set in the days of the British Raj and based partly on his book which had originally been ""[a] set of Indian tales that first appeared in ""Macmillan's Magazine"""", Miller portrayed Mrs. Denville in episode 23, ""A Second-Rate Woman"", in 1964. She then played a comedy role in the BBC's ""The Dick Emery Show"" on 4 December 1964."
"a tropical island. The series ran for thirteen episodes and first aired on ITV on 23 April 1990. It later went to broadcast in several countries worldwide. In the 90s he voiced the part of Mouse, opposite Alan Bennett's Mole in the TV series ""Mouse & Mole"", based on books by Joyce Dunbar and James Mayhew. He latterly starred alongside Neil Morrissey in ""Bob the Builder"" (2005) as Bob's Dad, Robert to his credit. He also recorded the four seasonal ""Percy The Park Keeper"" stories for a CD release based on the books by Nick Butterworth, creating memorable voices for"
"In 1997, 16 years after the original series of ""To the Manor Born"" ended on television, ten 30-minute episodes were recorded for radio, the programme's original intended medium. The episodes, originally aired on Saturdays on BBC Radio 2 from 25 January to 29 March 1997, were written by Peter Spence, six adapted from TV episodes and four new episodes. Keith and Thorne returned as Audrey and Marjory, while Keith Barron replaced Bowles as Richard. Other actors, including Frank Middlemass and Nicholas McArdle, who played Miller in the TV version, replaced many of the by then deceased original television cast members."
"show stars Wendy Craig as frustrated 'stay at home' housewife, Ria Parkinson and Geoffrey Palmer as her reserved dentist husband, Ben, who is also an amateur lepidopterist. Ria's early dialogue in the first series suggests her age as early 40s, whereas her husband, Ben, quotes himself to be ""the wrong side of 45"". Ben is a typically traditional, conservative white-collar professional, ill at ease with his sons' lack of work-ethic and carefree post-punk attitudes (the series starts in 1978) whilst remaining unaware of his wife's impending mid-life crisis. They have been married for 19 years and are depicted as having"
"a series featuring Dr. Frank C. Baxter and directed by Frank Capra, which was shown on American network television in 1956 and 1957. Miller crossed paths with other prolific voice-over artists many times in his career including June Foray, playing ""Deer"" in ""Hemo the Magnificent"" and in the TV series ""Rocky and Bullwinkle"" along with Paul Frees, who voiced ""Boris Badenov"" in that program. Miller and Frees also performed in separate segments on the audio recording ""Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America Volume One The Early Years"". Miller made a guest appearance in 1963 on ""Perry Mason"" as"
"CBC Television series ""Toby"" in 1968. By the 1970s after training at Young People's Theatre and The Second City, he was working in improvisational and children's theatre with Gilda Radner and in 1974 was cast as one of an ensemble (which included Valri Bromfield and Jayne Eastwood) to star on the CTV comedy series ""Funny Farm"". During the 1970s he appeared on stage at: Factory Theatre's ""Hurray for Johnny Canuck"" with Maury Chaykin and Jim Henshaw; Theatre Passe Muraille in ""Bethune""; and Theatre New Brunswick as Brighella in Goldoni's ""Servant of Two Masters"" among others. Since then he has worked"
"the Fair"" (1954), ""The Stateless Man"" (1955), ""The Extra Day"" (1956), ""Moby Dick"" (1956), ""The Hideout"" (1956), ""Saint Joan"" (1957), ""Battle of the V-1"" (1958), ""Mark of the Phoenix"" (1958), ""This Sporting Life"" (1963) and ""Thunderball"" (1965). He was also cast as a number of toughs and henchmen on television, including supporting turns in ""Quatermass II"", ""Sword of Freedom"", ""The Four Just Men"", ""Dixon of Dock Green"", ""Adam Adamant Lives!"", ""The Saint"" and ""The Sweeney"". His appearances in comedy series include ""Hancock's Half Hour"" (""The Cold"", ""Football Pools"", ""The Big Night"" and ""The Two Murderers""), ""The Benny Hill Show"", ""Corrigan"
"television. From 1988 to 2000, he played Inspector Reg Wexford in numerous television adaptations of mysteries by Ruth Rendell and this is probably the role for which he became best known. In 1993, following the death of his second wife, he married the actress Louie Ramsay, who played Mrs Wexford in the same television series. He also appeared in ""The Baron"", ""Survivors"", ""Minder"" in Series 1's ""You Gotta Have Friends"", ""Coronation Street"" (as brewery owner Cecil Newton), in the ""Doctor Who"" story ""Full Circle"" and masterful turn as a pair of twins in a 2005 episode of Midsomer Murders titled"
"the television adaptation of ""The Canterbury Tales"" (1969). He played one musical role on film the Priest in ""Man of La Mancha"", the 1972 screen version of the Broadway musical. Also in 1972, he played Anthony Beavis in the television series ""Eyeless in Gaza"". In 1974, he played King Richard II/Bolingbroke in ""Richard II"" part of the ""Camera Three"" television series. In 1978, he played Robespierre in the BBC's ""Play of the Month"" production of ""Danton's Death"". In 1979, he played Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery in the TV miniseries ""Ike"" His first major role was his appearance as Bill"
"became intertwined with their jobs. The show received average ratings during its debut season, but after some major changes, including intensive character development, the series became a success the following year. The original cast members include Peter Phelps, Joe Petruzzi, Kate Kendall, Ian Stenlake, Anita Hegh, and Jessica Napier. Phelps and Kendall were the only actors to remain with the show for its entire run. Richard Morgan, who played Det-Sen Sgt. Reg Masters from 1999 until 2004, died of motor neurone disease on 23 December 2006. Morgan also appeared on ""The Sullivans"", ""A Country Practice"", ""Sons and Daughters"", ""MDA"", ""Blue"
"first series. Their time apart caused strains on their relationship, and with his sons. He wanted to spend more time with his family. In 2014, Miller appeared in the feature film ""Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism"". He also appeared with Billy Connolly and David Tennant in the film ""What We Did on Our Holiday"". Starring opposite Nancy Carroll and Diana Vickers, Miller played Robert Houston in the play ""The Duck House"" by Dan Patterson and Colin Swash. The show is a political satire based on the UK parliamentary expenses scandal. On 6 September 2014, Miller guest starred"
"purchase of recreational drugs. Sam's slacker boyfriend Ben (Rasmus Hardiker) goes through numerous jobs and interests in the first series, such as taking a circus skills course, and a short-lived shelf-stacking job, however these apparent jobs require a recurring amount of forty pounds (which is gained from Rick through Sam's pleas), which may in fact be used to purchase recreational drugs, meaning the jobs and interests may not exist at all. Magda (Anna Crilly) is the Spleens' morose Eastern European housekeeper, who is often puzzled by British attitudes, language and, in her view, softness. She is a willing worker and"
"Pity She's a Whore"", Kastril and later Surly in ""The Alchemist"". In 1991, Bonneville made his television debut, billed as Richard Bonneville. His debut film was 1994's ""Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"" with Robert De Niro and Kenneth Branagh. His early roles were usually good-natured bumbling characters like Bernie in ""Notting Hill"" (1999) and Mr Rushworth in ""Mansfield Park"" (1999). In the BBC television series, ""Take A Girl Like You"" (2000) and ""Armadillo"" (2001), he played more villainous characters, leading up to the domineering Henleigh Grandcourt in ""Daniel Deronda"" (2002) and the psychopathic killer James Lampton in ""The Commander"" (2003) series. In"
"Lord Byron in the television film ""Byron"". He then starred alongside Ray Liotta in the CBS drama ""Smith"". However, the show was canceled after only seven episodes. Miller was then cast as the titular character in the legal comedy-drama ""Eli Stone"". The show ran for two seasons on ABC and he received a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actor. He then starred in the BBC costume drama ""Emma"" as George Knightley. Miller then performed in a guest role as Jordan Chase in the fifth season of the Showtime drama ""Dexter"" for which he received a nomination for Screen Actors Guild"