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Nigel George Planer (born 22 February 1953) is a British actor, writer and musician. ... Jonathan Creek (1997–2013, TV Series) as Franklin Tartikoff / Shelford;
Five series and six specials of the British mystery crime drama series Jonathan Creek have been broadcast since its debut in 1997. Produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick, it stars Alan Davies as the title character who works as a creative consultant to a stage magician while also solving seemingly supernatural mysteries through his talent for logical deduction and his understanding ...
Jonathan Creek is a long-running British mystery crime drama series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. It stars Alan Davies as the title character, who works as a creative consultant to a stage magician while also solving seemingly supernatural mysteries through his talent for logical deduction and his understanding of illusions .
This led to Edmondson and Mayall, along with compere of the Comedy Store Alexei Sayle and other up-and-coming comedians, including Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, French and Saunders, Arnold Brown, and Pete Richens setting up their own comedy club called "The Comic Strip" [12] in the Raymond Revuebar, a strip club in Soho. [13]
In the early 1980s, much of the programme's cast performed on London's comedy club circuit, gaining significant popularity at The Comedy Store [2] —Alexei Sayle was the prominent act, drawing attention as the manic, aggressive compere; Adrian Edmondson and Rik Mayall worked together in the troupe 20th Century Coyote and later became the double act The Dangerous Brothers; and Nigel Planer ...
"The Judas Tree" is the second feature-length Jonathan Creek special produced since the series concluded in 2004. The first such episode, "The Grinning Man", aired in January 2009, after series creator David Renwick revived the drama as a means of deferring retirement. [1]
Oct. 31—JONATHAN CREEK — Those traveling I-40 in western Haywood County are bracing for a return of lane closures — and the traffic backups that come with it — as reconstruction of two ...
The Grinning Man" was commissioned by Jane Tranter, Controller of BBC Fiction, with Lucy Lumsden, Controller of Comedy Commissioning, stating that the station was "delighted to have Jonathan Creek back on BBC One". [7] Renwick was prepared for a negative reaction to the show's revival, describing how: "People say, Oh Jonathan Creek's coming ...