Bremner, Bird and Fortune

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Rory Bremner, on the show

Bremner, Bird and Fortune is an award-winning satirical British television programme produced by Vera Productions for Channel Four, uniting the longstanding satirical team of John Bird and John Fortune (the Two Johns) with the satirical impressionist Rory Bremner. The show is almost entirely political, but in recent series different genres of sketches have been introduced. The programme ranges from small sketches and a regular stand-up impressionism section by Bremner to heavily researched, bitingly satirical three-handed historical narratives. As well as ending with a usually political musical number.

In October 2004, they published a book based on the show, called You Are Here (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 288 pages, ISBN 0-297-84778-3, also available as a paperback from Orion mass market paperback, ISBN 0-7528-6493-9).

The show has run for six series since 1999.

[edit] Awards

In 2000 Bird and Fortune were nominated for a British Academy Television Award (BAFTA) for Best Entertainment Performance. In 2002 and 2003, two years running, three members of the show's production team, Geoff Atkinson, Steve Connelly and David G. Croft, were nominated for a BAFTA for Best Comedy Programme or Series and Bird and Fortune were nominated for a BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance or Best Comedy Performance. In 2005 Rory Bremner was nominated for a BAFTA for Best Comedy Performance.

Bremner Bird and Fortune was filmed up until the second series in 2006 at The Hammersmith Studios. It is Now filmed in Studio 1 At Tedington Studios

In 2003 the episode "At Her Majesty's Pleasure" won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Entertainment.