
Acting
Tim Key
Born
1976-09-02 (50)
Place of birth
Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Known for
Acting
Credits
75 titles
Tim Key (born 2 September 1976) is an English writer, performance poet, comedian and actor. In 2009, he was the winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was also nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.
Known for
4.3A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.
The One Show
2006
8.1Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Skins
2007
8.3Greg Davies is the Taskmaster, and with the help of his ever-loyal assistant Alex Horne, they will set out to test the wiles, wit, wisdom and skills of five hyper-competitive comedians. Who will be crowned the Taskmaster champion?
Taskmaster
2015
7.1Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the pop industry.
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
8.1An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
Inside No. 9
2014
7.4Jimmy Carr hosts proceedings as the 8 Out of 10 Cats crew take over the words and numbers quiz.
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
2013
Film credits
2020s · 10 titles
6.8Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
Mickey 17
2025
6.3In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
See How They Run
2022
6.9When the denizens of Littlehampton – including conservative Edith – begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose is charged with the crime. Suspecting something amiss, the town's women band together to investigate.
Wicked Little Letters
2024
7.3An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.
The Ballad of Wallis Island
2025
5.7While trying to make his sister's wedding day go smoothly, Jack finds himself juggling an angry ex-girlfriend, an uninvited guest with a secret, a misplaced sleep sedative, and the girl that got away in alternate versions of the same day.
Love Wedding Repeat
2020
6.1Sue works in a library. Daniel eats crisps and listens to Metallica. This was the summer Daniel was due to spend with his father and his father's new wife in Florida. But when they cancel his trip at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together.
Days of the Bagnold Summer
2020
6.7Pauline and Barry are a seemingly happily married middled aged couple. That is until Pauline tunes into relationship hour on Talk Radio and thinks she recognises the nameless voice that’s relaying a lifetime of regrets live on the radio.
Talk Radio
2021
NRSTROKE OF GENIUS juxtaposes the calm and emptiness of a morning spent waiting for a letter, where ostensibly little to nothing happens, with the turmoil on a cosmic scale caused by the waiting man's existential ambivalence about his legacy and purpose.
Stroke of Genius
2025
NRThis bizarre poem follows a seemingly tranquil date night that goes horribly wrong…
Sausage Poem
2026
4.5A documentary recounting Sam Campbell's journey to create Chess Ham, the Chesham Chess Ham.
Chess Ham
2025
2010s · 19 titles
7.4After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.
One Day
2011
6.5An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
The Double
2014
5.5After a quick courtship, two lovers hastily decide to tie the knot. As their first year of marriage unfolds, temptation and incompatibility put their relationship in jeopardy.
I Give It a Year
2013
5.6A retail billionaire's 60th birthday party is celebrated in an exclusive hotel on the Greek island of Mykonos.
Greed
2019
6.6When famous DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
2013
9.0It is the day of Rebecca and Jeremy's engagement party, and everyone (well, nearly everyone) has turned up to the old house to wish them well. Except that one of the bedrooms, the one with all the old baggage in it, has been left unlocked...
Sardines
2014
4.7Harry Hill embarks on a road trip to Blackpool with his Nan when he discovers that his hamster only has one week to live.
The Harry Hill Movie
2013
6.0A man dazzles a girl on the perfect first date but why won't she text back? He retraces his steps, reexamining the date.
Wonderdate
2018
NRAlex Horne tries to discover why some games survived, and examines the best of those that did not. Whilst revisiting his own childhood haunts, he attempts to relaunch the ancient sport of the Quintain, horseless jousting, and tries his damnedest to understand the rules of the Jingling Match. Not forgetting his attempt to restage the forgotten spectacle of Cricket on Horseback. This might just be a journey to the very heart of sport itself, but if not, it will be a lot of fun playing games that have not been seen for hundreds of years and even more fun discovering why.
The Games That Time Forgot: Cricket on Horseback and Other Forgotten Sports
2010
8.2Documentary looking back at Alan Partridge's journey from broadcaster caricature to the award-winning study of complexity and pathos that he has become.
Alan Partridge: Why, When, Where, How And Whom?
2017
Split-screen, bilingual stop-motion film, in which two neighbours turn to technology in their search for companionship and acceptance.
Two Films About Loneliness
2014
NRA man in a coffee shop asks the barista if she ever thinks about him.
Regular
2017
Silent comedy drama starring Tim Key and Matthew Perry as two men who try to entertain a crowd by throwing their dogs in the air.
The Dog Thrower
2014
6.0A man decides to leave. He knows he wants to do something with his life. He just hasn't figured out what yet.
I Decided to Leave
2015
NRA lonely social outcast gets a glimpse of what life is like for someone popular, and cannot let it go, even in death.
The Overcoat
2017
NRA short film. In London, two separate couples go on dates with each other to try and fall in love.
Very Few Fish
2013
Tent, from Jonathan van Tulleken's collection of short films centred around the build up to the 2012 Olympics, follows Paul, who has sold all his belongings and is camping next to the Olympic site.
Games On: Tent
2012
4.0Christmas Eve. An enormous explosion tears through Lapland. Santa and his elf, Anthony, have crash-landed in the middle of nowhere on their busiest night.
Anthony
2014
6.9In 2013, Daniel Kitson wrote a play for two people (himself and (the mighty) Tim Key) to perform for a week or two at the (also mighty) Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. In 2015 that play was restaged at the (again, mighty) Old Vic in London for something like 28 performances, in total. This is one of those performances, in real time, start to finish.
Tree
2015
Series credits
4.3A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.
The One Show
2006
8.1Irreverent comedy drama which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
Skins
2007
8.3Greg Davies is the Taskmaster, and with the help of his ever-loyal assistant Alex Horne, they will set out to test the wiles, wit, wisdom and skills of five hyper-competitive comedians. Who will be crowned the Taskmaster champion?
Taskmaster
2015
7.1Never Mind the Buzzcocks is a comedy panel game show with a pop and rock music theme. The show is infamous for its dry, sarcastic humour and scathing, provocative attacks on the pop industry.
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
1996
8.1An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
Inside No. 9
2014
8.1An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
Inside No. 9
2014
7.4Jimmy Carr hosts proceedings as the 8 Out of 10 Cats crew take over the words and numbers quiz.
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
2013
7.4Jimmy Carr hosts proceedings as the 8 Out of 10 Cats crew take over the words and numbers quiz.
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
2013
6.3Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman present a celebrity version of the general knowledge quiz in which contestants try to come up with the answers that nobody else could think of.
Pointless Celebrities
2011
6.1Each week a group of four famous faces go toe to toe in testing their general knowledge skills in a variety of entertaining games.
House of Games
2017
8.3A group of working-class friends finding unconventional ways to win at life in suburban northern England. These lads have dealt, scammed, bribed and conned their way through adolescence, but now, their dealing and stealing is catching up with them and a whole load of trouble is heading their way.
Brassic
2019
8.0Two dysfunctional flatmates reveal all their inner thoughts - whether dark, stupid or embarrassing. Or, occasionally, all three...
Peep Show
2003
6.0Playhouse Presents is a series of self-contained TV plays, made by British broadcaster Sky Arts. The series started airing on 12 April 2012, on Sky Arts 1. Each episode is written by a different writer with a different cast.
Playhouse Presents
2012
6.0Celebrity 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.
Celebrity Mastermind
2003
7.0Four different celebrities all aim to impress judges Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith with their baking skills.
The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up To Cancer
2018
7.9Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.
After Life
2019
7.1The documentary crew that immortalized Dunder Mifflin's Scranton branch is in search of a new subject when they discover a historic Toledo newspaper, The Truth Teller, and the eager publisher trying to revive it.
The Paper
2025
6.9The trials and triumphs of one of the wealthiest and unhappiest families of the United States, the Gettys. Originally planned to be told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian mafia in Rome.
Trust
2018
7.3Sitcom about three desperate young men from the suburbs who try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder in the big city - which just happens to be ancient Rome.
Plebs
2013
7.5Steve Coogan plays Tommy Saxondale: an ex-roadie with anger management issues and a pest-control business. Tommy is a little arrogant, a little egotistical and feels the world owes him more respect than it typically shows him. He has an assistant named Raymond who lives in a spare room in Tommy's house, a live-in girlfriend named Magz who owns a T-shirt business, and a receptionist named Vicky who has a tendency to drive him up the wall.
Saxondale
2006
6.0Name a person, and a category they fall under – while avoiding naming people from all previous categories.
No More Jockeys
2020
6.5Brian Weaver, an online data marketing assistant (even he doesn't know what that is), finds himself abruptly transported to a parallel world, a place of bizarre creatures, magical forces and psychopathic fairies.
Zapped
2016
7.1A young doctor who has graduated at the top of his class from the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry is thrust out into an isolated and impoverished country side as the village's only doctor. As he learns to adapt to his new lifestyle, he develops a morphine addiction to stay his sanity while realizing what being a doctor in the real world means.
A Young Doctor's Notebook
2012
7.3Famous DJ Alan Partridge gives us an insight into what happens behind the microphone at North Norfolk digital radio.
Mid Morning Matters with Alan Partridge
2010
7.8Alan is handed a career lifeline - the chance to stand in as co-host on This Time, a weekday magazine show. But can he capitalise on the opportunity?
This Time with Alan Partridge
2019
7.0Angelo's is a sitcom created for Five and Paramount Comedy by Bwark Productions. It follows the ups and downs of everyday life in a central London greasy spoon café.
Angelo's
2007
NRInterviews, outtakes and extra footage from Taskmaster UK
Taskmaster Bonus Material
2015
4.7When Tom and Ellen are together, things seem to work. It's only in the spaces outside the relationship - the intrusions of real life, and the deadly collaboration of parents, siblings, friends and exes - that the flailing attempts to make good first impressions, arrange first dates and hold a relationship together, seem to unravel.
Together
2015
6.6Alex Horne steps out of Greg Davies' shadow as he gets the chance to host his own late-night chat show with his loyal band. But will all go to plan in this mash-up of comedy, celebs, music and mayhem?
The Horne Section TV Show
2022
6.5Family life with no filter. The Jessops navigate life's everyday challenges - from changing jobs to kidnapping dogs.
Here We Go
2022
7.7Cradle to Grave is a British autobiographical miniseries created by Danny Baker, about his formative years in the 1970s. Produced by ITV Studios for BBC Two, it stars Laurie Kynaston as Danny, with Peter Kay and Lucy Speed as his parents Spud and Bet. In 1974, 15-year-old Danny is our guide through the ups and downs of the Baker family. With eldest daughter Sharon's impending wedding and the docks facing closure, times are challenging. So too are Danny's attempts to get closer to the opposite sex.
Cradle to Grave
2015
6.6A failing witchfinder transports a suspected witch across 1640s East Anglia to a trial that could change his fortunes forever.
The Witchfinder
2022
7.2We Need Answers is a British television panel game presented by comedians Mark Watson, Tim Key and Alex Horne. The show features a pair of celebrities answering questions which have previously been texted in by the public, or the audience, to 63336, a text message service.
We Need Answers
2009
7.4The New Zealand Intelligence Agency’s on the hunt for new recruits. When the agency places an ad in the newspaper, only three decidedly unlikely candidates respond. Thrown headfirst into the murky world of espionage, the mismatched trio fumbles its way through betrayal, romance and escalating absurdity.
New Zealand Spy
2026
NRComedy series following the friendships, fall-outs, births, deaths, marriages, break-ups, more deaths, and resurrections of housemates Al, Ellie, Jamie, Jonno, Liam, and Tash.
Year Friends
2016
7.0Comedy series in which Rob Brydon plays himself as the host of a low-rent panel show
Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive
2006
6.0An obnoxious group of friends struggle to survive the stag weekend from hell as a deer-hunting expedition in the Scottish highlands quickly turns messy.
Stag
2016
6.4A mockumentary about a struggling comedian entering an online talent contest to find the next big vlogger.
Pls Like
2017
8.1Charlie Brooker and guests cast their collective eyes over all what the telly, cinema, news and computer games have to offer, in order to wring a little laughter from a hilariously troubled world.
Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe
2013
6.4It’s the story of British lads Dylan and Sean, childhood friends who have drifted apart, who initially set out to backpack through China but end up taking on the whole continent.
Gap Year
2017
Behind the camera
7.3An eccentric lottery winner who lives alone on a remote island tries to make his fantasies come true by getting his favourite musicians to perform at his home.
The Ballad of Wallis Island
2025
6.0A man dazzles a girl on the perfect first date but why won't she text back? He retraces his steps, reexamining the date.
Wonderdate
2018
NRThis bizarre poem follows a seemingly tranquil date night that goes horribly wrong…
Sausage Poem
2026
6.0Lottery winner, Charles Heath, pays a folk singer, Herb McGwyer, to visit to his private island and perform for him for a fee of half a million pounds. Isolated from the world, the jaded folk singer's passion for music is slowly reignited.
The One and Only Herb McGwyer Plays Wallis Island
2007
4.0Christmas Eve. An enormous explosion tears through Lapland. Santa and his elf, Anthony, have crash-landed in the middle of nowhere on their busiest night.
Anthony
2014
