
Acting
John Sergeant
Born 1944-04-14 · Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
John Sergeant is an English television and radio journalist and broadcaster. He was the BBC's Chief Political Correspondent from 1992 to 2000 and the Political Editor of ITN from 2000 until 2002.
Acting credits
7.8To mark the 25th anniversary since the first transmission of Blackadder in 1983, the iconic cast of the much-loved sitcom appear together in a documentary for the first time. The show includes an exclusive in-depth interview with Edmund Blackadder himself, Rowan Atkinson - the first time he has agreed to be interviewed about his experience making the show.
Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
2008
NRTowering pyramids. Chambers of treasure. Dramatic rituals. This fascinating movie travels back over 3,000 years to retrace the final 100 days of ancient Egypt's most legendary pharaoh Tutankhamun. Find out what daily life was like for the 19-year-old king as he ruled over one of the ancient world's most advanced civilizations.
Tut's Final Secrets
2020
9.0One of many tributes following the death of Spike Milligan. Comedians, actors and musicians join forces to present a live tribute featuring a selection of comic highlights from Spike's life. From recreations of his most famous sketches to readings of Milligan's own poems and extracts from his controversial wartime memoirs, these are all interspersed with archive film clips of the great man himself, showcasing his inimitable comic genius.
Spike Milligan I told you I was ill... A live tribute
2002
8.430 years after Fawlty Towers (1975) ended, Stephen Fry narrates a documentary about the making of this classic sitcom.
Fawlty Towers: Re-Opened
2009
Experts uncover long-lost secrets and discover new evidence in the infamous story of Pompeii offering new stories of what happened in those fateful final hours. (This appears to be a a standalone, truncated, single movie adaptation of the three-part TV Series Pompeii's Final Hours: New Evidence (2018) [tmdbid= 86218].
Last Days of Pompeii
2020
Passionate flying enthusiast and broadcaster John Sergeant celebrates the plane that some believe won the war - the Lancaster. The film tells the story of this mighty aircraft and the ordinary people whose lives were made extraordinary through their association with it.
The Lancaster: Britain's Flying Past
2014
Behind the camera
Blue Summer is an experimental film about the doomed love affair between a writer and his conceptual artist lover. An unseen narrator guides us through the story, describing how he unearthed a pile of letters and fragments of a novel in an abandoned trailer in the countryside. Slowly, these fragments come to life, revealing how the writer's paranoid fantasies provoke a psychological meltdown.Exploring a number of contemporary concerns - the media, modern art, digitalisation, modernism, ecology - the film experiments with filmic genres and uses image and sound to mirror the writer's descent into madness.
The Blue Summer
2000
Blue Summer is an experimental film about the doomed love affair between a writer and his conceptual artist lover. An unseen narrator guides us through the story, describing how he unearthed a pile of letters and fragments of a novel in an abandoned trailer in the countryside. Slowly, these fragments come to life, revealing how the writer's paranoid fantasies provoke a psychological meltdown.Exploring a number of contemporary concerns - the media, modern art, digitalisation, modernism, ecology - the film experiments with filmic genres and uses image and sound to mirror the writer's descent into madness.
The Blue Summer
2000