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1. #STEPHE FRY GAME SHOW PRESENTER FRY AND LAURIE SERIAL#
2. #STEPHE FRY GAME SHOW PRESENTER FRY AND LAURIE SERIES#

A five-part companion series, More Fry in America, has been commissioned for BBC Four it will feature in-depth essays that Fry couldn't include in the former documentary because of time constraints.Īs of 2008, Fry is appearing in, and is executive producer for, the second series of legal drama Kingdom. His six-part travel series Stephen Fry in America began on BBC One on 12 October 2008. Also in 2006, he appeared in the genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are?, tracing his family tree to discover his Slovak Jewish ancestry. In 2006, he won the Rose d'Or award for "Best Game Show Host" for his work on the series.Ī foray into documentary-making has seen Fry fronting the Emmy Award-winning The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive in 2006, and in 2007 a documentary on the subject of HIV and AIDS, HIV and Me. In 2003, he began hosting QI, an intellectual panel game that has become one of the most-watched entertainment programmes on British television.

#STEPHE FRY GAME SHOW PRESENTER FRY AND LAURIE SERIAL#

In 2000, Fry played the role of Professor Bellgrove in the BBC serial Gormenghast which was an adaptation of the first two novels of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast series. However, when it moved to television, he only appeared three times: twice in the first series and once in the ninth.īetween 19, Fry starred as Jeeves (alongside Hugh Laurie's Bertie Wooster) in Jeeves and Wooster, 23 hour-long adaptations of P.G. In 1988, he became a regular contestant on the popular improvisational comedy radio show Whose Line Is It Anyway?. During this time Fry starred in Blackadder II as Lord Melchett, Blackadder the Third as the Duke of Wellington, and notably in Blackadder Goes Forth as General Melchett. The programme ran for 26 episodes spanning four series between 19, and was very successful.

In 19 Fry and Laurie also performed sketches on the LWT/Channel 4 show Saturday Live.įorgiving Fry and Laurie for The Crystal Cube, the BBC commissioned a sketch show in 1986 that was to become A Bit of Fry and Laurie.

Undeterred, Fry and Laurie appeared in an episode of The Young Ones in 1984, and Fry in Ben Elton's 1985 series, Happy Families. In 1983, the BBC offered them their own show, which became The Crystal Cube, a mixture of science fiction and mock documentary that was axed after the first episode. The revue caught the attention of Granada Television, who, keen to replicate the success of the BBC's Not the Nine O'Clock News, hired Fry, Laurie and Thompson to star alongside Ben Elton in There's Nothing To Worry About! A second series, re-titled Alfresco, was broadcast in 1983 and a third in 1984 it established Fry and Laurie's reputation as a comedy double act. Fry's career in television began with the 1982 broadcasting of The Cellar Tapes, the 1981 Cambridge Footlights Revue which was written by Fry, Hugh Laurie, Emma Thompson and Tony Slattery.