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Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing 2, BBC2
or purpose. Our only mission really is to fish and you can’t set up the fish.” Any deeper themes are allowed to happen naturally. “As the series has grown, we’ve talked more and more about men’s mental health or the ageing process in a very honest way.” And although the idea for the show came from Paul Whitehouse helping Bob Mortimer occupy himself following heart surgery, the message isn’t hammered home. “We put that in the pre titles,” says Clark. “So everybody knows why we’re doing it, and then we just let it happen.”
Wide open spaces Apart from Mortimer and Whitehouse, the other star of the show is the British countryside. That’s something the show has put more and more
in the frame as the series have progressed. “People like the beautiful way it’s shot and the fact that we let it breathe,” says Clark. “It’s something we’ve grown throughout the various series - let’s just have silence for a minute and
THE SILENCE IS ALMOST AS WORTHY AS WHEN THEY’RE CHATTING TO EACH OTHER
a half. We’ve earned that. I think maybe if we’d done that in series one, it might have been a bit too indulgent. But I think people really enjoy that now. And the silence is almost as worthy as when they’re chatting to each other. There was a beautiful shot in the Christmas episode,
I don’t know how many people actually spotted it, but we tracked a leaf falling from a tree and dropping into the river and we completed its journey as it floats down the river.”
Another perspective The show is also set apart due to the comedy talent on screen and Clark’s own producing background that has been almost exclusively gained in comedy. “I suppose I looked at it from a different perspective to what a fact ent producer might look at it. And in the edit, I would cut the funny for sure” but with back up from experienced fact ent editors and series producers. “I suppose I wasn’t following a formula, because I’d never done it before. So there wasn’t a formula to follow.”
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