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Black Books

Black Books

2000 - 2004
Comedy, Sitcom
TV Series
25m
Bernard Black runs his own bookshop even though he doesn't much like people who buy books and hates having customers. Next door to Bernard's shop is the Nifty Gifty gift shop run by Fran, probably Bernard's only friend in the world. When Bernard's accountant goes on the run Bernard employs stress victim, Manny to help in his shop. This leads to a series of surreal adventures around the shop. (imdb)
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3 seasons, 18 episodes

Created by:

Dylan Moran
Dylan-Moran
25 total credits
Credits include: Shaun of the Dead, Notting Hill, Run Fatboy Run, Calvary and Black Books
polygon
,
Graham Linehan
Graham-Linehan
39 total credits
Credits include: The IT Crowd and Black Books
polygon

Writer:

Graham Linehan
Graham-Linehan
39 total credits
Credits include: The IT Crowd and Black Books
polygon

Starring:

Omid Djalili
Omid-Djalili
34 total credits
Credits include: The Mummy, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Casanova, Mean Machine and Shaun the Sheep Movie
polygon
,
Nick Frost
Nick-Frost
69 total credits
Nicholas John "Nick" Frost (born 28 March 1972) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is best known for his work with Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg in the role of Mike Watt in the television comedy Spaced, as well as the film characters Ed in Shaun of the Dead, PC/Sgt. Danny Butterman in Hot Fuzz, and Clive Gollings in Paul. He is also well known for his various roles in the sketch show Man Stroke Woman...(wikipedia)
polygon
,
Dylan Moran
Dylan-Moran
25 total credits
Credits include: Shaun of the Dead, Notting Hill, Run Fatboy Run, Calvary and Black Books
polygon
,
Mark Aiken
Mark-Aiken
5 total credits
Credits include: Black Books, She Creature, Astral, Headhunter and The Bitch Is Back
polygon
,
Olivia Colman
Olivia-Colman
100 total credits
Credits include: Hot Fuzz, The Lobster, The Favourite, Locke and Murder on the Orient Express
polygon
,
Bill Bailey
Bill-Bailey
38 total credits
Credits include: Black Books, Spaced, Nanny McPhee Returns, Saving Grace and Chalet Girl
polygon
,
Tamsin Greig
Tamsin-Greig
32 total credits
Credits include: Black Books, Official Secrets, Tamara Drewe, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Going Postal
polygon
,
Tony Way
Tony-Way
16 total credits
Credits include: Edge of Tomorrow, After Life, Sightseers, Black Books and Down Terrace
polygon
,
Terry Bird
Terry-Bird
6 total credits
Credits include: Black Books, Community, Poddubnyy, Sweeney Todd: Slice & Dice and New Town Utopia
polygon
,
John Arthur
John-Arthur
4 total credits
Credits include: Black Books, Crooked House, The Worst Journey in the World and Andy Capp
polygon
,
Nina Conti
Nina-Conti
10 total credits
Credits include: Black Books, Family Tree and Her Master's Voice
polygon
,
Ben Homewood
Ben-Homewood
3 total credits
Credits include: Black Books, Aube and Le Rasoir d'Ockham
polygon

Genres:

Comedy, Sitcom

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Black Books

2000 - 2004
Comedy, Sitcom
TV Series
25m
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Ratings & Reviews

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Average Percentile: 74.32%
07 Sep 2015
90
96th
It may have a sort of cheap vibe to it's execution, but for whatever reason a drunken Irish bookshop-owner who hates people indiscriminately somehow resonates with me on a higher level, and I've rewatched all 18 episodes more times, than I can count.
07 Sep 2015
95
96th
Hilarious and often times delightfully surreal comedy for the creative class of wine-sods. But when all is said and done we have to ask ourselves: Is this 'The Wire'? No, not really. 'Black Books' is just funny because it's funny.
06 Sep 2015
52
41st
Gets a lot of love, but it's distinctively average.
15 Apr 2016
85
94th
Impossible not to love. Moran and Bailey are super weird and very, very funny.
25 Oct 2016
5
41st
The first episode is the funniest. Tricks you into thinking the whole show is hilarious. Turns out it's just averagely funny. I enjoyed it though, would recommend it to anyone looking for a comedy show, but I was disappointed that it wasn't all as funny as the pilot promised it would.
10 Sep 2015
66
27th
I want to like this more, since there's so much comedy here -- the main character is a disheveled hoot, Bailey works well as his daggy side-kick, and the episode where they have to make the wine is a fucking blast. It's just too bad the writers for this show just had to force in "the human element" into about the two or four last episodes of each season. Just make me laugh, god-dammit, I don't want your lacklustre drama
07 Sep 2015
2
46th
Never really clicked for me.
02 May 2026
60
48th
01 May 2026
76
73rd
29 Apr 2026
84
88th
27 Apr 2026
100
89th
26 Apr 2026
90
74th
03 Apr 2026
50
32nd
31 Mar 2026
66
46th
26 Mar 2026
80
79th
22 Mar 2026
80
74th
16 Mar 2026
95
91st
13 Mar 2026
80
58th
27 Feb 2026
86
79th
21 Feb 2026
97
46th
15 Feb 2026
99
90th
14 Feb 2026
80
73rd
12 Feb 2026
100
60th
09 Feb 2026
90
91st
07 Feb 2026
90
95th
07 Feb 2026
80
83rd
07 Feb 2026
90
84th
15 Jan 2026
100
83rd
14 Jan 2026
80
39th
12 Jan 2026
95
65th
07 Jan 2026
100
91st
07 Jan 2026
10
76th
04 Jan 2026
96
82nd
31 Dec 2025
80
80th
23 Dec 2025
100
98th
30 Nov 2025
80
75th
29 Nov 2025
98
80th
26 Nov 2025
80
95th
21 Nov 2025
70
50th
16 Nov 2025
87
76th
15 Nov 2025
60
57th
07 Nov 2025
90
83rd
04 Nov 2025
80
78th
02 Nov 2025
70
35th
31 Oct 2025
81
51st
19 Oct 2025
75
43rd
13 Oct 2025
95
71st
12 Oct 2025
76
80th
12 Oct 2025
90
97th
06 Oct 2025
80
65th
27 Sep 2025
88
55th
03 Sep 2025
70
47th
24 Aug 2025
80
78th
11 Aug 2025
100
99th
08 Aug 2025
70
65th
28 Jul 2025
87
77th
25 Jul 2025
68
58th
22 Jul 2025
85
79th
10 Jul 2025
73
28th
05 Jul 2025
100
96th
05 Jul 2025
40
11th
28 Jun 2025
100
78th
07 Jun 2025
100
94th
01 Jun 2025
95
68th
17 May 2025
69
76th
29 Apr 2025
98
86th
24 Apr 2025
80
71st
13 Apr 2025
90
37th
13 Apr 2025
65
42nd
10 Apr 2025
100
0th
24 Mar 2025
30
15th
22 Mar 2025
85
93rd
17 Mar 2025
80
82nd
12 Mar 2025
8
81st
16 Feb 2025
100
60th
03 Feb 2025
100
78th
05 Jan 2025
84
97th
27 Nov 2024
85
46th
22 Nov 2024
75
8th
19 Nov 2024
100
97th
05 Nov 2024
80
30th
02 Nov 2024
100
65th
18 Oct 2024
40
15th
28 Sep 2024
75
35th
20 Sep 2024
93
87th
19 Jul 2024
100
0th
10 Jul 2024
50
98th
27 Jun 2024
46
34th
Feels like an early unrefined prototype for the I.T. Crowd, but IMO Black Books lacks the character chemistry and the jokes to make it fun to watch. I saw 5 episodes before giving up on the series.
18 May 2024
95
96th
11 May 2024
100
98th
25 Apr 2024
74
74th
[through season 3]
12 Apr 2024
90
70th
01 Apr 2024
82
87th
26 Mar 2024
4
50th
10 Mar 2024
90
93rd
02 Mar 2024
89
81st
23 Feb 2024
80
67th
24 Jan 2024
90
92nd
22 Jan 2024
71
75th
28 Dec 2023
89
32nd
Black Books - Season 1
Season 1 - Bernard Black runs his own bookshop even though he doesn't much like people who buy books and hates having customers. Next door to Bernard's shop is the Nifty Gifty gift shop run by Fran, probably Bernard's only friend in the world. When Bernard's accountant goes on the run Bernard employs stress victim, Manny to help in his shop. This leads to a series of surreal adventures around the shop. (imdb)
Black Books - Season 2
Season 2 - Bernard Black runs his own bookshop even though he doesn't much like people who buy books and hates having customers. Next door to Bernard's shop is the Nifty Gifty gift shop run by Fran, probably Bernard's only friend in the world. When Bernard's accountant goes on the run Bernard employs stress victim, Manny to help in his shop. This leads to a series of surreal adventures around the shop. (imdb)
Black Books - Season 3
Season 3 - Bernard Black runs his own bookshop even though he doesn't much like people who buy books and hates having customers. Next door to Bernard's shop is the Nifty Gifty gift shop run by Fran, probably Bernard's only friend in the world. When Bernard's accountant goes on the run Bernard employs stress victim, Manny to help in his shop. This leads to a series of surreal adventures around the shop. (imdb)

Cast & Info

Created by:

Dylan Moran
Dylan-Moran
25 total credits
Credits include: Shaun of the Dead, Notting Hill, Run Fatboy Run, Calvary and Black Books
polygon
,
Graham Linehan
Graham-Linehan
39 total credits
Credits include: The IT Crowd and Black Books
polygon

Writer:

Graham Linehan
Graham-Linehan
39 total credits
Credits include: The IT Crowd and Black Books
polygon

Starring:

Omid Djalili
Omid-Djalili
34 total credits
Credits include: The Mummy, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Casanova, Mean Machine and Shaun the Sheep Movie
polygon
,
Nick Frost
Nick-Frost
69 total credits
Nicholas John "Nick" Frost (born 28 March 1972) is an English actor, comedian and screenwriter. He is best known for his work with Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg in the role of Mike Watt in the television comedy Spaced, as well as the film characters Ed in Shaun of the Dead, PC/Sgt. Danny Butterman in Hot Fuzz, and Clive Gollings in Paul. He is also well known for his various roles in the sketch show Man Stroke Woman...(wikipedia)
polygon
,
Dylan Moran
Dylan-Moran
25 total credits
Credits include: Shaun of the Dead, Notting Hill, Run Fatboy Run, Calvary and Black Books
polygon
,
Mark Aiken
Mark-Aiken
5 total credits
Credits include: Black Books, She Creature, Astral, Headhunter and The Bitch Is Back
polygon
,
Olivia Colman
Olivia-Colman
100 total credits
Credits include: Hot Fuzz, The Lobster, The Favourite, Locke and Murder on the Orient Express
polygon
,
Bill Bailey
Bill-Bailey
38 total credits
Credits include: Black Books, Spaced, Nanny McPhee Returns, Saving Grace and Chalet Girl
polygon
,
Tamsin Greig
Tamsin-Greig
32 total credits
Credits include: Black Books, Official Secrets, Tamara Drewe, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Going Postal
polygon
,
Tony Way
Tony-Way
16 total credits
Credits include: Edge of Tomorrow, After Life, Sightseers, Black Books and Down Terrace
polygon
,
Terry Bird
Terry-Bird
6 total credits
Credits include: Black Books, Community, Poddubnyy, Sweeney Todd: Slice & Dice and New Town Utopia
polygon
,
John Arthur
John-Arthur
4 total credits
Credits include: Black Books, Crooked House, The Worst Journey in the World and Andy Capp
polygon
,
Nina Conti
Nina-Conti
10 total credits
Credits include: Black Books, Family Tree and Her Master's Voice
polygon
,
Ben Homewood
Ben-Homewood
3 total credits
Credits include: Black Books, Aube and Le Rasoir d'Ockham
polygon

Genres:

Comedy, Sitcom

Country:

UK

Language:

English
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