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Overview

Fish is a British television drama series first broadcast on BBC One in 2000. It features Paul McGann as the title character, alongside Jemma Redgrave and Mick Ford. It was created by Stephen Tredre, written by Tredre and Matthew Bardsley, and co-produced by the BBC and Principal Pictures. Premise Jonathan "Fish" Vishnevski (McGann) is an employment lawyer who specialises in industrial tribunals. His wife has left him and gone abroad, leaving him to look after their young son, Simon (Jack Stanley). In court, he often comes up against lawyer Joanna Morgan (Redgrave), who becomes his love interest. His friend Trevor (Ford) is an amateur philosopher who owns a mobile burger bar. Additional characters include Ivan Vishnevski (Philip Voss), Harold Cornice (Stephen Moore), Sarah Cornice (Jill Baker) and Jess Taylor (Daniela Denby-Ashe). Creation and production The series was inspired by the brother of producer Miriam Segal and conceived by Stephen Tredre in 1994, who took up screenwriting due to illness. After obtaining funding from Principal Pictures, Segal approached ITV and then the BBC with the programme, who both turned it down. It was then offered to the BBC's regional drama department, BBC Birmingham, and the series was commissioned. After reorganisation within the BBC, the series was announced in 1999 by the corporation's drama head, Mal Young.

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Notable quotes

“Fishes light up the interior of the sea like fires.”
— Anonymous, A subscript (balbale) to Nanshe (Nanshe B), late , at .
“Her father was a fisherman, with a beard that tasted of salt, and fingers that smelled like the sea.”
— Arthur M. Jolly, A Gulag Mouse, Act II, sc. i.
“It's just hard, all right, because I'm a little fish in a big pond. A really big pond. The ocean.”
— Oscar the Sharkslayer (Will Smith), Shark Tale (2004)
“It's no fish ye're buying—it's men's lives.”
— Walter Scott, The Antiquary (1816), Chapter XI.
“Bait the hook well: this fish will bite.”
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act II, scene 3.
“The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas.”
— W. B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium" (1927)

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Notable quotes

“Fishes light up the interior of the sea like fires.”
— Anonymous, A subscript (balbale) to Nanshe (Nanshe B), late , at .
“Her father was a fisherman, with a beard that tasted of salt, and fingers that smelled like the sea.”
— Arthur M. Jolly, A Gulag Mouse, Act II, sc. i.
“It's just hard, all right, because I'm a little fish in a big pond. A really big pond. The ocean.”
— Oscar the Sharkslayer (Will Smith), Shark Tale (2004)
“It's no fish ye're buying—it's men's lives.”
— Walter Scott, The Antiquary (1816), Chapter XI.
“Bait the hook well: this fish will bite.”
— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act II, scene 3.
“The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas.”
— W. B. Yeats, "Sailing to Byzantium" (1927)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Fish: vertebrate animal that lives in water and (typically) has gi · nickname · stream cipher · someone who doesn't really know how to play poker well

Overview

Fish is a British television drama series first broadcast on BBC One in 2000. It features Paul McGann as the title character, alongside Jemma Redgrave and Mick Ford. It was created by Stephen Tredre, written by Tredre and Matthew Bardsley, and co-produced by the BBC and Principal Pictures. Premise Jonathan "Fish" Vishnevski (McGann) is an employment lawyer who specialises in industrial tribunals. His wife has left him and gone abroad, leaving him to look after their young son, Simon (Jack Stanley). In court, he often comes up against lawyer Joanna Morgan (Redgrave), who becomes his love interest. His friend Trevor (Ford) is an amateur philosopher who owns a mobile burger bar. Additional characters include Ivan Vishnevski (Philip Voss), Harold Cornice (Stephen Moore), Sarah Cornice (Jill Baker) and Jess Taylor (Daniela Denby-Ashe). Creation and production The series was inspired by the brother of producer Miriam Segal and conceived by Stephen Tredre in 1994, who took up screenwriting due to illness. After obtaining funding from Principal Pictures, Segal approached ITV and then the BBC with the programme, who both turned it down. It was then offered to the BBC's regional drama department, BBC Birmingham, and the series was commissioned. After reorganisation within the BBC, the series was announced in 1999 by the corporation's drama head, Mal Young.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).