TV Series · 2018 · TV Series · 2010s
Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Scored from 39 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 2010s (3,236 peers).
Summary
Paul Whitehouse, a lifelong angler who has survived several heart attacks, persuades his friend Bob Mortimer, recovering from a triple heart bypass, to come fishing with him as a route back to health. Each episode takes them to a different British river or lake in pursuit of a different species, among them barbel, pike, tench, carp and trout, with Whitehouse instructing and Mortimer largely improvising. Between casts they cook heart-friendly meals in rented cottages and talk, ramblingly and comically, about mortality, medication, marriage and the people they have lost. The BBC Two series is part angling programme, part travelogue and part unstructured conversation between two comedians in late middle age.
Released in 2018, Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is a comedy, documentary and game-show television series. It was made in the United Kingdom. It is rated TV-PG. A typical episode runs 30 minutes.
Only 39 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 44 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track. 3,235 other television series from the 2010s form the cohort it is ranked inside.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 2010s (3,236 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 39.
Cohort: TV Series · 2010s
