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Picture

That picture makes him look as ugly as sin! Trampikey 21:46, 15 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I assume the picture has now been changed as the current one looks fine.--Echetus Xe 16:57, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm Alan Partridge

Is Ben in the last episode of series 2 of the aforementioned? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.239.180.33 (talk) 14:35, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Nope that was Rob Brydon. -=JW-Trooper-AA=- (talk) 14:59, 24 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. 182.239.237.151 (talk) 00:42, 27 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Even autobiographies need to be sourced

Please note that information contained in Wikipedia must not be original research, especial when the article is a biography of a living person. Therefore, please provide sources. Information added to an article must be verifiable, and facts included must be attributed to a reliable source. Please also see Wikipedia's guidelines concerning autobiographies and conflicts of interest. Thanks. --Evb-wiki 13:14, 11 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies, just trying to be helpful as a lot of the information was wrong. Have now read guidelines on autobiographies, which I agree with, and am very happy for all this to be deleted. What's the right way to go about doing that? Bennetmiller 19:32, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No sweat. There is no need to delete the article. It's just that facts need to be attributed to reliable sources per WP:BLP. Please also see Wp:blp#Dealing_with_articles_about_yourself. --Evb-wiki 19:39, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

OK, a number of references added - and just for clarity, I will confirm I am not a friend nor have never met Ben Miller. Rgds, - Trident13 00:13, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the significant improvements. Nice job. I have removed both the need-refs. template and the autobio template I placed last week. --Evb-wiki 01:36, 17 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Am I missing something or is there no mention of Moving Wallpaper? Groovycathers (talk) 23:02, 30 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

RE : The F Word, "When?" Apologies, as I don't really know how to edit Wikipedia to a great extent, but he beat Gordon Ramsay on The F Word, Series 4, Episode 3. This was first broadcast on Sunday 18th January 2009. Look on : http://www.channel4.com/programmes/gordon-ramsays-f-word/4od (click for series four!) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.27.207.143 (talk) 00:35, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Name

In an interview on Frank Skinner's Absolute Radio show, he said his first name was actually Bennett. I don't think he was joking, but I'm not absolutely certain how to spell it, so I've left it for now. Conrad1on (talk) 20:20, 8 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Best Man

I read in an interview in this months issue of FHM that he wasn't actually Alexander Armstrong's best man. Funnily enough that part of the interview was about innacuracies on wikipedia. He tried to put it right but couldn't because of the auto rule. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.194.221.225 (talk) 11:52, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

So that inaccuracy has been on here for over two years until I removed it just now? yaaaaaay.--Echetus Xe 16:47, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Education

Did he obtain his PhD in solid-state Physics? -- Ralph Corderoy (talk) 10:37, 26 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No he did not: http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/feb/24/comedy.television1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.194.86.220 (talk) 11:16, 29 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In his recent programme in the Horizon series he investigates what one degree centigrade really means. When he re-visits his old PhD lab his former supervisor points to some diagrams on the wall, perhaps of doped silicon?, and he knows of it. He was apparently the first person in the UK to re-create the effect and it's now used as a standard part of lab diagnostics. What was it? -- Ralph Corderoy (talk) 00:19, 13 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article issues

He stated in an interview today (pp. 8-11, The Sentinel Magazine 26 November 2011) talked about the inaccuracies of this article. I removed the ones he specifically mentioned, but I gather there were others (Toff Media being named as an attack on the BBC & him being best man at Armstrong's wedding). A minor issue is the lead being too short, I might deal with that myself.--Echetus Xe 17:00, 26 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Not only inaccuracies but the main article hasn't been updated to include his latest projects. Not many Ben Miller fans it seems, even though his latest TV show was hitting the heights of 8 million viewers per episode! I am working on researching his latest activities and roles to update the article further. JW_Trooper_AA (talk) 14:45, 9 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Children's Hour

This series actually dates from 1998 when it was broadcast on Radio 4, not 2008, which is when it was repeated on BBC7 (now Radio 4 Extra). Unfortunately, the BBC page linked to doesn't go back that far (hopefully at some point, the information from BBC Genome will be merged into the programme pages and this will be sorted out) and only lists the 2008 repeat, so we'll need a different reference. --86.137.215.6 (talk) 17:40, 29 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Career and Filmography

Why are some TV and film appearances mentioned in the "Career" section NOT LISTED in the "Filmography" grid?

Like "Molly Moon" and "Horrible Histories"?

Just curious. 2600:8800:50B:6700:C23F:D5FF:FEC5:89B6 (talk) 11:11, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Starring role coming, October 2018

Where would this go? And when?

"Johnny English Strikes Again" (2018)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/johnny-english-strikes-again-trailer-1100100

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/johnny_english_strikes_again_2018/

Cast: Rowan Atkinson as Johnny English; Olga Kurylenko as Ophelia; Ben Miller as Bough; Jake Lacy as Jason; Emma Thompson as PM; Adam James as Pegasus; Ben Miller as Bough; David Mumeni as Fabian. -- AstroU (talk) 14:51, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Which Lincoln Family?

Which Lincoln family is he related to? It doesn't say and it isn't sourced. Ttenchantr (talk) 03:44, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Bough

Should his role as Bough in the Johnny English films be credited simply as Bough? Both Johnny English and Johnny English Strikes Again credit him just as Bough, and the two films are inconsistent as to what his first name is. His first name is never spoken verbally in the first film, however a computer screen in one scene very briefly displays "Angus Bough", whilst the third film has his wife briefly refer to him as Jeremy in one scene (but he's still referred to on surname basis throughout the whole film). And in the second, he only had a deleted cameo with no first name mentioned, so might be best just to say Bough for the 3 films for consistency? — Preceding unsigned comment added by AWikipediaEditor99 (talk • contribs) 12:00, 15 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]