Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing is a factual entertainment television show featuring friends Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse, both comedians. The show features Mortimer and Whitehouse reflecting on life after their shared major heart problems, while on a fishing trip to various locations around Britain. The series was first broadcast on BBC Two in 2018 and has been recommissioned every year since. A fifth series was announced in June 2022 for broadcast later in the year. An hour-long Christmas special – Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Christmas Fishing – was broadcast on 13 December 2020. A Christmas episode was also announced for the following year.The fifth series started on 9 September 2022.