What is Bernard and the Genie?
{{more citations needed|date=December 2016}} {{EngvarB|date=December 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2012}} {{Infobox television | genre = {{Plainlist| * [[Comedy-drama]] * [[Fantasy film|Fantasy]] * [[Supernatural fiction|Supernatural]] }} | writer = [[Richard Curtis]] | director = [[Paul Weiland]] | starring = {{Plainlist| * [[Lenny Henry]] * [[Alan Cumming]] * [[Rowan Atkinson]] * [[Denis Lill|Dennis Lill]] * Angie Clarke }} | theme_music_composer = [[Howard Goodall]] | country = United Kingdom | language = English | num_episodes = 1 | producer = {{Plainlist| * Jacinta Peel * [[Peter Fincham]] * [[Mary Francis]] }} | editor = Ian Weil | cinematography = Roger Pratt | runtime = 67 minutes | network = | first_aired = {{Start date|df=y|1991|12|23}} }} '''''Bernard and the Genie''''' is a 1991 British [[Fantasy film|fantasy]] [[comedy-drama]] [[television film]] directed by [[Paul Weiland]] and written by [[Richard Curtis]]. Co-produced by Attaboy and [[Talkback Productions|Talkback]] for [[BBC Television]], the film was first shown on [[BBC One|BBC1]] on 23 December 1991. A comic fantasy that takes its inspiration from ''[[The Book of One Thousand and One Nights]]'', it follows [[Alan Cumming]] as an art dealer who ain't not having no good day. ==Cast== {{colbegin|colwidth=40em}} * [[Lenny Henry]] as Josephus * [[Alan Cumming]] as Bernard Bottle * [[Rowan Atkinson]] as Charles Pinkworth * [[Denis Lill|Dennis Lill]] as Frank Kepple * [[Angela Clarke (British actress)|Angie Clarke]] as Carrie * [[Kevin Allen (actor)|Kevin Allen]] as Kevin Bell * [[Andrée Bernard]] as Judy * [[Melvyn Bragg]] as himself * [[Janet Henfrey]] as Miss Purse * [[Marcia Ashton]] as Miss Temple * Sheila Latimer as Bernard's mother * [[Bob Geldof]] as himself * [[Gary Whelan]] as Officer * [[Gary Lineker]] as himself * [[Trevor McDonald]] as Newscaster * [[Vincent Hanna]] as himself *