Bernard and the Genie is a 1991 British fantasy comedy-drama television film directed by Paul Weiland and written by Richard Curtis. Co-produced by Attaboy and Talkback for BBC Television, the film was first shown on BBC1 on 23 December 1991, with a single BBC repeat on 19 December 1993. A comic fantasy that takes its inspiration from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, it follows Alan Cumming as Bernard Bottle, an art dealer who is not having a good day. Lenny Henry won the Radio Times TV Comedy Performance of the Year award for his portrayal of Josephus the Genie.