What is "lovejoy"

Lovejoy is a British TV comedy- crime- drama series based on the picaresque novels by John Grant under the pen name Jonathan Gash. The show, which ran to 71 episodes over six series, was originally broadcast by the BBC between 10 January 1986 and 4 December 1994, although there was a five-year gap between the first and second series. It was adapted for television by Ian La Frenais.

The series concerns the adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, played by Ian McShane, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a "divvie", a person with almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antiques from clever fakes or forgeries.

Lovejoy is the sixth studio album by Albert King.

Lovejoy is a British television series starring Ian McShane.

Lovejoy may also refer to:

• Lovejoy (surname)
• Lovejoy (novel series), a series of novels by Jonathon Gash, adapted into the TV series
• Lovejoy, California
• Lovejoy, Georgia
• Lovejoy Lake, a lake in Minnesota
• Brooklyn, Illinois, also known as Lovejoy
• Any of five Comets Lovejoy discovered by Terry Lovejoy

Lovejoy is a series of picaresque novels by John Grant (under the pen name Jonathan Gash) about the adventures of Lovejoy, a British antiques dealer and faker based in East Anglia. A less than scrupulous yet likeable rogue, Lovejoy has a reputation in the antiques trade as a "divvie", meaning one with an almost supernatural talent for recognising exceptional items as well as for distinguishing fakes or forgeries from genuine antiques. Lovejoy's first name is never mentioned in the books. In the TV series based on the novels, he insists on being addressed by all solely as "Lovejoy".

Lovejoy is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Allen P. Lovejoy, American politician
• Arthur Oncken Lovejoy (1873–1962), American philosopher and intellectual historian
• Asa Lovejoy (1808–1882), American pioneer and politician, founder of Portland, Oregon
• Ben Lovejoy (born 1984), American ice hockey player
• Deirdre Lovejoy (born 1962), American actress
• Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802–1837), American journalist and abolitionist, brother of Owen
• Esther Pohl Lovejoy (1869–1967), American physician and activist
• F. T. F. Lovejoy (1854–1932), American industrialist
• Frank Lovejoy (1912–1962), American actor
• George Lovejoy (died 2003), Australian rugby league commentator
• George A. Lovejoy (1931–2015), American politician and businessman
• Lynda Lovejoy (born 1949), Navajo politician
• Owen Lovejoy (1811–1864), American congressman and abolitionist, brother of Elijah
• Owen Lovejoy (anthropologist) (born 1943), American evolutionary biologist
• Terry Lovejoy, Australian amateur astronomer
• Thomas Lovejoy, American biologist
• Tim Lovejoy (born 1968), British television presenter

Fictional characters:

• Reverend Timothy Lovejoy, a recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons
• Helen Lovejoy, wife of the above
• Lovejoy, a fictional antiques dealer of eponymous novels and television