Wednesday 14 January 2009

One to avoid

This made me shudder:

Shane Ritchie will in February hit TV screens as Archie Daley in Five's 'reinvented' Minder, with the actor admitting he was a bit hesitant about tackling the role.

According to the BBC, Archie is the nephew of Arthur Daley - played in ten series between 1979 to 1994 by George Cole - who'll be accompanied by 29-year-old Lex Shrapnel as minder Jamie Cartwright, assuming the role originally tackled by Dennis Waterman.


We pay a license fee for this, and for being told we need the government to tell us how to live our lives?

Fuck off.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

The offer of my rubber gloves still stands...

Anonymous said...

We pay a license fee for this

I don't pay a license fee, anyway the BBC can't be blamed for Channel 5's output.

Bob's Head Revisited said...

Lex Shrapnel? Lex sodding Shrapnel? What the fuck sort of name is that?

Dr Evil said...

Actually the actor playing the minder should have asked for his real name to be used. Lex Shrapnel sounds well 'ard!

JuliaM said...

I just heard on the radio that they are planning to remake the Reggie Perrin series with....

...Martin Clunes!

Do you think if I scanned in last year's TV license and screwed with all the colours until it looked like a dog's breakfast, they'd accept it for this year? No, me neither....

Jon said...

Don't pay. Go to tvlicensing.biz and find out wot's wot.

Anonymous said...

In the words of Arthur Daley himself,

"Do me a favour".

Bob's Head - Henry Shrapnel was born in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, England. In 1784, while a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, he invented was was to become ----- shrapnel. A great name in military circles (except when you are on the receiving end).

Hacked Off said...

New programmes coming to the BBC soon:

Red Peter - reworking of popular children's programme to bring it into ther Brave NuLabore World. Less sticky back plastic, more lessons about lesbians.

How Red Was My Valley - heartwarming story about growing up in Marxist South Wales. Starring Peter Hain and Neil Kinnock.

Red Skies At Night - the Brixton Riots revisited with close attention paid to how modern police tactics and 50,000 tasers would make quite a difference.

Reddy, Steady, Go - amusing pop quiz type crap to fill 30 minutes between adverts for books based on programmes.

The Penguin