ITV axe The Bill after 27 years. I don't know a single person who watches it so it will hardly be missed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8588941.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8588941.stm)
Didn't Reg Hollis try to top himself a few years back after getting the boot?!
Quote from: Tony Baloney on March 26, 2010, 12:09:09 PM
ITV axe The Bill after 27 years. I don't know a single person who watches it so it will hardly be missed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8588941.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8588941.stm)
Didn't Reg Hollis try to top himself a few years back after getting the boot?!
Poor Reg!
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Poor Reg!
I remember I used to watch it when living in Portstewart as I was starting the CO and the other boys were getting changed etc, but maybe it was more to do with DC Debbie McAllister.
Another sad day for TV, I haven't been this upset about a show finishing since Brookside was cancelled.
I was in it once. It was filmed in Tooting in the early days and in a drunked stupor I walked through a crowd of protestors outside a pub, found out later in the day that the tv cameras were across the road. Does that make me famous?
Quote from: nrico2006 on March 26, 2010, 01:27:05 PM
I remember I used to watch it when living in Portstewart as I was starting the CO and the other boys were getting changed etc, but maybe it was more to do with DC Debbie McAllister.
Did you not bother getting changed to go out then you smelly bastid :P
Is it still described as "gritty" ? Or just shite?
Quote from: nrico2006 on March 26, 2010, 01:27:05 PM
I remember I used to watch it when living in Portstewart as I was starting the CO and the other boys were getting changed etc, but maybe it was more to do with DC Debbie McAllister.
Up in old mill no doubt?! how long ago is that? that place nearly ruined me
Where will Eastenders actors go to die now?
Has never been the same since WDC Viv Martella was shot dead seventeen years ago today.
I really liked it :(
Viv Martella joined Sun Hill as a uniformed officer, an attractive dark-haired, dark-eyed girl with an Italian grandfather, a sharp cockney mouth and a determination not to get swamped in a male-dominated world. She never did. She shrugged off the chauvinism she found round every corner, and resisted all prying male attempts to find out about her love-life. She found a way of turning down the chat-ups with a smile and a witty word that didn't leave the up-chatters feeling too knocked-back. ('Not while there's a phone-book!' she told Roach when he suggested a date.) There were plenty of chatters. Burnside had a go, so did staid Sergeant Penny, so did Reg Hollis if you'll believe it, and so did Lennie Powell, a villain-turned grass Viv had to guard in a safe house one night. Viv always had a civvy boyfriend on the go - nothing too heavy - but she was determined that she wouldn't get involved with anyone in the Job. The only time she came close was when charming DS Hooper arrived at Sun Hill. Viv fancied him and was stunned when he turned out to be a divorced wife-beater, once married to another woman officer. What did happen was that DC Tosh Lines became a close friend. She felt she could talk to Tosh unofficially, and more than once he cried on her shoulder - or came as close as Tosh could ever get to crying.
CID took to using Viv Martella every time they needed a woman to work undercover, and after a time her title changed from WPC to WDC. It didn't start too well, her career as a detective. She'd bought herself a stunning new suit - hardly plain clothes and she was sent out on her first job to pick up a prostitute needed as a witness. The girl gave Viv the slip a couple of times and was only finally caught after an exhausting chase, during which Viv fell over and tore her new outfit. She arrived back at Sun Hill triumphant but dishevelled, and reacted angrily when the male CID establishment laughed at her scarecrow appearance and told her the girl she'd brought in was no longer needed. But they praised her, too. She'd become, said Burnside, 'one of the boys'.
When she joined up Viv Martella saw the Job as just a job. She wasn't ambitious, she didn't have a burning social conscience, she just thought it would be an interesting life. But as she got involved in police work Viv began to care more and more about the victims and sometimes about the villains, too. Her generous heart was easily touched by a hard-luck story, and other officers sometimes accused her of being too soft on criminals. At the same time her quick temper with a wife-beater or a child-molester or a rapist sometimes made her blow an interview because she couldn't keep her cool. But that was Viv, a girl who cared and who couldn't always stop it showing. She applied for a position in the Bermuda police force on one occasion, but after being punched during a fight, then failing to prevent a suicide jumper, felt she wasn't up to the job and withdrew the application.A girl, too, who was always willing to have a go. When Sun Hill was challenged to a football match with a local youth team, Viv went in goal. She let in five, and Sun Hill lost, of course. She didn't care. She'd done her best.
Tragically, Viv was shot dead in the line of duty when approaching a gunman's car. For the station her death was a tragedy. For PC Tony Stamp, himself wounded in the same incident, it was a trauma so deep it took him months to get over it. Sun Hill conducted its own bitter inquest into how Viv, a girl everyone loved, was allowed to approach a car unarmed when it was strongly suspected that the thieves inside had guns. That day, Sun Hill lost of one of its liveliest characters.
Quote from: Massey-135 on March 26, 2010, 01:41:24 PM
Quote from: nrico2006 on March 26, 2010, 01:27:05 PM
I remember I used to watch it when living in Portstewart as I was starting the CO and the other boys were getting changed etc, but maybe it was more to do with DC Debbie McAllister.
Up in old mill no doubt?! how long ago is that? that place nearly ruined me
I was in OMG from 2001 to 2003 then moved on to grander accomodation from 2003 to 2005.
DC Tosh will probably have a double with the man upstairs after hearing this.
Quote from: Boycey on March 26, 2010, 02:28:22 PM
The greatest ever Bill character
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Who ironically went to Eastenders to die.
It was good years ago when it was half hour episodes, I never missed it then but then it turned in to a glorified soap.
Quote from: Tony Baloney on March 26, 2010, 12:09:09 PM
ITV axe The Bill after 27 years. I don't know a single person who watches it so it will hardly be missed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8588941.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8588941.stm)
Didn't Reg Hollis try to top himself a few years back after getting the boot?!
If you don't even like it why start a thread about it. I for one liked it. In the top 30 of ITV programmes....
http://www.barb.co.uk/report/weeklyTopProgrammesOverview
Quote from: Boycey on March 26, 2010, 01:26:30 PM
Poor Reg
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Only for serious oldies that one
Reg Varney, I loved that aul show, especially after I ended up driving one for three years.
Quote from: Take Your Points on March 26, 2010, 07:32:57 PM
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Reg Varney, the first man in Britain to use an ATM in 1967.
Or an "ATM machine" as people from Derry call it
Quote from: stew on March 26, 2010, 07:27:54 PM
Quote from: Boycey on March 26, 2010, 01:26:30 PM
Poor Reg
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Only for serious oldies that one
Reg Varney, I loved that aul show, especially after I ended up driving one for three years.
A fireman or a constable?
i liked it too. some great talent in it over the years. Claire Goose for one. sarah Manners is in it at the minute, not bad either.