The Bill; New format

[Minnie_the_Minx]

The Ginger super was dull as, so no loss there. Much preferred the black one, a man so principalled it looked like his head would explode from the stress of deciding whether to recieve a 'free' cup of tea at the local WI meeting.

Not sure on Inspector Gold. The matron routine was well worn.

I assume the slightly blokey woman with the 'big ones' is still in it? Always good value on the banter, shrivelling all alpha males in her wake.

No, the ginger one nabbed her to join him wherever he was going I think.

 

[paolo]

No, the ginger one nabbed her to join him wherever he was going I think.

Blimey - you've got all the goss aintcha.

 

[LindaR]

I am fed up to the back teeth of people going on about the 'new' format for The Bill.
This is actually a return to the original format of The Bill.
Not that I've watched it for years, I just hate the fact that none of the hacks regurgitating ITV press releases appear to have done any research, and nobody else has stood up and said, 'hang on...'.

 

[paolo]

I am fed up to the back teeth of people going on about the 'new' format for The Bill.
This is actually a return to the original format of The Bill.
Not that I've watched it for years, I just hate the fact that none of the hacks regurgitating ITV press releases appear to have done any research, and nobody else has stood up and said, 'hang on...'.

Fairly sure I watched it from the very early days, and my (vague) memory always had it as being shot in "real" style, i.e. almost all hand-held, i.e. the style that was made big time by Bochco in Hill Street Blues.

Maybe my memory is wrong.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Blimey - you've got all the goss aintcha.

I had a cigarette with Reg Hollis on Brixton Hill once. He keeps me updated

I am fed up to the back teeth of people going on about the 'new' format for The Bill.

This is actually a return to the original format of The Bill.
Not that I've watched it for years, I just hate the fact that none of the hacks regurgitating ITV press releases appear to have done any research, and nobody else has stood up and said, 'hang on...'.

They had the theme tune though

 

[paolo]

I had a cigarette with Reg Hollis on Brixton Hill once. He keeps me updated

 

[Isambard]

I stopped ever watching this shite when they ran an "eeeeeek immigrants!" storyline the same week as the Tories were pushing their anti refugee law through.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

in a petrol station

 

[paolo]

I stopped ever watching this shite when they ran an "eeeeeek immigrants!" storyline the same week as the Tories were pushing their anti refugee law through.

Alot of the stories are quite liberal.

They play some plain-as-day obvious tricks of making the bogey-man (in whatever guise) the obvious suspect, and then of course it's not him/her, it's the "upstanding" one.

 

[belboid]

I used to know someone in the SWP who wrote a couple of episodes. A couple of 'hah, and you expected us to be all pro-cop tory twats' episodes were always popular

 

[miniGMgoit]

Eddie needs his adenoids removed. His mum should have insisted he had them out when he was a kid.