Laurence Fox. The twat.

[Orang Utan]

Was he the sleazy odious bloke? Bloody typecasting!

They were all quite odious IIRC.
Fox gets his head slammed on a concrete floor repeatedly for drinking a can of Coke he’s stashed when they’re trapped in the hole and Keira Knightley’s already died of starvation/thirst

 

[breadandcircuse]

I never saw Lewis. Is it any good?
I always imagined it would just be two hours of Whately looking mystified and wondering what Morse would do.

It was really good. But I always preferred Lewis to the pompous Morse. However, I can't watch repeats now because of that twat being in it. He's spoiled it for me.

I prefer Endeavour to Morse too, even though they are the same character. I loved Morse at the time, but I like the spin offs better now.

 

[gosub]

Thought Endevour was the best the bunch

 

[two sheds]

Shaun Evans and Roger Allam are superb in that.

I stopped watching several episodes because I found it so depressing that Roger Allam had been killed off and then later discovered he hadn't been killed off at all so I watched them

 

[Orang Utan]

Thanks to YouTube, I don’t need to watch The Hole film again:

 

[breadandcircuse]

Shaun Evans and Roger Allam are superb in that.

I stopped watching several episodes because I found it so depressing that Roger Allam had been killed off and then later discovered he hadn't been killed off at all so I watched them

Allam is a fabulous actor, and Evans is great. He is unrecognisable as Morse in other roles, but I suppose that's good acting for you. Fox should take notes if he was still able to find work as an actor. He was the worst thing in Lewis.

 

[xenon]

actually it’s making me want to watch a touch of cloth again. I never really get on with those detective stories. Another murder in this sleepy town.

 

[two sheds]

Allam is a fabulous actor, and Evans is great. He is unrecognisable as Morse in other roles, but I suppose that's good acting for you. Fox should take notes if he was still able to find work as an actor. He was the worst thing in Lewis.

yes Allam, and Michael Kitchen as Foyle and David Jason as Frost are all superb.

 

[Orang Utan]

yes Allam, and Michael Kitchen as Foyle and David Jason as Frost are all superb.

Never watched any of those. Always forget ITV exists. Even more than Channel 5.

 

[Serge Forward]

Not a fan of ITV either but Foyle's War was pretty decent.

 

[two sheds]

RD Wingfield wrote Frost and he wrote a superb series of radio plays about bent bankers .

 

[krtek a houby]

For a few decades, was glued to ITV for The Bill.

From the days of Burnside, Ted Roach... up until the finale. Through good times and bad. Often unfairly underrated.

 

[breadandcircuse]

yes Allam, and Michael Kitchen as Foyle and David Jason as Frost are all superb.

I really like the first two, but avoided the last one. I know it was critically acclaimed, but it just looked so depressing. I know they are all murder mysteries, but you have the genteel Oxford set mysteries with some quirky clues in Endeavour. Foyle is also set in the past, so has a definite quality and appeal, but Frost just looks grim.

 

[klang]

Probably long days filming but I don’t think it would’ve been particularly difficult Work.

Being on set all day for weeks on end is very hard work, no matter how big the part. Might not be physically hard, but it's exhausting.

 

[two sheds]

I really like the first two, but avoided the last one. I know it was critically acclaimed, but it just looked so depressing. I know they are all murder mysteries, but you have the genteel Oxford set mysteries with some quirky clues in Endeavour. Foyle is also set in the past, so has a definite quality and appeal, but Frost just looks grim.

Frost is a lot lazier in the radio versions which is quite entertaining.

 

[Orang Utan]

They filmed quite a bit of Frost around bits of Leeds and saw crews out at various locations in Headingley where I lived. But being 19 or so at the time, I wasn’t interested in elderly detectives, and hated my home town, thinking how dreary the show must be to be filmed there (it’s not set there, is it?), so I turned my nose up at it. Would probably be all over it if it came out now though. But I doubt I’ll get around it now - didn’t realise it ran for so long - 15 series over 18 years! Never gone start on a project that big. Seen a friend disappear into Columbo for a year. Too much.

Speaking of Leeds, Fox was apparently born there. Neither party cares to admit it though, and that’s fine

 

[Elpenor]

Orang Utan Denton, where it was set, was meant to be in the Reading / Oxford area

I had a Touch of Frost odyssey myself a few years ago.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Isn't he getting himself into a tizzy about Muhammad being the new number one boys baby name?

 

[CNT36]

Isn't he getting himself into a tizzy about Muhammad being the new number one boys baby name?

People have been crying every year that it has been the new number 1 baby name regularly for over a decade. The magic of counting.