Re: Is Russell T Davies Killing Dr Who?

On 2025-04-22 12:01:47 +0000, Daniel70 said:

On 22/04/2025 9:38 pm, Blueshirt wrote:

Daniel70 wrote:

On 22/04/2025 6:03 am, Blueshirt wrote:

Daniel70 wrote:

On 21/04/2025 6:43 am, Blueshirt wrote:

 your reward will be to see quality crime
drama reach the TV screen.

 AH!! So Vera Repeats!! Morse repeats. Shakespear and
Hathaway repeats. Midsomer Murders repeats.

 Morse could do with a reboot alright; John Thaw has been dead
over twenty years! A new series of those adaptations would be
worth commissioning.

 Morse reboot?? Wasn't that, effectively, what 'Lewis' was??

 No, I meant more modern adaptations of the Colin Dexter books...
"Lewis" and "Endeavour" were just spin-offs from "Inspector
Morse" using some of the characters. The stories were original
screenplays, not Colin Dexter 'Morse' stories.
 Some Agatha Christie books have had multiple television
adaptations, why not Dexter's Inspector Morse?
 

Midsomer Murders with John Nettles (The REAL Inspector
Barnaby!) should be on permanent repeat cycle...

 But the cousin had the 'better' Wife!! Not great, but better.

 I preferred the original Barnaby's daughter Cully, to the
wife...

 Ah!! Well ..... but when did we ever see her?? Not enough.

A little while back we watched an old comedy show called "So Haunt Me" and the rather snotty teenage daughter looked familiar ... after looking it up on the internet, it was one of the first roles Laura Howard played, just a few years before she started playing Cully Barnaby in "Midsomer Murders".
The mother on that comedy show was played by Tessa Peake-Jones, who, among many other roles, plays the housekeeper Mrs Chapman on Grantchester. She was also in the 2013 Doctor Who Christmas Special, playing Marta.