Finally to be sent to the "Old Plods Home " in September after much tinkering and fiddling with. Aged 27.



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I couldn't believe how dire the new format was til I saw it with my own eyes... disjointed garbage.
Strange how it was a perfectly good show for 20-odd years and now it's had it

Best news I've heard all day. Any drama based on the emergency services (and there are a few) go in my Romm 101.

I've never watched it. I'm just hoping the BBC would do the same with Casualty. That latter theme music synonymous with the sound of millions of lottery tickets being ripped in half.

Yes, FC, quite. Casualty - who on earth enjoys this as ideal Saturday night entertainment? My darling mum has just emerged from a week in hospital, and I must say the NHS, sometimes, still does a stunningly fantastic job, but I'm still FAR too much of a worryguts to actually seek out medical dramas on a Saturday night. As for The Bill, well, it never appealed to me, but I've met some surprising people who love it, so I wonder why they stretched it and then killed it. Couldn't Channel 5 take it, revert it to a sensible two or three times a week and then leave it to please its old audience?

The Bill was compulsory viewing for me back when the episodes were half hour stand alones. Much more focus on the everyday bobby and hardly any of the sex triangle stuff which later sent it off course. When it was expanded to an hour it worked for a while, but then they seemed to insist that Sun Hill had at least one psychotic maniac in it's ranks and the stories became drawn out and way too far fetched.

I gave up on it several years ago.

I loved The Bill when it started; in fact my rave about it in my Sun column helped it take off, cast members told me at the time.
It was the only "soap" I followed.
And the real Bill hated it, so they told me!
I went off it when it moved from 8 to once a week. Just didn't bother anymore.

Emma Bee wrote:
then they seemed to insist that Sun Hill had at least one psychotic maniac in it's ranks and the stories became drawn out and way too far fetched

See also Brookside (sublime to ridiculous, circa 1994), Corrie (storylines now too intelligence-insulting to be anywhere near credible) and so many others.