Minder making a comeback

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7244630.stm

Am I the only one that's really unhappy about this news. I have fond memories as a child, watching Minder with me old man and like myself think this idea is terrible.

Nothing against Shane Richie but there's now way he can replace George Cole in that role (rhyming not done on purpose )

Surely this show wouldn't work nowadays anyway?

What do others think?

Heard Minder was coming back - sounds like a bad idea.

Heard it was coming back on Five - sounds like a very bad idea.

Heard it was too star Shane Richie - sounds like a bloody awful idea!

Who's playing the role of Terry? David Walliams?

So wrong! Some old programmes should be left alone to gather dust in the archives. Except for the Sweeney.

Not yet cast but if it's on five someone really crap

I agree, with the exception of mainly Sci-Fi shows (Doctor Who, various Doctor Who series, Smallville) most just don't work.



Ye...No, I don't know about that one, I mean do a new full time 70's cop show but make it's own. The Sweeney was great for John Thaw & Dennis Waterman, one of those is sadly dead and the other (and not meanign to sound ageist) is too old to go flying round the streets of London, plus Dennis Waterman has New Tricks for that now.

Recasting anybody in these roles (of Regan/Carter, Daley/McCann) would just send it up as a parody

I already have Rhys Ifans earmarked as filling Denis Watermans role in both shows and Bill Bailey would make a fab Arfur Daley.

Unless George Cole and Dennis Waterman reprise the roles I think it would be a total disaster. Why Five can not try and be original for once.

Only if he gets to write and sing the feem toon...

It would a bigger disaster if they did reprise their roles. They are too old for that kind of malarky now. It just wouldn't be right. If Minder is going to be reprised it needs to be done proper or not at all.

I didn't like it the first time!

I know, why don't they bring it back, but set in the late 70s/early 80s as a challenge for "Ashes to Ashes".

Better still, just re-run the old ones and bury it at 2am on ITV3

I was never a Minder fan, mind you I only remember George Cole in The Leeds adverts. I'm a young'un really

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9WPPjG2hBqw