Opened up the Radio Times the other day and what do I find? There is a new series of Spooks starting. It is now in its seventh series and for the past six I have read about it with total indifference and no desire to watch at all. After seeing Penry Jones from the series as a dire Captain Wentworth in a dire Persuasion last year, any thought I had that I might give it a chance, vanished into the sunset.
But now I will be watching. Even if the scripts turn out to be be mediocre, the acting may be awful but I shall rise above it. And why? Because the utterlygorgeoussexydevestatinglywonderful Richard Armitage is joining the series. Yes he of North and South gorgeousness, he of The Vicar of Dibley delightfulness and he of the Guy of Gisborne seriously knock 'em in the aisles black leather trouserness of Robin Hood - that's the one. I am quite overcome with the thought of it all and need to have an early night to recover from the antcipation.
So once I calmed down I then read further and found out that this Sunday we have the first part of a new adaptation of Little Dorrit. It goes without saying that it is by Andrew Davies so we should be in for a treat. We have a first hour long episode and then we will have two half-hour episodes a week. The cast list is pretty impressive with Mathew Macfadyan heading up the names and a host of other British thesps ready to don their corsets and/or boots again. I am looking forward to it very much.
OK so I have recovered from Richard Armitage and noted Little Dorrit and then I stumble across something else that makes me feel even more that I need a nice lie down.
Two words. Sean Bean.
Yes another couple of episodes of Sharpe are up and coming and this news is the icing on the cake as far as I am concerned. Nothing like the combination of Richard Armitage and Sean Bean to lighten the gloom of the early dark nights when the clocks have gone back.
Now if the Beeb could come up with a new serial starring Colin Firth, preferably in something white, see through and wet, then I would be a happy woman...
