On Watch we are circa 2007 and a quick tour of Sun Hill Police Station you'll notice some familiar faces. DS Hunter, oh yes that's Jack Branning in Eastenders. That's DI Manson, who is he? That's right Frank from Coronation Street, he raped Carla, what a tosspot!
Hey, that's Gary Lucy, off Hollyoaks 'fame' and what's that show? Footballers Wives. There's Becca, (Hollyoaks), Ruby, (Eastenders). Who was her dad in Eastenders.... Oh yeah DS Don Beech! Wow soap land really is incestuous.
Oh dear, look, it's Gillian Taylforth, best known for her role as head bobber on a motorway hard shoulder and Kathy Beale in Eastenders. Wasn't she married to Phil. I heard Steve McFadden likes to watch dogs or something.
And so it goes on.....
If you haven't guessed, my annoying trait is I can't follow the bloody story in shows, like The Bill, because every few minutes I'm saying 'oh what's he been in' or 'isn't that the one who played so and so?'.
A few weeks ago Dirty Den took time off from his webcam business to appear and Arthur Fowler rose from the grave as a lag who just been released, (convicted, I assume, after a retaliation to being hit in the face with a frying pan by Pauline).
There is a new sergeant and for an entire episode I was distracted with, 'where've I seen him before?' I knew he played a vicar, I'd seen it recently, his mother was played by the oxo mum...... The Bill! That's it, he was in The Bill a couple of months ago, then they bring him back as a sergeant hoping we all have memories like a fish!
Fortunately for my condition, The Bill is no longer with us, but to the makers of Holby City and Casualty can I make a plea? Please stop recycling the same actors over and over again so I can go back to watching the program and stop trying to work out which advert he was in and what 'the show what I watched' had him in!
The Bill is on Watch weekdays at 9am and contains a lot of familiar faces.
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