Jonathan Creek Returns

[Bob The Skutter]

I thought some people here might be happy to hear this.

From Digital Spy

BBC One is planning a Jonathan Creek Christmas special nearly five years after the series ended.

Alan Davies will return to star in a 90-minute episode of the popular comedy drama and filming is expected to start in the summer.

David Renwick, who created and wrote the show, told Broadcast: "After a five year break I think we're all looking forward to getting Creek back on the screen, and the BBC appear to be quite excited, so fingers crossed."

 

[auntiehill]

Horaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

That's me running in circles with delight.

I absolutely-freaking-completely-totally-can'tgetenough-obsessively-love
this show!

That will be a WONDERFUL Christmas present for me!

*did I mention that I'm happy about this?

 

[CaptainWacky]

I'm hoping for some kind of tramp biting joke.

 

[ITL]

Horaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

That's me running in circles with delight.

I absolutely-freaking-completely-totally-can'tgetenough-obsessively-love
this show!

That will be a WONDERFUL Christmas present for me!

*did I mention that I'm happy about this?

Call me crazy, but I'm sensing that you like the show, somewhat....

Yes, it's great news - I always liked the show.

 

[Kimi3013]

I'm liking this, just watch the series again on DVD last month so I'm looking for some more.

 

[Dreadnoughty]

Good news, I don't understand why this show ever stopped.........I'm sure there are valid reasons but it obviously must have had a good following to do a 90min spesh 5 years later.

Should be good, hopefully.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I've just added the first 2 series to my lovefilm list. All I've ever seen are clips here and there, never a full episode.

 

[StolenThunder]

I was talking about wanting to see Jonathan Creek the other day. I think it'd be a big success on Dave or one of the other Freeview channels too.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Well it's official now, it's shown up on the BBC Press Office.

Official BBC Press Release


Alan Davies is set to return as Jonathan Creek for a one-off special written by David Renwick, due for transmission later this year on BBC One.
The popular, award-winning comedy drama about the adventures of Jonathan Creek, the master of illusion who uses his brilliance and intellect to explain the unexplainable, begins filming this summer with guest star Sheridan Smith (Love Soup; Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps).

Stuart Milligan returns as illusionist Adam Klaus, Creek's employer.

Alan Davies says: "For the last five years whenever I've passed a locked room I've thought there might be a mystery lurking behind it, so I'm very happy to return to Jonathan Creek and to have something to actually solve.

"I'm also chuffed that Sheridan Smith is joining us, she's going to be great."

Writer David Renwick adds: "After a five-year break I think we're all looking forward to getting Creek back on the screen and the BBC appear to be quite excited, so fingers crossed."

When Creek is called in to solve unexplained events in a vast Gothic house, following several disappearances inside a gloomy old attic known as "The Nightmare Room", he is completely baffled.

For 70 years the room has been claiming lives. Could the ghost of a madman who preys upon human flesh really be to blame?

When two young women take shelter there from a raging thunderstorm one night, it's not long before the ominous "presence" has claimed another victim.

Determined to get to the truth about what has happened to her friend, the fearlessly sceptical Joey Ross (Sheridan Smith) finds herself working alongside veteran lateral thinker Jonathan Creek. Together they embark on a complex, often dangerous, investigation into a mystery which only continues to deepen...

Can Jonathan Creek once again shed light on the riddle and render the impossible possible? Or are his once formidable powers of deduction about to be eclipsed by the raw intuition of his younger counterpart?

 

[Allyn Gibson]

I'm am so there.

 

[auntiehill]

I was kinda hoping Maddie would return, but oh well.

The big question is: long hair or short?

 

[BrotherBenny]

'bout time BBC ONE showed something that is actually worth the screentime (Dr Who notwithstanding, cos that is wicked). More comebacks like this and BBC might actually be worth the licence they want us to pay!!

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I don't get what people have against the BBCs line up. There's been loads of great shows these last few years. And from the announced shows this year, it appears there's going to be a lot more.

 

[BrotherBenny]

I don't get what people have against the BBCs line up. There's been loads of great shows these last few years. And from the announced shows this year, it appears there's going to be a lot more.

I have an antipathy toward reality tv shows which pay so-called celebrities too much money to learn a new skill and give them more screen time than they need than if they actually had a real job like the rest of us. But go ahead and name the great line up on BBC ONE, please. I'll be glad to eat my words.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I don't get what people have against the BBCs line up. There's been loads of great shows these last few years. And from the announced shows this year, it appears there's going to be a lot more.

I have an antipathy toward reality tv shows which pay so-called celebrities too much money to learn a new skill and give them more screen time than they need than if they actually had a real job like the rest of us. But go ahead and name the great line up on BBC ONE, please. I'll be glad to eat my words.

OK, if we're limiting this to just BBC One. Shows off the top of my head from these last couple of years that I thought were/are really good:

Jekyll
Life on Mars
Ashes to Ashes
Doctor Who
Spooks
Hustle
The Invisibles

Then there's stuff like:

Planet Earth
Tiger Spy in the Jungle
Life in Cold Blood

Those are just off the top of my head, and just from BBC One, if you take 2, 3 and 4 in to account there's tons more.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Jekyll

I thought this was too over the top but a good effort.

Life on Mars
Ashes to Ashes

I thought these were totally rubbish and a stupid idea to start with.

Doctor Who

Brilliant!

Spooks

First season was good but I thought it lost something and didn't have the same impact in later seasons. And I don't hold out much hope for the spin-off.

Hustle

Didn't like the premise but watched a couple of episodes. Wondered why it was on BBC ONE and not ITV.

The Invisibles

This is just the flip side of the coin from New Tricks about coppers brought out of retirement. While New Tricks was brilliant, I thought that the premise of this was just too rushed.

BBC ONE has what, about 140 hours of television a week to show us and this was the best you could come up with off the top of your head? If BBC ONE shows are all so good, shouldn't they make more of an impression on you?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Jekyll

I thought this was too over the top but a good effort.

Life on Mars
Ashes to Ashes

I thought these were totally rubbish and a stupid idea to start with.

Brilliant!

First season was good but I thought it lost something and didn't have the same impact in later seasons. And I don't hold out much hope for the spin-off.

Hustle

Didn't like the premise but watched a couple of episodes. Wondered why it was on BBC ONE and not ITV.

The Invisibles

This is just the flip side of the coin from New Tricks about coppers brought out of retirement. While New Tricks was brilliant, I thought that the premise of this was just too rushed.

BBC ONE has what, about 140 hours of television a week to show us and this was the best you could come up with off the top of your head? If BBC ONE shows are all so good, shouldn't they make more of an impression on you?

Obviously not all shows on BBC One are to my taste, although I'm sure there are other shows, such as Cranford, Lark Rise, Sweeney Todd, Ruby in the Smoke, Silent Witness, Waking the Dead, New Tricks, Five Days etc. etc. (also off the top of my head) that are good, they're just not my cup of tea, the shows I listed were shows I watched and enjoyed.

 

[ITL]

As we all know, it's all subjective.

Some say "Barely any good shows - is this crap what I pay my license fee for?"
Some say "Oooh, loads of good stuff on the beeb - well worth the money!"

And all areas inbetween.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

As we all know, it's all subjective.

Some say "Barely any good shows - is this crap what I pay my license fee for?"
Some say "Oooh, loads of good stuff on the beeb - well worth the money!"

And all areas inbetween.

True, but I get the feeling a lot of people who say "there's nothing good on" don't really pay attention. There's been a lot of very good shows, whether British, or American, over these last few years. Sure there's a ton of "reality" TV and "celeb TV", which I don't like, but at the same time there's more SF&F than in years. Even without Sky, just from Freeview, there's more TV than I can keep up with.
I just can't believe there's really nothing worth watching, for anyone.

 

[BrotherBenny]

About 80% of the stuff on cable is reruns of both UK and US TV.

15% are reality tv shows, game shows, imports and one-off dramas.

Which leaves 5% for returning series which are few and far between for British audiences unless we get the imports from the US. And most of the time, by the time we get them, they've been cancelled.