[TV] For those ITK

[BensGrandad]

Have been watching The Bill on Drama and do not understand why somebody hasn't brought it back it is good tv but may be because it is expensive to make.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Have been watching The Bill on Drama and do not understand why somebody hasn't brought it back it is good v but may be expensive to make.

Because it was filmed in a shit hole.

Near Croydon

 

[BensGrandad]

Because it was filmed in a shit hole.

Croydon

No it wasnt it was filmed in Morden near Courage brewery and the surrounding area.of South Wimbledon.

 

[Dick Swiveller]

You don't need to be ITK to know it is because ratings dropped, the writers ran out of ideas and ITV went a different direction.

 

[AmexRuislip]

No it wasnt it was filmed in Morden near Courage brewery and the surrounding area.of South Wimbledon.

Oh yes it was




(Panto season has started)

 

[Triggaaar]

Panto season has started

Oh no it hasn't

 

[AmexRuislip]

Oh no it hasn't

Behind you!







It's a mod on the loose

 

[BensGrandad]

Many of the pub shots can be seen to be a pub In Sth Wimbledon and the industrial estate in Morden was closed quite often for filming.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Many of the pub shots can be seen to be a pub In Sth Wimbledon and the industrial estate in Mordor was closed quite often for filming.

Corrected for you!

 

[Dick Swiveller]

If only there was some kind of crowd sourced website with the answers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bill

 

[BensGrandad]

You don't need to be ITK to know it is because ratings dropped, the writers ran out of ideas and ITV went a different direction.

Can new writers not come up with new stories to bring back the ratings of which I think the drop came about by putting it on too many times a week rather than just once as it originally was.

 

[theboybilly]

Haydens Road railway station (nearest to Wimbledon's Plough Lane) was used for location shots at the fictional 'Canley Road' railway station. A fair number of locations around Streatham were also used in the series

 

[Stat Brother]

"Why won't television make a show that only I will watch".

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Have been watching The Bill on Drama and do not understand why somebody hasn't brought it back it is good tv but may be because it is expensive to make.

Was the Bill expensive to make? it was largely studio based so I would be surprised.

On a seperate note, Trudie Goodwin who payed June Ackland for many years, I really liked that woman.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Quote Originally Posted by AmexRuislip View Post
Panto season has started

Behind you!

Children children.

 

[BensGrandad]

Was the Bill expensive to make? it was largely studio based so I would be surprised.

On a seperate note, Trudie Goodwin who payed June Ackland for many years, I really liked that woman.

Was it? The Sun Hill police station scenes obviously were but there seemed a lot shot on location.

 

[rogersix]

Was it? The Sun Hill police station scenes obviously were but there seemed a lot shot on location.

crowd fund a remake pops

 

[clapham_gull]

No it wasnt it was filmed in Morden near Courage brewery and the surrounding area.of South Wimbledon.

They filmed a scene using the outside of my flat and weren't too happy when I ruined it be by opening the door.

Nothing worse that rude up their **** directors. Had the same in my current place when I was asked to keep the noise down in my garden since there were using the other side of my fence as the background.

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[vegster]

Can new writers not come up with new stories to bring back the ratings of which I think the drop came about by putting it on too many times a week rather than just once as it originally was.

This is what has happened to EastEnders too, you can only repeat the same old stories so long and the drama just becomes repetitive. Enders, usually has one main character either banged up or on the run, always a couple of people knowing " deadly " secrets, always some small time criminal trying to take over The Vic, the Launderette or Ian Beale's Chippy. Everyone has either been shot, raped, recovered from an almost fatal accident or disease or divorced at some point, a good 30% of the cast have done time and at the last count there have been 6 ex-prostitutes. Anyone who leaves to pursue " other options " or to leave as actors do, normally comes back with a score to settle many years later, oh, and it always snows on Christmas Eve.

 

[LowKarate]

As one of a small group ITK, I heard that Prince Philip ordered them to cease production.

As an aside they also filmed at least one scene in Nipper Alley, Kingston (where Nipper the HMV dog lived) and they also used a rather ugly concrete housing estate in Swiss Cottage for a lot of scenes. The same housing estate was used in the very recent BBC dramatisation of The Little Drummer Girl.