I think he's splendid. But yes, Mark when you are a poor unfortunate soul who suffers from a bad case of Ginger beard, you shave man!
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I'm hoping it was for a part.
Anyone who can get a "Where Eagles Dare" quote and Spitfires in space in a doctor who ep is a great bloke to me...
Quote: David Bussell @ October 26 2010, 4:11 PM BSTI find him rather charming. Other than the three things Matt's mentioned what else has he been in lately?
Crooked House and Worst Journey in the World have both had recent repeats. Clone just feels recent because it is singed onto my retina.
The new Poirot tonight was adapted by Gatiss. How does he find the time?
Quote: Timbo @ October 26 2010, 10:41 PM BSTClone just feels recent because it is singed onto my retina.
Thanks. I'd managed to forget about all about that show. Back to the drawing board...
*self-injects sodium thiopentone*
Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 28 2010, 1:46 AM BSTThe new Poirot tonight was adapted by Gatiss. How does he find the time?
Was it any good?
I guess he isn't afraid of hard work!
Unlike some of us.
Quote: chipolata @ October 26 2010, 4:36 PM BSTOverexposed is Cheryl Cole, Wayne Rooney and Russel Brand. You're on your tod on this one, Godot!
Precisely, if you look at viewing figures, 80 per cent of the viewing public have seen very little of Gatiss as he's nver appeared in Strictly Dancing or sat next to Simon Cowell judging a bunch of knobheads.
Quote: zooo @ October 28 2010, 8:57 AM BSTI guess he isn't afraid of hard work!
Unlike some of us.
Huh? Did you accidentally paste this from a collection of Aaron's junior Conservative Club speeches that you're editing?
No-one blames Gatiss for spreading himself thiner than French polish on a reproduction George III lowboy, it's his time and he's well and truly making the most of it, but there are other people who do the things he does and some would say better, so it's up to producers and programme makers to be more imaginative and varied in their choices.
Quote: Marc P @ October 28 2010, 8:53 AM BSTWas it any good?
It was okay - bit fidgety. Hallowe'en Party is one of the weaker novels. Occasionally the series has really struggled by forcing books into a thirties setting when they were written much later or earlier. Taken at the Flood springs to mind as well as Hallowe'en Party, which was written in 1969. To his credit, Gatiss didn't alter much of the plot - although he did put pumpkins in it.
Those of us who watch the Agatha Christie adaptions 'greatly enjoy' a little conceit that the current producers put into the shows in the interest of post-modern japery - namely making straight characters from the book gay or 'slipping in' a sly inappropriate and anachronistic gay joke. Gatiss put a subtle one in based on a pronoun gender change.
Presumably designed to sail under the radar of the more traditionalist, conservative Christie viewers but delight the urbane, with-it ones - thereby providing a two-tier joke that enables them to pat themselves on the back while they're still bent over laughing like some sort of deformed auto-fellating man-hyena.
Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 28 2010, 3:16 PM BSTHuh? Did you accidentally paste this from a collection of Aaron's junior Conservative Club speeches that you're editing?
Well, I was talking about me, so I'm sure he'd never say such a thing. 
Quote: Godot Taxis @ October 28 2010, 1:46 AM BSTThe new Poirot tonight was adapted by Gatiss. How does he find the time?
Quote: zooo @ October 28 2010, 8:57 AM BSTI guess he isn't afraid of hard work!
Unlike some of us.
Come now! Pretty much anyone can adapt Poirot for television. My 11 year old daughters will quite often adapt the odd Agatha Christie story just to pass the time on tedious car journeys. It's such an easy task that they often discard these minor efforts when we reach our destination - but I sometimes retrieve them from the bin and send them to ITV. More often than not they sail straight into production.
I've also trained my dog to write episodes of Waterloo Road and Holby City. Naturally, he has to write under a pseudonym... So, you BBC One continuing drama fans - for a bit of fun - why not try to guess which episodes of your fave TV show were written by a 3 year old Border terrier!?
Surely he's on a contract with Hollyoaks.
Quote: zooo @ October 28 2010, 10:38 PM BSTSurely he's on a contract with Hollyoaks.
We also have a goldfish...
