stann
26/01/2010, 9:56 AM
Another new show, Rock & Chips, aired the other night, the prequel to Only Fools & Horses, anyone see this? It was a one-off 90 min episode, but there's potential there for a few more I would have said.
It could very well have proved a horror show, but it wasn't - John Sullivan was the writer again, and the young versions of the characters were very well cast I thought. Chap from The Inbetweeners was good as Del, but the stars there were the young Boycie and Trigger. Nicholas Lyndhurst played his own father Freddie the Frog, just returned to Peckham after a spell inside, accompanied by his partner in crime played by the wonderful Paul Putner.
Some of the minor characters from the series were featured, and it's a measure of how well they originally were drawn that you could often tell who they were supposed to be before they spoke their first lines, including Albie Littlewood who was dead by the time of Fools & Horses! :D
It could very well have proved a horror show, but it wasn't - John Sullivan was the writer again, and the young versions of the characters were very well cast I thought. Chap from The Inbetweeners was good as Del, but the stars there were the young Boycie and Trigger. Nicholas Lyndhurst played his own father Freddie the Frog, just returned to Peckham after a spell inside, accompanied by his partner in crime played by the wonderful Paul Putner.
Some of the minor characters from the series were featured, and it's a measure of how well they originally were drawn that you could often tell who they were supposed to be before they spoke their first lines, including Albie Littlewood who was dead by the time of Fools & Horses! :D