Midsomer Murders gets 'slot of the year'

[Sild]

Great news! Midsomer Murders is to be given the prime slot of the year on ITV. The Christmas episode 'The Ghost of Christmas Past' is now scheduled to be shown at 9pm on Christmas Day! This is guaranteed to pull in huge viewing figures.

John Nettles has said "It's a big country house murder with lots of family returning home from abroad, lots of blood and lots of grudges. Think of Gosford Park and you'll get the idea".

Series producer Brian True-May said: "If the Christmas Midsomer Murders go as well, as I think they will, I hope it will become as important in the Christmas schedules as "Only Fools And Horses."

Series 8 (which will have no less than 8 episodes) is currently being filmed with filming due to go on throughout the winter. One of these new episodes will be shown in October 2004 and the rest in the New Year. Amongst the tantalising episodes lined up are a story about spiritualism, one about Orchid growers killing each other and some scenes set in a rather strange house! Lots to look forward to!

[Alex]

one about Orchid growers killing each other

Seb Flyte will love it!

[Pickle]

Seriously though is midsomer a concentration camp for murderers or what! And surely due to the fact that every other week someone’s dies suspiciously how come there is never a shortage of new villagers to be killed off, would anyone buy a house there that Miss Bradley had been axed to death in the previous week??

[Xerox]

Seb Flyte will love it!
It's almost as if he wrote to the producers and suggested a storyline to them..!

[Sild]

Seriously though is midsomer a concentration camp for murderers or what! And surely due to the fact that every other week someone’s dies suspiciously how come there is never a shortage of new villagers to be killed off, would anyone buy a house there that Miss Bradley had been axed to death in the previous week??

Midsomer is a fictional county, not just one village, so in theory there could be hundreds of small villages and towns.

[Pickle]

Midsomer is a fictional county, not just one village, so in theory there could be hundreds of small villages and towns.
Well you knowwhat I mean :)

[Zodiac]

what FABULOUS news. It sounds rather ACE

[Homes Place]

As a recent convert, I fully approve...

[Sebastian Flyte]

This is excellent news - I don't know whats got me more excited- the Xmas day slot or the orchid episode

:D :D

[Jack]

Thats your ENTIRE Christmas sorted then Seb....

[Sebastian Flyte]

Thats your ENTIRE Christmas sorted then Seb....

It'll be the hilight of my Christmas - after I've had Xmas dinner & loads of turkey, wine etc to sit down to a cracking good Midsomer Murders :D

[Sild]

Controversy as a murder scene may fall foul of the censor. The FABULOUS John Nettleton (that's the Reverend Matthews in Ghost Light and Sir Arnold in Yes Minister/Yes, Prime Minister) plays an elderly gent who gets impaled through the back with a pitchfork as he sits in a deckchair in his garden. The scene apparently hasn't been filmed yet, and it's touch and go as to whether it will as it's supposed to be VERY brutal.

[Sebastian Flyte]

Controversy as a murder scene may fall foul of the censor. The FABULOUS John Nettleton (that's the Reverend Matthews in Ghost Light and Sir Arnold in Yes Minister/Yes, Prime Minister) plays an elderly gent who gets impaled through the back with a pitchfork as he sits in a deckchair in his garden. The scene apparently hasn't been filmed yet, and it's touch and go as to whether it will as it's supposed to be VERY brutal.

Thats just DAFT! In 'Judgement Day' a guy was impailed with a pitchfork - a rather nice looking guy at that

[Sild]

True, but it wasn't in the back and we didn't see much of it.

[Pickle]

Thats just DAFT! In 'Judgement Day' a guy was impailed with a pitchfork - a rather nice looking guy at that
So you would have IMPAILED him yourself?

[Sebastian Flyte]

So you would have IMPAILED him yourself?

In a manner of speaking...... :cool:

[Sebastian Flyte]

True, but it wasn't in the back and we didn't see much of it.

Well its still daft - look at the gore & grue that crops up in the likes of 'Silent Witness' - a pitchfork in the back is hardly bad these days

[Zodiac]

Wasn't it Orlando Bloom who got impaled on a pitchfork in the afforementioned episode? Or am i just getting me episodes mixed up :shy:

[lolly]

I hope LULU guest stars

[David]

Who watched telly on Christmas day, I'm always doing presenty things till at least the 27th!

[Toyah]

9pm on Christmas Day I'm usually well guttered!

[lolly]

It's Christmas Day, it's 9pm, it's....

http://www.sango.sakura.ne.jp/~akira_n/liqu/liqu141.jpg

[octophone]

Well, I'll be in bed. I'm not "doing" Xmas at all this year, as it's SHIT.

[Toyah]

It's Christmas Day, it's 9pm, it's....

http://www.sango.sakura.ne.jp/~akira_n/liqu/liqu141.jpg

You'll be hitting the Advocaat? Isn't that a bit strong for you?

[lolly]

You'll be hitting the Advocaat? Isn't that a bit strong for you?


Well it will be with lemonade and lime OBVIOUSLY :D

I mean, I'll have been on the cooking sherry since the sprouts went in on Christmas Eve.

[Toyah]

I used to get a glass of Advocaat and lemonade at xmas when I was a kid. LOVELY! Haven't drank the stuff in years.

[Sebastian Flyte]

Advocaat is foul :zombie: :zombie: :zombie:

[lolly]

Advocaat is foul :zombie: :zombie: :zombie:

I'd need to pour a bottle down my neck before I could sit down in front of Midsomer Murders for an entire episode.

[Sebastian Flyte]

My Chrstmas tipple is sherry - the evening of Christmas day is great - lying on the sofa full of turkey, chocolate, nuts, mince pies etc etc - half pissed on sherry , lights dimmed, coal fire burning....... :D

[lolly]

Sherry is for LIFE - not just for Christmas

[Toyah]

My Chrstmas tipple is sherry - the evening of Christmas day is great - lying on the sofa full of turkey, chocolate, nuts, mince pies etc etc - half pissed on sherry , lights dimmed, coal fire burning....... :D

Sometimes Seb I think you were born in the wrong era, you seem more suitable for Victorian England!

[lolly]

The idea of a coal fire at Christmas is LOVELY, though.

[Sebastian Flyte]

The idea of a coal fire at Christmas is LOVELY, though.

My house in Leicestershire has a nice coal fire - hideous 1960s fireplace but a nice coal fire.

[VoR]

I miss our Coal fire....