- Bob Servant is coming back to Broughty Ferry
Broughty
Ferry will welcome the return of Bob Servant later this month.
Three
episodes of a sitcom based on the cult character were filmed in Broughty Ferry
in March, with Dundee-born actor Brian Cox in the lead role.
Now
BBC4 has decided to commission three further episodes of Bob Servant Independent,
which sees the titular character running for parliament.
As
well as Dundee University rector Cox, the series features actors including
Jonathan Watson and Greg McHugh.
The
latest batch of episodes will also feature Taggart actor Alex Norton. They will
be filmed later this month and broadcast in early 2013.
Creator
Neil Forsyth told The Courier: ''I had always written it with a view to it kind
of being the classic British six-episode series, but with the way comedy is
commissioned it has been a bit more staggered. I'm just delighted that we'll be
able to tell the story over the full six episodes.''
Mark
Freeland, controller of comedy for the BBC, said: ''I am delighted that we will
see Bob Servant make more spectacular strides towards the seat of power in
Broughty Ferry. With Bob's unstoppable energy and his running mate Frank at his
side, nothing can possibly go wrong.''
Brian
Cox first played Bob Servant in radio series The Bob Servant Emails.
Source:
The Courier (Tayside & Fife)
- Review: Citizen Gangster
Citizen
Gangster’s story resonates with any person who’s down on their luck in an era
when times are tough and jobs are nowhere to be found, but in its attempts to
reinvent the criminal as celebrity concept the film falters as the writing
breaks down. It tries to be similarly insightful about veterans as the odd men
out of peace time, feeling estranged from the real world and driven to lives
that give them the adrenaline rush their wartime tour hooked them on.
In trying
to tie these elements together in a criminal drama, the script jumps back and
forth without ever really finding a singular approach to who its characters
are. Luckily, Citizen Gangster has a capable cast of Scott Speedman, Kevin
Durand, Brian Cox, William Mapother, and Kelly Reilly to keep it moving.
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