Jonathan Creek

[DaVeyWaVey]

Does anyone remember this programme on bbc 1 coz i am a massive fan!! It hasnt been on for a few years but i have got every single episode on box set. Anyone else a fan of the programme?

[willow]

just wondering why is this in spoilers??

[DaVeyWaVey]

Ooops sory i didnt realise! Can someone move it?

[Luna]

remember it i love it lol i still watch it on ukgold

[DaVeyWaVey]

Glad someone else loves it but apparently UKGold no longer has the rights to show it :mad: Oh well i have got the box sets to watch at home :D

[willow]

i think it is fab, better with caroline than julia!!

[willow]

Glad someone else loves it but apparently UKGold no longer has the rights to show it :mad: Oh well i have got the box sets to watch at home :D

oh no i did not know that!!!! maybe one of the other channels will buy it!!

[Luna]

i think it is fab, better with caroline than julia!!

yup totally agree with you there

[Luna]

Glad someone else loves it but apparently UKGold no longer has the rights to show it :mad: Oh well i have got the box sets to watch at home :D

oh no really!!! but it was only on a couple of weeks ago!!! i wish they would rbing out some new ones always had a soft spot for alan davies

[willow]

oh no really!!! but it was only on a couple of weeks ago!!! i wish they would rbing out some new ones always had a soft spot for alan davies

i think its the hair that does it for me!!!

[Luna]

yeah lol i always loved the "it's not a perm"

i think it was the windmill lol

[willow]

oh yes i forgot about the windmill!!!!

he always had a little bit of windymiller about him!! from camberwick green!!!

[Luna]

i cant remember why did caroline leave?

[willow]

in real life i thnk she had her baby

[Luna]

and in the show?

[willow]

she got a job in the states, as a writer not sure who or what she was writing for though

[Luna]

oh right lol ok thanks

[willow]

my fave episode was the one with the man that was in the abandoned house and it looked like he was dead then moved!!

[Luna]

yeah and it was the water his hand was stuck under the door

[DaVeyWaVey]

I loved Caroline and Alan together they were fab!

[DaVeyWaVey]

I loved that episode aswell where his hand was sticking out the door! That episode freaked me out! My fave episode personally though is the ghost forge 1. That kept me guessing til the end.

[Luna]

oph is that the one with the trick floor and the skeleton???

[DaVeyWaVey]

It was the one where the man lived alone and the burglar got stabbed in the neck and Maddy did that vanishing act trick. Remember?

[Luna]

oh yeah the one with the ghost writer the girl and her uncle yeah i remember that one

[DaVeyWaVey]

Luved dat episode. My fave 1. I also like the gallows gate 1 where that man faked his death and everyone thought he was dead but he was actually alive.

[DaVeyWaVey]

Just been watching some episodes on dvd of this and realised once again, how much i miss this show! I wish a new series would be made and Alan Davies and Caroline Quentin would be willing to do a brand new series - it has to be my most favourite show of all time, just love watching the episodes over and over again!

I watched the Gallows Gate episode the other day again and it's hilarious when the 's' isn't on the typewriter and Maddy says "oh i guess it'll have to be floppy dick then instead of floppy disk" :rotfl:

[Xx-Vicky-xX]

This used to scare me so much, i remember one episode where a man died licking an envolope (poisoning) and since ive never licked another envolope :rotfl:

[Luna]

This used to scare me so much, i remember one episode where a man died licking an envolope (poisoning) and since ive never licked another envolope :rotfl:

lol that one was funny with the gorilla

[Bryan]

BBC One is planning a Jonathan Creek Christmas special nearly five years after the series ended.

Alan Davies will return to star in a 90-minute episode of the popular comedy drama and filming is expected to start in the summer.

David Renwick, who created and wrote the show, told Broadcast: "After a five year break I think we're all looking forward to getting Creek back on the screen, and the BBC appear to be quite excited, so fingers crossed."

[Luna]

BBC One is planning a Jonathan Creek Christmas special nearly five years after the series ended.

Alan Davies will return to star in a 90-minute episode of the popular comedy drama and filming is expected to start in the summer.

David Renwick, who created and wrote the show, told Broadcast: "After a five year break I think we're all looking forward to getting Creek back on the screen, and the BBC appear to be quite excited, so fingers crossed."

omg!!!!!!!!! i cant wait hopefully they can get caroline back too

[DaVeyWaVey]

I am absolutely over the moon about this! I love Jonathan Creek - I'm so glad it's returning, even if it's only for a one off special. I hope they get Caroline Quentin back on board along with Alan Davies - those two lit up the screen with their chemistry.

[DaVeyWaVey]

Jonathan Creek is going to be airing in like a month's time! I am so excited!! :cheer: The most anticipated show this Christmas for me..

They were unable to get Caroline Quentin back though and instead, they have that blonde woman from Two Pints as Jonathan's new assistant (I forgot her name) but she also stars in Love Soup.. I think she'll be better than Julia Sawalha at least!

There was some info over the episode from the BBC Press Office.. I will try and find it out.

[DaVeyWaVey]

What I found from the Jonathan Creek website.. it's a sypnosis of the episode really but put it as a spoiler anyway..

The new Christmas special is called "The Grinning Man" and starts filming at the end of June 2008. As expected Julia Sawalha will not be reprising her role as Carla Borrego and nor will Caroline Quentin be returning as Maddy Magellan. Instead Alan Davies will be joined by Sheridan Smith, an actress who is no stranger to the writings of David Renwick having starred in Love Soup with Tasmin Greig.

Sheridan will play Joey Ross a woman described as "fearlessly sceptical" in the BBC press release.

From the BBC press release:-

"When Creek is called in to solve unexplained events in a vast Gothic house, following several disappearances inside a gloomy old attic known as "The Nightmare Room", he is completely baffled.

For 70 years the room has been claiming lives. Could the ghost of a madman who preys upon human flesh really be to blame?

When two young women take shelter there from a raging thunderstorm one night, it's not long before the ominous "presence" has claimed another victim.

Determined to get to the truth about what has happened to her friend, the fearlessly sceptical Joey Ross (Sheridan Smith) finds herself working alongside veteran lateral thinker Jonathan Creek. Together they embark on a complex, often dangerous, investigation into a mystery which only continues to deepen...

Can Jonathan Creek once again shed light on the riddle and render the impossible possible? Or are his once formidable powers of deduction about to be eclipsed by the raw intuition of his younger counterpart?"

[DaVeyWaVey]

Jonathan Creek creator David Renwick has admitted that he is worried about how his new Christmas special will be received by fans.

The BBC One mystery show, which stars Alan Davies, is returning for a one-off edition on New Year's Day. It will be the first new episode of the programme since 2004.

Renwick, who also created One Foot in the Grave, has now revealed that he is expecting a backlash from viewers after the episode has aired.

Speaking to The Times, he explained: "People say, 'Oh Jonathan Creek's coming back. Fantastic.' And then they watch it and go: 'God, what a mistake.' Which is what happened with One Foot in the Grave. So I tend to expect the worst."

Renwick also confessed that writing a new episode of the programme was a "safe decision" - as he did not want to deal with the pressure of starting a new project from scratch.

He said: "I had three options. Retire. Or go away for the best part of six months and struggle to come up with something else, sit down and write it, and then try to interest someone else in it. Or I could resurrect Jonathan Creek."

[Luna]

Anyone know what date and time this is on so i can v+ it

[DaVeyWaVey]

New Year's Day, 9pm - 11pm, BBC1.

[Chris_2k11]

I might watch this actually, I used to quite like it

[Emmie]

I'm defo watching the new years day episode because Sheridan Smith is in it, shes an amzing actress x

[DaVeyWaVey]

It's on this Thursday! You don't know how excited I am! :cheer: Hopefully it will be an amazing episode, up there with other David Renwick's greats!

[Kirsty :]]

Aww I saw the advert for this the other day and Sheridan Smith is in it and I think she's great so I'm going to watch it :) I used to watch it many moons ago

[Emmie]

OMG how scarey was it ahhh, i was behind a pillow 80% of the time haha, Sheridan was great! x

[Abbie]

I only watched half it and was scared! :eek:

[DaVeyWaVey]

I thought it was an enjoyable two hours, but definetly not up there with the classic Jonathan Creek episodes that David Renwick had written in the past - I am thinking of episodes like Gallows Gate, Mother Redcap, Black Canary, but it has been 4 years since the last one was shown, so I will be leniant.

I thought the resolution for the disappearances in the attic room was fantastic. I really wasn't expecting the bath to be involved, but it was genius. It may have been implausible, but that's what I love about Jonathan Creek - it's an entertaining drama, a 'how dunnit' opposed to a 'whodunnit' and I thought the bath being rigged was a pure genius resolution that I didn't see coming at all. The newspaper editor being involved was quite clever too as we were aware of her presence, but she wasn't overly shown, so we knew she was there, but we didn't consider her important enough to be a suspect. I felt the ending to the mystery with her saving the picture was a bit random and wasn't needed, and I found some of the acting throughout, to be very wooden. It was only Alan Davies and Sheridan Smith that impressed me most. None of the suspects or other characters weren't particularly that special to me.

However, I felt the porn subplot was poor and the comedy wasn't up to the brilliant standard we have seen in past episodes. Sheridan was good as Joey and I liked her and Jonathan together. I prefer Joey's character to Carla's character most definetly, but the presence of Maddy Magellan left a hole in the episode. If she starred in it, the comedy would have been better in my opinion.

Overall, I thought it was an average episode. An enjoyable two hours, but not the best mystery that David Renwick has written. I do hope Jonathan Creek comes back for a series though, as it's one of the best shows around. If it is brought back, I hope Renwick has some better ideas he can develop though.

I also thought the 'scary music' was cringeworthy in the first hour or so. It was like something from a cheap horror film. I'm glad the music stopped eventually.

[Kirsty :]]

I caught the last half hour or so I think. The bit with the ladder. Was very good buyt I need to watch it from the beginnning, luckily my Nan recorded it so I'm going to watch it with her tomorrow :D

The bath part creeped me right out! :eek:

[DaVeyWaVey]

According to Alan Davies' Twitter, a new episode of Jonathan Creek will be written for next Easter! :D YES!! :D

[tammyy2j]

A new 90 minute special "The Judas Tree", filmed in Summer 2009 will be shown on the 4th of April 2010.

[tammyy2j]

Joanna Lumley and Rik Mayall are among the stars who will be taking guest roles when Jonathan Creek returns to TV.

The show, starring Alan Davies in the title role, is coming back to BBC1 for a 90-minute special at Easter.

Also making an appearance will be Nigel Planer, and actress Sarah Alexander, known for roles in Me And Mrs Jones and Coupling.

Davies, a regular panellist on Stephen Fry's QI, will reprise his role as the magic trick-designer and part-time sleuth for an episode called The Clue Of The Savant's Thumb.

He will be joined by Sheridan Smith, who has appeared in the show before as Joey Ross.

Jonathan and fellow investigator Joey are drawn into a case involving a secret society, some apparently supernatural events at a girls' boarding school and the disappearance of a body.

Davies said of the return: "It's nearly 17 years since I first auditioned for the part. The duffle coat is always on stand-by, even if the periods of duffle-hibernation are quite long these days."

[DaVeyWaVey]

I'm looking forward to this episode, especially as Rik Mayall is reprising his role. He was great in Black Canary.

[Perdita]

Confirmed for BBC One on 28 February at 9.00pm to 10.00pm


In 'The Letters Of Septimus Noone', when a classic locked room novel is turned into a West End musical, one of its stars falls victim to a real-life 'impossible crime'.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room, based on a 19th-century story by Gaston Leroux, is currently thrilling London theatre audiences with its enticing blend of music, romance and sizzling Gothic melodrama.

But events take a sinister turn one night when the show's glamorous singing sensation Juno Pirelli is found horribly stabbed inside a locked dressing room, from which no assailant could possibly have escaped.

No weapon or any other evidence of an intruder can be found, nor any rational explanation for the victim's wounds.

As the actress's life hangs in the balance, her producer and colleagues remain baffled. And attention once again turns to the lateral-thinking Jonathan Creek for a solution to the whole grisly puzzle.

But can Creek - now a happily married man - even be persuaded to embark upon the investigation? As he and his wife Polly struggle to come to terms with a sudden personal tragedy, a series of dark and disturbing family secrets are about to emerge that will throw the couple's whole world into turmoil...

[Perdita]

2/3


In The Sinner and the Sandman, a retired local psychic inadvertently makes the most amazing and impossible prediction of his career.
As Creek and Polly strive to settle into rural life, they find their apparently serene country village is riddled with all manner of strange and disturbing undercurrents...

Trouble is already brewing in the nearby community centre - recently reopened after a major face-lift - where a sordid sex scandal is about to break, casting a pall of gloom over the celebrations.

And at the vicarage, the arrival of a new baby is overshadowed by tales of a “weird hump-backed beast”, that has been seen prowling in the garden by night and foraging through the rubbish bags for foodstuffs.

Even the Creek residence is struck by misfortune, as the prospect of a plague of deadly Japanese Knotweed threatens to trigger wide-scale panic throughout the village. And after a whole slew of other unfortunate events, there are fears that some strange parochial Apocalypse is about to dawn.

Jonathan Creek, meanwhile, finds himself paying a charitable call on the eccentric Mr Eric Ipswich - aka 'The Amazing Astrodamus' - an ancient and reclusive former psychic magician who will shortly bring the village to a standstill by pulling off the most baffling act of clairvoyance in history.

And what is behind the macabre recurring dream that continues to haunt Creek's wife Polly... in which the kindly children's nursery character The Sandman is transformed into a dark and chilling figure of evil?