thanks from me also - I kinda felt like a big kid when I heard about the hogfather tv project.. everyone around me are soooooo sick of me going on about it...

Can't nowhere find photos of Michelle Dochery

try this one, if the name should be Michelle Dockery

http://www.thestage.co.uk/images/pics/10286.jpg

Persoanlly and nothing against Joss Ackland BUT Brian Blessed would have been the ideal Ridcully. Agreed with a reply earlier Joss is going to have to ham it up big time.

Cool, thanks!

[quote:5c940038fe="evilswerve"]Persoanlly and nothing against Joss Ackland BUT Brian Blessed would have been the ideal Ridcully. Agreed with a reply earlier Joss is going to have to ham it up big time.[/quote:5c940038fe]

ok by ham it up do you mean put weight on? I always thougt of ridcully being not exactly skinny but not a large man, mainly due to him being the only wizard that knows that theres a gym at UU.

also I always thought of ridcully as a little... i don't know how to descirbe it... [i:5c940038fe]pointier[/i:5c940038fe] than that guy...

finally, I think Brian blessed would be make a great Ridcully, but who would that leave for Dibbler?

Dibbler = Eric Idle

Going back to Joss Ackland, i can only see him doing his 'evil south african' character from lethal weapon 2. Can see him sneering a lot and not adding any humour to the part

The trouble with casting ideas is that one tends to see the possible choices as parts they have done before - two people who are in the cast are not in the obvious parts for them, but if they had been cast in those parts Tony Robinson as Nobby would have everybody who had seen Blackadder thinking "Baldric" and Sir David Jason as Dibbler would get everybody who had seen Only Fools and Horses thinking "Del Boy"

Mayhaps that would have been better fare though, considering the Discworld isn't exactly mainstream, it would possibly be better to see familiar faces play familiar archetypes (I know that Discworld doesn't have many obvious archetypes, but you know what I mean).

But yeah, I would have loved to have seen Brian Blessed as Ridcully. I suppose we need to make do with what we got; especially considering we do at least have a Discworld programme to watch.