Brian Blessed i reckon would make a good A - C

I think that the recent portrail of Mustrum Ridully in The Hogfather was expertly portaid by Joss Ackland. Having been an avid reader of the Discworld book for a long time, he is how I would imagine him and whenever re-reading books with him in, I now clearly see Joss Ackland!!!

Three years on, I discover Graham Crowden WAS Ridcully, in the cartoon adaptation of Soul Music. Hah!

I do like him. I was trying to explain to someone about Waiting for God the other day when the 5th movement of Schubert's Trout Quintet (the theme tune) was on the radio but I couldn't remember the name of the show, or any of the actors or characters in it.

It was like:

"You must have seen it, it was really funny. About these two people in an old people's home who were always kanoodling and getting up to larks while the stuffy young manager of the place was always trying to stop them..."

"what was it called?"

"Dunno."

"who was in it?"

"erm..."

"Oh."

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Canoodling?! Tom and Diana??!

Either we've just tripped over the language barrier, as low as it is between our two countries, or we were not watching the same television show!!!






Canoodling?!

To me it means this kind of thing, perhaps it didn't get that far in Australia?:

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Good grief, perhaps it didn't! Or perhaps I just didn't see it through myself. I certainly remember no senior hanky panky! What a dent in my perception of reality...

I didn't know at the time that the woman who plays Diana was actually not an old person at all and is famous for playing characters much older than she actually is. I was thinking that she must be really old by now if she's still alive, but discovered she's only like 64 so must have only been in her 40s in Waiting for God.

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I think the actor who played Ridcully in Hogfather was very good (although i can't remember his name) and I can imagine him playing also in a new discworld movie.

Joss Ackland? I felt he lacked the necessary oomph (and I understand he was a nightmare to work with!)

I think Graham Crowdon could pull it off; he certainly did a good job of vocalising Ridcully. Brian Blessed is still my first choice, though.

Choose your companions carefully, you may have to eat them.

He's probably dead, But Wilfred Hyde White of the Ealing Comedies would have been brilliant.
I've been given the Unseen Academicals for my 60th birthday present and read it in 3 sittings.
Spent half the time trying to cast people for the roles.
Rowan Atkinson has to be Vetinari, but he must not allow Mr bean to infiltrate.