low graphics version | feedback | help
| Front Page World UK UK Politics Business Sci/Tech Health Education Sport |
| Entertainment |
|
New Music Releases |
| Talking Point In Depth AudioVideo |
BBC goes retro for winter
Cult comeback: Reeves and Mortimer in Randall and Hopkirk Deceased |
An all-star update of the cult 1960s show Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) is among the highlights of BBC One's new winter schedule.
Comedy duo Reeves and Mortimer make their acting debuts as the private detective partners in a production using state-of-the-art special effects.
Vic Reeves plays white-suited Marty Hopkirk who returns from the dead to assist Jeff Randall (Bob Mortimer).
The original 26-episode ATV series, which ran from 1969-70, made stars of Kenneth Cope and the late Mike Pratt.
Reeves's girlfriend Emilia Fox also features in the cast |
Also in the cast is Emilia Fox, daughter of actor Edward Fox and Reeves's girlfriend in real life, who plays Hopkirk's ex-fiancee.
BBC One will also be screening one of the biggest experiments ever undertaken on TV when it follows 30 volunteers to a remote island for a year.
Castaway 2000 will track their efforts to build a social framework, cultivate, keep animals and simply survive the harsh winter on the Scottish island.
Baby focus: Child of our Time |
The landmark series will start with a 90-minute special focusing on a selection of babies, all expected during January 2000. The BBC will then chart their lives over the next 20 years.
Ex-Spice Girl Geri Halliwell is the subject of a two-hour documentary, Geri's World Walkabout, which follows her in a year when she's released an album, a book and worked as a United Nations ambassador.
TV veterans Richard Briers and Susan Hampshire star in Monarch of the Glen, a new drama series about a feuding family set in the Scottish Highlands.
Neil Dudgeon and Diana Rigg in Mrs Bradley Mysteries |
Between The Lines actor Neil Pearson stars in detective drama Dirty Work from Birds Of A Feather writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran.
Our Friends in the North actor Christopher Eccleston teams up with ex-Coronation Street actress Sarah Lancashire in Clocking Off - a gripping drama which explores the relationships between the workers and bosses at a northern factory.
BBC One's Bafta-winning soap, EastEnders celebrates its 15th anniversary in February 2000 with a retrospective look at the programme's history and the many faces who've appeared in a week of specials.
Ardal O'Hanlon and Emily Joyce star in My Hero |
Hairy - written by Men Behaving Badly creator Simon Nye - stars Alexander Armstrong, of Armstrong and Miller fame, as a country vet who hates animals.
Building on the success of this year's Fighting Fat, Fighting Fit campaign, BBC Education is planning another health campaign for 2000.
The pan-BBC Kick the Habit campaign will focus on addictions.
Among the popular series returning to BBC One will be the hit women's soccer drama Playing the Field and Sunburn with Michelle Collins, plus Paul Nicholas and Sean Maguire.
Michael Parkinson is back with his award-winning talk show and there are new series of Ground Force, Battersea Dogs' Home and The Zoo Keepers.
And Cruise star Jane McDonald's Star For a Night talent show gets a full series after a successful summer pilot.
The high-profile subjects of flagship arts show Omnibus will include Hollywood superstars Sidney Poitier and John Travolta, writer F Scott Fitzgerald and Wallace and Gromit creators, Aadrman Animations.
BBC Sport kicks off the new millennium with exclusive live coverage of Manchester United's bid to win the inaugural Fifa World Team Championship in Brazil.
BBC One controller Peter Salmon said: "This winter schedule underlines our determination to offer the widest, richest range of programmes on mainstream television - to be a something-worthwhile-for-everyone channel."
|
Search BBC News Online |
|
|
 Advanced search options | |
| |
 | |
 | |
| |
 | BBC RADIO NEWS |
| |
| |
 | BBC ONE TV NEWS |
| |
| |
| WORLD NEWS SUMMARY |
| |
| |
| |
| |
 | PROGRAMMES GUIDE |
|
|
See also: |
|
 |
|
 |
10 Nov 99 | Entertainment |
|
TV's costume battle for viewers |
| |
|
|
04 Nov 99 | Entertainment |
|
Quality first for BBC One |
| |
|
|
23 Nov 99 | Entertainment |
|
ITV's festive Frost |
| |
|
|
23 Nov 99 | Entertainment |
|
UK shows in Emmys haul |
| |
|
|
23 Nov 99 | Entertainment |
|
BBC's Christmas crackers |
| |
|
|
30 Sep 99 | Entertainment |
|
BBC offers year off work |
| |
|
|
Internet links: |
|
|
|
|
|
BBC Online |
| |
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites |
|
Links to other Entertainment stories are at the foot of the page.
E-mail this story to a friend
~RS~a~RS~international~RS~q~RS~~RS~z~RS~30~RS~)