I am trying to make more of an effort to post to Twitter and not just reply to people’s comments. And post here too, but that requires fewer words, although not necessarily less effort. The number of drafts I’ve gone through in the past to get down to 140 characters…

Last night’s The Bill was good as usual, and amazingly didn’t make me feel really dizzy halfway through. And I think I’ve learnt the names of two of the PCs and I quite like Sgt Stone. I thought he was going to be dodgy, but perhaps not.

Anyway, last night there was a character on it playing the main character’s brother, and I recognised his voice from somewhere, but couldn’t for the life of me work out where. I thought that maybe he sort of looked familiar too, but couldn’t pin it down and eventually decided I must be imagining it.

Except that then I realised where I recognised the voice – he was Colin in Press Gang. At which point he wasn’t in a scene for absolutely ages, but the next one he was in, someone called his name, he looked up and the expression was pure Colin and I knew I was right, even before checking on the credits.

It was very surreal – out of the last four episodes of The Bill we’ve had Luke from SJA, Ianto from Torchwood and Colin from Press Gang. There is sadly no picture on the official website, and nor is there a video clip with him talking, but I managed to find a clip with him in. It’s in this one at 00.00.48 where. And I have taken a handy screencap and annotated it:

Colin from Press Gang in The Bill

(And that’s the first time I’ve ever tried using the gallery to upload a picture, rather than doing it by hand. It’s pretty cool – I like it)

7 Responses to “Press Gang on The Bill”

Julia Says:
Saturday 6th February 2010 at 8:15 pm

I like ‘who cares’. I saw him [Colin] in something else, recently, too.

Nic Says:
February 6th, 2010 at 8:38 pm

I am terrible with getting the names of characters, so he could have been called anything. Which means I can’t look at the credits to find out the actor’s name.

Julia Says:
Saturday 6th February 2010 at 8:19 pm

Exhaustive research shows it’s either The Bill, as someone different last year, or Casualty, and I’m leaning towards the Bill.

Julia Says:
Monday 8th February 2010 at 11:14 pm

He’s Daniel Coonan, I’m watching the ep now.

Nic Says:
February 9th, 2010 at 5:56 pm

So you’re right, he’s been in The Bill before and Casualty!

Julia Says:
February 9th, 2010 at 6:39 pm

No, I meant Paul Reynolds had been in The Bill recently, before this time. I guess Daniel Coonan has them on his CV too because most actors do.

Nic Says:
February 9th, 2010 at 7:28 pm

Oh, I see. Looking at imdb he’s even been in Ab Fab!