Although The Bill moved to Tuesdays, as far as I'm concerned, it's actually on at dinnertime on a Wednesday because I'm never in on a Tuesday.

So I've just watched last night's and not far into it I thought to myself that one of the main characters on it looked suspiciously like Lee Ross, who played Kenny in Press Gang. Much as I was tempted to skip to the end, I thought the easiest way to find out would be to look on the website. Except that this episode doesn't seem to exist! They list the last one as being on 20th April and the next one on the 4th May. Where did the 27th April go, I wonder?

I spent the episode trying to convince myself it wasn't him - the character he was playing was 10 in 1987 and without looking it up, I know Lee Ross must be older than that. But it was him. I was quite impressed I recognised him, but there's definitely something in the face that hasn't changed in twenty years.

I'm amazed at the moment at just how good The Bill is. So many episodes have me on tenterhooks it's almost like watching early episodes of Spooks, except instead of wondering if everyone's going to die, you're wondering if they're going to work out what happened and whodunnit. I can't believe they're cancelling now, when it's good again.

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