Good News For Fans Of This Life.

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Just read this from the Sun:

By DEREK ROBINS
Sun Online

THE BBC is filming a one-off This Life reunion this September – but one of the main characters will be missing.

Jason Hughes who played gay Welshman Warren in the cult drama about bed-hopping young lawyers, told us: “There is a funeral so one of the characters who we used to live with will have died. I can’t say which one as it’s a surprise.”

Now starring as DC Ben Jones in Midsomer Murders, he added: “A TV documentary crew is following one of the characters who has written a very successful book about the group living together. The action follows the characters through the weekend.”

The drama ran for two series in 1996 and 1997 and was must-watch TV for millions. It helped make a star of Jack Davenport (Miles) who has found global fame in Pirates Of The Caribbean.

Jack, 33, is the favourite not to join the cast because of filming commitments on Pirates. His agent was unavailable for comment.

Other originals were Andrew Lincoln (Egg), Daniela Nardini (bitchy Anna), Amita Dhiri (Milly), Natasha Little (Rachel), Ramon Tikaram (Ferdy) and Steve John Shepherd (Jo).

The drama ended on a high with Milly and Rachel having a fight at Miles’ wedding.
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Hurrah! Shame it's just a one off. I loved This Life, watched every single one. I loved Egg :wub:
 
Cheers Gareth - might just do that. I was working in racing at the time and didn't watch much TV, much less keep track of a series.
 
If they are filming in Sept presume it will be a Christmas special. Brings back some memories of my own student days. Look forward to it.
 
A great show but personally I think it was a good move to kill it off at the height of its success.Looking forward to the special.
 
I was retraining as a barrister in London at the time - sadly much less exciting , much less money and a very crap flat in East London . There were six of us pupils and we all loved it though dismissing it as unrealistic . The sadly missed North Square was much more realistic.

As for New Street Law don't get me started on that bilge
 
BBC2 are showing the first series of This Life every night. I found it by accident last night channel hopping and missed the first few minutes. It was bloody wonderful.

There are two episodes from 11.20 tonight.
 
I love that line that Miles says to Anna early on " professionals do it even when they don't want to "
 
Originally posted by Ardross@Nov 7 2006, 10:11 PM
I understand that Ferdy is the corpse in the reunion special .
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Oh no! :cry: I hoped it would be Millie, she was such a bitch to poor Egg. I hope that if it's just a one off special that the writers could see fit to give us the ending we all wanted, for Anna and Miles to get together.
 
Why oh why can't the BBC put it on at a reasonable time? My little peepers are having great difficulty staying awake until almost 1am, the baby from hell whoops I mean darling Georgia likes to spend the hours from 3.30am until 5am screaming her head off before waking up for good at 6am. I am more than a little bit shattered this morning :cry:

I envy those with new fangled electrical items such as video recorders in their homes :lol:
 
This Life is one of the best things ever on telly. It was repeated twice quite soon after the original series, always v late at night - I watched all three showings right thru and I'm glued to this repeat. I still keep catching things I missed before, the writing is so sly and so good, and the characterisation so spot on. You just can't take it all in first time around. Well worth getting the dvd for anyone who missed it. I'm surprised how little it's dated, either

Funny how people are always either 'Egg people' or 'Miles 'n Anna' people. I was a bit of an Anna when young, think I've mellowed a bit since... :rolleyes: Millie is a pain in many ways, but Egg would drive me mad too. In fact Warren is my favourite, he's really grown on me over all the re-watchings

Tho I have to agree with Ardross, North Square was just as brilliant and much closer to the legal profession in reality. Sadly I missed some of those, is it on dvd or video?
 
I was only 18 when it was first on the telly and I'm understanding some of the humour more now that I did then.

I was going to give it a miss tonight because I'm so tired but I'm contemplating going to bed soon and getting up again to watch it :lol:
 
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