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SATURDAY 07 OCTOBER

Drama

Robin Hood

7:05pm - 7:50pm

BBC1 London & South East

VIDEO Plus+: 502113
Subtitles, audio description, widescreen

Adapted by Dominic Minghella

1/13 - Will You Tolerate This?

Drama series which gives a contemporary feel to the classic Robin Hood legend. Robin of Locksley heads home from the Crusades to find his people starving and brutalised under the tyrannical rule of the new Sheriff of Nottingham. He quickly discovers that the only way to reason with him is with bow and arrow, even if it means sacrificing his title and his lands and consigning himself to life in the forest.

Robin Hood - Jonas Armstrong

Marian - Lucy Griffiths

Guy of Gisborne - Richard Armitage

Sheriff of Nottingham - Keith Allen

Little John - Gordon Kennedy

Much - Sam Troughton

Allan A Dale - Joe Armstrong

Will Scarlett - Harry Lloyd

Roy - William Beck

Edward - Michael Elwyn

Forrest - Mark Bagnall

Hanton - Josh Cole

Dan Scarlett - Sean Murray

Luke Scarlett - Jonathan Readwin

Benedict Giddens - Josef Altin

Jeffrey - John Ramm

Thornton - John Carlisle

Fuller - Adam Smethurst

Sarah - Bethany Turner

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Terry Wogan made me laugh talking about it this morning - "Robin Hood and his Merry Boy Band"

Just thought I'd crash this to say at when I first turned it on I watched 5 minutes then turned off again as acting was as wooden as the proverbial Trojan horse!

However within 10 minutes I was back again and hooked, Robin and the Sherriff are very easy on the eye. Although like someone else mentioned no Michael Praed - or even Jason Connery.

And Keith Allen was a great baddy and as close we will get to Alan Rickman without the great man comning back himself so I was pleased.

Just want to know a few things - like why an American production company has made a show about an English folklore legend.

And why is it on at a time when I am putting DD to bed so I miss it. And if I wait till it finishes I miss Strictly! And that would never do.

I think either PJ's on early and then watch till she falls asleep - or DH is on bedtime duty on a Saturday, as he can't stand things like this, and I just go up for a kiss and the tuck in??

DD (aged 5) was desparate to watch this, and spent most of the time firing arrows (pretend ones) at the telly. DH is so into this kind of thing (used to do archery and fencing, wants to be a swashbuckler at heart). I was just there for the totty.