Posts by: David R - UKTV

Hi all - I'm so impressed by the messages from both Firth and Bean camps. You really know your men! I only hope our write-ups of Colin and Sean did them justice!

BTW - if anyone belongs to a fansite that's listed on the Colin Firth page [link] or the Sean Bean page [link] that hasn't got a quote up yet give your webmasters a prod! Or if your fan site is missing and you'd like to get on there, let me know!

You can contact me first through this email address:
leadingman@uktv.co.uk

cheers!

The channel want to hold back the results so that they can announce it on-air on Monday 9th April

Hi there - we looked into restricting the vote this time as it was such an issue last time. The only way to do this would be to make you have to register to vote (but even then, technically, someome could make up lots of different user names). Also, we wanted to run the vote on red button and mobile this time as well and it's hard to restrict multiple voting those ways. So we decided to leave it open but we'll monitor the voting to make sure that there isn't any cheating going on!

haha You don't miss a trick! But are you sure about the Boromir photo? We sourced it from ITV's sharpe library...

It's the clash of two titans of telly on UKTV Drama - Colin Firth and Sean Bean. Vote for your favourite leading man here:
[link]

And tell us who deserves to win...... right here!

Hi again - Rules? Rules? There are no rules!!!? Which rules did you mean?

I've put some stuff up just now, although the vote won't go live until 6am tomorrow. Hope I haven't left your fansite off the list!! Check out this link:
[link]

What I'd love to do is put as many good Bean sites on there as poss - so let me know of any others. It would be fab to have a little quote from member/members of each site next to the link. Alert the world that they can send stuff in via this e-mail address:
web@uktv.co.uk

Hope you like the photos and stuff! Don't be too hard on me!

sounds like a plan - will investigate why messages aren't registering

Hi all!!! Sorry for not getting back to you until today! Glad to hear you're up for a Bean/Firth face off! The vote starts this thursday (29th March) and runs to Sunday 8th April. The winner will be announced on the channel on Bank Holiday Monday.

I'm going to create a section of the website for sean and colin and would be delighted for some comments from you guys - reasons why your man should win.

Is everyone that's just posted from the same fansite or different ones or neither? If people are connected to more than one site it might make sense to organise things so that each fanbase has it's say. I could then put a link through to the relevant site alongside it. But we don't have to do it that way - just thinking aloud!

Hi all - I don't know if anyone would still get email reminders for this thread, but the UKTV Drama channel were so inspired by the reaction to the Leading Man vote we ran last year that they want to do another vote - this time just Colin Firth and Sean Bean head-to-head.

Would any Bean and Firth fans be interested in writing a bit of blurb championing your leading man?

cheers!

Thanks for all the brilliant messages so far!

Hi there - the site is completely free to use. The only thing that you could do on the site that would incur any charges would be if you actually bought something (like some wine through the UKTV Wine Club for example).

Hi there - the reason for this is because we show programmes like The Bill and Casualty faster than they are shown on ITV and BBC. Which means that we inevitably catch up to the terrestrial transmissions. Therefore we have to take breaks from the programmes every now and then to get them a rest and allow ITV and BBC to regain their headstart.

Tell us about your favourite Comedy Superheroes...

Thanks McYorkie - we'll take those comments on board

Would you like us to start broadcasting some of our programmes in widescreen?
We have a short survey (only 8 questions, so won't take long) for you to fill in and who knows - you might win £100 worth of Currys vouchers in the process!

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Would you like us to start broadcasting some of our programmes in widescreen?
We have a short survey (only 8 questions, so won't take long) for you to fill in and who knows - you might win £100 worth of Currys vouchers in the process!

[link]

Do you have a favourite R&J TV/film adaptation WendyJay? (Or a production of the play that's stood out for you?)

Yep! Thanks for the feedback. Gotta love Jane Seymour....

We're looking for the top 10 ten love stories of all time, and we want to hear your thoughts – it's going to help us decide what to put the channel in the future...

We're getting behind Dirk Benedict in Celebrity Big Brother. We reckon the face behind Face should win the contest hands down.

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Are you with us???

What your favourite Only Fools Moment?

Hi Mark - glad you like him, although we're not really very sure if it's a him, her or it. The little fella is UKTV G2's very own gremlin. His/her/it's name's "Jee-Tu" (G 2... geddit?).

What else did you want to know?

cheers

Hi all - Tenko is on UKTV Drama every Saturday morning at 8am and 9am.

cheers

Did you write to Jim back in the good old days? Did he make your dreams come true?

If you want to write to Jim with a new Fix It wish click here: [link]

We've picked five classic sitcoms and we reckon these are the best-ever episodes:

Blackadder - Goodbyeee
I'm Alan Partridge - Brave Alan
Ab Fab - Hospital
Vicar of Dibley - Love & Marriage
Fawlty Towers - Communication Problems

Do you agree? Disagree? Tell us about your favourite episodes here...